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Mews U HE C The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. READING TO-THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO TK DY WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XX 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1931 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 20 !- Charges Of Bribery Being Investigated Something; Of A Sensation Started In Raleigh; It Is Alleged That Attempts Have Been Made To Bribe Legislators; Committee is Examining Witnesses Today. Conference Committee Seeking A Solution By M. R. DUNNAGAN Raleigh, May 11 At the end of a -week crowded with charges and coun tercharges, apologies and retractions, instructions and directions in precise ly contrary directions, in spite of all that, the solution of the main prob lem that has confronted the present General Assembly for many weeks now seems much nearer a solution than ever. The' big question before the con ferees, reflecting in their personnel the contradictory instructions of House and Senate, that of State sup port of the schools, on the outside, would seem further from an answer than ever, but in the head-on collis ion of forces now, something must give. The contest must come to an end. One ray is the only report the conference committee will give out since it has been in part recast and returned to work: that it is meeting and conferring, and is not without hope. Many plans of compromise are be ing considered, it is known; in fact, all plans that have been suggested are being weighed. Two seem to stand out : (1) A 20 cent State-wide ad va lorem tax on property and the bal ance of the cost from an equalizing fund of $10,000,000 or as much more as is required. (2- The State take over the ele mentary schools for six months op eration, giving what aid available or , procurable for the high schools. , "" rpne flrgt means the Senate plan with necessary modifications. The second means carrying out the Mac Lean law in so far as the elementary schools are concerned, the counties continuing the high school costs, with some State aid. The instructional cost for the high school work is fig ured at 27 per cent; that for the ele mentary schools at 73 per cent. The State would pay all of the 13 per cent, nearly three-fourths of the cost. It might also aid the high schools, cut ting stir more of the county costs. School people dislike this division and seemingly prefer the $10,000,000 equalizing fund for aid of smaller counties. It is know that the conferees are considering both plans, along with the others, and it is possible that some form of one of them may be the basis of coming to terms and breaking the deadlock within the next few days. House-Senate Deadlock The Senate and House deadlock ap peared more acute as a result of the action of the two bodies last Thurs day and Friday. The House adopted a resolution directing its conferees to return to their labors but to resist all efforts of the Sena's to have the schools operated in part by an ad valorem tax on real estate. The Senate countered the next day by a dopting a resolution to instruct its conferees to propose the Grier-Folger plan, including the $10,000,000 equal 4zing fund for schools, and to oppose ' any form of sales tax. The House had tried to include in its resolution a provision that if the conferees did not come together on the Revenue Bill by Tuesday of this ' week that the General Assembly then adourn without passing either the Revenue or the Appropriations bill. That provision was stricken out by a 49 to 38 vote. The resolution to instruct the conferees against ad valorem tax was adopted by a 46 to 85 vote,, which observers took as an indication of the weakening of the overwhelming vote by which the Mac- Lean measure was adopted early in the session. ? I The Senate had a warm time over the resolv ion to instruct its conf er r ees to eurport the Grier-Folger plan and oppoj.2 any form of sales tax. The vote was about the usual major ity, 24 to 22, by which the Senate has stood by its plan through several votes. When it was adopted, Sena tor John W. Hinsdale, author of the "luxury" salesp lan, and Senator J. A. Pritchett, an advocate, resigned on the ground that they could not follow the instructions. Senators J. R. Baggett and M. A. Blount were - named to succeed them, but both de clined to serve, as they too opposed the Grier-Folger plan. Then, the Senate decided to name two othar members favorable to the plan they have adopted and support ed from time to time, so the plan Continued on page six Much interest has been aroused in Raleigh, and throughout the State, by charges that attempts to bribe members of the State Senate have been made. A Senate committee headed by Senator H. S. Ward of 'Beaufort county has been appointed