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The 53 o W ,I Your label and pay your subscription The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. ( READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY J cy: NUMBER 14 VOLUME XX 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, APRIL 2, 1931 PRICE Sc SINGLE COPY Great Battle Fought Over Sales Tax Bill For More Than A Week Legislators Have Wrest led With This Problem; Governor Gardner Against It; How To Raise Money For Six Months School Is Giving Much Trouble creased equalizing fund That say at $10,000,000, will in reality bring more relief than complete operation Continued on page six By M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleigh, March 30 Sales tax or no Bales tax has been the all-absorbing problem in the General Assembly o waolr narf iiMilnrl v in flip Hnnsp of Representatives side of the Gen- j Otway Fracas Brought eral Assembly. Ihe question of 11 a sales tax, then which, was answer ed by the House committee and later by the House, as a committee of the whole, in favor of the general sales tax, as against the so-called luxury tax by the close margin of four votes. This vote, of course, was not de cisive. In fact, proponents of the luxury tax, in some instances, voted for the general sales tax, with a sort of reservation that they would intro duce amendments when it comes to final voting in the House to substi tute the luxury tax, or that the Sen ate, when the revenue bill reaches that body, would substitute the lux ury sales tax and send it back to the House for concurrence. Major Dan C. Hutton Interred Here Sunday St. Paul's church here was filled Sunday with a large number of peo ple who had gathered trere to pay their respects to Major Daniel C. Hutton who died at Phoenix, Arizona Monday, March 21. The services at the church and at the grave were con ducted by the Reverend Dr. B. P. BEAUFORT SCHOOL BILL INTRODUCED New Law Will Make Changes In Method Of Appointing Trustees Some Fine Weather In Month of March The month of March, as it usually is, was somewhat blustery but there was also some nice weather during the month. Only a few times did the temperature drop below freezing. On the third there was a light fall of Yesterdav a bill was introduced in snow which however did not stick to the House by Representative Luther the ground except for a very short Hamilton which makes some impor- time. The winds were westerly ior ELECTION MATTER GETS ATTENTION Republican Members Ask That Ballot Boxes Be Impounded; No Action Yet Huske, rector of St. Mary's Episco-j Hamilton wmcn manes some .min- time, ine w.nos we pal church of Kinston and former tant changes in the administration of twenty days and mostly easier y the it c xri .t.i; ,uv. the Beaufort Graded School. The Vest of the month. The rainfall was Th phnrch rhnir new law if 'it goes into effi rendered "Lead Kindly Light" and "In The Hour of Trial" in the church Large Crowd To Court A fight between two youths brought a large crowd of people from the Otway community to Re corder's Court last Tuesday and took an hour or so to try. One of the boys, Elbert Gillikin 17 years old was tried on the charge of an as sault with a deadly weapon upon Carroll Lawrence who is 19 years old. 1 The latter appeared in and at the grave "Abide With Me" was sung. Full military honors were paid the deceased at the funeral. Officers of the National Guard from New Bern acted as honorary pallbearers and non-commissioned officers were ac tive pall bearers. At the grave a firing squad fired three volleys and the bugler sounded "taps." Washintgon, March 26 Major Hutton, was a son of the late Dan iel C. Hutton, of Goldsboro, and a grandson of the late B. V. L. Hut- ,itV, v: ' I ton, of that place. He was a descend head and face swatch ed Tin bandages ant of the Churchi11 family' founderS r . " I; Ll ? A. J Slfl of Goldsboro. Major Hutton was 35 Lines established when , the so named MacLean bill was enacted to require the Senate to support the six months school term, and when the later Johnston-Jolly bill, providing machinery for operation of the six months term was enacted, both by overwhelming majorities these lines have become all broken up ov er methods of financing the six months term. It would seem that the legislature would incline toward the luxury tax, on tobacco products, cosmetics, soft drinks, playing cards, automobiles, and other articles list ed as non-essential. Instead, they have turned to a tax on general sales which would be collected by Merchants on all articles sold to all classes of people. If the general sales tax finally gets by