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VOLUME XX
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1931
PRICE 5 GLE COPY
NUMBER 43
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THE
State Board Permits
Increase In Budgets
Some Special Charter Districts Allowed Fifty
Percent Increase; Beaufort May Increase
Fifteen Percent; Schedule Adopted For The
Whole State
A
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Oct. 19 Increases in
school budgets above the State stan
dard may range- from 5 to 50 per
cent, based on the number of teach
ers largely, in a schedule alopted last
week by the State Board of Equal
ization. Eight of the larger charter districts
Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, High
Point, Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilming
ton and Winston-Salem, are permit
ted to increase their budgets 50 per
cent over the State standard, con
tingent upon agreement of the school
boards and the taxing authorities;
seven others, Rocky Mount, Gastonia,
Salisbury, Goldsboro, Leaksville and
Wilson, may increase their budgets
from local taxes 33 1-3 per cent; 23
others, which list includes Shelby,
Reidsville, Lexington, Roanoke Rap
ids, Thomasville, Hamlet, -Morganton
and Mt. Airy may add 20 per cent.
The 60 remaining special charter
districts in the State may add 15 per
cent. Among these 60 are Rocking
ham, Kings Mountain, Hendersonville
Lumberton, Scotland Neck, Southern
Pines, Beaufort, Red Springs, Aber
deen, Madison, fc,lkin and Vass-Lake
view.
County system rural schools which
participate in the tax reduction fund
for the extended term, are limited to
increases of 5 per cent, while those
not participating in the tax reduction
fund may increase their budgets 10
per cent. However those, rural sys
tem schools which have more than 30
teachers will be considered for this
their places in the proper four groups
of charter schools, based on num
bers of teachers, jt
In the rural schools, the salaries of
agricultural and home economics
teachers, when paid jointly by the dis
trict and the State, are not included
as supplemental. In the charter dis
tricts general control, which includ
es salary and office expenses of the
superintendent, is not included in
the supplement.
The Board of Equalization adopt
ed this percentage increase schedule
to fit all cases, so it would not be
necessary to take up individual bud
gets of the 98 charter schools and
946 taxing district schools, with re
sulting injustices.
New Bank Regulations
All commercial, savings and indus
trial banks in North Carolina are re
quired to have in their files financial
statements, appraisals of collateral
and real estate and certificates of ti
tle by next February 1, under new
rules and regulations issued by Gur
ney P. Hood, commissioner of banks,
with the approval of his Advisory
Commission, under authority given
by the 1931 banking law.
While the new rules will require
extensive additional work on the part ! As the result of the sale of the
of all State banks, they will make it j tract of land on Bogue Banks recent
much easier for the examiners to de-jly by H. C. Jones to Durham inter
termine to status of any bank at anyests a survey has been made to de
time and thus help produce stability termine the moundary line between
and protect depositors. Banks are the Fort Macon reservation and the
required to have on their files the Jones property. State Forestre J. S.
following: Holmes of Raleigh accompanied by
Annual financial statements prop-
erly certified from those directly li-,
able to the bank in an amount of
$1,000 or more, which obligatoins are
unsecured or secured only by en
dorsement. An appraisal of all collateral to
notes secured by real estate shall be
made in writing by the executive or
loan committee of the bank and at
tached to the note.
All real estate given as security to
loans shall be appraised either by the
executive or loan committee, or not
less than three persons who are fa
miliar with real estate values in the
community, and the appraisal in writ
ing attached to the note. This ap
praisal shall state the amount of prior
liens, if any, on the property.
A certificate of title by a compe
tent attorney shall be attached to
each deed of trust or mortgage giv
en as security.
Chain Store Tax Argued
Attorney General Dennis G. Brum
mitt pitted his wit and wisdom a-
gainst that of John W. Davis, Demo
cratic candidate for President of the
United States in 1924, in argument
last week before the U. S. Supreme .
Court in the important North Caro-
lina "chain store tax" case, and is j
satisfied that he "held his own." ,
The tax law, enacted in 1929, im-
poses a $50 tax on e.ich ito:'s opcrr.t-
ed by thr same management or own-.
crship. above on?. The State Su-
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Teachers Get Checks
For Month's Salary
As stated in the News last week
owing to some hitch at Raleigh the
salary checks for the teachers in this
county were not sent out. This sit
uation has now been remedied and
checks have been sent to all teachers
in the county. Checks for rural
teachers were mailed Monday but ow
ing to the fact that the authorities at
Raleigh had not allocated any funds
for the special charter districts at
that time vouchers for the Beaufort
and Morehead City teachers were not
distributed until Tuesday afternoon.
