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BEAUFOR il nils The Lest advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY 3 V7 Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XX 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 7 4 -jit I "vj ''4 Hierhwav ProblemNowlYOUNG NEGRO MAJJ " -I Attracts Big Contest Over Governor's Proposed Road Law; He Favors Change of State Highway Commission And State Control of All Roads; Highway Patrol Question Under Considera tion Also. By M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleigh, Feb. 9 Hardly had the smoke of battle on the six months State operation school bill cleared a--way and the education committees -of House and Senate had. buckled down to try to find the additional $11,000 000 to $13,000,000 it requires, be fore the road proposal, one of Gov ernor Uardner s major measures I sprang into the center of the stage I eral were gotten off the docket how of the North Carolina General As-1 ever. sembly and gives promise of being one of the big contests this week. Two bills were introduced last week Friday, one carrying the Gov ernor's recommendations, the other continuing the present methods of highway work, but with changes. On ly one provision is the same a six cent tax on gasoline, the two cents going to the county roads in both bills, but by different routes. General provisions of the Gardner bill are well known. It would abolish the nine highway districts and the nine commissioners, making the State a single district and the commission of a chairman and four commissioners a State-wide commission, the chair man to receive $7,500 a year for full time, the other, commissioners $10 a day while on duty. The State would take over the 45,000 miles of county highways and maintain them with two cents of the gasoline tax and a mil lion dollars additional, a year..The counties would still have to take care care of their road bonds and interest. The other bill leaves the commis sion as it is, abolishes all of the coun - ty, township and district road boards and returns road matters to the county commissioners. The two cents on gasoline, about $6,000,000 plus another million, would go to the counties, prorated on a basis of one third area, one-third population and one-third number of registered au tomobiles. Two or more ,. counties may join as a road district. The first bill provides that the State take over all highway machinery and all county convicts and use them for highway work. Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, president of the U. S. Good Roads Associa tion, continued his attack on the Gardner plan at a meeting of county commissioners in Raleigh last Thurs day, when an organization was form ed to oppose the plan, and a resolu tion to that effect was adopted. About 150 persons, representing about half of the counties, were present. All of them, it was found, are not opposed to the Gardner plan. Colonel -Kirk Patrick opposes the entire plan, but John Sprunt Hill, fourth district com missioner, opposee primarily the plan to abolish the present commission. Governor Gardner comes back by bringing Leslie R. Ames, former State highway engineer, Frank Page, former chairman, the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, and others to the support of his plan. He sees in It a response to the mandate of the peo ple of the State to relieve them of as much of the tax burden as possible, improved rural roads and a better rounded State system. Whether to enlarge or abolish the State Highway Patrol is being thrash ed out by the Roads committees of House and Senate, following a pub lic hearing Wednesday. A bill to abolish the patrol has been jntroduc ed, while another, with provision for a SI drivers license and a $5 m in. crease the number to 150 to 200. In- dications are that the patrol will be continued, land probably increased, but probably not more than 75 or 100 members at most. Not Many Bill Past Although the session is about half gone, normally, not more than 35 or 40 bills, practically all of them local, have completed their course and been rati.iad. Bills introduced in the Senate hr.ve exceeded 160, while m the House the number is above 360. Committees are hard at work, how ever, and the floor debates are ex pected to reach full swing this week. Appropriations committees h a V e heard all institutions, deparemtns and agencies seeking more money to operate on, whihle Finance commit tees have heard protests of many groups seeking to have tax rates sug gested in the Revenue bill reduced. It is the usual conflict of those wanting - more money and those wanting to pay less. Four of Governor Gardner's measures hap reached the hopper. (Contiaiied on page eight) a .. Attention Road Sentence Given For Larceny of Sugar A considerable