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VOLUME XIX
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930 .V..CE Sc SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 43
North Carolina's Crops Make COUNTY-HAMILTON TiUTHERFORDIANS
Very Good Showing This Year
Average Is Considerably Better Than The Average For The
Nation; Carteret County Will Get $25,000 For Schools
From Equalization Fund
M. R. DUNNAGAN
Raleigh, Oct. 22 North Carolina's
crop yield per acre as indicated on
October 1, averaged 99.6 per cent of
the past 10-year yield, with a
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER
Saturday the 25th will be the last
5.3 chance any one will have to register
per cent general improvement dur- for the coming election. The law re
ing September, while for the entire quires the registrar to be at the poll
nation the yield was 9.7 per cent be. ing place at nine o'clock and keep his
lew the 10-vear average, the State-books open until sundown. Newcom-
Federal crop reporting service shows, trs to the county and persons who
This Slate was less affected by the have come of aire since the last pre
drought conditions of the early sum- vious election will have to get on the
mer than the average, but an increase registration book if they wish to vote.
in crop yield and total production wasSaturday the 1st day of November
shown in less than half the main crops will be "chalknge day" on which day
Dickinson Host to Party
Nine Spectacular
Demonstrations
of
ACTION DEFERRED
May Have Special Session Next
April to try All rending
County Cases
The suit of Carteret County a
gainst former county attorney Lu
ther Hamilton started off as perhaps
the most interest-creating case on
the dockets of the one-week term of
mixed Superior Court presided over
lau iri.pt bv .Tuda-e Clayton
Moore but it ended in a continuance which witnessed the exhibition and
(Rutherfordton, N. J., Republican)
Rutherford was well represented at
the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the
Army Ordinance Association at Aber-
den Proving Grounds, Md., Thursday
Colonel Fairleigh S. Dickinson, 185
Ridge road, was host to a party of 9
including corn, tobacco, potatoes,
peaches, grapes, oats and sorgum
syprup.
The production indicated as of Oct
ober 1 in 16 main crops follows: corn,
49,240 ,000 bushels; oats, 6,032,000
bushels; barley, 858,000 bushels;
buckwheat 100,000 bushels; peanuts,
the lists will be scrutinized for the
purpose of detecting illegal registra
tions if any such have occurred.
175,
'25,000 pounds; tame hay ;7 1 1,
000 tons; alfalfa, 17,000 tons; apples,
agricultural, 2,555,000 bushels; com
mercial, 128,000 barrels; ptai-hes,
1,665,000 bushels; pears, 108,000
bushels; grapes, 5,396 tons potatoes,
8,494,000 bushels; sweet potatoes,
8,460,000 bushels; tobacco, 529,095,
000 pounds; sorgum syprup. 1,93''',
000 gallons.
(o.wj o3i:d uo p.munuoQ)
MANY TURKEYS TO
BE SHIPPED SOON
About Four Carloads of Fowls
Will be Beginning of New In
dustry in Cartaret
until the next session. Judge- Moore
suggested to the attorneys for the
prosecution and defense that the Gov
ernor be asked for a special session
of coourt to be held here next April
to try this and other county cases,
and that if this comes about that
jurors from other counties be used.
Thursday afternoon the case was
beegun, but neither the county's
lawyers nor those of Mr. Hamilton
wen.' alile to agree on any juiw.-,
it was decided in a consulation held
by the judge and the lawyers con-
i corned in tne case to eonmuie aim
take it up at another session. A
large crowd of folks from all parts
of the county were in attendance
during the time the trial was trying
to be held. Many others than those
attending manifested interest in the
outcome of the trial.
Thiis suit was brought
Simmons Has No
Apology To Make
Plans an now
'armors around
afoot whereby
Newport and
able to dis
the
up
demonstration by eight departments
of the U. S. Army Service, namely,
The Coast Artillery, Field Artillery,
The Air Corps, Signal Corps, Infan-
ry, The Quartermaster Corp, lhe
Chemical Warfare Service and The
Ordinance Department.
