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VOLUME XXI
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1932
The
Superior Court Tries
Diamond Mystery Case
Frank Bullock Charged With Embezzlement and Larceny of
More Than $4,000 Worth of Diamond Jewelry; Case Likely
Goes to Jury This Afternoon; Prosecutionand Defense Tes
timony About Completed; Nettie Henry Has True Bill of
First Degree Murder Preferred Against Her She Will Prob
ably Be Arraigned Tomorrow Morning
An optimistic outlook for the fu- .'I 'A h V 'I I II I HllH
ture was expressed in the charge to
the grand jury by Judge Clayton
Moore shortly after he convened the ,
October term of Superior Court here i
Monday morning. This hopeful view I
was given at the conclusion of a has- j Present Tax Levy Is Conhsca
DOWELL ASSERTS
MIDDLE-AGED MAN 'NORTH CAROLINA
DROWNS IN SOUND
Moore Gillikin Drowns Near
Dog Island Saturday Even
ing; Body Not Recovered
While enroute from his home at
Otway to the Brown's Inlet fishery,
Moore Gillikin fell off the side of the
boat about seven o'clock Saturday
evening near Dog Island and was
drowned, and at this writing his
body has not been recovered by the
Bogue Inlet Coast Guard crew or by
private searching parties.
Mr. Gillikin had been in poor
health for some little time. When he
HAS FEWER CARS
BUT MORE TRUCKS
Sixteen Counties Have More
Cars And 84 Have More
Trucks
Expect Recovery Now (GAMBLING CAUSES
Of Accident Victims i
tory Merchants Associa
tion Secretary Says
(Special To The News )
ty review of the economic transition
of the past two or three years.
After the grand jury had been se
lected, a foreman chosen, and the
body empanelled, Judge Moore be-
I?- ilnmn -J V a aV rf VllO
g.u m u.is - "'""'lis likely to
01 trie irianu jury B.vsLciii aiiu ilo iicv- . ,, . - , , - .t 1 1; 1 wvy
Mitvto nublic welfare. He vigorous- !tne Peo.Pie 01 f,?nn f11: his arms and fell backwards into the
" r . . na ncQort thurnw vps Jinn ripmanfl TMt
RALEIGH, Oct.
18 Democracy
e itself" unless
left home he told the two men with
him, Ivey Gillikin and Bryant Gilli
kin, that he was not feeing well at
all. Just before the fatal accident, he
again told the men he was not feel
ing good and that one of his legs
had become numb. A short while lat
er he started around the cabin of the
small craft, and before he had gone
completely around it he threw up
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Oct. 17 Carteret coun
ty had 1,050 automobiles and and 375
trucks in October 1, as compared
with 1,075 automobiles and 350
trucks a year ago, and 1,000 auto
mobiles and 325 trucks three months
ago, according to the rtgistration
cards in the office of L. S. Harris, di
rector of the Motor Vehicle Bureau.
The county average is the State is
3,101 automobiles and 628 trucks,
the records show.
ly controverted the critics of the
grand jury system who spasmodical
ly' try to bring about a reform of
this mode of bringing law-breakers
for trial into Superior Court.
Judge Moore tried to impress upon
the mind of each individual grand ju
ror the responsibility that rests up
on his shoulders when he takes the
oath to faithfully and solemnly per
form the duties of a grand juror.
People hero in North Carolina are .,
i.ii ii i 4-v saiu
as a WJioie oaner iuaa ui wauy uiu-
water.
One of the men immediately threw
a life-preserver overboard and stop
ped the boat. No trace could be louno.
nf the unfortunate man and after
searching for some time they decid
ed to go to the Bogue Inlet Coast
Guard Station for aid. Since then the
, Coast Guardsmen and private parties
government give up some activities
and materially reduce the present con
fiscatory tax levy, Willard L. Dow
ell, executive secretary of the N. C.
Merchants Association, said today,
in accepting a place onthe Advisory
Committee of the N. C. State Branch
of the National Economy League.
Frank Page, State chairman, made
the appointment Mr. Dowell, repre- jjave Deen unsuccessful in their at-
Isenting several thousand merchants,
er states, Judge Moore stated, and
gave the absence of the depredatory
gangster to substantiate this view.
