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10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THUSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1929 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 43
VOLUME XVIII
SALTER PATH MAN
IS ACQUITTED IN
RECORDER'S COURT
Large Crowd Attend Trial of
G. W. Smith On Assault
Charge
Salter Path was very much in ev
idence Tuesday at the regular ses
sion of the 'County Recorder's Court.
A very considerable part of the adult
population of the place was present
and sixty five of them were there as
witnesses. The trial of the case a
gainst George W. Smith of Salter
Path charged with an assault with
attempt to commit rape was the
cause of the interest manifested.
After a hearing of several hours du
ration he was acquitted.
The first case tried was that of
John Wolfe Jr., of Beaufort on the
charge of driving a car while drunk.
'He plead guilty to the indictment and
was fined $25 and costs and senten
ced to thirty days in jail. The cap
ias however is not to issue provided
he does not drive a car for ninety
days and does not violate any laws
of the State.
Harry Bell, a young man from New
port, was tried on the charge of hav
ing whiskey in his possession for the
purpose of sale. His attorney C. R.
Wheatly entered a plea of not guilty.
Sheriff Davis and Deputy Stanford
Gaskill testified that they raided
Bell's house, acting on information
furnished them, last Sunday after
noon and found a jar wLh about a
half gallon in it and a small quainti
ty in one or two bottles. No one was
seen buying any liquor nor was there
any evidence that any had been sold.
After listening to considerable argu
ment between Solicitor Duncan and
Mr. Wheatly Judge Hill dismissed the
action on the ground that the law per
mits a person to have liquor in his
house for personal use and that there
was no evidence that the defendant
Bell had sold any.
The Salter Path case was the last
r tried. It'WBS'tftaited at the morning
session and finished about 3:30 in the
afternoon. The prosecution was rep
resented by Attorneys W. C. Gorham
and C. R. Wheatly and Solicitor
Duncan. Attorney Luther Hamilton
appeared for the defendant. The
principal witnesses for the State were
Mrs. Hattie Willis and her husband
Harvey Willis. Mrs. Willis testified
that she is forty six years old and
has children and grandchildren. Her
husband is a man of large stature
and is perhaps fifty years old. The
alleged attempt at rnpe is supposed
to have occurred September 11 at a
bout two o'clock in the afternoon.
The defendant Smith married a sis
ter of Harvey Willis. ,
Mrs. Willis stated that at the time
mentioned she went to her home and
that Smith was in the house when
she got there and that he made the
attempt at assault. There was no
one else in the house she said. She
resisted him and managed to get a
way and went out in the yard and
then left, so she stated. On cross
examination by Mr. Hamilton the
witness said that Smith lived fairly
- near her and that there were three
houses between them. She said the
warrant was taken out on October 9
and that she told her husband about
the occurrence two -eeks before the
warrant was issued. Said she told
her daughter-in-law Mrs. Sallie Willis
about the affair. She ('nied that
she frequently visited Smith's house,
Asked about a fight between her hus
band and Smith she said she did not
know much about it and that she did
not take out the warrant because of
the fight.
Harvey Willis the husband of the
defendant was on the stand a short
while. He testified that his wife
told him about the alleged assault
about two weeks after it happened.
He said he had been on bad terms
with Smith for probably twenty five
"years. He said the warrant was not
issued because of the fight between
him and Smith.
Mrs. Sallie Willis, the daughter-in-law
of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Willis,
said her mother-in-law told her of
the alleged assault about two weeks
before the fight. She said she lives
near the Willis home and that she
had seen ""s. Willis at Smith's home
several tirss.
i Several :haracter witnesses were
it on fo Mr. and Mrs. Willis and
Vun a lar;e number of witnesses for
Lne defense were sworn in. Mr. Hani
ilton had moved that the1 action be
dismissed but this motion was refus
ed and then the defendant took the
stand in his own defense
Mr. Smith denied positively that
he had ever made any improper ad
vances to Mrs. Willis. He said that
on the Hth of September he wps out
clamming a god part of the day and
Welfare Specialist
Makes Fine Address
The Child Development Conferen
ce under the auspices of the County
Educational Department was held in
the auditorium of the Beaufort Grad
ed School building yesterday and was
well attended by parents from More
head City, Beaufort, and rural plac
es. The meeting was called to or
der by R. L. Fritz, Superintendent of
Beaufort schools, who after a few
introductory remarks, turned the
meeting over to Mr. J. H. Workman,
County Superintendent of Carteret
County Schools. Invocation and short
talks were made by Mr. F. R. Seely,
followed by Miss Parrott, of the
State Department of Education, who
outlined the School's Three-fold Pro-
gram.
