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VOLUME XXI
Six pages THIS week THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1932 PRICE 5c SINGLE CO.
NUMBER 43
John E. Robinson Dies
After Short Iillness
ROOSEVELT PAYS 'BOARD SELECTS
The funeral exercises for Captain
John Elbridge Robinson were held
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at
the Church of the Good Shepherd in
Raleigh by the rector Reverend
Theodore Patrick Jr. Interment was
in Oak Wood cemetery. Captain Rob
inson died after a short illness in a
VISIT TO STATE
Democratic Candidate Heard
At Raleigh And Other
Points by Large Crowds
RALEIGH, Oct. 25 Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the democratic standard
hospital at Stamford, Conn., Sunday I bearer was hailed by cheering thous-
..'..Ut TT .. .1 1 . 111 V Unla aa Via mnrln n 4-! , m Vi n 1 ImiK
uiguu ne was ut&tMi very ui on niS"us " Hiumunai bvu.
COMMISSION WILL
ASK LOWER RATES
Big Power Companies Must
Show Cause For Opposing
Lower Rates
By M. R. DUNNACAN
RALEIGH, Oct. 24 The N. C.
Corporation Commission has issued a
letter to the four larger public utili
ties companies in the btate Carolina vessel while on the way to Boston, through parts of North Carolina to-
Power and Light,, Southern Public Mass, and was carried to the hospital, day.
Utilities, Tidewater Power, and Dur-jHe was 55 years of age. Ten thousand people stood in a
ham Public Service to appear be- j Captain Robinson was the son of j mist at the state fair grounds here
fore that body on Thursday of this the late John Allen Robinson, a na- and heard him predict a "clean
week to show cause why they do not tive of Beaufort, and his first wife, j sweep" for democracy at the polls
adopt rates for light and power as wno was Miss Isabel Bissell and who two weeks from today,
low as the average for 177 cities of born iii the state of Kansas. She Earlier at Sanford 5,000 others
the United States with populations died at the birth of this son. He and (went wild as Roosevelt lauded Gover
of 50,000 or more, 193 census. his brother Roscoe Robinson lived in nor - Max Gardner and his "100 per
- Durham city officials became impa- Beauofrt several years with their cent liberal administration in North
tient at the seemingly long time the grandmother Mrs. Fannie Robinson. Carolina," and 1,000 at Southern
Corporation Commission is taking inA few years afterwards the two boys,pines answered with lusty cheers as
getting rates reduced and came over went to live with their father and his j Gardner asked for a majority of
to have a "session" with the members j second wife who was Miss Emma'150000 from North Carolina for the
last week. The commission members Elizabeth Kness of Bethlehem, Penn. j Roosevelt-Garner ticket,
last week. The comission members Mrs. obinson reared the two lads These were the governor's only
told the Durham visitors that they with all the interest and devotion that personal appearances in North Caro
have a plan for reduction but it can-'any mother could bestow. !lina- However, hundreds of people
WELFARE AGENT
Mrs. Hilda G. Kite, of Fayette
ville, Appointed Carteret
Welfare Agent
At perhaps the most important
meeting of the Carteret County
Board of Public Welfare held in many
months Mrs. Hilda G. Kite, of Fay
etteville, North Carolina, was unan
imously elected by that board on
Monday,. October 24 th, to serve as
field agent in Carteret County dur
ing the next few months in connec
tion with the distribution of relief
funds allocated to Carteret County
by the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration to supplement local efforts.
Mrs. Kite will arrive at Beaufort to
morrow aild will be busy through
October 29th establishing her head
quarters and making a survey of the
county. Headquarters will be either
in the County Courthouse Annex or j
in the Lhadwick building at the corn
er of Front and Turner Streets form
erly occupied by Chadwick's Shoe
Shop. Mrs. Kite will not be in posi-
Wiregra.. Women Get DIAMOND MYSTERY
Community Club Koomi ni?,f . TC1 MIrnrmrov
By MILDRED SABISTON
(Reporter, Wiregrass Club)
The member! of the Core Creek
Home Demonstration Club will be the
guests of the Wiregrass Club Mon
day evening at seven-thirty o'clock
at a Hallowe'en party that will be
given in the new club room of the
latter club. Also, friends and mem
bers of the families of each club have
been extended invitations. An enter
taining evening is promised by the
hostess club.
Recently the use of the building
that was formerly used by the Wood
men of the World Lodge at Wiregrass
was acquired by the Wiregrass club
not be "rushed." The commission is when he was vea8 . ! lined the tracks from Charlotte tp ,ton to entertain requests om any
wVi pVi the pomnaniesiT ... ... , . " Kaleitrh as the "Koosevelt snecial" source unwi alter gne nas esiauiisu.
