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10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 193v O
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NUMBER 16
VOLUME XIX
NEW BERN WILL
HAVE NEW HOTEL
Defendant Convicted 'OPERETTA GIV'N BY
Ut Reckless Driving
11 -Story Structure Will Be Lo
cated At Historic Site In
City
New Bern, April 14 Work will be
started immediately on a handsome,
11-story tourist and commercial ho
tel at Union point at the junction of
Neuse and Trent rivers here, at an
estimated cost of $750,000, it was
announced definitely today by H. A.
Underwood, architect and engineer
of Raleigh, president of the North
Carolina Hotel company, which will
own and control the hostelry, follow
ing the transfer of deeds to the prop
erty tonight by the city board of al
dermen. Construction contract has been let
to W. P. Rose and company of Golds
boro. The supervising engineer will
be Raymond R. Eagle, of this city.
The structure will be of concrete
and steel, with brown tapestry brick
walls, covering three acres.
There will be 196 rooms, attractive
ly paneled, and six apartments. Each
room will have combination tubs and
showers, hot and cold air, hot and
iced water and a loud-speaker radio
conection. On top of the 11th floor
will be an aerial light beacon. The
architect's drawings are so unusual
and attractive that two universities
have requested copies for study.
The site will be dyked to the har
bor line and filled in, to cover six
and two thirds acres. Two slips wil
be built for the harborage and an
chorage of yachts and small boats.
A concrete seat will extend along the
hotel outside for the entire water
front. A hundred feet away will be
a modern sea wall, with an artistic
railing. Between will be 15-foot
promenades, grass plots, flower beds
and fountains.
Streets through the development
will lie. paved, lighted by white ways
and beautified with trees, shrubs, and
flowers. Tennis courts and other re
creational facilities will be provided.
Ant atmosphere in keeping with the
lristoiy of the section will be attempt
ed. For instance, the china will car
ry the New Bern bear symbol.
The place is of great historic in
terest. At the junction of the two
rivers King Taylor, of the Chautau
qua Indians, lived with his tribe. It
was bought from him by Baron Chris
topher deGraffenried, Swiss founder
of New Bern, who built there a gov
ernment house in 1770.
In 1779,, it was granted to the, city
by the state legislature. In 1885, it
was leased to Moore and Braddy for
99 years. The validity of this lease
was involved in litigation until sev
en years ago, when a compromise set
tlement was reached, by which the
city regained title.
Only one case was tried in the
County Court Tuesday. This was an
indictment against John Morgan,
colored, charged with reckless driv
ing and injury to the truck of George
Goulden a white man.
Testimony of two witnesses was
that Morgan who was driving a truck
with a trailer attached to it, attempt
ed to pass the Goulden truck and
sideswiped it. The truck ran into a
ditch or was knocked into it, and
damaged. Mr. Bland the driver was
not hurt seriously. A colored man
named Collins, riding on the truck
was knocked unconscious, so he said.
Mr. Goulden testified that it would
cost $59.40 to have the truck repair
ed so he could use it.
The defendant Morgan denied that
he hit the truck at all. He said the
driver Bland got frightened and ran
off the road. However he did not
have anybody to back up his state
ment. The verdict of the court was
guilty. The sentence was a fine of
$25 and costs and a jail sentence of
60 days to be worked on the roads.
Prayer for judgment is to be con
tinued and if the defendant pays the
fine and the damage to the truck the
jail sentence will not be enforced.
Court will meet next Wednesday
instead of Tuesday as usual. This
is due to the fact that Judge Hill will
go to Raleigh Monday to attend the
tax payers' convention there and will
not get back in time to hold court.
B.H.S. GLEE CLUB
'Windmills of Holland" Pre
sented Friday Night In High
School Auditorium
CHURCHES GAIN
IN MEMBERSHIP
Church Census And Drive For
Membership Has Gratifying
Results
Three Offenders Tried
In Police Court Friday
Carteret Teachers
Met Here Saturday
Carteret County, where many not'
d people have come to rest and work
at artistic endeavors, will have an
tionest-to-goodness, first class art
school this summer, according to in
formation received from the school
by Supt. J. H. Workman and divulg
ed by him at a meeting of the Car
teret County teac-'iers here Saturday
morning in the Cc-t House. The
Raleigh School of Fine Arts has se
lected Atlantic for its summer ses
sion which will begin there June 15
and end August 1G.
