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The Mews M3F0 3 The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XX 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1931 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 10 Superior Court Tries Variety Of Offenses Every Thing From Selling Liquor Up To Murder Charged Against Defendants; Several Cap ital Cases Tried; Still Working On Criminal Docket When Superior Court convened here Monday morning at 10 o'clock Judge W. A. Devyi and Solicitor David Clark were confronted with a criminal docket of considerable pro portions and involving a variety of alleeed offenses. The case set for trial embraced such charges as mux- der, rape, attempt at rape, Durgiiry, breaking and entering, larceny, as sault with deadly weapon, embezzle nient, bad checks, abandonment and liquor law violations. Pretty nearly the whole catagory of crime. Sev eral cases of somewhat sensational nature were tried which may have accounted for the fact that the court room has been packed with people ever since court opened. Judge Devin's charge to the grand jury laid special emphasis upon la,v observance. He said the law shonid be respected, should be obeyed and should be enforced. Older people should set the example of obedience and should train their children to do the same. He spoke of the number of homicides in Charlotte, larger in proportion to population than that of Chicago, and said it showed a lack of self control. He said he had no respect for quack remedies for pro hibition troubles or other law vio lations. The Judge instructed the grand jury as to its duties and stat ed that the office of the grand jury was one of great responsibility. J. R. Bell of Morehead City was made fore man of the jury and Herbert Forlaw was apponited special deputy for the jury. The jury was in session three days. The first important case tried was that of Alf and Fairley Wilson, col ored men, for burglary. Their coun sel former Judge E. Walter Hill sub mitted a plea of second degree burg lary for them. They were given a sentence of twenty to thirty years in the penitentiary. They were charged with having entered the house of An na Allen, a Beaufort colored woman, handling her roughly and stealing a suit case land otheT articles. Alf Wilson is 19 years old and Fairley said he was 37 years of age. Two cases were tried Wednesday that seemed to greatly interest the large number of spectators present. They were the cases of Norman Lark ee of Morehead City on the charge of attempted rape upon the person of Lucille Willis, a 14 year old girl and that of Ransom C. Smith for bigamy. It was while the Larkee case was being tried that Judge Dev in ordered all spectators to vacate the court room. This was done be cause the crowd got to laughing too much while one witness was testi fying. The testimony of the girl was that the defendant took her and another girl Beatrice Guthrie to ride Sunday evening February 8th, that he put the other girl out of the cat 4&4 drove her over in ir Crab Point sec tion and made improper advances to her She said she got ?vay from him and went to the house of Luvania Toodles, a colored woman who lived nearby and spent the night. She was corroborated by the testimony of the Toodles woman and also to a cer tain extent by that of Beatrice Guth rie, Clayton Willis and Mrs. F. C. Sal isbury. She also proved a good char acter by several witnesses. Tho de fendant admitted tuking the girls to ride but denied making any improp er advances whatever. Attorneys W. C. Gorham and C. R. Wheatly put up a vigorous hsrht for their client and succeeded in getting the attempt atjing there until 1923 rape charge dismissed; Judge Devin holding that there was not sufficient evidence to substantiate this charge. He faid the jury could consider the harge of an assault upon a female though and upon this accusation ha was convicted by the jury after hav ing been out all night and part of the morning. Sentence has no fl bren prom.anced. In the ransom Smith case his at torneys M'ssra, Alvah Hamilton and C. R. Wheatly submitted a plea of fornication and adultery which was accepted by the court. He was giv- n two year on tho road on this eharge. Tho case was a very unu sual nature, Smith who says ho is 21 years old, admitted that in tho year 1920 he married Alice Willis a neighbor of his. in South Carolina. This woman so it appeared accord - ing to the evidence had a white moth- rand a colored father. On P'ebru - ary 2, 1931 Smith maried a young (Coallated paf foui) Tom Noe In Hospital With Fractured Skull A Saturday night row engaged in I by Tom Noe and his step-son Walter Irinrnpr nf Rpnufnrt: ramp vprv Tipr- ,y having. a fatai ending when Gar- ner hit Noe over the head with a club and fractured his skull. The fracture is on the side of the head and is