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VOLUME XIX
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930
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NUMBER 4
MUCH BUILDING
WILL BE DONE BY
POWER COMPANIES
One Large Development Plan
ned on Roanoke River;
State Ranks High In
Power
TWO MILLION HOPSEPOWER
Raleigh, Jan. 10 Millions of dol
lars will be invested and work start
ed on projects that will develop hun
dreds of thousands of horsepower of
electric energy in North Carolina
during 1930, figures o nthe power in
dustry of the state, released yester
day by the division of water resources
an dengineering of the department of
conservation and development, indi
cate. Coming into 1930 with an install
ed generating capacity of 1,055,900
horsepower of water and steam pow
er, projects now underway or sched
uled to be started during the current
year, when completed, will bring the
installed capacity beyond the 2,000,
000 horsepower mark, the report said.
A review of the power situation in
North Carolina at the end of 1929
showed that 283,000 horsepower of
electric energy were put into service
during the year. Projects complet
ed during the year include the Pig
eon river hydro plant of the Carolina
Power and Light company, which de
velops a total of 133,00 horsepower,
and the 150,000 River Bend steam
plant of the Duke Power company.
Of the total installed power at the
beginning of 1930 in North Carolina,
944,900 were in hydro developments
and 711,000 horsepower in fuel plants
The increase over 1928 in total in
stalled horsepower is' 20.6 per cent;
in hydro, 16.4 per cent; and in steam,
26.8 per cent. Approximately 57 per
cent of the present total is hydro and
43 per cent steam.
Ranks Firit.
'Output figures for electric plants-,'
said Thorndike Saville, chief engineer
of the division of the department of
conservation and development, "in
dicate, a better than normal increase
in usage. Figures released by the
U. S. geological survey for the first
11 months of the year indicate that
North Carolina, with an output of 2,
334,874,000 kilowatt-hours, is well
ahead of any other southern state.
" In total output North Carolina
ranks first; Virginia, second; and Ala
bama, third. In the output by wa
ter power North Carolina ranks first;
Alabama, second; and South Carolina
third. In output by fuel power, North
Carolina ranks second, that of West
Virginia being greater. Water pow
er was responsible for 92.7 per cent
of the output during the 11 months
reported. If this percentage holds
for the year, the percent output from
water power will have been the great
est since 1920. In 1927, this per
centage was 54.5, the lowest on rec-
"Including an estimate for output
in Pecember, it appears that the total
output for 1929 in North Carolina will
b approximately 2,500,000,00 kilowatt-hours,
the latter figure being an
increase of 7.5 per cent over that for
1927."
Developments under way at this
time or expected to be started early
in the present year are those of the
Nanthala Power end Light company,
a subsidiary of the Aluminum Com
pany of America, in the western part
of the state, and the Virginia Elec
tric and Power compony operating
through the Virginia-Carolina Power
company, a North Carolina corpora
tion, along the Roanoke river in east
ern Carolina.
TRIES TO HELP MAN
AND GETS ROBBED
New Bern, Jan. 20 Trying to be
courteous to a fellow traveler was re
sponsible for Otis Banks' being black
jacked and robbed Friday afternoon
near Jacksonville, it is learned here.
The young man lost $12.50 in cash
and an onyx ring.
A stranger hailed him from a Ford
car, enroute to New Bern, says Banks.
The man asked for the loan of a jack.
Banks started to comply with the re
quest but while bending over his car
to get the instrument receiveda se
vere blow over the temple. He re
mained v- conscious for about ten
minutes, r t'ter which time the strang
er disappeared..
MUSIC CLUB TO MEET
The Music Department of the
Community Club will hold its regu
lar meeting Friday night at eight
o'clock at the home of Mrs. F. R.
Seeley. The program is in charge
of Miss Margaret Gustin. Hostesses
for the meeting are Mesdames John
Forlaw, Otis Moore, Blythe, Noe, M.
L. Davis, Brady Way, F. R. Saehy.
Cape Fear Waterway
Project Sanctioned
Washington. Jan. 20 By approv
ing a project for 514 miles of water
way between Cape Fear river, N. C,
and Georgetown, S. C, at an estimat
ed cost of 5,907,000 the house riv
ers and harbors committee today pro
vided for the last link of the Atlan
tice deeper waterway between Tren
ton, N. J., and Miami, Fla.
A delegation o'f interested repre
sentatives led by Homer Page, presi
dent of the Charleston chamber of
commerce and J. Hampton Moore,
president of the Atlantic Deeper Wa-
tsiways association
anneared before
the committte. j
The improvement asked for which
by the committee action is to be in
cluded in the $100,000,000 omnibus
rivers and harbors bill, would pro
vide for an eight foot channel.
