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AO FORT ME The best advertising medium published in Carterer Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY j WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XXI 8 PAGES THIS WEF.K THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1932 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMJBER 29 o) ! IIUIM.I MS Carteret County Will Receive $10,407.05 For Extended Term Allotment Made For All Counties Except Two; Union Gets Most; Allotments Based on Need and Ability to Pay By M. R. Dunnagan EALEIGH, July 23 Allotment of the tax reduction fund for aid in the extended school term for 1032-33 has been completed by the State Board of Equalization, but the fund, appropriated as $1,500,000, has been subject to the budget reduction, like all other State funds apropiiated, ! except the six months public school fund, the Teult being that only $y89,86l.7u, or $?510,138.30 less than the appropriation, has been al lotted, LeRoy Martin, secretary of the board, announces. Washington Snapshots POWER RATES MAY ROAD CONTRACTS BE REDUCED SOON WILL BE AWARDED Hearings To Be Held By Cor- IN A FEW WEEKS poration Commission On Rate Question By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, July 25 The North Carolina Corporation Commission will hold hearings of representatives of public uiilities companies, includ ing those supplying electricity, gas and telephone services, probably dur Act Passed By Congress Will Provide Large Sum For Roads WILL GIVE WORK TO 5000 Atlantic Now E izetn Terminus Federal Co l&toCoast Hiohway eg w v Coast Guardsmen H Less Food Allowa Taken by The Helm Newt S WASHINGTON, D. C. July 25th President Hoover will open his campaign for re-eUction with his speeehe of acceptance here August 11, according to an announcement by Everett Sanders, chairman of the Republican National Committee, who. By M. R. Dunnagan RALEIGH, July25 Contracts for j ,$3,000,000 in highway construction! ing the first week of August, with a are expected to be ready for letting view of reducing rates for these ser-jto contractors by August 15 and ap- ; vices, the commission announcing in proximately that much more will fol- us order that it is determined "that low in the next three or four months, the lowest rates which will yield a 'as a result of the passage by cong fair return shall be promptly put in-'ress of the emergency relief measure to effect." 2 vmb Atlantic has recently become the 5l eastern terminus of the U. S. High - ? wav No. 70, which meanders across . .the southern part of the United Accordine to all reports U. S.' States to Los Angeles, California, Coast Guardsmen vho may have been' some three thousand miles away, afflicted with what Shakespeare once Thus Atlantic has taken the honor a- ireferred to as "that lean and hungry; way from Beaufort for being the look" will not be troubled that way eastern terminus or tnis great trana much longer. The reason for this is 'continental highway. Now a person that they are now living on the fat .can leave Atlantic and drive for of the land according to reports. days westward until he reaches the It used to be that members of the. sunny southern California city with Coast Guard crews were allowed $30 lout having to leave U. S. 70 high a month each for subsistence. If way. they chose to spend the full amount! This Federal highway takes the thev could do it or if they uref erred same route through this state that . carrying a Dig mgnway construction' . ... . . ,afM,i wn rent.lv was donated a State J? J i-it. f T T CC ' i AttlACil LUC 11 UOUft BLtuunu wi,:i,tciu tf o " - Mmm5ln it und' Chairman E. B. Jeffries, of the, . highway No. 10, which runs, from The has completed its survey fitntp fTicrhwriv PnmmisKinn. -tat.PK. of public; n,.!,,, Toff,.;Qt nA iHnmar s ivpvp. in Washington rHnshnpnts nf mfp', . . . , and thp nlan nf pamnnVn Tim ti n- Z 7, , , . ;last weeK ana received assurance ann tne plan 01 campaign. Ihe noti-."m response to the demands of this'.,. j i.,.; .- , , . -, , . .. mas ruies anu reguiauuna guveiiiing may be expected this plans for using this State's with other leaders, conferred with utilities under its jurisdiction, made'p, the President on issues to be stressed with the view of adjustments of rates ! " .Lv Because of the reduced fund, it was necessary to increase the uni form rate necessary to participate frnm 14 rpnts Inst vpar tn 17 ppnt; next year, but Mr. Martin expresses fi?:ion meeting will be held in Con- unprecedented period of depression" 'the relief fund the belief that, due to economies and stltlon Hall, with members of thend now calls upon the companies tojweek and plang balances brought over in some cases, T IT , . ll,u,Kn 1,1 4 ,L ,sena representatives at a date to be only a few of the districts will find it ed Th? publlc wl11 als0 have an P" named to confer with the commis- . .... nnrtunifrv horn trio Prooirlonf ha it- ia. i- tit. i. necessary to increase the tax rate. . " ooject oeing to enect sucu;, 8S 700.406. will be ready as soon The790 districts sharing in the .'v- w , K ul ovt? ; 0 "a" ""mediate reductions in rates as mayj . 