Atlantic was selected, according to
the leaflet catalogue gotten out by
tne art school, because of its quaint
ness and seclusion that permits out-of-door
work with freedom. Students
will receive instruction in Landscape,
Marine, out-of-door Portrait, and
Costume figure painting.
The Teaeherage at Atlantic, which
has twelve rooms and all modern
conveniences, will be used by the
school as its home during the sum
mer session. This is the first time
in the history of the county that a
colony of artists and prospective ar
tists have selected this location for
their creative work. Carteret Coun
ty has long been known for its ideal
tourist and summering location.
Supt. Workman sps,ke to the teach
ers and thanked them for their co
operation and pleasant attitude dur
ing the s-.hool year. He said that the
school se- sion now drawing to a close
has been the best in the history of
education in Carteret County.
Students do better work when tl y
are interested, said Supt. Workman,
and the best way to interest them is
m net mem to mane nseiui and ar
tistic things for the rooms, such as
friezes, framed pictures, and the hun
dred and one other things that can
be made. County Education Day has
taken up much time before, but this
Police court tamely convened Fri
day afternoon with only seven pres
ent, including two offenders, police,
spectators and mayor,. Four war
rants had been issued and served but
only two of the unfortunate colored
folks showed up before Mayor Chad-wick.
Jesse Rundtree was charged with
being both drunk and fighting on the
eighth of April. He pleaded guilty
to the fighting accusuation and the
mayor assessed him a fine of five
dollars and cost or fifteen days on the
street force.
Mary Debix, colored woman, was
charged with fighting. This she read
ily admitted. She said her daughter,
Nancy, who did not apear in court
was screaming and calling for help
out in the street and that she went
to her daughters aid. She must
pay the town two fifty and cost for
this misconduct.
Rosabelle Pickett, charged with
drunkeness, was excused by Chief
Longest to attend a funeral. She
requested the Chief to plead guilty
for her in her absence. She was fin
ed five dollars and cost.
Nancy Debrix, fighting, was called
and failed to answer. The Mayor or
dered her to be rearrested and either
give bond or stay in jail until trial.
Her mother said that she had not
seen her since Thursday.
Several hundred people Friday
night assembled in the Beaufort High
School auditorium and witnessed the
dramatization of the "Windmills of
Holland," an operetta in two acts pre
sented by the Glee Club and enact
ed by its members. It was an enter
tainment of the superior order and
was well received by the audience.
The drama was built around the
idea of supplanting the old-time wind
mills of Holland with modern ma
chinery. Mynheer Hertogenbosch
(James Potter) was a rich owner o
the noted windmills. He and his
family lived nearby. Bob Yankee
(Jack Humphrey), a young Ameri
can salesman, appeared on the scene
for the purpose of selling engines to
replace the mills but was dazzled by
the beauty of the Dutch girls. He
deferred his salesmanship of machin
ery to the salesmanship of himself.,
The play included the usual quarrels
and other mechanics of the drama.
A dual courtship was included, and
the strike itself seemed modern. And
like practically all plays, it concluded
with all concerned happy.
The operetta, which was skillfully
directed by Miss Mary Walker of the
school music department, was praise
worthily presented. Both the direct
ress and the individual actors had
worked in such a manner as to suc
cessfully entertain the audience. A
chorus of ten boys and ten girls en
livened the operetta with their sing
ing and dancing. Between the two
acts, Billy King Taylor and Normal!
Whitehurst won the applause of the
onlookers with music from their
strong instruments while Billy sang
several songs.
CAST: j
Mynheer Hertogenbosch Rich
Holland' Farmer James Potter.
Vrouw Hertogenbosch His Wife
Mattie Weeks. ji
Wilhelmina --Their daughter
Eleanor Willis.
Hilda Another daughter Ruth
Lewis.
Boy Yankee American salesman
Jack Humphrey.
Hans Student of music; in love
with Wilhelmina Marjorie Fodrie.
Franz Rich farmer's son, in love
with Hilda Prentice Longest.
Katrina Rich farmer's daughter
Nellie Congleton.
Carteret Has Over 400 Acres
Planted In These Vegetables
Sunday morning there was demon
strated at each of the three major
white churches in Beaufort the direct
and gratifying results of the week of
the evangelistic campaign that was
set going the previous Sunday after
noon. Throughout the whole week
the Ann Street Methodist, First Bap
tist, and St. Paul's Episcopal church
es united in the visitation program.