"The greatest period of delusive
prosperity that this or any other na
tion ever experienced were the years
point. He said that he believes the ; intervening between 1914 and 1929.
laws of the state are fairly well in-, uun gtnat time notnmg 01 a ianKi
forced, and that the rich and the poor ,ble nature had a sound basis of value,
are treated virtually equal under the I The inflated balloon floated on until
jaw3 j reaching the saturation point, the
Men should respect and honor the bubble burst and our economic sys
laws and should endeavor to have tern was paralyzed,
them enforced, Judge Moore told the "Individuals and business enter
grand jurors, for it is ...these set1?63 were forced to make drastlc
t.nrfr.H nf snriptv that, nreserve I readjustments in their expenditures.
and protect civilization and permit Many kinds of emergency palliatives
individuals to accumulate worldly
goods.
J. Carlisle Bell, of Newport, was
selected foreman of the grand jury,
and Herbert Forlaw, of Beaufort,
was appointed special deputy to
serve the grand juTy.
The most significant case that has
come up before Judge Moore for trial
this term wa sthat of B. Flank Bui
lock, who is charged with embezzle
ment and larceny of diamond jewerly
valued variously from four to six
thousand dollars and owned by Mrs.
B. S. Sheppard, now of Farmville,
formerly of Raleigh. This case was
started shortly after court conven
ed for the afternoon session Wednes
day. Mrs. Sheppard and several char
acter witnesses testified before the
adjornment of the afternoon session.
Mr. Sheppard and a number of
character witnesses gave their testi
mony this morning and the state rest
ed. Mr .Bullock was put on the stand
by the defense shortly after the be
ginning of the defense. Alfred Pick
ett, the bell hop who was working at
the Cherry Hotel the night that the
jewels were missing, told of what he
knew concerning the case.
It was said that Mrs. Sheppard
came to the Cherry Hotel in More
tamnti tn recover the body. It 13
thought that Mr. Gillikin dropped
dead when he fell into the water,
Mnnre Gillikin farmed during the
snrincr and summer at his home at Ot-
wav. and usually fished during the
" ' TY
falll at Brown's Inlet nsnery. ne was
noma thirtv-eight or forty years of
Hia wife. Mrs. frisciua uun-
age.
him.
kin. and nine children survive
The children range in age irom sev
enteen years down to two months,
and all but the seventeen-year-old
son are too young to work.
T.it.HB hone is held now for the
recovery of the body until the body
rises to the surface at tne expira
tion of nine days. .
were devised, but the one sure spec
ific for economic recovery has not
been resorted to, and until all govern
mental officials local, state and na
tional realize that boom income end
ed several years ago and that govern
ment must follow the example of pri
vate business in curtailing expendi
tures, we need not look for a re
turn of normal conditions.
"Everything except taxes have
been deflated. Government has not
only maintained its former level of
spending, but government costs have
increased by leaps and bounds until
in this year of depression, when dol
lars with the masses are as 3carce as
will be 15 'per cent greater than it and Morehead City for their services
was four vears ago when DrosDeritv 1 for the first month,
Teachers Receive Pay
First Month Recently
Vouchers were mailed from the of
fice of the County Board of Educa
tion last Friday which paid approxi
mately $14,000 teachers,' janitors
and truck drivers' salaries of the ru
ral schools for the first school month
which ended on that day, and vouch
ers which aggregated about $3,500
. ;iJ U naniara nun
were also maueu mc
other school employees of Beaufort
Only 16 counties have more auto
mobiles now than they had a year
ago, one county has the same num
ber and 83 have fewer than a year
ago, while 84 counties have more mo
tor trucks, two counties have the
same number, and 14 counties have
less than a year ago.
Catawba has the same number 01
automobiles as a year ago and Ashe,
Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay,
Dare, Gates Graham, Haywood Hyde
Jackson McDowell, Macon, Madison,
New Hanover, Orange have more au
tomobiles than a year ago the re
maining 83 counties having fewer.
On the other hand, two counties have
the same number of trucks, Jones
and Polk, and only 14 have fewer
trucks than a year ago, including
Alleghany, Anson, Duplin, Franklin,
Johnston, Northampton, Pamlico,
Perauimans. Person. Pitt, Stokes
Swain and Washington.
The total number of motor vehic
les registered in the State October
was 372,899, of which 310,131 were
automobiles and 62,768 were trucks,
as compared with 411,215 motor ve
hicles, 354,696 automobiles and 56
519 trucks a year ago. A decrease
inautdmobiles is shown in the year of
44,565, while the increase in trucks
in the same period was 6,249. Three
months ago the automobiles register
ed numbered 284,051, which increas
ed in three months by 26,080, and
54,477 trucks, which increased in
three months by 8,291. On October 1
there were 34,371 more motor vehic
les registered than three months be
fore, due in part to the half-cost of
plates which became effective after
July 1.
