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t . - i Iews The 0)p The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BOD, WATCH Your label and pay your subscription 5 m " VOLUME XIX 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 13 Hamilton Protests Against Action Of Recent Grand Jur y Former County Attorney Denies That He Did Any; Thin Wrong In Connection With Collection of Delinquent Taxes. Has Made Settlement With The County For All That He Owed. Last week's issue of this newspa per conveyed the information that the grand jury had found an indict ment against Mr. Luther Hamilton, former county attorney as well as sev eral other persons. Mr. Hamilton thinks that an injustice has been done him and asks for space in the News to present his side of the mat ter. His statement is given here with: Editor of The News: In last weeks edition of the Renn. fort News, in addition to other re ported activities of the grand iurv. convened for the March Term of Car teret Superior Court, reference was made to indictment found against me. You have very kindly consented that I might avail myself of the privilege of your paper for the purpose of any explanation or observation that I might wish to make. For this I am very grateful to you. In the short space allowed for this publication it would be impossible for me" to set forth in detail, what I con sider the causes underlying this in dictment and the utterly indefensible position of the person or persons re sponsible. I am not seeking to fix or place individual responsibility. I doubt that that could ever be done. Personally I much prefer never to know. It is the sort of charge that produces an irreparable injury and which leaves the injured person at a decided disadvantage, in that he cannot place his finger upon any par ticular individual and say, "You are responsible." It places the injured party, at a decided disadvantage a- gain ior tne reason that it is hu ' . -manly . impossible for him. to... explain. - to all people who might be interest ed wherein such a charge is absolute ly baseless and without foundation in fact. It is like fighting a spectre, phantom or ghost. When the present Board of Com missioners started their investigation of the affairs of the County, result ing from the operations and activi ties of the preceding administrations, I had no fears, because I knew full well that any mistake had merely been errors of judgment, and I knew that no investigation, however detail . (Continued on page five.) FARMERS' MUTUAL EXCHANGE BEGUN Cabbage And Raddish Crops Progressing Finely; Irish Po tatoes Not So Good There has been some talk all win ter about organizing a Carteret County Mutual Exchange, but it did not materialize until last Thursday here in Beaufort when it was organ ized with seventeen members and Friday afternoon at Newport with eleven members. No one is urged to join this organization. They become members of their own free will. It is a national organ with subsidiary organizations in practically every state. Membership in this benefits the farmer in two ways he is able to join- together with other farmers and buy seed, fertilizer, and other mater ials at wholesale prices and to co operatively sell his products. The Exchange is now working on the cab bage situation in the county and it is expected that a salesman will be employed to look after the selling end Due. to a cabbage shortage, they are now selling in New York City for five dolars a crate; and it is un likely that there will be any great decline in this price. Carteret Coun ty now has about four hundred acres j devoted to some of the best looking (Continued on page nine) P6li(teaCburt Had Eight Cases Friday Teachers Attend State Educational Meeting Twelve Carteret County teachers, Miss Margaret Gustin, and County Supt. J. H. Workman attended an ed ucational meeting in Raleigh , last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The purpose of the meeting was to fur ther the practice of the most modern methods of teaching. They heard several of the leaders of this move ment from both here and abroad.' Miss Gustin said that the subject was especially interesting to the county teachers, because they are vitally concerned with it and are trying to put those methoos into practice here at home. Mrs. 0. Max Gardner gave a re ception Friday night at the Execu tive Mansion for the visiting teachers, and those from Carteret County man ifested their appreciation by being the guests of the First Lady of North Carolina. v Police Court resumed operation last Friday afteroon after a suspen