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Kfew c o The Lest etl.cttis.ing medium published in Carteret d. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY VfA ' ' Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XXI 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 12 BEAUFORT Cost 01 Government FOUNTAIN SPEAKS In N. C. For Ten Years Total Cost In That Period Has Increased More Than Thirty Millions; Some Departments Have Not Increased Very Much Budget Di rector Burke Says By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Mar. 21 In these times, while costs of government are being attacked, it is refreshing to learn that the cost of operating the State's departments and institutions, exclusive of the amounts paid for schools, debt 8rvice, pensions and other fixed charges, has increased on ly $348,500 in 10 years, or from $4,903,000 for the fiscal year 1921 22 to $5,251,500 estimated, tor the year 193 1-32 which ends next June 80. Guy Lewis Residence Is Damaged By Fire Tuesday morning at about four O'clock a fire started in the sitting room of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Lewis at the corner of Ann and Fulford streets which did about $400 damage and might have done a great deal more had it not been Mopped as promptly as it was. The alarm was answered by the fire department very quickly and in about 45 minutes the fire was TO SCHOOL FOLKS Attacks Short Ballot, Commis sions, Tobacco Companies And Big Business The Honorable Richard T. Foun tain of Rocky Mount invaded Carter et county Monday in the interest of his candidacy for the Democratic nom ination for Governor. He called on a good many people in Beaufort, More head City, Newport and the eastern part of the coutny. He is what is known as "a good mixer" and made use of his opportunity to meet as many people as possible. At night he delivered an address before the Schoolmasters' Club at Moreehad Vil la hotel. The club meeting was presided ov er by its President H. L. Joslyn. Af ter the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting by secretary W. E. Powell an excellent program was rendered by the Morehead City school band. The meeting took place in the hotel dining room and after a very nice suppw had been served Mr. Jos- The.. gures are fura.Aed by that iflre started from a short circuit in tat authority, Henry Burke, assistant du radi, rector -of The Budget, ho has had, At te i)me 0f the fir Mr,. L3 charge of the Budget Bureau since ami thl children wm d , BgMn lyn introduced Lieutenant-Governor it created some seven years ago. adjoitl-mjr r00m. Mr. Lewis was in I Fountain who spoke for something ov lie joints out tnat itis higher costs mnlrloKnrn of v,o t;,Q t i;- er an .hour. Th rnnvp trn mrno eKv!a iwhmh til raf ... from debt service, which includes n- flection of the fl thr h win terest, payment Af bonds falling d dmR Sne vvoka up membeM of her and sinking fuds for thosn falUng jfamily and the a)am was tarned ,n e later" -Mrs. Guy Lewis and children wers Moreover, Accost of operating the j token out the back way f the house 'State's institutions and departments ;-imd escaped aay injury, -Rad the fire has been reduced almost $2,750,000 (not been discovered when -it was they in the past -four years, Mr. Burke , might have suffered serious injury or supplying figures to show that this j even lost their lives. Ihons was no in cost in lUiW.29 was slightly less thu j surance on the building or furniture. 3,000,00;; for 1929-30, it was $7. 300,000; ;in 1930-31 it wa $6,f76 .527, and the estimate for this year, 191.32 'is $5,251,500, MRS. EMMA JUHX WADE SMYRNA, Mar. 23 Friday nwrn- The tal cost of North Carolina's ; ing March 11, the dafcth angel visit government however, had increased from $11,217,064 for 1921-22,ft $43 103,79 estimated for JD31.J32. The general fund for 1921-22 was $7,. 503,76, of which only ?250,00 was for public schools, while the .'general fund for 1931-32 is estimated to spend $27,089,693, of -which $16, 700,000 is estimated for -schools. Highway funds spent in 1921-22, all for maintenance and debt service, and all from automobile ttaxes, was $3,363,154, while far thesame pur ed the home of Mrs Alvah Taylor and claimed her beloved mother. Mrs, Wade had heen an poor health a long time but aad -orly been confined to her bed for serial week. Mrs. Jule as she was .known to ereryone was loved by .allwk knew her and al ways stood ready to adminter to the sick and 3end :a helping. Iiand to all hi need, isheanarried .'Hr. Al phas Wad of .Davis -and made her home at -Davis unSil his death, not many years later. Then she moved Washington Snapshots Taken by The Holm Newt Service Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo, for years Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of New York, entered on his duties as Associate Justice of the Su preme Court of the United States practically without ceremony and with only the simplest of formalities. The new Associate Justice, after the required oaths had been admisister ed, took his place on the bench and sat with the court through the after, noon hearing arguments. A large crowd of attorneys and others packed the limited room Of the court and a long line waited outside unable to gain admittance. Among those waiting in line was Senator Marcus A. Coolidge, of Massachusetts Among those in the courtroom were Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, who was instrumental in having Judge Cardozo appointed, and Rabbi Wise, of New York. Alfred E. Smith, in a letter reply ing te questions asked by Mrs. Jessie W. Sayre, daughter of Woodrow Wil son, and made public, stated that a Massachusetts slate of delegates Jledg ed to him would be entirely free to vote for ary candidate for the Pres idential nomination they chose at the national convention when and if he should be eliminated from consider ation. He said he was not prepared at this time to say whom he would fav or at the convention if ho should withdWtw. poses $15,648,605 will be 'spent for back tto her .old .fcome at this place. ihe Agricultural Depart- Funeral services were ternducted ment spent $350,174 in 1921.22 and from the .home .of her daaeater with will spend about $SC0,5jTW) this year, its funds coming from fees and the department being .solf-siraorting, ex cept that a deficit f some $75,000 is expected this year. whom ahe .lived, y. her -pastor Rev. Mr. Wall of the M. E. Church from which she was. a member and assisted by Rev linebergnr, Rev. Gulp and aev. xroviason. interment wa3 in The deficit in tfce general fund at i Victoria cemetery in the.Dresence of the end of 1931, June 3(0, was $2,-.a very large caowd which showed the 231,198; it is estimated' to be $5-esteem in which she was held. 091,256 for 1931-22 and $6,493,139 j Surviving are her daughter, Mrs. at the end of the fiscal year 1932-33. Alvah Taylor, Awo grand children and three sisters, Mis. Charlie Gillikin and Mrs. Rifhand Salter of this place and Mrs. George Willis of Davis. A Friend, MRS. BATHSHEBA DAVIS Income Payment .Good Income tax payments the past week, which included .March 15, when they were due, reached $6,362,785 Saturday afternoon, as .compared $5 532,273 to the same flat last year, and are expected to exceed the revis- ea estimate or January .1 of $7,200, SMYRNA, Mar. 22 On Friday 000 for the fiscal year. Including theinight March 11th Mrs. Balisheba deferred payments, which are about j Davis, "Aunt Bet" as she was .always $100,000 larger than hist year, theiknown, passed to her eternal home, collections and known -receipts will j She was 80 years .of age the first day reach $6,500,000, which miss the re- i of March. For the past two year she vised estimates about $700,000. Com-jhad been in declining health, but .kept missioner of Revenue A. 'J. Maxwell! up wonderfullv well for one of hpr persows present, mostly school folks. A tew well known Democratic lead ers were present also. Mr. Fountain said that he thought towthers were interested in govern nwnt, at any rate hey ought to Jbe, And so he would .discuss some politi cal questions!. He first discussed iYt "depression and frtiicised what he called "Big Business," that is big corporations like the tobacco Com panies and the New York bankers. He said that -in order to get any re lief the farmers must first ha-ve re lief. He said that relief must start at the bottom and that the only thing he Jiad seen that got down to the ground was the money ;paid the war veterans. He said the fifteen cent tax via land for schools should he abolished. 3He stated thai the price of tobacci) :is too low and .that five companies h-ontrolled it He made sozme reEarenee to the international' deist moratorium, the sj&i money hoarding campaign and said lands oogiit to ije revalued. Mr. Fountain sharply criticised the report of the Brookings institute a-kicfa adwBed that several State of ficials be appointed instead -af elected and other important chanpes in the plan of ,Bfvernment. He strongly op posed givrag the Governor the pow er to make appointments of State of ficials and said he favored doinsr a- waj with swne of the commissions at Kalejh ana that $102,000 lad been hpem ior commissions of one sort an(. "Vp. thi i tv,Q v;,, .ro.Hn. another. He said he favored adequate ) If :lvou don't do as I tell you, I'll fire Criminal Cases Consume Time Of Superior Court Nearly All Civil Actions Continued ; Judge Friz zelle Gave Road And Prison Sentences To