Those in the party were: Col, Fair
leighh S. Dickinson, Colonel Wallace
B. Scales, U. S. Calvary, Lt., Col. R.
C. Heflebowtr, Medical Department;
Fjih-loiob S. Dickinson. Jr.. Fred S.
Bevner, C. A. Aodenberg, John Thorn
as Wilson, E. R. Lawshe and Irving
Newbury.
The program, starting at 10:0.) A.
M., including exhibition and demon
stration of equipment, uses and tac
tics with small arms materials and
up through all sixes to the firing of
on:; round each from the 14-inch and
16-inch guns. Also motordrawn ar-
against jtillery, tanks and a spectacular air
Lath rlshow mclurimg attaeK on ground iai
Goldsboro. Oct. 22 Senator F. M.
Simmons states that he will not re
cant from anything, lick anybody s
boots, or kiss anybody's toe, in a let
ter received by S. L. Rose, of Golds
boro Wednesday. Mr. Rose had writ
ten to Mr. Simmons in regard to an
article appearing in a recent edi
tion of the Greensboro Daily News,
conceining Mr. Simmons' policy in re
gard to the Bailey campaign.
Mr. Simmons writes.
"New Rem. N. C,
"Oct. 21, 1930.
"My dear Mr. Rose:
"I received your communication of
recent date and in reply I wish to as
sure you that I am not responsible
for the speculations of the Raleigh
f-nrrcsnondent. to whose article you
refer.
"I have not and shall not apoligizc
anything, nor recant trom any-
COUPLE SUCCEEDS
AFTER LONG PULL
for
thing that I have done. Neither do I
expect to lick anybody's boots or kiss
anvhodv's toe. I am attending to
Borrowed Money For Marriage
License Twenty Years Ago;
But That Was Then
By JAMES G. WHITEHURST .
Commencing life by borrowing
money with which to buy the mar
riage license would not be consider
ed an auspicious beginning by many
people, but up in the Newport sec
tion there live a man that did exact
ly that and in the past two decades
he has progressed until now he is con
sidered to be one of the foremist
farmers in Carteret County. Mr
Simmons is the man referred to, a.'.d
he had nothing but the will and the
ambition to begin with, but he has
evidently used these priceLs.-; re
sources to their utmost.
Mr. and Mrs. Simmons were mar
ried twenty years ago and have five
living children, three boys and two
girls In the beginning Mr. Simmons
had to rent land adjacent to his fath
er's place to cultivate. He saw at
J. W. Bailey Pleases
Gecd Sized Audience
fp.vmpi ffinnhv attorney
! Hamilton by Carteret County in order pets, bombardment by by bombing
to obtain certain information con- planer, laying ot smoKe scieen. inu
,...11 ,.1 I.,- , l ! ,.1.- .iml .lof.inO T nill'milt" tlUinCP.
tx Tnn ; ! t K M I IIIKp . S I ' i . I I I - '
int.". ' i. . ' i 'i.: j i del', nriunt along with the iaee
hv sriiing them to the highest bidders
some part of my life's earnings.
"I am,
"Yours truly.
"P. M. SIMMONS."
manycatcIesof
The Democratic hosts in the county
Sound may be able to dispos
. i. .. , crrn n-r i.nc nenaii.1 -.- e'uie.'.t'u uv lh. '.auun
value The exhibition at the
of the tax certificates while he was 1:1 ranpo w particular!
Ti -- .11 UU.I il , .!,.., In- In, .Hi til
k 1 j' m i'f 1 s f'L't' 1 ?t . '..i.' 11; .-.n !. inmm .....i ui.
hvouRhtaeinuvau "1 rPo;inl of (:onimiJsiono,? a,ked him night, the 69th Coast Artillery scor
he State Department of A,, . tu e. ac(,)(,ntin of thcse penalties ing heavily against towed sleeve tar
! armors and farmwiv.s in these sec- " , , ... ,. t fi,0 fii nt tho bi,r-
and ttiat no reiusen in give ine u;- svi ut m
Antiaircraft
spectacular
afternoon and at
. ... u 1. 1 1 - u,.
