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AUFOfitT IN The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. I READING TO THE MIND IS1 WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY 1 $CH Your label and pay your subscription . M n-i The IMS 15 VOLUME XX 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. JUNE 18, 1931 PRICE 5c SIN feSOPY USs NUMBER 24 CARTERET COUNTY HAS RESOURCES 'SPECIAL LAWS FOR OF SURPRISINGLY GREAT MAGNITUDE CARTERET COUNTY Products of The Fisheries And Farms of The County Amount To Very Large Sum; Fertile Soil Grows Crops Easily; Fine Climate Attracts Visitors "Carteret County in one year pro- E,YPI?lVIQlrVl, ERPfiR duces sufficient agricultural and sea- DAlEalkjl T El uAIiUli food products to give one good meal to every man, woman and child in the United States of America, and in addition enough watermelons for desert, and enough tobacco for a good smoke." This is one item in a circular of information by Craven and Craven, bond attorneys of Trinity, who are employed as special counsel by the County in the effort to readjust the outstanding debts so they can be car ried without too great a burden on the taxpayers a tthe present time. Other extracts from the circular are as follows: BY LEGISLATURE IN BOTTLERS' TAX However Bottlers Are Willing To Pay The Extra Tax If Allowed $100,000 AMOUNT LOST Eleven Bills Were Passed By lhe Assembly For This County ( By M. R. Dunnagan ; Raleigh, June 1G , Carteret Coun ty had a total of eleven laws enacted by the 1931 General Assembly which relate to the county or its activities or the communities in the county, de signated as Public-Local or Private Laws, the records of the secretary of State show. These, of course, are in addition to the numerous other Public Laws, which relate to the State as a whole or to some large part of it, such as the school, road, local government and other enactments which reach every county, and the numerous laws which touch each county in a general way only. The Local Government Act, which, in many respects is equal in im- AIRPLANE FALLS THREE BOYS HURT By M. R. Dunnagan Raleigh, July 15 ,The most glar ing and most expensive error made as The county has a large debt incur- j . . . G . Assemblv red lor puDiic improvements, . ii: k.,4. 1 in nnn .Unnrt. f .nj .J which have greatly improved the in- though glaring, will not be expensive Ms already showing its value in bring dustnal advantages, and m the past I t &n unlegg SQme technicality pre. ing about a readjustment and staba several years a large unbonded debt !tg the Nofth Carolina bottlers lizing the fiancial affairs of the coun- nas Deen a Duraen. ine uubhicbs 1a . . -.-ft. f fW'tes. cities, towns anH other nnitn. much money to the State of North some of which were in sore need of now under a new administration of successful business men, and with new legislation, which with the pres ent new financing, will place the county on a sound , financial basis that will be maintained without dif ficulty. The improvements consist- bridges, Carolina during the next two years. The tax on bottlers about $100, 000 for the biennium soon to end, was to be doubled for the next two years. Then the luxury tax measure entered Julius Duncan, Jack Longest And Henry Wilson Hatsell Severely Injured In Crash Three popular Beaufort youths had a narrow escape from death Wednes day morning between eleven and twelve o'clock when the Travelair bi plane in which they were riding took a nose dive at the West Beaufort air port. Julius F. Duncan Jr., was at the controls and riding with him were Henry Wilson Hatsel land Jack Long est. They had been in the air only a short time and were attempting to land when the accident occurred. No one seems to know exactly what hap pened but any way the plane came down with a terrific crash, that drove its nose into the ground wrecking the engine, demolishing ' the propeller and doing some damage to the wings and cabin of the machine. The plane belonged to Julius Duncan and E. S. Waters. Mr. Waters, T. E. Adair and sev eral other men happened to be near when the plane fell. They rushed to it and got the boys out. They were put in cars and Henry Hatsell and Jack Longest were taken to the Emergency Hospital in Beaufort. Julius Duncan was carried to the Morehead City hospital. Henry Hat sell arrived at the hospital in an un conscious condition and is still semi- Superior Court Tries Some Important Cases the aid the law gives. Some of its value, is to be nullified, especially for this year, and in particular by those counties which I take advantage of the law enacted! conscious. He seems to have been Atlantic Beach Has