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TT lit 11 INlS The best tiding medium published in Cartere? Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO .iw BODY WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XX 12 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 931 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 50 p r, BEMJFO WS , TWO NEGROES NOW FACED WITH INUMEROUS THEFTS PREMEDITATED MURDER CHARGE! REPORTED LATELY Elishua Murray Held as Material Witness on $250 Bond; Other Two Defendants, George Taylor and Robert Murray, Held in Jail Until March Term Superior Court. The Upper North River section populated principally by the dusky brethren which is rather infamous for its feuds, foibles and shooting scrapes galore, furnished another ep isode Wednesday afternoon when three Negro men Elishua Murray, Robert Murray and George Taylor were brought before Justice 3. W. Noe in a hearing held in the court house, the three Negroes being charg ed with the premeditated muider of Wardell Smith, also colored, with a shot gun on the night of November 30. Much interest was manife ted by the colored folks during the hearing, the court room being nearly half fill ed with them, most of which live in the Upper North River set.lement. Only a few whites were pi-esent oth er than Justice Noe, Dr. Clifford Lew is, the Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff', Attor- np r p whoativ nH .Tamp W. Ma son, and the newspaper rei resenta-' tives. Dr. Lewis, the first witness stated' Wednesday morning before the re- that Wardell Smith was brc ught to . mains were removed from Norfolk, a the Potter Emergency Hospital on 'short funeral service was held at the the night of November 30, and that! home of the deceased by the Rev. the man was shot in the body both a-, Edward Carter, Jr., of that city. hove and below the diaDhraen and all Mr. Dill was for over thirty years : so in the left arm and leg. He was unable to ascertain how many loads and a halt ago employed in tne gov nf shot, had PntPred the Neeros bodv. i eminent service. He was superinten- Dpath he said was caused bv cas can- grene as a result of the shooting. along the Atlantic seaboard, the Mis- . ot.-:ff t it ..jj'sissippi river, and in the far West. He : that Warde SnUh dSd three men as the ones that did the shooting when the former sasv their"" r ' . X V, . i i r(i i , . . 7 . u;i v,,.ti at in charge of the Point Judith break-, iiyuieu .... u " "water in Rhode Island and the Har-1 LCI IlC (too iiivivt Mary Jane Johnson, sister (f the jthe early part of thig century he was shot man, stated that WardeL was instrumental in constructing the Yel shot about or shortly after dark on iowstone Dam, on the Blackfeet res the evening in question. she said ervationi near Glendie, Montana. For that she met her brother on the roadjthe past 19 years he has made hig and that he told her that he was go-jhome in Norfolk, Virginia, and has - ing to , his. ., -uncle's home Elishua been empioyed untii his recent retire Murray's and ask his forgiveness for ment at the -rnroent canal-locks some allocation they had "had. . ' at Great Bridge, Virginia. Rosetta Smith, also a sister, and ! Mr. Dju was the voungest child of Lena Belle Taylor, a niece, were un- Elizabeth and Samuel Dill of this able to tell much. 'community. In 1881 he- married Johnri. bmitn, orotner oi waroeu, told Justice Noe that his brother told him in the hospital that he knew he'to this union was born three sons: was going to die and that Robert , g Murray and George Taylor were the ones that shot him; he also said that' Elishua Murray had nothing to do with the shooting, as they had fixed j up their misunderstanding and were;ware m 1901. Three survive this standing close together at the time of union: Miss Carolina H. Dill and Mrs. the shooting. i Claude Sykes, of Norfolk; and Chas. Both Justice Noe and the two at-j Dill of Chicago. Mr. John H. Dill of torneys, Messrs. Wheatly and Mason, ; this community is a nephew, were of the opinion that the dying ! A number of nieces and nephews declaration made by Wardell in the hospital to his brother John H. Smith was Dositive evidence and therefore competent. Justice Noe decided that 'worth, S. L. Dill, A. T. Dill and Mar he would hold Robert Murray and'eus Dill. . George Taylor without privilege of bond; and that, on the testimony of John H. Smith, Elishua Murray could only be held as a material witness, bond fixed at $250. Case continued until the March term of Superior! uun. Although the shooting occurred on erate veterans, their widows and ne- the evening of November 30, the warigr0 servants have been mailed out Tant accusing the Negroes of the to