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VOLUME XXI
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932.
PRICE 5c SINGLE (
NUMBER 10
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Meeting Of Committee
Stirs Up Politicians
Lively Times Expected Now; Democratic Con
vention Meets In Raleigh June 16th. Candi
dates For Governor All Favor Economy And
State Supported Six Months Term.
f By M. R UNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Mar. 7 Meeting of tha
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee in Raleigh last week was the
spark needed to set off the political
guns, which may now be expected to
keep p a continuous popping thru
the first primary, June 4, and even
a sec ond primary, July 2.
The State Convention will e held
id Raleigh June 16, at 11 A, M. pre
ceded by district conventions that
taorning. The State Convention will
draw the party platform and approve
the delegates named to the National
Democratic Convention to be held in :
Chicago June 27, The precinct meet
ings will be held on primary day,
June 4, at S P. M -followed by the
county conventions a week later, j
June 11, at 2 P. M, at. which delegates
will be named to he State Conven
tion. This was the only official action
taken fcy the executive committee,
with State Chaivman Odus M. Mull
presiding, tut turning over the gav
el to Mrs. Thomas O'Berry. vice-
oVinifmnn. SflTifrtnr .Tnsiah W. Bailfi
enumerated briefly the national legis-1
lation enacted and under way, .giving I
the Democrats full credit for the
beneficial enactments. Raleigh easily
won the cowention from Charlfttte.
.As a side event, the State Board of
EJ.Bctions.wBl meet in Raleigh .March I
25 to name the county boards of i
emotion, tw Democratic and one Re-
publican members of which are rec
ommended'dsy the county chairman to
tthe State chairman, who torn our the
recommendations to the State flection
foiard.
While xn&y a few other candiates
.are expected to come out for major
Siate"ofBwt, a few other amaounce
ments may ' be expected. These and
announcements of local amdates!
will keepAe political pot in state I
-of boil fordhe next three months, or
four.
.Robert R.Jleynolds, htunn..!). Grist
and Thomas C. Bowie hare atlready
stalled their bombardment :ts oust
Senator Caniiron Morrison frran his
seat. He is Likely to get into action in
the State in .the next two m three
week, andYur will fly. Three -fruber-natosfml
candidates, J. C. B. Ehring
haus, A. J. Maxwell and R. T. foun
tain, are already in action and prom
ise interest in 'the issues, now iteues,
.changing issues nd colatteral issues.
And mapy local tights are in the, off
ing. All of the three active candidates
so iar iw- .tne wmocratic nomma -
tion for Governor fcive advocated HP -
exttiiun oj jne six rnvnins scnooi term
byihe Statn and from revenues
er juian on property elimination of
tne 15 cent ad valorem tax. The
next problem jfor them ds to find rev.
enue to take the place of that andjthe Coast Guard gerviee in New Jer
the sereral miSJions spent as supple-; lost their iiveg in Sunday's .storm,
mental funds to the State suport. All ; -jy were David Barnett of Mwiteo
have denounced the "short ballot." awJ William Graham of Newport.
All have called for economy in gov-jxhc iatter was the 80n of Mr. Alex
ernment and?r Graham of West Beauofrt. U
Mr. Maxwell s suggestion that theappeaj,.8 that five men lost their lives
State supply school books to patrons I in the accident which happened near
at a modest rental, as an economy (Atlantic City while the men were try
move, and Mr. Ehringhaus' advocacy I ing to refCue Eome pepoe wbo were
of the State maintaining streets, de-f j distress
Jgnated as State highways, through1
cities and towns, have struck respon
sive cords and give promise of being
imponani supplemental issues in their
campaigns. Mr. Fountain is advocat- Fr)day( three of the defendant be
ing the present standard of schools ing mixed up in tbe same charge
s a minimum standard, to be improv- ".which was having liquor in possess
ed upon as conditions permit. Bion nd transporting the same. Thev
Loans For Schools
Several limitations are placed on
borrowing money in anticipation of
taxes lor operation of schools of the
State, all subject to approval by the
Local Government Commission,
torney General Dennis G. Brummitt
nus neia jn a letter to Uhar es M
Johnson, director of Local Govern
ment. In counties which have voted county-wide
school taxes, the county com
missioners, not the boards of educa
tion, may issue notes in anticipation
of the school taxes only, to 80 per
cent of the uncollected amount, and
payable within 30 days after the enc"
of the fiscal year. They are not gen.
eral county obligations.
