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Tim k? Beaufort imews The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. ( READINGTO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY j WATCH Your label and pay your subscription SINGLE COPY VOLUME XX 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1931 PRICE NUMBER 13 T.nno Session Ti re s ISAMARCAND GIRL r, ? ADMITS CHARGE iVlemfcers ji Assemmy Physician Says They Need Rest; Longest Session on Record; May Last Until Easter; Very Hard To "Agree On Any Thing And Suspic ious of Each Other By M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleigh, March 23 The North Carolina General Assembly is tired. One of the doctor members read the symptoms and declared most of the members are used up, spent, need a rest. They have already broken all records by staying in session two weeks over the normal time, with slim prospects of getting away in another "TToofoi.' io the most XWO ween promising prediction now. The Assembly has reached its low est ebb. Members are talkative, toucheous, and iritable. They have spent two and three hour sessions in passing one or two bills and prob able tabling as many more. All want to talk and dissect every bill. They question each others motives con stantly, and often justly. There is a sort of back-wash over passing bills that now seeks to kill them. During the next two weeks, predic tions are, they will buckle down and dig out of the maze which enshrouds them. The past week has been spent in marking time, awaiting the Finance bill which has been promised almost daily. It is now in final form and will be taken up early in the week by the House, which will spend most ofthis week on it before it gets to the Senate ' for probably another week. Both of the houses, mean -while, will be getting other legisla tion behind them. Another big bill is the Appropriations measure, which also will require time. It will doubt less move along behind the Revenue bill. A movement, described as sinister, is said to have been forming and reached a head the past week. It ia called a combination of the power, utility, tobacco and railroad inter ests with the so-called Mac Lean forces to put over the general sales tax proposal to financ the State- op erated six months term. I tie general sales tax, estimated to raise $9,000, 000, would cost an average of about $3 a person a year, which, multiplied by the population of any county, will give the approximate additional a mount that county will pay for school support, indirectly. In many of the counties it would be twice the amount that would be received through op eration of the MacLean plan, the statisticians figure. Such an alignment, observers say, is nassine strange a sort of lion and lamb status. It has caused many auestions to be asked. Apparently, also, it is causing a sort of re-align ment of forces. Seemingly there is a shift toward the school plan em bodied in the bill introduced the past week bv Chairman John H. oiger, of the Senate Education committee, and others, which bill provides a $10,000,000 school fund, $o,2uu,uuu for the six months term and $1,800, 000 for the extended term. This, experienced school men say, will give more relief than the MacLean plan accompanied by the $1,000,000 sales tax. although it is an indirect tax. The Folger plan carries no sales tax, testimony. but would necessitate ?j,duu,uuo more than ia now provided, coming from power, tobacco, foreign corp orations and probably an increase in the income tax. No Short Ballot The "short ballot" will not ge ov er this time. The bill providing for the reorganization of the Department of Agriculture was passed by the House after it had changed the bill to make the commissioner elective,, rather than appointive. The bill to have the Corporation Commission members appointed rather than elect ed was tabled by its author. The purchasing agent bill, which would take away a part of the duties of the Commissioner of Labor and Printing, is half over and may pass. The bill to reorganize that Department into a Department of Labor, is in the hop per and may or may not pass. Governor Gardner's bills, one to the Department of Agri- milfnrp. the other to reorganize the r.A..tin r.nmmission. did not Vviuiabiv.j . . . ' . rarrv in thorn the short ballot provis ion that Governor appoint the of ficials. That was aided by the com mittees. His Department of Labor bill does carry that feature, since the c .mmittees added it to other bills. Governor Gardner favors the short ballot, but he believes it should be provided in the Constitution, so each 'Ucceeding General Assembly could not change it. He will doubtless ask ( Continued on page 8) .' 