to investigate the matter and several witnesses were examined yesterday. Witnesses summoned before the com mittee are Faison Thompson, Golds boro attorney, W. Lungsford Long of Roanoke Rapids, E. C. House of Wel don, Ray Jones Ralegih hotel clerk, David H. Pope, chairman of te board of commissioners of Wake county. Several witnesses were heard yester day and the hearings adjourned to commence at 10 o'clock this morn ing. STRUCK BY AUTO W. J. WILLIS DIES Second Fatality of Kind Hap pens In, Less Than Ten Days For the second time in about ten days a life has been lost in Carteret county by reason of the person's be struck by an automobile. The first instance was that of Leon Cook of Moreead City killed on May 1st. The second tragedy of the kind was when William Jones Willis, a highly esteem ed citizen of Williston, wag struck and killed while crossing the high way near his home Sunday. The accident occurred between twelve and one o'clock in the afternoon. The verdict of the jury summon sed by Coroner G. W. Dill, was that the accident was unavoidable. The jury was composed of Charles Thom as, Everett Willis, Joe Salter, . B. Willis, H. I. Willis, R. F. Bostic. A number of witnesses were examined including Howard Fulcher Jr., who was the driver of the Ford touring car that struck Mr. Willis. In the car besides Mr. Fulcher were Floyd Gaskill, Maxwell Fulcher, Larry Hill, Koonce Taylor, Newman Taylor, Wesly Taylor. The evidence was that Mr. Fulcer, who is in the Coast Guard service and was at home on vacation, was driving the car at the rate of about 35 miles an hour, that he blew his horn twice and tried to avoid striking Mr. Willis. When the car stopped it was entirely off the pavement. Mr. Willis and his son Guy had started to cross the road, the son called to his father to look out and stepped back-off the road. The elder Mr. Willis appears tio have gotten confused and stepped in front of the car. He was struck by the left side of the car, broke the handle of the door and made a dent in the fender. The back of his skull was crushed and death was instan taneous. There was no evidence that that the young men in the car were drinking. Funeral Services Monday. A large crowd attended - the fun eral services Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Williston Mehto dist church which were conducted by the pastor the Reverend E. L. Hill as sisted by the Reverend J. A. Vache of Beaufort. The hymns "Nearer My God to Thee" and "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" were sung by the choir and "Peace, Wonderful Peace" was rendered by a quartette compos ed of Judge M. Leslie Davis, Dr. F. E. Hyde, Graydon Paul and the Rev erend J, A. Vache. At the grave the choir sang "That Beautiful Land." Mr. Willis was 48 years of age. His wife died several years ago. He has two sons Guy and Willard and a daughter Miss Mary who graduated this year at Smyrna High School. Mr. Willis is survived by three brothers Albert, Ion and Robert and six sis ters, Mrs. John A. f Nelson, Mrs. Stephen Gaskill, Mrs. Richard Lef fers of Straits, Mrs. M. C. Piner, Mrs. James M. Wade, Miss Sue Willis of Williston. Mr. Wilis had a large cir cle of friends who greatly deplore his untimely death. ' MARRIAGE LICENSES. ... Walter Carter and Lina Chadwick, Beaufort. Cactus Is Plentiful K On Ocracoke Island By Aycock Brown ; Ocracoke, May 12 "What the heck does any one want with cactus?" I said to myself as I walked with Mr. Hammerschlag over the' sandhills of r tr. II 1 t m i m. inoon v wiey las wee loosing lor these little prickly plants that would even stick through the bottom of barefooted Simie O'Neal if he should step on one. ; j Trying to be my politest, however, I did not say it out loud. Being a sort of a nut on biology, ornithology, itchthyology, chemicalology etc.'vl walked with Mr. Hammerschalag seeking cactus. There is much cac tus on Ocracoke Island as one would find on the Painted Desert of Mon tana or wherever it is, or the Sahara of Asia That is, I base my oponion, on a former walk I took over the is land trying to be native and shoeless. "We import cactus, smiliar to this from Germany and you would be sur prised what a business it is," said Mr. Hammerschlag picking up a small plant. "And I thought that it was consid ered just a pest like Jimson Weed, wiregrass, chciken mites and drug store cowboys," I answered picking up one of the plants and getting stuck. "Oh, no!" said Mr.1 Hammerschalag. "There are thousands of persons in this country who consider it one of their most prized house plants." "Well why do they import most of it from Germany I asked," having having been told by Jess Giles that the stuff grew in great profusion out on the Western plains, (where Jess and Gutsom were in the art racket) not including all of this found along the sandy coast