'M ' Jeffri expresses the fund; ranging from 1 to 90 per cent j J,S!0yJAJ' ' b legit!,m?tely.. possible Under ElSltai S sSTwffl not let of their extended term costs. The ' . ", em, conuiuons. part, $2,890,203, to match an equal amount of regular Federal Aid, mat While .i Di,,ot;nn nf nr.n.ri. ?n ti,Qo.be Chicago under Chairman Sand districts was fixed at $2,669,646,612, ler' the .actuual. di;uectin , the cam- h vJ v jpaign will be in the hands of the CII1V1 WS, V IllUllkUd W y-, j . . ... ... n , rresiueni, as in io, witn rostmas iter General Brown and Secretary i Mills as advisers. tended terms is $4,221,776.73, a re duction of $165,867.38 from last'. vanr riiiA te rpHiifHnna mnA hv th 1 board in the six months standard and I through failure of districts to oper- ate terms last year. The allotments are made need and ability basis. The Without ceremony and in the nor mal course of his day's business, upon President Hoover signed the $2,122- need is 000,000 relief bill, which he had hail shown by the cost ca'culated for two ed in a statement a3 "a strong step months on the six months State stan- toward recovery." The new law au dard, and the ability of the district thorized the Reconstruction Finance to meet thi scost is the amount pro- Corporation to expand its capitaliza dnepd hv the lew of the uniform tion by $1,800,000,000 for use in rate upon a determined value. $500,000 expected for road work in The commission was given addition the Great Smoky Mountains National al "teeth" in a law enacted by the Park. 1931 General Assembly to inveti- The fund is for unemployment re gate public utilities companies, their j lief and is expected to give work on condition, amanagement, appraisal. the job to 5,000 or more North Car of properties, investigation of con- olinians, in addition to that many tracts with holding companies or fi- more in providing supplies and equip nance agencies; prevent construction jHient for the work.. Convict labor is do that out of the food allowance. : Atlantic to Murpny, over in neroKee Now in these strenuous times, when 1 County, and on to the Tennessee the President has reduced his own 'line. A few days ago, however, the salary and all Federal departments .State highway signs were removed are being urged to reduce expenses,, ' from the erstwhile route 10. It thus the food allowance of the Guards-j ceases to be in name a State high men has felt the ax. Instead of $30 1 way, but continues to be U. S. High. a month the men are allowed $22.50 way No. 70. This will be kept up in or operation of plants in competi tion with other companies without a certificate of convenience and nec essity from the commission; and re quire submission of contracts made with holding, managing or operating companies or selling services of any kind, the commission having tirohihited on the iob. but may be used in quarries; no laborer may work more than if) hours a week, thus requiring two shifts and giving work to as many as possible; the Cfafa TT,oViwow PnTYimiaainn is rponir- '6""J "--- oJ and furthermore if they do not use that much for subsistence it is not allowed. The grocery bills are paid by the department and are confined to what is actually spent. This be ing the case the men are said to be living on the best the markets af ford. Fortunately there are plenty of good things to eat and those who have them for sale are glad to have good paving customers. The vigorous out door lives which the Coast Guardsmen live make them strong and healthy. In this respect they are fortunate and if they are al part bv Federal aid and part by the State. It seems rather odd that Atlantic, with approximately six hundred pop ulation, should be the eastern termi nus, while Los Angeles, with upwards of a million population, is the west ern terminus. There is quite a con trast, both in size and population, between the Carolina town and the Californian city. Both are in practi cally the same latitude of the United States. In the years to come many people of this country may desire to tra- of the V UU AX UilV J HIV ; ,t . . . ... . ivpi3M i.iim iiivvfr hi 1 m rvii irv ! plenty to eat they are lucky