The county commissioners,
not
committee, nor the county board of , 10, at eight o'clock. This is an impor
cducation, in special school tax dis-tant meeting, election of officer,
tricts, have 'authority to borrow not Everv member is flfkpd tr ntfon t
to exceed
lected tax
"er cent of the unco'.''
5 the district, and pay-
-d on page eight)
HELP FOR HARKER'S ISLAND
At a result of the itorm Sun
day an efforth is beine made to
obtain some help for those res
idents of Harker's Island who
suffered considerable loss in the
storm. A committee composed of
Reverend C. A. Johnson, M. L.
Yeomant, Clyde Yeomans and
Cleveland Davis sent a telegra
yesterday to Congressman Aber
nethy asking him to try to get
some aid from the Government.
Congressman Abernethy replied
that he had taken the matter up
with Red Cross officials and the
Commandant of the Coast Gu&rd
and that relief is on the way.
Mr. Abernethy says he thinks
that Harker's Island will ge suf
ficient help to rehabilitate the
Iw.
community.
ATER AND LIGHT
COMMISSION ENDS
Final Report a3 Resignation
Tendered; Appropriation
For Lufliker Plant
The regular Tnorfftily meeting )f the
board of city Tmmissioner3 took
place Moeday nigit at the ciy hall.
All members of th board, the Mayor
and City attorn ej were presf-nt,
E. D Doyle Tern esenting tie Water
and Ligh Commission appeared before
the boamS, tendered a report and of
fered Ithe resignation of the members
of the board of which he vaa chair.
man and W. I'. Smith and C. R.
Wheatly 'were Members. "She report
and resignation if the ommission
was accepted.
Mr. Jesse 'Jisgel came '-lief ore the
ff entereLd 8 as to
1 H VX J?MU,f h'c.h "
than lie constitution permits. The
board took the ;posjtioii 'that poll tax
rate is legal, that . it. had already been
levied and nothing could be done a-
bout it now.
The fluestioc f repairing, or build
insr. a breakwater back of some of
the stores on Front street was dis
cussed. It was .tiecided that the board
could not -do Any thing, about it now.
The question of securing the pro
posed lumber manufacturing company
for Beaufort was discussed at length
and a motion was passed to appropri
ate $150 towards the purchase of a
site for the plant
A number of lills were audited
and the board recessed subject to the
ca 0f the Mayor.
dU-Inarth ranm INI ans DROWNED
Press reports Monday earned the
report that two North Carolinans in
POLICE COURT ITEMS.
Pni;,.- Court, bad a fpw cas. last
were Alonzo Fulford, Manly Bailey
and Florence Fisher, all colored.
They were bound over to Recorder's
court.
"Dick" Chadwick, colored boy,
At-'charged with larceny of a dollar bill
1 from Jim Chadwick was tried. Dick
admitted getting the dollar but said
he found it. Jim said he put the mon
ey in his cap and laid it on the
ground and saw Dick take it. The
Mayor told Dick he could either pay !
the money back to Jim or work ten
days on the streets. Dick said he
would pay up.
COMMUNITY CLUB NOTICK
The Community Club will meet in
the club room. Thursday nizht March
There will not be a meeting of tho
;..; ?;c cluV Friday night.
4 Vcia II, Stubbs, Pres,
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WILL CONTINUE
Officials Think Means Will Be
Provided To Operate
Schools
From such information as the
News has been able to obtain it ap
pears that the public schols of Car
teret county will run for the full
eight months. If the schools should
close at the end of six months they
would close March 15. It appears how
ever that no definite arrangements
have been made towards securing the
funds to pya teachers' salaries.
A reporter for tha News saw Su
perintendent Allen Monday and ob
tained from him a statement as to the
meeting held last Saturday which it
as follows:
So far as is known to the Board Of
Education, the teachers of Carteret
County will teach throughout the ex
tended tern as a resdt of representa
tions made by Honorable Lather A.
Hamilton, County Atorney, before a
couny-wide meeting of the teachers
in the courthouse at Beaufort last
Satuwlay morning at 10.$ 0 o'clock.
