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VOLUME XIX
10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 33
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RECORDER'S COURT
HAD FULL DOCKET
Two Cases From Mill Creek
Result In Acquittal; Some
Get Road Sentences
Recorder's Court put in a rathor
full day Tuesday and then did not
get rid of all the cases on the dock
et. A large crowd was present. Sev
eral cases were continued due to the
fact that important witnesses were
not present.
Two rather interesting cases from
the Mill Creek section were tried.
The first of these was that in which
Len Dowdy and Calvin Currier were
charged with larceny of clams from
the clam beds of George Winberry.
According to the evidence Mr. Win
berry has a clam bed in Newport Riv
er near a public landing. Two small
boys Jesse Graham and Sterling Ma
son saw the defendants clamming in
the vicinity of the Winberry bed.
Sterling said the defendants caught
a half bushel apiece and sold them
to John Smith. The attorneys for
the defense, Luther Hamilton and C.
R. Wheatly, did not put on any wit
nesses and moved that the case be
dismissed. Judge Hill took fhe mat
ter under consideration during the
recess period and when he came back
said he did not think the evidence
strong enough to justify conviction.
The defendants were discharged.
The other Mill Creek case probably
grew out of the first. This was an
indictment in which George Rouse
and Ira Fodrie were charged with an
assault upon K. R. Hardesty. This
also resulted in acquittal. The evi
dence was that Mr. Hardesty came
to a tobacco barn where the defen
dants and several other persons were
at work. Mr. Hardesty spoke to the
crowd and pretty soon Mrs Fodrie
asked him what her husband had ev
er stolen from him and after a few
words ordered him away. Rouse and
Fodrie testified that they also ordered
Mr. Hardesty to leave. Ira Fodrie
ook hold of Mr. Hardesty and Rouse
slapped or hit him in the face. Rouse
then struck him twice more but did
not knock him down. Mr. Hardes
ty then left the place and later had
the men arrested. Judge Hill said
that Rouse had a right to order Mr.
Hardesty to leave and to use some
force if necessary to make him leave.
W. C. Gorham appeared for the de
fendants and C. R. Wheatly assisted
Solicitor Duncan.
George Washington Jones, Nathan
iel Jones, Jasper Dudley and Henry
B. Pigott three Negro youths, were
tried on the charge of stealing some
bicycle parts from R. R Barbour of
Morehead City. The two Jones boys
and Dudley plead guilty. The other
youth claimed that he did not go in
the shop and merely happened to be
there when it all happened. However
it appeared that he went away with
a bicycle rim and so he was pro
nounced guilty too. The repuations
of Nathaniel and George were rather
shady and they got six months on the
roads. Jasper Dudley was given
three months and the Pigott boy 60
days with the understanding that the
Commissioners might hire him out if
they wished.
Sitting as a committing magistrate
Judge Hill heiJ for Superior Court
George Fuller and Alfred Wilson on
the charge of havii:? committed rape
upon Hettie Ann Rhodes. All of the
nnrtips nre colored and all live in
Beaufort. Bonds of $500 each were
required of the defendants.
Lucius' Johnson, colored, plead
guilty to a charge of disorderly con
duct and was fined $10 and costs.
Polk Johnson, assault, continued.
Alton Truitt, larceny, noli prossed
with leave.
Dave Davis, colored, assault, plead
guilty, pay costs or serve 15 days.
Charles Chadwick, colored, assault,
continued.
, Herman W. Bell, worthless check,
continued.
J. E. Lewis, worthless check, con
tinued. ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATIONS
From time to time this newspaper
has to anounce that it does not print
articles unless it knows who wrote
them. We do not print the names of
the wrters always but must know
who did the writing A communica
tion giving considerable news from
Sea Level came in this week but the
writer failed to sign it therefore it
was not published.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Stacey W. Nelson, Danville, Va.,
and Burchie Felton, Beaufort.
Hugh T. Finer and Margaret Gibbs,
Beaufort.
Craven Republicans
Plan Warm Campaign
New Bern, Sept. 2 Craven county
Republicans are planning to make a
vigorous campaign this year, accord
ing to statements made by County
Chairman W. B. Rouse and other
leaders here. Headquarters have
been opened, a stenographer employ
ed and a brisk campaign will soon be
under way. It is planned to reach
the voters through a speaking cam
paign and the distribution of litera
ture. There is much resentment in the
county, so the Republican managers
say, over the way Senator Simmons
was treated and the fact that large
sums belonging to the county have
been lost in recent bank failures.
