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VOLUME XVIII
12 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1929
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 47
S as
County Audit Filed
With Clerk of Court
Lengthy Document Gives Statement of County
Business of Years 1926-1928; Audits of
Schools, Clerk of Court and Register of
Deeds to be Made Later; Accountant Makes
Comments.
'All members of the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners were present at a
short session held Monday. The ob -
ject of the meeting was to receive
the audit prepared by Certified Ac-!
countant C. F. Delamar and to turn I
it over to the Clerk of the Superior!
accordance with an agreement be -
tween attorneys for the county and
the several defendants in the suit
which has been started by the county.
Mr. Delamar made, his report and the
same was. ordered filed with the coun-
V T' i A 7 -7 in&' P'eaded iity and was fined
Superior Court Clerk. The audit is a ?2.50 and costs
very lengthy document containing a! AUison Fulford) colored) dr .
mass of detail about the county s ; two charges. Pleaded ilt and
business for some two years or more. w fined $2 50 and cogts in Qne cage
The. News has been instructed .toand $5 and costs in the other
print the. comments .of the Account-! Fred Johnson, colored, drunk,
ant and also the statement of Cap-1 iPnHpH . 0 -n
ital and Assets and Operating Bal
ance Sheet. Citizens who may desire
more details of the audit can see the
report by calling at the office-of the
County Auditor. The excerpts from
the report follow:
Nov. 23, 1929.
Mr. C. H. Bushall, Chairman,
Board of County Commissioners,
Beaufort, North Carolina.
Dear Sir:
Pursuant to instructions we have L ?
t , . , adtcdtttI16" and was fine(i $2.50 and costs,
audited the accounts of CARTERET I vAAan e -tu i j , u
COUNTY for the period beginning De
u r mop j j- rv
cember 6, 1926 and ending Decern-1
ber 30, 1928, and have made an in-
'vesttgati6rif the roads and'taTsle9
certificates for several years. We
submit herwith our report consisting
of the following Exhibits and Sche
dules, which do not include the of
fices of the Register of Deeds, Clerks
of Court and County Schools, which
will be included in separate report
Sheriff'. Office ' f" upon
TheVecords in the Sheriff's office 1 2mry Cntlnued untl1 Fri"
were well kept and we found that all day afternoon ' this week.
monies coming into his hands had ; :
been properly accounted for. We i COUNTIES GOT FUNDS
found, however, that taxes from Land J TO EMPLOY TEACHERS
Sales Certificates for several years 1
had not been credited on the taxi Raleigh, Nov. 26 Funds fo rthe
books which was no fault of the 'employment of twenty-eight teachers
Sheriff. Credits have now been in addition to these already employ
made on the tax books fro mthe rec-ied by the State in the distribution of
ord of collection furnished us by Lu-i
11 TT ' 1 i r A... A 7i 1
ther Hamilton, County Attorney, and
from the record kept by W. L. Stan
di, County Auditor, though the lat
ter record did not give complete de
tail of collections.
Auditor' Office
The records in this office were in-
adequate. Some of the records which. tire salaries of all additional teachers
we did find were not kept up to date. , allowed by the Board. Available
A General Ledger had been opened! funds for the employment jf one
as of December 6, 1926, but had not, hundred and twenty-two additional
been kept up to date and was of very ; teachers have been made available so
little value. The Cash Receipts Rec-jfar this year,
ords showed a number of entries for j
which the source of receipt was not! "
stated, which necsitated our having! REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
to obtain this information from var-
ious outside sources. I Rosa M- Gibbs e als to Mrs. W. L.
In reconciling the Mnk accounts !Hand- 1 lot forehead City, for $1.
of the various funds v found the i ,Geo- E- Smith t Martha K. Smith,
Road Bond Fund short One Hundred : 1 ,ot Morehead City for $1.
Sixty Three Dollars Eighty Five Cents j Mrehead Building and Supply Co.,
($163.85) Schedule No. 10 page 2. !to. A- S- Copeland, 1 lot Morehead
We were advised by the State BankiC,ty for $10-
of New York that the above amount i Scott P- Parham and wife to A. S.
was paid to W. L. Stancil, County : CoPeland 5 lots Morehead City for
When called upon Mr. W. L. Stancil .$10-
gave his personal check to Carteret ' . J- F- Duncan, Com, to W. B. Nor
County for the above amount "sub-!s 8 1-2 acres Beaufort Township,
ject to refund if later found that; or $120-
same had already been paid to the j
County of Carteret."
