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3 n nn n n it 11 1 If ,.fn U Ml 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, APRIL 16, 1931 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 16 is t. Legislators Worn Out After Long Struggle Members Are Nervous And Inclined To Be Touchy; Some Favor Adjournment; Senate And House Locked Horns On Sales Tax Bill; Longest Session On Record By M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleigh, April 13 The North Car olina General Assembly has reached such mntal and physica) yes, and fi nancial and moral state that any "thingh might happen. That, of course, is an exaggeration, for there are too many level-headed and even-tempered members to allow First Baptist Church Is Eighty Years Old Eighty years ago on the 27th of April the Beaufort Baptist church was organized. Since it survived the dangers and pitfalls of youth and has anything unreasonable to get by. But ?orea .""" ! ; " " '"'"'" there are those among the member- L kQf0 ; ? v.:.- . ship who have come to a dangerous stage, if they should be allowed to have their way. The strain is tell ing and the effect on individual mem bers is in evidence by unusual out breaks and baby acts. er before in its history the members of the church thought it fitting that a birthday party should be staged. A special committee has worked out a special program that will be of un usual interest to all the people of Carteret county. The nropram will .Notable among these incidents was begin on Sundav evening Am-n omv, the resolution offered by Senator (and continue through the entire Rivers D., Johnson, of Duplin, on thejweek except on Friday evening May day following the defeat of the so-1 1st. During this week the church sailed luxury tax bill, and after the going people of this entire section . general sales tax had been defeated,! will have the privilege of hearing ' asking the Governor to commute the some of the most distingueshed . sentence or pardon the "little man" speakers within the bounds of the of North Carolina sentenced to death j Southern Baptist Convention. There the day before, and give him a chance win be seven of these distingueshed to live. The next day, while House speakers coming with vital messages and Senate were in joint session tomessages direct from the various elect trustees of the State Univer- fields of service in which the Baptist sity, he made a motion that the Gen-0f the South have been vitally inter eral Assembly adjourn, sine die, ested for the past hundred years, which motion was ruled out of order. l UT1P OT t.hp snpflfl tpfif-nros of t-Titc Hmvpvpv. talk of ad l'mimine1 has been going the rounds and many of ! birthday Party will be the special the legislators are known to look on recognition of all who attend the ser it with favor except for the appear-,09 who are seventy five years of ance of quiting before finishing the ae or older- A special invitation job. The suggestion is made that all ls hereby f?lven bv the church to all of the members, by a joint resolu-,n,en and women in the county who tinn pn,w thoir rpaio.nnt.inna tn thp are seventy-five years old or more Governor, and let him call another ,to a"en.d these services. The commit- executed by RAILROAD CANNOT VETERAN TELLS TAKE OFF TRAINS HARD LUCK TALE Contract Requires Railroad To Maintain Service As Former ly Done By reason of the action taken by the State Corporation Commission on April 9 trains numbers 7 and 10 between Beaufort and Goldsboro will not be discontinued. The applica tion of the Norfolk Southern Rail road to discontinue these trains has been refused. It appears that the lease of the railroad held by the Norfolk Southern requires the trains to be operated. A copy of the order of the Cor poration Commission has been receiv ed by City Attorney M. Leslie Davis who has permitted the News to pub lish it. The order reads as follows: IN RE: PETITION OF THE NOR FOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY FOR PERMISSION TO DISCONTINUE TRAINS NOS. 7 AND 10, BETWEEN GOLDSBORO AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CARO LINA. ORDER. This cause came on to be heard be fore the Commission upon the appli cation of the Norfolk Southern Rail road Company for permission to dis continue Trains Nos. 7 and 10 now operated by that company Goldsboro, North Carolina, and Beaufort, North Carolina, over its line of railroad leased by the Atlantic & North Caro lina Railroad Company, said lease now being held by the iNorfoik Southern Railroad Company. Hearing was held before the Com mission on January 20, 193, after notice had been given to the may ors of towns along the line