the Clerks of Superior Court in crime was not issued until last Thurs- tne 100 counties of the State as the day ana tne arrest ws were not maoe until after it was too late to get the the story in the News. Juniors Hear Address By Visiting Official A large crowd attended the pub - lie meetincr of the local Council Jun- ior Order United American Mechanics in the Duncan building Monday even - ing, at which time Mr: E. V. Harris, of Tarboro. District Manazer of the Beneficiarv Decree, made an address. Rev. Mr. Sharpe, of Morehead City, also snoke to the Juniors. Motion pictures vl cuts vvvu' uipuaimgee auu and other work being done by the Or-! der were shown, demonstrating the! high type of work now being carried on by the Junior Order. This spec ial meeting was largely attended, not only by the local membership, but quite a number also attended from Morehead City and other parts of the county. CHRISTMAS SERVICE. The Church School, of St. Paul' Episcopal Church will have a Chritt ma Service, Sunday afternoon at 5:45 to which everyone is cordially invited. A special invitation is ex tended to the parents of the children of the Church School. Last Rites Conducted For John A. Dill Sr. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock in the Ann Street Methodist Church by the Reverends R. F. Munns and Worth Wicker for John A. Dill, Sr., a native WJL J-J-CiV4AV'l nuu JI'IOHVU t- way at his home in Norfolk, Va., early Monday morning at the age of 76. "Abide With Me" "Asleep in Je sus" and "Throw Out the Life Line," were sung at the church; and Miss Virginia Howe sang a solo, "The 01dmto the two safes there by mauling Kugged cross. a large crowd 01 friends and relatives attended the , test rites and the profuse floral of ferings attested to the esteem with vhich he was held. Mr. Dill was for many years a member of the Masonic Order and the members of the local 'lodge conducted the service, at the grave, interment was in the tpis-jbeen icPal metery. P"r to nis retirement aoout a year dent of construction of many projects. "b-nt Fort Macon in the early partly had also taken his car-just an- " " " hnv nf Rpf ncro nt T.nnps. Dplawarp. In Mi?s Ada Whitehurst. the sister of jcounty Auditor J. J. Whitehurst, and j F. Dill, Great Great Bridge, Va., Richard Dill, Southport, and John A. ! (jack) Dill, Jr., of Beaufort. After the decease of his wife he married Miss Louise Kuehn, of Loues, Dela. from New Bern attended the last rites: Mrs. Frank Perry, Miss Ella Dill, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Wads-! Vouchers Mailed For Confederate Pensions RALEIGH, Dec. 15 Vouchers for a total nf S44H.fi 15 for 4. Hfi ) ( nnfert - semi-annual pension fund, for distri- bution on Tuesday of this week, by. State Auditor Baxter Durham. Of the number, 1,024 are former Confederate soldiers who receive checks for $182,-50, or half of the an nual sum at the rate of $1 a day, the total amount at this time being $199 655; the 530 class A widows receive checks for $150, amounting in the j aggregate to $19,500; the class B. widows, numbering 3,243, receive $50 .checks a total of $151,150 while the ' 83 negro servants of Veterans receive ! $ 100 each a total of $8,300, Auditor 1 Durham's figures show. I The extent to which the "thin gray inic w gct.wus wining 6. j is shown by the fact that while only 1,094 veterans are living today, an average of less than 11 to the coun- ty, five years ago at this date the number was 2,682 and eight years ago there were 4,111 veterans who had followed Lee and Jackson, the auditor's records show. Carteret county now has 19 pen sioners who receive a total of $1,- 347.50 this week, including three Confederate veterans, receiv i n g $547.50; No Class A. widows, 16 Class B widows, receiving $800, and no negro servants who accompanied their masters in their military servic;. SUESCRIBE TO THE NEWS 82.00 PER YEAR. i'Thieves Apparently Working Overtime Around Here; Mat his Cafe Entered Twice A number of Beaufort people have been plagued with what is seemingly an epidemic of thefts and attempted robberies, judging from the events of the past week or ten days. This may be instigated partly by the unemploy ment condition, for it is usually dur ing times of adversity that some turn from the straight and narrow path and try to get what they want by joining the Light Finger Brotherhood. Last Thursday, sometime between dark and daylight, some one or a number of persons presumably am ateurs, according to the methods they used entered the office of the Lof- tin Motor Company and tried to break them with tools procured from the Tpnair shnn at. t.hp rPar. TIipsp at tempts were unsuccessful, but the safes were considerably