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VOLUME XIX
10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1930 PRICE Sc SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 33
THE
EWS
HURRICANE SWEPT
CARTERET FRIDAY
Dozen Houses Blown Down at
Cape Lookout And Coast
Guard Station Damaged
Whiskey Charges Take
Five to Police Court
It was probably the first cousin of
the hurricane which swept the West
Indies that hit the North Carolina
coast last Friday and left devasta
tion in its wake. The whole day
here in Beaufort was stormy and
rain continued to fall practically all
day. Throughout the morning the
wind blew from the northeast, but in
the afternoon it shifted to the north.
The main part of the storm did not
reach this vicinity until late in the
.afternoon.
Several trees were blown down
here and in Morehead City and many
limbs were wrenched from the trees
in both communities. Corn, soy beans
and cotton were blown over by the
high wind, but, according to Farm
Agent Hugh Overstreet, no great
damage was done. The corn was al
ready mature and the open cotton
picked, said Mr. Overstreet, and out
side of the fact that the corn and
soy beans will be a little harder to
harvest, the damage done the crops
was not enough to keep the farmers
awake nights.
Down at Cape Lookout, however,
the hurricane was more devastating.
About a dozen cottages were either
blown down or seriously damaged.
In the neighborhood of two thousand
dollars worth of damage was done
the Coast Guard station and the
houses around the light-house and
also the compass station were damag
ed by the blow. It is reported that
the gale reached a 120-mile velocity
at the Cape Friday afternoon.
Electric light, telephone and tele
graph wires were blown down dur
ing the gale and for a time part of
the town could not have lights and
messages in and out of town by wire
were halted. The coast guard suf
fered from old-time isolation by the
telephone communication being sev
ered by the storm.
,The Olymphia, one of -Mr. C. ,
Dey's boats, was in distress down
near Harkers Island and the Lupton,
owned by Mr. Charles S. Wallace,
started to the rescue of the Olymphia
but also got into trouble. Later the
crew of the Olymphia was removed
by Harkers Island fishermen and the
Lupton's crew was taken off by the
Fort Macon Coast Guard men.
Three Atlantic fishing boats which
were fishine at Royal bhoals near
Portsmouth were caught in the storm
and had to remain there all Friday
niirht. Relatives of the fishermen
were distressed and when they did
not arrive home Saturday morning
searching parties were dispatched.
However, the three boats got back
safely to Atlantic late Saturday with
out any of the crews being harmed
and none of the gears damaged nor
lost. The three boats and their
rews are as follows: "Alma," Cap-
tain Wallace Styron, Dale Styron
and Boyd Styron, and the captain's
two smaller sons, Aaron and Hugh;
"Nemo," Captain Luther Smith, Oden
Tulcher and Winfield Fulcher; and
the "Laura," Captain Wesley Mason,
Howard Mason and Mike Mason.
On account of the inclement
weather caused by the hurricane
sweeping the coast last Friday, Police
Court was not held at the regular
time. However, five offenders were
brought before Mayor C. T. Chadwick
Monday afternoon at two o'clock so
that they could be turned over to Re
corder's Court Tuesday morning.
Charlie "Goose" Chadwick, the one
legged Negro who frequents' the
various- courts hereabouts, came be
fore the mayor on the charge of
possessing four gallons of whiskey
for the purpose of sale. He admitted
the accusation and was held for Re
corder's Court.
Ida Chadwick, Charlie's spouse, was
arraigned into court on the charge of
aiding and abetting her husband in
the possession of liquor for the pur
pose of sale. Upon the admission
of her guilt, she was -also held for
the Recorder.
Sam Rose, colored also aiding and
abetting Charlie Chadwick, decided
not to submit, but upon the testimony
of Charlie and Ida Chadwick Mayor
Chadwick thought it best to hold
Rose for the Recorder's Court along
with the others.
