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The MEWS mjf The fasst advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f READING TO THE MIND 1$ WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY WATCH You? el and pay four subscription VOLUME XXI 8 PAGES THIS WEF.K THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932 PRICE 5c SINGLE CG.g ; NUMBER 7 : c Superior Court Judge Placed Under Arrest Judge John Harwood Suspended; At Prelimi nary Trial Tuesday He Was Held For Super ior Court Under $1000 Bond; His Daughter Charged With Embezzlement. RALEIGH, Feb. 16 Judge John H. Harwood waived pre. liminary hearing in police court here today on charges of tam pering with recorda of the state touching on civil and criminal actions against his daughter, Miss Lola Harwood of Bryson City. The jurist was bound over to superior court under $1,000 bond, the same as was required when he was arrested here Sat urday. Tomorrow the criminal case of the state against Miss Har. wood is scheduled to be called in Wake superior court. She was alleged to be short some $4,828 in her accounts as a clerk in the revenue department, a position she resigned a year ago. Willis Smith, of counsel for Miss Harwood, said the case will be fought out on its merits. By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Feb. 15 Special Judge John H. Harwood, Bryson City sus pended without pay at his own re quest, was placed under $1000 bond here Saturday for preliminary hear ing Tuesday morning in Ralegih po lice court on charges of being an ac cessory after the fact and of oblit-J erating, injuring and destroying cer tain original documents in the action of the State against his daughter, Miss Lola Harwood, charged with em bezzlement of State funds while a license clerk in the Department of Revenue. The action was brought on sworn complaint of Commisioner of Reve nue A. J. Maxwell, charging that Judge Harwood, while he had access to records oi tne uepanment oi enue on court order and in connec-lo i f t j. a r tion with the criminal and civil ac tion against his daughter, mutilated, substituted and otherwise tampered with the department records, all such mutilation tending to exculpate Miss Harwood, whom the State charges converted to her own use $4,903 in license fees passing through her hands. Civil and criminal actions have been brought against her, and depos - ita in RnWh hanka of J2.987.32 at- tached. J. M. Broughton, Raleigh lawyer, was named as a referee to hear thai8 meeting or aeaiers ana otner inter civil action and set a hearing date on !ested Persons was held m the city hall February 1. However, a conference I m Morehead City Monday. Col. J. W. of lawyers of Miss Harwood and Rev- j Harrelson, who is the head of the N. enue Department officials on that ! C- Conservation and Development date brought out notes of Judge Har-1 Department presided over the meet wood referring to certain records , Flsh dealers from a11 of the lm which Revenue officials claim are car- Prtant centers were present, bon copies of letters purporting to The group declared it was its pur have been written in the office, but 1 pose to secure enactment of legisla were not written by them. Reported tion for sanitary transportation and steps toward a compromise of the civil action against Miss Harwood on the payment of $4,828 did not ma ture. Judge Harwood was holding court in Rockingham and came to Raleigh Friday night at the request of Gov ernor, with whom he conferred that night and Saturday morning. Attor ney General Dennis Brummitt and Assistant Walter D. Siler and A. A. F. Seawell attended the night con ference. Judge Harwood issued a statement denying he had mutilated or changed the records he examined, but had found changes and letters which he supposed the auditors had overlooked, but that he was inform ed by them that they were changed after the audit. He has served as a special judge since 1927, Big Prohibition Meeting The "flying squadron" of the allied campaigners in the interest of con tinued prohibition, in Raleigh two days last week, had large crowds and enthusiasm at most of the meetings and apparently did good for the drys. However, one attendant at one meeting said the bunch, judging fro mthat gathering, was an excellent adjunct to the Republican National Committee, in that the principal speaker on that occasion gave all credit for the prohibition movement to the Republicans to such an ex tent that that dryest of the drys, As sociate Justice Heriot Clarkson, is given credit for giving him a healthy call-down after he finished speaking. Justice Clarkson pointed out to the speaker that North Carolina's 10 congressmen and two senators during the past 20 years had ben dry, that theprohibition