damaged by the imnact of the tools. Beine thw. arted i their attempt to enter the ;RafPa. t.hp thiovps xparrhpH nrnnnd and found some ten dollars that had left in the drawer for change the next day. Nothing else was re ported missing, Last week a table was stolen from the front porch of the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Duncan on Marsh Street, and a spare tire and wheel was also purloined from their Ford coach which was standing in front of their home. Mr. Duncan, in his cus tomary humorous fashion, said that the loss of the table, tire and wheel was "bad" but that the thieves would have been doing him a "favor" if T' wl " 7ZI " 7- . . ' Tl- Z r 1 : standing in front of his home last j Saturday morning some one relieved him of the possession of the spare tire and wheel. Mr. Seeley's car al jso was a Ford coach. Mathis Cafe was entered via the back door last Wednesday night by cutting the screens and breaking the glass out of the door and twenty-four packages of cigarettes, an Eastmai Kodak and $5.07 were taken. EigXPnined the same' AlleShany Chat night before this, the same place was!hara' Currituck (none), Davidson and broken into and twenty-three pack ages of cigarettes were stolen and the door on the . !nt-machine was .forced and approximately two dollars filched. If there is any truth in that 1 old saw, that "what happens twice will happen three times," Mr. Mathis better be on Ben Arring! the lookout or else! ington, who drives the Tex- as Oil Company truck, says that for some time he has been missing gaso line from the truck and that therefore some one must be paying it nightly visitations Minor , thefts are not uncommon around here, but the thieves are evi dently out for larger "game" this ypar- Ahe attempted demohshment I of the Loftin Motor Company's safes is the first occurrence of that kind since the safe of Paul's Garage was broken open about eighteen months ago. St. Paul's Having Parochial Mission! ' The Failoctual Mission, winch is now being held at St. Paul's Church, lis being attended by quite a number I of the members. This service is a part of the program that is being put on in the diocese at the instance of the Bishop in an endeavor to bring about a spiritual revival in the mem- bership of the church The Rev. E. W. Halleck, rector of St. John's church at Wilmington, is conducting the Mission. He is con sidered a very able preacher of the Episcopal faith and will be remem bered here for his Mission work. Services are held every evening at 7:30 o'clock and every afternoon at 4 o'clock there is a Mission for the children. There was a celebration of the Holy Communion at the Tues- 'day evening service, and this will behead City and New Bern markets ; repeated Thursday evening at 7, would very likely consume a large o'clock instead of 7:30. The Mission ; began Sunday evening and will con clude with the Friday evening ser- NO TRIALS TUESDAY IN RECORDER'S COURT ' There were no trials in Recorder's - , court Tuesday. A few cases were on the docket but owing to the absence ,'of witnesses or some other cause they were continued. Court will meet Tuesday at the regular hour 9:3)0 in the morning, BIRTH OF SON Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Davis, of Harkers Island, a son, Dec. 14. MflST fOUNTIES' 1 TAXES ARE LOW CO en Average For Six Month Scl Is 33 Cents; Debt Service Greater By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Dec. 14 Eighty three of the 100 North Carolina counties reported having decreased their coun ty-wide tax rates this year under last year for an average of 33 cents on the $100 property valuation, or from a rate of ?1.39 in 1930 to a rate of $1.06 in 193J1, a reduction which is reflected exactly in the reduction of the county-wide rate for the six months school term, figures compiled by Dr. Fred W. Morrison, secretary of the State Tax Commission, show. The county-wide tax rate for sup port of the six months school term has been reduced an average of 33 cents on the $100 valuation, or from 70 cents in 1930 to 37 cents in 1931, while the county-wide rate for pur poses other than school remains at 69 cents this year, the same as last year.. On the other hand, the aver age rate levied for debt service, which includes interest, repayments of principle, deposits in sinking funds and other costs paid on money bor rowed, increased 16. cents on the $100, or from 31 cents in 1930 to 47 cents in 1931, as an average. Brunswick, the only county with a county-wide total tax rate of as much as $2, was the only county making no reduction. Eight counties, Ashe, Bladen, Chowan, Dare, Forsyth Mar tin Randolph, Swain, reduced the to tal county wide rate 10 cents or