of North Carolina and on Ocracoke I sland in particular. "Why don't they use local stuff." Then I thought to myself, "I must write Max Gardner and have him men tion castus in his next "Live at Home" lecture. Now there is great prospects for the man who would go out and gather cactus and sell it to those folks who like to have it grow ing in their hothouses and homes. Personally I prefer Orchids, or Mc j lets, or ferns or Something. - But'ii is an idea, Governor. "Folks in America just don't ap preciate the value of putting it on the market. I am postiive that some of the cactus we import from Germany is gathered on the western plains of this country by German students, carried across the water and then re sold into the United States," said Mr. Hammerschlag. "Such a peculiar situation," I re plied and meant it. Chief Longest Hurt By Rum Runner's Car Chief of Police W. R. Longest is confined to his bed at home as a re sult of having been struck by an au tomobile Tuesday night. The car was driven by a notorious Negro rum runner by the name of Herbert Mor ris who lives in the more or less fam ous North Harlowe section. Acting on information Chief of Police Longest, Police Officer Holland and Deputy Sheriff Chaplain kid in wait for the man for an hour and a half in the section bounded by Crav-- en, Pine and Mulberry streets. Of ficer Holland was in a car and Messrs Longest and Chaplain hid behind a garage. About . 10 o clock the rum car, a sedan with two or three men in it appeared with Morris at the wheel. The car ran into a yard and with the motor still running got ready to deliver some of his cargo to several men who were apparently waiting for him. Longest and Chap lain started for the car and had got ten in a few feet of it when the rum runner, who is as keen as a fox, saw the Chief. He stepped on the gas, swung his car to the left and before Mr. Longest could get on the running board struck him with such force as to knock" him six or eight feet and darting into the street left at probably sixty miles an hour. Deputy Chaplain however managed to get two or three shots at the tires and may have damaged them but it did not stop the fleeing car. Chief Longest had a small bone fbroken in his left ankle and his knee right badly bruised. His physician thinks that he will ba able to get a bout in a few days. After such an experience it seems that he is lucky to be no worse off than he is. Morris is regarded as a dangerous fellow who would hot hesitate to do any thing to keep from being arrested. He has been chased by officers more than once and they know him to be a hard one to catch. In Beardstowh, 111., Wheeler Colvin 78, a river pilot, died from cancer on his heel, caused by lightning which struck him years ago. GRADED SCHOOLS TRUSTEES CHOSE . Entire New Board Elected With One Exception; Night : Watchman Elected A new board of trustees for the lnMufort Ci-ari swi. , ;at a reCessed meeting of the city board of commissioners Monday night The meeting was a continuation of one held Monday a week before. Those present were Mayor Taylor and Commissioners Maxwell, Chap lain, Rumley and Willis. The first list of names suggested for the board of trustees was compos ed of J. A. Hornaday, Halsey Paul, John Dill, R. B. Wheatly, Leslie C. Davis. Mr. Wiley H. Taylor who was present said that as a citizen of the town he did not think the list a representative one. He said he un derstood that it was proposed to make up a board representing thee hurch and the two political parties in the town. He said also that he thought if one bank had a representative on the board that both should be repre sented. This brought on a caucus between Commissioners Maxwell, Rumley and Willis who then came in with a list which was adopted and which is as follows: J. A. Hornaday, six years, Halsey Paul six years, N. W. Taylor four years, John Dill four years, R. B. Wheatly two years, Rich ard Felton. Under the special act recently adopted by the General As sembly for Beaufort the town com missioners appoint six trustees and the County Board of Education ap point three. The latter have not been appointed yet. Only one mem ber of the old board has been re elected J. A. Hornaday. The board also elected the follow ing as members of the Water and Light Commission : C. R. Wheatly for two years, W. P. Smith for four years and E. D. Doyle for six years. Commissioner Willis said that the town was very much in need of a night watchman and offered the name of D. M.' Jones for the position at a , f t $?Q month, After a short discussion a motion was' passed ' to this effect. A committee was appointed com posed of Mayor Taylor and Commis sioners Rumley and Willis to consult with City Attorney M. Leslie Davis in regard to fixing his compensation for services. W. L. Stancil who is doing some work for the city suggested that it is neeessaryjo fix a budget for next year and was authorized to go ahead with it. The board adjourned subject to the call of the Mayor. FIREMEN ENTERTAINED AT PERQUIMANS FARMS Last Friday night Mr. Rufus Sewell entertained the Beaufort firemen and a number of other guests at Perquim ans Farms. The rereshments consist ed of barbecue, Boston baked beans and other viands all of which were well prepared and greatly enjoyed. There was a good deal of music vocal and instrumental. A colored quartette from Beaufort sany a number of se lections which were very favorably re ceived. A similar entertainment was given by Mr. Sewell last year. TIDE TABLE Information a. 