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VOLUME XXI
Six PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932
PRICE 5c SINC 1 :OPY
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NUMBER 33
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Democratic Campaign
Will Run Eight Weeks
Raleigh Will Be Headquarters; Conference of
Democratic Leaders Held Last Week, Reyn
olds Not There; Expect To Wage Vigorous
Campaign
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Jim Oden Pens Notes
'Before Breaking Prison
SCHOOL AUDITS'
COSTS DECREAS1
County Government Advisoi
Commission Has to Approve
Bills Now
ARREST OFFICERS
FOR DOING DUTY
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Two Morehead City Officers
Haled Into Recorder's
Court For Executing Po
lice Duties
RALEIGH, Aug. 30 Costs of au$' or d01nS what Jud&e M- Leslle
its of accounts of the county boards, Dav'3 later ruled was in their line of
of education in the 100 counties of jduty as Plic& omcers of Morehead
the State last year were less thetjClty' Chief Goerge J. Nelson and Of
hif tv,o ont nt fiv vor ficer Seth Hughes were brought into
were $10000 lower last year than I Recorder's Court for searching the,over-
fho vonr KofW f!hnrl0 1W .Tnhnsnn. Car 01 XVI. A.rOUSe. J r.e OHICerS
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Hundreds i .clipse
Here Wee "E-lernoon
c
Large crowds trii .ople gathered
on the various streets in Beauof rt and
Morehead City yesterday afternoon
and viewed what appeared to be a-
bout a four-fifths eclipse of the sun. j
Children appeared on the streets ,
early in the day with smoked glass
and tried to observe the phenomenon j
of the sun and the moon. Right after jjets wju
the ftoon hour crowds began to gath-1
er and did not disperse until late in
EXPECT ilPROVED
PRICES FOR FISH
Better Markets for Seafoods
Generally Follow Increased
Prices of Cotton and To
bacco
RALEIGH, Aug. 29 State Demo
cratic headquarters will be opened in
Raleigh September 12, giving eight At least one person ig in dire need
full weeks of campaigning before theof lawyef. judging from the notes
election this fall, J. Wallace Win-;left in his cell when Jimnlie oden
borne. Marion, chairman of the State ;.
' ' .lay ru iiiiiiscii uu- . ic u ; v it mi. 1 - ....
Democratic Executive Committee, ! county ja;j .jth a hack saw blade 'year the County Government Advis-i According to the evidence given
director of Local Government, am
nounces.
The costs last year were $28,867.
30 as compared with $58,043.98 for
the fiscal year 1927-28. In that first. two defendants,
were charged with trespass upon the
property of Krouse and entering and
searching his automobile. C. R.
Wheatly appeared as counsel for the
announced after conferring with pariand then removed the bars from the
ty leaders and candidates here the cell window with the same tool early
last three days of the week. j Friday morning and left for parts
Chairman Winborne met J. C. B. j unknown. Jimmie had been tried
Ehringhaus, Democratic nominee for twice in magistrates court and once
Governor, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, I in recorder's court in about three
vice-chairman and John Bright Hill, 'weeks for various alleged offenses,
secretary, here Thursday and Fri-i among which were: attempted arson,
day conferred with seven of the el-, breaking and entering, non-support
even nominees for Congress, six of j of his minor children and the whole
them present Congressmen. He also gamut of other charges. Immediate
conferred with State candidates andily following his third appearance in
party leaders and is getting every-court he preceded to go out and stab
thing in shape for an active cam- j his wife, Priscilla Oden, about a doz
paign. I en times with an ice pick, and his
Congressmen present for the con-; sister in law, Blanche Pearsall, twice
ference were Lindsay Warren, First in the back. After this he forthwith
district; John H. Kerr, Second; J. went to the county jailor, confessed
Bayard Clark, Seventh; J. Walter! his crime, and asked to be locked up.
Lambeth, Eighth; R. L. Doughton, Following his incarceration in the
Ninth; Zebulon Weaver, Eleventh, .county jail, Jimmie had plenty of
and William B. Umstead, nominee for time to ruminate upon his relative po
the new Sixth district. Congressmen I sition and to contrive ways and
C. L. Abernethy, Third; E. W. Pou.j means of setting himself at rights
Fourth; Frank Hancock, Fifth, andiwiththe laws of te Old North State.
A. L. Bulwinkle, Tenth, were not'He had n money and he knew that
nresent it takes mqney to obtain a lawyer to
ory Commission started operation, in the case, Krouse had been in the
and by the next year had reduced: habit of. lending his automobile to
these costs by $8,000, to S50,606.82j James Johnson, a young Morehead
The next two years the secretary of City Negro, for helping with the up,
That the tobacco and cotton mar-
materially aid Carteret
County fishermen in obtaining mora
the afternoon after the eclipse was demand and better prices for their
produce than there has been for
some time, is the firm belief of Capt.