of the railroad and after objections had been filed by the Town of Beaufort, the County of Carteret, other gov ernmental units, and individuals. It is found by the Commission from the evidence before it that the lease the Atlantic & North election to get a new group. The te,e m charge will be glad to arrange with some bring these to these services if their names are furnished to 'committee in time. constitutionality of the suggestion sVar . PSSIUle is rmnstioned ami thP nnir,t. is lnend or neighbor to mnHo that. it would V.p thp same fiffhr. special guests all over again. At this writing a deadlock is not only possible, but imminent, unless! A special musical program arrang. some give and take or compromise is ed by the choir under the brought about. The Senate, sitting of Mis. G. M. Paul and words of as a committee of the whole, killed greeting from the pastors of neigh the general sales tax overwhelmingly, ; boring churches will be given as a after the House had included it in 'preliminary to each evening program, the Revenue bill by a majority of .The public is most cordially invited four. Then the Senate killed the so-'to all these services. We hope to called luxury sales tax bill by the give a complete program in the next close vote of 26 to 24, the same bilLissue of this paper. which hte House had killed two weeks i before by an overwhelming majori- . "J i O J ty. The sales tax measures, one of 1 WO Accidents Sunday them, was intended to furnish mostj j Eastern Section of the new money needed to operate . the. MacLean six months school term , by the State. Sunday is supposed to be the main The Senate, after killing both sales tor automooue ace arm tax provisions, sought to go right in-jt may be the reason that two oc to the task of providing the $10,000,- curred in the eastern part of the 000 equalizing fund proposed in the countv Sunday nieht Senator John H. Folger bill, but wasj Grady Davis, a young man from balked for a day by the opponents of I Davis, had a truck skid with him and Carolina Railroad Company and now Luke Davis Says He Was Gyp ed of Bonus Money; Also Has To Pay Costs Hard luck certainly pursued Luke Davis of Goldsboro recently if a story he told is true. Davis who is a World's War veteran, a few days ago was in possession of some $400 of compensation money he said and was all set for a good time. Now he is minus the money and has a consider able bill of court costs to pay. Davis was first tried-by Justice of the Peace H. W. Noe on the charge of driving a car while under the in fluence of liquor. On this charge he was sent to the Recorder s Court where the warrant was amended to reckless driving on which charge he was convicted. Prayer for judgment was continued on his payment of the costs. The story as told by the war vet eran was that on Sunday afternoon he invited Mr. and Mrs. John Dennin and Miss Ella Howell of Goldsboro to take a trip with him to Beaufort, the invitation was accepted and that night the party stopped over in New Bern, coming to Beaufort Monday. They stopped here at the Inlet Inn. Accompanied by Mrs. Lonnie Fore man they ran over to Atlantic Beach and spent an hour or so there. Davis said that on the way down from Goldsboro he had turned all of his money over to Mrs. Dennin to keep for him. He says that when he asked her for the money she gave him only $20 back. He then got a war rant for the Denins and Miss Howell and they were put under arrest by Chief of Police Longest. They in turn took out a warrant fro him for driving a car while under the in fluence of liquor. Attorney C. R. Wheatly represent ed the Dennins at the hearing before Justice Noe and succeeded in hav ing the warrant dismissed. At the Recorder's hearing Davis was con victed on the testimony of the Den nins and Miss Howell who said he HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT REINSTATED BY COUNTY B04RD Board Listens To Appeal of Women And Rescinds Former Action; County Farm Agent Will Be Continued Also Beaufort Fishermen Catch Big Sturgeon The biggest fish that has been seen in Beaufort in some time was brought in Monday to Way's fish house. The fish was a sturgeon nearly nine feet long and weighed 222 pounds. It was caught by Captain Leslie Whitehurst and crew of Beaufort. It was a roe sturgeon and brought the fishermen twaney five dollars. The sturgeon was caurnt near tne Morehead City drawbridre. Although quite a large and power! ul fish it did very little damage to the net. The sturgeon has no teeth and cannot bite like a shark and some other kinds of fish. It is ver seldom that a sturgeon is caught in Carteret county and in fact they are scarce in all east Carolina watere. Captain Tom Nelson and his crew brought in a right gooc catch of sea bass Monday and also 15 large red snappers. Some of 'he snappers weighed 25 pounds or nore. These fish are caught with hock and line in the ocean and put up a good tight when caught. The prices paid for sea bass this year havs been quite low and there has been no profit in tern either for the fishermen or the dealers, so the News is niformed. held by the Norfolk Southern Rail road Company, among other things, provides that the lessee shall: "main- the;tain in the operation of said railroad, a regular train service, both passen ger and freight, at least equal to that i aiiaiiB- , . , ... . 