less. Thirteen counties reduced this rate 50 cents or more, including Camden - rt ord "i; 56, Currituck 80, Davidson 70, Hali 'Madison 50, Rutherford 62, Scotland 58, Tyrrell 71, Union 53; Vance 61 d Z, . ' va,u-e "x Wilkes 54 cents. Thirteen counties have additional county-wide levies for extending the six months school term including Avery, Carteret Cur rituck, Greene, Guilford, Henderson, Jones; New Hanover; Northampton, Pamlico, Perquimans, Vance and Washington. . Debt " service in five counties re- Northampton while decreases were shown in only four counties, Avery, Tyrrell, Warren and Wilson, the other 91 counties showing increases in debt service from 1930 to 1931. Carteret county's total county-wide rate for 1931 is $1.70 as compared with $2.1G in 1930, a decrease of 46 cents. Of this the county-wide rate for schools is 37 cents in 1931 and was So.G cents in 1930, or a decrease of 48.G cents, and the county-wide rate for purpo.-es other than the six months school term is $1.33 in 193,1 and was $1.30 in 1930, an increase of three cents. The county-wide rate for debt service in 1931 is $1.08, as compared with 99 cents in 1930, an increase of nine cents. DREDGING TAYLOR'S CREEK The. Hodges dredge Reliance from I Taylor's Creek. Thursday morning it was near the East end of Front street Better Price Desired For Carteret Turkeys The turkey raisers of the Newport Bogue Sound section refused to make a second shipment of their birds on account of the fact that they were unable to get an agreeable price of- .'fer. A car load was shipped just before Thanksgiving and netted the raisers twenty cents a pound. They were offered twenty-two cents pound for the turkeys by Philadelphia deal ers, but refused to accept this for the Christmas shipment. They held out for twenty-five cents a pound but were unable to get the price advanc ed. County Farm Agent Hugh Ov- erstreet said that the Beaufort, More- portion of the birds, but he doubts if the growers will receive twenty-five cents a pound. SCHOOL CLOSES FOR XMAS. The Eeaufort Graded School will (close Friday afternoon for the Christ - i -i.j i- l :n ii. u.A mas holidays, which will last for two w-eeks. School will begin again Jan' ,uary 4. These two holiday weeks are like an oasis in the desert of the school year to the pupils, and they look forward with marked anxiety 0 it all during the fall term, but after these days off the rest of the school year will seem almost endless to a good many of those attending school. Highway Expenditures Amount Large Sum Ten Year Highway Program $183,446,970.76; of This Federal Aid Over Twenty Mllions; Maintenance Costs Four Millions A Year; Counties Asked To Pay Taxes Christmas Program At Baptist Church The members Of the congregation of the Beaufort Baptist Church and their friends will have an opportunity of hearing an unusually fine Christ mas program on Wednesday evening, December 23, t 7:30 o'clock. This program will consist of choruses, so los, duets and quartets by a large group of the best singers in the. com munity. The service will begin with Christ mas carols by the congregation and appropriate readings. Following this the individuals and classes wu pre sent the "White Gifts to the King." A special appeal is being made this year to make these gifts large in or. der to take care of all charity assign ed to this church. The service will be concluded by the choir and several friends from other churches under the direction of Mrs. G. M. Paul ren dering a choral cantata, "King of Kings and Lord of All" by Stults This cantata will be dramatized, thus pre senting the Christmas story in a most beautiful and interesting way The lovers of good music and those appreciating the true Christmas spir it pictured and told in song, will not want to miss this unusually fine pro gram. A most cordial invitation has been extended to all to attend this service. Business Transacted In Supreior Court Last week's issue of the News car ried an account of the business trans acted in Superior Court up to Thurs- CahamoI rf Vl CI T PODOB WOVO Hid- I nosed of between that time and Fri- day "afternotfR" when court adjorn- ed. Federal Land Bank against Geral dine Oaksmith and others, which was a suit about taxes paid by the plain tiff, resulted in a judgment of $1, 480.60 for the palintiff. Federal Land Bank against Geral dine Oaksmith and Wales Engineer ing Co. This was referred to Ref eree John A. Guion of New Bern. Estelle Smith against George A. Conway and wife Addie M. Conway suit for money loaned the defend ants, resulted in a judgment of $500 principal and $327.50 interest. No tice of appeal by Attorney C. R. Wheatly representing the defendants. Moore and