The eclipse began, as viewed from ; John A kelson, State Fisheries
Beaufort, at about 2:30, reached its ! Commissioner. The rise in the selling
greatest degree of totality at about prices 0f cotton has steadily increas
3:45 and went out of eclipse at a-ed durin gthe past several weeks un-
Chairman Winborne said he hopes
to use all defeated candidates,
defend one in the courts. How to get
the money was a perplexing problem
to use all defeated candidates, in vL ' m ' .
, State, district and. county .primary
, contests, in Jtlte . eampaigtf iis fall, . AHast he '. decided that" the only
1 &o Wall a a ia' tinmiTIAOa. TTa ,Ynpta ;ia-Ua ma.ma wah 4-a no.r
to, namnadvis6rVowwie ofa-.it,- ailof to earn it he saw he must
. bout 20 members JeatN the
.. ' Robert R. 'Keyft'oTds was not here but: county jail. So by deductive reason
has been in close touch with Mr. Win- j ing he quite readily arrived ajt the
bornesince the latter was' named j conclusion that French leave was in
order. Obtaining a hacksaw blade
from some unknown source he saw
ed himself to freedom.
the commission had authority to ap-il
prove the per diem expense charges,
of the accountants, but had no con
trol over the time. The cost dropped
the first of the two years about $12,-;
000, to $38,604,359, and was $38,-j
847.90 the next year.
In 1931 the General Assembly di
rected Mr. Johnson to approve, the
contracts with the accountants and
the bills before being paid by the
counties. It was then the county
school audits dropped in cost about
$10,000.
This is in the county school funds
keep of the vehicle. The two More
head City officers, while out on an
other errand about on-thh-ty Sunday
morning saw the Krouse car driven
at a great rate of speed down Aren
dell Street and upon following it, saw
the car was driven into the yard of
Krouse and under the shed that
served as a garage.
Thinking that the automobile
might contain liquor, the officers fol
lowed it into the yard and James
Johnson and Aaron George got out
of the automobile. Krouse was awak
ened by the running motors and want
aione. wnen savings in special cnar- ed to Know wnat the trouble was.
ter school districts, in county board-Later lie came down stairs and out
of commissioners operations, and in into the yard. In the meantime Of-
the nearly 450 incorporated cities, i
towns and villages in the State, have'
been completed, Director Johnson is
certain it will far exceed the total
cost the operation of the Local Gov
ernment Commission thccly
ficeri Hughes had searched the car
and, finding no intoxicating liquors,
was preparing to leave. Krouse be
came enraged and forbade the of-.
ficers to ever search his car again.
The following witnesses were ex-
which he estimates at $80,000, at jamined: C. M. Krouse, Seth Hughes,
though $57,500 was appropriated for j George J. Nelson, E. C. Willis, A. B,
chairman two or three weks ago.
Power Rate Hearing
Public utility rate decrease hear
ings inaugurated by the -N. C. Cor
poration Commission, at which utili
ties are asked to "show cause" why
they cannot lower rates inthe pres
ent emergency, have started, the ar
olina Power and Light Co., serving o2
towns and cities of the State, and the
Durham Public Service Co., subsidi
ary of the Cities Service Co., having
been heard the past week. The South
Befiie tie left he penned the fol
lowing two notes on a fan he had
made from a discarded piece of paste
board: "Mr. Chaplain You Neednt Look
For Me 111 Be back For October
Term of Cort But You understand I
could not Make No Money To hire
No Lawyer So I Must Make Some
em Public Utilities Co., and the Money Ive Got to have A Lawyer."
Tidewater Power Co., serving pied.
mont and coastal cities and towns,
respectively, are scheduled for hear
ings this week.
Paul Tillorv. of the Carolina Pow
er and Light Co., was the only rep-Jl need Money To Employ a lawyer
resentative of his company. He. read and I Cant Make it in here 111 stay
The second note was on the other
side of the fan:
"Mr. Chaplin you Neednt Put your
Self To so Much Trouble Looking
for Me . Ill Be Back for Court But
a compilation, contending his com
pany cannot reduce prices and make
a "fair return" of eight per cent on
the investment. F. C. Hamilton, val
uation engineer and member of the
executive committe of Cities Service,
was the only witness for his company,
saying a "fair return" is not now be
ing received by t'.ie Durham firm.