Dr. Ruth Andrus, Director of the
Child Development and Parental Ed
ucation of the State Department of
New York State, made the chief ad
dress, which was a most helpful one.
Immediately following her address
lunch was served in the school at
which time there was a roundtable
discussion of the problems that con
front parents and teachers, and all
adults whose lives touch the lives of
children. In the afternoon, the Co
operative Health Plan was discussed
and then Dr. Andrus again spoke in
her charming manner on Cooperative
Relationships. The meeting was
very well attended and much interest
was manifested both by the parents
and by the teachers who were in at
tendance at the afternoon session.
FOG FORCES BIG PLANE
TO ANCHOR AT MANTEO
Norfolk, Va., Nov. 12 A huge
consolidator 27-passenger Pan-American
Airways seaplane with Colonel
O'Neil, vice president of the company
aboard en route Anacosta to Miami,
was forced down by fog at Manteo,
N. C, about noon. All hope for re
suming the flight until tomorrow was
abandoned, a radio message to the
Hampton Roads naval air station
said.
Besides Colonel O'Neil thefe were
five other passengers aboard the ship
piloted by Captain Kouger.
MRS. ALICE HOFFMAN
TAKES AN AIR VOYAGE
Miami, Fla., Nov. 11 Mrs. Alice
Hoffman, of Paris, 70-year old aunt
of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, was
speeding southward this morning as a
passenger aboard the Pan American
Airways, West Indies air limited, en
route to Porto Rico for a month's
visit with the new Governor of the
island.
Mrs. Hoffman was elated as she en
tered the plane here. She will lunch
in the air between Havana and Cam-
aguey today and stop overnight at
Santiago de Cuba, arriving at Porto
Rico Tuesday at 4 :30 P. M.
The Mrs. Hoffman referred to a
bove owns a fine estate on Bogue Is
land and is known by a good many
Carteret county people.
ONLY TWO DEFENDANTS
TRIED IN POLICE COURT
The dearth of business in the city
Police Court continues, or at any rate
it did last week. Only two defen
dants were before Mayor Chad wick
Friday.
Abe Darling on a charge of drunk
eness was fined $5.00 and costs.
Tom Davis, colored, drunk first of
fense, was fined $2.50 and costs.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Orrin Weeks et al to Interstate
Cooperage Company, tract White Oak
Township, for $3650.00.
Chas A. Fisher et al to the Texas
Co. part lot, Beaufort, for $850.00.
that he spent the rest of the after
noon at home. He said he went to
the Willis home on the 6th to bor
row a hammer and that Mrs. Annie
Willis was there and that she asked
him for a piece of tobacco which he
gave her and then went" home. He
said the fight occurred on October
the fourth.
Other defense witnesses were Aleck
Willis, George Guthrie, Alvin Wilis,
Mrs. Mary Lewis and Mrs. Mary
Guthrie. They gave Smith a good
character. Mrs. Lewis said Mrs.
Willis told her of the alleged assault
after the fight between Smith and
Willis. Mrs. Guthrie testified the
same.
After the defense witnesses had
been heard Mr. Hamilton again mov
ed for a dismissal. Judge Hill ask
ed the lawyers for the prosecution
what they thought about it and they
stated that Jthey thought it would be
impossible to get a conviction in the
Superior Court and therefore con
sented to a dismissal of the action
which was done.
MENHADEN BOATS
DOING VERY WELL
Made Good Catches Yesterday
And Outlook Good For
Today
'
Wednesday was the best day's
fishing that the menhaden boats have cident occurred. Little Glenn got
had since the fall season opened. So ' out 0f the car and started around
far conditions have not been very fa-1 the back of it when James Henry, a
vorable and the catches have not been 'colored delivery boy for Noe's Meat
large. Indications now seem very j Market came along on his bicycle
favorable. Large bodies of fish have ;an(j struck him. The child was
been reported between Ocracoke and knocked to the pavement and when
Cape Lookout moving southward, ; his father picked him up he was un
rather well off shore. A spell ol : conscious. Mr. Adair ran at once to
stormy weather would probably send the Emergency Hospital where phys
them away in a few days but thejicians and nurses worked over the
fishermen say that if the weather ; little fellow some time before he was
holds good they expect to reap a good restored to consciousness. Later it
harvest in the near future. Most of ! was found that his lower jaw was
the fish that are being caught arejfracturedand there were painful cuts
large fat ones and contain a god a-jon his lips and face. He has receiv
mount of the much desired oil. jed the necessary surgical attention
The News has not been able to and is now making satisfactory prog
get accurate information as to the res towards recovery,
catches of the fleet yesterday but re-,
ports are that practically every one
caught something. The boats of the
Beaufort Fish Scrap and Oil Com
pany made a catch of 1,180,000. It
is estimated that the total catch of
the Beaufort and Morehead City
boats yesterday was close to three jof exisheriff and Mrs. T. C. Wade, of
million fish. The Parkins seems to;thig city was seiected to represent
have had the largest catch which wasithe state in the Ail-American High
334,000. Others were; the BalsterjSchool Cadet Band of Chicago. The
299,000, Pilgrim 200,000;' Blades 48 gtates were represented in this or
188,000, Marks 165,000, Leland Mills jganization and as many as two or
300,000, Edwards 75,000, Mace 200,jmore from other statea. North Car
000, Lancaster 250,000, Wales 200,lolina only had one and Morehead
uuu. a teiepnone message received i city ig proud o her representative
by one of the factories today was to;in RalT1u Wade. e received a schol-
the effect that the boats were catch-
ing fish. '
POLICE REPORT FOR !