Considerable Number of Defendants; Many Larceny Cases Mrs. Tom Tosto Hurt When Cars Collide Louisiana's new Senator, Huey Long, Democrat, learned something about Senate rules recently. Arous ed at the Senate's action an increas ing appropriations for Howard Uni versity, a Negro school, he proposed aa.amendment to the Interior Depart ment supply bill calling for $200,000 for the State of Louisina to be used in its work of "eradicating illiteracy among the colored people." He ar gued that such an appropriation would be more justifiable than to give money to a "private institution" Senator Reed Smoot, Republican, of UJah, dean of the Senate, promptly made a point of order against the amendment on the ground that it had never been estimated for by the budget bureau nor reported by a standing committee. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Republican, of Wis coKin, who was in the cabin, prompt ly sustained the point of order. A collision occurred this morning shortly after eight o'clock in which Mrs. Thomas Tosto of Beaufort sus tained serious injuries and two cars were considerably damaged. The ac cident happened at the corner of Live Oak and Ann streets. This cor ner is regarded as a dangerous one as there is a lot of traffic on both streets, and it is a stop corner. Mrs. Tosto driving a Ford coupe was coming into town and the other car, which is a Marquette touring car owned by C. 2. Chappell, driven by Matthew Bail ey, colored man, was oh Ann street. The touring car struck the coupe on the side and turned it around throwing Mrs. Tosto out of the door. She was rendered unconscious by the fall and was first taken into the home of Mrs. George Gilbert and shortly afterwards brought to the Potter Emergency Hospital. At the hospital medical attention was given the lady and it was found that she had a lac eration on each side of her forehead, a broken thumb and several minor bruises. An Xray examination did not reveal any internal injuries. Un less some unfavorable symptoms de velop it is thought that Mrs. Tosto will soon recover. The one week's term of Superior Court which came to an end here Saturday afternoon at "1:15 probably disposed of more criminal cases than any other session ever held here, so court officials and others beln.'e. Wit hthe exception of a few mo tions and divorce suits no other civil matters were given any attention. Submissions were tendered in sever al of the criminal indictments but others went to vi.t juy and wei"; hot ly contested. MR. DEY RETURNS HOME AFTER PAINFUL ACCIDENT Mr. C. P. Dey, who was injured in New" Bern Monday afternoon has re turned home after receiving treat, ment in St. Luke's Hospital. Mr, Dey fell in the postoffice in New Bern, when the door, which is a heavy one and controlled by a stout spring pushed him causing him to lose his balance. He fell and caught on his elbow, injuring that arm. His right arm was painfully sprained in the fall, and he suffered a good deal from shock following such an exper- i lence. suppnrt for the schools an fithat the htara is abbe to take care of them. It is rumored that the club will have one of the utter candidates for Gov ernor address it at the next rconthly meeting. expresses the belief that he $7,200, 000 will be reached. age until about thros weeks before her death. She was loved and will jbe uovernor uaraner nas expressed .missed, not only by her two boys, satisfaction at the collections, saying Harry and Martin, but by the entire it now looks like the interest and community. Everyone enjoyed a vis bond payments due July 1 can be met jit with "Aunt Bet. She was always All of which might be taken to mean cheerful and smiling and retained a that it will not be necessary to call (wonderful memory almost until the a special session of the General As- last. The home will be to lonely with sembly, although that body in 1931, ;the dear old mother gone. May the after raising the income tax rates, j one who comforts all our Borrows, estimated that about $9,800,000 comfort her loved ones. She leaves to woold be received from that source, j mourn her loss two sons Harry C. The continued depression caused the and Martin T. Davis. One sister Mrs. tsuagei Bureau to reduce that amount Louis Dudley, two brothers W. A. STORM TUESDAY MORNING CAUSED SOME INCONVENIENCE A high wintl Tuesday moraing caused some fcrociile with power jsnd telephone lines. A short circuit at the rs . . . . ' " r - ui vranse na front streets of Louisiana to which he was elected set a pole afire ar.d an1 al .. in tatn w et tv. "w t.i .