SEVERE WEATHER
CAUSES TROUBLE
Large Area Experiences Ex
tremely Cold Weather And
Bad Storms
CHICAGO, Jan., 22 Winter held
merciless vigil over the land today.
From the cotton fields of Dixie
to the northwest territory stretched a
sheet of ice, blinding under a cold
sun. Zero weather stunned the
southwest as it struggled against the
fetters of deep snow, and worse than
zero weather visited death and mis
ery upon the populace of the central
and western prairies.
An icebound river fended off the
rescuers that sought to bring f d'od and
fuel to the little town of Cathlamet,
isolated four days by snow and ice on
the north bank of the Columbia in
Washington.
Sixteen hundred families in south
east Missouri .and eastern Arkansas
were sufferers from the cold and flood,
200 of them marooned by the spilled
waters of the Big Lake, Ark., region
and 200 more in. highland. tent and
box car camps. The levees of the St.
Francis and White Rivers were weak
ening under the pressure of rising
waters. Snow and sleet yesterday
added to the misery and today ten be
low zero temperatures reached over
into southwestern Missouri.
A menacing ice gorge spanned the
Wabash river zt Riverton, Ind. Avia
tors were to survey the situation to
day to determine whether dynamite
was necessary. Citizens of Mt. Car
mel, 111., and Vincennes, Ind., pro
tested against the blasting yesterday
in fear of the flood that might be
loosed upon them.
At Griffin, Ind., the Wabash and
Black rivers had backed their icy wa
ters into the city streets and a fur
ther strain at the levee, it was feared
might send a wall of water splashing
through the town. A house boat har
boring refugees on the river at Mt.
Carmel was reported adrift.
Thirty families were marooned at
Decker, -Ind., without supplies. The
weather bureau at Chicago reported
an unusual high pressure area extend
ing across the entire country, without
a barametic reading below 30 at 7 a.
m today.
Charles City, Iowa, was the cold
est spot on the map at 30 below,
while zero held sway from Indiana to
Arkansas, Texas and the Rockies
Trains and motorists were marooned
in the drifts heaped by the recent
blizzard. Around Temple, Texas,
towns were threatened with a gas
shortage by the breaking of a huge
main. The mercury was lolling in
the sub-twenties in Nebraska today,
and Chicago and its suburbs reported
temperatures around 10 below. Four
p.rsons were frozen to death in the
Chicago area.
The weather bureau reported be
low normal temperatures throughout
the country, except most of the Atlan
tic slope and portions of California.
In Dixie the unwonted cold was mov
ing from Mississippi and Tennessee
toward Alabama, Georgia, Virginia
and the Carolinas. Meanwhile, up on
the sea-warmed Alaskan coast, the
mercury ranged from 36 to 40 above
zero. In the Yukon, however, it was
38 below.
COUNTY'S ELECTION BOOTHS
HAVE BEEN SHIPPED
The election booths ordered by the
county some weeks ago have been
shipped and arer' expected here very
soon. There are 80 of them and they
will be distributed among the various
voting precincts in the county. They
will be used for the first time at the
June primaries. The booths cost
SHOO. They were ordered through
the State Board of Elections and
were shipped from Crate, Nebraska.
STATE CAPITAL
POLITICAL NEWS
Candidates Are Beginning To
Appear; Bailey Men Hold
Conferences
Raleigh, Jan. 20 Politics in North
Carolina nie beginning to take on a
varied character as the senatorial pot
continues to boil under eovei.
The latest political gossip reaching
the state capital is that Wililam F.
Wood of Marion, state senator in the
1929 general assembly, has announc-
I ed himself as candidate for lieuten-
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ant governor in me ueniocruue pri-
I inary of 1932.
The entrance of the Rev. H. Grady
Dorsett into the senatorial race, with
his announcement last week that he
would enter the primary, cast a new
angle on Republican politics in the
state.
The Republicans always select their
candidates in state convention and
Brownlow Jackson, state chairman,
said in Hendersonville that the party
would not be forced into, the primary
by the Dorsett announcement.
In the meantime every politician
in Raleigh knows that the Simmons
Bailey pot is boiling spiritedly but
hidden. Hour after hour there are
conferences here in the offices of J.
W. Bailey, who will oppose the vete
ran New Bern legislator in the June
primary. What is done or what is
said remains a secret to newspaper
men, but Mr. Bailey is most optimistic
when he talks.