amendment r. as sub- m:ttod by a Democratic Congress, (Continued on pn3 eight ) Noll Pross Taken In Case Against Abbott Most of the cases in Recorder's court were continued Tuesday on ac count of the defendants not being present or ready for trial. Leah White, a colored woman of Moy.ehead City, thrpugh her counsel Luther Hamilton plead guilty to the unlawful possession of whiskey. Of fices testified that they raided her dwelling and found about a gallon of whiskey there. She did not go on the stand. She was put under a sus pended sentence of four months in jail and must pay cost?, and show good behavior for the next twelve months. James Ed Cartere of Beauofrt, col ored man, submitted to a charge of driving a car without license and was found guilty on the charge of car rying a concealed weapon. Officer Ghe-jman Holland arrested the man one night and found a single barrel shot gun in the car which was acci dentally discharged in handling and came near hitting the officer. Carter gave notice of an appeal to Super ior court.. The case of W. E. Abott charged with selling coal in Morehead City was noil prossed at request of So licitor Phillips. His attorney A. B. Morris had raised the question of the legality of the ordinance under which Abbott was indicted. Luther Hamil ton whose advice about the matter was sought by Mayor Bonner wrot the Mayor a letter in which he took the position that it is not unlawful to sell coal without a city license. Cases against Herman Carrow, driv ing a car without license, Emma Bar v-jbourtj Elating prohibition law, Obie i u:uu: i Stanly, violating prohibition law, were all continued next Tuesday. Organization Planned Of N. C. Fish Dealers For reveral years thre has been more or less talk about organizing the wholesale fish dealers into some of organization the object of which would be to promote their mu tual interests. With this aim in view marketing of North Carolina s food fish and to gain assistance from the State and Federal governments. Several talks by local representa tives led to formation of an organiza tion to promote the fish industry and a legislative committee was to be named. Dr. Herbert F. Prythrch, director of the Federal fishing station at Beau fort, spoke on oyster farming. R. H. Fedler of the United States Bureau of Fisheries at Washington said the fishing industry in North Carolina ranks as one of the great est in the State with an investment of $1,500,000 He said over 5,000 people were employed inthe industry. "This investment and employment must be safeguarded against excess expenditure and spoilage," he said Colonel Harrelson acted as chair man and Captain Nelson spoke brief ly of sanitary types of trucks for transportation of fish from fishermen to dealer. Colonel Harrleson appointed a committee on legislation and organi zation to work with the department in farming legislation and to organ ize fishermen and dealers to promote (the industry. The committee is composed of D. B. Fearing of Dare county, E. R. Goodwin of Pamlico, M. C. Lupton of Craven, C. H. Sterling of Beaufort, and W. M. West of Carteret. Ster ling was named" temporary chairman. This committee is to meet in Wash ington March 15. MARRIAGE LICENSES Grant Willoughby and Horton, Morehead City. ' Nathaniel Q. Cannon and M. G?rner, Newport. Washington Snapshots WASHINGTON Feb. 10 Presi dent Hoover has called upon the Na tion to return its hoarded savings into the channels of industry. More than $1,300,000,00 of hoarded mon ey is withheld from trade and com merce, he said, with the result that credit facilities are diminished by many billions of dollars. In orde?' to end the hoarding and its crippling effect upon credit, the President an nounced he would organize a nation al body to direct a campaign to that end. The President has felt it wise and helpful to take public notice of the continued disposition of misinformed or hysterical people to draw their money from banks in order to hide it under a mattress or in an old stock ing or, in what is really the modern equivalent, a safety deposit box. The process has been going on for a year or so with fluctuating intensity and still keeps up. It has all along been foolish and unpatriotic, but is doubly so now that the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation has been set up and supplied with funds to come to the aid of any bank exposed, to a run while really solvent. Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, has been appointed Am bassador to Great Britain, has accept ed the post and is expected to with draw from the Cabinet in a few days. President Hoover issued a statement saying that the services of Mr. Mel lon were urgently needed in the -foreign field to deal with grave econom ic problems and that tender of the Ambassadorship had been made and had been accepted. Confirmation of Mr. Mellon would terminate the long est tenure of a Secretary . of the Treas ury in more than a cejitury. Mr., Met' ion- having held the post nearly elev en years. Ogden L. Mills, Under Sec retary of the Treasury, will succeed Mr. Mellon, and Arthur A. Ballatine, Assistant Secretary in charge of fis cal offices, will take over Mr. Mills' post. Secretary Stimson conferred pri vately with Katsuji Debuchi, Japna ese Ambassador, and afterward re ported to President Hoover. The sub ject of the conversation was under stood to be some compromise on the basis of which Japan can accept the peace proposals made at Nankin and Tokyo by the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy. Although Japan has not yet officially made known what her reply will be, enough information already has reached Washington to make it reasonably sure that the Japanese counter-plan will be accepted. The international commission of inquiry, which the League of Nations is sending to Manchuria consists of British, French, Italian and German representatives. They will be joined in New York by Major Gen. Frank R. McCoy, the American member, and will proceed to San Francisco in an effort to catch the steamer Presi dent Coolidge, which may be held a few hours for them. Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor, Commander in Chief of the United States, Asiatic fleet has been direct ed by the Navy Department to assure the other neutral naval and military authorities at Shanghai of "one hun dred per cent naval and military co operation" by the United States Navy in maintaining the neutrality and the safety of the Internatinoal Settle ment at Shanghai. An attack upon the petitions for dis armament, signed by 600,00 Ameri can women and taken to Geneva by the American delegation to the arms conference, was made by the Wom en's Patriotic Conference of Nation al Defense. The conference sent a cablegram to Hugh S. Gibson, acting chairman of the American delegation at Geneva, signed by the chairman of the conference, which has a mem bership of 987,275. The message stat ed that "the disarmament petitions, as presented by various women's or ganizations do not represent the viewpoint of the women of our con ference. We ask your delegation to safeguard the security of the Unit ed States of America by preserving our National Defense act intact and our navy at London treaty strength," Loans instead of gifts for relief of unemployment were proposed in the i Senate by Democratic leadtrs. who Mary E. j offered a bill to appropriate $375, ! 000,00 for this nurnose and S375.- Daisy 000,000 for road building, as a sub continued on page five) COST OF ROADS FOR SIX MONTHS Amount Is Considerably Less Than Was Spent By The Counties Formerly By M. R. DUNNAGAN BAlirir.it VoK ic Mr,tK r. I lina roads during the last six months of 1931 cost, including construction, maintenance, administration, patrol, debt service and all oter items, a to tal of $14,593,602.62 which includes about $10,000,000 from gasoline and other motor vehicles taxes and a round$4,500,000 in Federal Aid funds according to figures in the office of Chairman E. B. Jeffress. Of this amount, $2,591,941.08 was expended during the first six months of State maintenance of county roads, with slight increases to the 44,604 mileage. This expenditure was from the $3,000,000 for the half year county road financing, but did not reach the estimated amount due to delay in getting into full opera tion after July 1. Probably $75,000 of the total, sums ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 in each of the five divisions, was used in new construc tion, but the bulk was for road and bridge maintenance. While the nearly $2,592,000 in six months is considerably less than the approximately $8,000,00 a year spent by the counties, belief is expressed that county roads are now in better shape generally than they have ever been. In the five divisions, the letters be ginning in the east and running west ward, the figures from the records for the six months are as follows: Division A, 8,368 miles, or 18.76 per cent of the State's total, spent on road and bridge maintenance $477 568.99; undistributed $25,170.19. Division B, 9,322 miles, or 20. 90 percent of State's total, spent on maintenance $458,031.62; undistrib- " Division C, 10,075 miles, or 22.59 per cent of State's total, $556,129.65 spent on maintenance; undistributed $23,364.86. Division D, 9,449 miles, or 21.18 per cent of State's total, $598,407. 