4.j tui'"" direction r, T U1T T "Hgretted to have to twelve momns pi 01 iu i. CAC" fendant but could tion of this lease. with the evklence The Norfolk Southern Railroad j would be as light on him as possible. Company has tailed to estaonsn, un-After the trial Mrs. Dennin return der the lease and its application, its j ecj a watch to Davis which it seemed JURY INDICT 13 NEW BERN MEN True Bills Found Against Former Bank Officials In Federal Court was too drunk to drive. He admit ted drinking a little but said he was president of the National Bank not. rlrunk. Judire Davis said he re- New Bern, Hugh r. beal, z.. right to a granting of the petition, and the Commission finds as a fact hat the petition should be denied. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, That the petition be, and it is here by, dismissed. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: R. O. SELF. Clerk. This ninth day of April, 1931. she had also been keeping for him. The sentencing of Elbert Gillikin of Otway, convicted several weeks a go of an assault upon Carroll Law rence, was continued again, The Judge gave the defendant to under stand that if he would pay Lawrence's doctor's bill and some other costs he would suspend judgment on him. (Continued on page eight) The board of county commissioners marched up the hill and then marched down again on the Home Economics question. As told in the News last week the board decided at its regu lar meeting on the first Monday to abolish this department but it chang ed its mind Friday when confront ed by a delegation of some twenty five women who insisted that the work be continued. Mrs. Estelle Smith of Goldsboro, District Home Economics Agent, made the principal speech in favor of retaining the agent in this county. The State contributes largely to the expense of the department and Mrs. Smith said that if Carteret did not want the money that there were oth er counties that would like to have it. Her talk evidently made a good impression. The outcome of the matter was that a motion was offered by Commissioner Guthrie and second ed by Commissioner Styron that the former action of the board be ex punged from the record. The mo tion carried unanimously. A delegation of some six or eight men asked that the County Farm Agent work be continued. They set forth the advantage to the farming interest of continuing this depart ment. Commissioner Chadwick of fered a motion which Commissioner Guthrie seconded that the appropria tion for a Farm Agent be continued. This was also carried unanimously. The appointment of a County Tax Collector was deferred to the June meeting. The application of Carl Willis, dis abled war veteran, to be relieved of poll tax was granted. PRISONER MAKES ESCAPE BUT IS SOON RETAKEN that measure. Meanwhile, the House voted a motion which re-affirmed the MacLean school bill thus further complicating the situation, by saying to the Senate, in so many words, that it demanded the MacLean law and would have nothin g else. That body had killed one sak3 tax measure, a young lady who was in the cab with him and the machine turned ov er. He sustained an injury to one of his knees and came to the hospital here for treatment. He was not bad ly hurt and went home that night. The young lady was not hurt except for a scratch on her ankle. The cab however, and adopted the other byjof the truck was smasnea up ana n. only four majority. I was otherwise damaged probably to o.-i. etQ sfnadilv a-1 the extent of $250. nil. i. hit LiriiuLL n viiv w r j May Be Last Session For Some Members Of General Assembly bout its work of preparation for the Roland Salter who lives in the Ot- .... i-: I Folger measure. By majorities oi way community uBuiueu u iui. three to six it revised the taxes in j complete loss of his car when it the Rerenus bill. This means a re- caught fire on the road whiU he was duction from the figures adopted by driving along. He was not hurt but th House, but they were raised with the car was just about ruined. Both the view that the ad valorem tax, the truck and the car were insured would be taken from public service ;and were brought to the Loftin Mo and other corporations. The Senate 'tor Company' place for repairs and reduced them on the ground that the adjustment of the insurance, advalorem taxes will be continued,; . but is providing, in reality, increase DEFENDANTS PLEAD GUILTY Five offenders against the majesty !of the law faced Mayor Taylor in m this measure ...