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The Beaufort to The bsst Ail - ?rt. sing rr.edium published in Carteret C. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY J W. I Your label and pay your subscription O re VOLUME XXI 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932 PRICE 5c SI1 COPY NUMBER 7 Next General Assembly TAT 11 FT ATT 1 T wtu nave At End of Next Fiscal Year Deficit Estimated to Be Around Eight Millions; Revenue Act of 1931 Runs Far Short: If Taxes on Land Are Abolished Must Raise $10,000,000 In Other Wayi rs By M. R DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Mar. 1 If the 1933 General Assembly takes over full State support of the six months school term, which all of the an nounced candidates for Governor are advocating, funds the State deficit and balances its budget which are de manded, that body will have to find more than $10,000,000 more in tax. es other than on real estate than the 1931 General Assembly was able to find in its five months of effort. The 1931 General Assembly appro priated $13,700,000, of which an es timated $3,700,000 is to come from the 15 cent ad valorem tax on real property, for the operation of the six months school term. But an average I levy of 18 per cent o fthe levies of the 100 counties, oe about $3,000,000 was levied by the counties to supple ment the State school fun. Nearly $7,000,000 more money, a total of about $18,000,000, will have to be raised by the State for the schools. The deficit of general fund operations at the end of the next fiscal year is now estimated at $8,000,000, on which the interest when funded will reach nearly $500,000 a year. Then, too, the revenue act of 1931 fails by about $2,500,000 a year to raise mon ey appropriated by the same General Assembly. In truth, it will take some of the best minds of the State to straighten out the finances in the General Assembly of 1933 mar Lavi Ar NMrfarf l mm -l a a a .na enougn cows 10 aet the average American standard of one cow for each five persons, and only nine mountain counties, Alleghany, Ashe Clay Watauga Macon, Davie Jackson Graham and Henderson have suffic ient cows to produce the milk their citizens should drink, Dr. J. M. Par rott, State health officer, says in his State wide Milk for Health drive. Alleghany has a cow for each 2.9 persons with milk to spare, while Dare has only one cow for each 18.4 persons. Wake needs 11,000 and Forsyth 15,000 cows to bring them up to the American average. Less than half a pint of milk per person per day is consumed in this State, a pint being the national average. Counties most deficient in cows ara Dare, New Hanover, Wilson, Carteret Lenoir, Martin, Pitt Edgecombe Chow an Brunswick, Robeson, Onslow, Ber tie Beaufort Craven Wayne Scotland Columbus Nash, Cumberland, Duplin Greene, Forsyth Harnett Halifax Hertford Johnston, Durham Wash ington, Sampson and Wake. Actual cash must be in hands of officials of local school districts at the end of the extended school terms before the State Board of Equaliza tion will provide its part of such funds from the $1,500,00 appropriat ed for this purpose, either in tax money already collected or from rev-!s'x chickens from Mrs. C. N. Hobbs enue anticipation notes properly apJ was acquitted. He was represented by proved and sold by the Local Govern-'A- B Morris. Dave has been in court ment Commission, the board decided ia number of times on various charg in regulations adopted at its meet- es- Tne testimony was that Mrs ing last week. Reports to the board were thatDave was seen before daylight go number of districts were preparing tojin& around offering chickens for sale, get their teachers to agree to teach court held that the evidence was through the extended term on the not strong enough to connect hi" promise of pay later, thus setting up (Continue,1 on page eight) POLICE COURT NEWS In City Police Court Inst Friday afternoon Garland Willis young Beaufort man, charged with break ing and entering the Sea Breeze Theatre waived examination and was held for Superior Court under a $300 bond. Sam Jordan, colored, plead guilty to the charge of fighting. As he seem-1 ed to be somewhat jusunea Mayor Taylor let him off on payment of the costs $3.90. Ed. Henry, colored, charged with drunkeness was fined (2.50 and costs or ten days on the streets. MARRIAGE LICENSES Henry Godwin and Newport. Hazel Mann, Theodore Iawrence and Ncta La rence, Beaufort, RFD. A. II. Dixon and Bertie Heuser, Newport, RFD. W. E. .