Mr. Hamilton assured the teachers
of his high appreciation, and that of
the County Commissioners, of the ex
cellent spirit dt'Wion-Sfcrated bv the
teachers of Carteret County in tb
past and the willijjgness evidenced
by them to '"carry on" under present
conditions. Mr. Hamilton also assur
ed the tewebers if ..the purpose and
deteimireatkm of the Commissianers
to Provide sufficient fund. for the
extended term. While disclaiming any
personal! responsibility for any'possi
blc failcre on Sthe part of the Com
missioners to -meet their expired ob
ligatinn to the teachers, Mr. Hamil
ton aBSured ike teachers that he be
lieve.? to a (moral certainty 'toat the
Courtly Consnissioners can .and will
dischaTge :their extended term obli
gatitns -Xo itke teachers and that he
would be xi'f avery possible assistance
to .commissioners c that end. Ho
emphasized that -he is unwiiling and
itnHble'to heiieve that Carteet Coun
ty dJoes nHt have the mental and fi-
nanEiai rewurces to provide
TrmZ " ( ContiatMst sr pafa.sVarl
Def endants Convicted
On Liquor Charges
'There were several coatictions in
Bet-order's ourt Tuesday .on liquor
charges. All the defendants were col
ertfl and all were from Beaufort
Many Bailey, who is reputed to fur
nish 'informed ion to the poJiee some
times fared rather badly. Manly sub
mitted to the charge of having liquor
in im possesion and transporting
and -expected to bea witness against
Alonzo Fulfaxl. He was givea twelve
months on tht roads and not permit
ted to testify against Fulford. Form
er Jufiue E. .Walter Hill apptaring
for Fulford made the l&gal objection
thata 'to-defendtnt could not testi
fy ag-sbist his ;jeirtner in crime. He
was sustained in this contention 4y
Judge Uavis and Ahis weakened the
case agafoit Fulfwd so that he was
acquitted. Later .the Judge reduced
Bailey's sentence to six months.
Emma Barbour charged with pos
session of liquor for purpose of sale
was convicted and given a sentence
of three months at the -County Home.
Florence Fisher Fulf&rd wa; also
given a three months sentence on a
charge of possession, the same to be
suspended on payment of costs and
showing good behavior for six months
Recorder's court will not convene
r-.ext Tuesday as Superior court will
be in session then.
Six Durham farmers recently made
a cooperative order of pecan trees
for setting about over their farms.
MOREHEAD CITY TEN YEAR OLD BOY
SAVES HIS SISTER FROM DROWNING
MOREHEAD CITY, March 8 1
Kenneth Willis, 10 year old son of
John B. Willis, who lives on 23rd
and Arendell street was acclaimed a
hero by the faculty and school chil
dren of the graded school Monday.
When Professor Joslyn told of the
heoroism and bravery displayed by
this little fellow when he saved his
little 4 year old sister Saturday. The
father and uncle had gone to Hoop
Pole creek in a small gasoline fishing
boat for wood and oysters and had
taken Kenneth and his three sisters
along.
This is the story as Kenneth him
self told it later in his classroom when
asked to tell the members of his class
just how it happened:
"My daddy and uncle had left us
in the boat while they had gone a
round tha creek for some oysters. I
was in the front of the boat and just
then I heard my oldest sister scream
out that Catherine was overboard. I
LARGER COST OF
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Expenditures Six Times Great
er Than Sixteen Years
Ago
' " By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Mar. 7 Public school
expenditures in North Carolina have
increased more than six times in the
past 16 years, or from $5,449,644.55
for the school year 1914-15 to $33,-
425,754.59 for the year 1929.30,
while the current expenses per pu
pil enrolled increased from 6.95 to
$33.01 in the same period, State
School Facts, published by State
Supt. A. T. Allen, shows in its cur
Tent issue.
Of the 1929-30 cost oi acnooU, $28
616,603.14 wa for current expenses
and $4,809,151.35 was for capital out
lay, while $20,825,335.85 was spent
by rural schools and $12,600,418.91
by charter schools. A decrease in to
tal school costs is shown in four
years, the high peak having been in
1926-27, when $36,701,501.36 was
the 'cost, to above $3,000,000 more
than the 1929-30 costs.
- The tendency has been for rural
School costs to grow more rapidly
than for charter schools thus lessen-
ing the big difference in cost of the
two groups. In 1914-15 the rural
current cost per .pupil enrolled was
$5..78 while for the charter schools
it was $12.62. In 1929-30 the rural
per pupil current expense was $28.92
and for charter schools, S44.27.
I The more then 4,000 school busse?
in use in the State, costing more than
$2,000,000 annually, yet nt the lowest
per pupil of any state in the Union,
better trained teachers, Jietter build--ings,
broader curricula and a larger
portion of high school jiupils are giv
en as reason for increased cost per
pupi Reasons, assigned for varia
tions In coets in different school sys
tems include: difference in school or
ganisation, as small or -large schools;
density of achocu population; transpor
tation problem; number in high
schools, training teachers, including
salfrieajparft and' ccnictila off eredj
"p TiTffie Carteret county rural sys
tem, it jb shown, the 1929-30 total
cost was fl22,534.43, divided into
$14,42L51 for .capital outlay and
$108,11282 for current expenses,
The current expenses per pupil en
rolled for four years follow: 1926-27
$38.14; 1927-28, $i8.35; 1928-29,
$4U.83; and 1928J30, $43.52. This
county took 5th place among the 100
counties of the State in cost per nu-
pil enrolled, this report shows.