94 spent on maintenance; undistrib uted $26,449.67. Division E, 7,390 miles, or 18.57 per cent of State total, $501,248.06 spent on maintenance; undistributed $27,952.63. (Continued an nsge SFIRST HOUSE STARTED FOR DURHAM COLONY A condtract has been let and work started on the first house to be built on the property bought last year by Durham capitalists on Bogue Banks. E. W. Guthrie of Morehead City was given the contract by George Carr Watts of Durham. Mrs. Roland Mc Clamroch of Chapel Hill will occupy the house which is to be an eleven room cottage built on typical ocean frontage lines. It is to cost about $4000 and will be finished by March 15th. The tract of land owned by the Durham people was formerly the property of H. C. Jones of Beaufort and is located near Fort Macon. At the time of the sale it was announced that a number of summer homes would be built for Durham people. It is reported that several other build ings will be erected there in time for the summer season. THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION PROBABLY WILL GO TO CHARLOTTE By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Feb. 16 Carteret county will have 18 delegates and the same number of alternates, bas ed on one or both for every 150 votes or major fraction thereof in the last gubernatorial election, to the State Democratic Convention, which will probably be field in May, either in Raleigh or Charlotte, as determin ed at the meeting of the State Dem ocratic Executive Committee of 120 members, called to meet in Raleigh March 1st by State Chairman Odus M, Mull, Shelby, who was in Ralegih for the week end. The executive committee will set a common day for precinct meetings, to be followed by a common day for county conventions, at which dele' gates will be elected to the State Convention, preceding which, on the day, will be held the Congressional district meetings of the delegates to name members of the executive com mittee, platform and other conven tion committees. Belief now is that the State Con vention will be held in Charlotte, since it is expected that there will be uncertainty when the executive Training of Teacheie In N. C. Has Impro -"ZV (Special to the News) t. RALEIGH, Feb. 14 The training of the white school teachers in North Carolina has been increased by the equivalent of nearly two years of col lege preparation, or from slightly more than one year to approximately three years, in the pant 10 years, while the training of colored teach ers has increased by about a year and a half of college training, State School Facts, published by Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintendent of pub lic instruction, shows. "Standard" teachers, those having certificates based on a minimum training of graduation from a stan dard, or equivalent, high school numbered 22, 927, or 17,771 white white and 5,156 colored teachers in 1930-31 while there were only 973 teachers, 887 colored and 86 white, who had not reached that standard. This publication shows that 46..2 per cent of the white and 15.2 per cent of the colored teachers have had training of four years in college; 22.3 per cen t of the white and 22.2 per cent of the colored teachers, have had three years in college; 14 per cent of white and 12.9 per cent of the colored teachers had two years in college, and 13.2 per cent of the white and 19.9 per cent of the color ed teachers had one year in college. White . teachers who had less than that training are 4.3 per cent of the total, and colored teachers 29.8 per cent of the total. Mecklenburg county retains its lead as having the best trained white teachers in the State, the average training being .9 years in college. Durham and Guilford have second and third places. Rural schools show a. greater im provement than charter schools in 10 years, thejr. increase . in training be ing slightly more than two years, while that of thee harter schol teach ers is. slightly less than one year in increase. Curteret rural schools tak 55th place among the 100 counties of the State in extent of teacher training, the average in the county being 2.68 years in college, for the whites, and 7th place with 2.33 years of college training for the colored teachers. WHITE OAK PUPILS VISIT BEAUFORT NEWS The News had a visit yesterday af ternoon from some of the members of the White Oak high school. Prin cipal W. W. Clarke was in charge of the party. They spent about a half hour in the News shop and were shown some of the processes of pro ducing a weekly newspaper. The fol lowing students were i.i the party: Misses Annie Mae Gibble, Rosaline Lewis, Thelma Jones, Iris Brinson, Lillian Dudley, Nellie Taylor, Edith Taylor and Roy Rhue, Sidney Taylor, Robert Adams, Elijah Guthrie. CAMELLIAS IN BLOOM Miss Charlotte Smith has in her garden this week, a sight that is worth driving miles to see. She has two camellia japonicas, one a bush of considerable