-u". iic i.nms aiivi Liie uitfseiiL yon .tomorrow. Yes, the Kingfish." This .is a version of one of Senator Huey Long's longdistance telephone conversations, between Washington and Louisiana. When he is in Wash ington he spends a good deal of his time 'bossing Louisiana by long-distance telephone. But he isn't much in Washington, for to keep things go ing in Lwiisiana he has to spend much of hie time down there, or st j least he has iiad to do so ever since he decided to g-ive up being Governor NO CASES TRIED TUESDAY IN RECORDER'S COURT No cases were tried in Recorder's court Tuesday. There were two on the docket but on account of the ab sence of witnesses they were contin ued. One of the cases charged Roy and David Merrill with trespass. The other charged Leonard Carroll with driving a car while under the influ ence of liquor. MARRIAGE LICENSE lurnea in. the power was cut o,T and the fire extinguished and a new pole erected. Lines were tangled up more or less in other places causins the Tidewater Company's linemen considerable work and inconvenienc ing patrons more or less. session had been going on for sever al weeks. So Washington has not had much chance to get acquainted with the "Kingfish," as he Jikes to call himself. Through the aid of the Reconstruc- Joseph Charles Walker and Alber ta Foscue, Newport. D. G. Eubanks, Beaufort and Eliz abeth Murphy, Marshallberg. A number of telephones were nut tion Finance Cornnrntinn tho t out of commission for a while but of Abbeville in Louisiana was able to they are all in service again. (Continued on page eight) TIDE TABLE to an estimated $7,200,000, which it is now helieved will be exceeded. Governor O. Max Gardner deliver ed a 30 minute address Monday from 6:30 to 7 'clock on "The Problem of Land in North Carolina," over an all State radio hookup. The eight radio stations coming together for the first time are located at Ralegih, Asheville, Charlotte, Winsto-Salem, Greensboro and Wilmington. Mrs. James L. Scott of Greensboro named secretary of the Young Dem the Democratic candidate for Presi dent Tyre C. Taylor, has moved to Raleigh and opened np headquarters for the national organization in the Page Trust Co., Mrs. Scott, who is and J. E. Willis. The funeral services were conducted at the home by Rev erend A. P. Stephens of Morehead City and interment in the family cemetery Saturday March 12th. ROBBERS RAID THE BANK OF NEWPORT AND GET AWAY WITH A SMALL SUM SCHOOL BOARD REELECTS PART OF PRESENT STAFF At a meeting of the board of trus- Some time between midnight and day Tuesday safecrackers paid a vis it to the Bank of Newport and got a way with about $400 In silver cur rency. The bank carried burglary in surance so it will not lose any thing ! by the robbery. The robbers failed to get into the part of the safe where most of the money is kept and where there was several thousand dollars at the time. Teh money they got was in . . L T"l , ..... u ox me ceauiort uraded School a tin box outside of the strong box. baturday a week ago Superintendent An electric drill was used to get the Fntz anda number of teachers were 'safe door open., reelected. The other vacancies on the , The persons who robbed the New teaching force will be filled in time1 port bank did not leave any. clue be- T?eXh5re!Jr,W , Ihind them but officials think they the board spent some time discus-1 bow .hn aa u . r t sing school problems m a general Part,.., nf n,,i.j d, a I viiuiiuibaiiu v iiivjiiu sccretarv also r,f ho V ponl. .,. if i j u.i:.r . 1.7. . . v"'""uu" " - " ucouc aw ueuei 01 me White of doimr the lob ard thpv wprp Democratic Oro-an zatinn in Mnrth KnH fW tv,o i,i .:n .. LJ "x uumj, me joo ar.a mey were . " v....v ow,iui win iun eiciu nncsih tr n v n hr f-iiri fiiirnr v-nnr.;ui : .1 j 1 ... . damn. fi,o i..- iL! j. " . ? l'ssiuiy emeu Dy anotner man. White I)r.rw.,n.. ii.T - " ,nu rarac-e ana a man named William -. ..... vuii.011 .'ill 1 Ci , 1 1 C . 1 U 1 C "u,... ..ji. lajiuj- ana iurs. ocoii fire likely to go t- Washington after the Bem.ocartie cndMntP for PrefJ. (.-t 1- ro.natod S)1 t"i? D:rr. (C:r.t:nusd or. J5r.ge e :,-'.) REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Elijah W. Piner and wife to Les i'iser, 12 acres, Smyrna, for $L Koonce escaped from the Kinston ijail the same night the robbery oc j cm-red. The report is that they stole a Hudson car in Kinston and robbed a garage in New Bern of some tools which were proh5b!y used in the Nr.v. Information as to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct nd 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. 