The aruraal State Picture Memory
Contest will be held in Raleigh April
lb, under auspices of the art depart
ment of the N. C. Federation of
Women's Ciubs anil the State Depart
ment of education, ne division for
sixth and Feventh grade pupils and
the other for high school pupils. Each
city may send four representatives,
each town two and each county eight,
according to the rules.
The 36th annual convention of the
North Carolina Bankers Association
wil be held at the Carolina Hotel,
Pinehurst, Thursday and Friday, May
5-6, Paul P. Brown, Secretary, an-
sounces.
LINDBERGH BABY NOT FOUND
Up to the hour of going to press
no information has been received
here by radio or otherwise that the
son of the famous aviator Charles A.
Lindbergh had been found. The child,
20 months old, was stolen from the
home of his parents Tuesday night
March 1st. A tremendous search has
been going on tver since and officials
say some progress has been made to.
wards solving the mystery.
looked and there she was going down
I knew I had to get her, for my dad
dy thought more or her than any of
us. So I grabbed a 'life saver and
went overboard as fast a: I could.
The water was so deep there I just
could feel my toes touch once in a
while. I held my head high as I could
so I wouldn't get water in my eyes.
After a while I reached her end with
my life saver I got hold of her and
swam and drifted back to the boat
where my sister and I pulled her in.
My father and uncle, hearing 'all the
crying, came back as fast as they
could, but we all thought fhe was
dead sha lay so still but my uncle
who has had lessons in life saving,
worked on her a mighty long time
he gave her up a lot of times, but af
ter a while she breathed and came a
live and that's all, except that ssme
boat was washed away in the storm
Sunday, but we got it back, but it's
beat to piece: m'ghty bad."
Serious & linage Done By
Southeaf II Storm Sunday
Te
rrific Wind And Extremely High Tide Dam
aged Buildings, Boats, Wharves, Power, Tel
ephone Lines; Truck Crops Injured By Wind
And Tide .
REWARD OFFERED
FOR WANTED MAN
County Will Pay $100 For As
sailant of J. C. Helms; Tax
Listers Appointed
As is usually the case there were
several applications for help from the
Poor Fund at the meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners
Monday. Messrs W. M. Webb, C. T.
Chadwick, L. C. Carroll, Martin Guth
rie and W. W. Styron win., constitute
the board were all present.
The application of Mrs. Clem Gas
kill of Harker's Island for assistance
was heard and a motion passed allow
ing her $5 a month,
A motion was passed to admit John
Mcintosh to the County Home. A sim
ilar motion was passed admitting
Mrs. Abbie Cohon.
The matter of offering a reward
for the man who secretly assaulted
J C. Helms of Morehead City was dis
cussed and a motion offered by Com
missioner Chadwick offering $100 for
this purpose was passed.
Attorneys J. F. Duncan and C. R.
Wheatly came before the board with
reference to a claim of $440, which
in accordance with an audit made by
Mr Hewett some months ago, is due
the cousity by Clerk of the Court L.
W. Hassell. Mr. Duncan introduced
evidence which showed that Mr. Has
sell does not owe the county any
thing twit that on the contrary the
county owes him a considerable sum.
Motions were passed allowing a re
ductioa f $400 on the. property .of
Bdrdea" Adams' in White Oak town
ship and $75 on the property of R.
L. Daniels in Cedar Island township.
The following list takers were ap
pointed by the board to list taxes:
White Oak Township W. F. Tay
lor. .Newport Township G. E. Sander
son. Morehead Township C. V. Webb.
Beaufort Township John Johnson
Harlowe Township Raymond Ball
Merrimon Township H. B. Salter
Straits Township Elwod Willis.
Harkers Island Townshirj Jimmie
Guthrie.
Smyrna and Marshallberg Town
shirj Elwood Willis.
Hunting Quarter Township H.
H. Davis.
Cedar Island Township Jno. W.
Daniels.
Portsmouth Township Mrs. Abner
Dixon.
$57,000 IS ALLOTTED FOR
CARE OF INLAND WATERWAY
Washington, March 8 Allotment
of $37,000 for operation and care of
the inland waterway Norfolk, Va., to
Beaufort Inlet, N. C, including re
pairs to Deep Creek lock, Dinnal
Swamp canal, was made iv by the
war department.