indeed, i"""" Qles 7 " e B"U1M j The Coast Guard is a popular insti-Vf50m L3 A"ele3 Atla"tlc- A.ls". r,K,r UwnJ. "lc setuons oi various Jny ed t ofix a minimum rate for skii- - 7"; 'metropolitan newspapers and touring the ed and unskilled labor, and will Vrobf eJ guides will depict the western city loans to self-sustaining construction vt to disannrove anv such cont.rart 'ably fix 20 cents an hour for unskill-i " A" " ' !Vand the Carolina town as 'projects of a public character and tOExpenses 0f appraisals, audits and in-ted; the work must be finished by Ju-, . mav be of the beVaid that 'ftmlni of e-transeontli Every county in the State, except state governments for relief of the J vestigations Juilford and New Hanover, both with unemployed. The remaining 322,- contingency may be paid from the.ty h end emerencv fund. now. 1933, about 11 months from they will be able to dispose- of at the two transcontinental high. way; in this way Atlantic will obtain least three square meals to come. WILL OF LATE CHARLES P. DEY FILED RECENTLY countv-wide districts, participate ln'nnn nnft nvnviHprl in thp Wi.-lation isL.i j j u.. 41. n j Pnntracfors must aaree to the a- . V . 1 v. ... --j, -u :u uiuticu uy me vioveinyr anu I - ' manv vears the fund. The larger amounts go, not t hp dpvnted to Federal nub ic work rii nr fof ' ihnve reculations and for that reas-, ' to the wealthy and more populous,, 'according as the Treasury finds the ' 'on it is not expected that the drop nor to the poorer and less densely funds available. The new authoriza-; The utilities companies have suf-'in prices of materials in the last populated counties, but to the aver- tion to the Reconstruction Finance fered, along with individuals and year or two will show in the finished age or slightly above average coun- Corporation swells it into a still larg-, their profits are limited by the com- work, as labor will probably cost a ties. Union leads witti $20,800.1 1, er credit acencv with total lending mission, ine commission points out, little more, r.,t 94.797.ai. .Tnhnstnn ,;t--.T snn nnn nnn tn tvp statins that profits made bv them in $24,842.95, Columbus $23,842.05, state3 for alleviation of' distress. The the past decade are from expansion 'bers of highways over the State, its 'clerk of the Superior Court, for pro- amount of SI. 500, 000,000 is provid- into new territory ana Duiidmg by purpose being to take tnose most " v.o-gr0 n for income-producinar works which ;muusiry ana not irom increase in:ne' a resort of consequence on the east ern shores of the United States. The will of the late Charles Pitt Thp commission can finish up num- man Dey was filed with L. W. Hassell, Jimmie Several Charges Send Negro Superior Court Columbus S23.71G. Robeson and bur ry above $22,000, Sampson $21,000. Carteret county will get $10,407 05 next year for the extended term. BUELL COOKE PASSES AWAY will be able to p.iy off the loans. 'rate;. ' I Ten gas companies are operating Thouo-h the Seventy-second Conjr-'in the State, 53 electrical companies, ress stands adjourned, its spirit win 01 wnicn xo are large prooucers, ana neers to save all roadside trees nec- - itoj " " .1 - lnn 1 1 u 1 trt c licti 3 L L save eii iwuo.w ' - AFTER EXTENDED ILLNESS g0 marching on all Summer. No few ,109 telephone companies, only 12 of f fln avfinue on each side of Swann as witnesses. er than twelve investigations, an u-. the road directs that one day, Aug- A RupII Cnnke passed awav in the thAiMpd at the last session, are eim Tslnrfnllr Mnvnl Hnsnital in Ports-'a vin nrnorrpas or soon Will be. Of mouth. Va.. Tuesday nieht after suf- these, six were f ering from arthritis for seven or ate and five by the House, wnne one eight years. For a number of years ,s a joint undertaking. The Senate he and his family have been making committee on Banking and Curren their home here in Beaufort, where cy ia already well along on an m the father of the deceased, A. J- quiry into stock market matters be Cooke, was proprietor of the Davis gun 8ome months ago. Activity is in House for a long time. Mr. Cooke dicated for the Committee on Agn was taken to the Naval Hospital a-1 aulture, in an investigation of the bout a month ago but his Condition 'Federal Farm Board and of its use became rapidly worse until he died 0f the $500,000,000 "revolving fund" Tuesday evening. He was in his lateappropriated by Congress for the thirties. I purpose of "stabilizing" prices. The . . . . , rtl WnrinSother investigations authorized by At the beginning of. the World! genate indude a study o the War Mr. Cooke vj jnteered st Lawrence treaty; an inquiry served throughout the "(nfl,ctIw 'into