Members of the congregation of these
three churches went out by two's
and visited those who have been in
the habit of attending church or those
that are not members of any of these
institutions.
This resulted in all churches hav
ing a marked increase in attendance
at all services; in fact, some were
filled to capacity. A total of thirty
three folks had signed up by Sunday
as candidates for membership. The
Sunday Schools were also consider
ably inflated by this program. Begin
ning Sunday night a series of services
have been held in the various church
es and these will be culminated at ! tenderfoot tests.
the morning services on Easter morn
ing. The ministers of each church
are preaching in their own churches
each evening and it is expected that
the final results of these meetings
will be highly successful. Many peo
ple attended church this past Sunday
who have not been going, said one of
the ministers.
Scouts Make Drive For fARRAfiES SFJJJNfi
capacity mciUv.. IHfl! TIIIC VP AD
ninn nm iiyamv
The Boy Scout Troop ot tns com
munity wi'll shortly make a member
ship drive to fill up the vacancies
within the organization. At the pres
ent, seventeen boys have joined and
past their tenderfoot tests, while five
others are working toward that end.
Thirty-two make a ful troop, and af
ter that number is secured no boy
will be permitted to join. Merit is
the keystone to the troop and only
the best material will be selected for
enrollment. The officials of the lo
cal organization are asking that par
ents urge and permit their boys to
become members of this beneficial
troop of youths.
This troop has now been in opera
tion several months and the boys
seem to take great interest in Scout
dom. They meet in a room of the
County Administration Building ev
ery Friday evening at seven-thirty
o'clock. It is expected that several
of the Scouts will attain the first
class rating in record time. In fact,
some of them are now busily occu
pied with their second class tests. All
boys of twelve years or older who
wish to join the Scouts are asked to
be present at the next meeting so
that they may be lined up for their
Automobiles Collide
Monday On Ann Street
OYSTER SEASON
CLOSED TUESDAY
400,000 Bushels Caught During
Past Season; Was Very
Profitable
Carolina Boat Line
Sold To N. B. & C. Line
Grown Oysters Found
Attached To Terrapin
Full grown oysters that had grown
from tiny "spats" were attached to
a six-inch diamond back terrapin
caught at Ocracoke Saturday ' by
Louis Bryant, colored.
Oysters will attach themselves to
almost anything when at the "spat"
stage the spats being the floating
spawn of the bivalves. On numerous
occasions oysters have been found
clinging to pilings, old shoes, break
waters, and dead shells around, Ocra
coke, but to find full grown oysters
on a young terrapin of the six-inch
variety is unusual, especially as the
terrapin was alive.
The terrapin is in the possession
ot Aycock Brown, Ocracoke newspa
perman, formerly with the Beaufort
News, who will either turn it over
to some biological bureau, eat it as
a delicacy or turn it loose again in
the waters of the Pamlico sound,
irom whence it came.
By reason of a deal recently made
the Carolina Transportation Com
pany has been consolidated with the
Norfolk, Baltimore and Carolina
Line, Incorporated. Mr. Leigh G.
Hogshire of Norfolk, Va., president
the line was i nthis section last
Friday perfecting arrangements for
the new company's business.
Captain C. G. Willis who was the
principal stockholder in the Carolina
Transportation Company sold his in
terest to the N. B. and C. Line. It
is understood that there will be no
change in rates or schedules and
that the former representatives of
the Carolina Company in New Bern
and here will continue in that capac-
ty. R. Hugh Hill is the boat line's
gent in Beaufort and The Southgate
Terminal dock is used for loading and
unloading vessels.
aU time will be utilized. It was urg
ed that all displays for that day be
made out of , school. Many beauti
ful displays were on exhibition in
the court room
The Carteret County School News,
which is considered by the State De
partment of Education as one of the
foremost county school papers in the
state, is thought to be the best med
inm of informing the patrons of the
school about what happens within the
public institutions,
At the conclusion of the meeting.
Sunt. Workman gave out the cheek
to the teachers for one of the. over
year when it takes place on May 9 due months.
One automobile was turned upside
down and another turned completely
around Monday about noon on Ann
Street when they ran together. The
C,,.D. Jones delivery truck was be
ing 'driven eastward on Ann Street
by Jim Henry of this community
when a Hudson sedan driven by Mrs.
Martha R. Hartsfield, of Bogue, came
southward- out. of Que.cn Street and
attempted to cross trie" street. '
It was said that Henry was driving
at a rational rate on account of the
school children being on the street.