the House, it is freely predicted that it will meet death in the Senate. In fact, belief is that the Senate will not adopt any form of sales tax, general or luxury. A poll of the members in that body is said to show 26 members opposed to all forms of sales tax. If so, then the sales tax is doomed. If the general sales tax had been passed in the House by a good majority the forces of that vote may have carried It over in the Senate, but with a majority of only four, the Senate is expected to taKe the position that the small majority can be overcome and vote it down. Oppoied To Sale Tax Several factors have entered Into the apparent change in line-up and breaking away of the earlier support ers of the Mac Lean act. Governor Gardner appeared before a joint ses sion of the two houses last week and voiced strong opposition to the sales tax idea as being economically un sound, a tax on poverty and should only be imposed as a tax of last re sort. His speech, said by many to be the best he ever made, had strong logic and carried conviction to many of those formerly supporting it. Representative A. J MacLean, sposor of the six months bill and the general sales tax, characterized one part of it by saying that the Gover nor must be "a damned ass or thinks you are one." It caused much com ment, and no little criticism. Opponents of the general sales tax argued that it is a shifting of the tax burden from the big property owner to his employees. They pointed to the lining up of Mr. MacLean, sup- March 23rd he was walking along the highway and that the Gillikin boy driving a car and with two other boys riding with him came pretty near running over him. He said the car came back, stopped and that he had some words with Elbert and they cursed each other and that Elbert hit him 0 nthe forehead with some weap on or other, he did know what, broke his nose, split his forehead and knock ed him unconscious. He was brought to Beaufort later and treated by Dr. W. S. Chadwick. Everett Lawrence, Lemuel Gillikin and two or three other witnesses tes tified that there was an argument and fight between Carroll and Elbert and one or two witnesses testified that some one threw a stone a tthe car. No one testified' as to seeing a weap on in Elbert's hand. The defendant denied using any weapon and said he hit Carroll with his fist after the lat ter had taken hold of him and tried to pull him out of the car. Dr. Chadwick testified that he thought the wounds were caused by some hard substance striking Carroll with con siderable force. Attorney E. Walter Hill for the defense undertook to show that Carroll was the agressor in the fight and that his head struck the car door or else the pavement when the two boys fell during the scuffle. Judge Davis decided that the de fendant was guiity and withheld sen tence untli next Tuesday. Burt Lloyd submitted a plea of guilty to the charge of trespassing upon the property " of the Norfolk Southern Railroda and was given a jail sentence of sixty days. On account of the absence of at torneys and witnesses several cases were continued to next Tuesday. years old, and is survived by his wid ow, Mrs. Eddie Ruth Hutton, of Pheo nix; by two children by a former marriage, and by his mother, Mrs. Lina Davis Hutton, of Beaufort. Major Hutton was a graduate of the University of Maryland. He join ed the Maryland National Guard and saw long service on the Mexican bor der with the organization, and then went to France as a Captain in the Medical Corps of the 29th Division, serving until the Armistice. At the close of the war he entered the reg ular army as a captain, and was pro moted some time ago to the rank of major. He is a nephew of Col Paul C. Hutton, Medical Corps, U. S. A., and a native of Goldsboro. Major Hutton will be buried beside his brother, the late James C. Hutton, who also served during the ' World War in the 29th Division. WELL KNOWN BELK IFIRM OPENS NEW BERN BRANCH Piver And Fillingame Bound Over To Court George Piver and Wilbur Fillin: 'game, the two young white men charged with breaking into the store of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company here about ten days ago were brought in to city police court last Friday afternoon for a hearing. When the warrant was read to them they offered no defense and Mayor Tavlor having no jurisdiction in tne case, bound them over for trial in the Superior Court at the June term A bond of $250 each was required of them which they were not able to give and they were committed to jail to await trial. Liie Hardesty, colored submitted to a charge of drunk and disorderly and An event of considerable im nortance