7 Worthless Check Cases Predominate In Court The time of Recorder's Court was taken up almost entirely with the trial of bad check cases. There were three of these tried. J. H. Starling was first tried, charg ed with having given a worthless check for $136 to the Union Fish Company of Beaufort. The defen dant admitted owing the money and said he would pay the check if given a little time. The judgment of the court was that he was guilty and he was sentenced to three months in jail, capias not to issue for thirty days to give the defendant a chance Says She Started Fire That Burned Two Buildings That Cost $200,000 Lumberton, March 23 Margaret Pridgen, of Wilmington, ore of the 16 girls' held in the Robeson county jail in Lumberton awaiting trial at the May term of Moore county Su perior Court on a charge of burning two buildings costing $200,000 at Samarcand, State institution for de linquent girls, takes entire responsi bility for starting the fire. The Pridgen girl talks freely about the matter, stating that she set fire to one of the buildings and would do it again. She gave as her reason that she was tired of the place and thought she might be moved if the building burned. She says she set fire to Chammberlain Hall after other girls had failed in their attempt to commit the same offense. While Chamberlain Hall was burning, oth er girls set another building afire, thinking officials would believe it caught from the first. The fire came about 8 p. m. At ROBBING STORE ATTEMPT FAILS Two Young Men Walk Into Trap On Dark And Stormy -Night Thwarted in an attempt to rob the store of the Atlantic and Pacific company here on Front street two would be robbers are now occupying rooms in the county jail. The men are William Fillingame and George Piver, two young white men neither more than 25 years old. The attempted robbery occurred between midnight and 1:30 A. M Sunday morning. The night was wild and stormy. A northeast gale was blowing and a cold rain was falling. It seemed perhaps a favorable oppor- Mrs. S. S. Willis Joseph ! oy Godwin Passed Away Tuesday Morehead City, March 25 The sudden death of Joseph (Perry) God win occurred here of , pneumonia Tuesday night at 6:45 o'clock at the Morehead Ctiy hospital following a week's illness of influenza.. The de ceased was born in Wilson, in Octo ber 27, 1889, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wm. Godwin. He entered ser vice during the World War and spent some time on the Mexican border and was in the expeditionary forces in France. After returning home be engaged in the tobacco business. In 1924 he married Mrs. Pearl Willis Ball. At the time of his deatn, ne held the position of city clerk. The funeral was conducted from the residence of his mother-in-law, The services were tunity for midnight adventure. About midnight just before leaving thes tore the Manager, James Piver, conducted at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon March 25th by Rev. J. A. Vache, assisted by Revs. A. P. Stev- LUXURY TAX BELL KILLED IN HOUSE Refuse To Accept Luxury Tax as Substitute For General Sales Tax and his assistant Ed Ratcliffe heard ens of the Missionary Baptist church a noise in the rear of the building i and S. W. Everett of Free Will Bap and suspecting that some one was try- tist church. ing to break in thes tore went to the -p.he cjty council acted as pall city hall to get a police officer. He found Chief W. R. Longest and the chief and two city employes, Adrian Brooks and Hubert Springle, accom- bearers. The Junior Order U. A. M. took charge of the services at the grave. The American Legion attended in to raise the money to pay the check that time some of the girls were un- and the costs. L. M. Garner of Newport was tried on two bad check charges. He was acquitted on one and convicted on the other. In the first case Price Mason claimed that the defendant owed him $16.50 for some oysters, that he gave him a check for the a mount which was no good. His at torney E. Walter Hill plead not guil ty for him. The defendant claimed that Mason had agreed to hold the check for him and was corroborated by the fact that it was two weeks afterwards dressed and in bed; others were un dressing. They lost about every thing they had. Indictments charg ing first degree arson, which is pun ishable by death, were drawn against 16 of the girls, and 10 of them were placed in the Moore county jail at Carthage and six in the Montgomery county jail at Troy. They were brought here March 1 in a schol bus by Sheriff McDonald, of Moore county. The girls are almost minus cloth ing, but the modesty of most of seems not affected. As the panied Mr. Piver back to the store I a bo(jyi wjtn members of the New Where they an waited ior iurtner ae- jern post who composed a tiring velopments. 