Dick Mason, white, submitted to
the charge of transporting a quantity
of whiskey. As a result the Re
corder's Court wa sto deal with his
case Tuesday morning.
Ed "Dad" Davis, elderly colored
man who runs a place of business on
Broad Street near the ice-plant, came
before the mayor for the second time
in three weeks for the possession of
whiskey for the purpose of sale. It
was five quarts this time. He went
with the rest to Recorder's Court
Tuesday.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
PLANS FOR WOMEN
Four Million Dollar Plant Will
Be Used Exclusively For
Women
HARKER'S ISLAND
CASE IS UNUSUAL
Preparations Are Being
Made For Fall Election
Woman Convicted in Record
er's Court on Charge of
Burning A Kitten
Durham, Sept. 13 Final prepara
tions are being made for the open
ing of the woman's college of Duke
University, one of the new divisions
of the institutions, on September 24.
Restricting the freshman class of the
college to 250 students, women stu
dents will have a well equipped plant
of their own for the first time in the
history of the university.
Included in the buildings on the
woman's college campus is the group
of 11 buildings, completed in 1927 at
a cost of approximately four million
dollars and erected especially for the !
uses of women. Since that time,
however, these buildings have been
occupied by men pending the comple
tion of the university's larger plant
on an adjoining campus.
While students of the woman's col-,
lege will have full physical equip-1
ment and academic facilities of their
own, they will be permitted to take
courses on the main university cam
pus if they desire.
Included also in the new woman's
college plant is the large gymnasium
built several years ago as a menorial
to Trinity college alumni who died
during the world war. This unit will
permit a full program of intra-mutual
sports among the women students.
There are 19 buildings in the wom
an's college group, situated on a 10
acre campus.
The fall semester will begin on the
same date set for other departments
Harker's Island occupied the cen
ter of the stage in Recorder's Court
D. E. Langdale, Chairman of the
Carteret County Board of Elections,
opened up his office in the court
house annex Monday morning and is
getting things in order for the No
vember election. Mr. Langdale sent
out letters to the twenty-six registrars
innKiviinn tViam tVlA QTOQ tVlOV Will
I I I I 1 W I III 1 I It LliCUl W . kill: UHtVU U".1
Tuesday afternoon. Headed by the!keep the registration books open so
veteran Captain Eugene Yeomans ajthat thoge who have become of age
large crowa oi ine ismna io.ks !since the June primary may register,
in the court room to witness the trial jThe bookg win be at the polUng places
of Mrs. Mary E Guthrie who waSfrom g A M unU1 sunset on the fol.
charged with cruelty to animals. The ... gaturdays. October 4th., 11th,
specific charge against the defendant 18thf an(J 25thf Sat.urday Novem-
was that sne naa Durnt a Kitten io.. , ho .i..,!,,,,,,, rin ftn all
SWEETS" BRING
COUNTY WEALTH
Carteret Has Large Crop ; One
Fourth Shortage Through
out State and Nation
death.
Mrs. Agnes Hamilton the first wit-
other days between the 4th and 25th
of October those desiring to register
ness said she came along the road injmay do g0 by going to the places of
noiii ui mi viu...i.c a UUi..c business of the registrars.
a nre in me yaru anu a ueuu ivin.cn.
She saw a boy run in the fire and save
a kitten. She did not see
One of the things that have caused
anybody 'a great deal of inquiry since the ad-
. , i,:n. ti, fl option oi me newer eictwuu iava uao
put the kittens in the nre. ' TT ... , , ..
ht. n : t ,v, u. been -How will the new ballots
I'll 3. UCUlgia 4JCiC3 V I i J HVCO -l v- l woo
the road from Mrs. Guthrie, and who;.
look? They will be white with the
Edward Willis Dies
After Long Illness
Edward Willis, youthful son of
Captain and Mrs. Brodie Willis of
this community, passed away at his
home last Friday evening after a lin-
said they had not spoken to
l j :i-j i j-1 i i
0u instructions pnnieu at me iup.