the operation of the recent econ the Norfolk Light ArtLlary Blue;omy act; a report on the desirability company, which made quite a "cord, 'continuinK the Alaskan Railway, at the Front in Fran:e. Both oe'oreiand the U9Uai inquiry into campaign and after his military service the de-, ditures ordered in an election ceased was employed by the Virgin- , la-Carolina Chemical Company in; . iikewjse initiated Portsmouth, Va., and was , wonting : there when he was taken with arthri tis. of his or soon will be. ui t . initiated by the Sen- Rural ClUDS riCIllC Held Last Thursday 1, be used by all employees in LOCAL LEG10NAIRES HAD removing unsightly objects and cov ering unsightly places, and announc es that Arbor Day in 1933 will be of the greatest treeand shrub- Last Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock several hundred members of the various rural women's clubs in thp cmintv and their families and oth er guests went over to Atlantic! Beach to observe the annual Carter et County day. Some three hundred ! LARGE NUMBER BLUEFISH one bery planting days in the history of the State. In other words highway beautification will be a part of the highway activity from now on, and in a Dig way. attended and enjoyed the bathing and other amusements at the beach. This picnic was sponsored by Miss Ann Mason, home demonstration a gent, and she was assisted by Mrs. Estelle T. Smith, district agent of Raleigh. WILL ATTEND TOURNAMENT AND GREY TROUT CAUGHT Some over two hundred sizable fish were caught by a fishing party Tues day afternoon near the sea. buoy. About ninety blue fish, ninety grey trout and a large number of croak ers were landed by W. W. (Cooch) Chadwick, Fred Mosher, Cecil Mer rill, Harry Saunders and L. L. Coats of Dunn. They went out about noon ENSIGN SNOWDEN NOW ON U. S. S. OKLAHOMA day for:without cost advertising from coast i to coast and in time may grow to be Oden, aolored local Ne- was tried Monday monunsr bv for mixed breaking and entering the home of Mrs. Sarah eded first and go as far as possi-Dey, the widow of the deceased, .Jugti f p w N Wp with thp mnnpv. designated in me wm as ine execu- Tn r,M;nn with thp i-nnstruc-' trix. All real, personal and tion program, Chairman Jeffries has property was bequeated to Mrs. Dey.; Blanche P. Pearsall Sunday night and .. : IThp will wna sitrnpH Mav 1 G. 1922. i i..- s.. , . . . , .... usued a bulletin caning upon engi-i-"- ' r. ; ureuiung, into ner trunK and taking Wltn juage iu. iesne jjuvis anu v. n., f ' afo; . i t ...v.v,iiWi vcii.oia ibii;ic3 ui pciTJUU- al property and setting fire to the I rest of her clothing; also attempted mfi ON CUTTING TUESDAY arson. Blanche Pearsall, Priscilla Oden, Nancy Washington appeared Tuesday evening the Carteret Post as witneS3e3 for thd State. whUa 99 of the American Legion held a i business meeting in the court-room: Hazel Lawrence appeared for the de of the Town Hall, after which about tense. . fifteen ice-cold watermelons were cut. Alter neanng tne eviaence 01 we About thirty legionaires were pres- colored people Justice Noe found ent for the affair. The melons wereprooaoie cause ana Dounu uara ov said to have been delicious. er to the October term of Superior Court under a $250 justified bond. So far the defendant has been un ableto procure bond, so he is per force remaining in the county jail. Ensign Ernest Snowden U. S. N. w Hptached from the U. S. S. West Virginia 18th July and ordered to the U. S. S. Oklahoma for tempor ary duty. He will attend the Gunnery school for anti aircraft batteries to he held on that ship for about Bix weeks. He is the youngest officer and Phipf W. R. Longest. John Brooks. n, k- ,,tii th onlv man in his class on the he House has Jewise Hubert Salter and Hardy Lewis, Jr., late in the afternoon. They started West Virginia to have been ordered inquiry Into campaign P will leave here Monday morning for la and ran into quite a bunch of blue to the gunnery school which will give x ",04.t!iJJ2S Hamlet where they wiU attend the fish and trolbd for that variety for highly advanced curse of instruc- newest anti aircraft tures. num. Hamlet where tney wm atcena w fish and troned for tt variety Jcommittee to investigate - m C. Firemen's Tournament which 9nmo fw ,. p.thin ninptv nf tion on the t. : V.1. irpar Of niS ".e'1:" atitinn with DHVate DUSiness anu . : Mn-nAav .. '. . . . J, , : o ,An will thpn ta- Junius . kV...tv....... fantinn hv win oe m ocooiuit i,i. ' tnem. iney went out m uapt. rTeo gun- "a6 suffering he was treated both at pn another to study double 7 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Mosher's boat, the "Monnie M. sume his duties as Port Anti Aircraft Battery otneer ana junior aim Tand governmental hospitals . bj.s, and 'the Federal Govern-,---- hsi case proved to oe ment. Its two otner inquinca .