This resentment, it is claimed, will
be reflected at the polls and Repub
licans feel that they have a good
chance to elect part if not all of
their county ticket. They also expect
to get a majority for Congressman
George M. Pritchard who is running
for the U. S. Senate and W. G. Meb
ane who is running for Congress. If
the campaign is successful the Repub
lican managers assert they will have
made a thorough examination of the
county's affairs. Besides local speak
ers who will take part in the cam
paign Messrs. Pritchard and Mebane
and probably other outside speakers
will be heard during the campaign.
County Summer Season
Closes After Labor Day
The summer season in Carteret
County was virtually closed after the
Labor Day celebration. Completing
its fiftieth successful year, the Atlan
tic Hotel has closed its doors for the
summer. Monday night saw the last
dance at Atlantic Beach and orches
tra left Tuesday morning. Although
the casino is closed, the lath houses
will remain open for a short while.
Other hotels at Morehead City and
Beaufort will remain open, however,
for most of them are year 'round hos
telries. These will continue to serve
the many visitors that will likely come
here during the Fall.
Thousands of visitor's have come
to Carteret County this summer;
some merely came for the day while
a good many remained over night or
spent several days or a week or two
enjoying the life at the seashore.
Three conventions, the State Photo
graphers, the State Undertakers and
the State Firemen, met this year at
the Atlantic Hotel. Thousands and
thousands from throughout the ad
joining counties, many from up-State
and others from out of the State
came both during the wek and over
the week-ends to Atlantic Beach for
an outing, a dip into the ocean and
for the dancing.
All in all, it has been a successful
summer season.
August Weather Was
Upon The Whole Good
The first two weeks of August car
ried on the hot wave that prevailed
for a good part of July but in this
section at no time did it go above 88
degrees. For two weeks the weather
was quite cool. There was plenty of
rain during the month of August, 4.41
inches in all. There were also twen
ty days of sunshine.
The temperature figures by the U.
S. Weather Station on Piver's Island
are as follows:
Max.
Min.
70
1.
84
86
.85
88
87
88
88
87
88
88
..84
87
82
84
80
87
85
85
82
80
79
76
80
81
82
82
.82
85
79
...83
88
71
72
70
78
78
76
75
78
78
73
66
67
63
67
69
74
3.
4.
5.
6
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
70
70
68
66
65
60
70
63
68
67
65
67
75
76
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
BIRTH OF SON
Born to Mr. and Mrs. LeonGilli-
kin of Smyrna, Wednesday, Se'ptem
ter 3, a son.
COUNTY BOARD I
MET WEDNESDAY
Resolution Adopted Opposing
Withdrawal of Norfolk
Southern Train; Jurors ,
Chosen
As Monday was Labor Day, and
therefore a legal holiday the Board
of County Commissioners did nothold
a meeting. They met Wednesday
however and attended to several mat
ters of business mostly of a routine
nature. All members of the board
were present.
A resolution was adopted which pe
titions the State Corporation Commis
sion not to permit the Norfolk South
ern Railroad to discontinue the- pas
senge rand express train which leaves
Beaufort at 8 A. M. and returns in
the evening. It is alleged in the pe
tition that much fish and other sea
food products are shipped on that
train and that it would be an incon
venience to the business interests of
this section.
Eugene Wade of Morehead City
was appointed salf fish inspector on
recommendation of the State Fisher
ies Commissioner.
County Auditor W. J. Plints report
was read, adopted and ordered filed.
Mrs. Rebecca Perry of Newport
was allowed $35 from the poor Fund.
A resolution was adopted to renew a
note for $2500 at the Beaufort Bank
ing and Trust Company for 90 days.
A resolution was passed to pay Clev
eland Davis and Earl Davis for ferry
and road improvements on Harker's
Island by giving them a note for
$750 not to run more than six months
and less than three months. The
jurors for the October term of Su
perior Court were drawn.
Sitting with the County Board of
Education a resolution was passed re
scinding the action of the two bodies
on July 21st when the Reverend W.
B. Everett of Morehead City- was
made Welfare Officer. This was done
in accordance with the ruling of he
State Board of-Welfare which teld
that the term of Mrs. F. C. Salisbury,
who was appointed in August 1929,
did not expire until June 30, 1931.
The motion was offered by W. H.
Taylor, seconded by S. D. Edwards
and passed unanimously.
List of Jurors
Guy E. Lupton, Beaufort; Luther
L. Guthrie, Adrian Willis, Harkers Is
land; W. W. Hardesty, Harlowe;
Cleveland Gillikin, Beaufort, RFD. ;
W. W. Troy Willis, Williston; J. R.
Finer, Bogue; Charlie Mason, Atlan
tic; Allen Lawrence, Beaufort RFD.;
Julius Lewis, Camp Glenn ; Walter M.