eaLn , .jim. L.i-... : m. i: l-
other in five years, testified that the;
mother cat belonged to her. She : .7. V . TvL U1
,i,0j ,iQQfv, American eagle; on the right will be
me ailU LUC VLllci noa uuuitu fcu ut-i.ii I , ... . . . J U..
xt TT.....1, .,ii u B:j I e xvepuuiieaii uuicl, Muiueu uy a
Norman Hancock a small boy said r ' B r
he heard the kittens meowing and got icut o'G- P" e ep hnt A"y
one out of the fire. He did not10 chooB" touvt6nthe wh!e
.v, K,,ut tha fi,. m fcnw f he ! Republican or the whole Democratic
ticket will do so by making a cross in
a circle either below the elephant or
the eagle
(Continued on page four)
of university. Freshmen will assem
ble on September 17 for a period of only about a day old
preliminary training. - ,
In addition to members of the uni
versity faculty who will teach in the
woman's college, additional teachers
have been added to the staff to give'
the woman's college ample instruc
tional services. Dr. Alice M. Bald
win, who has been dean of women at
kittens got in it.
A young man by the name of Wal
lace Guthrie said he heard the de
fendant say she did not burn but one
kitten and that she said she would
burn Mrs. Lewis too if she bothered 'Men Break Jail And
her or words to that effect. t
The defendant Mrs. Guthrie testi
fied that she burned a pile of bush
es and trash and did not know the
kittens were in it. The kittns were
She said she
Try Forging Checks
Rufus Grey and Charles W. Willis,
of Atlantic, who broke jail here
some time ago while they were be
gering illness of several months dur- Duke for several yenrsas dean
ation.x Although his going "was 'Hot womRns college. -
Degrees were conferred upon worn
Senatorial Campaign
Is Now In Full Swing
Charlotte, Sept. IS Maid on the
heels of th formal opening of Jo
siah W. Bailey's Democratic campaign
lot the senaU, his Republican oppon
ent, Eepreisntatite Gsorga M.
PTitehard, of AsheTllle, prepared to
day to take to the buitings for two
weeks with an itinerarj that roTidee
for fourteen speacha.
The Republicsa baadquarters
Greensboro announcad a chdula tor
Pritchard beginning today with ad
dresses at Yanctyville and Btons
aSlle, and containing Ciiouga Septenn
ial 89, on whish data Smithfialil will
h the scene of tut latpaal o she
atns.
Bailey made tus Irak formal aam
jteign speech ia Burlington Satar
47 night, denouncing tha Hootst ad
ministration as a "100 per cent fail
W in his addresa to 1,000 Toters.
Other political deTelopments orer
the week-end Included a formal an
nouncement hy former Governor
MoMison that he intended to be a
candidate in the 1932 Democratic prt
mary for the seat now held by Sen
ator Overman, and the resignation of
Judge Thomas L. Johnson, of Lum
berton, from the superior bench,
coupled with the statement that he
would not be a candidate for gover
nor, two years from now. Judge
Johnson resigned to become a mem
ber of an Asheville law firm.
unexpected at this time, up until last
Spring he seemed to be enjoying
good health. Young Mr. Willis was
always a pleasant sort.Summer before
last he worked in Florida with the
menhaden fleet; this past Spring he
went down there but was unable to
work very long on account of incipi
ent ill health. He was considered by
those who were association with him
as quite a smart young fellow He
was just a few months past his eigh
teenth birthday.
The last rites were conducted at
the Gordon street residence of his
parents at three o'clock Saturday af
ternoon by the Reverend J. P. Harris,
pastor of the family, who was assist
ed by the Reverend R. F. Munns.
"Abide With Me" and "Rock of Ag
es" were sung at the home. The
Reverend Mr. Munns read the Scrip
ture,
Edward Willis is survived by his par
ents; by two sisters, Misses Eleanor
and Thelma; and by one brother,
Charles Duncan.
