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r rr AUFOfitT IfilE f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY f WATCH Y bel and pay your lubscriptioa The beat advertising medium published in Carteret Co THE - o o- VOLUME XXI 8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. SEPT. 22, 1932 PRICE Sc SINGLE Clp ; CO- NUMBER 39 Sinking Fund Borrowers Behind With Obligations Large Sums Loaned On Real Estate By Towns And Counties; Wake County Worst Example; Director Johnson Says Interest Must Be Paid By M. R. DUN NAG AN RALEIGH, Sept. 20 North Caro lina counties and cities have approx imately $2,500,000 in their sinking funds, money put aside to pay obli gations that mature in the future, loaned out on real estate on some of which no payment of principal has been made and on some of which not even a penny of interest has been Daid. Chas. M. Johnson, director of Local Government, states. Such loans were legal until March 19, 1931, when the Local Govern ment Act became effective, after which the sinking funds are required to be invested in approved Federal, State, county or city bonds, the act requiring all local government units to call in such loans and invest in approved bonds. This part of the act was not rigidly enforced, due to bad economic conditions. Now, by action of the Local Gov ernment Commission, Director John son has sent out letters to city and county treasurers, directing them to foreclose on all mortagages by Decern ber 1, unless the interest has been paid up to date. If the interest la paid up the loans will be continued, although the treasurers are directed to collect all of the principal possible, and to notify borrowers of the com mission's ruling, so they will have sufficient notice. In some cases, Mr. Johnson said, no interest has ever been paid, some of the loans having been made as long as 10 years ago.. Wake county is in the worst shape, having over $900,- 000, about a third of the amount of . the entire state, loaned thi3 way to about 260 indiviluals, 100 of whom have never paid a cent of interest on notes that have run from two to 10 years. Probably not more than half of the counties or cities loaned sink ing funds on real estate. Carteret county has no loan3 out on Teal estate, Mr. Johnson said. Nnrth Carolina has 19,860 more women than men, 1,575,208 males and 1,595,068 females; has 1,140, 971 persons with occupations gainful ly employed thus supporting the oth er 2,029,305, which includes house ' wives, aged and children. Of the total 3,170,276 population in 1930 1,597,200 or 50.4 per cent lived on farms, 763,209 lived in towns of less than 2,500 and 809,847 lived in larger towns and cities. In the more important activities, 499,957 were engaged in agriculture, 290,719 in manufacturing and me chanical industries, 103,451 in do mestic and personal service 87,476 in trade, 51,993 in professions, 60 564 in transportation 3,352 in cler ical work, 11,688 in public service, 9,031 in forestry and fishing, and 2,740 in mining. (Continued oa page fire) Large Crowd Attends Police Court Friday IfAf I VHT FTCITTC LULLED I l lOliliO LARGEAQUARIUM Party of Five Men Here Gath ering Specimens for John G. Shedd Aquarium at . Chicago The "Nautilus," the aquarium car belonging to tfce John G. Shedd Aq uarium of Chicago, is here again gathering specimens of fish and oth er salt water animals for that insti tution. It arrived here Saturday and will probably leave early next week Police Court was well attended hundred specimens will be taken away Friday afternoon by those who desir- . h rium carj it ia now expect ed to hear the airing of the docket, especially two or three rather impor-1 " tant and sensational cases that were This tquarium car first came here scheduled to come up at that time.. !m June 1930, shortly after the op- The principal case that was tried ening of the first section of the John and the one that probably drew more G. Shedd Aquarium. Max Mayer, who attendance than any of the others has been in charge of the car since it was that in which Lillian (Lilly was started, was told by Dr. Samuel Rhodes, colored, charged her broth- F. Hildebrand, then director of the FARM ACTIVITIES NOW ON INCREASE Growing Thousands of Turkey for Holiday Season; Now Planting Broccoli and Cabbage There are now some 4,000 turkeys in Carteret County that have recent ly been turned out on peanuts to fat ten for the Thanksgiving and Christ mas marketing. This number is in ex cess of the quantity raised in any of thi past several years.. 