He said he saw the Hudson coming
and it looked as if the driver was in
tending to turn into Ann, but chang
ed and started across the street. The
front part of the truck struck the
rear of the Hudson, which turned a
bout until it headed in the direction
from whence it had come. The im
pact caused the truck to skid and turn
over on its top on the curbing by the
home of Mr. T. S. Eudy. The Hud
son had a bent fender and a part of
the rear chassis broken, while the
truck had all fenders bent, a spring
bent, windows shattered and head
lights broken.
Mrs. Hartsfield is a recent comer
to Carteret from Virginia and lives
at the extreme end of the hard sur
faced road up Bogue Sound. She
and her husband have built a new
home there and run a filling station.
ERRONEOUS REPORT DENIED
The first Chinese branch postof-
fice to be established in the United
States will be instituted in China
town, San Francisco.
A report has been circulated to
some extent that Judge E. Walter
Hill would not be a candidate for re
election as County Judge. Judge Hill
has informed a reporter for the News
that this report is erroneous and that
he will be a candidate to succeed
himself. The News is informed that
Solicitor G. W. Duncan will also be
a candidate again.
BIRTH OF SON
Porn to Mr. and Mrs. Stacy Willis
of Williston, Monday, April 14, a son.
TAX RELIEF ASSOCIATION WILL
SEND DELEGATES TO RALEIGH
The tax relief meeting called for
last Saturday took place beginning
at 2.30 as scheduled. The meeting
was fairly well attended. Farmers,
fishermen, merchants and others were
present including two ladies. C. H.
Bushall called the meeting to order
and explained its object. Judge E.
Walter HiU was nominated for chair
man of the meeting and was elected.
W. G. Mebane was made temporary
secretary.
Chairman Hill made a short speech
on the tax question. He said the tax
burden needed to be more evenly dis
tributed. He favored a sales tax on
luxuries such as cigarettes, drinks.
cosmetics and so on. He said the
first thing to do was to perfect an
organization and send delegates to
the State convention which meets in
Raleigh April 21. A motion was
passed to form a tax relief associa
tion. Judge Hill was elected cahir-
man of the organization. Reverend
J. M. Carraway of Merrimon was
made vice-chairman and K. W.
Wright was chosen secretary. A mo
tion was passed instructing the chair
man to appoint an executive com
mittee of ten persons.
There was some discussion of the
matter of selecting delegates to go
to Raleigh to the State meeting. An
invitation to act as delagatcs was ex
tended to, Mrs. A. Hoffman, More
head City, C. S. Wallace and E. H.
Gorham, Morehead City, George
Oglesby, R. F. D. Morehead City,
D. M. Jones, Beaufort, C. G. Gaskill,
Straits, W. H. Bell, Newport.
Raymond Ball Harlowe, Elbert
Chadwick Straits, Joel Davis, New
port R. F. D. D. L. Arthur Wildwood.
J. H. Hibbs, Newport C. H. Bushall,
Beaufort and the officers of the asso
ciation.
The meetirtr .'ulinnrnM to m"''t '
again Saturday April 26 at 2 P. M
The oyster season officially closed
the fifteenth of this month, but after
a consultation between the Chairman
of the Commercial Fisheries Commis
sion and Fisheries Commissioner
Capt. John A. Nelson, it was decided
to allow the catching of seed oysters
around the south end of Roanoke Is-
and between the twenty-first of this
month and the sixth day of May for
the purpose of planting bottoms. The
reason these are allowed to be caught
is because oysters grow prolific-ally
there, but on account of ;occasional
freshets from Albemarle and Pamli
co Sounds, they never reach saleable
size. When these small bivalves are
transplanted to more fovorable hab
itat they increase the annual produc
tion of oysters.
This season just cioseel has been by
far the best season experienced of
late years by North Carolina oyster
men. They have as a general rule
receivd a goodly price for their catch,
and the production of the season has
been copious. Buy-boats from Vir
ginia and Maryland have purchased
thousands of bushels in Carolina wa
ters and carried them to their native
states. Depletion of this bivalve in
these two states has caused them to
have to come here to get enough for
their trade.
