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VOLUME XVIII
EIGHT PAGES this WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929
PRICE 5c SINC
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NUMBER 43
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tabor Agitators And Strikers
Convicted On Murder Charge
Four of The Defendants From Northern States Get Sentences
of Twenty Years; Three Others Get Somewhat Shorter Sen
tences; All Take Appeals.
Charlotte, Oct. 21 The seven la
bor agitators and stinkers found guil
ty by a Mecklenburg county jury to
day of the murder of O. F. Aderholt,
Gastonia chief of police, and also of
assault on three other police officers,
were sentenced late this afternoon
by Judge M. V. Barnhill.
Four of the defendants, Fred Er
vin Beal, of Lawrence, Mass., Clar
ence Miller, of New York; George
Carter, of Mispah, N. J., and Joseph
Harrison, of Passic, N. J., each were
sentenced to serve not less than 17
years nor more than 20 years in the
state prison at Raleigh, for convic
tion on the second degree murder
charge.
William M. McGinn and Louis
McLaughlin, both of Gastonia, each
was given sentence of not less than
12 nor more than 15 years on the
murder charge. K. Y. Hendricks, of
Gastonia, was given a sentence of
from five to seven years on the same
count.
Lesser Sentence.
Lesser sentences to run concurrent
ly with the sentences imposed for
murder, were given, Beal, Miller,
Carter and Harrison were given 10
years each after being found guilty
on the charge of felonious assault on
T. A. Gilbert, McGinnis and Mc
Laughlin were sentenced to not less
than five nor more than seven years
on the charge of assault on Gilbert.
Hendricks was given a five year sen
tence on this charge.
No sentence was give any of the
defendants on the charge of assault,
against A. J. Roach o M. Fergu
son, officers.
Defense attorneys gave notice of
appeal and Judge Barnhill fixed the
appeal bond at $500 and fixed the ap
peaiance bonds as follows: Beal,' Mil
ler, Carter and Harrison, $5,000 bond
each: McLaughlin and McGinnis, $3,
500 each; Hendricks, $2,000.
Bond Too Light?
Solicitor John G. Carpenter de
clared the bond too light in view of
the long prison sentences but Judge
Barnhill, after hearing defense at
torneys on the question, retained the
figures he announced at first.
There was no demonstration at any
time today either shortly after noon
when the jury returned a verdict of
guilty on the murder charge after 57
minutes deliberation or this after
noon when the verdict 'of guilty on
the other charges was rendered and
still later when the sentences were
passed.
The defendants showed little emo
tion, Beal maintaining a placid ex-J
pression and the others, with the ex- j
ception of Miller, keeping their eyes
stolidly on the judge. Miller, howev
er, his face flushed, glared at the de
fense table where Solicit Carpen
ter and several of the att' eys who
assisted him were sitting.
When solicitor Carpenter declared
the appearance bond too low and told
the defense attorneys he would run
away if he had 17 years staring him
in the face. Miller spoke out say
ing: "We are not g"!lty."
Twenty unform.d-police officers
and plain clothes nie- had been sta
tioned at various placcj in the court
room by Judge Barnhill, v.'ho instruct
ed them to make r.rrests i t the first
indication of a demonstration.
The jury required only two bal
lots to reach its decision. On the
first ballot the vote was 11 to 1 for
conviction for murder and on the sec
ond the vote was unanimous.
PIGEON FOUND WITH
METAL JJANDS ON LEGS
A dead pigeon was found in the
road last Friday by Mr. Charles Bell
of Harlowe. It had apparently been
killed by an automobile, as birds are
killed sometimes at night by flying
against a windshield. Two bands
were found on the bird's legs, one
made of brass and the other alum
inum. These were sent by Mr. Bell
to Dr. Hildebrand director of the U.
S. Bureau of Fisheries laboratory
hers. Te brass band bears the in
scription "7495." The other band
has on th' inside of it "Au 29 S 890."
A pecr'iar thing about the alum
inum bar is that it is a solid piece,
no seam being visible in it, and
therefore it is mystery how it was
put on the bird"s leg. The tags were
not issued by the Federal Govern
ment and appear therefore to belong
to a private owner.
The Pilgrims had been at Plymouth
but eight years when they set up a
gristmill.
Alleged Kidnappers
Acquitted At Concord
Concord, N. C, Oct. 19 A Super
ior court jury deliberated 15 minutes
less than two hours here today and: Mp- Vesteli who fa chairman of the
acquitted four textile mill operatives board of county commissionerS, said
charged with kidnapping and flog-lthe audit was undertaken in compli
ging Ben Wells, British communists ance with the denland of citizens for
and two others during a strike dis
order in Gastonia last month.