sion of one week on account of Su perior Court being in session. Eight defendants four white and four colored came before Mayor C. T. Chadwick for an airing of their va rious offenses. Thomas Williams, colored youth, was charged with driving his fath er's car in excess of the twenty-mile- an-hour speed regulation. Upon ad mitting his guilt, Mayor Chadwick penalized him ten dolars and cost or ten days street duty. Will Gorham, colored, also charg ed with speeding, admitted guilt, and reaped a like sentence of ten dollars plus cost or ten days of street exercise. Spencer Carter, colored, charged with being drunk on March 9, con fessed his guilt and received the us ual first-time-up sentence of two and a half plus cost or ten days cleaning the streets. John Johnson, a Scandinavian blackfisherman, charged with being drunk on the eighth of March, admit ted guilt, and was fined two dollars and a half plus cost or ten days with the street force. Edward Moore was charged with disorderly conduct. He said he wasn't guilty and wasn't read for trial. May or Lhadwick said that he would be glad to accomodate him if he would set a date for' the trial. After some deliberation, Moore said that as he (Continued on page nine) CHARLES PURIFOY KILLED IN WRECK Ernest Rice Injured; Funeral Services Held For Purifoy Sunday The whole countryside was shock ed by the autmobile accident that oc curred last Friday night around elev en o'clock about half wav between the Morehead City and Beaufort drawbridges and resulted in the in stant death of Charles Purifoy, age 24, and the injury of Ernest Rice, 19. It is said that the mishap was caused when the Ford cabriolet, in which the unfortunate young men were riding, skidded and turned ov er several times after it passed a car in which Misses Mary Quidley, Maud Parkin, Messrs. Guy and Bridges Sabiston and Charles Whitley were coming toward Beaufort. When the car first began turning over, it threw Mr. Purifoy out ahead and he was found over a hundred feet in front of the wreck after it stopped rolling. Mr. Rice did not fal out of the wreck until it turned over the last time. No one knows who wa3 driving the car; it was owned by Purifoy. The two young ladies that were in the car back of the demolished Ford were nurses. They stopped and ex amined the two men and took Rice to the Moreehad City Hospital. Puri foy sustained a crushed head, a brok en neck and both legs were broken. Rice was scratched up a bit and shocked. He was taken from the hos pital to his West Beaufort home Sun day evening, and &hows improvement. Funeral services were held at three o'clock for Charles Purifoy at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Purifoy, about two miles from Beaufort on the old New Bern road. It was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Rollinson. He read the funeral ser vice and -then talked at some lencth about the evils of fast driving. Sev eral sacred songs were led by Mr. Neal Davis, Superintendent of the Morehead Gity Free Will Baptist Sun day School. Several hundred DeoDle from all around this section attended the funeral services and many floral offerings were carried. Twelve of Mr. Purifoy's young friends acted as poll bearers. Mr. Davis told in a prayer about the life of Mr. Purifoy. Mr. Purifoy was an orderly voune man ana nad a large number of town and rural friends. He had fo rthe past several years been employed at tne uraham Brothers Saw Mill at West Beaufort. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Purifoy; two brothers, Howard and Wiliam; ana one sister, Kuby. CONVENTION HELD J BY REPUBLICANS Very Good Attendance Satur day; Resolutions Condemn ing Old Board Adopted The Republican county convention for 1930 is now a thing of the nast. it was held last Saturday. The reas on it was held so early was that it was necessary to appoint delegates ior the State convention to be held m Charlotte April 17th. wiairman 01 tne executive com mittee D. M. Jones called the conven tion to order shortly after two o'clock and Secretary Jas. Wallace Mason read the call for the convention. Judge E. Walter Hill was called to preside as temporary chairman. A roll call of the precincts showed that nearly all were represented. As there was no contest- from any pre cinct a credentials committee was not appointed. Chairman Hill named a resolu tions committee composed of Graham W. Duncan, Steven Harris, George Norris, L. L. Smith, A. L. Wilson. The. committee retired to deliberate and A. T. Gardner moved that the temporary organization be made per manent. The motion prevailed af ter a