Moore of New Bern ap--peared for the plaintiff. Margaret Thornton and others a gainst W. A. Howland Etta P. Hol land. This case was nonsuited. Floyd Chadwick against Fidelity and Casualty Company. Judgment mated irom tnese lunds is ?4,3UU, the plaintiff of $319.09 and interest, j000- E. L. Davis ae-ainst Lillie B. Hill The combined statement of the and R. H. Hill. Judgment was given 1 the plaintiff for $242.72 and inter est. I Daisy B. Koonce and husband a-! gainst H. K. Fort, suit grownig out of ! the purchase of a tract of alnd by the ! defendant from plaintiffs, was heard j by Judge Sinclair without jury by a-! greement by both sides. Evidence j was taken and Judge Sinclair is to ; review it and make his decision in a . short time. Henry Jones against Matilda Jones, statutory offense charged, divorce j granted. ! Sarah E. Drewry against Lenwood J. Drewry, divorce granted on statu tory grounds. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS W. E. Currier and wife to William Mason, 3 acres Newport Township, for $300. Luther G. Simmons and wife to Central Investment Corp. 3 lots M. City, for $10. Mary Etta Pigott and husband to Oliver Chadwick, tract Straits, for $200. Rachel A. Lewis to J. H. Lewis 21 acres Straits, for $100. James M. Davis and wife to Alvie Taylor 1-4 acre Marshalberg, for $100. MARRIAGE LICENSES Joe Washington and Coretta Brown Morehead City. Milton Taylor and Louisa M. Bailey he (Morehead City. Earh C. Day and Lucy P. Danieh, Lola. By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Dtc. 14 The North Carolina Highway Commission has spent $182,446,970.76 for highway construction and $35,657,364.95 for maintenance and betterment, or a to tal of $218,104,035.71 for these two items during the past 10 years of the State's big highway program, figures compiled in the office of Chairman E. B. Jeffress shows. Funds received for highway work during that period include $115,000 000 in highway bonds; $22,615,000 in Federal Aid; $123,211,000 from li cense and gasoline tax; $18,769,000 from county loans, and $12,430,000 as donations fiom cities and towns, which, less tha $6,000,000 county road funds of the past two years, in cluded in the license and gasoline tax item gives a total of $283,025, 000 received by the department in that time. The difference between the $282, 025,000 received and the $218,104, 035 spent for construction and main tenance, or nearly $64,000,000, is ac counted for by such items as $42, 000,000 debt service, $14,750,000 in repayments of county loans and city j and town donations, $8,000,000 in administration and general mainten ance expenses, and other smaller items over the 10 years. After the launching of the big highway construction program at the start of the fiscal year in 1921, the peak of construction cost was reach ed in 1924-25, when the cost exceed ed $40,000,000 A gradual drop is shown from that time until 1929-30, when costs of construction went to I nine million dollars. Last year the I emergency Federal Aid funds helped to laise the amount to a point above $10,500,000 again. Maintenance costs 'ave ent P they 2w E ' between $4,000,000 and $4,500,000 Treasury Want Money State Tie; surer Nathan O'Berry has issued a call upon the 100 coun ties of the State to respond as prompt ly as possible with the portion of the 15 cent ad valorem tax and the $1.50 on each poll that has so far been col lected, pointing out that $3,800,000 in teachers' salaries, nearly half a million dolars in Confederate pen sions and several millions of dollars in interest and bond retirement funds are needed or will be required in a short time, and that the State Treas ury is at a low point now. The tax is now due, but is payable at par during December and Janu ary, and the counties are required to send in the State funds twice a month Up to the latter part of last week 76 counties had remitted a total slightly less than $1,000,000. The total esti- (Continued on page nine) TIDE TABLE Information as to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct and based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allow ances must be made for varia tions in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. High Tide Low Tide Friday, Dec. 18 3:07 a. m. 9:09 a. 3:17 p. m. 9:07 p. Saturday, Dec. 19 3:56 a. m. 10:03 a. 4:08 p. m. 9:52 p. m. m. m. m. Sunday, Dec. 20 4:40 a. m. 10:53 a. m. 4:58 p. m. 10:36 p. m Monday, Dec. 21 5:22 a. m. 11:01 5:43 p. m. 11:38 Tuesday, Dec. 22 6:03 a. m. 11:17 6:26 p. m. 12:20 Wednesday, Dec. 23 6:42 a. m. 11:58 a. hi. 7:06 p. m. 1:02 p. m. Thursday, Dec. 24 7:22 a. m. 12:40 a. m. 1 :42 a. m. 7:i5 ;v ru. m. m.
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