Salary vouchers for rural teachers
in the county amounted to $6900,
those for Beaufort were $2752 and
for Morehead City they were $2997.
Superintendent J. G. Allen says that
in making up the ratings of the teach
ers were entitled to a better rating
than had been anticipated and a few
were rated a little lower than expect
ed. If any there be who do not un
derstand their ratings they will be
given that information by applying
to Superintendent Allen. The check
sent were for one month's salary.
There is still due something on last
year's pay roll and it is hoped by the
Board of Education that this will be
made up before very long.
POLICE COURT ITEMS
V. A small docket was disposed of by
Mayor Taylor in the City Police Court
.... . . ' S','.-
Wright' Stanley; ,,
gfilty to a charge of drunkenness
and was fined .$1 and costs.
Pete Davis, colored, charged with
drunkenness .said he was guilty and
was fined $1 and costs.
Two colored boys, "Lawyer" Har-
desty and Julius Davis, charged with
fighting were tried and as it seemed
to have been of little consequence the
case was dismissed.
Josephus Skarren charged with an
assault upon his wife said he was
guilty and was bound over to Record
er's Court under a $100 bond.
Lilly, Bailey, colored, was triad
upon thee harge of making a forcible
trespass into the home of Hettie Ann
Rhodes. The principal witnesses a
gainst her were her husband Matthew
Bailey and Hettie Ann. It seemed to
be a case of jealousy. The action
was dismissed.
Howard Rhodes, colored, on the
charge of an assault upon George
Johnson with a bottle was sent over
to Recorder's Court.
SURVEYORS AT WORK
ON BOGUE BANKS TRACT
engineers Oxley and Riley of the
University of N. C. have been here.0011, $100
this week making the survey. The
State owns 400 acres in the Fort Maa
on reservation and this is to be used
for a public park.
A force of men has been at work
this week laying out streets on the
property bought by Messrs. G. W.
Carr and Roland McCIamroch of Dur
ham. The report is that a number
of summer homes will be built there
and that work on them will start in
the near future. It is expected that
a colony of rather large proportions
will be established on this tract.
YOUNG WOMAN DIES
Funeral services for Mrs. Vida May
Merrill Gillikin, wife of Wayland Gil-. with President Hoover's national cred
likin, who died Saturday afternoon at it corporation in an effort to relieve
Potter Emergency Hospital after an I the country's stringent economic sit
illness of several weeks were held J uation.
from her father's home on New Bern Bankers of the state, in session
Road Sunday afternoon. Interment here subscribed $2,625,000 toward
was in Tuttles Grove Churchyard
Mrs. Gillikin was the daughter of Mr. !
land Mrs. Kerney Merrill. Her hus-
band, Wayland Gillikin is connected
with the Coast Guard service at Fort
Macon.
T high speed telegraph printer us-
ing Japanese ideographs has been in.
vented by an engineer in Japan, be-
ing about one fifth more complicated
(-it r-.achlncs usisg European char-
teeters.
THOMAS A. EDISON
IS LAID TO REST
Vast Crowds Pay Tribute To
World's Greatest Inven
tor WEST ORANGE, N. J. Oct 21
This is the fifty-second anniversary of
the incandescent light and the fun
eral day of the man who invented it.
Wit hthe first wisps of today's
dawn, the body of Thomas Edison
was moved from the vine-wreathed
laboratory where in life so many
masterpieces of his genius were cre
ated. , , . . '.
der escort, to Glenmont the Edison
home, for private funeral services at
2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Only
the closest friends were invited to
join the family, yet the list of mourn
ers numbered more than four hun
dred. The burial at Rosedale cemetery
was, like the service at the home, ar
ranged to avoid ostentation or pomp.
President Hoover, pressed with af
fairs of state and with preparations
for the arrival at Washington tomor
row of the premier of France, was
unable to attend the funeral of his
friend. Mrs. Hoover, however, trav
eled from the capital for the srevices.
Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone,
the two survivors of a famous tri
umvirate, arrived late yesterday.
. Twenty-five thousand persons pass
ed by the bronze casket in the half
light of the laboratory yesterday.
Other thousands had preceded them
Monday. Mr. Firestone, came with
Mr. Ford to say the last "goodby" to
their friend and crony, was among
those- who stood, for a misty-eyed md
ment before the bier.
Mr. 'Ford did not enter the room in
which the body of the inventor lay.