Wells, Cliff De Saylors and C. M.
Lell, striking textile workers of the
Manville-Jenckes Loray mills were
kidnapped from a Gastonia boarding
house on the night of September 19,
driven 50 miles across three counties
and flogged.
Upwards of 20 defendants were!
questioned in the commitment hear-;ing
ing, which was featured by the rul
ing of Judge Shaw, excluding Wells'
testimony because of his avowed ath
eism. Seven were held to the grand
jury and four were indicted, namely:
Horace Lane, A. G. Morehead, Carl
Holoway and Dewey Carver.
- Trial of this case before Judge A.
M. Stack here was featured by the
court's defiance of an ancient decis
ion of the North Carolina supreme
court hearing the testimony of athe
ists. Wells' testimony was admitted
by Judge Stack, who told the jury to
disregard the labor disorder in reach
ing its verdict.
ANOTHER HEARING
IN BIG LAW SUIT
Board Members Summonsed To
, . Appear For Examination.
Next Wednesday .
!
Another step in the law suit be -
tween the County of Carteret, the '
Simmons Construction Corporation ! did everything they could to assist
and others will be taken here next j Us. It was their desire that we con
Wednesday at a hearing which willjtinue our work in the hope that e
take place then. ( jnough data could be assembled to en-
A notice to appear before Superior j able us to complete our work in a
Court Clerk L. W. Hassell has been Satisfactory manner."
given to members of the Board of ;
County Commissioners; C. H. Bushall, 1 ONLYO NE CASE TRIED
S. D. Edwards, Norman Gaskill and! IN POLICE COURT FRIDAY
Denard Lewis and to County Auditor Mayor Chadwick had only one
W. J. Plint. They will be examined ! defendant to face him in his court
by attorneys for the defense in re--Friday afternoon. This was the
gard to matters alleged in the com-1 smallest docket he had had for some
plaints filed recently by attorneys for; time. The unlucky one was Elijah
the county. Under the law a defen-jHardesty, colored, charged with
dant in a civil action has the right to! having been drunk. He admitted it
examine the plaintiff and his agents j and undertook to justify himself on
before filing his answer. This right ! the ground that somebody had stolen
is seldom ever exercised and it has j his chickens and he had gotten mad
not been done in recent years in Car
teret county. It will be done next
Wednesday beginning at 10 o'clock.
Several weeks ago the defendants in
the suit were examined by county at
torneys. , . ...
The defendants in the county suit
have secuured a strong array of coun
sel to represent them. F. M. Sim-!
mons and the Simmons Construction I
Corporation will be represented by i
Moore and Dunn of New Bern and J.
F. Duncan of Beaufort. - W L.
Stancil and C. K. Howe will be rep-
resented by Ward and Ward of New !
Bern. On behalf of G. W." Huntley,
C. R. Wheatly and Luther Hamilton '
will appear. Attorneys Duncan and
Wheatly will appear for George J.
Brooks. The county's lawyers are
McLendon and Hedrick of Durham
and E. H. Gorham of Morehead City.
NEW GROCERY STORE OPENS
Beaufort has a new chain grocery
store. ' This is one of the numerous
branches of the Atlantic and "acific
chain. This organization oi -ates
in more than thirty states an has
been in business for seventy years.
The new store is located in the Bank':
of Beaufort building on Front street.
There are now three jchain grocery
stores doing business here and one
five and ten cent store. So far the
chain dry goods and drug stores have
passed Beaufort by. - '
PEAKS SNOW-CAPPED
Asheville, Oct. 23 At least three
Western North Carolina peaks today
were covered with a blanket of snow,
contrasting with the bright October
sun that beamed on Asheville..
Roan Mountain and Grassy Bald
win, Avery County, and Wayah Bald
in Macon, were covered with snow
that fell during Tuesday and Tuesday
night, it was learned here,
In this connection, it was recalled
here that the heaviest snow of the
I Winter fell exactly six years ago
i October 23.
AUDITORS ASSERT
RECORDS MISSING
For This Reason, It Is Stated
Audit Of Alamance Books
Must Stop
Burlington, Oct. 19. W. S. Vestel,
county manager, and M. M. Whiten
er auditor have given out a state
ment declaring that the completion
of the county audit commenced some
time ago, by J. D. Hightower, is im
possible for the reason that certain
records have been found missing,
a re-check on the county's fiancial
condition during the four years prior
to the change in adminstration
1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928.