proportions. Both are in full bloom, and are a lovely sight. Mrs. M. A. Hill has a small camel lia in bloom, and there are several others in and around town that are in bud. Several plants are being put out in the courthouse grounds. These will be beautiful in a few years. committee meets as to whether or not the Raleigh Auditorium, now be ing built, will be completed and fur nished in time for the convention. The convention date is expected to be in advance of the June primary date, in accordance with usual cus tom, which, however, was changed two vears aeo. The convention will adopt a plat- form and elect delegates to the Na- tional Democratic Convention to be held in Chicago. It remains to be seen whether or not there will be efforts to instruct delegates to the State convention, or to the National Convention. Indications are now that efforts will be made to have the dele- gates instructed for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Buncombe, the banner Democratic county, will have 103 delegates to the State Convention. Mecklenburg will have 101, Guilford 90, Wake 79 and Forsyth 75. Buncombe also leads in number of delegates to the Republican State Convention to be held in Charlotte April 14, based on one for each 200 Republican votes, Carteret County will have 14 votes in the Republican meeting. TO BE CANDIDATE Raleigh Editor Thinks Best To Continue Newspaper Work (Special ia The News) RALEIGT, Feb. 15 Josephus Dan iels will not be a candidate for Gov ernor of North Carolina. In a more than two-column state ment, published in today's News & Observer and given to the press yes terday, the Raleigh publisher renounc es the honor and the demand of thous ands of North Carolinians, saying he will stick to his editorial desk and adhere to his resolution of 40 years ago, when he became editor of Lie Raleigh paper, "never to become a candidate for public office." Admittedly, he was giving serious . consider ition to the call, and, con trary to general belief, it is stated Euth;-r;tativeiy that he has been nearer t-j announcing his candidacy since his accidint several weeks ago than l.e hs before. The accident ap parently had little relation to his de cision. His decision, it is firmly believed, closes the list of entrants, for it is now considered too late for any oth er candidate, except Mr. Daniel, to get int othe race. However, it is a matter of much speculation as to which of the three active candidates Mr. Dpniels will support. He is ex pected 10 taKe no sides in tne pri mary contest, since neither of the men approach his views on many of the issues of the day, although it h hard to picture him quiet while a red hot campaign is raging in the State. Mr. Daniels announces that he will be in the thick of the fray, fighting the cause of Democracy, and that his decision probably means that he has taken the hardest of the paths. The Governor is not in reality a pow er in the determination of policies and activities, anyway, he says, in so many words. Candidates should - be pledged to use their best endeavors toward sev en activities, Mr. Daniels writes, en umerating, remove all six months school term costs from land, readjust the valuation of property for taxa tion, place a proper tax on stock in vestments, remove the six per cent income tax limit, provide adequate support for public schools and colleg es, remove the "water" from public service corporations on which rates are based, &nd a tax on non-essentials and luxuries. MOREHEAD CITY TO HAVE NEW READY TO WEAR SHOP A new ladie's ready to wear stnrn is to be opened in Morehead City next week. It will be known as the "Betty May Dress Shop" and will be located in the Wade Theater build ing. Harold May of Wilmington will be the manager of the shop. Mr. May is an experienced man in this line of business. He lately returned from a business trip to New York citv where he selected a stock of goods of the latest styles for his opening. HOME GROWN STRAWBERRIES Reverend E. A. Perkins of Beau fort brought in to the News office last week, several fine strawberries which were grown right here in Beaufort in his garden, also a nice nest of eggs, which he presented to the News office. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are appjrox 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 19 Tide Friday, Feb. m. m. 5:46 a. 11:13 12:01 a. m. p. m. a. m. p. m. a. m,s p. m. a. m. p. m. a. m. p. m. a. m. p. m. a. m. p. in. 6:08 p. j 6:32 a. 6:53 p. 7:16 a. 7:37ip. 8:00 a. 8:22 p. 8:44 a. 9:09 p. Saturday, Feb. 20 m. 11:54 m. 12:44 Sunday, Feb. 21 m. 12:51 m. 1:26 Monday, Feb. 22 m. 1:35 m. 2:07 Tuesday, Feb. 23 m. 2:27 m. 2:49 Wednesday, Feb. 24 m. 3:15 m. 3:32 Thursday, Feb. 25 m. 4:07 m. 4:17 9:29 a. 9:55 p. 10:16 a. 10:46 p.