There is no Simmons headquarters
in the state, so far as has been an
nounced, but the friends of the New
Bern dean of the senate are quietly
working for him in every sector of
the state.
The young Democrats' Jackson
Day dinner and the Young Republi
cans Lincoln day dinner are also oc
cupying attention in political circles.
Mr. Bailey andd five "potential"
Democratic candidates for governor
in 1932 will attend the Democratic
dinner here March 15. Jouett Shouse
chairman of the National Democratic
executive committee, and Harry
Flood Eryd, former governor oi Virvbove- n which th farmers have de-
ginia, will attend also. Senator Sim
mons is expected to attend, but has
not formally accepted.
The Young Republicans will hold
their dinner in Greensboro, Claudius
Huston, national Republican execu
tive committee chairman, and Presi
dent Hoover are to be invited to at
tend. ., Reports here have it that the Re
publican state executive committee
will meet in Greensboro February 13,
following the Lincoln dinner.
POPULAR COLORED MAN
DIED LAST SATURDAY
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Charles Chadwick, well known col
ored citizen of Beaufort, died at his
home here Saturday morning the 18th
after a short illness from pneumonia.
He was thirty eight years old and
leaves a widow and six children, one
only a few months old. "Dick" as
everybody called him had a cheerful
outlook on life and its problems nev
er seemed to disturb him. He was
good humored and friendly and waj
UKea Dy many people, nis xunerai
took place Sunday afternoon at Pur
vis Chapel and was attended by a
large congregation of both colored
and white people.
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. Bertie Willis announces the
marriage of his daughter, Dollie
Belle, to Walter J. Moore Jr., at
Washington, N. C, Jan. 15th.
At Home: Washington, N. C. after'
January 23.
CARTERET COUNTY
IN AN AUT
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 17 Two young
men were instantly killtd and anoth
er injured early last night in an au
tomobile collision on the highway be
tween Elizabeth City and Sligo, N. C.
The dead are Alfred Golden, 20,
of Morehead City and Clifton Lynch,
18, of Fentress, Norfolk county, Arn
old Swain, of Barco, N. C, was seri
ously hurt and after receiving first
aid treatment at an Elizabeth City
hospital, was brought to a Norfolk
hospital for an operation.
The accident occurred shortly af-
ter 6 o'clock. L. E. Skees, prominent
local accountant, was returning to
Norfolk, driving a Buick touring car,
when the three youths, in a Ford cab-
riolet en route from Norfolk to Eliz -
abeth City, passed him and swung
back into the highway too quickly, the death. Great sympathy is felt for
rear end of the Ford sideswiping the their bereaved parent? and other iel
Buick and turning over several times atives.
TOBACCO PLANTS .':
NEED FERTILIZER!:
Caie Should Be Taken In Rais
ing Plants; Car of Hogs
Shipped
(By Hugh Overstreet
County Farm Agent)
Good tobacco always brings more
money than tobacco of poorer quali
ty anil the plant bed is one of the
first places to begin to grow good to
bacco. In making a good tobacco plant
bed, it is necessary to have a good
location properly drained, well pre
pared and liberally fertilized. It is
probable that more farmers pay at
tention to the location and prepara
tion than they do to the fertilization.
In fertilizing a tobacco plant bed
properly for the growing of large vig
orous plants, it is recommended that
200 pounds of a complete tobacco
fertilizer analyzing either 8-3-3, 8-3-5
or 8-4-6 be used for each 100
square yards of plant bed. The fer
tilizer should be thoroughly mixed
with the soil some days before the to
bacco seed are sown. This insures a
good and even germination. The a
bove recommendations are the same
as those recommended for the grow
ing of bright tobacco and when the
plants are transplanted to the field
they will be able to secure the neces
sary plant foods in the proportion
that is best suited for even and
steady growth.
Sometime due to adverse weather
conditions it may be necessary to use
a small application of soluable nitro
genous materials to stimulate growth,
especially in beds on which the plants
are small and late.
A car load of hogs was shipped
from Morehead City last week. This
car was loaded by seven farmers
from Crab Point and Camp Glenn
communities. The car contained 78
head of hogs that sold for $10.35
per hundred pounds live weight, and
checked back to the cooperating
shippers $1551.18.
Carteret county needs more com
munities like the two mentioned a-
veloped a system of agriculture bv
which they are obtaining an annual
cash income from live stock.