MONTH OF OCTOBER
'
To The Hon. Mayor and Eoard ofious concerts, among which was one
Commissioners.
Gentlemen: '
I beg leave to submit the following
police report for the month of Octo
ber, 1929.
We have made 12 arrests and col-jof
lecterf fines and cost to the amount of
$87.35 and paid same to the Mayor
and Clerk as follows:
Artiest
Longest 8
Holland 3
Styron 1
12
$38.60 $48
Respectfully Submitted,
W. R. LONGEST,
Chief of Police
November 1, 1929.
SNUG HARBOR DESTROYED
BY SUNDAY MORNING FIRE
Sung Harbor, an oyster house and
soft drink establishment on the high
way bridge between Beaufort and
Morehead City was destroyed by fire
early Sunday morning. It belonged
to Fred Johnson of Beaufort and his
loss is estimated at around seven
hundred dollars. There was no in
surance. The alarm was turned in shortly af
ter two o'clock and the Beaufort fire
truck soon arrived on the scene. A
bout all the firenien could do though
was to prevent the , destruction of
nearby telephone lines. The build
ing was too far gone to be saved.
Several small boats used for fishing
purposes were not burned. The or
igin of the fire is not known.
Fines
$27.50
8.60
2.50
operated a battery station. He had
I been" in the same business at Kins
JUDGE WEBB PRAISES HOOVER j ton
rUK WOKLO PEACE ACTIVM T I
Asheville, Nov. 11 Judge E. Yates
Webb, of Shelby, in his charge to the I
grand jury at the opening of U. S.
district court here today, praised
President Herbert Hoover and Pre
mier Ramsey MacDonald of their
efforts in behalf of universal peace.
STATE SHOWS CASH BALANCE
OF NINE MILLION DOLLARS
Raleigh, Nov. 12 The general
fund of the state-of North Carolina
showed a cash balance as of October
81 Of $2,132,244.69 for the current
fiscal year, according to the com
bined monthly statement of Nathan
O'Berry, state treasurer, and Baxter
Durham, state auditor, announced to
day. The highway fund showed a
cash balance of $6,838,646.60, mak
ing a total cash balance for the state
of $9,160,469.98 as of October 31.
The general fund cash balance of
$2,132,244.69 October 31. compared
to a balance July 1, this year, when
the fiscal year started, of $2. 121,079 -
23.
The total state debt as of October
31 was $175,792,600.
Boy Hit By Bicycle
And Seriously Hurt
Glenn H. Adair, five year old son
I of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Adair was
badly injured last Friday evening
jwhen struck by a bicycle. Mr. and
,Mrs. Adair and children had just
Istonped their car in front of their
house on Craven street when the ac-
MOREHEAD BOY WINS
HIGH MUSIC HONORS
Morehead City, Nov. 7 Out of
the entire list of high school musi
cians of the State Raich Wade, son
BrBv,;n t rnm this organization this
summer which was valued at 400
which gave him an 11 weeks instruc
tion from the leaders of the band.
During the summer the students prac
ticed in the tower building in Chi-
jcago. They participated in numer-
given in September in the Orchestra j
Hall, "The All-Star (Joncert,"
in
which 60 sololists took part. The
prbgram of the band was in four
nnt-4-a mtiHot the crpnerar instruction
Captain J. D. Henderson, assisted
bv a corns of artists instructors. At '
nnnplminn nf thp ronrsp. each bov I
i nthis band composed of the great-!
r.iest m-ize-winning soloists from the!
$29.25 I various states, received a gold med
15.60, al.