number of cases were on the docket in Recorder's Court Tuesday but on account of the usual difficulty in getting witnesses to at- tend court some were continued. Sev- David Parker, colored, of More- head City submitted to the charge of breaking several windows in the city jail Saturday night. It eeems that he had been locked up for being drunk and he expressed his resent ment in that fashion. Judge Davis gave him the option of paying $15 and costs or serving 30 days in jail. The trial of Henry Turner, young colored man of Beaufort, on the charge of assaulting Charlie "Goose" Chadwick with a piece of scantling brought a considerable number of witnesses into court. They were mostly for the defendant though. Charlie Goose who has but one leg, attempted to prove Turner's gwilt mainly by the evidence of Polk John son, a well known character who is also minus a left leg. Polk did not help Charlie much, neither did Ellis Baxter. Henry denied hitting Goose at all and had several witnesses who testified "that "they did Hot see him strike Goose. Attorney C. R. Wheat ly who appeared for the defendant undertook to show that there was nothing to the affair and succeeded in getting his man acquitted. Alfred Wilson, also young Beau fort iNegro, charged with throwing a piece of bi'ick at Jim Chadwick was convicted and fined $5 and costs and given until next Tuesday to com ply with the sentence or serve 30 days. J. H. Stallings of Dunn, who is a fish dealer, was tried on the charge of giving a bad check to H. W. Fer gus of Morehead City for $171.75 aun also for giving a check of the same sort to John Smith for $40 for fish. He admitted the charge but said he would make the checks good if given the chance and Fergus and Smith said they were ' willing to give him a chance. The court's sentence was 90 days on the roads and costs, capias not to issue for 60 days. David Parker, colored, waa tried and convicted of the larceny of two 100 pound bags of sugar from the warehouse of G. W. Huntley. The evidence against him wai given .by G. W. Huntley Jr., Robert King and Hilton Lewis. They testified that they saw Parker take the sugar from under eome steps at the warehouse, where it had been hidden by some one earlier in the day, and that they chaeed him and turned him' over to the police. Parker admitted taking the sugar from under the steps but denied that he put it there. Judge Davis said he was guilty and gave him 90 days on the roads. A ease against John Bunyan Con gleton charging him with entering a store belonging to Sam W. Morgan and stealing some articles from there, was continued to next Tuesday. The case of L. K. Piner of Morehead City was also continued. He is chareed with giving a bad . check. judge E. Walter Hill his attorney chauf-'wanted the case tried out tne prose cution asked for a continuance and this was granted. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS T .W. Kittrell and wife to C. A. Dudley and wife, 30 acres White Oak Township, for $200. Pearson Investment Corporation to C. M. Hill. 3 lots Newport, for $100. Chas. L. Abernethy and wile to Earle W. Webb, 24 1-2 acres More- head Township, for $300. J. H. Davis Sheriff to ET H. Gor- ham. 10 lots Morehead City, lor ia. J. M. Ball et al to D. M. Salter, z acres Merrimon Township, for $550. , James W. Mason Comr. to Carteret County, tract Straits Township, for $127.78. . Paul H. Doming et a4 to Edward S. Cornell, 20 acres Davis Precinct, for $6500.81. E. W. Hill Trustee to Rudolph Tin er et al 19 acres Smyrna Township for 300. READ THE NEWS WANT ADS KILLED IN FIGHT Blow With A Hammer Fractur es Skull of Henry Wilson j Slayer In Jail Henry Wilson young Negro about 21 years old is dead and his alleged slayer Alonzo Bell is in jail as a re sult of some sort of altercation they had Sunday morning. Bell is also young, apparently 18 years old , or thereabouts. It has been difficult to get many re liable facts about the homicide. Bell was arrested Sunday night at about 9 o'clock by dejiuty sheriff R. E. Chap lain and police officer Gherman Hol land and brought to town and put In jail. Mondaj- afternoon a prelimi nary hearing took place before Jus tice Henry W. Noe. Through his counsel C. R Wheatly the defendant waived exam ination and was commit ted to jail ithout bond to await trial at the March term of court. The defendant d.d not go on the stand and made no statement about the matter. The report that the News heard was that the two men attended a party . Saturay nigtt; that they quarrelled about something and wound up with a fight Sunday morning when Bell struck Wilson on the front part of the head wi h a hammer knocking him unconsc ous. It is reported that both had been drinking. Mr. Thos. Campen bro lght the man to the Emergency Hospital here and an ex amination w is made and