'squad at the grave gave taps and sa lt was about 1:30 when the two .lute. men effected an entrance into the store. The front part of thes tore was dark but the back room was light ed and when they arrived they were very much surprised to be reecived by the Chief of Policeand other mem bers of the party. Perhaps the most surprised of all was Manager Piver when he discovered that his own brother was one of the invaders of thes tore. The men had a large sere wdriver and one or two other that the bank stamped it as worth less. Judge Davis said he did not think the act came under the provis ions of the bad check law and dis missed it. In the other case the defendant Garner was charged with having giv en a check to W. E. Currier for $53.00 Xui uatcio. Ho oail he p sented it at the Bank of Newport! and it was turned down for lack of funds. Currier said there was no a greement on his part to hold the check and he was corroborated by one or two other witnesses. The defendant claimed that the oysters did not come up to specifi cations and that he could not sell them for any thing much and also claimed that it was understood 'the check would be held until he could sell the oysters and pay for them. He was supported in his statement by H. C. Garner who was a partner with him in selling the oysters. Judge Davis decided that the de fendant was guilty and after consid erable discussion on the part of At torney Hamilton for the prosecution and Hill for the defense it was decid ed that the final sentence would be deferred for ninety days to give the defendant a chance to pay the check and the costs. Bert Lloyd of Beaufort, sent up from City Police Court, was given a hearing on the charge of breaking into the oil house of the Norfolk Southern Railroad. He admitted it and said he was so drunk that he did not know any thing about it. The warrant was amended to read tres pass. Sentence was deferred until next Tuesday in order to hear other tnem seems aueceu tools which they had used in enter Pndgen girl, scantily clad, told of,. o. p. . . nnt(lf her part in the affair, a cigarette rolled out on the floor from the bed on which she was sitting. About her other girls listened or took part in thee onversation, some wearing only raincoats or a couple of pieces of clothing. Of the visitors they beg-J flporl mofnkoo, MgcwAtUa, yi0tttt.aa or. stationery. One pulled out a copy of the gospel according to St. John and reminded that they took time sometimes to read it. TTnHpr the fatherlv guidance of! Jailer Austin Smith, the girls have learned to like the Robeson county jail and Lumberton. They prefer to remain here, many of them say, and would like to have Jailer Smith as their keeper always. Carefree and happy most of them seem to be, lit tle realizing the seriousness of the offense with which they are charged. Asked what punishment they expect, most of them reply, "from three to five years in the pen. Those held in jail here are :Vir ginia Hayes, Leakesville; Marion Mercer, Ay den; Wilma Owen, Way nesville; Mary Lee Bronson, Rocky Mount; Estelle Wilson, Lexington; Thelma Council, Tarboro; Allie Harding, Washington; Margaret Ab- ernethy, Kinston; Rosie Mull, Ruther ford: Bertha Hall. Norfolk. Va., Ed na Clark, Halifax;. Deloise Sewell, Cove City; Pearl Stiles, Canton; Mar garet Pridgen. Wilmington; Chloe Stillwell, Kinston, and Josephine French, Haw River. ing the. store. Piver had a pocket knife and Fillingame a dagger. $200 appearance bond Besides his wife he leaves a daugh ter Frances Anne and two sisters, Mrs. R. N. Bishop of Greensboro and Mrs. Joe Stevens of Richmond, three brothers, John of New York City, W. L. Godwin of Raleigh and Richard Godwin of, Norfolk. POLICE COURT SESSION WAS RATHER LIMITED ed of each of them which they could not give and both were locked up in the county jail. A preliminary hear ing of the matter will probably take place, before Mayor Taylor at 3 x,yiocK Friday afternoon. - ' 4 "' - -r SALARY BILL PASSED Mayor Taylor had two cases for trial in Police Court Friday alter- -r .,i 1 j. J l - CC 1 . . inon. JNeitner aeienuani oiiereu any resistance and the court was soon requir-1 finished. Raleigh, March 23 Representative Hamilton's bill, for the relief of the constable of Harkers Island township, has been ratified by the General As sembly. The bill for the relief of the clerk of the court and register of deeds of Carteret county was also ratified Saturday. Alonzo Fulford, young colored man charged with having been drunk and disorderly submitted to the charge and was given the option of paying $1 and costs or working five days on the streets. xw . J. .;tli KroftV ing and entering the oil house of the .Norfolk Southern railroad. He said he was drunk at the time and did not know much about the affair. He was held for Recorder's Court un der a bond of fifty dollars. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED Mrs. Rose Ramsey whose marriage to Mr. Frank Robinson of Philadel phia formerly of Beaufort, has been left Wednesday for a OiailSUCS siiuw I -'. , , persons in America are native born children of native born parents. visit to friends in New Brunswick, New Jersey. ROW MAY BREAK OUT IN RALEIGH MOST ANY TIME NOW SU 1 1 stLma Rumania established new high records for drilling, production, re fining and export of petroleum last year. UNDER FOLGER PLAN CARTERET CO. WOULD GET $103,650 FOR THE SCHOOLS By CARL GEORCH It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to see a riot start up in Ral eigh at any time. The boys are getting so mad that there's no telling what will happen next. Tey're fighting each other ,now, instead of fighting for lower tax es. Out in the world thou goest, Oh, treasure of my heart! Now hark to what I tell thee, Ere moving to depart.. Become a lawyer if you wish; A doctor or a barber.' Against these not a single grudge Doth mankind ever harbor. By M. R. DUNNAGAN to produce $9,000,000 in revenue. Rnlniph. March 23 About 15 of With sliffntly more than 3,000,000 the larger North Carolina counties would get more money out of the State for operation of the six months school term under the so-called Mac Lean Dlan than they would pay into the Treasury under the general sales tax plan which accompanies it, while the remaining 85 counties would pay more under the sales tax terms, school people estimate. Under the MacLean plan, an oi the counties participate in the State fund, but most of them pay back more, indirectly, under the sales tax, some twice as much, as the ditrer ence between the amount the Mac Lean plan gives them and the amount the Folger plan gives them. JThe latter plan, embodied in a bill intro duced by Senator John H. rolger, chairman, and members of the Senate Education Committee, provides a $10,000,000 school fund, $8,200,000 for the six months term and $1,huu, 000 for the extended term. Under this plan, four of the larger counties, Durham, Forsyth, Mfcklenburg, New Hanover, do not participate in the equalizing fund. The MacLean plan contemplates a general sales tax which is estimate: it gets defeated, is bound to pass. Members of the senate and house have held it in reserve and are pre senting it now as a grand finale, with everybody joining in the singing. Revenue Commissioner Maxwell spoke against the bill over the radio. This radio-speaking business is get- tine to be mighty popular. It used to be that our public men went to the newspapers and had their views in serted there. The trouble with that course, however, was that the news papers make a permanent record of your remarks. With the radio its different. If somebody doesn t use what you say, you can always tell them that they misunderstood you. TVip sales tax is still up there. RALEIGH, March 25 The house this afternoon refused to accept the "luxury tax" idea as a substitute for the day general sales tax on retail merchants which is included in its revenue bill. RALEIGH, March 25 The senate today passed the administration bill to merger the boards of trustees of the three major state institutions of higher learning, after heated debate, while the house continued its fight over what form of sales tax it will include in its revenue bill. Representative Day of Onslow, charging that Governor Gardner's address yesterday opposing any form of sales tax was "a positive invasion of legislative prerogative," opened the fight to retain his plan to levy a one per cent tax on gross sales of retail merchants. Representatives Johnston of Ashe, and Lumpkin of Franklin, fired the opening barrage for the proponents of the "luxury tax" idea, embodied in an amendment offered by Repre sentatives Crouse of Alleghany, and Flannagan of Pitt. They termed the luxury tax "a painless tax" which would be extracted without the payer realizing it. Throughout the extended debate last night and today almost every speaker has pointed out that the per sons who will pay the sales tax, which ever idea is adopted, are those who now pay the ad valorem tax but that a sales tax would not be noticed as much as a lump sum payment of ad valorem taxes in that it would be extracted throughout the year in stead of a one time. The proposed consolidation of N. C. State college and N. C. C. W., with the University of ,North Carolina through a merger of the boards of trustees met opposition from Sena tors Jones of Richmond, Baggett of Harnett, and Umstead of Orange, who led the fight against merger at this time with Senators Burrus of Guilford, and Lindsey of Brunswick, Committee amen dments and changes offered by Senator Hinds dale of