L.wili 11. .v m.i ...... . .I" 1 . . ,. . 1 .. ml . I. :i. ' .v,-... '? 1 n h l,"nt
sired mi ormauon. xuus me war, -.i b ....
!bi ought about to (ram tnis lutonna-
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c,,.,l !.;,. VimMMocf ortillorv Tuesday 'Rc 01 sl'lnn ln " slulh
r t)..':i i.'.. 'this vear the dryness ha? boenuinu
evening wnen Josian iv . i.aucy H' r, . tVo iu!n, nf ;tion
to a good sized crowd in the county ;"". '"""'
courthouse. The auditorium of the- -turkeys and a large number has been
courthouse seats 300 people and near-d. Somewhere in the neighbor
ly all the seats were filled. Besides , f. thrcea"d 'ou,r thousand of
people from Beaufort and Morehead, these biros will likely leave Carteret
City there were many present from this season; in add. ion to these there
various sections of the county. A ' " be enough left to supply the lo
considerable sprinkling of Republi- markets.
., . ..,Ut onnlo nf fho' hen the poults as the young
supporters of Senator Simmons. St. V? tmkef nre. cael-are young
Paul's School band played several so- they are extremely sens.t.ve to the
lections before and after the speak-leather especially the dampness. A
Former sheriff T. C, Wade m. -n one.. - -
oreos OI trie small niros. iney nae
to be fed during this period, but
i (Continued on page seven)
(Continued on page seven)
stter Grade of Weed
Brinsjinsr Good Pric;
ing.
troduced the speaker in the absence
of Mr. Charles Wallace who on ac
count of illness was unable to be
present.
Mr. Bailey spoke for an hour and
a half and held the attention of his
audience with apparent ease. A num
ber of witticisms at the expense of
the Hoover administration were ap
parently greatly enjoyed by his hear
ers. The first part of Mr. Bailey's
speech was a --plea for harmony and
evidently intended for the supporters
of Senator Simmons. He did
mention the
Five Offenders Haled
Into Municipal Ccurl
Dart Friday a representative
News traveled throughout the west
ern part of Carteret County with
County Farm Agent Hugh Over.-trect
and talked with a good many tobacco
I The entire demonstration proved
I most clearly that warfare of the fu
jture will be by mechanized equip
jment. Secretary of War, Patrick J.
j Hurley and Benedict Crowell, Cleve
Uand, president of the Army Ordi-
jiiance'Association", ehaded the GovernJ
iment and civil delegations which wit-
f tv 'nessed the exhibition.
Of special interest tc all was the
exhibition at the airfield in the late
afternoon of the new Pitcairn Cie
tva Autogiro plane which can rise
-land alight virtually perpendicularly
.. ...4 r... mutt rnvn own
my busings affairs and trying to save , - amount to vtHng, so
he and his wife did everytiiivi;; pos
silde in the way of saving money and
conserving the Koud-wiU of other
folks. It wasn't so very long before
the Sinimnn-e's were able to buy a
parcel of land; they have purchased
it piece by piece! until now they have
'about forty-rive vtv.-a .f cleared land.
I When the subj-.M-t cf this write-.ip
I was broached, Mr. Simmons became
reserved and iH.'. xtul vant to talk a-
bout himsell ; ne named over several
around him tV.t he said had done
much It-.-l!;- t:;t.n he and Mrs. Sim
mons, but Countv Agent Hugh Ov-
Now that tobacco is selling much j orstre. t assured the News reporter
i,.(t,. the weather hereabouts is; that thb was 'the man." After Mr.
,,tt,o- nnrtov and snow has come in Simmons didn't see
the North, Captain John A. Nelson, flourished, he t
If
a-
flj i.