'Owing to the extreme dryness of this spring and summer, turkey rais ers have been quite successful in er, am, witn cnminaiiy assaulting her at her home at about ten o'clock on the previous Sunday evening. Probable cause was found, so Sam will be held in the county jail for the October term of Superior Court with out privilege of bail. Leo Wigfall, also colored, was said to have tried to remove his opponent in courtship by throwing a bnck at him; at any rate, he came before the mayor charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill a brick being the deadly weapon used. He must either give a $0Q bond for his appearance before Judge Clayton Moore in October or spend the inter vening time as guest at the county jail. George Woolard was found guilty of fighting Dick Green, eighty-year-old colored ex-pump-driver, and was Bureau of Fishreies Biological Sta tion at Pivers Island, that more and better specimens could be obtained here in September than in June. Although the first trip here was not much of a success, Mr. Mayer acted upon the advice of Doctor Hildebrand and returned in September of the same year. During the fal trip the party was quite successful in obtain ing the number of specimens desired Tjiat Seotember the "Nautilus" re turned and when it left it carried an even greater collection to the Chica to aauarium. When Mr. Mayer was here the first trip in June 1930 he told this News reporter that he was rather anx iouS to know whether the fish ana other marine specimens could be suc cessfully transported across the moun tains. A member of the party inf orra- sentenced to either work twenty days the writer Wednesday that no trouble on the town streets or pay $10 into the coffers of the town. It is said is experienced in transporting the fiahpa over hieh altitudes, even the that the fight folowed some dispute j Great Divide in the Rocky Mountains. over money owed ine coioreu man and took place in front of the post of fice on Front Street.' . '. The other cases were as follows: Daii Caffrey and Havry Gaskill, fio-htinp. $5 or ten days on the streets. Corney Chadwick, colored, fighting and drunkenness, $5 or ten days. Luce Johnson, colored, fighting and drunkenness, $5 or ten days. Will Fulford, colored, cursing and disorderly conduct, judgment sus pended upon payment of costs. Ed Goodwin, drunkenness,. $i or 10 days. Howard ("Nig") Rhodes, colored, drunkenness and disorderly conduct, $10 or 20 days. Howard, Sam and Lil lian Rhodes are brothers and sister and all three figured in on Police Court. getting their poults to live during the , first six or eight precarious weeks af ter they are hatched. These holiday birds are now growing m fine shape and will likely be in first class condition-in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas consumption. During the first two months the poults have to be largely fed by their owners, although they are able to'JBnd a great deal of natural food and bugs and other insects. After thK eay stage they are turned to graze on peanuts and from thence onward they are capable of looking out for self insofar as feed is con cerned. With the exceptin fthe birds that will be consumed locally, all turkeys raised in Carteret County will very likely be marketed through the Car teret County Mutual Exchange. Plans are being formulated even now con. venting the marketing of these holi day. birds. rY1-. M a n Davi 2 a Laid To Rest here Funeral services were conducted at the First Baptist Church Tuesday af ternoon at 3:30 for Mrs. Narcissa Elizabeth Webb Davis, widow of the lata Sheriff John D. Davis, who pass ed away at 7:30 Sunday evening at her home in Kinston. Reverend W. H. Moore, former pastor of Mrs. Tin via whilfl he was in Kinston, but now of Wadesboro, conducted the funeral, assisted by Rev. J. P. Har ris, pastor of the First Baptist Church, and by Rev. A. P. Stephens, pastor of the Morehead City Baptist Church. Reverend Mr. Moore delivered an ' appreciative eulogy on the exemplary i - . . . , i i i life led by the deceased throughout her eighty-five years. Reverend Mr. Harris prayed; and the Reverend Mr. Stephens read a poem on tiile written by Mrs. Davis. A quartet com Dosed of Messrs. Grayden Paul, nal- sey Paul, U. E. Swann and Dr. F. E. Hyde, sang Mrs. Davis favorite song, "Some Sweet Day," "Lead Kind ly Light," "In the Hour of Trial," and "Sometime We'll understand were sung by the congregation and the combined Baptist, Methodist and Episcopal choirs. The church was fill ed to capacity by the many friends and relatives of the deceased. In terment was in the family lot in Oak Grove Cemetery. School Luncheonette Starts Successfully BREAK WATER CONSTRUCTED REAR THREE LOCAL STORES A breakwater is now being con structed at the rear of the stores on Front Street now occupied by B. L. Jones. F. R. Bell and C. V. Hill. This work is being done by the new