Approximately 400,000 bushels of
oysters have been shipped from this
state and many thousands of bushels
have been consumed locally. Accord
ing to Capt. Nelson, about sixty or
sixty five cents per bushel has been
about the average price received by
the oystermen; this means that much
more than a quarter of a million dol
lars has been put into coastal circu
lation by this one marine industry a
lone. Captain Nelson has leased a good
ly number of oyster bottoms in the
past few weeks to people who desire
to raise them commercially. Until
quite recently, one dollar per acre
was charged for these- bottoms for
the first ten years, and two dollars
thereafter. But it was decided by
the Board at its January nicotine
that for the next two years these bot
toms could do leased without any
charge whatsoever. This was done
to encourage the development of the
industry. Many bushels of oysters
can be raised on a small area if
scientific methods are followed and
poachers are not permitted to visit
the beds. It is thought by those who
follow the industry closely that if it
is properly handled it will become a
very profitable industry.
Many of the eastern communities
of this county have received much
money from the oysters this season.
Large buy-boats have been freighting
them from Carteret throughout the
season. As much as twenty and
twenty-five dollars have been made in
a day by some of the men in the east
ern part of the county it is said.
Carteret County farmers have be
gun to ship their cabbages and are
receiving top-notch prices for them.
Trucks come here and are paying
the farmers as much as eight cents a
head for the cabbage in the field
cabbages that have not even headed
up yet. In many instances the buy
ers have been so eager for them that
they have gone right in the fields and
assisted the farmers in cutting them
or have done the cutting themselves.
This county has over half of the
cabbage crop of North Carolina, and
all areas of this and other states ex
cept Carteret have only forty-eight
per cent of the usual crop. The
whole country is experiencing a short
age of this spring crop, even to the
extent of importing a large quanti
ty of cabbages. South Carolina will
soon finishing marketing its crop, and
then North Carolina and especially
Carteret County will begin to get it
full crop marketed.
Arrangements has been made with
Phillips and Co., of Norfolk, to han
dle the selling of the cabbage for
members of the Mutual Exchange on
both the Morehead City and Beau
fort sides. This company will have
an office in Beaufort during the ship
ping season so that the loading and
distribution of retuurns can be look
ed after.
The N. C. Division of Markets and
the Federal government will give in
spection services to all who request
it. The department will have one or
more inspectors who will gladly give
their services when called upon.
A carload of seventy-eight hogs
were shipped Irom Morehead Lity
Monday April 14. All of these hogs
came- from the Crab Point section
land were scientifically fed. The
shippers and the numbers of hogs
each shipped were: George Oglesby,
12; J. R. Laughton, 20; D. S. Ogles
by, Jr., 13; Cecil Oglesby, 2S; and
Rufus Oglesby, 11.
Sweet potatoes are now selling at
the banks for a dollar a bushel; this
is much more than the farmers have
been getting for them, as they have
received as low as a dollar and a
quarter a barrel for them this seas
on.
Mr. K. W. Wright has shipped four
corloads of radishes thus far this
season and has also been shipping
some by trucks.
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
PAYS VISIT TO CARTERET
Mr. S. H. Hobbs of Sampson coun
ty spent a day or so in Carteret
county last week in the interest of
his candidacy for Congress. Mr.
Hobbs is a Democrat and is an op
ponent of the present incumbent the
Honorable Charles L. Abernethy.
Mr. Hobbs was a candidate in the
primary some years ago when there
were several others in the field and
received a good many votes. He says
that he is making an intensive cam
paign of the district and that he has
received assurances of support which
cause him to feel confident that he
will get the nomination in the June
primary.
TIDE TABLE
Information a& 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.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following permits to wed were
issued this week by Register of
Deeds Robert Wallace:
Robert Dudley and Lena Bell,
Morehead City.
rvi-rl' Henderson and Carrie F
' Copes, Beaufort.
High Tide Lw 1,ae
Friday, April 18
. a r
11:25 A. M. o:w a. ai.
11:50 P. M. 5:34 P. M.
Saturday. April 19
12:15 A. M. &:3i a.
12:48 P. M. 629 T. M.
Scnday, April 20
1:15 A. M. 7:29 A. M.
1:52 P. M. 7:31 P. M.
Monday, April 21
a. m. a. .j..
P. M. 8:36 P. M.
Tueday, April 22
A. M. 9'-25 A. M.
P. M. 9:38 P. M.
Wednesday, April 23
A. M. 10:14 A. M.
4:42 P. M. 10:32 P. M.
Thurday, April 24
A -"7 A. M. 10:56 A. M.
5:25 P. M. 11:00 P. M.
2:16
3:02
3:16
3:53
4:09