3-90 1 Ralph left for Chicago to continue
his studies in music under the direc-
T;tion of Jaroslav Cimera, celebrated
I trombone virtuoso. Mr. Cimera for
several years was soloist in Sousa s
band. Ralph, who was graduated
from the local high school in 1928 was to Leaksville hospital where reports
a charter member of the band which jate gurlday evening were to the ef
was organized by Prof. H. L. Joslyn, . fect that he was in a serious condi
a few years ago. Professor Joslyn tion Several ribs were torn loose
gave 'the boys who cared for music and he was badly mashed,
the training in band music, free of , Wilson, who has figured in four au-
charge, and in most instances fur-
nishing the instruments for them. La-
ter Prof. Gibb Arthur, who came here
to teach, took the band over, whip
ping into shape one of the best train
ed school bands in Carolina. Thru
this means Ralph became a proficient
trombonist.
RITES FOR E. S. VOUGHT
New Bern, Nov. 13 The body of
i E. S. Vought was laid to rest here
!in Cedar Grove cemetery Tuesday af
Iternoon, following funeral services at
Kinston, where he died Monday
1 night. Masonic rites were accord
ed the deceased. Mr. Vought was a
I resident here for many years, having
GREATER ATTENTIONPLOW TO
READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC
(State Superintendent
Public Instruction)
Raleigh, Nov. 11 "The pupils of
our schools receive more hours of in
struction in the Three R's than ever
before," says Dr. Carleton H. Mann,
Asheville, N. C, who recently com
pleted a study of the time allotted to
the 'teaching of the different grade
school subjects in 444 cities ot tnelthec hanee spent m studying tnem.
United States.
Contrary to the commonly express
ed opinion that the schools tend to
neglect the Three R's while placing
more emphasis upon subjects styled
"fads and frills," Dr. Mann found
that "tho rhildren of the nation now
receive twice as many hours of in-v
struetion in the Three R's as they j
did in 1866 and almost four times
j that which they received in 1826."
Throughout his school career in
1826 a vuP. studied readin,' 'ritin,'
1 and 'rithmetic. a total of 934 hours.
jln 1866 he was spending 1,693 hours
ion those three .subjects while in 1926
he was required to put in a total of
PATROL HAS BUSY
TIME I OCTOBER
Brings State $2,494 Revenue
From License State, Arrests
and Aids Many
Raleigh, Nov. 12 Drivers of mo
tor vehicles without license plates and
of cars or trucks with a lower class
license than prescribed for their cars
by law, spent $2,494.90 in purchasing
new plates last month as a result of
activities of the State Highway Pa
trol, according to a State report is
sued yesterday from the office of
Capt. Charles D. Farmer, director of
the patrol.
The report showed a total of $6.
296.19 paid by the 361 motorists ar
rested, in fines and costs $3,788.95
being paid in fines for traffic law
violations and $2,507.24 for costs in
cases. Road sentences totaling 76
months were given offenders.
Patrolmen aided 880 motorists in
distress on the highway and issued
4,588 warnings of traffic violations
requiring an additional 7,358 motor
ists to fix their automobile lights so
that they complied with the law.
Here are some of the offenses of
which motorists were warned: passing
on curves 581, pasing on hills, 177,
hogging the road 235, hearse driving
43, parked on highway 4,588, not eb
serving signals 20 .
The arrests included 43 reckless
and 41 drunken drivers.
Patrolmen traveled 74,976 miles in
performance of their duties, working
11,277 hours during the month.
Black Cat Causes
Serious Accident
Madison, Nov. 11 Tom Garrett
Fuqua, 20 year old youth of the In
telligence section, and Woodrow Wil
son, of the Gold Hill section, four or
five miles from town, met with a ser-
'us
automobile accident Sunda.l
afternoon about 2 o'clock. The two
boys were driving a new Ford road
ster and as they were proceeding east
from town on highway 708, two miles
"om town, tney saw a duck cat cros
roaa, ana r uqua no ws wiving
took his hand from the steering wheel
to turn his caP arund in rder that
tne Diact cat wouia oring mem no oau
luck, according to his story, when he
lost control of the car. It plunged
into the bank and aparently turned
over twice. Fuqua was pinned un
derneath, and when passerby got the
car off he was unconscious. He was
rushed to Madison where medical aid
was given. However, he was so badly
hurt that he was immediately rushed
j tomobile wrecks within the past few
j yearS) Was apparently not hurt, other
than slight bruises. Young Fuqua is
conected with the State Highway
commission at Jamestown and was
spending the week end at home.