in the commercial life of ,New Bern and this section took place last Saturday in the opening 01 Belk's Department Store. The new firm occupies the large building used for many years b ythe Coplon Com pany which in its prime was one of the biggest mercantile establishments in eastern Carolina. The New Bern store is the sixty eighth of the stores operated by this firm in the Carolinas and Virginia. The Belk firm started many yeaTS ago with one small store in Wadesboro, N. C. and has spread all over North A South Carolina having branches in nearly all of the larger towns and cities. The New Bern management is well pleased with the start made there and expects to do" a large bus iness in this section. goes into enect pro vides that there shall be nine mem bers 0 nthe school board, three to be appointed by the County Board of Education and six by the city com missioners. It also provides that three of the members shall come from the rural districts that patron ize the school. The bill reads as fol lows: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE AP : POINTMENT OF TRUSTEES OF BEAUFORT GRADED SCHOOL WHEREAS, under Chapter two hundred and fourteen of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and nine, as amended, establishing graded schools in the Town of Beau fort, Carteret County no provision was made for the accomodation of school children outside of said school district, and consequently no provis ion was made for representation of out-lying districts on the Board of Trustees; and WHEREAS, since the establishing of the said Beaufort Graded School District there has been a general consolidaiton of schools of the county with the result that seven or more communities are now patroniz ing the Beaufort Graded School and furnishing approximately one third of its students; and WHEREAS, it is considered prop er and desirable that a re-organization of the Board of Trustees be had to the end that proper representation be given patronizing communities on the said Board: Now, Therefore, : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1 That the term of office of air of the members of the Board of Trustees of Beaufort Graded School, (Beaufort, Carteret County) shall expire on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one. Sec. 2. The Board of Trustees shall consist of nine members, three of whom shall be appointed by the Roard of Education of Carteret County and shall be appointed from patronizing districts or communities other than the Town of Beaufort. The appointment of one of said three' members shall be for a term of two years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of six years. The other six members of said Board of Trustees shall be appointed by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Beaufort, shall be bona fide resi dents of the said town, and two of whom shall be appointed for a term of two years, two for a term of four years, and two for a term of six (Continued on page five) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Min. 50 43 33 31 32 35 47 47 35 33 30 5.51 inches. The temperature day by day follows: Max. ..61 ..59 ..46 ..40 53 ..59 ..65 ..59 49 ...49 ...54 ...54 ...50 ...59 ...63 ...63 ...53 ...49 ...55 ...68 ...59 ...56 ...64 ...58 ...61 ...61 ...64 ...63 ...58 ...67 ...60 ...58 N. S. Passenger Train Runs Into Pile Driver Railroad accidends nowadays are rare enough to be somewhat of a novelty but they do occur occasion ally. One such happened Wednes day morning when the Norfolk- Southern passenger train after crossing the bridge between Beaufort and Morehead City ran into a siding and collided with a pile drvier. The accident was caused by an open switch which engineer N. H. Russell could not see on account of smoke form the pile driver engine until it was too late to stop. For tunately no very serious damage was done. The passenger engine was damaged somewhat and a freight en gine was substituted for it. The pile driver was also injured to some ex tent. Alonzo Williams, fireman, Jack Ellison, train porter and mail clerk Bostic, all colored men, were bruised up a little and were taken to the Moreehad City hospital where they had their wounds dressed. The pas senger engine and pile driving outfit were taken to New Bern for repairs. ANY IMPROVEMENT IN CROP PR ICES NOT PROBABLE BEFORE FALL MONTHS ".""T ', !,. rivn the choice of naving a posedly "presenting the jma 11 j$2iB0 fine or 8erving 10 days on the owned and home owner, witn tne rep , - relatives from Forsyth "!,ti Kig, colored, of Moreehad referring to it as not cit wa8 fined ,10 for not being in main, but " ""Ju, ' to stand trial on a charge