-r.iih of Ka1 ;.; C: plnnled nix bushsl- f bWek as a new forestry p-oje- . i iruit lis i Mil. nara i ime LINDBERGH BABY KIDNAPPED People of Beaufort were much (hocked yesterday, at was doubt, leu the caie in all civilized countries, to learn that the small son' of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh had been kidnapped the night before. The child is twenty months old. He was sick with a cold which adds to the anxiety of his parents as to his welfare. The press reports indicate that some one climbed a ladder to the room in which little Charles Lindbergh was deeping and car ried him away. The object of the kidnappers, more than one was probobly mixed up in the affair, is to get money from the Lind berghs who are quite wealthy. In the meantime thousands of policemen, detectives, Federal of Beers and others are seeking the child and his abductors. Try Variety of Cases In Recorder's Court - A representative of the .News had On account of the illness of his'8 conversation by telephone with Mr. son Leslie Judge M. Leslie Davis did j Hamilton and was told that he saw not hold any court Tuesday of last i Mr- Johnson, director of the Local week. Tuesday of this week he held Government Commission, and had a court as usual ana several cases were 1 tried. Many spectators were present. . Allen Sawyer, young colored man of Morehead City, was tried on the . - ... . . had been married five months and flint nil nn o nppnainn V a esii Vian v--w.v va WVVI.U1UII 11 Oil Ul.n. ! an dthat she left his home and he had not given her anything since then. She admitted that she used some pret ty strong language to him. Allen de nied striking his wife and said that he had supported her and would do so again if she wuold live with him. !He proved a mighty good character by Chief of Police Nelson and other citizens of Morehead City Judge Davis, Solxitor Phillips and the defendant's attorney Luther Hamilton all agreed that the best thing for the couple to do would ba to resume marital relations and this was finally agreed to by the man and woman. The court ordered a verdict of not guilty to be entered on the record. Delmas Guthrie and Phillip B. Ful cher of Morehead City charged with an assault upon R. R. Barbour, fish dealer, were convicted and given a suspended sentence of 30 days in jail conditions upon their good be havior for 30 days. The trouble grew out of a dispute about some clams which Mr. Barbour claimed were taken from his clam bed. David bell, colored nan from Morehead City, charged with stealing : Hobbs had lost some chickens and with the theft. Oby Stanly, violutrng prohibition law, having liquor in possession, judgment suspended on payment of costs and showing good behavior. R. Midgette, driving car while un der influence of liquor. Submitted and prayer for judgment as to $25 fine was continued, defendant to pay the costs. Herman Carrow operating car with out license. Called and failed, bond of $50 forfeited. miuiakt TRAINING CAMPS WILL START IN JUNE Notices have been sent out that citizens' military training camps will be conducted this summer by the U. S. War Department as usual. Young men who can pass the physical exam ination and are of good moral char acter are elicible to attend the camps. All expenses are paid by the Government. Th,? camps lat a month and are not only educational but have many enjoyable ocial features. A j camp of this sort ia maintained at jFort Bragg, N. C. and various others will be operated in other states. The tlir.o is June 14 to July 13. SCHOOL QUESTION STILL UNSETTLED Board of Commissioners Trying To Find Funds For Schools A great deal of interest has been mnniifcsted m the school situation since the publication of the News last week that the County Board of Edu. cation would close the schools March 15 unless some arrangement could be made in the near future to finance them fo rtwo months more. A special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners was held Mon day at which time the school situa tion was considered. Charles S. Wal lace addressed the bqard and earnest ly requested that every thing possible be done to keep the schools open. Su perintendent J. G. Allen also discuss ed the question. After due delibera tion the board decided to make an effort to do something about contin uing the schools for the full eight months. A motion offered by Commis sioner Chadwick and seconded bv Commissioner Guthrie was offered and passed which reads as follows: "The County Attorney is request ed to go to Raleigh, and present the matter of appropriating sufficient tax es from all sources to the payment of one month of the extended school term of two months, plus the requir jed debt fervice fund due the State I Treasurer and if he consents we au thorize the County Board of Educa tion to proceed with the two months : schoorterm." unci view wnn mm. air. Hamilton