He wanted no sight o . death, . he
said, to cloud the memory of his last
sight of hifr friend there in tha'r li
brary few feet away.. A-.',.
The" Rev. Dr." Stephen "Jt Herden,
a former Methodist minister and a
frien dof Mr.. Edison, planned only
an informal funeral service at the
home. There was a prayer and the
reading of the nintieth psalm "The
days of our years are three score and
ten; and if by reason of strength
they be four score years, yet is their
strength labor and sorrow; for it is
soon cut off, and we fly away.
There was nationwide response to jwith & dub consumed considerable
the suggestion by President Hoover, A fc of
ni a statement yesterday that all elec- Mar.on Best wfls also indicted for
trie lights be turned off for one mm-. a offense fcut he had run
ute at 10 o'clock eastern standard: w ftnd cou)d not b Thfi
time tonight crystallizing the atten- j o ,. . . oe , P, . ,. ,
t.on of 120,000 000 people upon the
v.uu p..,. " " mainly upon an alibi. He proved by
Edison invention., several witnesses that he was at home
The honor guard maintained bywnen Hobbs was assaulted.
Edison employes at tne inventor s
bier was replaced last night by de
tails fro mthe army, the marine corps,
the national guard by the Rev. Ar
thur H. Brown of the Methodist
church of Orange, at Mrs. Edison's
request.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
International Public Utilities Corp.
to Tide Water Power Company, 3
tracts Morehead Township, for $10.
E. H. Gorham and wife to Mrs. G.
G. Taylor, ( 29 lots, 1 tract Moreehad
Township, for $100.
H. C. Jones and wife to Geo. Watts
Carr et al 100 acres Bogue Banks,
James E. Wade and wife to Ion
Lewis, tract Harkers Island, con.
$100.
W. W. Lewis and wife to Mary
Merrill, 40 acres Beaufort Township,,
con. fiu
Sunie B. Hornaday and husband to
Gladys Gibbs, 4 lots Beaufort, con.
$10.
BIG BANKING CORPORATION FORMED
TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL STRINGENCY
BIG BANK 14 Double
GREENSBORO, Oct. 21 North
Carolina today had taken her place
.among those states which have joined
the $500,000,000 being raised by the
national corporation for the purpose
of credit expansion.
At the same time the bankers pass
ed a resolution indorsing the plan for
holding cotton off the market until
prices recover, and urging decreased
acreage in
money" crops and great
er emphnsis on food crops.
The organization formed here yes-
terday is to be known as the Nation
al Credit Corporation No. 5 of the
fifth federal reserve district. Mem
CRIMINAL CASES
RATHER NUMEROUS
Mallison Given One Year; Crim
inal Trials Still In Prog
ress A one week's term of Superior
Court convened here Monday with
the calendar arranged for three days
of criminal and three days of civil
cases to be tried. Present indica
tions are that the criminal side of the
docket will run over into Friday and
that therefore not much time will be
left for civil matters.
i held one regular term of court here
; befor(J and one spedal tem pre.
siding over the court. Solicitor Dav
id M. Clark is prosecuting the dock
et for the State. There have been
several jury trials, some submissions
and some cases have been continued.
f W. Ulrich Mallison of Morehead
City charged with embezzlement of
fered a plea of nolo contendere thru
his counsel Luther Hamilton, which
plea was accepted and the defend
ant given one year in the peniten
tiary. Quite a number of the lead
ing -citizens of Morehead City made
talks in behalf of the young man. It
appeared that he had led an exem
plary life with the exception of the
cime of which he had acknowledged
his guilt. It was said that the salary
he made was small and that he had
yielded to temptation) perhaps for
that reason. When the Marine
Bank was audited he told the audi
tor of his shortage and made no ef
fort to conceal any thing. The &
mount of Mallison's defalcation was
$10,400 which is said to be secured
by a satisfactory bond.
) The trial of Elbert Gillikin, 17 year
old youth of the Otway community,
on the charge of slandering Kathlen
Simpson ended in a verdict of not
guilty directed by Judge Moore. The
warrant charged that he had made an
Unprintable statement about the girl
who sayorshe will be Wrten years
old next January. ' Attorney C. R.
Wheatly who represented the defend
ant, made a vigorous attack on the
girl's reputation. The defendant Gil
likin denied that he had made the re
marks about the girl as alleged, how
ever several witnesses testified that
he did so.