The City of Durham was represented,
Major L. P. McLencLn setting .forth
the city's claims and ask'ng for a re
duction in electric rates.
The Corporation. Commission will
make no orders for reductions until
in North Carolina and lam Going to
Cut Timber until the 5th of Octo
ber." Both notes were signed "James.'
R. E. Chaplain, the jailor who found
the notes, said that there is at least
a likelihood that the Negro "might"
show up at the October term of Su
perior Court
Start Work on Atlantic
the work.
Buncombe is the tmly cbtfhty which
paid as much as $1,000 f or the schod!
Morris, Jimmie Garner and Alex Cur
tis. Ruling that the officers had a
right to maKe, the search, judge u&-
audit the; past'
sow and P.&beson paid"$600 last year
Forsyth paid $525, and Cleveland,
Davidson and Rowan paid $500. No
other county paid that much last
year. The range was down to $100
each fjr Scotland and Chatham coun
James Stanley, young local color
ed man, was haled into court by his
wife on the charge of abandonment
of his minor- child and refusing to
provide adequate support for it. The
defendant pled not guilty. Annis
Stanley told the court that she and
bout 5 o'clock. The moon apeared to
travel from right to left across the
surface of the sun, and was distinct
to the smoked-glass "astronomers"
here. Whe nthe eclipse reached its
greatest degree of totality, the visi
ble part of the sun appeared to be
about one-fifth of the whole; and it
looked like an inverted crescent.
During the eclipse here especial
ly about the middle of it the sky
was distinctly overcast, particularly
i nthe north and east. The shadows
cast by leaves on trees and plants and
by other objects were very unusual
the northwest edge of the shodow
wa3 hazy, while the south-east edge
was distinctly clear-cut. Many Car
teret County people marveled at the
phenomenon. The atmosphere cooled
somewhat as the sun ray3 were al
most wholly shut off from the earth.
The unusual appearance of the sky,
the observation of the eclipse and
the cooling of the air, gave the at
mosphere a sort of hallowness that
was experienced by virtually all the
observers.
It is an estimated fact amone the
Although there will be a number j fishermen in general and the officials
of total eclipses during the remain- 0f the fisheries commission in partic
der of the twentieth" century, the uar that "when the farmers of th
next -total eclipse widely visible in state have better markets for their
the United States will be August 13, various agricultural products that
2017 which . is eighty-five years they will buy large quantities of
hence. " . fisk. ovsters. clams and other sea, -
ISfctvi'-. ' '-ifoods. The fishing industry .andihe
Spiaer Bites Lpcal'Miiir11' wyKoiih Carb-
rina areiiignny imerwoyen togetner. .,
lhe most potential markets, to be-
til it has almost doubled in value.
Both the common and prime grades
of tobacco that have been sold this
season in the South Carolina and the
extremely southern North Carolina
markets have brought much better
returns to the growers than last
season. And it is thought that the op
ening of all thep rincipal tobacco
marts in tidewater and piedmont Car
olina Tuesday morning will probab
ly bring even, more satisfactory pric
es. Captain Nelson told a News report
er yesterday afternoon (Wednesday)
that the fish truck operators in the
county reported to him that the last
trips they made into the interior of
the State witu their cargo of salt
water produce, that the fish sold at
slightly increased prices and with
more demand. He is firm in the opin
ion that this betterment of prices
and demand is due directly to the
more satisfactory returns netted the
growers of tobacco and cotton for
their products.
UNKNOWN VARIETY SNAKE
BITES SEA LEVEL YOUTH
Carteret county paid for audits of James had been married about six
county school funds for the past five J years and their child is about five
years as follows: 1927-28, $581.50 ;j years old. She claimed that her hus-1928-29,
no audit; 1929-30, $300.00; band had not contributed to the sup
1930-31, $300.00; 1931-32, $300.00. , port of the child for about two years.
Some three years ago the case was
tried before Justice of Peace Henry
W. Noe and he ruled that James
I should pay her $3 a week for the
Aldridge Daniels( eleven year old child. The child i3 now living in New
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Daniels, Bern with its grandfather, while its
of Sea Level, was badly bitten by an j mother is working here for Mr. and
unknown variety of snake Monday Mrs. Harry Saunders. James contend
af ternoon. The youth was brought ed that he would be willing to support
here and was treated by physicians the child if he were allowed the cus-
at the Potter Emergency Hospital
shortly after it occurred. He return
ed home after receiving treatment
and will likely get along all rig"ht.