3J
Coder Weather Hsre And in
North Expected to Stimulate
Shipping of Seafccds
note-book
d a little but most
State Fisheries Commissioner, expects I of what was le i ned came from Mr.
that the local catches of fish may find I Overstrect before and after the in-
t. :j? ..I
..1wm,- frt hnnnmn n PfllsT 01-P' I 'n ru- .i.i.'.. -
as announced viirouj;n me oiijiwi
This radically nev
an average
M.l..fc? nniv hpino' lor t Vr
.i ti, 1,,o- nA tins never! Corp loudspeaker.
Ll. i Mi: ntiiin ...... v.,
piane can aiso maiiiuwn
Five of the unfortunate brethren
came up before Mayor C. T. Chad
wick last Friday afternoon in Police
Court for their several offenses, most
ni.-of them hinging around the spirits of
(hp bite John Barleycorn.
name ot senator aim-- , f i -u ,.r
mons nor did he refer to Governor V , o7 We,
Al Smith or Mr. Raskob. He laid 'Imnkeness on ; the sixth of Septem
great stress on the hard times which Tf Sn.ddlt'r was given the priv
he says the country is now experienc-i of paying two-fifty and costs ,n
ing and' undertook to blame President ' the own coffers' or serving on the
, u u ,A-.t,, 1,0 '.street force ior the ensuing hve days.
jioover lur it. 11c jih.iih.vvu v.......
would be elected, that the State, dis-
Warren Henry, yong colored man,
' ' .1U..,1 Ivniniy rVinv-
tnct and county would be won by his ... " 1, nt n
1 n m r .: nnrtir i wise disorderly on the twelfth ot Uc-
party and that the Demo rat e party sentenced to either
would elect a President in 1932. & Qf twofifty and costg or
1 ' iwork wdth the street force, for the
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN next nve fays.
IS NOW IN FULL SWING Buster Branch, colored, was up for
being drunk and disorderly on the
The political campaign in Carteret t.iCVenth of October. He submitted
county has now reached the stage iami ,irew a sentence of five dollars
where not only the candidates and!am COsts or ten days cleaning the
politicians, are interested but the peo- streets. This was about the third or
pie too are getting aroused. Politics , fourth time Buster has graced the
is the subject that one hears discuss- Municipal Court.
ed most now around the street corn- Huok Rhodes, colored, admitted be
ers and other public places. jing drunk and disorderly on the elev
Both Democratic and Republican . entn 0f this month. The mayor fin
speakers and workers are out nowje(j him five dollars and costs or ten
every day and night carrying their jdays scavengering the streets for
messages to the voters. Last night iRuck has been up many times before.
Democratic speakers were at Straits I James Atkins, colored, submitted
and the Republicans held forth at j t0 the charge of drunkenness and was
Smyrna. The managers of the cam- fined two-fifty and costs or five days
paign on both sides say they plan to j with the street force,
keep up an aggressive campaign from i Cases against the following two
now until the sun goes down on elec-:men were continued until Friday af
tion day. Many absentee votes have ernoon: Allan Parker and Ike Sim-
been distributed and other details 01 m0ns.
the camnaign worked out. Satu. ay
do bring a very good price, but they
say that the better grades of tobacco ,
always cells at least moderately well, j
One farmer said that he had kept
track of it for the past eifrhte n or
twenty years and this was the case.
Already a goodly portion of the
crop has oeen manteieei ami uie glow
ers seemed to be pleased with trie re
sults especially when the extremely
low price that tobacco began selling
for when the market opened some
weeks ago is considered. The infer
ior grades are now bringing from
thirteen to seventeen cents per pound,
while the more desirable at least
doubles this. Carl Cannon, who
lives out on the nine-foot road to the
southwest of Newport, said that he
had sold a portion of his better grades
recently for from thirty to fifty
cents a pound. This is considered
rather remarkable by those who were
appalled by the opening low prices.
Theodore Merrill, who lives on the
'Eeaufort-New Bern road, told the
News man he sold 1000 pounds of to
bacco in New Bern one day last week
for $175 and was very well satisfied.
He said the poorest part of the load
sold for six and half cents a pound
and the best brought thirty cents. He
said that he thought tobacco was sell
ing pretty well now and saw no reas
on for complaint.
speed of 80 miles an hour.