thinks that some satisfac tory arrangements can be made whereby the schoobj will be Cimtin- tlH. . Xf ttlta "WAArB : AMKntA ' Ula - 1 Ptcliths longer" the Satfte will ot cc se T. Bhare rgey in the expense. It seems ! probable that some finnl .Wisirm will - - " be reached about the whole matter : very soon. xo oupx. Alien wno returned . ;from Washington, D. C, recently HOME OF EDDIE COPELAND where he attended the annual meet GOES UP IN SMOKE m of tne National Education Asso. " ieiation-Feb. 20-24. In fact in some Fire this afternoon at about one'of tIle states manv of their schools thirty o'clock destroyed the residence ' closecl at Christmas after only 3 1-2 of Eddie Copeland who lives wert of 1 months while in many states the Morehead Citv on rant. m wt i greater part of the schools have al- distance beyond the railroad crossing The fires tarted from an oil stove in the kitchen. A fire truck from More head City responded to a call for help but as very little water was avail-.ble could not do much except keep the fire from spreading to nearby build-imore ings. Most of the furniture and oth er articles in the house were saved. )SOFT CRAB SHIPMENTS ARE UNUSUALLY EARLY THIS YEARinupt' Alien ttllnKs that the people of , North Carolina and of Carteret The earliest shipment of soft crabs County in Particular, have reason for from the local market that anybody pro.found S!'atitude for the wisdom remembers took place last month. A amost P-ophetic foresight with few were shipped in February and ,hlc? the 1931 general assembly laid more have gone forward this week jthe founiiatIns of our constitution Usually the soft crab season opens iaJ S1? months te so securely that the latter part of March and if if e dePressin and the Budget Corn happens to be a cold season not ii:;.ny!missi0n have been unab,e to shake it are shipped then. CUTS SWEET PEAS The crabs that .re being c.tught now, contrary to what is usually the' While all flowers this year have case, are good sized ones and yester-'been unusually early to bloom, Mrs. day the News understands dealeis Maude Garner this week reported were paying $1.00 a dozen for them, j cutting the first bunch of sweet peas. Mnrshallberg is headquarters of the! There have been several straggling crab industry in this county and re-j blooms, before this, but this week ports are that the crabbers there are there were enough in bloom at one quite busy now. ,time to make a good sized bunch. I NEW LUMBER PLANT WILL BE ESTABLISHED HERE SOON Prospects seem very favorable for the early location of a lumber manu facturing plant in Beauofrt according to information which the News has obtained. No deal has yet been made for a location for the plant but sev eral sites are under consideration and it is probable thata decision will be reached soon. The Scarboro-Safrit Lumber Company of Mount Gilead, N. C., will own and operat; the pro posed enterprise. R. W. Safrit spent several days here last week and was here again yesterday looking after the details of getting the plant here established. Last November a deal was closed by he Safrit brothers for a large tract of timber. This was the Serpell-Dun-' ning holdings of some 6000 acres in the eastern part of the county. The company may acquire some other j tracts here and there after they get their business under way. R. G.' Bost who is an experienced lumber man i will superintend getting the logging op;rat;on. The Scsrboro-Ssfrit Company plans' FLAMES CONSUME PLAYVIEW BEACH j Colored Resort Totally Destroy- ed; Potato Curing House Also Burns Play View Beach, a colored sum- rner resort about three miles from Beaufort on Core Sound was complet elp wiped off the map Tuesday night by fire. So complete was the destruc tion that not even a pile of ashes was left, probably blown away by the wind. The fire occurred at about 10 o'clock while a stroner northwest wind " " " E " J"..ii blaze. It was seen at a distance of several miles. The origin of the fire is not known. Play View Beach was built sever al years ago by W. T. Davis and op erated by him. It was sold for the benefit of creditors last November and J. A. Hornaday was made trustee. The principal creditors were the Beaufort Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Graham Brothers, Gaskill- Mace Company and C. G. Gaskill. Mr. Gaskill held a first mortgage on the property and had an insurance policy of $500 on it. The building is said to have cost about six or seven thous and dollars. The place has been pop ular with colored people in the sum mer time and white people are said to have gone there occasionally, some even since it was closed down. Another bad fire Tuesday night was that of the potato