owners of these properties which was repentlv sold. George J. Brooks designed the sea wall and is also looking after its con struction. The storm this spring played hav i. with the breakwater that was at the r6ar these tare orea. Re treating tides washed tba wall down ' away from the buildings. The new wall is designed and constructed to withstand the lashing of the tide and wind. V ' MOSOOITO SWARMS FESTER 'Vf CATERET COUNTY PEOPLE After a gammer ef comparative freedom from that pesky little in sect, the mosquito, great swarms of ha inlets are now very much in evidence in practically all sections of the county. It was perhaps due to the extreme dryness of the spring and summer months that few mosquitoes But with the recent rains and high tis which have overflown sections near the normal highwater mark, the mosquitoes have reproduced polit ically and are now in th.8 fall of the year becoming obnoxious to most of Carteret's citizenry. Perhaps cool weather will be the only thing now that will remove the pests. The cafeteria at the Beaufort O&ried School, a non-profit food dis pensary which is run by the local Community Club, opened up yester day (Wednesday) and served sixty- three ten-cent lunches to the students As told in the News last week, the purpose of this cafeteria is to fur nish cheap hot lunches to those pu pils who live too far away irom tne school to go home for the noon meal, also to furnish free lunhecs to those who are undernourished and who are unable to buy the lunches. Of the sixty three lunches served on the opening day, forty one were paid for and 22 were free. Enough money was obtained from the sale of the forty-one lunches to provide food for today's lunches. Pupils may also bring foodstuffs which they have at home to pay for their mncneon. . It is believed by the members oi the Community Club and other ob servers that the cafeteria will he a success, judging from the opening day. This Is a new way oi owaining lunrh. and ai doubt more pupils will patronize inrwnra v ing weeks. 'The tea cent lunch yesteraay con sisted of creamed eggs, candied sweet potatoes, cold slaw and slice of bread. Milk is sold at lour cents rlass. These lunches wil vary from rfav to dav and will provide a cneau means of obtaining a balanced noon time meal for the pupils who care to patronize the cafeteria. The "Nautilus" is equipped witn an kinds of "live tanks' 'in which- the filshes are carried to the large mid-1 western aquarium. Aerating ma chines are used to keep a sufficient amount of oxygen in the water. This is the onlv aquarium railroad car in existence today, and is thoroughly equipped in every way to take care of the collection from the sea water until the car arrives at the Chicago aquarium. The car also contins sleep ing quarters for the members of the Party- .... .. ... ... ,. , The "Nautilus" is swe-tracKea at the freight depot. A number of "live floats," in which the specimens are kept until just before the car leaves, are tied to a pier near the "Naut ilus." When uot gahtering speci mens, the fishes and other things are placed in the towing float which is shaped somewhat like a Doat umu the nartv gets back to the car and v.nn transfer their catches to the live floats. This towing float was loaned the "Nautilus" party by Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch, director of the Pivers Island Bilomcal Station. This nartv of specimen gatherers is cnmnosed of five men: Max Meyer, who is in charge, Lee Auers, Alphonse stitHa. Patrick 111 and Wakeneid Ledbetter. Several of these men have been here with the "Nautilus' 'on all fnur trios, While here, these men are being tltn out in the bays, rivers and sounds by the following three local fishermen: Leslie Whitehurst, Jerry Darling and Adrian Rice. A good many growers of broccoli are seeding down their acreage this week and the remainder of the grow ers i will plant their broccoli next week. Last Spring some 250 acres of thisl green vegetable was grown here in Carteret. This season between iv and 400 acres will be devoted to this crop. Broccoli "has become one of the major truck crops here in Carteret during the past two or 'three years. Carteret farmers are now getting their soil ready for the planting of sabbage seed for the spring crop. The acreage this season will be about the same that was devoted to the crop last year 500 acres. The cabbage la3t year grew in a paradoxical manner. Owing to the warmth of the winter, the cabbage headed up early and when the grow ers side dressed them they failed to pick up and grow. The cabbages were small but had hard heads. No growers were said to have lost any money in Carteret last season growing cab- while a good many growers