Wake, and accepted by Sen ator Whedbee of Perquimans, to create a commission of 12 experts to study the merger and report to a consolidated board of trustees were adopted but the qfforts of Jones to defer the matter until 1933 was kill ed. Under the Whedzee amendments the 1931 assembly and not that of 1933 will name the consolidated board of trustees. The senate, upon request of Chair man Dunlap of its finance committee, referred the Baggett bill to place a tax on foreign stocks. The finance body reported the bill favorably yes terday. Dunlap told the senate he had promised members of his committee to give them "specific notice" if a tax measure was to be taken up and this was not done yesterday. Two special orders in the senate, the Seawell and Cherry banking bills, were carried over and set for Friday morning. The senate killed the Burrus bill to make the physical examination before marriage licenses may be is sued more strict, and recesed until tonight. population in the State, that means an average of about $3 per person per years in the sales tax, collected indirectly. With a population of 133,010 at $3 each, Guilford would pay $399,03p of this tax and receive $670,693 from the State; on the same basis, Mecklenburg would pay $383,913 in the tax and receive $595,785 for her schools; Forsyth would pay $335,043 and get back $53J,147; Durham would pay $:ui,- 588 and get ?330,ziu; rew nanuvei would pay $129,030 and' get $197,-026. Carteret county, under the Folger plan, would get $103,650 of the equalizing fund and $117,496, or $13,846 more, under the MacLean clan. But Carteret with a popula tion of 16,900, paying $3 each would pay $50,700 into the State fund, or $36,854 more than the difference be tween the amounts received under the Mac Lean plan and the Folger clan. While the larger counties would gain, Carteret would lose under the Mac Lean plan, ; compared with what she would gtt under the Folger plan. Become a farmer or a clown Any well informed advocate oi sucn Or even be a waiter. a proposition can, witnout ine siign,,- But for the love of Pete, my son est trouble set forth 2,458 sound Don't be a legislator! and logical reasons why a sales tax tuo cUrt hallnt. hill cot sat on last 'should be adopted. And any well ln- week. And that uncovered a lot oi opposition which, until then, had kent itself more or less in hiding. You see, there are some members of the legislature who never have been and who never can be actual leaders. They resent the idea of anyone else attaining any prominence along those lines. The Hon. O. Max has been ao- formed oponent to the measure can also without trouble give you 2,4a equally sound and logical 'reasons why it should not be adopted. Take your choice; there's no use in my trying to say anything about it. Almost three months since the gang got together Three months of wraneline and fussing. Seems like doesn't it? Particularly 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. i miVitw effpctive leadincr la mtv. Hm-i the last couple of months, and when most of us were interested it some of the boys don't like it. They're nnw RnaDoiner and yipping at his heels like a bunch of terriers. What they're trying to do is to tear him down, even though they may have to tear down some mighty good bills in orHer to accomplish their purpose. The. drug-store liquor bill didn't stand much of a show. What s the sense of loading up all our drug stores, with liquor when you can go out in the country and get all you .Iphsp? Useless and entirely unncc- onlv one thing and that was a re. duction in property taxes. Thus far, that is the only thing which has not been given any consideration. They have legislated in favor of or against practically everything under the sun, to say nothing of the moon. They have even gone out of their way to find bills -which they could intro duce and pass. The only thing they've left undene so far K the one thine, above all others, which we 2:38 3:08 A. P. ,-.i-rA l,t-.-. 4- An I please; useless ana enureiy uima- ulu" " . ,. , . i. . , ' I However, while there's life there's! 6:38 A. nd this week we come to the oit-j hope, aitnougn n musi ue discussed and oft-cussed MacLean that there is very little left in the j hill, which has to do with the State 'Uld Uer.erai Assemoiy ai yai- - support of schools. This bill, unless ular time. High Tid Lo wTida Friday, March 27 1:23 A. M. 754 A. M. 1:52 P. M. 7:51 P. M. Saturday. March 28 M. 9:05 A. M. M. 9:06 P. M, Sunday, March 29 M." 10:08 A. M. M. 10:17 1. . Monday. March 20 A M. 11:02 A- ML P. M. 11:01 P. Mw Tuesday, March 31 M. 11:18 A. m. M. 11:52 P. Mk' Wednesday, April 1 M. 12:16 A. 11 M. 12:S9 P. M. Thursday, April 2 M. 1:10 A. H- 7:49 P. M. 1:25 f. 3:48 A. 4:18 P. 4:51 5:19 5:48 6:11 A. P.