The records show that upon num- AYCOCK BROWN WEDS
erous occasions vouchers were drawn j MISS ESTHER STYRON
against certain funds, whereas, they
should have been drawn against other j Information was received here yes
funds resulting in the mixing of jterday of the approaching marriage
funds, of Aycock Brown and Miss Esther
Under date of December 1, 1924 Styron of Ocracoke, the wedding to
the Minutes show that the Board of take nlace todav. Th hrit fV,
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commissioners oi Carteret County
elected W. L. Stancil as County Aud
itor at a salary of Two Thousand
Dollars ($?. 000.00) per year. On
this same "ate there is an insertion
in the Mirites, with pen and ink, to
the effect that he was also elected
''Clerk to the Board and Tax Super
visor at a salary of Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00) per year.
Under date of June 1, 1925 there
is a typewritten slip pasted in the
Minute Eook authorizing payment to
W
L. Stancil Six Hundred Dollars
($600.00) for services as Clerk to the
Board for 1923 and 1924. !
(Continued on pa,?? seven) i
'Plenty Of Defendants
. .
In City Police Court
Mayor Chadwick had a rather full
: docket in his court last Friday af-
tpfnnnn Dviin -twt onrl fir-Vtf infr
: were the offenseg charged against the
defendants. xhe reeent carnival
grounds were the scene of batUe for
; some of the rowdyism that took ,ace
rpnj fniin,Q.
George Newkirk, drunk and fight-
and costs.
Elmer Willis, fighting. He plead
ed guilty and was fined $2.50 and the
costs.
Barney McGuire, a carnival man,
drunk and disorderly. He admitted
it, was assessed $2.50 and costs.
David 'Felton, colored, drunk and
disorderly. He said he was not
guilty but witnesses said he was and
he got a fine of $2.50 and costs.
T '
i submitted to the charge and was fined
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$2.50 and costs.
Leo Wigfalh colored, drunk." Ad
mitted the charge and was fined $5.
and costs.
Reuben Whitehurst, drunk two
cases. He submitted and was fined
$2.50 and costs in one case and $5.00
in the other.
The case against William Brown
rnlnvorl flViownl i4-U i
school funds to schools needing ad
if, i . . -
ditional teachers have been made a
vailable to a number of counties
since the board last met on October
17th. The State Board of Equaliza
tion announced last week. The
state, under the terms of the 1929
Hancock School Act, will nav the en
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daughter of Mrs. Lillie B. Styron of
Ocracoke and the late Captain Julian
B. Styron. The marriage is the cul
mination of a courtship started about
a year ago when Mr. Brown became
a resident of Ocracoke. Mr. Brown
lived in Beaufort prior to going to
Ocracoke and was on the staff of the
Beaufort News and later was in the
employ of Atlantic Beach Corpora
tion. He is the son of Charles S.
Brown of Hillsboro. Mr. Brown is
fl frond Tlpwcnnnnr writer nryA V
(likaMo
frirnrts in this community who no
doubt will be interested in the r" .
nouncement of his marriage.
GRAND JURY WILL
Court Instructs Cumberland
Jurors To Consider County
Affairs
Fayetteville, Nov. 26 The Cum
berland county grand jury was in
structed to conduct a thorough in
vestigation of alleged discrepancies
in the accounts of county officers and
to ascertain the facts at the bottom
of the county audit situation, regard
less of whom they may involve, when
the court charged the jurors at the
opening of a second week of criminal
court. It was brought j out at the
same time that Solicitor T. A. Mc
Neill already has retained a certified
public accountant who is now going
over the reports of the auditors em
ployed by the county commissioners.
The solicitor's investigation is inde
pendent of the county audit, and his
auditor is being paid by the State.
Some weeks ago the county com
missioners stated that the accounts
of former Treasurer David Gaster
showed a deficit of $377,000 and or
dered the county attorney to so ir
form the bondsmen. A day or two
later attorneys for Sheriff N. M. Mc
Geachy obtained from Judge N. A.
Sinclair a temporary injjunction re
straining the commissioners from
making public the report of the aud
itors concerning his office on the
grounds that the audit was grossly
inaccurate and the auditors incompe
tent. This order was continued until
January 15, when a further hearing
will be held. The audit inaugurated
by the commissioners wa3 begun over
a year ago. It is said that it bs
cost more than $35,000. .'