Colonel Dickinson ranks ns a mem
ber of the United States Specialists
Reserve and also as one of the four
teen members of the War Depart
ment's Advisory Business Council.
PROMOTER GETS OPTION ON
SO-CALLED "OPEN GROUNDS"
Blair W. Gair, of New York and
Chicago, was here last week and ac
quired an option on the "Open
Grounds," which is now owned by the
University of Chicago. This proper
ty is now used by the county fcak
Walton League as a game preserve.
While here Mr. Gair was taken to the
"Open Grounds" several times by
Seth Gibbs. In time past, other pro
moters have come here and gotten
options on this property, but nothing
ever came of them and the options ex
pired. The "Open Grounds is com
posed of thousands of acres of peat
that farmers have so far been unable
to cultivate.
... hni-Pi- market at eood prices. As
long as the weather remained warm
and the inferior grades of tobacco
were marketed for low prices, fish
and other seafoods were drugs on the
'marts of trade. Clams and oysters
cannot be shipped during the warm
er days of autumn; while the com
ing of cooler weather in past years
has always stimulated the sale of
these commodities in northern cities.
Captain Nelson and a man from
the U. S. Public Health Service dur
ing the past week or ten days went
over the oyster territory of the state,
which is comprised chiefly of Carter
et, Pamlico and Beaufort counties,
and found that there were far more
oysters than first estimated some
months ago and that the shellfish are
in excellent condition. When the
territory was last gone over a month
or so ago, oysters were poor. It
was especially gratifying to Captain
Nelson to find the oysters had mater
ially improved. Last season upwards
of a half a million bushels of oysters
were caught in North Carolina wat
ers, most of them being taken in the
three counties named in the forego
ing. Some clams have been shipped
so far, but the coming of cool weath
(Continued on page four)
terview.
A ten-dollar bureau was the only
worldly possession that the Sim
monses had to start house keeping
in a rented house. Now they have a
beautiful two-story, yellow house
built along modern lines; around this
is a grassy lawn surround with a wel
trimmed hed;re. The whole effect
is that of a well-kept home of a
prosperous farmer. One of the Sim
mons boys was out trimming the
the hedge Frida,' morning and the
house, aithou'.-h it didn' t look as if
it needed i;. v. - being repainted by
a hired .a;nt.r. Near the home was
a diveisiried, ad: ejiiate garden that
(Ciivili'ii;-' ! m r:"'0 two)
LOVELY DAHLIAS RAISED
BY MISS MINZETTE KING
Dr. Humber Recently
Visited Relatives Here
is the last day for registration and
Saturday November 1 is challenge
day. The election takes place Tues
day November the fourth.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Recorder's Court Had
Lisrht Docket Tuesday
Greenville, Oct. 19 Hundreds of
physicians and others of the medi
cal profession, as well as scores of
laymen from many sections of the
state, were in Greenville last night to
head Dr. John D. Humber, a native
of this city, but now superintendent
STATISTICS SHOW 1 of the Pacific General hospital of San
DECREASE IN MARRIAGES Francisco, Calif., talk on his recent
.discovery of the treatment of cancer.
Figures recently released by the U. Dr. Humber with Dr. Walter B.
S. Census Department show that Car-1 Coffey, who is chief surgeon of the
The foyer of the Beaufort Banking
and Trust Company was graced re
cently with a basket of beautiful red
and yellow double dahlias. There are
two shades of the red ones; the yellow
dahlias are more perfectly formed.
These gorgeous flowers were raised
by Miss Minzotte King at her home
out in the upper North River section.
She raise; m iny different kinds of
beautiful flowers successfully each
year. Her flower garden is hidden
from the view of the passing motor
ists, because she says the soil at the
rear of her home is more suited to
their cultivation than her shaded
front yard.
teret county folks did not marry quite
as freely in 1929 as they did in 1928
Last year there were 102 marriages
Pacific General hospital, are co-dis
coverers of an extract used in the
treatment of cancer that has attract-
Three cases were tried in the
County Recorder's Court Tuesday.