Interment was in the Ocean View
Cemetery. The pall-bearers were:
Brownie Piner, Captain Harry Park
In, Boren Davis, Jimmie Salter, Gar
land Willis, and Theophelus Piner.
The large concourse of friends that
attended the funeral and the multi
tude of floral designs wer evidence
to the high esteem with which Mr.
Willis was held by his associatta.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
attie S. Millar and husband to f.
E. Whitehnrat, 18 acres Nawwort
TowaeMp, fw $1.
J. S. Hall and wtts to C. Vf. Hall
0 tract Newport Township, for SI.
C. W. Hall to J. S. Hall and wife.,
I tracts Newport Township, for II.
Ewia A- Josepa and wife to E. R.
Octtinger, 4 lots Morehead City, for
$10.
I V. NoriUet st al to W. A. Cor-
bett, 4 Iota Beaafort, for $Mt.
This Week's Births
and a boy put the fire out, said the . ing held f or Superior Court on the
dead kitten was probably dead Deiore ! charge of stealing and killing a steer
apparently could not go straight after
their French leave. They seemed to
like a diversification of crime,, but
forging , checks apparently was their
New Boats Have Been
Built For FatbackingiPit fa11
' i ' ' ' . ' While passing through Whiteville,
JThe tacai menhaden-: fls-ijiir- fleet they .forced ;the name of a. citizen, of
will be increased this season by two;tnat community, one John rord, on
..l 1. j or A .. , i.l
en by Trinity college as early as 1878
well-built crafts that hove been con
structed this
a check for $7 and were successful
it cashed. This made
but the real history of education of b Mea(lows- Marine Railways. jthem bolder; they thought it an easy
women at Duke did not begin until lT, fi . t , t n.vr,H ,.,i means of getting ready cash by walk-
1896 when Washington Duke gave I , k f. n 'p n hi t1lp : ing along the street and afixing
$100,000 to the permanent endow-i .i,.,, n M nv. 'names of community store-keepers or
er of this community and T. A. Rich-an.v othel's to chetks-
ards of Raleigh. Thev PrKressed cn to Laurinburg
ThP "C P Dev" is ninetv-three ' DUt tnac proved to De in reality
ment of the university on condition
that women be admitted to classes on
the same basis as men.
There are now approximately 1,-
500 alumnae on the alumni list of
the university.
JOHNSON.PREVOST LOSES
"REFRESHMENT RESERVE"
A loss of about two dollars in
change,'' an adjustable pencil and a
fountain pen was discovered Tuesday
morning by, Harry Saunders one of
the partners of the local Johnson
Prevost Dry Cleaning Company. Mr.
Saunders said that none of the com
pany's funds were bothered, but that
the "refreshment fund," which they
all occasionally contributed a coin or
two, was taken. No one was suspect
ed of the theft. It is evident that,
unless some provision is made, the
employees will henceforth go without
their refreshments.
feet in length, has a twenty-foot ,tneir Waterloo. A hile trying to cash
beam, and is seven feet deep. Sheia check the,'e on one of the Prom'
will riraw five feet when pmntv. but nent business men, the suspicion of
when loaded will draw eight and one-'the banks were aroused. This led to
half feet. This is a well-constructed ;he Sherlff of Scotland County call-
boat and is entirely sea-worthy. On-:lne uPon tllem.aM inviting them to
ly the best of material was used in her
make-up. Mr. Dey personally in
spected the boat while under con
struction, in addition to having Kel
ly Gillikin, of Marshallberg, as official
inspector. This boat will fish under
the command of Captain Jack Park
in, and Bryan Longest, who formerly
worked for Mr. Dey, will be chief en
gineer. The "C. P. Dey' will be pro
pelled by a 100-120 horse power Kah
lenberg engine.