Population Increase I
Shown By Statistics
1:
Vital statistic- for Carteret couiw'
tjr-for the four, month .period begirja
ni with Julv and irfHnriincr fWnhJ
show that there were 143 births in
the county as against 71 deaths. This
shows a gain in population of 72 per
sons. Morehead City leads in both
births and deaths and Beaufort comes
second. The fact that theie are hos
pitals in the towns which are used
more or less by patients from all over
the county probably accounts largely
for the preponderance of the two
towns in the figures given.
The statistics are as follows:
Town Deaths
Beaufort 15
M. City 17
Newport 4
Townships
Beaufort 3
Cedar Island 4
Harkers Is. 4
Harlowe 1
Hunting Quarter, Stacy 1
Davis l
Sea Level 0
Atlantic 4
Marshallberg 1
Merrimon 0
Births
26
42
3
8
3
3
2
3
6!
1
2
3
6
0
8
14
Morehead City 5
Newport 2
Portsmouth l
Gloucester I 3
Bogue 5
Smyrna No Report
71
143
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
Ihe. heads of the estuaries.
High Tide
Friday,
6:50 A. M.
7:21 P. M.
Low Tide
Nov. 29
12:39 A. M.
1:31 P. M.
Saturday, Nov. 30
7:31 A. M. 1:23 A. M.
8:05 P. M. 2:15 P. M.
Sunday, Dec. 1
8:10 A. M. 2:06 A. M.
8:45 P. M. 2:58 P. M.
Monday, Dec. 2
8:50 A. M. 2:48 A. M.
9:28 P. M. 3:42 P. M.
Tuesday, Dec. 3
9:31 A. M. 3:33 A. M.
10:12 P. M. 4:28 P. M.
Wednesday, Dec. 4
10:19 A. M. 4:20 A. M.
10:59 P. M. 5:15 p. M.
Thursday, Dec. 5
11:00 A. M. 5:io A. M.
12:00 . M. 6:03 P. M.
CAPITAL COMMENT
ON CURRENT NEWS
Governor Gardner Does Fast
Work on Geese; Electric
Lights For Fish Pond
(By K. R. Miller)
Raleigh, Nov. 27 Governor O.
Max Gardner, an ardent sportsman,
and himself an exponent of game con
servation laws was considerably hin
dered by one of the laws having
his hearty approval, on a hutning
trip last week.
The Governor accompanied by his
Secretary, Tyre Taylor, O. B. Moss,
of Nash County and piloted by Fred
Latham of Beaufort County with a
guide set out at an early hour to a
blind in Lake Mattamuskeet, to spend
the better part of the day. The
geese arrived in such profusion that
the Governor secured his legal limit
of five geese in almost as many min
utes. A few miles northeast of Raleigh,
an interesting experiment, is being
conducted by James Pou. 'Jr., on a
tract of land known as Indian Ridge.
Mr. Pou, cooperating with the State
Department of Conservation and De
velopment has stocked several little
ponds with several thousand Bass and
Bream until they are of sufficient size
to place in waters with larger fish.
Electric lights have been strung ov
er the water on the theory that in
sects attracted by the lights will fall
into the water serving as bait to draw
the fish to the surface where they
may be more easily caught. The
pools are being drained this fall and
the fish will be used in stocking other
ponds.
Every city and county in the State,
as well as the state of North Caro
lina itself and every citizen in it,
must immediately start on a program
of retrenchment and economy in or
der to cope with the frugal times that
are ahead as a result of the recent
stock market crash in Wall Street, in
which some 28 billions of dollars of
values were destroyed.
This was the declaration made
here by Josiah William Bailey in ad
dressing the American Business Club
on present business conditions to be
expected as a result of the recent
stock market crash. He said, "dur
ing the recent period of inflation
there was too much expansion along
every line on borrowed money and
too much credit and installments.
The Big corporations could make
their books show bigger profits by
selling goods on the instalment plan
and on the showing of these paper
profits they issued more and more
bonds to finance expansion. "States
as well as corporations went through
this same process. Here in North
Carolina alone, the state in its sub
divisions borrowed more than $500,
000,000 on bonds within a period of
ten years, which $200,000,000 was
borrowed privately by individuals in
this same period making more than
$700,00(900 in all. And this hap
pened in most of the other states on
a similar scale.
But Wall Street kept right on buy
ing the bonds, so the bonds kept on
being offered. However, the satura
tion point was reached in October
when $300,000,000 worth of addition
al bonds were offered, and there were
no buyers. The inflation had reach
ed the saturation point. The finan
cial tower of Bab;l collapsed. Ycu
know what has happened."