little discussion due to a mis understanding by Stanly Woodland who thought it meant the permanent organization for the executive com mittee. Immediately after this the chair stated that nominations for chairman of the executive committee, were in order. Mr. Woodland placed in nomination the name of W. A. Mace. W. G. Mebane nominated the present chair man D. M. Jones. The roll was called and it was found that Jones had 43 votes and Mace 13 votes. On motion of Mr. Woodland the nomina tion of Jones was made unanimous. The only name mentioned for sec retary was that of Stanly Woodland d he was elected by acclamation. At this staere of the nrnrpedino-a ta resolutions committee came in and made ' its report. The Resolu tions offeredd by the committee were read by chairman Duncan. One of the resolutions had for its object the endorsement of J. S. Duncan of Greensboro for chairman of the Re Continued on page five FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF STATE AID HAS BEEN PAID TO COUNTY SCHOOLS WELL KNOWN NEWPORT MAN HIT BY TRUCK AND HURT Friends of Mr. E. L. McCain of Newport will regret to learn that he sustained an injury last week which necessitated taking him to a hospital. On last Friday afternoon while standing talking to his son the lat ter, who was driving a truck, in backing accidentally hit his father and broke his wrist. It was feared that there might be other injuries as Mr. McCain is getting along in years and so he was taken to the hospital at Morehead City for examination and attention. TAX RELIEF WILL HAVE A HEARING CARP FISHING PERMITTED NOW IN NORTHERN SOUNDS NEW REGISTRATION BOOKS PROVIDED FOR USE IN THE PRIMARY ELECTION The primary election this year will be held under the new election law as well as the regular election in No vember. There are a good many dif ferences between the new law and the old one. Among other things it provides for new registration books and all names on the old books must be transcribed to the new. It is the duty to ask voters as to what party they belong to and the answer be set opposite their names in the book. For th; information of readers of the News two extracts relating to the primary are quoted below from the act adapted by the General Assem bly in 1929. , "Sec 114 (c. 6027). Regi.tr. tion of voter. The regular regis tration books shall be Tcept open be fore the primary election in the same manner and for the sametime as is prescribed by law for general elections, and electors may be regis tered for b6th primary and general elections. At the first primary elec tion held under the provisions of this article, new registration books shall be provided, in which on each page there shall be a column headed with the language, "With which political party are you affiliated?" and ti shall be the duty of each registrar to trans cribe the names of all formerly reg istered viters in his precinct into such book, for such compensation as the State Board of Elections shall in dicate, to be paid by the county; and when such voter, whose name has been thus transcribed, - appears for the first time to vote in a primary provided for by this article, he shall answer the question stated above, and it shall be the duty of the registrar and judges of elections to write op posite the name of each voter in such primary his answer to such question; and as to all other' persons not al ready registered who shall register to vote in a primary, it shall be the du ty of the registrar, when such per son registers, to propound to him the same question and to have the same lontinued on page nine) Two Carloads Hogs Shipped Saturday Two carloads of hogs, aggergating a hundred and ten head, were shipped baturday from Moreehad City to the Union Stock Yards at Richmond, Va. All of these swine came from the Crab Point section, except three. That section raises more hogs than all the rest of the county, despite the fact that other parts of Carteret are more suited to this industry. All of the hogs were scientifically fed a bal anced ration. Corn that is worth seventy-five cents a bushel on the farm can be fed to hogs and after the latter are sold they usually net from one and one half to a dollar and seventy-five cents a bushel. This is often the case when corn is practically unsalable; and there is always a ready market for porkers. No returns have been received from these two car loads, but the market quoted eleven cents a pound for that day; this is consider ed a very good price. Those farmers who participated in this shipment were: Messrs. George A. Oglesby, D. S. Oglesby, Jr., Cecil