a very bad one. Noe is in the PotterEmergency Hospital and has been in an unconscious or delir ious condition for most of the time 'since he was struck. It was thought for a while that he would die and even yet he i9 not out of danger by any rpp'ins. Garner is in jail await ing the outcome of Noe's injuries. There has been no trial yet and the facts of the trouble have not been brought out The report is that Noe and the youth had some words and one or two licks were ex changed and that the Garner boy went out doors and got the club and came back and put an end to the fight by knocking his father-in-law uncon scious with one blow. The affair happened at the -Noe home on Ful ford street and was witnessed by Mrs. Noe who is also the mother of young Garner. SEVERAL SENT TO STREETS FROM CITY POLICE COURT A right good sized docket was dis posed of by Mayor Taylor in Police Court last Friulay afternoon. The following cases were tried: James Everett, speeding, submit ted and fined $2.50 and costs. "Buster" Branch, coloredl drunk and disordely, 10 days on street work. Simon Gatling, colored, violating prohibition law, bound over to Re corder's Court. William Ed. Potter, colored, drunk 10 days on the streets. Manly Bailey, colored, drunk, five days on the streets. Ellis Baxter, colored, drunk, 10 days street work. Julius Jordan, fighting, acquitted. FORMER STATION DIRECTOR OF LABORATORY HERE DIES The information was carried re cently in the Washington, D. C. Ev ening Star of the death of Henry D. Aller who was in charge of the U. S. Biological Station here some years a go and who is remembered pleasantly by a good many Beaufort people. The article from the Star reads as fol lows: "Henry D. Aller, 51, assitant chief of the Alaskan Division, United State Bureau of Fisheries, with which he had been connected for 27 years, died at his home, 1427 Chapin street, yesterday following a heart attack. His body will be taken from the Hines Funeral Home today to Gladstone, N. J., where Masonic rites will be held toworrow afternoon. Mr. Aller was a graduate of Rut gers and Cornell, where he took de grees in forestry and zoology. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, na tional honorary scholastic fraternity. In 1903 he joined the staff of the Bureau of Fisheries, and went to Alas kan waters on his first assignment. In 1908 he became director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Beaufort, N. C, but in 1911 was a- gain transferred to Alaska, remain Since that time he has been con tinuously on duty in Washington. He has written a number of books on Alaskan fishing. Besides his wiodow, Mrs. Barbara Bartlett Aller, he Is survived by a 10-year-old daughter, Jean, and a sister Mra. Cornie Peebles of New- lark, N. J. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Annie Benford and husband to Willie Shepard, 1 lot Morehead City, for $10. J. S. Fulcher to Sudie Fulcher, 96 acres Beaufort Township, for fl. E. W. Chadwick and wife to G. C. Chadwick, 40 acres Straits for ? . Marold V. P'ulford to Anson Davis, tract Straits, for $50. Trustees M. p. Church to Board of (Education, lot Atlantic, for $300. j A car of 14,000 pounds of poultry and three cars of hogs wrre ihippad oui ef Beaufort laet week- LEGISLATORS NOW GETTING NO PAY Seem To Be Doing More Now Than They Did Before By CARL GOERCH The legislature has started off on a new tack. Up until Saturday niglu they drew their pay regularly, but from now on they'll have to work for nothing. As long as they were getting their salary, they didn't ac complish anything. They were too busy spending it. But the fur has certainly been flying during the last few days. If the boys went to Raleigh and had to serve without any pay at all, they'd accomplish all their work in less than ten day's and do it in bet ter fashion, too. The finance committee occupied the center of attraction last week. They did a lot of things, and then they undid them so fast that by the end of the week they were worse off than if they had done nothing at all. They're still arguing about the sale tax. It looks as though Governor Gardner had better rush another out-of-state speaker down here to give his views on the subject of a sale tax. Which sale wouldn't be a bad one. We need a Specialist mighty bad just about now The prison bill probably will come up for some real action this week. If you want to find out something about conditions as they exist in our present system, ask somebody in your neighborhood who s been there. Prac tically every neighborhood has a graduate. An occurrence, such as took place in Duplin county last week when eleven men burned to death, might take place at the prison plant at any time. As matters now stand, we're just inviting some sort of a disaster. I'd hate to feel that I was in any way responsible for whatever calamity