The "King Fisher," which is the
name of the DeNoyer-Richards boat
was built by the same boat-builders
at the same time the "C. P. Dey" was
(Continued on page five)
Tobacco Growers' Meeting
:. Will Be Held In New Bern
Craven and Carterat Joint Mooting to be Hold Wednesday for
of Balief for Tobacco Growreri
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ebben Sal
ter, of Sealevel, September 8th, a
daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Robia
son, of Marshallberg, September
12th., a eon.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Francis Longest of this community,
Gatha Willis of Morehead City and
Howard Cliton of Chesapeake City,
Md., were discharged from the Potter
Emergency Hospital Wednesday.
J. J. Babb, of Bogus Inlet, has
been admitted tot treatment.;.
Next week meetings wiH be held in
practically all of the tobacco-producing
eountiea for the purpose of study
ing the problems of the growers of
tobaeso that are relative to market
ing and the telling pries of the pro
diet For senTenienee take, Ue Cr
a aad Carteret meeting will be held
jointly ia New Bern next Wednesday
tfrom I astil 4:80 p. m.. All grow-
ert that tan go and all bntineas men
interested in the tobacco situation are
requested to. be present at this joint
meeting and take part in the discus
sions. . Although Carteret is not a large to
bacco producing county, it neverthe
less will be hard-hit, especially in the
western part, if tobacco does not sell
better than it has so far. Up to tne
present time it has averaged about,
nine cents a pound, against eighteen
cents last year and twenty cents the
two years before that. There were
over two million pounds of tobacco
raised in Carteret last year, which
was an inciease of over a half mil
lion over tie two previous years.
remain with him tor a while. They
told him about the affair they had
had here in this county, so the offic
ials there informed Sheriff Davis that
they were holding Willis and Grey.
Deputy Sheriff Stanford Gaskill
went to Laurinburg last Friday and
brought Grey back, but the Scotland
sheriff is holding Willis, who it is al
leged forged the checks, until Super
ior Court in November. Sheriff Da
vis is going to try to get them to let
him bring Willis here to stand trial
in October.
All of this came as a result of
these men breaking out of jail a sec
ond time; the first time they return
ed on the following day and gave
themselves up to the sheriff.
This season Carteret hss raised the l
beat crop Qf the weed it has tvtr pro- j
duced, but unless something is done
to get, a more lucrative market it isj
likely to go at sn nn-heard-of low
price.
Up in the Newport area farmers
depend almost wholly upon tobacco
for their money crop, and raise vir
tually nothing else except feed for
their stock. The acreage this year
ia CaMeret was reduced by some
three or four hundr - acres, or a to
tal of aproximately tjrenty-five hun
dred acres being devoted to the weed.
Last year Carteret Countytobacco
sold for a total of $361,843, or $126
per acre.. That was by far the most
i profitable of the past three seasons.
People around Newport are looking
forward with marked anxiety to the
outcome of the perplexing situation.
This tobacco problem is- a serious
matter and has commanded the atten
tion of both .national and state offic
ials. They are trying to work out
TIDE TABLE
Information a ta the tldas
at Beaufort is girea ia this cov
nmn. The figures are appiox
irastely correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. S.
Geodetic Survey.. Some allow
tnces must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
rspeet to the locality, that it
whether near the inlet er at
the heads of the estuaries.
Unless something terrible happens
the next few weeks there -will be
hundreds of thousands of bushels of
Porto Rican sweet potatoes harvest
ed this Fall in Carteret County and
indications are now that there will be
a large demand for these at good
prices. This County now has one of
its best, if not the best, crop of tub
bers it has had in the past several
years, judging from the looks of the
fields now; and those that are being
dug now are giving very good yields
per acre.
Carteret County has upwards of
twenty-five hundred acres of Porto
Ricans planted this year. Four years
ago the county produced 175,590
bushels; in 1928, 156,457 bushels;
and last year 263,304 bushels. This
season the production is even likely
to exceed last year's crop.