Oglesby, Rufus Oglesby, John W. Og lesby, J. R. Laughton, Will Laugh ton, and C. N. Hobb's. FATHER AND SON FLY AND SON GETS KILLED Wilmington. March 23 MV C. Thomason, Jr., was killed and his ; home Saturday afternoon at 3 oclock Morehead City, March 26 Fisher ies Commissioner Jahn A. Nelson left today for Manteo in company with Col. J. W. Harrelson, head of the De partment of Conservation and Devel opment, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Stone, of Greensboro, and Paul Kelly to in spect there. They went on "The John A. Nelson" and they will leave the yacht at Edenton for three weeks to supplement the regular patrol boat of the shad grounds. Mr. S. M. Kirman, of Madison, Wis. drove down to this city to, see Capt. Nelson about carp fishing in Caro lina waters. Carp fishing has been unlawful in the sounds but as Vir ginia allows this to be done, the De partment is permitting the catching of carp in the northern sound with a five-mch-mesh net. Many of these fish, which are relished by the Jews, were shipped last year from Matta muskeet Lake. They are considered a nuisance because they muddy up the bottom and ruin the food of other fish, i . . Miss Rhoda Mason Passed Away Friday, No death of late has struct the sympathetic chords of her many friends more than did the passing of Miss Rhoda Mason, thirty-year-old invalid daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mason, which occurred at her home on Marsh Street last Fri day after a short illness. During her life of infirmity all was done for her that relatives and friends could do. Mrs. Mason has lived a life of martyrdom that her daughter might have a cheerful and pleasant existence. The funeral was conducted at her asking for a special general assembly to enact tax reform legilation. The conference will be held in the ballroom of the Sir Walter Hotel starting at 11 a. m., on March 31,! (State Superintendent Public Instruction) FOURTH INSTALLMENT 14 Raleigh, March 24 The balance of the fourth installment of the equalizing frnd, a sum amounting to $641,671.2? was mailed to the coun ties a few days ago by the State Su perintendent of Public Instruction, it is learned today from the State of fice. The first part of this fourth payment, the sum of $615,462.60, was sent out in February. The to tal of these two amounts, $1,257,- 166.H, therefore, represents the fourth and last installment of the fund applicable to the six months school term. On September'5, 1929 the first payment of $1,156,300 was made; on October 15 a second installment of $1,214,800 was made, and on Decem ber 10 a third sum of $1,270,800 was distributed making in all the total sum of $3,671,900 apportioned be fore January 1, 1930. This fourth installment just finished brings this a mount up to a total of $4,899,033.72, which has been applied to the opera tion of the six months schools. Within a few days the State Su perintendent announces, checks will go forward dto those counties em ploying rural school supervisors to help pay the salaries of those officials. Under a ruling of the State Board of Equalization, each county employ ing a rural school supervisor will re ceive that percentage on the super visor's salary which equals the per centage of its current expense, which it received from the equalizing fund. Alter this distribution, it is learn ed, the next money sent will be from the $1,250,000 fund set aside by the General Assembly to aid those dis tricts operating their schools beyond six months. This distribution will be made some time in April. NO RECORDER'S COURT. Recorder's Court convened Tues- aay morning with four cases on the Meeting At Raleigh Next Tues- day To Consider Tax Su pervision Asheville, March 25 More than half of North Carolina's 100 counties are expected to be represented by del egations at the conference on prop erty tax relief, to be held in Ral eigh on March 31 and April 1, ac cording to J. Frazier Glenn of this city, general chairman of the Bun combe County Association for Prop erty Tax Relief, which has called the meeting. The bars will be thrown down for a general discussion of the entire subject of state and local taxation. Judge lilenn said, Although the Bun combe county association has adopt ed resolutions lavonng the nnancine of all public schools throueh state wide funds, the adoption of some form of sales tax, and the setting up of a state borad of control for mu nicipalities, these will be regarded only as suggestions to be passed on to the state conference, Judge Glenn said. - Thf manHnc? olon i,;n ua ed to' deefdras to the .dKr JldcltJBt..oing