tody or the child was kept here in
Beaufort so that he could see it oc
( Continued on page six)
Oftvay Fishermen Make Pilgrimage
Duck Creek For Annual Mulleting
standing, about 25 Otway men left
Road Friday Morning Duck Creek for the purpose of sein
, jing mullets close to the beach during
the next two months. The oldest
people in the Otway section cannot
remember when the men of that com
munity started going to Duck Creek
in the fall of the year mulleting; it
Following a custom of many years 'riliffious for them to fail to make
the annual fall pilgrimage to the mul
let fishery at Duck Creek along a-
A state highway force of some
it has heard representatives of other , twenty men arrived at the junction
utilities. It has asked representatives ' of the North River and the old New
of gas and telephone companies, a 'Bern road Friday afternoon and be
nf tha lnriypr ones, to aDDear at I einnine tomorrow will treat the ap-
lofo'r Hnte. Th Commission seems proaches to the various bridges east seems to be a seasonal occupation
tot th. nnaition that the comDan- of Beaufort with rock and asphalt i that has been handed down from gen
ies may reduce their rates without an ! oil. This will be similar to the road
order, voluntarily, after conferences. I between Morehead City and the Crav
The members appear to favor this j en County line. Before the crew
method, since a forced reduction or-'leaves sections or all of the road
der would be appealed to the courts from Beaufort will very likely be
and several months would elapse be-1 treated in this manner. .
fnr a final court ooinion could be I It is said that officials are consid-
. reacher. The emergency might be ov-ering paving the road from Beau
eration to generation, perhaps for a
century or more. Duck Creek is near
Brown's Inlet down on the coast of
Onslow County.
The Otway men have camps at
Duck Creek in which they live while
they-are down there fishing. This
(takes the form of a sort of outing
bout the first of September.
These Otwayites fish in crews of
five men each. Each crew uses a 225
vard seine that is 200 meshes deep,
each mesh being one and one-eighth
Quite Painfully Mond'y
exploited by the ' Carteret County"
George Newkirk was painfully and, fishermen and fish dealers durinsr the
dangerously bitten by a large, black, fall months is now considered to be
fuzzy spider early Monday morning, j within the bounds of the- state of
When Mr. Newkirk pulled on his . North Carolina. And particularly will
boots in preparing to go shrimping, .this be true if the opening of the ma.
the spider was in cna of them and bit
his foot.
Thinking that the spider bite was
only of minor significance, Mr. New
kirk went on shrimping with his
father, Mr. Arthur Newkirk. After
hauling their trawl a short while' in
North River, Mr. Newkirk was tak
en with violent pains in his legs and
they increased as they went upward
in his body. His father took him to
the North River bridge and hailed
jor tobacco marts in the state Tues
day morning bring better prices to
the growers of the week. Should this
be the case, improvement in price
and demand for seafood will likely be
seen from the outset, but it will prob
ably take two or three weeks to see
marked improvement in the existing
conditions. Fishermen, fish dealers, and Cap
tain Nelson have all stated to tha
News reporter that there are untold
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captain ne ny uuiiam, wiw was P-: quantities of fish in Carteret County's
ing, ana asKea mas ne Ke me c baygi soundsJ( rivers and the adjacent
man to town and to a doctor. Atlantic ( and with the increase in
Mr. Newkirk was first treated byboth demand and ice fishemell
r'F- JE'. Hyte and -ater bl- would very be able to keep pacs-
S. Chadwick. He was in a critical con wlth the market The gky wffl take on
dition for the first forty-eight hours, L rosier hue for local fishermen anJ
and is still quite ill, but it is gener-! business meR if the tobacco Ms fa
ally expected that he will live. The)the gtu open ftnd continue with
venom of the spider caused violent .wham Tuesda y mornin?i and the
pains in all parts of the body and was present pricea o cotton
are increas-
accompunieu oy consiueiapiB Ke.ieiiied Qr maintained.
swelling.
FEW CHANGES THIS YEAR
IN SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS
Information received thus far by
County Superintendent J. G. Allen
from the State Department indicat-
, 1 1 . 1 1 1 O
----- - - , , es inai Arunmetics ior grau&s o
inches. While the warp-a long rope. fce only major
attached to one of the staffs at the! ch d'in the elementary
end of the se.ne-is held on the bo o duri the
beach by several men the, crew of Industriai and Applied
Ven la 0t I"? ITrVT Art Books (state edition) will be
aory-uKe uoou u4 -;- . - drawinB.. and Palmer Meth-.
oars while the fifth one throws
seine overboard and looks after the
warp at the boat end of the net. Af
ter surrounding the school of mullets,
the men in the boat land upon the
beach and pull their net nuht up- on
er by that time andjconditiona Justi- fort to Havelock via C Route $o. for the 25 Otway men for the sweet thft ghore In this way the munets are
fv nresent prices. They want the re- 101 which goes through the Russell potatoes are now "laid by' and they kroaht up on the dry land so they
ductiohs now, while tney wm De oi.reeK, vore ree ana nnt t-1 win rum ... o may be picked up oy tne nsnermen.
tlements, with asphalt oil and rock them. Mulleting thus comes in dur
within the next few months. It is un- in what otherwise might be a slack
derstood that this project ia now un- season and usually furnishes the men
benefit during the depression priod.