Will Sue Vrown
London. One of the biggest claims
ever brought against the' crown will
be heard in the law courts next
month when the Civilian War Claim
ants' association will seek a judg
ment in favor of 66,000 claimants in
all parts of the country and they
are entitled to more than $220,000,
000 for losses by enemy action during
the war.
Do not forget to read the News
want ads.
3,565 hours on the same branches of
learning. In 1800 the average num
ber of days of schooling for Ameri
can children was 82. It had increas
ed to 163 in 1826, and by 1926 it had
leaped to 1,360.
While the amount of time spent to
day on the Three R's is greatly in
creased, the change in the content of
i these subjects is much greater than
I In earlier times books were scarce,
and frequently one school reader fur
nished material for a whole years
study in reading.
Today, pupils read each year as
many as 25 or 30 books designed not
only to offer practice in reading, but
to carry information of value in geog
raphy, history, and the sciences. The
emphasis is placed not so much on
learning to read as upon reading to
learn. Arithmetic text-books like-
wise have undergone great changes
I and contain fewer puzzles and trick
problems and much more practical ex-
ercises in calculations which the pu
pil needs to make in life
COUNTY HOME MAN
CUTS HIS THROAT
Attempt At Suicide Made By
Inmate of Home Last
Night ... x I'.
Arthur Smith, an inmate of the
County Home, made an attempt last
night to take his own life. Using a
razor for his purpose he cut two deep
gashes in his throat, missing the jug
ular veins however. He lost a great
deal of blood and was in a very weak
ened condition when found early this
morning by Dave Roberts another in
mate of the institution. He was
brought at once to the Emergency
Hospital and given every attention
possible. A saline solution was put
in his veins and other measures tak
en to keep him alive. At present Mr.
Smith is getting along as well as
could be expected and there is a
chance that he will recover from his
wounds.
Mr. Smith is originally from Hark
er's Island . He has a sister living
there an dtwo brothers in Morehead
City. He has been in bad health for
quite a long time. For several
night recently he has been unable to
sleep and it is thought that this fact
and despondency had affected his
mental condition. He stated today
that he did not remember any thing
about his attempt to kill himself. He
is about forty years old and unmar
ried. Fruit Trees and Flowers
Bloom As In Spring
Visitors to Harker's Island last
Sunday afternoon from Beaufort
were surprised to see pear trees in
bloom. And in the yards of Mrs.
John and Mrs. Anson Gaskill's yards
were many lovely flowers, chrysan
themums, gaillardia, and marigolds,
zinnias, still as lovely as in mid-summer.
All along the shore, .except
where it has been cut away for res
idences, grows the yaupon, a native
shrub of North Carolina. This grows
so thickly that in some places it is T'" '
impassable. It is red with berries -now,
and is a beautiful sight. A
stroll along the shore on the narrow
path at the close of the day with
the sun setting is a sight long to be
remembered for its beauty.
In Beaufort, peach trees in the
yard of Reverend Henry Turner, col
ored, are in bloom, and a reader of
the news says that several apple
trees are in bloom also in Beaufort.
Mrs. Richard Fe'.ton brought to the
News office Wednesday morning a
perfect bud of the white Maman
Cochet rose which is in bloom now
in her yard. While it is not unusual
to see roses in bloom in Beaufort all
during the winter, even on Christ
mas day, this rose of Mrs. Felton's
was unusually fine in size, and length
of stem. The half-blown bud was
about three inches in length and per
fectly formed.
MRS.
WILL DOWDY NEW BERN
DIED WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Information has been received here
today that Mrs. Will Dowdy of New
'Bern died last night after an illness
of only a few days. Mrs. Dowdy
leaves a husband, Mr. Will Dowdy,
who is in the furniture business
there, and two children, Bill and
Maxine. Funeral services will be
held Friday afternoon.
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. S.
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for 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.
High Tide Low Tide
Friday, Nov. IS
6:43 A. M. 12:42 A. M.
7:10 P. M. 1:28 P. M.
Saturday, Nov. 16
7:24 A. M.
7:54 P. M.
1:22 A. M.--
2:13 P. M.
Sunday, Nov. 17
8:08 A. M. 2:Q3 A. M.
8:40 P. M. 3:00 P. M.
Monday, Nov. 18
8:54 A. M. 2:48 A. M-
9:29 P. M. 3:49 P. Ml
Tuesday, Nov. 19
9:44 A. M. 3:39 A. M.
10:26 P. M. 4:41 P. M.
Wednesday, Nov. 20
10:38 A. M. 4:34 A. M-
11:00 P. M. 5:37 P. M..
Thursday, Nov. 21 '
11:22 A. M. 5:38 A. M.'
11:36 P. M. 6:35 P. M-
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