Good Opening Night The formal opening of Atlantic Beach for the season of 1931 took place last evening. The bathing de partment has been open for several weeks but the dancing and other fes tivities were inaugurated with a big ball Wednesday evening. Dancing started at about 9 :30 and lasted un til after midnight. Two professional dancers gave several exhibition danc es for the entertainment of the crowd Between five and six hundred cars crossed the bridge to the beach dur ing the day and night. Most of them appeared to be from New Bern, Wilson, Greenville, Kinston, Washing ton, Moreehad City, Beaufort and other towns in the eastern part of the State. The floor of the dance hall was filled to capacity and a great many spectators were there to see the sights. The building is well lighted and was handsomely decorated with flags and flowers. A few drunks were rather conspicuous last night but upon the whole very good order wa3 maintained. and its 10 per cent caused the tax on which permits county commissioners m 1 m . 1 1 ,ng 01 nrasuru i, j production machinery of the bottlers , to postpone the collection of 193 "I 1 TZ. Z:: LT i, ? to be cut back t0 the fiure of the taxes, or the forclosures, for d. more than the total debt. The sea-food industry of this one county produces an average of $2, 000,000.00 a year in cash. The of ficial government fisheries bureau fig ures for the two years 1929 to 1930, are $3,095,000.00, but the figures in these years were low, and the aver age annual production for the next taxes, hurt worse than either of the three. He has a broken left thigh, broken nose and possibly a fracture of the base of the skull. No X-ray picture past two years. When the luxury tax linauencv in oavinsr such failed, the tax was again doubled by, until Novemberl, 1931 In case 5s ! has been made for him yet. He is the conferees, but this revisal failed county postpones such forclosures, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hat to get in the revenue act as ratified. 'county will find it hard to market its .sell of Beaufort. mi ... ... 1 . . . . . . . Ml- ine revenue aepartmeni discovered bond9 or notes this year, according to I Jack Longest has a bad cut over the omission. Charles M. Johnson, director of rhis. right eye and under the eye, a But the bottlers had agreed to a 'Local Government. Uond Buyers are doubling of their tax, reluctantly, to afraid of such postponement, he be sure, but preferred that to the 10 M- n h rnnservativelv es-iP" cent tax. bo, J. timer Long, timated at $2,000,000.00. lieutenant governor and at- u Wn Rnirf hv experts that , torney , for the bottlers,-comes to the permanency of the fisheries of Raleigh to announce that the bottlers Carteret County is perhaps superior had agreed to thff doubling, they did to any other place anywhere. M nas been kept up for fifty years and is steadily increasing in value. Agricultural products of the Coun ty for 1930, from official government it in good faith, in spite of the law, even if it has to be in the form of a donation. states. . '1. The local acts of this county are as follows: ' ', i: Authorize school authorities- and county auditor to issue, certicatesof; indebtedness to teachers. v -. Authorize Atlantic and North Car olina Railway Co. to construct or erect a suitable terminal and ware- MOSTLY LIQUOR CASES IN CITY POLICE COURT Azures, are $1,643,960.00, and these Ito accept it, since-the bottlers are figures are on a low estimate, and of willing to pay. Also it is one of the course omit some items, so that it is , best publicity stunts imaginable. More believed that the actual production 'ever it will probably save the bottlers is not less than $2,000,000.00. from having to make up the The soil of the county is rich and difference two years from now, and Admittedly, the State needs the house near such company's pier at 'money and will probobly find a way j Morehead City, from the Company's earnings. Authorizing commissioners to appoint a tax collector, fix compen- lacerated arm and concussion of the brain.; His condition is serious but not regarded as critical. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Longest of Beaufort, ' . j Julius Duncan sustained a bad cut i ':Vwr .iinrt,' VA ' onA . iha eve ha was fry 7",",' - - J - also cut. He was badly "shaken" up and. bruised by the fall but his con dition is not regarded as dangerous and he will probably soon be out of the hospital. He is the son of Julius F. Duncan well known lawyer of Beaufort. The boys and their parents are all There were several convictions in City Police Court last Friday after noon and liquor was the basis of the trouble in each case. Alnozo Fulford colored, drunk and disorderly, admitted the charge and was fined $10 and costs or 20 days work with the street cleaning depart ment. Charles Henderson colored, drunk and disorderly, submitted and was fined $1 and costs or must do street work for 10 days. Ellis Baxter drunk did not deny the. charge but seemed very, penitent and said that he would never do so again. Aleck Edwards, colored, drunk, $1 and costs or five days work on streets. Suits For Damages In volving Large Amounts Decided In Favor of De fendants; Sensationalj Divorce Case Tried; County Cases All Con tinued And Special Term Asked For By Judge Devin. Superior Court is still in progress and has been engaged since last Fri day in the trial of civil actions. The News last Thursday gave a detailed account of the criminal cases that were disposed of and since that time one or two others were tried. Some of the civil suits tried were very im portant ones and as they were strong ly contested required a good deal of time. Judge Devin made an order Tues day that the cases of Carteret county l against Stancil and Huntley, county a ganist Brooks and others, county against Simmons and others, county against Hamilton should be continued and they were peremptorily set Iff trial for the next term of court whether it be special of regular. Judge Devin also WTote Governor Gardner recommending a special term of court for the trial of these matters advising that it be held be tween the middle of August and the middle of September. The case of Carlton Lathinghouse, convicted of involuntary manslaugh ter, running over a child with an au tomobile, resulted in his getting a sentence of twelve months in prison, judgment to be suspended on his pay ment of costs and paying Julian Lew is, father of the little girl $500 to cover medical and funeral expenses.. Bond of $1000 was required of him to comply with the terms of the "sen-" tence. 1 I Alton Piner, breaking and entering I not taken. Capias and continued. I TYta oontoneo nf C. W. St.PVPTlS. Hardy Lewis, young white man from Stacy submitted to the charge who was given four months in jail on of beinor drunk and fighting on the worthless check charges, was strick- 19th of last December and then again needs but little fertilizer, and the chief crops are potatoes, $547,000. 00; tobacco, $361,000.00; corn, $139 000.00; hog, cabbage, peanuts, wat ermelon, etc. Products of manufactures in the county amounted to $1,041,000.00 in 1930. Total annual wealth production based on conservative estimate will still more The State Highway Commission, announcing that all local road Highway Commiition Plant The State Highway Commission, announcing that all local road matters are to be taken up through the local engineering staff, as con templated by the road law in making the commission a State-wide body, ation and fix salary of sheriff of ( ated consternation when the news of Carteret county. Permitting box- i the occurrence flashed over town yes (Continued on page five) Uerday morning. popular citizens and the accident ere-' a few days ago he was arrested f or be not less than $5,000,000.00. Theha9 divided the State into five divi total reauirement for interest andi liquidation of all county indebted ness is only 5 per cent of the annual new wealth produced, which will com pare favorably wit hthe best of mu nicipalities. Population, 16,900 (increased from 15,384,in 1920.) Assessed value, $14,292,668.00. Land area, 543 s quare miles. Actual value on basis of wealth production, $54,000,C ?0.00. Total bonded debt including new bonds, $3,840,000.00; ar.d there will be no notes or floating debts, or any thing else except $97,000.00 borrow ed from the State for school districts in the county. This includes $434, 000.00 of School Bonds. Carteret County wa sestablished in 1721, named for Sir George Carteret, sions, with headquarters at Asheville, Salisbury or Concord, Greensboro, Fayetteville and Tarboro, and each of these divisions is later to be divided into five districts, Chairman E. B. Jeffress announced after the meet ing last Thursday. Carteret County Girl Ties For First Place With 4-H club girls representing five counties and boys representing two counties of eastern Carolina competing for health honors here to day, Miss Sarah Windley, daughter of Prof. T. W. Windley, of Bridgeton and Miss Rosalie Watson of Wild- N. C. URBAN POPULATION INCREASES . BUT RURAL IS STILL FAR LARGER en out on condition that he pay the cost3 and make the checks good which being drunk and disorderly. He was he did. given a sentence of $1 and costs in J, E. Lewis, a Greek of rather un-V the first case, or