( Continued on page six)
CASKILL MACE TRUCK WAS
DAMAGED BY HIT-AND-RUN
The hr'.f-ton delivery truck of
Gaskill-Mice Co., was damaged con
siderably Monday evening when it
was struck by a hit-and-run driver
near Mansfield. James Stanley, col-,
ored delivery man for the hardware Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
company, was riding around after the 'House, Saturday, August 27, a daugh
show when the accident occurred. No j ter, Letitia Ann.
0 wfl im-iired in the truck and ap- Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Willis,
der official consideration
Raymond Thomas is the foreman
of the crew that will start working
on the Beaufort-Atlantic segment of
Federal Highway 70 tomorrow.
BIRTHS
a lucrative occupation,
This fall pilgrimage to the prized
Duck Creek "haul" has been partic
ipated in by the people who have
lived at Otway probably since colon
ial days until it has now become a
custom that borders very closely
upon ther itual. It is just as natural
'od( six book series or three book
series) will be used for writing. The
arithmetics adopted for grades 3
through 7 will be "The New Day
Arithmetic" published '"by" Charles E.
Merrill Company, a separate book
being required for each ; grade. The
books for' fffades 3 through 6 sell-
ing at 31c each, and the book for
While a good many of the mullets j grade 7 selling at 37c. The d-awing
are sold fresh to the hucksters who books are selling for 14c for each
an Hailv to the Duck Creek fishing elementary grade. The six boox ser
orMiriH. the larirer oortion of these. ies of writing lessons sells for 6c
fish are "split" and salted and dispels-1 each and the three book series for
ed of in that manner. When the roe 2c. Writing and drawing materials
mullets are split, the red roe is nrst should not oe purcnaseo ior ine cnu
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tides
at Beaufort is giren in this col
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
table's 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.
High Tide
Low TiU
Friday, Sapt. 2
salted for 'several hours until they
are "struck" with the saline solution
and then they are placed upon
for the Otway men to leave their j boards and pressed down with heavy
various homes for the Duck Creek j weighted boards The weighted boards
fishery about the first of September are removed after several hours and
as it is for the rivers to flow, the, the roe are left to dry in the sea
. , ,, . ir 1 i' - i. 11 !-'.J.- i. n..vt l?nA vnn Hi'iaH iyr rhia rvn-
carently the other automobile wasof Morehead city, ai xne woreneaa ocean 10 rou, or uie uuus iu mate SUUie DUu.
not damaged The delivery truck: City Hospital, Monday, August 29, a and rear their young in the spring-cess are considered one of the best
.,, damaged to the extent of a front 'daughter. Mrs. Willis was formerly .time. It is just bred into the very delicacies that can be obtained from
rl n w n fro n rrt ovrflTir ft I u iiiirii. nil ii v ii ir i . luia, ll iuio tj iuiiunj . t
a s ovlo htfi Virginia Guthrie of this com- woof and warp of th& fabric of their the sea.
and bumper. munity. " lives and it would be virtually sac- ( Continued on page six)
dren except on the instruction of the
teacher in the several schools.'
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Gordon Becton, Morehead City,
and Alberta Lewis, Marshalberg.
Arnold Kenudsen and Gladis Gol
den, Bettie.
Daniel Hamilton, Sea Level, and
Beulah Mason, Stacy.
8:43 a. m.
9:04 p. m.
Saturday, Sapt.
9:28 a. m.
9:48 p. m.
Sunday, Sept.
m.
m.
Monday, Sept.
11:05 a. m.
11:10 p. m. .
Tuesday, Sept,
a. m.
p. m.
Wednesday, Sept
10:16 a.
10:36 p.
11:30
12:10
12:34 a. m.
1:20 p. m.
Thursday, Sept.
1:45 a. m.
2:35 p. m. -
2:2,1 m
2:50 p. mv
3
8:05 a. ra
3:39 p. m.
4
3:47 a. m.
4:31 p. m.
5
4:35 a. m.
5:27 p. m.
6
5:28 a. m.
6:30 p. m.
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6:27 a
7:40 p
8
7:35 a. m.
8:56 p. m.
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