,' Guilford led with 22,950 cars and
3,275 trucks October 1; Mecklenburg
had 21,375 cars and 3,150 trucks;
Forsyth, 15,050 cars and 2,775 trucks
Wake, 12,435 cars and 2,350 trucks;
Buncombe 12,011 cars and 2,400
trucks, and Durham, 9,050 cars and
1,50 trucks the report of Director
Harris shows.
Improvement is now noted in the
condition of W. B. Blades and W. H.
Henderson, both of New Bern, who
are receiving treatment at Rex Hos
pital in Raleigh since they barely es
caped with their Ives from an auto-
moble accident which occurred near
Garner early Friday afternoon.
The automobile in which the two
men were enroute to Raleigh to see
the Wake Forest State football
game was said to have slipped off the
road on the shoulder, skidded into a
telephone pole and turned over sev
eral times. Passing motorists took
the injured men on to the Raleigh
hospital. Their conditions were seen
to be grave and for several daysj
they were unconscious. Friday
night an operation was performde on
the badly fractured skull 01 mr.
Blades and pressure removed from
the brain.
During the last day or two the men
have revived now and then from coma
and have taken nourishment. Hope
is now held for the two men by the
attending physicians. Their injuries
were so serious that families of both
men were called to Ralegh last Fri
day shortly after the accident.
Mr. Blades is well-known here in
Carteret County and he has many
friends in and about Beaufort. Since
the death of his father, the late W.
B. Blades Sr., and up until the burn
ing of the plant of the Beaufort Fish
Scrap and Oil Company, Mr. Blades
was president of that manufacturing
concern and employed many Carter
et County men. The news that Mr.
iBlades is seemingly on the road to
recovery will be pleasantly received
by many friends of the Blades fam
ily here and throughout the county,
ROW AT RALEIGH
Many Get Fleeced at State Fair
Officials Permitted Gamb
lers to Work
BEAUFORT SEA-DOGS
DEFEAT NEW BERN BEES
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Oct. 17 A gambling
scandal that may find its way to the
Wake county grand jury has grown
out of the State Fair concessions, in
volving Coroner L. M. Waring, of
Wake, a magistrate, and J. Sherwood
Upchurch, former show man and
twice one of Wake's representatives
in the General Assembly.
Coroner Waring had charge of the
40-odd policemen patroling the Fair
grounds, and, in cases of arrest, was
the trial magistrate. Upchurch was a
sort of "checker" for the State air,
to see that the carnivals and other
activities were carried on in an or
derly manner.
Gamling devices were not frowned
on, if modest and moderate, but they
and gambling methods seem to have
gotten completely out of hand. Chief
of Police C. B. Barber and bhenn
Numa F. Turner report that gambling
was runnng riot and many victims re
ported being "fleeced." They charge
that Upchurch was a "fixer" and
would return part of the money lost
by victims, and would threaten to
have them arrested too, if they
'squealed," on the ground that "it
takes two to gamble," and both are
guilty.
The fair managemen asked Lhiei
Barber and Sheriff Turner to investi
gate, the result being that 50 gambr
ling games were closed Friday, only
a few "games of skill" being permit
ted to continue.
Upchurch replied with a witty,
supposedly, reply, a la Jimmy Walk
er, and told "the boys" to "come on"
that he'd prove something on them
Before a large crowd of Beaufort ,to,o if they tried to get him in a jam,
supporters the local "sea-dogs" nos
ed out on the local field Tuesday
defeating the New Bern Bees 7 to 0.
The stars were Rice and Hatsell for
the locals while work of Dawson and
Jasper stood out for the visitors.
Coach Gregory announces another
home game with Plymouth, November
4 and wants all the fans to be there
to back up their team.
was at its height.
"The total cost of government
federal, state and local in 1913 was
$2,919,000,000 and this year it is
approximately $15,000,000,000. In
1913 the per capita tax in this coun
try was $30.24 and today it is about
$120.00. In 1913 the total income of
the United States was 34 billions, of
which 6 per cent went for taxes and
this year the income will hardly ex
ceed 55 billions, of which 20 per cent
will go for taxes.
head City at the insU.:ee of Mr. I '"en r"a, uc"
Cherry. When she arrived she round " ( il""
her husband had been on a drunken . ment, especially in the l.gh t of our
rea for about a week and that Mr. Present economic situation, he won-
vousness. Mrs. Sheppard testmed mat -p-"- ' r "7" ltaken to the Potter Emergency Hos-
she and her husband went out sever , Vertabrae in her spinal column had
al times in their car to get ires , unnecessary and costly govern- been injured, but the 1 pictures d.s
and that on one trip tey bougnt a , ' functjona closed no fractures. Mrs. Wheatly
jar of whiskey and caried it back to .mental funct ons
. , 1 , ... I . . ... AnnirolaBItnff
This was good news for the teach
ers and other employees, for the
county owes the teachers for all of
the two-month extended term of
school last spring, with the excep
tion of $30 each. This was an event
that has been greatly anticipated by
the teachers since the opening of
school a monh ago.