of percent wWch, it VPoEd oV, is fast driving. His case had been con nve times as much as any general .tj-r tj weeks and he failed to i.. .v in nv other state. The show up Friday. case of running across the state line to make purchases to avoid the tax, with the accompanying loss to "mer chants at home and thus to the com munity was stressed. Those f voring this tax said it was fair and j ist, that all receive bene fit from th? government and all, rich and poor alike, should help support BEAUFORT YOUNG MEN WIN ATHLETIC HONORS Two Beaufort young men who are students at the University of North Carolina won distinctions this week. Cecil Longest pitched the game a gain&t Cornell University Monday it. The average of about ? 3 a year unu uccuiumB iu me i- v u : w.uvin on the the game pitched steady and winning poor, they argued. ball. He allowed but six hits and j t,: k-oiit tn struck out four batsmen. He also vireai pressure is ucui ui6'" wieintAra Trnm home to k'ot a two base hit. .f MpT Hn monsnre. but I William Poltor. also of Beaufort, orpflt. nrpssnre is also brouirht against . caught a part of the Cornell game, the sales or the luxury tax. It issnot onsidered improbable by close ob servers that the efforts to raise about 113,000,000 additional revenue will Jail and that the result will be an in- On Tuesday at a meeting of the base ball squad he was elected captain of the team. "Tiggy" as Potter is known at college is a senior and 'regular catcher on the team. (Crop Reporting Service) Raleigh, April 1 GENERAL: Any improvement in crop prices will be quite gradual and may not be noticeable until the fall months of 1931. ...Production costs of crops will definitely be low er than last year. Fertilizer usage will be materially decreased. Labor prices are lower. Farmers are grow ing more of their feeds and foods. The improvement of ECONOMIC renditions has thus already begun. Foreign demands are expected to im-m-ove this year. It will be difficult to iret credits for producing crops, It must not be veriooKea mat there are large surplus or carry-ov er of stocks now on hand for wheat, cotton and tobacco, ine general business depression is a real factor. The cultivated acreage of all crops will be about the same as 1930 maybe more. CORN: Corn comes first in ac reage (one-third of crop land, in North Carolina). The farmers plan for a further increase in acreage a- mounting to 7 percent in North Caro lina. It had been increased 12 per cent during the past two years. This State produces no real, surplus ot corn. Much more will be required if we are to grow the needed live stock. This is a wise and safe ex pansion. It will grow in any county and legumes may be grown econo mically with the oorn. The Corn Belt supply is the shortest for twenty-nine years, due to drought condi tions. The United States crop is expected to be increased 4.9 percent in acreage, this year. , TOBACCO: The carry-over or surplus stocks of flue-cured tobacco is now the greatest in the history of te world. North Carolina alone pro ¬ duced about 80,000,000 pounds more than in 1929. The bright leaf to tal production is about 850,000,ouu nounds. There is a real large sur- 1 mi RALEIGH, April 1 Republican members of the house and senate to- . day introduced joint resolutions to request Governor Gardner to im pound ballot boxes in ' the Bailey- Pritchard senatorial election last No vember in order that they may be turned over to the elections investi gating committee of the United States senate. Representatives Butler of Samp son, and M'Bee of Mitchell, introduc ed the resolution in the house, with Senator Grant of Davie, giving it to the senate. Both houses refused to consider the resolutions immediately the at titude of Pritchard in contesting the election of Senator J. W. Bailey be ing termed "unsportsmanlike" by Hamilton of Carteret, during debate in the house. Half dozen senators objected in the upper division. A motion of Johnson of Pender, to table the house resolution failed. The house concurred in senate a- mendments to the Seawell bill to cre ate a new banking department divorc ed from the corporation commission and directly under the governor. The bill will become law upon ratification Senate amendments to the Newman bus bill, however, did not please the house and were refused. The house discussed salary cuts a- gain, receiving a tavoraoie commit tee report on the Davis-Moye bill with an amendment to reduce the scale of reductions to range from 5 to 15 per cent instead of from 10 to 3 per cent. This bill, however, was sent to the appropriations committee upon motion of Pitts of Catawba, Harris of