While the report of Mr. Hightow
er, a certified accountant, makes no
specific charges of an unlawful prac
tice in official conduct, it sets forth
the following specfic reasons for an
abrupt halt in the work of complet
an audit under a contract dated
December 4, 1928.
Missing: Tax receipt stub books
for the tax years 1923, 1924, 1925.
Certain tax abstracts.
All cash records for all years.
All records of schedules B and C
taxes collected.
All records of fees collected.
Complete records with respect to
allowances for releases, insolvents
and land sales.
"All of the above records are ob
viously of the greatest importance
and our work was continued upon
the assumption that the records
would be produced or located some
where," says the statement, which
continues. '
"After having satisfied ourselves
that the records were not in the
court house, we wrote to the former
sheriff and to the former register ef
deed who held office during the years
in question, laying the matter before
them and requesting their assistance
but received no reply from them. '
"The matter was fully discussed
and brought to the attention of the
present board of commissioners, who
about it. He was fined $5 and costs.
TEXAS OIL COMPANY
GETTING READYTO BUILD
Several contractors form Charlotte,
Goldsboro and Beaufort were here
last week for the purpose of getting
ready to bid on the wortc the lexas
Oil Company expect to have done on
its property at the foot of Urange
street. The water front will be fill
ed in and buildings erected. The
are to be turned in to Norfolk office
by November 1 and it is expected that
work will start shortly thereafter.
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this coi-
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also witfc
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
Hif bTide ' Low Tide
Friday. Oct. 25
1:07 A. M: 6:58 A.
1:45 P. M. 8:05 P,
Saturday, Oct. 26
2:26 A. M. ' 8:00 A,
M.
M.
M.
2:59 P. M. , , 9:15 P. M
Sunday, Oct. 27
3:38 A. M. ' 9:36 A.
4:00 P. M. 10 :U P.
Monday, Oct. 28
4:38 A. M. 10:43 A,
5:03 P. M. " 11:00 P.
M.
M.
M.
M.
' Tuesday, October 29
5:32 A. M. 11:0H. M.
5:55 P. M. 11:3 P.M.
Wednesday, Oct. 30
6:19 A. M. . 11:53 A.-M.
1 6:40 P. M.
12:31 P. M.
j Thursday, Oct. 31
17:03 A. M. 12:33 A. M.
7:26 P. M. 1:17 P. M.
MENHADEN SEASON
NOW OPENED UP
Fisst Catch Made By The Bals
ter; Bad Weather Interfer
es With Fishing
The first catch of menhaden for
the fall season was brought in Satur
day night by Captain Snow in the
Balster. The fish which were large
ones were caught 'hear Hatteras. The
catch was 320,000 and was consider
ed good for a starter. Reports are
that a good many fish have been sight
ed in the vicinity of Hatteras but the
weather has not been favoiable for
catching them.
Sunday night practically the whole
menhaden fleet from Beaufort and
Morehead City left for Ocracoke in
tending to fish" in the waters around
Hatteras. However there has been
no suitable weather this week for
fishing according to reports reaching
.Beaufort. Six of the vessely are ly
ing in the harbor at Ocracoke and
si xor eight are at Portsmouth. Dur
ing the high winds Monday the Leland
Mills was blown ashore but was pull
ed off by some of the other vessels.
Two of the boats engaged in deep
sea fishing for sea bass brought in
some pretty fair catches Monday.
Captain Tom Nelson in the Alice had
a catch of 1600 pounds and Captain
Charlie Wolfe in the Etta brought in
2000 pounds. The Etta also brought
in 27 fine red snappers. They aver
aged 23 1-2 pounds each. These
beautiful fish are caught mostly in
the Gulf of Mexico and other south
ern ; waters but occasionally they are
taken here by the sea bass fishermen.
State Fair Exhibits
Show Livestock Process
Raleigh, Oct. 21 The exhibts of
livestock at the North Carolina State
Fail last week indicate a new inter
est )n this class of farming through-
out f ne staie.
vft was known for some weeks that
the livestock show would be' good but '
extension specialists at State College .
were not prepared for the wonder-!
ful display which was made. A count i
of the pens showed 212 blooded I
dairy animals, about 150 beef ani-!
mals, 672 hogs, 200 sheep, and a few
over 2,000 chickens. Specialists of
college were in charge of each depart
ment and in some cases acted as
. . . . .. . . . ,
ges. frobably the hardest worked
judge at the fair was Earl Hostetler,
swine expert, who had the job of
placing the 672 hogs.