CHORAL CLUB MEETS
The Choral Club held its regular
. : tit 1 : ' . i
I meeting munuuy evening i nuine
of Mrs. F. R. Seeley with a large
I number present. Acting upon Miss
I Lillian Duncan's resignation, Miss
Emily Loftin was elected Secretary
and Treasurer. The next meeting
will be held Monday, January 27, at
i f hi oi a t i
llne nome OI 1lrs Deele 81 wnlcn
' lme wor'c w be begun on the East-
i er cantata,
POLICE COURT CONTINUED
Owing to the illness of Mayor
Chadwick last Friday no session of
Police Court was held. There were
a few cases to be tried and they
were continued to Friday afternoon
o fthis week.
NOTHING TRIED TUESDAY
IN RECORDER'S COURT
j This week's session was a striking
j contrast to ths long session held last
'week. Court met at 9:30 and ad
jjourned in about five minutes there
i after. There were two or three cas-
1 es set for trial hut in two of them
the defendants were not in court. In
'the other case Vandie Simmons charg-
i ed with an assault was present but
J. a. Hooker one ot the witnesses
was not there and so court recessed
!t meet again next luesaay.
YOUTHS KILLED "
0M0BBLE COLLISION
in a ditch.
Golden and Lynch were pinned be
neath the car and killed instantly.
Young Swain was thrown some dis
tance from the car. He was taken.
to Elizabeth City by Mr. Skees.
The young men referred to in the
above dispatch were both natives of
Carteret county and belonged to well
known families. Alfred Golden was
i the son of Mr. and Mrs. Baker Gold-
en of Bettie neighborhood. Clifton
Lynch was the son of Mr. and Mrs
i Jack Lynch of Smyrna. Alirea
Golden was buried Sunday afternoon
at 2:30 and Clifton Lynch the same
afternoon at 3:30. Large crowds at-
tended the funerals of the two young
; men who had met sum untimely
DREDGE GOES ON 3EACH
Information received here
through the fort Macon Coat
Guard Station today it that the
the dredge Corrozel i ashore
on the beach three mile touth
of Hatteras Inlet Station.
Thick weather is said to have
caused the trouble. According
to reports the crew was still
on board the vessel. If the
wind remains westerly it seems
likely that the vessel will not
be lost. A tug from Norfolk
has been called to aid the Cor
rozel to get afloat.
Potato Planting Time
Will Soon Be Here
Farmers are getting ready now to
plant their crops of early Irish 'pota
toes. They are beginning to buy
seed potatoes and fertilizers and it
will not be more than a few weeks be
fore planting time will begin if weath
er conditions are favorable.
The first car of seed potatoes to
arrive came in Saturday for the C.
G. Gaskill Brokerage Company.
There will be several other dealers
supplying seed here this season. It
is too early yet to say whether a big
crop will be planted this year or not.
Some who keep informed on such mat
ters think that a smaller crop will be
planted in Carteret county this year
than last. Seed potatoes are selling
at $7 per bag for cash now. It takes
considerable money to buy seed and
fertilizers for a crop of potatoes and
this fact stands in the way of plant
ing a big crop. The commission
houses usually supply a right large
quantity of seed and fertilizers in
Carteret county. It is reported that
they will not go in so heavily this
year as usual, although this newspa
per does not know whether this re
port is true or not.
WHOLESALE GROCERY FIRM
GOES INTO RECEIVERSHIP
The wholesale grocery firm of
Hancock-Huntley Company was plac
ed in the hands of a receiver last
week. C. R. Wheatly was named re
ceiver for the corporation and will
wind up its affairs. The firm's as
sets are placed at approximately $25,
000 and consist of some $3000 worth
of stock and fixtures and $22,000
book accounts. The liabilities of the
concern are said to be around $10,
000. Slowness in collections and
the insistence of one creditor in de
manding payment are given as the
reasons.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
D. M. DeNoyer and wife to E. H.
Hibbs and wife, tract, Newport, for
$375.
G. V. Cowper, Trustee for L. B.
West to Ashton Willis, 1 lot More
head City, for $1000.
Christos Constantinos to John
Memakis, 1 lot Morehead City, for
$500.
Earl Johnson and wife to Alfred
Willis, 3-4 acre Harkers Island, for
100.
Beaufort Realty Corp. to Joseph
H. Hursh and wife, 2 lots West Beau
fort, for $300.
W. W. Clements et al E. E.
Thompson, tract, Hammocks, for
$10.
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are app.'ox
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
Lo w i id
24
Friday, Jan.
4:16 A. M.
4:35 P. M.
10:39
10:20
A.
P.
Saturday, Jan. 25
5:09 A. M. 11:00 A. M.