Person, chairman of the ap propriations group, told the house his committee favored a 10 per cent cut and expected to report a bill to morrow. , , . . ......... . The senate finance committee con tinued study of uncontested sections of the house revenue bill. . The house killed the Bennett bill to increase the personnel of the high way patrol from 37 to 87, adopting a motion of Garibaldi of Mecklen burk to table the act. Seeking to reduce cost of tax fore closures, the senate added its approv al to the Ewbank house bill limiting attorney's fees in suits for taxes of 1929 and prior years. The senate rules committee gave an unfavorable report to the house resolution to discharge committee clerks and members of the enroll ment staff after April 4. Approval was given the omnibus board of education and justices of the peace bills by the senate. The upper house adjourned until noon to morrow. H. L. LANGLY BADLY HURT WHEN CAR BUMPS HIS CART plus over the demand. Ihe price nvprnce for the season was slightly over 12 cents, as compared wun ioiwag on h13 way to Beauoirt to get Mixie Fisher, colored man from Morehead City, is in jail and H. L. Langley of the Bettie comunity is at home with a fractured skull as the result of a collision that took place at the east end of the Morehead City bridge Thursday, March 26. The acident happened at about four o'clock. Mr. Langly was driv ing a mule hitched to a cart and was going west. Fisher was driving a car and going east. He says that he MARRIAGE LICENSES Franklin Willis and Madeline Ad ams, Newport, N. C. The first industrial exposition, in which all nations of the world par ticipated, was held in London front May 1 to October 1, 1851. A new hack saw blade ha3 fine teeth at one end for starting cuts and coarse ones at the other end to finish them. 111 cents a year ago. A gradual aeenne has occurred since 1926, when an av erage of 26 cents was paid to farm ers. Even with a large decrease in acreage for 1931, no improvement his sister's daughter who goes to school in Beaufort. Fisher states that just after coming off the bridge he struck a bump in the road and lost control of his car, that the mule got in price is probable. Even a near excited and he did too and that he approach to the 1930 production may mean runious prices or less, than 10 cents. Manv tobacco farmers are claim ing that plants are really scarce and fertilizer reduced. These are REGU LAR excuses. The only hope is tor high grades. A maximum effort on a little acreage is essential ior tnis. Then the demand for cigarettes has definitely declined for the first time in many years. The tobacco acreage "intention is for a 7 per cent reduction for North Carolina's flue-cured tobacco and 5.6 per cent increase for the Burley crop. This is not nearly enough reduction to stop the decline in prices. PE ANUTS: The peanut crop was Fhort of the usual requirements in lSIp, largely due to drought con ditions. The consumer demand n'so declined. There seems to be room for a -light increase in acreage for this crop. The present probabilities indicate about 15 per cent increase in North Carolina and 30.7 per cent for the United States. (Continued on page igkt). truck one of the wheels of the cart causing it to turn over and throw Mr. Langley out on the pavement. Mr. M. T. Mills of the Sound'Chevro- let Company happened to be passir.g along and took the injured man to the Morehead City hospital. It was found that he had a bad fracture of tho skull and left wrist broken. It was feared that he might die. How ever Monday he returned to his home at Bettie although he was not yet considered cutof danger. BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Willis of Smyrna at Gloucester, Friday, March 27, a son TIDE TABLE Information as 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. 8:14 A. 8:37 P. Pads have been specially desit tied to protect edges of tables from the clamps of meat grinders end otner kitchen implements as well to af ford the damps tighter grip. Million in Farm Loan ' Washington, March 13 Secretary Hyde said today that the Department of Agriculture had loaned over SfiA 000,000 from the drought relief fund High Tide Low ma Friday, April 3 M 2:02 A. M. M. 2:10 P. M. Saturday. April 4 9:01 A. M. 2:52 A. M. 9:25 P. M. ' 2:55 P. M. Sunday, April 5 o..iq a M 3:41 A. 10':15 P. M. 3:40 P. Monday, April 6 M. 4:32 A. M. 4:29'P. Taetday, April 7 M. 5:26 A. M. ' 5:22 P. WednesdaTi April 8 12:06 A. M. 6:23 A, ML 12:32 P. M. 6:21 P, Tbvreday. April 9 1:10 A. M. -" 7:28 V 1:42 P. M. 7:29 10:38 10:59 h 11:08 11:31 A. P. A. P. M. M. M.
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