"It was the most difficult task I : Deen aone y W0I K OI lne Doar"'
ever had," said Mr. Hostetler. "The ' the Register of Deeds, County Aud
show was really a national show. Ini"01- and sherlff- , There are ab"t
addition to fine hogs from North Car -
CT
olina, we had prize winning herds i nan,ts "e laKe" "m l"e
from all parts of the United States and called over one by one and lists
and each animal had to be carefully , made of thfm- Poachers, physicians
studied - that no mistake might be;firemen "ad s.ome othe.r cla!fues ,are
made in placing it.
Three judges were used with the
poultry. Over 65 varieties and strains
V ! 1- i. J f .. C 4.1.,. .-.....
were exmuiteu. must ui tne uauy
cattle were from North Carolina.
Fifty-six calves were exhibited by 4
H club members with 19 of these be
ing from the famous Jersey calf, club
of Alamance County. Iredell Coun
ty club members had 16 Jersey calves
and Davidson County had 8 excellent
Guernseys.
John E. Foster, superintendent of
the bsef and sheep show, said that 12 i
cars oi exnioit animals nao. to ue re
fused entry because there was no
t lJil
place to house them. A large tent
was used in this department to care j flat log cars on the dinky road over
for the cveiflow from the regular . turned. Odum was caught under the
barm;. jcar, and his leg crushed. It is pos-
I sible that his leg has been fractured,
British troops in 1880 started but at this writing the X-ray pictures
wealing uniforms of subdued colors, were not ready.
"SCHOOL OFFICIALS ARE URGED
TO SECURE BETTER ATTENDANCE
(State Superintendent
of Public Instruction)
Raleigh. Oct 21 In a statement in
cluded in a new pamphlet issued by
the State Department of Public in
struction entitled "Compulsory
School Aattendance," State Superin-
a T Allan .olio nn the
Iur :.-.V. TTu. cZ;o , maW(l!
i. ...7 kttr school
CV1 QUUIt W OCViw
attendance.
"I hope every effort will be made
by all parties concerned to secure
better school attendance," he states.
"As parents realize the importance of
regular attendance at school on the
part of their children, they are moore
willing to make a greater effort to get
them to school."
Concluding, he says, "I should like,
therefore, to request a greater in
terest in school attendance, and a
greater willingness on the part of all
school officials to cooperate with and
support the efforts to enforce the
Lone Defer -f Gets
Six Mor A A Sentence
Only one case was tried in the Re
corder's Court Tuesday but that one
resulted in a conviction and a six
months road sentence. William Pot
ter, a young Negro man, was the lone
defendant.
The charge against Potter was that
of reckless driving, injuring person
al property and driving a car while
under the influence of liquor. It
seems that on the night of October
17 he drove a bus belonging to D. M.
DeNoyer to New Bern carrying sev
eral colored passengers.
Mr. Denoyer testified that Potter
drove the bus, ran into a ditch, failed
to show up until the next day and did
not turn in the money he collected.
' Harry Bell went to look for the bus
the next day .and finally found it on
the Laurel Road. Said he smelled
liquor on the defendant. He brought
the bus back to Beaufort.
Alonzo Fulford, colored, who was
one of the passengers on the bus
stated that Potter took several drinks
in New Bern and would not bring
them home and they had to get back
the best way they could.
Potter took the stand in his own
behalf and said that the rest of the
crowd was drunk, that he took very
little and that the brakes wouldn't
hold and that was why he got in the
ditch. He said he went to sleep and
somebody stole his money.
Judge Hill listened to the recital
of the witnesses and then said six
months on the roads for the defend
ant. He must pay the costs too.
A case against two young white
men, Elmer Salter and Elijah Robin
son was continued. Their attorney
Luther Hamilton said he had not had
time to prepare a defense. .They are
charged with violating the prohibition
law. '
It is reported that Salter Path will
be in court again iie't week with a
somewhat sensational case.
County Board Revises
... ; JurX List Again
Fr the past two days the Board
ot bounty commissioners nas Deen
engaged in the task of purging the
county jury list, mis was aone in
August but owing to the Hare up last
i vveeK wnen lne enule arrav 01 iurols
was cnaiengea Dy Attorney iutner
Hamilton and others it was decided to
jud-!Pulge 11 aSaln- nairnmn mis. au
; otnil in rti-1if loaf U-ooL' fhat Vlt lief
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would be revised again.
The recent revision of the list of
ptrsons eligible for jury duty has
t i 1 t 1 J? it. 1 1
i14UU names on e new K- , 1"e
A 1 4.1 J- 1 1 .
exempt Hum jury service. ine law
requires that those chosen must have
paid their taxes and be persons of
, d character and sufflcient intem.
i no
gence to sit on . juries. Tnosej in
charge say the revision has been done
very carefully and that there should
be no trouble about the jury question
for two years at least. The law re
quires that the list shall be purged
every two years.