were said to have made money on their crops; Plans for growing fall cabbage are . , , .i now being set out py ine xarmers. Only about a couple of dozen acres of this type of the fall and winter va riety of cabbage, and the crop riety of the cabbage is planted, and the crop will only be marketed lo cally. NO RECORDER'S COURT Carteret County had its smallest grape crop this fall than in many vears. This is said to be the result of the dryness of the spring and sum mer months and was largely due to this condition during theb lossom ing time. Hardly any grape vines in the county produced more than from a handful to a gallon of grapes each, whereas in former years they pro duced from twenty-five to fifty bush els each. On account of the death and funer al of Mrs. Narcissa Elizabeth Webb I-....!. il t T..Jva f T.adlie I uavis, mowci i s 'Davis, mother of Judge M. Leslie Davis, no Recorder's Court was held Tuesday. The cases that would nave been tried then were deferred until Tuesday of next week. In Carbonoale, 111. M. J. Going, ill with pneumonia, died of shock dur ing a thunderstorm. , FIERCENESS OF MOSQUITOES CAUSES CLOSING OF SCHOOL Owing the the great number and the fierceness of the mosquitoes, the Beaufort Graded School was dismiss ed immediately after the pupils re turned to their rooms this afternoon. It was said that it was physically im possible for the pupils to study, so it wa s though expedient to dismiss school early this afternoon. nvti:'mtiSA WORKERSMAKE SURVEY OF CONDITIONS IN BEAUFORT During the past several years Mrs. Davis has been in declining health, but throughout her lengthy life and up until the last day her mind re mained clear and vigorous. From her childhood days she was a poet of recognized ability, and for a number of years was a regular contributor to "Peterson's Magazine," published in New York' and of national circula tion. She never tried to collect her poems jn volumes, but numerous poems by her have been included in collections of the leading poets of this state and the south. Mrs. Davis was not only intellectually keen and appreciative, but she also loved all sorts of beautiful things. Mrs.1 Davis wa3, &cra in Goldsboro 85 "years ago the twentieth of last June, but moved to Morehead City when she was 11 years old. Her par ents were the late Silas and Eliza Webb. She became the bride of the late sheriff John D. Davis December 24. 1868, who passed away in 1899, and to this union were born six chil dren, five of which survive her; Mrs Robert L. Humber of Greenville, Judge M. Leslie Davis, of Beaufort, and Mrs. L. L. Dameron, Miss Lucy Davis and Charles W. Davis, all of Kinston. The other son, John W. Dav is, drowned when seventeen years of age. Seven grandchildren also survive: Dr. John Davis Humber, superinten dent of the Southern Pacific Hospital San Francisco; Mrs. Lindley Smith, San Francisco; Robert L. Humber Jr. of Paris, France; and M. Leslie Da vis, Jr., John D. Davis, Thomas Ivey Davis and Dowd Davis, all of Beau fort. Oneg reat grand-son, Marcea Berthier Humber, of Paris. France, also survives. Two sisters and one brother of Mrs. Davis survive: Alex H. Webb, Mesdames Ida Eaton and Georgia Bell, all of Morehead City. Mrs. Davis was baptized and be- came a member oi tne first Baptist church of this community Sept. 4, 1881. Only two or three living to day were baptized before that time. When she moved to Kinston a num ber of years ago to make her home she removed her church membership tothe First Baptist Church of that city. During the greater part of her life she was closely allied with the church and other similar activities. Active pall-bearers were nephews of the deceased; Alex Webb , Jr., Charles Webb, Paul Webb, Norman Webb, David Webb, Winfield Webb Marion Webb, R. T. Willis Sr. George Roberts Wallace and John H. Eaton. Theout- of-county friends who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Webb and William Wil liamt .of" ".Richmond. Va.; James Powers and Thomas White, of luns- toa.-Many friends and relatives from Morehead City were in attendance. DEMOCRATS PLAN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN Will Follow Old Method of Speaking And Hand Shaking By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Sept. 19 The Demo cratic campaign in North Carolina will be waged on the old, tried and succussful plan in operation for many years, that of many platform speech es of leaders and hand-shaking before and after, and not, as suggested, by sending the candidates on a whirl wind motorcade march touching brief ly ever ycounty and prinicpal town and city in the State withp latiorm talks and greetings. The suggestion is purported to have come from friends of Robert