-, v -li tfcn nninful years r. Avomniafirtn of various activities, irl, verv natient with hU con- . ... Postoffice Department and a WILL MAKE IMPROVEMENT dition and realized that all was done gtnd of blic utility holding com- ior him that medical science could i" a ii j-in- his life Mr. Cooke was . , - W. "-?. . -J U.J -.otiw .. .1.. J..1,ti The one investigation uw' jointly by both houses is a review of 'veterans' affairs, to be made for the MARRIAGE LICENSES ... ..ii. ant had many a very HKeauio - friends here in this community and elsewhere. . .-rip. were conducted . j,,nI- the heavy charge forX dUt 4:30 ' d on vernment on this in LouisDurg, w iaccount. The joint committee sUu.u . ..,itr nf the Cooke fam-j ... . Hifficultv in starting rent was in a Louisburgj Jf ft examines the brief President division officer on the West Virginia The Oklahoma is based at ban v . . -1 : : n V. 4- nrlll tr nn tn iAM,Riiw-"' . Henry Turner and Lucille Henry gan Francisco for the Shrine Conven- n - w ct.F tk. Beaufort, colored. 'tion about 4th July. At a meeting of the Stat gIgB Harvej; d. Brewer, Morehead City , " way Commission m Kaieign luesaay and BeuIah Hutchinson, Yadkins- LARGE CROWD HEARS NOTED TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide 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 ia whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. .,.., anhmitted to tne j ':bv the National Economy League, it 4au?l!'::i finH onnortunities to effect large returning to first pnnci- certain road projects were taken up N c i i. v. and approvea; contratts will be let August 1U. Among tnese projects are bridges, structures and approaches to State Highway No. 10 here in Carteret, which is now desig noii nnlv ns U. S. Hiehwav No. 70. Work on the road here in the county ; will probably start sometime in the late summer or early fall. afternoon m home com ily. Inter Mr Cocke is survived by his wife Mrs. Ivey Cooke, one young u-u fin(J opportun, : vio-inia Cooke, and oy ". v.. rPtnrni father, Mr. A. J. Cook.. The ples and by drawing j? 'j"e lr. PCSTOFFICE OBTAINS NEW er of the deceased disabilities resuiuns i rather suddenly about two years ago. thoge havin? no connection Those attending the funeral from Jt he league estimates that ; Rpv. and wr. . 00 eiK2.0UU.UUU coum v . . w TlllIL.ll V J V- j : thia manner. This REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS ORCHESTRA AT ATLANTIC R. F. Munns, Beaufort are: wiener, is.ev. nu - T3,.qvj and Mesdames W. G. Mebane, Bajard Taylor and James Rumley. ' alf o the sum now spent for vet-,o leans' relief and more than one-six- n ' ' ., . i.:. onnrnnnations 01 SI Martha Gray and Son to R. S. Til den, 2 acres Newport Township, for $50. H. O. Phillips and wife to Mattie Phillips, 2 lots Morehead .City for $10. Parker and Gorham, Trustees, to Atlotirt T ifi TualirtlTieo C.n . 1 lnt SAFE THURSDAY AFTERNOON Ujorejjead CitVi for ?2857.82. . , , loro-p A Burwell and wife to Julia An- Last Thursday afternoon a Jarge I Woodlandt 2 lots Morehead about new sale was aaaea to tne equine... . Hnonfnrt Vnst limrP. i. Ills 19 Ul wis - - .1 . , .. .. , t TI the Kidnev v nitenursi to aiuho n. 4:52 a. m. p. m. 5:40 6:02 One of the largest crowds of the season assembled at the Atlantic Ho el Saturday night to hear the famous Ben Bernie orchestra. In spite of the fact that it was a very hot night both 1 6:25 dancers and listeners were highly 6:44 entertained. A large number of danc- j m. m. 7:47 8:05 now being used in addition to sizable safe that has been in vice for the past several years. ser- Sidnev Whitehurst to Whitehurst. 6 acres Straits Town ship, for $10. big crowd. . I ! ers were on the Dan room noor ana the galleries above were packed with those who desired to hear the music. The Bernie orchestra was the second big attraction of this kind which Manager D. G. Bell of the At- j .lantic has booked this season. Cab 8:27 a. Calloway and his noted players were ' 8:45 p, there on the preceding Saturday1 night and also highly, entertained a, 9:09 a Hil Tide Low Ttd Friday, July 29 a. m. 10:25 5:17 p., m. , 11:40 Saturday, July 30 m. 11:33 m. 11:15 Sunday, July 31 12:19 12:01 1 1:00 a. 12:47 p. Tuesday, Aug. 2 1:39 a. 1:32 p. Wednesday, Aug. 3 m. . 2:18 m. 2:19 Thunday, Aug. 4 .. m. v. 2 Monday, Aug. 7:06 a. 7:26 p. m. m. a. m. p. m. 25 p. m. m. m. m. m. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEWS $2.00 A YEAR th of tne enuic (Continued on page five) 6 'i-!- - -