- j , t F id afternoon. It was rath the Senate probably Tuesday, oun y defendats baCK , , ijj ,;n. were coiorea anu u yieauu emj in amount sufficient to raise the ad ditional $3,500,000 needed for an equalizing fund of $10,000,000, which was adopted Saturday When this measure is finally pass ed in the bill, as amended, must go to the House. What will happen there as a knotty problem. The House may refuse to concur, probably will, and may refuse a conference commitee report, after a joint House and Sen ate committee has ironed out, or at tempted tD iron out, the differences. In that case, the deadlock reached would be hard to break. ' However, many of the House members who are supporting the- Mac IN CITY POLICE COURT t the charges aeainst them. The record follows:: Pnllr Johnson drunk. $2.50 and rnitv or 10 davs work on the streets, Willie Fulford, drunk, $1.00 and prists or five days. Willie Stewart, fast driving, $10 and costs or 30 days. Beverly Jones, fast driving, and costs or 30 days. Many Bailey, liquor By CARL GOERCH The reason the legislature is stay ing in session so long is because most of the boys know that this is going to be their last chance at doing work of that nature. And they're not so far wrong at that. It'll be a long time before some of them will ever get sent up to Raleigh again. It's easy to understand now why the State pays them only for the first sixtv days. After that length ot time, a legislature just naturally be comes absolutely useless and hope less. There would be no sense in paying them anything. Not even attention. The revenue bill is still up for con sideration. There seems to be just about as much chance of financing the MacLean law as there would be of trying to erect a Ku Klux monu ment in Jerusalem. The senate tore things to nieces last week and is try ing to mend them this weeK, wmcn means that the house win prompuy proceed to do a little tearing on its own account. So far as the best interests of the State are concerned, it might be a eood idea to send the whole gang up to Dix Hill for a week and let some c s in 1 i of the inmates oi ine lawer inbinu tion try their hand at legislating. They certainly couldn't do any worse. Final action has been taKen reia New Bern, April 14 B ,11s of in dictment were found on presentments before the federal grand Jury here today against W. W. Griffin former oi II. pnnvini the do-1 Mparlnws. E. C. Kea and John 11. not do otherwise Jones, officers or directors in the before him but 1 same national banking institution. Instanter capiass were L-sued and nlnred in the hands of the United States marshal, charging the five men with violation of the national bank ing laws by alleged will ful misap plying of funds of the bank by lend ing certain amounts to insolvent cor porations in which they were officers. W. W. Griffin, H. P. Beal and E. H. Meadows are charged on March 18, 1920, with unlawfully misapply ing four thousand dollars to the Farm ers' Credit Company, an insolvent corporation, of which Mr. Griffin was president, allegedly knowing that the loan would be a total loss. In a second bill of indictment, Mr. Griffin, Mr. Meadows and E. C. Rea were charged with injuring and de frauding the National Bank by misap plying $6,500 to the use and advan tage of the Investment Company, an allegedly insolvent corporation, re ceiving worthless notes in return. The third bill of indictment charg es Mr. Griffin, Mr. Meadows and John Haywood Jones with misapply ing $4,000 to the Terminal Corpora tion, an alleged insolvent corpora tion of which Mr. Jones was presi dent and Mr. Meadows vice-president, for a promissory note which they were alleged to have known was worthless, according. These are the first bills that have boen brought against local men in conection with any of the banking failures in New Bern. Ransom Smith, young white man who is a prisoner at the county jail, decided last week that he preferred the wide open spaces to jail life and so took his departure. At the time he ran away he was working on tho courthouse grounds under the super vision of Deputy Sam Darling who has charge of the courthouse and grounds. Being left alone for a short