Jo. the. fact that session of the dantSTrnd itness---.: es were present, it recessed to meet next luesday. and is expected to continue for two days. "The subject of property tax a batement," Judge Glenn said, "has developed widespread discussion thru out the state, and many prominent citizens are taking an active part in searching for the best forms of re lief. The general purpose of the conference is to reach a common ground of agreement upon which f J.U- ! . ... iuinio une property tax renei pro gram snail take, so that a uniform objective shall be developed and made the oasis of procedure in all the counties." A congressman naturallv Erino lots of time fixing his fences, hp. j causes that's where he sits most of me time. bouthern Lumberman. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Garner et al to A. H. Prid acres Newport Townshin. father M. C. Thomason. 54. was ser iously injured this afternoon when their plane fell at Davis Field, White ville, while, the' elder Thomason was teaching his son how to pilot thir dual control Ox-Swallow biplane. The younger man died instantly suffering a broken neck. The elder man. however escaned with hrnkpn legs and possible fracture of the skull. He was brought to a Wilming ton hospital for treatment and his condition tonight was described being critical. as Operated by lazy tongs, a device has been invented to wash the out side of windows from the inside. and the Revs. J. A. Vache, R..F. Munns arfd J. P. Harris all took part. A very large crowd attended the last rites, despite the threatening weath er. A mixed choir of the various churches sang several sacred songs. The many floral tributes testified the esteem with which she was held. In terment was in the Ocean View cem etery. She is survived by her par ents; by two sisters, Mesdames John M. Dickinson and George D. Styton, Jr.; and one brother, Mr. Charles Mason. During the .40 years he served as a mail carrier Albert Pritchett, of Fort Madison, la., was never late to work. K. L. gen, 89 for $200. Allen Sawyer to Anthony Dudley Jr., 1 lot Morehead City, for $200. Abram M. Davis and wife to N. F. Eure, Trustee, 1 lot Morehead City for $1. W. C. Gorham and wife to Mrs. Martha Mansfield, 1 acre Morehead Township, for $40. E. H. Gorham, Trustee to M. L. Mansfield, 1 lot Morehead City, for $900. W. L. Stancil to E. R. Guthrie and wife, 3 part lots, Beaufort, for $10. W. H. Henderson, Trustee to Cit izens Investment and Holding Com pany, part lot Beaufort, for $600. D. H. Lewis and wife to G. F. Simpson, 20 acres Straits Townshin, for $500. 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, March 28 6:57 A. M. 12:34 A. M. 7:17 P. M. 12:56 P. M. Saturday, March 29 7:32 A. M. 1:13 A. M, 7:50 P. M. 1:28 P. M. Sunday, March 30 8:05 A. M. 1:51 A. M. 8:21 P. M. 2:00 P. M. Monday, March 31 8:38 A. M. - 2:29 A. M. 8:55 P. M. 2:33 P. M. Tuesday, April 1 A. M. 3:10 A. 9:13 9:32 9:49 10:13 10:32 11:02 M. P- M. 3:09 P. M. Wednesday, April 2 A. M. s 3:52 A. M. P- M. 3:49 P. M. Thursday, April 3 A. M. 4:38 A. M. P- M. 4:33 P. M. Hearing Before Superior Court Clerk Set For Monday Did Not Materialize The hearing before Superior Court Clerk L. W. Hassell of the county suits matter, which was set by Judge Nunn for Monday the 24th, did not take place. Readers of the News will remember that the attorneys for the defendants took an appeal to the bupreme Court from Judge Nunn's order and this seems to have auto matically stayed the proceedings. Commissioners Bushall, Gaskill, Edwards and Lewis were present Monday as were also attorneys J. Wallace Mason and E. H. Gorham. The members presented themselves before Clerk Hassell for any exam nation that might be desired. The Clerk informed them that he had nothing to ask them and no attorney for the defendants was present. So the matter came to an end. Under the order of the Judge if the hearing had taken place it was to continue from day to day until finished. Pre sumably it is now ended until the Su preme Court has passed upon the ap peal which the lawyers say cannot be done before next September. t Attorney Gorham, and C. H. Bush all as Chairman, amended the com-, plaint in the civil suits against the Simmons Construction Corporation and others by making the Massachu setts Bonding and Insurance Com pany a party to the suits. This com pany was on the bond of the Sim mons Construction Corporation when the roadbuilding was first started. Another bonding company that was on the bond of former County W. L. Stancil will also be made a defendant in the suit against him so the News was informed. 1 I I