Willis, Marshallberg; Robt. L. Mc
Cook, Atlantic; F. B. Mcintosh, Beau
fort, RFD.; Elvin Salter, Sea Level;
W. C. Lewis, Beauofrt; L. R. Cur
rier, Atlantic; H. T. Rhue, Ocean;
James Rumley, Beaufort; W. H.
Whealton, Morehead City; B. G.
Copeland, Beaufort; Iredell Lawrence
Beaufort RFD.; Allen C. Willis, Da
vis; E. W. Willis, Newport RFD;
Herman Hamilton, Sea Level; Char
lie Nelson, Harker's Island; V. R.
Hill, Marshallberg; Guilford Gaskill,
Sea Level; J. W. Glover, Beaufort;
L. C. Holland, Pelletier; C. C. Wade,
Williston; W. G. Styron, Sea Level;
W. R. ,Wade Jr., Morehead City; J.
H. Davis, Newport, RFD; Willie Jones
Newport; W. J. Henderson, Newport;
J. A. Small Sr., Harlowe.
Miss Virginia Sloan
Carteret's New Agent
Miss Virginia Sloan, of Franklin,
has recently assumed the duties of the
Home Demonstration Agent of Car
teret County upon the resignation of
Miss Edith Powell who has success
fully held that office for the past four
years.
Miss Sloan is a graduate of the
North Carolina College for Women,
at Greensboro, and has taught home
economics at the high school in
Maxton for the past two years. She
was selected by both the District and
State Home Agents as the one most
competent for the work here in Car
teret; this selection was made, how
ever, with the consent of the County
Board of Commissioners. Miss
Sloan is endowed with a pleasing,
likeable personality that will be a
great asset in her work of meeting
and helping the women folks about
the county. For the past few days
she has been going about Carteret
County with Miss Powell, learning the
various, roads and meeting some of
the ladies in each community.
BIRTH OF DAUGHTER
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Davis
of Williston at the Morehead City
- Hospital, Friday, August 30, a daugh
ter.
IFOREST FIRES ARE
(RESULT OF DROUTH
very good success with the fishing
Many Fires Caused By Dryjparties he took out Saturday and
Weather In This Vicinity Sunday on his boat, "Mon Tresor."
Recently I Messrs. H. C. Henderson, C. R. Nel-
:son, E. R. Nelson and James H.
(A. D. Folweiler Smoot, of Lynchburg, Va., and W. J.
District Forester) iJee R. E. Lee, and Henry IVgram,
Raleigh, Sept. 2 W'ith the lack of ; 0f Durham composed the first party
rainfall which has resulted in a ,antj caught a good lot of fish out by
drought which is almost equal to that the sea buoy a large portion of
of eastern Virginia, forest fires have these were trout,
again broken out in what is known as ! Sunday the party was from Wins
District No. 4 of the Division of For- ton-Salem and was made up of
estry, the headquarters at N ew Bern. Messrs. W. J. Pinkstan, T. J. Paid, A.
During the past week bad fires have ,N. Saunders and Claude R. Whitaker.
occurred in Craven, Wayne, Pitt and j These men caught a hundred and
Lenoir counties. Just prior to the ; thirty fish, most of which were trout
outbreak of the past week a bad fire !and flounders. Both parties seemed
occurred in Beaufort County. A ( to enjoy the fishing immensely, es
fire entered Craven from Jones Coun j penally the fish frys that were given
ty where it had been burning several by Captain Styron on his boat for
days and gathered considerable head-the fishermen. A goodly number of
way. Two fires in Craven are still to j up-State people have been coming
be gotten under control in the vicini-jdown here all summer for the pur
ty of Dover and the other near Ernul. i pose of fishing and many of them
The fire in Lenoir as well as a large! have been successful,
fire in Wayne were both caused by j -
tobacco barns which burned and
nighted the woods nearby, both of
these fires however, are now under
control. The Pitt County fires were
caused by carelessness.
With no rainfall except a few seat -
tered local showers in sight the North
Carolina fire situation still remains
serious and will continue to be so un
til rain brings relief.
The Division of Forestry is mak
ing every effort through its warden
force which has responded very faith
fully in this emergency call to take
care of the situation but cannot do so
without the whole-hearted support of
the citizens of each community. Fires
not only do a great deal of damage
this time of the year but are extrem
ely costly to extinguish. Several of
the fires listed .above have cost over
?100.00 to put out out.