5:28 P. M. 11:30 P. M.
5:28 P. M. 11:30 P. M.
Sunday, Jaa. 26
5:56 A. M. 12:11 A. M.
6:14 P. M. 12:15 P. M.
Monday, Jan. 27
6:39 A. M. 12:57 A. M.
6:57 P. M. 12:55 P. M.
Tuesday, Jan. 28
7:19 A. M. 12:39 A. M.
7:37 P. M. 1:33 P. M.
Wednesday, Jan. 29
7:54 A. M. 1:19 A. M.
8:15 P. M. 2:07 P. M.
Thursday, Jan. 30
8:29 A. M. 1:57 A. M.
8:51 T. M. . 2:40 P. M.
AMERICAN LEGION
WILL START DRIVE
State Wide Campaign For
New Members Will Begin
Next Monday
Stanley Woodland, Commander of
Morehead City Post No. 46 of the.
American Legion, Hvas interviewed
today with reference to the partici
pation of the local post of the week
designated by the State Commander
of the American Legion, Department
of North Carolina, as "Round-Up
Week." Post Commander Wood
land first quoteM State Commander
Geo. K. Freeman, of Goldsboro as
having said, "This the eleventh year
of the American Legion's existence
finds greater demand being made up
on us for the constructive work than
ever before. The ranks of our dis
abled comrades are constantly in
creasing making necessary continued
leadership for adequate hospitals. The
number of dependent orphan children
of our deceased comrades is increase
ing, requiring a large membership in
the Legion to furnish funds, leader
ship and administration to insure
them opportunities to which their
fathers and mothers heroic service
entitles them. The restlessness of
our people due to adverse conditions
in many sections of the State demands
some unselfish organization to lead
in community service."
"In the past we have not really
tried to secure our membership so
early," continued Commander Wood
.and, "but this year we feel that we
should do so in order that our Post,
district, division and department of
ficers may devote their full time and
attention to those pressing needs,
and that the legislature and congress
may know that our large member
ship entitles us to speak for the ex
service men."
"We now have more than 7,500
members of the Legion in North Car
olina, by far the largest membership
we have ever had at this time of the
year. Commander Freeman has des
ignated the week of January 26th to
Feb. 1st as "Round-Up" Week to se
cure 9,800 more members necessary
to "give us our " State's quota this
year. On Monday, the 27th the Post
will set to work its committees ar
ranging for a meeting of the Post to
be held Tuesday night at 8 P. M. at
City Hall when Hon. Geo. L. Peter
son, of Clinton will deliver an address
on the aims and purposes of the Leg
ion. On Wednesday our Membership
committee will canvas every ex-service
man of the comunity to afford
them an opportunity to enroll. On
Thursday active Posts will assist less
actice Posts in this work, and on Fri
day this Post will sends its cards by
courier to Warsaw, N. C. where they
will be turned over to the District
Commander. Saturday the District
Commander will personally dispacth
these cards from that point to Dept.
Headquarters. Dept. (State) Head
quarters will announce the results ov
er the radio Saturday night.
"I wish to appeal to each and ev
ery ex-service man to attend our
meeting Tuesday night. I hope our
citizens will recall their pledges to us
back in '17 and '18 and attend the
meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 28th, so
that they may learn how we are' car
rying on' in peace time the work we
started when obedient to the call of
our country and inspired by their sup
port, we served our country during
the World War."
BEAUFORT'S FIRE RECORD
SEEMS UNUSUALLY GOOD
Beaufort firemen say that Beaufort
ranks very high in freedom from fires.
Maybe it will not do to brag about
it, but for some reason there have
been very few fires in this town for
me past six or eight months. Since
July 7 the fire engines have never
had to tarn water on a blaze. Three
times they have used chemicals to
subdue fires that might have been bad
had they not been stopped in tim?.
There have not been many alarms and
two or three of them were false.
The firemen are trying to mise
money to furnish their quarters in
the remodelled City Hall building.
One method they have adopted is that
of having a dance every Friday night.
These dances are held in the Charles
Thomas store ; building, on Turner
street near 'Front.
R. B. WHEATLY REAPPOINTED
POSTMASTER AT BEAUFORT
Postmaster R, B. Wheatly has re
ceived notice of his appointment as
postmaster at Beaufort again for a
term of four years. The nomination
sent in by the President was confirm
ed by the Senate on January 8th.
This will be Mr. Wheatly's third
term as postmaster here and many
patrons 'of the office have been heard
to express themselves as bting pleas
ed at his reappointment.
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