an X-ray picture taker. It was found thai a fracture of the skull three or feur inches long had been made and that nothing could be done for him. Be was taken to a house in the colorfed section of town and died there abefit 7 P. M. The t fficers located BeU hid. dert under feed" in ihe"home " his uncle John Mtrrill who lives on the Laurel road.' The two men also liv ed in that section. City Charter Amended In Two Particulars A bill to amend the charter of the town of Beaufort has been passed by the General Assembly. The bill was drawn by City Attorney M. Leslie Da vis and makes two changes in the char ter. One change is to make the terms of the city officials begin the first Monday in July instead of the first Monday in June. The other change permits the city board to hold its monthly meetings either in the day time or at night as they pre fer. The present law requires the meetings to be held in the day time. The bill reads as follows: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That sub-section (21) of Section 53 of Charter 435 of the Private Laws of North Carolina of 1913 be and the same is hereby a mended to striking out the words "June" in line one and three of eaid sub-section (21) and In inserting in said lines one and three in lieu there of the word "July." Section 2. That Section 1, of Chapter 203 of the Private Laws of North Carolina one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out all of said section from the first word "That" in line one of said sec tions to and including the word "ser vices" in line nine of said section, and substituting in lieu thereof the following: "That the commissioners shall form one body, ana a majority uj. nui shall constitute a quorum and be competent to perform all the duties prescribed for the commissioners, un less otherwise provided. On the first Monday in July after their election they shall convene for the transac tion of business and organize and shall meet on the first Monday in ev ery calendar month thereafter, at - such an hour as the commissioners ma name for such meeting, and they shall be allowed the sum oi nve col lars per day for their said services. That section 3 of Chap- Section 3 ter 203 of the Private Laws of one wamt nFl Frt ATION TO OPPOSE TAXING The News is in receipt of a telegram from Representative Luther Hamilton calling attention to the. fact that the gas tax matter is to come up ior a hearing. It is proposed under the new law to discontinue allowing reoates on gasoline taxes. The tax on gas oline is colected for road purposes and boatmen do not have to pay it. If boatmen are required to pay this srasoline road tax it will mean a con siderable burden to boatmen in Car- mL 1 ! . (nVn. teres county, me ueanug place at 2 :30 o'clock Friday 13th, A I MOREHEAD CITY FIRE DISASTROUS Several Small Business Con cerns Wiped Out; Not Much Insurance Carried A fire that proved very disastrous for a number of people occurred at any early hour Tuesday morning in Morehead City. This was a row of of wooden buildings on the north side of Arendell street owned by R. A. Cherry and used for various purpos es. The fire started at about two o'clock. The Morehead City fire de partment responded promptly to the alarm and, although a high wind was blowing which .made any fire a ser ious matter, held the blaze to the wooden structures. The buildings were not entirely destroyed but were almost so with the exception of the two story house on the corner which was used by J. H. Harris as a bakery on the first floor and living quarters upstairs. The Beaufort firemen were called about 2:30 and went across the bridge in record breaking time and assisted in holding down the blaze. The News understands that the to tal loss Caused by the fire is estimat ed at about $25,000 and that there was only $8000 insurance. Several of the renters of the store rooms had no insurance at all. The biuldings were occupied by J. H. Harris, bak ery, Mannie Willis, cafe, W. E. Win berry, cold drink place, Peter Kenan, shoe repair shop. The shoe shop sav ed a machine but the other occupants lost practically every thing they had. The burned buildings were in the fire district and cannot be rebuilt of wood. MEASLES EPIDEMIC f'ayettevtlle, Feb. 10-r-More than 100 children are out of school as the result of an epidemic of German meas les here. Police Court Does Considerable Business A rather large number of defen dants faced Mayor Taylor in City Po lice Court last Friday afternoon. Practically all of them submitted to the charges against them and got off with small fines and the costs. The records follows: Nettie Henry, colored, disorderly conduct, guilty, $1 and the costs. Roy Potter, colored, disorderly conduct, $1 and costs. Arthur Stewart, colored, disorder ly conduct, $1 and costs. Mark