The sweet potato crop throughout
the whole country is very much small
er this year than it has been for
many years; the U. S. Department of
Agriculture says the yield will be at
least one-sixth smaller than last sea
son and 14 per Cent smaller than the
five-year average 1924-1928. This
shortage is especially noticeable in .
the five important Atlantic shipping
states New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia and North Carolina.
These five states now expect not to
harvest more than three-fourths of
last year's total.
Several farmers hereabouts are
building potato-storage houses, while
a good many more are seriously think
ing about the advantages of curing
and storing the tubers until the mar
ket becomes more favorable. The
cost of these houses is paid for by
the difference between the price of
bank and storage potatoes after the
first crop is sold. This means that
the houses will pay for themselves
the first season. With the buyers
demanding more and more the tubers
stored in house, it is likfcly that there
will be more erected in Carteret as
time goes on.
Charles Pake, of Bettie, is building
a 4,ouu-bushel storage houseand call
Brothers, of Harlowe, are preparing
to construct one immediately. They
are hauling the material now, but
they have not decided upon the size,
although they are thinking of a 6,000
bushel house now.
Four years ago this county pro -duced
$103,598 worth of Porto Ric
ans; in 1928, $162,715; and last year,
$179,047. With such a large short
age throughout the whole country,
and including in a noticeable degree
this state, the total value of the po
tato crop to Carteret will probably
exceed any ever raised here.
One of the things that a few of the
local farmers are doing that will in
jure the market, thinks County Farm
Agent Hugh Overstreet, is the prac
tice of shipping "Old Mamy" pota
toes the ones that were planted to
get vines for planting and then re
dug. One person, according to Mr.
Overstreet, will clear around five or
six hundred dollars on these worthless
roots that will, in all probability,
tend to weaken the market for the
better Porto Ricans.
So far there has not been very
many of these potatoes shipped, but
a good many will be shipped within
the next few weeks. However a
large portion of them will be kept in
"banks" and storage houses this win
ter so that they will get the higher
prices that the tubers bring in the
spring. Those already shipped hare
netted the farmers from si dollars
to about four dollars a barrel now.
Hiaa Tide Lw liU
Friday, Sea. It
4 A. M. 10:47 A, M.
i.2i P. M. 10:19 P.- M.
Saturday, Sl. 30
6:50 A. M. 11:SI A. M.
8:20 P. M. 11:49 P. M.
Sunday, Sept. SI
6:45 A. M. 12:25 A. M.
7:09 P. M. 12:47 P. M.
Monday, Sept. 22
7:33 A. M. 1:11 A. M.
7:58 P. M. 1:40 P. M.
Tuesday, Sept. 23
8:20 A. M. 1:57 A. M.
8:47 P. M. 2:30 P. M.
Wednesday, Sept 24
9:08 A. M. 2:40 A. M.
9:35 P. M. 3:22 P. M.
"J.
O." BARBOUR STUDYING
NOW UNDER PILOT JORDAM
Thurtdav. Sent. 25
ways and means of disposing of this X56 A. MJ 3:26 A.
Continued on page five
10:25 P.
4:12 P. M.
This eonronity was for a long that
isolated from trie rest of the workL
but with coming of; the railroad, good
roads and the aeroplane, change was
inevitable. Now even some of the
local young men are taking up avia--tlon
with the idea of eventually be
coming pilots. The last to succumb
to the air was J. O. Barbour Jr., who
has been taking lessons the last two
weeks from Ralph Jordan, pilot of the
Waters aeroplane. Young Mr. Bar- ,
bour seems to be very enthusiastic
about flying and has several air hours
to his credit. Ernes Waters, Ralph
Jordan and "J. O." left here Monday
morning and flew to Raleigh, Greens
boro and High Point, returning home
yesterday. ' "J. O." says he wants to
continue and get his pilot's license, as
aviation seems to appeal to him as a
career. .