might happen. I got some dope from George Ross Pou last week I reckon everyone else did too which gives out some interesting facts. The old building has been condemned by everybody who has made an investigation of it. There is constant danger of a bad fire. To be perfectly frank, the en tire thing is a disgrace to our State. This is one proposition about which there oughtn't to be any ser ious argument. Which probably means that there'll be a lot. I spent Friday and Saturday up in Raleigh, just hanging around. The boys were still getting their meals regularly and were in a fairly good humor. But now that they've been deprived of their pay and probably have had to cut down on their vic tuals, they're liable to get real mean. Atop of our little circus in Ra leigh, there's been a democratic exes cutive committee session in Washing ton, D. C, which resulted in a lot of fireworks about prohibition. I never have been able to see any sense in prohibition argument. The drys ought to be satisfied, because they've got the 18th amendment on the books; the wets ought to be satisfied, because they can get all the liquor they want so what's the sense in wasting a lot of time arguing? It's the senseless things, however, that bring about the most argument. The only thing I'm scared of in connection with our present session of the legislature is that the gang will get so interested in this, that and the other thing that they'll forget all (Continued on page fivp) LOCAL FISHERIES BUREAU STUDIES LIFE HISTORY OF VARIOUS SPECIES It is a wise fish that knows her own fry and it is a wiser scientist who recognizes moro than a few of the baby fish teeming in the shal lows of our Atlantic coast waters. Since these young produce millions of fish annually to supply the great markets of the East, they are worth knowing about. Strange as it may seem, the early life and habits of ev en the more important commercial fishes of the Atlantic are relatively unknown, and even the recognition of the species to which the young be long is extremely difficult. A notable effort to recognize the fry of Atlantic coast fish and to trace the development of these fish from the egg stage to the adult is pre sented in Fisheries Document 1093 recently published by the Department of Commerce, "Development and Life Histories of 14 Teleostean Fish of Beaufort," by Dr. S. F. Ileldebrand and Miss Lout. 11a Cable of tho Bureau of P'isheries. Since the spring of 1920 the launches at tho Beaufort Fisheries Biological Station have been strain ing tho waters of the vicinity with delicate silk meshed nets, so fine that even minute fish eggs cannot en-ape them. Collections have thus been HAMILTON STARTS NEW LEGISLATION! oJ Some Bills Passed Others the Ways Allowances for Officials Asked By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Mar. 10. Several bills relating to Beaufort and Carteret ROAD BILL WAS MAIN TEST county have been enacted into law, by the General Assembly during the By M. R. DUNNAGAN past week. They were introduced byj Raleigh, March 9 Governor Gard- Representative Luther Hamilton. ner-g pr0gram of reorganization of One ratified last week gives the state and locai government has gain county commissioners of Carteret eli sucn jmpetus during the past week county authority to appoint a tax col- ;by the enactment of part of his bills lector and fix his salary, the act alsoand test votes on others which insure fixing the salary of the sheriff of thejr passage, that it is confidently Carteret county. ! expected that all of the measures he Another, now a law, amends the 'desires enacted will come very near charter of the Town of Beaufort. becoming law. He probably will a- A third now makes it lawful for bandon one or two of his former pro boxing matches to be staged in Car- posals on the ground of probable im teret county. Other bills introduced provement on the plan or that the by Mr. Hamilton are: ;aim has been, in part, reached by A bill to be entitled an act for the ( consideration of the measures, relief of the Clerk of the Superior; The road measure was looked upon Court and Register of Deeds of Car-'as the "Hindenburg line" and all a teret county. i greed that if that went over, most of The General Assembly of North !the other administration measures Carolina do enact: ! would have easier sledding. That is Section 1. From and after May why Governor Gardner' staked his first, nineteen hundred and thirty- program on this bill and when it was one, the Clerk of the Superior Court 'enacted he was assured of practical of Carteret county shall be allowed success in most of the other meas- and paid from the general County ' ures proposed and pushed. Test fund the sum of fifty dollars ($50.) ! votes in one or both houses on his a month to be applied as partial pay- bill providing for a Director of Fer ment on the salary of deputy clerk, j sonnel, his Director of Purchases Section 2. Fro mand after May . and Contracts measure and considera first, nineteen hundred and thirty-jtion of three higher educational in one, the Register of Deeds of Car- stitutions as the University of North teret county shall be allowed and Carolina assure the success of his paid from the general County fund program. theh sum of twenty-five dollars The local Government Commission (?25) a month to be applied as par-1 measure) already enacted, is prob tial payment on the salary of deputy I ably the most important and far- registrar, Section 3. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act shall be repealed. Section 4. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its ratification. A bill to be entitled an act to reg- j ulate the fees of the justices of the peace of Carteret county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That the. Justices of the Peace of the several townships of Carteret County may charge and shall be entitled to receive the fol lowing fees in all criminal and civil actions: (a) In criminal actions: Affidavit and warrant, fifty cents; issuing subpoenas, each fifteen cents; commitments, each defendant, fifty cents; recognizance, each witness, fifteen cents; recognizance, each de fendant, fifty cents; bond, each de fendant to court, fifty cents; judg ment, each defendant, one dollar and fifty cents; continuance of action, twenty-five cents; judgment nisi, fifty cents; forwnrding papers to an other county, twenty-five cents; re turn to court, fifty cents; itemized bill of cost, twenty-five cents; order of removal, fifty cents; capias and order, fifty cents. (b) In civil actions: Issuing summons, each, fifty cents; summons, each additional defendant, twenty-five cents; trial and judg ment, one dollar and fifty cents; transcript of judgment, twenty-five cents; order of removal, fifty cents; plaintiff's undertaking, fifty cents; defendant's undertaking, fifty cents; order to seize property, fifty cents; (Continued on page five) made since the spring of 1926 and j The main function of the Dopart from the weird animals eobcted there ment of Labor and Printing would be have been sorted out and pieced to- taken over by the Division of Pur gether stages of development illus-, chase and Contract propo,-ed, and trating the entire early life histories 'tho labor activities may be provided of 14 species inhabiting tho shore for in some other department, prob areas. Species completely described ably by the next General AssamMy. for the first time include such econ-jT.no Insurance Commissioner is the omic forms as the anchovy, pgfish, only elective statutory officer that spot, croacker, and flounder, as well;has not been touched by any bill up as others of an immediate market 'to this writing. The known ability value. and popularity of the Commissioner, , . I Dan. C. Boney, may have something Although Doctor Hildebrand m to do the delay( fop j,er!0lial. ichthyologist for the bureau ie re-1 itifl geem to haye a way of entering sponsible for the scientific accuracy , Dr0D08als, But. no exception is of the facts presented, the value of the paper is much enhanced by the supplied numerous illustrations show- skillful pen of Miss Cable, who has mg tne unnsniiKO lorms oi me Tan-. Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of ous stages of development of the mi-; Treasureri Auditor, Attorney nute larvae. The economic impor- G,,npral and Superintendent of Pub tance of the species, their spawning jj n,truction habits, development, distribution of fc M(iuy Prc,;ft Sale, Tm plan the young, their growth and food, Thc Hol8U h.,s adtlJltc,j and tho habits are given special attention. F.c.ate is consid,rinK the bill which Such a paper will be of interest to everyone concerned with ine nsner ies, but it will be indispensable to the student of fishery biology and provide information of fundamental value to fishery conservation. GARDNER PROGR'M IS MOVING ALONG TOWARDS THE END The Governor Has Been Suc cessful In Getting His Meas ures Adopted i reaching of the entire group and will probably be felt by the people back home more than any other measure. It takes the place of the County Gov ernment Advisory Commission and the local unit authority of the State Sinking Fund Commision, putting sharp and solid teeth into the meas ures which restrict local unit opera tions. By it, North Carolina coun ties, cities, towns, and all other un its will be put on a business basis and must meet bond and note obli gations, many of which may be re funded. After a period, it is des tined to stop defaulting and over spending by local units. Charles M. Johnson has been named director and other members appointed. They be gin to functions March 18. Measures have been introduced af fecting