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 t the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. High Tide Low Tide Friday, May 15 M. 12:22 A. M. M. 12:15 P. M. Saturday, May 16 M. - 1:00 A. M. M. 12:48 P. M. Sunday, May 17 M. 1:38 A. M. M. 1:24 P. M. Monday, May 18 6:29 A. 6:46 P. 7:17 A. 7:19 P. 7:42 A. 7:55 P. 8:19 A. 8:32 P. M. 2:17 A. M. M. 2:03 P. M. Tuesday, May 19 A. M. 2:58 A. M. P. M. 2:44 P. M. Wednesday, May 20 A. M. 3:41 A. M. P. M. 3:28 P. M. 8:57 9:14 9:38 9:59 10:28 Thursday, May 21 A. M. 4:29 A. M. 10:50 P, M 4:2Q P, M, allien Maoon Rccue, men rrom urowning 2 ci - . . ... The account given Deiow, laicen from the Daily News of Stuart, Flor ida, refers to a former well-known Beaufort citizen and will doubtless in terest readers of this newspaper. "A spectacular rescue of two men in a very rough sea was effected by Captain Allen Mason of the United States coast guard station last Thurs day. "Captain Mason observed the boat "Whistler," owned by W. A. Larsen of White City, in distress about a half mile north of St Lucie inlet and 12 miles at sea. She was on her way from Miami to Fort Pierce, and was flying distress signals. The boat, which was used for snapper fishing, was leaking badly, had considerable motor trouble, rud der gone, and otherwise disabled, when Captain Mason went to her res cue at about 1:30 p. m. He made for Salerno with the wreck, but be cause of the shallow water at St. Lucie inlet had great difficulty in his attempts to cross the bar, in fact four attempts were made before suc cess was won. The lines between the two boats parted four times before the bar was reached. Ebb tide made the work more difficult. Finally, after 10 hours struggle, the boat was beached at a point near Salerno, but the men were at the point of exhaustion and suffering greatly from hunger when they set foot on land. Captain Mason said he had been on the water 35 years but had never before been so tossed about by the waves as in this exper ience. The injured boat was brought to Stuart next day for repairs. Ivy Whisenent was captain of the dis abled craft. The other man's name is Louie Barthing. MRS. SALISBURY DIES SUDDENLY Highly Esteemed Welfare Agent Succumbs To Heart - Attack Funeral services for Mrs. F. C. Salisbury, County Welfare Agent, whose sudden death Tuesday shocked the people of Carteret county, will be held tomorrow (Friday) afternoon in the auditorium of the Morehead City school. The Reverend B. B. Slaugh ter, Methodist minister, will have charge of the services and will be as sisted by other pastors of the curch es in Morehead City. Mrs. Salisbury's death occurred shortly after two o'clock Tuesday af ternoon near North River bridge while she and Miss Lillian Duncan of Beaufort were on the way to Smyrna to attend to a case there. Mrs. Salis bury seemed to be very well and was talking to Miss Duncan when sudden ly she gave an exclamation as if in pain and slumped over in the seat. Miss Duncan grabbed the wheel and cut off the gas bringing the car to a stop about fifty feet from the east end of the bridge. Two men in a passing truck offered their assistance and drove the car as rapidly as pos sible to Beaufort to the hospital. It was found though even before she was taken from the car that Mrs. Salisbury had passed away and that nothing could be done to resuscitate her. An attack of the heart was the immediate cause of her death. Mrs. Salisbury previous to her marriage was Miss Katherine Greff, daughter of Phillip and Mary Ann Greff of Warsaw, N. Y. where she was born January 31, 1875. She lived in Warsaw for thirtv vears and was a graduate of the Warsaw High School. In 1924 Mr. and Mrs. Salis-! hurv mm, to Morphpad Citv to live Mr. Salisbury is the owner and pub lisher of the Carteret County Herald and Mrs. Salisbury has been the rep resentative of the Associated Chari ties of Morfhead City for four years and County Welfare Agent for two years. She has always been intense ly interested in her work and has done a great deal of work and made many friends in Carteret county. Mrs. Salisbury is survived by her husband F. C. Salisbury, two