five days on the savory reputation, was convicted of street and $2.50 and costs in the forgery in three cases and given three second or 10 days street work. Louis Jones and Arthur Stewart, years in the penitentiary. The case of L. D. Springle against Washington D. C. June 12 .Statis tics for 1930 population of North Carolina classified as urban and rural, and by sex, color, age, marital con dition, illiteracy, etc., have been issued by the Bureau of the Census in a bulletin (population-second series) entitled "Composition and Characteristics of the Population. This is a pamphlet of 74 pages, 9 by 11 1-2 inches, consisting mainly of statistical tables. The urban population of North Carolina in 1930 was 809,847, rep resenting an increase of 319,477 "or 65.2 per cent, since 1920. The urban population formed 25.5 per cent of the total population (3,170,276), as compared with 19.2 per cent in 1920. Urban population, as defined by the Census Bureau, is colored, charged with using profanity Dr. F. E. Hyde suing for $20,000 and disorderly conduct in Simon 1 damages, alleging negligence and wood.-Carteret county, was declared one of the Lords Proprietors of the tied for first place among the girls. Carolina's, though it is known that white people were living in the coun ty in 1600, previous to the settle ments of Jamestown and Plymouth. Many of the family names in Carter et today are the same as the names of Sir Walter Raleigh's colony estab lished In 1583. Beaufort, the County Seat, was in- were in the age groups under 35 years, The number of children under 1 year of age showed an in crease of 3.8 per cent, while the en tire group under 5 years increased 9.0 per cent. The proportion of the population 7 to 13 years of age attending school increased from 87.0 per cent in 1920 to 93.0 per cent in 19S, and of those 14 and 15 years of age, the croportion increased from 77.4 per cent in iy::u to 79.1 per cent in 1930. The percentage of illiteracy in the population 10 years of age and over decreased from 13.1 to 10.0. There were 1,141,129 gainful workers in the State in 1930, of whom 867,807 were males, representing 55.1 per cent of the male population, and 273,322 were females, rep- Gatlin's. care wtre acquitted. (want of skill in setting his broken arm, resulted in a jury verdict in DWELLING DESTROYED favor of Dr. Hyde. The case was- YESTERDAY BY FIRE taken up on Thursday morning and ended Friday afternoon at about fiva o'clock. Attorneys E. W. Hill and Fire of unknown origin complete-1 a r Ward aDneared for Mr. SDrin- ly destroyed the small home of Ann le an1 rjr, Hyde was represented by Potter, colored, on Pollock Street, yesterday afternoon about 2:30. When the fire was discovered, it was too late to save the home or the per sonal effects. Ann was away on du ty at the time and did not reach home until the house was ablaze. It is atotal loss as she carried no insurance. First, honors for the boys went to J. ManleyFoscue, Jr., of Pollocksville. Second honors in the girls' contest went to Katherine Wells of Trenton, -..' -. Tamob' 1 rl if and Via third honors were divided between Dorothy Sabiston of Jacksonville, representing Onslow county, and Mildred McCottor of urantsboro, corporated in 1722, but was then an I representing Pamlico county. Second honors in the boys' Ttmtest went to Jack Freeman, of Swansboro, repre senting Onslow county. old established community; Popula tion, 2,957. Morehead City, two miles'" from Beaufort, established in 1858 as the end of tho North Carolina railroad (built and yet owned by the State, from ther? to Goldsboro, Raleigh, Greensbor.) and Charlotte, but now under ler:e to railroad companies-. Population, 3,483. , Other towns in the County are ' Newport, Marshallberg, Atlantic, Barkers Island, Stella, Peletier, Har lowe, ; Mansfield, Stacy, Sealevel, Straits Otway, Bettie and Cedar Is land. ';. ,' There are 29 modern schools in the county, affording public free high school education to every child, with county-wide eight months term. Continued on page five is in general that residing in cities i resenting 17.1 percent of the female and other incorporated places hav-population. Including both farm ing 2,500 inhabitants or more, the re- owners and farm laborers, agricul mainder beinir classfied as rural. ture employed 499,923, or more than The rural population of North ' one-third of all the gainful workers Carolina in 1930 was 2,360, 429, of the State. Of the 227,561 farm nmnrig;nff 1 K97.290 nersons livine laborers. 