FORMER BEAUFORT CITIZENS
VISIT HERE LAST WEEK
Col. Faii'leigh Dickinson of Ruth
erford, N. J. and Captain W. A. San
ders of Norfolk, Va., spent a few
days here last week visiting frhnds
and looking upon the scenes of their
early manhood. Unfortunately a
northeaster arrived here at about the
same time they did and so tmy could
not get around as much as they
would have liked to do. They expect
to pay another visit to Beaufort and
Carteret county next spring and it is
to be hoped they will find better
weather. Their friends are always
glad to see them though regardless of
weather conditions.
Colonel Dickinson went from Beau
fort to Washington where he report
ed to the U. S. War Department for
active duty. On Dumber 7 he will
be relieved from duty and will revert
to inactive status.
BIRTH OF SON
Charlie Chadwick, generally known
as "Pickle Dick," well known colored
citizen and his wife Lillian are the
proud parent-: of a son who arrived
Friday the 22nd. The child has
been r.. : C':...i;o 3. Fushall as a
compliment to C. H. Bufha'!, chair
man of the boa:d of count v commis-
doners.
Small Docket Tuesday
In Recorder s Court!
The smallest docket in some time
confronted Judge Hill and Solicitor
Duncan in Recorder's Court Tuesday
morning. Two cases, both short,
were tried .and one was continued.
The case against Dadie Moss of
Wildw'ood charged with an assault
with a deadly weapon was continued
by request of attorney A. B. Morris
until December 10. The defendant
was required to give a $200 bond.
Tansy Henderson, colored, of More
head City was put on trial charged
with reckless driving and damage to
property. Tansy said that another
man was driving the car and that he
ran into an old car which had been
left standing on the street for sever
al months
The other man departed
for parts unknown
and left Tansy
with the bag to hold. There was no 01 nmothy Nelson where he was a
evidence that he drove the car and j guest. No blame is attached to any
on motion of his attorney Alvah Ham-1 member of the Nelson family how
ilton the charge was dismissed. .ever. The thief who took the money
Wright Stanley, colored, who gets
into court from time to time on charg
es where liquor gets him into trouble,
was tried on the charge of an as-
sault on a female, to-wit, his wife
Bessie Stanley. Wright claimed that
his wife and children assaulted him
but she told a different tale about it,
She said he got drunk and started a
row at home. Judge Hill gave Wright
a lecture and sent him to jail for 90
days to get sober.
Next week Superior Court will be
in session for a week's term of civ
il cases. For this reason there will
be no Recorder's Court until Tues
day, December 10.
BRING BACK YACHT
OWNER FOR TRIAL
! grand success. The Bishop and mem
Wilmington, Nov. 26 Richard C. i bers of the conference were well
Peacock, owner of the rum laden pleased with the entertainment given
yacht Elois at the time it was seized
off Beaufort by the coast guard, who
was arrested yesterday in Miami, Fla,
will be tried at the next term of
United States court here. Irvin B.
Tucker, district attorney, announced vear by the churches and four hun
today. The man is now being brought dred new members added to the
to Wilmington, the district attorney churches. Purvis Chapel was sec
said, jond in the lead in finance. Thirty
Peacock, a well known resident of one hundred dollar? raised by Purvis
Miami, was alleged in a grand jury Chapel.
indictment returned in federal court I The pastor and members of Pur
here to be a silent partner in a liquor ,vis Chapel wish to extend their heart
smuggling enterprise that came toife't thanks to the people of More
grief when the yacht Elois was cap- head City and Beaufort for taking
tured by the coast guard as it at-! such care of the members, of the con
tempted to enter Beaufort. fcrence and visitors. We also wish
jto thank the honored Mayor for the
Piedmont Sfrtinn Mav isPlendid words of welcome which he
rieamont CUOn lVlay ;extended Wednesday the twentieth
T.et Textile Srnnnl:throUgh Juudge E' W' Hil1 for th;y
vsci 1 exilic Jcnoui were inspiring as well as cordial, and
Mr. Leslie Davis also and our own
Raleigh, Nov. 26 It has just been
announced that officials of North
Carolina State College are consider
ing a plan to establish a branch of
the Textile School in the center of
the Piedmont section. This announce -
ment was made following the meet-,
Manufacturers Association at Pine -
hurst which was attended by Dr. E.