MRS. WHEATLY HURT
IN FALL ON STEPS
Slipping as she descended from the
east steps of her home Sunday ev
ening, Mrs. C. R. Wheatly fell down
the concrete steps and down on the
concrete driveway, knocking ner un
REVIVAL NEXT WEEK AT
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
22 NEW VOTERS REGISTER
HERE NOVEMBER ELECTION
the hotel. ... ...J Moment heinc resnonsive to the will evening and is
Whenshe left the hotel at aooui , , ' . ' vr foil.
in th Parlv morning of," iwf.
, on mo Ih. .aid die gave sev-1 ment takes from us ?i out 01 every
June 29, 1932, she said she gave sev payment
POLICE COURT ITEMS
a riinmfvnn tihets a ncuuiuk . ..... t
, , j , , Tini.es, it is time ior unnKing peopie ev- . -
and a diamond studded watch to Bui-, themselves and de Business was rather light m Po-
Wk at the desk for fe-keeping. ,nrw
M, Bullock agd that he ZZ were tried Several oth
ed these, put them in "envelope j confiscatory tax er defendants were on the docket .but
upon which he wrote oaepp.ru . - conditions 'co
name and put the envelope uo 1, " not before." iot been taken.
cash box. Mr. uuuocit suweu mju .
Mr. Cherry's request, he naa not nepi
the cash in the cash register or in the
safe, because the safe was broken and
the management was afraid that rob
bers might hold up the clerk and take
the money from the cash register.
This cash box was placed in a small
compartment beneath the telephone
uuikA.rJ nrfcor there was less
WORK COMMENCED
ON MILL AT VALDESE
'duce the present connscatory tax er aeieuu. V , V. w
llevy. When that is done, conditions; could not be tried because they have
t Deen ien.
Ernest Bryan, colored, bavin liq
uor in his possession for the purpose
of sale and transporting liquor, ad
mitted posession but denied the oth-
r.har)AM fW: 1 1 fiporm. N. er Dart. H WSS neia ior tvcv-uiuci
Rhodes, Charlotte architect, announc Court under a $20 bond,
ed today work is being started this Polk Johnson, colored, drunfc ana
week on a full-fashioned hosiery mill disorderly near a church plead not
ilfcv. Mayor Taylor thought there
switncnooaru - Albert Garrus and Ben Tons. was probable cause ana ne.u .... -;
jiKennooa 01 Contract for the $20,000 structure Recorder's uourt unaer a
tified Mr. BunocK. ;has ,et to the H c Klin6 Con.
Testimony was ou.u r rnni. nf Hickorv.
hotel 8i- ..,
Plans have been perfected for the
revival services to begin at the First
(Baptist church Beaufort, Sunday,
Oct. 23. The pastor. Rev. J. Y. Har
ris has announced that Dr. Hugh A.
Ellis, pastor of the First Baptist
church, Henderson, N. C. will ar
rive Monday afternoon, Oct. 24th, to
do the preaching in these services,
and will remain here through the 3rd
of November.
Mr. Ellis came to the pastorate of
the Henderson church more than
eight years ago from Canada. Dur
ing these years he has had a most
WOnderlUl SUCCESS s yaaiui vi ..ww
excellent church. He is a man of
very attractive personality and a
pleasing speaker. His message v.m De
appreciated by all who hear him dur
ing this series of meetings.
In the work of evangelism, Mr. El
lis has been very successful. With
a true pastor's heart, he builds his
evangelistic program with a view of
strengthening the local church, help
ing his brother pastor and most of
all magnify his Christ. The public is
cordially invted to attend these ser-
vces. The evening services win De
gdn at 7:310. The hour for the day
service has not been named but will
be at a later date.
JUDGE ADMINISTERS OATH
TO DOCTOR GEORGE DAVIS
So far this fall, twenty-two new
eligible voters have been registered
here by the registrar, Richard D.
Whitehurst. These are the ones who
have become of age or otherwise eli
gible since the last election. Mr.
Whitehurst will be at the court house
both this Saturday and the following
Saturday for the purpose of register
ing all who are qualified to do so, or
he may be seen any day this or next
week at Barbour's Machine Shop on
Front Street, where he is employed,
for this purpose.