Washington, colored, disor derly conduct, $1 and costs. Henry Turner Turner, colored, as sault on Charlie "Goose" Chadwick, bound over to Recorder's court. Harold Wilis, fighting, $1 and costs. Milton Piner, fighting $1 and costs. Wm. Ed. Potter, colored, , fighting1 $2.50 and costs. David Parker, colored, larceny bound over to Recorder's court. Alfred Wilson, colored, assault, bound. over to Recorder's Court, HOOVER SPEAKS TONIGHT President Hoover will deliver a speech tonight which will be broad cast over the country by stations WABC and WJZ and others. Today is the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and the address is in honor of that event. The address is to begin at 10 o'clock and will last about half an hour. GIVES TO DROUGHT RELIEF Mrs. C. II. Bushall, local Red Cross Chairman, has just received a splen did donation of $5. from the Harlow Sunday School for Drought Relief. thousand nine hundred and twenty one be further amended by striking out the words "twenty-one" in line two of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words "thirty-one." Section 4. That all laws and claus- es of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. TO GO TO RALEIGH GAS USED BY BOATS delegation from the county is desir- ed to eo to Raleigh, Mr. Hamilton's telegram reads as follows: 'Tlease make prominent mention of public hearing before Roads Com mittee Friday two thirty o'clock to consider proposal to discontinue re bate on gasoline to boatmen. Re bate means thousands of dollars to Carteret County. We are making hard fight but we need strong support and would like large delegation. LUTHER HAMILTON. Lobbyists Rush to Raleigh When Taxes Are Suggested Citizens Mass Meeting Favors Shorter Term A practically unanimous vote in favor of an eight months school term and in favor of surrendering the ctiy school charter was given in a mass meeting held in the county courtroom Friday evening. The meeting, which was called for 7:30 but was a little late in getting started, was fairly well attended the court room being about half filled. Mayor Bayard Taylor called the meet ing to order and C. R. Wheatly ex plained its object which was to con sider the school question in Beaufort and make some recommendations re garding it." Judge M. Leslie Davis actedas secretary of the meeting. The principal topics discussed at the meeting, were the length of the term and the matter of surrender ing the school charter. It was claim ed that the term could be cut one month, that is eight months instead of nine months and the school put un der the county system without im pairing its efficiency. With the ex ception of Morehead City and Beau fort alL of the schools in the county are operated on the eight months ba sis. Those who spoke in favor of the changes were Messrs. C. R. Wheatly, F. R. Seeley, L. W. Hassell, W. P. Smith, W. W. Lewis, Harry Parkin, Hugh Hill, and Joe House. Judge Dav is opposed surrendering the school charter but said he had no objection to the eight months term. He thought it well to wait and see what the Legis lature would do about the whole! school question. The meeting however was not in sympathy with his sugges- by Joseph House it was carried by a practically solid vote. The motion also included a provision favoring increas ing the number of members of the frnm three to five. A committee composed nf .Tospnh House. F. R. Seelev. L. W. Hassell, H. C. Jones, R. Hugh Hill, and Richard Felton was appointed to bring the matter before the Repre sentative of this County, Mr. Hamil ton and the two Senators of this dis trict, Messrs. Ward and Hardy. A motion was offered by Mr. beeley that th city board be approached to see if it, would be practicable to cut the session this year from eight to nine months. He said that iSupenn- tendent Fritz had told him that this would be practicable. C. G. GASKILL COMPANY ERECTS LARGE BUILDING Anticipating an increased business this season the C. G. Gaskill Brok erage Company is erecting a large building, 86 by 138 feet on Lenox ville Road near Live Oak street. This firm which is composed of Carl G. Gaskill and Elbert Dudley have been in business in Beaufort for several years and have occupied for most of that time a building near the city power plant. For some time they have acted as agents for the Corbitt Package Company barrel manufactur ers. Now they will handle the pro duct of the Farmers' Manufacturing Company Of Norfolk, Va. The new biulding of the Gaskill Company is not yet completed but will be ready for occupancy in a very short time. The firm has also taken over the building next to the new one which has been used by William Longest for several months as a repair shop for automobiles. This building is now used for an of fice and warehouse. The Gaskill Company besides handling