133,687, or 58.7 per cent, on farms, and 763,209 not living on t were unpaid family workers. Th. farms, representing as a whole an various manufacturing and mechan increase of291.676. or 14.1 per cent, ical industries' employed 86,245 per- as compared with the rural population sons, the largest numbers being in in 1920 (2,068,753 ). The rural-farm cotton mills, in the building industry, population, taken increased 97,274, and in cigar and tobacco factories, or 6.5 per cent, between 1920 and There were 53,968 persons engag 1930, while the rural non-farm pop- ed in transportation, 99,193 in trade, ulation increased 194,402 , or 34.2 including banking and insurance; rpn- ,13,483 in public service (not else- Of the entire population of North where classfied); 55,702 in profess- na.ni;no 7n k nor -Brit r( white, and rional 'service: and 101,436 in TIDETABLE Information au 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 inV; or at the heads of the estuaries. High Tide Low Tide practically all of the white population Carteret county selected her repre- are native, there being only tnree- tentns 01 one per ceui. iv's uwii.. sentative for the health contest from 205 candidates, Craven had 264, Jones 159, Onslow 45 -and Pamlico had 400 contestants, In .the Carter et county elimination ' examination, Miss Annie Mae Gibble of Newport .parentage, R. F. D. 1 stood second. domestic and personal service. In the bulletin which has just been issued there are a number of features not contained in the 1920 census BIRTHS Born to Mr. and- Mrs. Brady Wade of Williston, Tuesday, June 16, a daughter. Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Weeks of Beaufort at Morehead City Hos pital, Wednesday, June 17 ,a son, Wildren Henry Weeks. . T -ilr purfep. AT ihe native white pop ulation, nearly all are of native Reports, including a presentation of nnreritaffe. there beine only six-tenths; the number of gainful workers in of one per cent of foreign or mixed -each of about 30 industry . groups, parentage. - Persons born in by counties; aeranen age uaia mi j England formed 13.7 per cent of the jcounties; a classification of the pop-j 10:19 A 10:39 P. 11:33 A. 12:15 P. 12 AT A. 1:17 P. ulation of each town by color, sex, age, etc., and an extensive presen tation of statistics for the rarul-farm population and the rural-nonfarm population. A copy of this bulletin for North Coralina may be obtained by writing 23.9 per cc-uetween 1920 and 1930. to the Bureau of the Census, Wash- and of this increase 7U.4 per cemungron, v. v., 8.788 persons comprising the foreign born white population of North Car olina. More than one half of the foreign born white population have been naturalized. The population of North Carolina p- ixVnle increased 611,153 Or Friday. June 19 M 4:14 A. M. M." 4:11 P. M. Saturday. June 20 10:56 A. M. 5:05 A. M. 11:21 P. M. 5:10 P. M. Sunday, June 21 M. 5:54 A, M. M. 6:13 P. M. Monday, June 22 M. 6:46 A. M. M. 7:20 P. M. Tuesday, June 23 1:34 A. M. 7:41 A. M. 2;19 P. M. 8:31 P. M. Wedneiday, June 24 2:39 A. M. - 8:36 A. M. 3:19 P. M. 9:37 P. M. Thursday, June 25 ' 3:39 A. M. 9:33 A. M. 4:17 P. M. 10:38 P. M. attorneys J. r. Duncan and U K. Wheatly. The case of Mrs. Maggie White hurst against her husband H. G. Whitehurst alleging ill treatment and asking for a divorce was warmly contested and resulted in a mistrial, the jury being out from 4 P. M. un til 10 P. M. Saturday night. The biggest civil suit tried this court was that of Dennis Goodwin, Melvin Styron, Cicero Goodwin, Lu gen? Koonce of Cedar Island against John J. Day. The plaintiffs asked for compensatory and punitive dam ages amounting to $30,000 each for an alleged assault with a deaJly weapon. Captain Day was convicted of this charge i:i Recorder's court and on appeal to Superior court was convicted again. In th: t'.ial here this week which la-ted two days. Captain Day wa sthe victor. The ju ry refused to give the plaintiffs any damages at all. The county has to pay the costs of the jury and so on. The jury for the trial of the Day case was summonsed from Pitt county end arrived early Monday with the excep tion of several who did not show up and were fined by Judge Devin. The jury was selected with not much dif ficulty and the trial proceeded and lasted' two .days. Captain Day was defended by Moore and Dunn and George Willis, of New Bern, F. C. Harding and L. W. Gaylord of Greenville, W. A. Finch of Wilson and C. R. Wheatly of Beaufort. Attorneys J. F. Duncan of Beau fort and D. L. Ward Jr., of New Bern appeared for the plaintiffs. Notice of appeal to the Supreme court was given. A case of a very sensational na ture which began Wednesday morn ing and which drew a crowd of men and women "that filled the court room ' ended toay at about noon with a ver (Continued on pags five)