Saturday October 29 is the last
day which a prospective elector may
register. All who desire to vote in
the November election should do so
before Saturday of next week. No
vember 5 will be Challenge Day.
Whether you are a regular sub
scriber to the Beaufort News or not
read it. You will probably find some
thing of interest to you in it.
TIDE TABLE
1w nnpit in the lobbv of the
ter the jewels were left with Mr. Bui-,
lock was the clerk, the bell hop and j
Mr.
Dr. George Davis was sworn in as
an attorney at law at 2:45 Wednes
Hav afternoon by Judge Clayton
Moore shortly after the convening of
the afternoon session of Superior
Court, and was witnessed by a large
gathering of lawyers, friends and
spectators. Doctor Davis passed tne
Information at, to the tides
at Beaufort is given 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 is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High TmI
11:49 a.
12:13 p.
Low Tid
Friday. Oct. 21
m, 5:39 a. m.
m. 6:40 pp. m.
Saturday. Oct. 22
Mr. Rhodes is the son of Mrs. Fan-1
. . . ... 4 j. n 1 nil
Read the Beaufort News and keep bar examination August -,
up with events in your own county. Doctor Davis is a native son of Beau-
. fort and has ben a member of tha
If you are not a regular subserib-i medical profession here for a good
12:51 a. m.
1:15 p. m.
Sunday, Oct.
1:59 a. m.
2:20 p. m.
Monday. Oct.
3:03 a. m.
:21 p. m.
Tuesday, Oct,
3:57 a. m.
4:17 p. m.
Wednesday Oct,
4:48 a. m.
5:09 p. m.
came
ciem, l"e . . r..:- uWIo (rk r.f Roan- !
and Mrs. Sheppard. The bell nop,- , fifty,many ywJr3.
and went during tne nigr.i auu pnU
6:38 a. m..
7:39 'p. m.
23
7:43 a. m.
p. m.
24
8:50 a. m.
9:30 p. m.
25
9:53 a. m,
10:19 p. m,
26
10:50 a. m
10:30 p. m
cents for a trial subscription.
5:36 a.
5:58 p.
Thursday, Oct. 27
m. 11:30 a,
m. 11:44 p.
May Have Free Books
Free textbooks as a principle and
recommendation that books be sup
pied to all elementary pupils in the
State will be made to the 19J3 uen- ,
eral Assembly by the State School
Book Commission, provided by reso
lution of the 1931 assembly to study
and report on the textbook problem,
after bills to have the State supply
books, one calling for State printing,
had been killed.
The commission, composed of a
city and a county school superinten
dent, a business man, a lawyer and a
newspaper editor, with Dr. A. T. Al
len, State superintendent of public
instruction as ex-officio chairman,
will make the recommendation, "pro
vided a satisfactory and reasonable
plan can be formulated," snce it finds
that "there are thousands of children
in the public schools who are not sup
plied with textbooks."
In a formal statement, the com
mission, alter its meeting yesterday,
when it was found that the annual
elementary school book bll for the)
738,078 elementary pupils is $554,
263.33, or 75 cents per pupil, said:
"It is the unanimous opinion of the
commission that a great deal of re
tardation and indifferent instruction
in the public schools is due to the
fact that many children do not have
textbooks. Therefore, a great deal
of tax money now spent on public
education does not secure the prop
er results, not on account of the or
gnaization of the schools, nor on ac
count of the preparation o f the teach
ers, but on account of the lack of in
structional material in the hands of
the children."
Oscar K. LaRoque, native of Kins
ton and for about five years deputy
'State Insurance Commissioner, in
! charge of the Building and Loan Di
jvison, has been named administra
jtive assistant to the Federal Horns
iBank Board in Washington, D. C,
and went immediately about his du
ties. His family joins hm later.
Mr. LaRoque was private secretary
;to Governor Manning, of South Car
olina, before the bar and was form
lerly a national bank examiner. He
served under former Governor A. V.
McLean, while the latter was manag
ing director of the War Finance Cor
poration, and was vice-president of a
bank in Miami, Fla., when placed ia
charge of the Building and Loan
work in this State. He had much to
do with the Legislation and prepara
tion of the Home Loan Bank bill and
is expected to have an important
part in determining the policies or
the board, havng charge of all Home
Loan Banks, one of which opened
Saturday in Winston-Salem.
Insurance Commissioner Dan C.
Boney will fill his place, and that of
Major A. L. Fletcher, who will be-
come Commissioner of Labor, tne
first of the year.
Every one or more than 300,000
citizens of the State directly inter
ested in hunting and fishing will be
m. 'given an opportunity to express men
m. (Continued on page eight)
( Contnued on page 8 ) I melton