R. Reynolds, colorful candidate for the U. S. Senate, and is somewhat in line with his very successful primary cam paign in an old Ford. However, John Bright Hll, his second primary cam Daiem manager and now secretary to the State Democratic Executive Com mittee, denies that he has any part in the suggestion. It doubtless came from some modern and youthful mem bers of the party who wanted to see something spectacular and enlivening. But State Chairman J. Wallace Winborne is going about it in the orthodox manner that has been suc cessful in about all of the campaigns since the reconstruction era. He ia getting out. good Democratic mater ial and arranging schedules of speecu es all over the State for all oi the candidates and many other prominent Democrats. The opening big guns of the cam paign may well be said to have been sounded between Greensboro and High Point Saturday afternoon, at a meeting arranged by the Young Dem ocratic Club o Guilford county, when about all of the leaders of the party were present and several of them made brief speeches. Governor O. Max Gardner spoke on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for President. He described the early legislative days and the courage and honor displayed, of the attack of infantile paralysis, which he fought and won, of his days as as sistant Secretary of the Navy, of his work as Governor, of his fearless handling of the Jimmy Walker case, and of the fight he is making, against slefishness and privilege. "His only weapons are his clean record and the Democratic platform," said Governor Gardner. Senator J. W. Bailey, Governor nominate J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Senate-nominate Robert R. Reynolds, Chairman J. W. Winborne and other Democratic leaders spoke, at one of the most enthusiastic gatherings ot Democrats in many moons. BANKRUPT STOCK SALE The bankrupt stock of W. P. Smith of Beaufort which was sold Monday a week ago as related in the News last week, is now being offered to the public. The Norfolk Sales and Jobbing Company, a large business firm of Norfolk, Va., bought the stock and are putting on a sale. An advertise ment of the sale is on another page of this newspaper. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tides t Beaufort is giren in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct tnd based on table's furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Soma allow ances must be mads for varia tions in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads ef the estoarlea, ATTENDING DUKE Judging from the following names, Morehead City will be well represent ed at Duke University this fall. Miss Jane Goiham and Messrs. Robert Mc Cready, Walton Fulcher and Skinner Chalk are now attending that institu tion. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEWS $2.00 A YEAR During the past week Representa- tives of the American Red Cross, have made a house to house canvas in tne colored sections of Beaufort, and mailp a survey of conditions in the sections of Beaufort housing the less fortunate of the white people. It has been learnea tnat tnere are a K'"i. many children of school age who are not in school, both among the white and colored. Many have no clothes, or shoes and no money with which to buv them. This canvas was made to find out just what will be needed in the way of distribution of flour and the dis tribution of the clothing which will be furnshed by the Red Cross and also by the public spirited people oi Beaufort. It is requested and urged again that any one having shoes or clothes that they do not need, that are wearable that they get them too-other anH brine them to Mrs. F. E. Hyde. Or if they will phone her the Clothing will be called tor. nans are being perfected for a sewing room and volunteer workers wil mend and get the old clothi?s in condition and cut out and in some cases make the Dredge Starts Oyster Creek Fill This Week Hick Tide Low u Friday, Sept. ZJ 1:26 2:01 The dredge ."Neverrest" belonging to the Coast Construction Corpora tion went to work Tuesday on the fill which will extend almost across Oys ter Creek at Davis. It will take about a month of favorable working con ditions for the "Neverrest" to con struct the fill After the filli is made, the Loving a. P- a. fnnstrnrt.ion ComDany. of Goldsboro, I will lri fho VirlHo-e. which will span. 6:28 new ones. . ,. . LV" " v- t, he-1 As to books, Mrs. Hyde wm oesine -glad to get any old ones that chil- tween the ends of the fill. dren no longer need. a. m. p. m. Saturday, Sept. 2:35 a. m. OT 3:06 p. m. " ' Seaday, Spt. 3:41 a. m. 4:05 p. m. Monday, Sept. m. m. Tuesday, Sept. m. v m. 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