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, March 1 1
10:22 a.
10:45 p.
m. 4:16 a.
m. 4:19 p.
Saturday, March 12
m.
m.
10:56 a. m. 4:56 a.
10:59 p. m. 4:55 p.
Sunday, March 13
11:23 a. m. 5:41 a.
11:38 p. m. 5:39 p.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Monday, March 14
12:09
12:26
1:05
1:28
2:12
2:38
3:10
a. m. 6:31
p. m. 6:28
Tuesday, March 15
a. m. 7:30
p. m. 7:26
Wednesday, March 16
a m. 8:35
p. m. 8:30
Thursday, March 17
a.
a. m.
p. m.
a. m.
p. m.
a. m. 9:37 a. m
p. m. 9:36 p. m. i
The first two or three days o
March weather were pretty enough
but on the 6th it made up for lost
time. A roaring southeaster hit uhe
coast Sunday and for several hund
red miles along the coast and bu.k
some distance into the interior it.
kicked tip an awful shindy. Accord
ing to press reports several lives were-,
lost by drowning and property loss
ran up into a good many thousands
Citizens in Beaufort say that south
easter here in the spring of the year
are extremely rare. They usually
come in late summer or early fall.
There was a heavy rainfall Satur
day night and Sunday morning but
the wind storm did not start until a
bout seven o'clock. It reached its
greatest velocity between nine and
ten o'clock and may have been blow
ing 50 miles or more an hour at that
time. It did considerable damage in
Beaufort. A good many of the wharv
es along Front street were destroyed
and there was some injury to boats.
Some of the small boats were carried
clear across the street and up into
people's yards. The large menhaden
boat, "Kingfisher" was driven by the
wind and tide up to the seawall on
Front street and is still there. She
does not seem to be damaged much
however. The tide was very high and
came up into quite a number of
stores along Front street. Those that
suffered most from the water were
F. R. Bell's drug store and C. V,
J 1(113 general merchandise store. .
The News has been told that Hark
tr'tt Island suffered heavily by reas
on of the storm. Out of 150 boats
only seven were left that had not
been badly damaged r or destroyed.
Also much damage "waTaone'to 'TlaY "
houses, wharves, nets and equipment.
There was considerable damage done
to fishermen along Bogue and Core
sounds. Mr. Kelly Gillikin's new boat,
getting ready for her first trip and
loaded with 800 bushels of potatoes,
was wrecked at Marshallberg. At
Morehead City all wharves from At
lantic Beach bridge to the city hos
pital were washed away and numer
ous telephone and light poles were
blown down and other minor damages
done to roofs, signs and the like. In
Beaufort the roof was blown off the
Duncan-Wheatly building on the
south side of Front street and the
roof of the C. P. Dey building at the
corner ot Craven and Front street
was partly blown off. A laree Dlate
glass window in the store occupied
oy bam Lipman and Son was smash.
! ed. Many awnings were demolished,
some trees blown down and a t.y
chimneys overturned. ...
One of the worst features of the
storm in Carteret county was that
truck crops were badly injured, some
practically destrowed. Radishes, peas,
beets, cabbage and broccoli all suf
fered bad effects. In the Otway sec
tion and on some farms near Beau
fort tide water covered the recently
planted white potato crop and prob
ably runined the seed. Sweet pota
toes in storage hills in some places
I were damaged by tide water. G. W.
j Huntley, Gibbs Brothers and K. W.
Wright had fine crops of radishes
which were juat beginning to go to
the markets at good prices, and these
were badly hurt. Mr. Huntley hid
some poultry houses blown down and
lost soma fine chickens. To report in
detail all the loss caused by the
storm in Carteret county probably
would take a man fully a month. It
must have been many thousands of
dollars.
The wind changed to the southwest
about eleven o'clock and then hauled
to the northwest and by nightfall it
was quite cold. During the night it
became still colder and by morning
there was ice about half an inch thick.
Monday and Tuesday were fair and
Wednesday there was a cold rain mix
ed with some snow. Last night the
temperature dropped to 20 which is
the record for this winter.
UNSIGNED COMMUNICATIONS
As has been stated in this newspa
per a good many times articles intenl
ed for publication in the News will
not be printed unless the writer's
name is known. Two unsigned com
munications have been received kt
ly which would have been published
had the writer-, signed their names.
We do not print names if requested
not to do so but we must know who
dr: th? writing or we cmsot p''ilish
the article.
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