The case of Lee Fulcher of Wild-
wood who was tried on the charge of
. defenge rested
Duffy Arnold, one of two youths
who several months ago stole a car
that belonged to J. F. Duncan, was
given his freedom by Judge Moore
with the understanding that he would
go and live with his uncle in Craven
county. The boy had been in jail
here about three months and was giv
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MRS. MAXWELL SUFFERS
INJURIES FROM BAD FALL
Mrs. C. S. Maxwell sustained a
painiui injury to ner ngnt loot lues-
day night on her way to her car at
Mr. Charlie Thomas' home on Turner
Street. It is thought that she step
ped on a rolling stone which caused
her to fall, giving her ankle a severe
sprain, and hurting her shoulder.
Kha i af Piftni. TTnenial Qn onttinrv
lalong nicely.
Cod liver oil is said to be good for
making hens lay.
bers of the loan committee for the
new organization were announced as
follows:
W. G. Gaither, Jr., Elizabeth City;
H. D. Bateman, Wilson; Robern N.
Page, Aberdeen ; John F. Wiley, Dur
ham; William S. Ryland.-Greensboro;
K. C. Menzies, Hickory: Judge Junius
Adams, Asheville; B. M. Hanes, Winston-Salem;
Word Wood, Charlotte;
H. M. Victory, Charlotte.
The meeting also provided for a
committee to work on the cotton sit
uation and appointed L. D. Robinson
to head and select it. E. B. Cror', of
Raleigh, and Mr. Page form a spec
ial committee which will confer with
the state sinking fund commission to
gain tis approval of the gold deben
tures, subscribed as a part of the
credit corporation fund, as security
for state, county and city funds on
- deposit in banks,
CITY LiiinT PLANT
HAS AN ACCIDENT
Engineer Hamilton Badly
Hurt; House And Machin
ery Damaged
A gas explosion that occurred at
the Beaufort Water and Light plant
Sunday afternoon seriously injured
the chief engineer of the plant Roy
Hamilton and did considerable dam
age to the building and machinery.
Mr. Hamilton suffered a compound
fracture of the right arm and his
right shoulder was also injured. He
was taken in the ambulance of Adair
and Rice to the Morehead City hos
pital and on Monday he was carried
to Duke University hospital at Dur
ham. The accident seems to have been
caused by an explosion of gas in the
exhaust pipe, just as the 600 horse
power generator was being started
for the night's run. The concrete
floor of the room next to the engine i
room was ripped up, the intake mani-,
fold was damaged and a lot of win-
dow glass broken. The engine itself j Republican National Committee
is said to be uninjured. There was leaders are giving consideration to
no one in the building at the time of j raising funds for the 1932 campaign
the accident except Mr. Hamilton and: and it was disclosed that the subject
his assistant William Lupton. Mrs. will be discussed when the National
Hamilton was standing just outside Committee meets here in December,
the door. Mr. Lupton and Mrs. Republican national headquarters
Hamilton escaped any injury. jmade no comment on the Democratic
Representatives of the Fairbanks-drive for a $1,500,000 fund but it
Morse Company, the builders of the; was pointed out that the Republicans
machinery, and the Tidewater Pow-jwere not handicapped by a huge def
;r Company were here yesterday ex-1 icit and, besides, that something had
aming the plant and checking up on already been accomplished through
the damage done. They stated to a 'the new '32 Clubs, intended to arouse
reporter for the News that they were j interest in the re-election of Presi
not prepared to say what it would cost Cent Hoover. These clubs, though
to repair the machinery. Estimates !nt sponsored by the Republican Na-
made by outsiders, or rather guesses,
run from $1000 to $1500 damages.
The Tidewater Power Company re
cently contracted to buy the water
and light system here but as they
have not yet taken charge of it law
yers say the town will have to stand
whatever loss" the explosion caused.
The Tidewater Company is supposed
to taker the- tfant-over between now
and the 15th of November. . '
PHOTO GUESSING CONTEST
ATTRACTS MUCH ATTENTION ed States Supreme Court. iTeZZ
u-u-i. ' , . , . . '-t means that it is- better for a
R6? , ? hoto?rapi" ln,R A- Party to renominate its President
Bell s jewelry store is attracting a for a second term than h fa f ft t
good deal of attention this week. ItWfe it, nt jiflRH:D u
is a unique exhibit consisting of pho
tographs of male citizens of Beau
fort and elsewhere. Most of the
pictures were taken during childhood
and the problem is to guess whose
pictures they are.
Some of the photographs are com
paratively recent ones but others
date back to as much as fifty years
ago. As a person s appearance chang
es a great deal from childhood to
manhood and beyond that period it is
no easy matter to get the names cor
rectly but some of the guessers say
they are doing pretty well at it. Mr.