MILL EMPLOYE INJURED
Allan Odum, young Negro man,
sustained painful injury to his leg
Wednesday morning at the Neuse
Lumber Company, when one of the
law."
Including in the pamphlet is the
compulsory attendance law, the rules
and regulations formulated some
years ago by the State Superin
tendant of Public Instruction and the
Child Welfare Commission and
approved and adopted by the State
Board of Education, the law giving
the duties of the chief school atten
dance officer of the county, and a
statement by Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson,
Commissioner of the State Board of
Charitties and Public Welfare.
In her statement Mrs. Johnson
points out the necessity of the coop
eration of the welfare officer and
school officials in the enforcement of
tthe law requireing that all children
between the ages of seven and four
teen shall attend school continously
for a period equal to time which the
public school in the district in which
the child resides shall be in session.
SUPERIOR COURT
STOPPED FRIDAY
Most Of Civil Docket Continu-'
edTo December; Some True
Bills Found
Last week's issue of the News
gave the proceedings of Superior ,
Court up to about noon. Court ad
journed Friday afternoon. Some '
business not reported in this news
paper last week is given herewith.
The grand jury found several bills
of indictment. They were:
Ray Smith slaying and killing
William Willis. This was where the
deceased was run over by an auto
mobile. John Wolfe Jr., and Luke Mason,
larceny, a true bill.
George Alferman, embezzlement
charge, true bill.
Rufus Lewis, Mrs. Rufus Lasris,
Pizette Lewis, Mrs. Laura G. Lewis,
larceny, true bill.
J. W. Browder, abandonment, a
true bill.
In the case of E. W. Spear charged
with larceny the courtd irected a ver
dict of not guilty.
Leroy S. Brown was adjudged in
contempt of court for not paying ali
mony to his wife Elva B. Brown.
A judgment was granted to the
Pittsburg-Des Moines Steel Co., for
$780 and interest from July 6, 1928
against Morehead Bluffs. This was
for materials supplied.
The grand jury reported that ex
aminations had been made of the va
rious county offices, the jail and
county home. Every thing was found
in good condition. It .was recom
mended that a dozen blankets be
bought for the county home.
As other matters took up most of
the time of the court not much was
done on the civil docket. The cases
set for trial were continued to the
December term.
County Schools Will
Hold Session Saturday
Carteret County Schools will be in
session next Saturday, October 26th.
This plan has been agreed upon by
the teachers in order to give them a
day off when other schools are in reg
ular session so that they may observe
other teachers. This provides for an
exchange of ideas and is recognized
as one of the best ways to help teach
ers in their professional advancement
As far as possible arrangements will
be made for the teachers to observe
later in schools that are doing special
types of work.
This plan has been adopted to meet
the requirements of the new school
law which states that teachers are re
quired to teach the full number of
days. Any days lost during the year
must be made up on Saturday or at
the close of school.
In addition to the day provided for
observation other plans are being car
ried out for the professional improve
ment of teachers in the county. Pro
fessional libraries are being assembl
ed at the six largest schools in the
county. These are for the use of the
teachers in those schools and in the
smaller school which are near. The
plan is to have a good professional
book on every subject taught and to
have several books which give gener
al information concerning the newer
and better types of teaching. This
makes it possible for a teacher to go
to a professional book for informa
tion on teaching a particular thing
just as a lawyer goes to a law book
for information on a particular case.
With a day for visiting in another
school which is having a high type of
woi k and access to a good profession
al library Carteret County teachers
have a splendid opportunity to ad
vance professionally while they teach.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Mrs. Mary Pigott to S. W. Pen
nington, 155 acis White Oak Town
ship, for $10.
C. W. Weeks and wife to S. W. Pen
nington, 155 acres White Oak Town
ship, for $10. - ,
L. R, Dudley and wife to C. E.
Waters and wife, 11 acres White Oak
Township, for $250.
E. H. Gorham Trustee to Wm. H.
Jamison, 30 acres Bogue Banks, for
$1000.
Beaufort Realty Corp. to W.".
Holden, 2 lots West Beaufort, for
$300.
Com. Natl Bank of High Point,
Trustee to High Point Ins. & Real
Estate Co., part lot Beaufort, for
$7350.
High Point Ins. and Real Estate
Co., to C. S. Maxwell and wife, part
lot Beaufort, for $10.
W. A. Lupton and wife et al to W.
V. B. Potter, lot Beaufort, for $30,