The Division of Forestry earnestly
requests the public to report fires to
the nearest warden or the local
County Warden in each County,
T " 'various offences that are' accustomed
Truck And Car Collide to bringing the colored folks into the
OA Ci l T J local court,
n Ann Street 1 uesday ; Poke j(,hnson, a periodic visitor of
. tribunal Muncipal Court, was haled
Tuesday evening a little before before the tribunal on the charge of
seven o'clock a Dodge Six sedan driv-j assaulting Alex Edwards on the
en by Miss Barbary Parkin and a , evening of August 28th. with a dead
large truck driven by Leon Gillikin, ' y weapon, which in this case was the
of Otway, collided at the junction of crutch of the one-legged defendant.
Orange and Ann Streets and the Par-: Johnson said he wasn't guilty, so two
kin car was turned over on its side .witnesses were sworn. Edwards told
on the comer by the Hal Potter resi-
dence. Miss Parkin was going South
out of Orange into Ann Street and
said she did not see the approach of
the truck on her right. The truck
struck the rear right fender of the
Dodge and turned it over.
Those riding with Miss Parkin
were: Mrs. Harry Parkin, her moth
er; Miss Julia Parkin, her sister; Miss
Sallie Belle Willis; and her aunt and
uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Brooks.
They were all shocked and shaken up.
Mrs. Brooks was bruised and cut in
addition to a scalp wound. Both Mrs.
Parkin and Miss Willis were bruised on the twenty-eight of August said
and wrenched, while the latter receiv- he was drinking but wasn't drunk,
ed a laceration on the face. jvvas fined five dollars and cost or will
No glasses were broken in the car ; ; assist in the cleaning up of the streets
one fender was bent, a little paint for the next fifteen days,
was scraped off, and a door was Ed Davis admitted being drunk on
sprung. It was otherwise undamaged, the twenty-fourth of August and
The truck was not harmed to any pulled a sentence of two-fifty and
great extent. ! costs or ten days with the street
The injured members of the party force,
immediately taken to Dr. F. E. Hyde ; Howard Rhodes, an old offender,
for treatment. They are now getting also admitted the charge of drunken
along very well, but are still sore ness on the twenty-third of August
from the impact of the two machines. 'and was fined ten dollars and costs
Reverend J. P. Harris and Mr. Hal or twenty days scavengering the
Potter were the first to reach the ov- streets. '
erturned car and as they were unable,1 Admitting the charge of drunken
to get the folks out and no one was noss on the twenty-third of August,
immediately near, they turned in the Arthur Stewart received a fine of two
fire alarm so that they could get help, fifty and costs or ten days with the
They were afraid that the .'tutumo'iile street cleaners.
might catch on fire before they could, A fight on the twenty-third of Auc-
get help otherwise. Both fire trucks
instantly responded and a large crowd ,
quickly gathered to see what the
trouble was.
WILMINGTON MAN BUYS
LOCAL BARREL CONCERN
W, A. Corbett of Wilmington, pro-i
prietor of, the Corbett Package Com-;
pany was in town yesteTaay ana nasi
closed a deal for the purchase of the;
local business known as the Norfleet
Barrel and Box Company This con
cern has been operated for several
years by C. G. Gaskill and Elbert
Dudley. They'will still act as man-
agers of the business.
The Corbett Package Company has
its headquarters at Wilmington and i work he wished to do, had his drunk
deals in barrels, crates, hampers and'enness charge deferred until the next
baskets. Mr. Corbett used to be a Session of Municipal Court.
resident of Carteret county and when j
a youth went to school here in Beau- 1 In Los Angeles, Mrs. Chas. F. Ab
jfort. He expects to push his bus-, hot, has won a divorce from her hus
iness in Beaufort and will employ as! band on the grounds that he spent
much help as conditions will justify, most of his time hunting jobs for her.
Two Fishing Parties
Have Successful Trip
Cantain Vernon Styron, Jr., had
ig-'WHISKEY MANUFACTURERS
j LOSE THEIR EQUIPMENT
i Two enterprises were either put out
!of business entirely or temporarily
', halted last week when Deputy Sheriff
i John Pake swooped down upon two
distilling plant ana capturea mem.
An eighty-five-gallon still was taken
last Monday at Cypress Creek (at the
head of North River) and a fifty-gal
lon pot was captured Thursday just
east of Gales Creek. Bonzell Lewis
(assisted Deputy Pake in the first
raid, while Deputy Sheriff Stanford
Gaskill and Grady Perkins helped in
jthe last capture.