C. Rrnok-s. President nf thp CnlW
and Professor Thomas Nelson, Head l"e P" cnurcn, witn rep-
of the Textile School. resentatives atendmg from the five
Although State College Officials dis-1 memberD conties, Craven, Onslow,
cussed plans for the branch school i J"eS'Pa,llS0 fnd Carteret,
with the Cotton Manufacturers dur-' . Df- Z- V Parker, of this city, was
ing the Friday sessions, it was reveal fiect!d moderator, L. L. Leary, of
ed that the entire project is still in Morehe"d .Cty .was named v1Ce mod
a nebulous stage and plans may be erator a"d U' " Swann of Beaufort,
presented to trustees of the College as,madf seetary and treasurer,
in time for work to be started in Beslds these officers executive board
iqon members are Rev. A. P. Stevens, of
Washington Man
Still Not I orated AUTHORITIES LOOK FOR
ami not Located hit and run driver
Washington, N. C, Nov. 25 No
word concerning the whereabout? of New Bern, Nov. 24 Authorities
Roscoe J. Peele, young local man, are searching for the hit-and-run
who disappeared some time Friday, diiver that struck two Negroes or
were heard yesterday or today by bicycles early Thursday night on the
relatives and friends here. central highway near here, killing
A description of the man was sent one instantly and injuring the other,
to the Norfolk Police Department The accident took place in the dark
Saturday and other police centers An inquest was held Friday after
were also notified but fo far nothing, noon, the coroner's jury deciding
has come from the queries. that Claude Saunders came to hi
Local officers have investigated the death from the injuries sustain-!
affair as much as possible but no ink- whtn he was struck bv a Ford truck
ling of what might have happened driven by unknown parties,
has been discerned. Peele borrowed i .
a car from F. A. Lilhy, rtdftf after
noon and said that he vas goiiig to a i
farm near the city to t et som""chick
ens. He said that he would return
in a little while.
He never returned and several
hours after the time he had left )
friends started hunting for him. Hei
had not appeared at the farm where j
he had said that he was going and j
could not be located at any of the
places where he was knoi. Xew Bern, Nov. 24 H. L. Brown
Mr. Lilley stated that he had told chief torpedo man, formerly on the
Peele that there was little gasoline in S. S. Hopkins, has relieved D. L.
the machine and officers went to each Moser here, as recruiting officer in
filling station in the city to seewheth-, this district. Mr. Moser left Wed
er Peele had purchased any gas. He;n;sday for his new duties on the U.
had not been seen at any of the sta-jS. S. New York where he is a gun
ticn&. ner's mate, first class.
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W IHllilH MlMi
Some One Steals $750 From
Bishop Wood; Left Large
Sum
According to reports the confer
ence held here last week by the A.
M. E. Zion Church was a successful
one. There was a large attendance
of delegates and many inspirational
sermons and addresses were deliver
ed. There was an unfortunate in
cident however at the close of the
Conference. The sum of $750 was
stolen from funds belonging to the
church which Bishop J. W. Wood
had in his custody. The money was
kePt in a suit case . and the suit case
vvas " the Bishop's room at the home
might have made a much larger haul
as there was about $4800 in other
packages in the suit case. The po
lice were notified of the loss and in-
! vestigated the matter as carefully as
! Possible. So far the theft is a mys-
tery.
Reverend S. Chapman, pastor of
rurvis Chapel here, has been return-
I ed for another year. This church
has made good progress during his
pastorate. The church building has
been greatly improved inside and out
recently and the church has met its
financial obligations in a creditable
manner. A statement by the pas
tor follows:
The sixty fourth session of the
North Carolina Conference was a
them by the people of Beaufort,
Bishop Wood was also pleased with
; tne reports made by the churches
throughout the four districts. Sixty
nve thousand dollars was raised this
Prof. L. R. Best.
S. Chapman,
Pastor, Purvis Chapel church
AT, AMT.IO Dr.,,
FORMED RY RAPTi?Ts
: FORMED BY BAPTISTS
New Bern, Nov. 22 As a division
'f' the Pv.ous Neuse-Atlant.c Bap-
tist association, the Atlantic associa
"" "'ga.uzeu nere lues
tion was organized here Tuesday at
cucau viiy, o. i. aiarnng, oi Hu
bert and Mrs. Will Dixon, or Oriental.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
LawrenceHazel and Estelle Suggs,
Eeaufort.
Elmer Guthrie Morehead City and
Vivian Smith Atlantic.
Claude Golden and Jaunita Golderi
Beaufort, R. F. D.
NEW RECRUITING OFFICER
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