daugh ters Betty and Jeanne and two broth era C. H. Greff, Warsaw, N. Y. and P. H. Greff, Scranton, Pennsylvania. MARVIN LEWIS INJURED WHEN TWO CARS COLLIDE Marvin Lewis, a young man from Lenoxville, is in the Emergency Hos pital here with head injuries and lac erations as a result of an accident that occurred Saturday night about eight o clock. The young man was coming into town driving a coupe and his car and the car of Mr. C. . T. Chadwick collided on Live Oak street. Mr. Chadwick was not hurt. Mr. Lewis was brought to, the hospital and is said to be getting along very welL iREfftRnER'S ffilIRT HAD BIG DOCKET Morehead City Cases Furnish Amusement Several Get Convicted A rather full docket confronted Judge Davis and Solicitor Phillips in the County Recorder's Court Tues day morning. Court did not adjourn, except for an intermission for din ner, until three o'clock in the after noon. The record follows.: Sam Rhodes, colored man of Beau fort for assaulting Owen Vann, also colored, with a brick plead guilty. The two had a fight and Sam hit Owen on his forehead doing some damage but apparently it was not a dangerous wound. Judgment was suspended on payment of costs and he was given two weeks to get up the money. Lee Brock, a colored, man from Morehead City, submitted to a plea of reckless driving and was fined $25 and costs to be paid in two weeks or go to jail for 60 days. Earl Mason, eighteen year old white youth who lives near Beaufort, carged with reckless driving submit ted and was let off with the costs, prayer for judgment continued for twelve months. He voluntarily stat ed that he never expected to take another drink of liquor. ' The trial of Aleck Mendenhall of Morehead City, 60 year old Negro, veteran of the Spanish and the late World War, on the charge of forci ble trespass and assault upon a fe male furnished considerable amuse ment to the spectators and officials. The prosecuting witness was Victoria Powers formerly of Beaufort now living in Morehead City. She said that the defendant slapped her and that he forced open the door to her house and entered against her protest Under the cross-examination of At torney C. R. Wheatly she stated that she had two or three living husbands. Her daughter Annie Stanly, also mar ried but not living with her husband, corroborated her mother's statement. The defendant denied the slapping and the forcible entry, admitted drinking a good deal of liquor and also a rather irregular relationship with the family. He said he had paid the rent, furnished food and bought liquor occasionally. Evidence of Police officers Willis and Salter was that Mendenhall, who gets a pen sion, usually gets on a drunk about once a month. He was pronounced . guilty by the court and fined $10 and costs or 40 days in jail. Another case very similar to the other was that of Hardy Davis charged with trespass and assault upon Oleta Davis both colored and residents of Morehead City. Several witnesses testified that Hardy struck the woman and he admitted shoving her down. He said that there was a friendship between them of several years standing and that Oleta got mad with him because he did not give her some of his bonus money. He was convicted and given the option of paying $50 and costs or going to jail for three months. Later the court reduced the fine to $40. , Two citizens of Atlantic, Doris Guthrie and John William Willis were tried on the charge of assault with deadly weapon and both were con victed. Testimony of the defendants and other witnesses was that Doris and Floyd Willis had a dispute which ended in a fight about some crabs which Doris accused Floyd of steal ing. It appeared that John W. Wil- 1 lis, father of Floyd, arrived on the scene and took a hand ln the fi2ht and 8truck Guthrie with a piece of iwood. Guthrie elthsr before or af- terwards, different statements were made about it, struck Floyd with a piece of Wood that had a nail in it and stuck it in his head. Judge Davis decided to let the de fendants off with the costs in the case John W. Willis to pay two thirds and Guthrie one third of the amount Guthrie seemed fatisnei with 4his decision but the father and son pror tested considerably. Neither side had an attorney and did considerable ar guing andd kputing. Lorenzo Lewis, white youth- from Otway, submitted to the charge of driving a car in Beaufort while under the .influence of liquor. Prayer for judgment was continued for twelve months, defendant to pay costs and not driver" a car for 90 days. POTTER HOSPITAL NEWS Mr. James Gaskill of Sea Level is recovering from a tonsil operation Tuesday. Mr. Charles Gillikin ,of Beaufort was admitted May 12 for treatment. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Dickinson Sunday, May 10. 1 " , V 1 V"?
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