curing house of A. Brinson Lewis at Otway. The house with several thousand bushels of potatoes was burned. The building probably cost about $1500. The News has not learned whether Mr. Lewis had any insurance or not. No one knows what caused the building to catch fire. Many Schools Closed Superintendent Says the schools. "in almost every state tne Un!on T.e 'cin8 Poetically the aie situatom that confronts the Echools of North Carolina, according ready closed at the end of onlv four or five months. Supt. Allen said that the testimony of educators from practically every part of the United States shows the schools of only two states to be on a secure basis than the schools of .Norm Carolina, so tar as the six months term is concerned. By com parison with other states and in view I01 tax collections in Carteret County, to have a planing mill and saw mill at Beaufort. Mr. Safrit informed the News that the plant will not be very large at first but that it will be ex panded as the demands on it require. It will give employment to a consid erable number of men at the start and the number of employees will be increased as the business grows. It is probable that the pay roll will be $15000 to $20,000 a month. As stated above a location for the plant lias not been secured yet but negotiations have been started with the Simmons Construction Company and G. W. Huntley for two tracts just out of town on the Lenoxville road. The Scarboro-Safrit Lumber Com- pany is owned by four Safrit brothers who are now in the lumber business at Mount Gilead and who are exper ienced men in that line of business. They are not making any big claims as to what they will do here but say they hope to operate a successful business and in this desire they are joined by the people of this commu- nity, Washington Snapshots Taken by The Helm News Service WASHINGTON, feu 4,-.v tu I pi.jsjngiy iarge bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives swept to passage Speaker John N. Garner s plan for a special "economy commit tee" to draft a consolidation program for the Federal departments and in dependent bureaus. The vote was 215 to 22 for the adoption of the reso lution authorizing the appointment of the special committee. Almost as many Republicans as Democrats vot ed for it. As a result, much of the politics was taken out of the issue of government reorganization, although it represented a defeat for President Hoover's request for Congressional authority to reorganize the Federal departments by executive order. Coincident with the appointment of a House committee to investigate and recommend possible Federal econom ies through consolidation of bureaus and commissions. President Hoover issued a statement expressing "de - light" that Congress was about to take up the task of reorganizing the Government machine. Mr. Hoover, in a special message last week, urged Congress to give him authority to perform this ta;k, but the House ig noied the request and launched a counter plan on its own initiative. The body approved a resolution calling .whirlwind campaigning for the nom fora House committee of seven to ination. . inaugurate the economy plan. But this General Cox matter is get Secretary Mills found it necessary to recommend additional tax levies to the House ways and means commit tee because the previous estimates were found to be inadequate. It may be assumed, therefore, that the tax es which he now recommends were approved only because of the serious emergency with which the Treasury is confronted. "They should be con sidered as temporary levies to last only while the budget is being bal anced. Foremost among Secretary Mills' recommendations is a tax on gaso line. For the Nation as a whole the gasoline tax is already exorbitant. Yet these levies are being increased by the States because they as well as the National Government are in need of additional revenue. Under the cir cumstances the wisdom of a Federal gasoline tax would seem to be highly questionable. Since the States are bearing the brunt of relief for the unemployed, Uncle Sam ought not to invade their taxing sphere unless it is absolutely necessary. Certainly the ways and means, committee will be aDie to nna a means ot falsing m additional Slbo, 000,000 without en tering this field. A navy as strong as treaties will permit was recommended to the Sen ate by its Naval Committee to place the United States in "a b r bar gaining position" at the Gen a Arms Conference. Warning that t Amer- : n. t i... can iieec is rnpiuiy oeci ning a i navy of obselete ships," the commit tee reported that early enactment of the Kale bill to bring the navy up to units fixed by the Washington and London