barrels, baskets and crates does a large bu - iness in the sweet and white potat line. An advertisement on anothe page of this newspaper announces the removal to new quarters. ' M. S. SNOWDEN TO REPRESENT BARREL MANUFACTURER HERE The business of the Corbitt Pack age Company of Wilmington which has 'been handled here by the C. G. Gaskill Brokerage Company for sev eral years has been taken over by M. S. Snowden of Beaufort. The Cor bitt Company makes barrels and pack ages of various sorts. Mr. Snowden represented the firm some years ago but gave it up and has decided to go in the business again. Mr. and Mrs. Snowden have lived in Carteret county for a good many vears and have been actively engag ed in the trucking business. They were among the first to raise white po tatoes on a large scale in this coun ty. They are extensively engaged in the potato business not only on their own farm but also have share arrangements with other growers. They also grow cabbage, beans and other produce for the truck markets. By CARL GOERCH The legislature is composed of a lot of mighty fine fellows. They're chaps who are kind-hearted, sympa thetic, generous and considerate. They are anxious to please the peo ple of the State and want to do the right thing. Somebody makes the suggestion that the power interests ought to be taxed. What happens? A regular army of lobbyists descends upon Raleigh and proves convincingly and conclusively that the power com panies are just about on the verge of starvation. The legislators listen to the presentation of facts, wipe the tears out of their eyes and decide that in view of circumstances probably it would be best not to impose any ad ditional tax on the power people. Somebody else makes the sugges tion that we ought to have a sales tax. Thirty-eight thousand merchants im mediately have a stroke of apoplexy, seventeen thousand die of shortness of breath and several thousand others develop serious cases of the rabies. Then comes the proposal to tax moving pictures, and every theatre op erator goes to Raleigh and displays figures which prove that not a penny has been made in the theatre bus iness since 1786. When bills are suggested for tax ing barbers, bottlers, fish-dealers, chiropodists and bootleggers, repre sentatives of these professions im mediately run to Raleigh and suc ceed in blocking any such move. - Then somebody introduces a bill it put another tax on the farmer: It is given publicity through the news- papers. Members of the legislature hold their breaths. They gaze at vis itors in the hotels but fail to discern n c I n trl a o w . 4.1 rr" spot all kinds of lobyists, but nary ' a farmer- lobbyist. A huge sigh of relief is released. "Maybe it'a best to put on that kind of a tax after all," says Mr. Legislator. And the bill is Passed with very little opposition, A- ,ng wren learning now to nve ai nome the farmer ought to learn Iftw to do a little lobbying. The Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina visited the legislature in Raleigh last week and made a talk to the senators and representatives. He advised the legislators to visit oth er States and get new ideas. Judg ing from some of the bills that have been introduced in Raleigh thus far, they've already got too many ideas up there. If they get any more, the chances are that the whole State will go broke. One hundred and fifty representa tives of county government and coun ty road boards met in Raleigh last week to declare open war on Gover nor Gardner's highway program. If the Governor were to make a speech saying that he hoped for fair weather on the Fourth of July, there'd be a delegation in Raleigh before the week was out to declare open war on any such a proposition. A good many of the counties wan to see the extra tax placed on gasoline, but they want to handle the expenditure of funds. Whenever it comes to raia ing money, they're wliling for. the State to do it, but when it comes to spend ing it, they want to do it themselves. Besides, if the State were to control maintenance of county roada, mem bers of the boards of commissioners, (Continued on pag five) TIDE TABLE Information a to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are appiox 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 Jhe heads of the estuaries. High Tide Friday, Feb 5:16 A. M: 5:36 P. M. Low Tide 13 10:59 A. 11:37 P. M. M. Saturday, Feb. 14 6:06 6:25 A. M. ll:2t P. M. 12:24 Sunday, Feb. 15 . M. M. M. M. 6:51 7:09 A. M. 12:15 V. M. 1:05 Mondav. Feb. 16 7:31 A. M. 12:59 A.-M. 7:51 P. M. . 1:40 P. M. Tueiday, Feb. 17 8:08 A. M. 1:39 A. M. 8:27 P. M. 2:14 P. M. Wednesday, Feb. 18 8:40 A. M. - 2:16 A. M. 9:10 P. M. 2:44 P. M, Thursday, 'Feb. 19 9:11 A. M. . 2:52 A. M. 9:84 P. M. 3:1S P. M . i J3&
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