All three of the defendants were col
ored people.
Elisha Murrell who was serving a
ninety day sentence and working at
the County Homo was tried on the
charge of making his escape from I
that institution
CHORAL CLUB TO MEET
B. C. Way and wife to Gulf Refin
ing Co., lots Morehed City, for
$1000.
j K. A. Styron to Leonard Styron,
llO acres Beaufort Township, for
The Choral Club will meet at he , L Day. Mort to E E Da.
home of Mrs. B. R. Seeley Monday j ot Boaufort fol. ?500.
evening at 1 :J0 o clock. All mem-j R R DaVi3 tQ R L j Jot
bers are requested to be present. Bcauol for $10,
'I E. W. Hill, Trustee to Bank of
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Moore, of New .Beaufort, 1 lot Beaufort, for $55.
5Jern, were here Saturday and theyj Theresa Lawrence to Elijah Law
will likely move back here within rence, Tract, Straits Township, for
the next few days. $10.
while in 1928 there were 121 couples : ed the medical world over a period
united in the bonds of matrimony, of a few months. They have for
Divorces in 1929 were eight arfd in some months been conducting clinics
1928 six divorces were granted. ' (Continued on page seven)
TIDE TABLE
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MARRIAGE
AND DIVORCE FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Washington, D. C, October 20 , pared with 29 in 1928
Kepnpr ZrnH snid i Tne Department of Commerce an-i The estimated population of the
Jveeper oion iu i u ,..,D I ..., f tvt .u n i; t..i.. 1
Elisha went off one night without his
knowledge or consent and was picked
up by Sheriff Davis and locked up
the same night. Elisha told some
tale about wanting to see his wife
but ths Judge thought that another
thirty daysredded to his original sen
tence would be about right and that
was the sentence.
Roosevelt Andrews young New Bern
Negro was tried on the charge of driv
ing a car recklessly while under the
influence of liquor. , He plead guil
ty to the charge. Police officer Ire
Contiv.v.ed on page five
nounces that, according to the returns state of North Carolina on July 1,
received, there were 18,746 marnr. :s 1929, was 3,126,000, and on July 1,
performed in North Carolina dur.ng 11928, 3,066.000. On the basis of
the year 1929, as compared with 21,-!these estimates, the number of mar
373 in 1928, representing a decrease i riages per 1,000 of the population
of 2,627 orl2.3 per cent. In 1916, :was 6.0 in 1929, as against 7.0 in
there were 21,337 marriages perform- j 1926, and the number of divorces per
'ed. 1 1,000 of the population was 0.55 in
During the year 1929, there were i 1929, as against 0.52 in 1928.
1.707 divorces granted in the state, I The number of marriages was re
as compared with 1,609 in 1928, rep-' ported by the Register of Deeds and
resentinsr an increase of 98 or 6.1 the number of divorces by the Clerk
per cent. In 1916, there were 608 0f the Superior Court, of each coun
divorces granted. There were 28 ty. The figures for 1929 are prelim-'
marriages annulled in 1929, as com- inary and subject to correction.
Information ot 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, Oct. 24
9:31 A. M. 2:55 A. M.
9:53 P. M. 3:47 P. M.
Saturday, Oct. 25
10:17 A. M. 3:30 A. M.
10:41 P. M. 4:35 P. M.
Sunday, Oct. 26
11:00 A. M. 4:27 A. M.
11:06 T M. 5:24 P. M.
Monday, Oct. 27
11:34 A. M. -5:19 A. M.
12:00 P. M. 6:18 P. M.
Tuesday, Oct. 28
12:34 A. M. 6:16 A. M.
1:01 P. M. 7:18 P. M.
Wednesday, Oct. 29
1:40 A. M. 7:21 A. M.
2:03 P. M. 8:18 P. M.
Thursday, Oct. 30
2:45 A. M. 8:29 A. M.
3:02 P. M. 9:13 P. M.