all but one of the elective of fices of the State created by statue. The most important, probably, is re organization of the Department of Agriculture. By it the commissioner after the present term expires, will be appointed by the Governor, as chairman, with four other members, including the dean of the Agricultur al Department of State College and three others, named from the three sections of the State, as the Board of Agriculture. The board will handle agricultural affairs and oper ate the State Fair. The five test farms and the research stations, how ever, will be taken over and operat ed by State College. Another bill provides for the ap pointment of the members of the Corporation Commission after the present term expires. A new bill, the Governor's has been introduced to create the Department of Banking independent of the Corporation Com mission. Governor Gardner has stat ed publicly that he thinks the bill is sound, necessary and in the pub lic interest and that he will urge its passage. ' expected to be malie an(i the "short ballot probably reach, to all such offlce9stoppinfr only with the seven constitutionai post Governor, , provides the machinery Tor operation by tie State of the siv months term, '.vhile the rinur.ee committees have reached the conclusion that the $19- 600,000 which is required for this (Continued on page tire) H H C. R. THOMAS I 4 PASSED AWAY F 1 cr Congressman And X e Died Sunday In Nor L C- folk, Va. New Bern, March 9 Judge Charles Randolph Thomas, 69 of this city, former congresman and superior court judge, who moved from here a few years ago to Waynesville, died at six o'clock last night at a Norfolk hospital after an illness of two months. He had passed through here recently, on his way to Norfolk, where a son resides. The body will be brought to New Bern for burial in' Cedar Grove cem etery, following funeral service at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning from Christ Episcopal church, where he was long an active member and ves tryman. , Judge Thomas was born at Beau fort on August 21, 1861, the son of the late Hon. Charles R. Thomas, al so a judge of the state superior court and a member of congress. The father was born in Carteret county on February 7, 1827, and was elect ed as a republican member of the 42nd and 43rd national congress. The mother of the deceased was the late Emily Pitkin Thomas. In 1881, the son obtained a de gree of Bachelor of arts from the University of North Carolina at Chap el Hill, then studied law in Greens boro. On June 1, 1887, he married Laura Pasteur Davis, After her death he was on January 7, 1903, married to Mary Ruffin, daughter of the late Judge Thomas Ruffin of Hillsboro, who survives him. Admitted to the bar in 1882, Mr. Thomas practiced law in New Bern after 1890. In the year 1887, he was a member of the North Carolina house of representatives. From 1890-96, he was Craven county at torney. In 1893, he was elected a trustee of the state university. Three years later he served as a democrat ic presidential elector. From the third congressional dis trict, Mr. Thomas was elected a member of the national house fo rep resentatives, following his nomina tion by the democratic party, and served in the congresss from the 56th through the 61st, from 1899 to 1911. It was he who obtained the clock for the federal building here and he was connected with much important na tional legislation. In 1926, he was appointed by Governor McLean as a special superior court judge. For he had been in poor health and had not been so actively engag ed in the practice of law as previous ly. He and his wife moved to Way nesville on account of her health, having formerly resided here for many years on East Front street. Be fore leaving he donated many valu able books to the city library and otherwise showed his interest in civ ic and cultural betterment. He was prominently known throughout the state and south. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Mary Ruffin Thomas: two sons; Charles Randolph Thomas, J)r., of Chicago, and Frank T. Thomas of Norfolk; and three brothers: Rev. Frederick D. Thomas, Rev. James A. Thomas and Rev. John Stanley Thorn as. Two grandsons Charles and Frank live in Beaufort with their great aunt Mrs. M. R. Geffroy. 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 Low Tid Friday, March 13 4:58 A. M. 10:17 A. M. 4:19 P. M. 10:14 P. M. Saturday, March 14 4:54 A. M. 10:59 A. M. 5:16 P. M. 11:12 P. M. Sunday, March IS 5:44 A. M. 11:11 A. M. Monday, March 16 C:05 P. M. 11:56 F. M. fi:2t3 A. M. 11:59 A. it. 6:45 P. M. 12:34 P. M. Tuesday, March 17 7:05 A. M. 12:42 A. M. 7:2!S P. M. 1:07 P. M. Wednesday, March 18 7:39 A. M. 1:18 A. ML 7:57 P. M. 1:40 r IX Thursday, March 19 8:11 A. M. 1:54 1:09 A, U. 8:28 P. M. i
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