while Smith took advantage of the op portunity and disappeared. Sheriff Chadwick and Deputy Dar ling decided that Smith would go back to his old home in the Crab Point section and so they went to look for him there. They went around by Newport and coming back towards Bell's Corner met Smith walking a- long the road. He was brought back to Beaufort and will now lose the time which he would have had off for good behavior. Smith was convicted at the March term of court for a statutory offense and given a road sentence of two years. another like hawks. The new plan is going to do away with all that kind of competition, and it is going to bring about not only more economy but also more efficiency. Ten, fifteen and twenty years from now, it is go ing to be considered the greatest thing that Governor Gardner recom mended to the legislature. Nobody doubts that the consolidation was a wise move. There is now serious doubt that any satisfactory solution of the tax problem will be reached. It may be that the legislature will have to ad journ and be called back later in special session. Probably around the first of July. It is doubtful, howev er, whteher much sense could be drill ed into them during that brief inter val. There ought to be a law passed, providing for all members of the : General Assembly to pass intelligence tests. Such tests would automati cally throw out at least three-fourths of the entire membership and per haps the balance could settle down to work and accomplish something. Whatever else happens, there is one thing that is absolutely certain; no one is ever going to brag about hav ing been a membr of this particular session of the legislature. The farmers of the State, for the most part, have allowed the General Assembly to pass from their minds, Hay production in Caldwell Coun-- ty will be increased this summer due to greater plantings of soybeans. More than 300 bushels of seed beans have been ordered cooperatively to date. 10 t u,r nn rnnviilC ed it will not give the people what! for purpose of sale held for they think and hope and they, in rc-jcr's Court under o0 bond. ality, realize the $10,000,000 equal izing fund would aid them about as much and would not burden them with a sales tax. Many citizens, ( Continued on page 8) possession Record- MARRIAGE LICENSES BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh T. Gil likin of Otway. Thursday, April ft, a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wheelington Robinson of Atlantic at Morehead City Hospital, Tuesday, April 8, a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Day of Lola, Thursday, April 9, a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hamilton of Atlantic, Monday, April 12, a son. "Born to Mr. and Mrs. George W. Daniel of Roe, Wednesday, April 15, a son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nel- themselves son of Harkers Island, Monday, Aprh 13, a son, Melvin Lee Nelson. TIDE TABLE Information aa to tie tides t 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. Albert C. Murdoch and Edna five to brinine about a consolida tion of the University. State College: and are now occupying and N. C. C. W. That's one measure j with getting another year's crop in that went through a-kiting. It's go-; readiness. Indications are that cot- ing to mean a big saving to the Sta'te ton, tot,; ceo and other crops are go Under the old system, whenever Dr. jing to sell at a much lower figure this Foust got a new "pair of pajamas, Dr. (fall than lat year. It looks as though put in requisitions for the same , reduction in taxes. from now on ening oeginmng at coo o ciue. thines Neither of the educational the average farmer probably will re-, There will be no admission charge t : . tj u tfco,. n crpt 'onrd floods, droughts and legislators and the public ls invited to attewa U. I II XI. 11. L1L1I1 11 VVailLCU L11C VWVi V V b. - v u . . ... -, , BAND CONCERT AT ST. PAUL'S There will be a band concert at ediately , there isn't going to be any material ' St. Paul's School next Wednesday ev- High Tide Low Tide Friday, April 17 A. M. 1:29 A. P. M. 1:28 P. Saturday, April 18 A. M. 2:04 A. P.' M. . 1 :59 P. Sunday, April 19 M. 2:39 A. M. 2:32 P. Monday, April 20 M. 3:16 A. 7:40 7:53 8:12 8:25 8:45 A. 8:56 P. 9:18 9:32 A. P. ahead of it, and they watched one (Continued on page 8) and hear the music. M. 3:08 P. M. Tuesday, April 21 9:53 A. M. 3:57 A. U. 10:12 P. M. 3,':48 P. M. Wednesday, April 22 10:34 A. M. 4:43 A. L 11:00 P. M. 4:33 P, St. Thursday, April 23 11:01 A. M. 5:33 A. M. 11:24 P. M. 5:27 M. M. M. M. M, M. 11. M. iMcCabt, Wildwood, N. C.
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