treaties was "imperative." Defeat of the LaFollette-Costiean bill fo rthe appropriation of a huge Government fund for relief of the unemployed, serves notice that even the United Senate, as at pieeent, constituted has come to a realization of the distinction between State du ties and obligations and Government duties and obligations. Succor of the indigent or otherwise unfortunate re mains, under the Senate s decision, the concern of the communities, and States in which these folk reside. Their care continues to be the bur den of those who dwell beside them, who know them best. The George Washington bicenten nial celebration in the House chem ber was followed by an ovation to Speaker Garner against which all the gavel-weilding prowess of the ruddy Texan could not prevail. The demon stration was staged by the House members alone who, after applauding the visiting President, Supreme Court Justices, Senators and diplomats out of the chamber, saved their main vig or for their own Speaker. Republicans joined with the Democrats, as mem bers stood in their places, applauded, yelled and waved handkerchiefs and copies of the Congressional Record, creating such a din that the healthy hammering of the gavel by Mr. Gam er could not be heard. More than 100,000 visitors throng. ' ed Washington f o rthe opening of the Bicentennial Celebration of the (Continued on pape eight) SIMMERING STAGE IN POLITICS NOW RALEIGH REPORTS Ehringhaus, Fountain And Max well Making Speeches And Will Continue To Do So COX NOT DECIDED YET By M. R. DUN."-.: RALEIGH, Mar. 1 Politics in North Carolina may now be describ ed as having reached the "simmering'1 stage and may be expected within the next two or three weeks to reach :he "boiling" point. The three guberna torial candidates made speeches the past week and will have more such . engagements from now until the June primary, three months off. Also, there , are signs of more activity among the candidates for other State offices, to say nothing of the contest for a seat in the United States Senate. Moreover, there has been a grow ing belief in Raleigh and over the State that General Albert L. Cox former superior court judge and j World War veteran, may emerge tfrom his seclusion of months and get ! into the race for Governor. General Cox admits that he is being encour aged extensively, and states that he will announce his decision the latter part of this week. The other pros pects may as well be eliminated, un less Solicitor Thomas A. McNeill, Lumberton, decides to do a little ting more toe-hold. It's a sort of swell and whether it grows or blows up is uncertain. There are those who say that if General Cox can get a few State Legion leaders behind him, the Legion will "t.o down the line" for him, a former State commander. Also, it is intimated that his plat form may have points of similarity to that of Josephus Daniels, and, in that event he would likely get the Daniels support, for what it may be worth. General Cox was in Washing ton last week. It is presumed he talk ; d with members of the N. C. delega tion, probably including Senator Cameron Morrison. The two are friendly. It is known that Senator Morrison has money. It is presumed that General Cox, as other candidates will need th?.t so t of help. It is be ing suggested that well, that may be there is an understanding. At any rate, it is assumed that with full leg ion support, financial help, and the blessings of Josephus Daniels Gener al Cox would enter the race and make it warm for all. J. C. B. Ehringhaus A. J. Maxwell and R. T. Fountain, gubernatrial en trants, are on the go, each having made a political speech last week. Mr. Ehringhaus derided reports that he is tied up with "corporate interests" or that he is an "administration" candi date asserting that he is the only candidate for governor that has no adaminirtrntion connection, or State post. He sr.id he is not a supporter of the "nhort ballot" and bases his candidacy on tax relief, economy in government, full State support of the six months school term, preservation of essential activities, protection of the State's credit, and defense of the (Continued on page eight ) 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, March 4 6:11 6:30 m. 11:37 a. m. m. 12:24 p. m. Saturday, March 5 m. 12:28 a. m. m. 1:02 p. m Sunday, March 6 6:56 a. 7:14 p. 7:37 a. 7:56 p. 8:12 a. m. 1:13 a. m. 1:38 p. Monday, March 7 m. 1:54 a. m. m. m. m. 8:31 p. m. 2.11 p. Tuesday, March 8 8:45 a. m. 2:30 a. 9:06 p. m. 2:42 p, Wednesday, March 9 9:18 a. m. 3:06 9:39 p. m. 3:14 Thursday, March 10 9:50 a. m. 3:43 10:11 p. m. 3:46 a. m. p. m. ?. T1. p. m.
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