9:57 a. 10:26 p. 10:60 a. p. m. 11:24 11:49 port robbery. It is thought that they left the county by following the Bogue Sund road to Maysville and on to South Carolina or somewhere else. It is reported that they stopped at a filling station for gas and paid for it with silver money. A few weeks ago Partce and White and a woman by the name of Mrs. A. S. Andrews were arrested in More head City and it was found that they were wanted in Kinston for a safe robbery there. Police officers in Beau fort thought that they were the ones who robbed the Loftin Motor Com pany's place last December. In fact a girl from Mansfield by the name of Lewis, ' who had been travelling a round with the outfit, said they told her they robbed Loftin's place and that they intended to tackle the New port bank. Acting on a tip from the Lewis gilr Beauofrt and Morehead City police acted in cooperation end arrested the two men and the An- 1 orews woman. The men escaped from! Poultry growers of Durham Coun- v.ie lunsion jan out tse woman did ty have turned their attention to the not get away. production of capons and will grow a l".:-3 number for a select trade. High Tid Low Tide Friday, March 25 m. - 3:51 a. m. m. 3:53 Saturday, March 26 m. 4:45 4:44 Sunday, March 27 m. 5:45 m. 5:44 Monday, March 28 12:31 a. m. 6:50 1:00 p. m. 6:48 Tuetday, March 29 1:44 a. m. 8:05 a. m 2:14 p. m. 8:05 p. m Wednesday, March 30 2:57 a. m. 9:16 a. m 3:26 p. m. 9:21 p. m Thursday,. March 31 4:05 a. m. 10:19 a. ni 4:29 p. m. 10:31 p. m . P- a. P- a. P- It has bfccii remarked by some cit izens that Judge Frizzelle did more for law and order than any judge that has ever been here. Be that as it may there was certainly a good many con victions and many prison and road sentences given. A noticeable fea ture of the court was that a consid erable number of young white men were tried and convicted and mostly for crimes wherein the motive was to steal something. One homicide ca.-e was tried. A large crowd attended the court all week. Last week's is sue of the News carried the court rec ord up to Thursday morning. The rest is given below: , , The most important esse tried was that of George Taylor and Robert Murray, two young Negro men from the upper North River section. They were charged with killing Waddell Smith, another young colored man, on the night of November 30th by shooting him with a. shot gun, At torneys C. R. Wheatly and James W. Mason represented the defendants and entered a plea of guilty of man slaughter which Solicitor Clark ac cepted. The case against Elisha Mur ray, also implicated in the shooting was noil prossed and he was used as a witness for the State. After hear ing the evidence in the case from both sides Judge Frizzelle imposed sentences of not less than five and not more than seven years on both Murray and Taylor. Delmas Guthrie, Everett Goodrich and Phillip Fulcher, young white men from Moreehad City were tried on a larceny charge and convicted. Guth rie was given 10 months in State's prison, Goodrich 12 months there and Fulcher six months on the roads to be worked by the Highway Commission. Vernon Arthur, Leslie Guthrie and James Guthrie plead guilty to the charge of larceny of money from the store of Kilby Guthrie of Morehead City. Vernon Arthur and Leslie Guthrie got twelve months on the roads and James Guthrie got six months. Charles Wallace Willis of Atlantic, convicted of an assault with a dead ly weapon was given two years on the roads. In the ease of Will Moore Willis of Morehead City convicted of an assault. on a female his sentence was changed from 12 months on the roads to term at the State Hospital where he is to be treated for the liquor and drug habits. Upon being discharged he is to be of good behavior for two years or capias will issue and he will have to serve the road term. Mark Washington, colored, of Beau ;ioit submitted to a charge of enter ing and larceny and was given not j less than 12 months and not more .than 18 months on ther oads. j Garland Willis of Beaufort enter ied a plea of nolo contendere to a charge of breaking and entering and got a sentence of not less than 12 and not more than 18 months on the roads. Virginia M. Nowell, worthless check, continued, to June term. I Kufus Taylor assaut with a deadly weapon, jury trial not guilty. James fcdgar Warren, abandonment true bill, capias and continued. Henry Godwin seduction. Gave $500 bond for appearance at June term of court. William Barber, colored, assault with deadly weapon, jury trial guilty judgment suspended. Francis Gore colored, assault with deadly weapon, convicted. Fine of $25 was remitted and defendant giv en to October term to pay costs. George R. Willis, false pretense, mistrifil. Elvin Salter, abandonment case coninued. Lula Best, Lee Fulcher W. L. Ar thur. Sci fa $300 bond for Marion Best, continued. Laura Harget,' color.d against A 1 phonso Hargett suit for divorce adul-t?:-r ehsrged. Divorces rranled. E'anche R. Pears-Jl, colored, a (Continued on page rive
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