Municipal Court Tries
Entire Colored Docket
! An entire colored docket, composed
i of seven men and one elderly women,
i was tried in Municipal Court last
I Friday afternoon. The offenders
! faced Mayor C. T. Chadwick for the
of passing Johnson and the latter
struck him with his hand; but later
when Edwards passed the defendant
.again, Johnson slapped him and then
; crowned him with his crutch. Rev
erend Perkins related the affair to the
court and said they were both in
toxicated, cursed and had a fight at
the corner of Queen and Cedar
Streets. The Mayor said he would
give Johnson the privilege of stand
ing a twenty-five dollar bond or stay
ing in the city lock-up until Re
corder's Court Tuesday.
Alex Edwards, up for drunkenness,
ust haled Walter Hardesty before the
Mayor, and the admission of his guilt
brought him a fine of two-fifty and
costs or ten days cleaning the streets
Mary Shepherd, the elderly color
ed woman, committed herself on the
charge of cursing and conducting
herself
in an otherwise disorderly
manner on the twenty-fourth of Aug-
ust. As a result, sne naa to cnoose
between paying two-fifty and costs or
stay in the city calaboose for five
days.
Either a twenty-five-dolLr bond or
j the city lock-up will hold Dave Davis
until Recorder's Court on the charge
! of an assault on Mary Shepherd.
B. D. Burr, on account of some
STATE HIGHWAY
BEING REPAIRED
Road Between Morhead Afrd.
Craven County Line Being
Covered With Asphalt
And Rock
Repair work was begun on the
highway between th Morehead City
limits and the Craven County line
Wednesday morning. Detour signs
were placed at the corner ot Ann ana
Turner Streets warning the motor
ists that it is advisable to go to New
Bern via Harlowe and Haveluck on
No. 101.
Highway Commissioner C. R.
Wheutly informs the News that the.
road between here and the Craven
County line will not be closed dur
ing the time it is repaired, but the
autoists may have to wait fifteen or
twenty minutes or maybe a half
hour before they will be able to go
through the repaired area. Other
than the short detention and the pos
sibility of getting a little asphalt on
their tires the motorists will be able
to travel on No. 10.
Ever since shortly after the road
between Morehead City and the Crav
en County line was built, it has be
come bumpy as a result of the road
bed settling. Of late it has gotten
so bad that it is dangerous to drive
over this segment of the state and
national highway at even a moderate
rate of speed. For some months now
crushed rock has been deposited along
the road and actual work was begun
Wednesday morning. The whole area
between Craven County line and the
Morehead City limits will be covered
with a composition of crushed rock
and asphalt. This will make a smooth
riding surface for the motorists, but
it will not be slick and the tires will
therefore be able to grip the road
better.
The road between here and Have
lock through the Harlowe section was
graded last week and is now in ex
cellent condition for those who choose
to go to New Bern via that thorough
fare. The "topping" of the old ashalt
road with the asphalt and crushed
rock is not a contract job, but it be
ing done by the employees of the
State Highway Commission. It will
take several weks for this work to
be completed.
West Beaufort Man
Raises Large Fruit
Many people hereabouts say that
fruits canot be successfully raised in
Carteret County, but W. J. Simpson
of West Beaufort brought a fifteen
ounc peach into the News office Tues
day afternoon that was vivid testi
mony to the contrary. Drouth this
summer has seriously curtailed his
peach crop, but one of his six trees
crtamly brought forth the size if not
the number. The peach he brought
to the News office was about the size
of the bottom of a quart cup.
Mr. Simpson has several fruit
trees, a very good garden and a flock
of chickens at his home in West
Beaufort. He and Mrs. Simpson
care for these in an excellent fash
ion and usually get good results for
their efforts. Mr. Simpson works at
various and sundry jobs now, but or
dinarily he is either employed at Gra
ham Brothers Saw Mill or one of the
fish factories near his home.
TIDE TABLE
Information at 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
Friday, Sept.
Low 1 ide
6:19 A.
6:42 P.
M.
M.
12:10 P. M.
12:09 P. M.
6
11:48 A, M.
Saturday, Sept
7:00 A. M.
7:16 P. M.
Sunday, Sept.
12:49
, 7
1:20
1:26
P. M.
7:35
7:50
A. M.
A.
P.
A.
P.
A.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
P.M.
Monday, Sept.
8
1:51
8:10
8:22
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Tuesday, Sept.
M.
M.
2:00
9
2:22
2:41
8:41
8:55
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Wednesday, Sept. 10
9:12
9:23
9:43
9:53
A.
M. 2:53 A.
M. 3:15 P.
Thursday, Sept. 11
M. 3:24 A.
M. 3:54 P.
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