Bell is offering a prize of five dollars
in gold for the best list of answers
which in these times is quite a
sideration.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Thomas E. Butt, Bonnerton, N. C.
and Margaret V. Bailey, Moreehad
City, N. C.
Ulysses was the craftiest of the
Greeks, the man to whom they appeal
ed for wise advice.
TIDE TABLE
Information at to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. S.
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High Tide Low Tide
Friday, Oct. 23
5:57 a. m. 11:33 a. m.
6:14 p. m. '12:03 P- m-
Saturday, Oct. 24
6:33 a.
6:51 p.
7:07 a.
7:25 p.
m.
12:07 a. m.
12:41 p. m.
25
12:38 a. m.
1:15 p. m.
m.
Sunday, Oct.
m.
m.
Monday, Oct. 26
7:38 a. m. 1:11 a.
7:57 p. m. 1:49 p.
Tueeday, Oct. 27
8:09 a. m. 1:43 a.
8:30 p. m. 2:25 p.
m.
m.
Wednetday, Oct. 28
8:41 a.
9:01 p.
9:14 a.
9:38 p.
m.
2:13 a. m.
ro. 2:25 p. m.
Thursday, Oct. 29
m. 2:49 a. m.
m. 3:38 p. m.
Washington
Snapshots
Taken by The Helm News Service .
John W. Davis, defeated Demo
cratic presidential candidate in 1924,
will head a nation-wide committee of
prominent party men and women to
handle the Democratic 1932 cam
paign. Announcement of this, a new
departure in Democratic methods of
conducting national campaigns, was
made by Jouett Shouse, chairman of
the Executive Committee of the
Democrat i c National Committee.
More than 500, including most of ,'ie
party's "big wigs,' will assist Davis.
Committeemen and women are listed
from every State. Others include po
tential presidential candidates. Gov
ernor Roosevelt, New York, iNewton
D. Baker, Ohio; Governor Ritchie,
Maryland, and still others not so
prominently mentioned as party pros
pects. tional Committee, have been launch
ed for the purpose of lining up Hoov
er supporters and also for bringing
into the Republican national treas
ury a continual stream of dollars.
Ex-President Coolidge's article in
ths Saturday Evening Post setting
lorth reasons why he should not be a ,
candidate- f or the -Republican -awni
nation in 1932 has established a pre
cedent which will be referred to in ,
.VH " j wwi, v uimvuiwca ujf re
fuging hir-i ii rer. animation and pre-
feri'ing some one else who seems to
be stronger.
A study by the veterans' adminis
tration shov.s only 7 percnet of the
war veterans who borrowed on their
bonus certificates used the money
"in such a way as to receive no prac
ticable benefits therefrom." The av
erage per cent of veterans obtaining
loans for personal and family needs
was 65 per cent; onefifth of the bor-
irowers utilized loans for investment,
while 8 per cent bought automobiles,
"purpose undertermined." These fig-
cnn-'ures' alon with others showing 32
per cent of the 2,000,000 veteran
borrowers are out of jobs, were giv
en to Representative Patman, Demo
crat of Texas, by Frank T. Hines, ad
ministrator of veterans' affairs.
President Hoover and Secretary of
State Stimson have expressed the
common hope that the fullest ex
change of views on every subject will
be possible in the forthcoming visit
of Premier Pierre Lava' Dof France.
This statement was int'::t!ed to con
trovert the rumors appearing in the
French press that a "cut and dried
program" will be handed to tho
French Premier for his acceptance or
rejection. It was stressed in an of
ficial announcement of the State De
partment that the United States re
gards Premier Laval as a guest of the
Nation. In that capacity he would
naturally be treated with all the con
sideration and courtesy that a guest
receives from a host. Therefore the
initiative for discussion wlil always
be given M. Laval. He will be invit
ed to unfold the ideas of his govern
ment on any and all the political and
economic questions that are of com
mon interest to the United Sattes
and France. The more pressing prob
lems of war debts, reparations, gold
standard, disarmament will undoubt
edly play a prominent problem in the
discussions.
State Department officials appear
somewhat disconsolate over the re
sults of their venture into the realms
of high-powered international diplom
acy under the guidance and with the
cooperation of the League of Nations.
Two days after the United States had
I put f orward a precedent-making of
fer of full cooperation with the
League, thereby risking a storm of
Senatorial criticism, Secretary Stim-
son was still in doubt as to whether
his representative at G?neva. P"er
ti:s B. Gilbert, wuold sit or. tha Cr.un-
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