Bucim.g - - --- -- . uionn r.. noDinson snipped as a com-, . , 1 .
will adopt and make effective, in-" on & ... vesse, H sped along on its long journey from
stead of trying to force a schedule ked himself t th lti f Atlanta to Baltimore, where the nom-
ot-rates wnicn wey wuu.u - master and for many ye.ars command
fight through the courts, which would
take probably as much as a year,
. . . 1 a! 1 - i J
ed sailing ships and visited foreign
ports in all parts of the world. Lat-
when the need for reduction is immea 1 er he took the nece9sary instruction
iate. The commission announces to receive a master's license for steam
ed herself and her survey of
needs of the county completed.
the
it wishes to adopt:
ships and for a long time was in that 1
1. A uniform rate that will apply service. He was in command of
to domestic service of every descrip
tion.
2. That will apply to similor com
munities with similar conditions.
This is suggested for debate only.
3. To adjust the rates for small
er communities and rural communi
ties by increasing the rates a definite
per centage over the reduced rates E Robinson of Beaufort, a brother
one
of the first vessels to answer the call
of the Titanic when that famous ship
was sunk by an iceberg. Recently
he has been in the employ of the Le
high Railroad and was captain of one
of their colliers running between New
York and Boston. Captain Robinson is
survived by his mother Mrs. Emma
or Dossibly increasing the monthly
minimum charge. This is suggested
for debate only.
4. To adopt a schedule of rates
that are so simple that the ordinary
consumer can understand them; real
ise all other consumers are on the
same footing, and that such rates are
just and equitable to both the pub
lic and the electric utilities.
Cash balance of $3,961,534.86 is
shown in the State Treasury on Sep
tember 30, $809,859.84 in the gen
eral fund and $3,151,675.02 i nthe
highway fund, combined staatement
of the State Auditor and Treasurer
shows. The general fund had a cash
overdraft of $502,612.43 July 1, be
ginning of the fiscal year, has spent
in the three months $7,334,614.47
and received $8,144,474.31, leaving
the balance of more than $809,000.
The highway fund had a balance July
1 $7,130,515.04, has received $5,
102, 442.40 and spent $9,081,282.44,
leaving the balance of slightly more
than $3,150,000.
The State Fair showed an operat
ing profit of $2,439 for the opera
tion two weeks ago, the second year
under management of the the State
Board of Agriculture, Henry Burke,
assistant director of the Budget,
stages. Even with the small profit,
satisfactio nwas expressed that it had
not done as usual; gone in the hole.
The mild success may determine
whether or not the 193 General As
sembly will continue the annual dis
play, or abandon it.
Choapor Ceofimphiei Maybo
Parents will be able to get geog
raphies cheaper next year, regard
less of whether or not the State Board
of Education makes a change. The
company which now furnishes these
books hat; promised a 20 to 25 per
cent reduction if the State will en
ter into a contract for its books for
. five years. Other firms will doubtless
meet and even better this proposal.
The books now in use have been used
11 years, one, for the- fourth and
fifth grade costing $1.21; the other,
for the sixth and seventh grades,
costing $1.69. .
Althousrh a great scare is being
Roscoe Robinson of Long Beach,
California, two sisters Miss Mary Rob
mson of Raleigh and Mrs. W. G.
Mebane of Beaufort.
inee speaks tonight
Immediately after Roosevelt's brief
stay here, the seven-car special pull
ed out for Richmond. A fifteen min
ute stop is scheduled there this af
ternoon.
Introduced by Governor Gardner
as "the next president of the United
States," Roosevelt told his Raleigh
audience that he had been getting a
great reception on his 36, state tour,
not onlv from democrats but from .
"thinking republicans who are sat
isfied the United States will not re
turn to prosperity under republican
leadership.
Then he explained that the main
object of his long trips is to asser-
tain the needs of every section, and
added
The Board of Public Welfare
which consists of Dr. C. S. Maxwell,
chairman, Miss Lillian Duncan, and
Sunt. H. L. Joslyn, selected Mrs.
Kite for this important work not on
ly because of her wide experience as
welfare worker in Cumberland and
with the Staet Department but, also,
because of the fact that Mrs. Kite is
connected with neither Beaufort,
Morehead City, no rany other sec
tion of Carteret County, is not inter
ested in county politics, belongs to
no church in Carteret County, has
nof riends or relatives here and
therefore, can be fully trusted by the
people of Carteret County to admin
ister the relief fund without fear or
-favpr. Mrs. Kite is a woman of ma-
women. They have cleaned it up and
have converted it into a club room
of merit. All meetings of the club will
be held there in the future, except
when Miss Ann Mason, county home
demonstration agent, needs a kitchen
stove in performing her cooking
demonstrations. Then the club will
meet at one of the women's home.
Sometime in the near future the
club room may be' equipped with a
kitchen stove and necessary cooking
utensils so that the demonstrational
cooking may be carried on right in
the club room.
The members of the Wiregrass
club hope to make this club room a
sort of a community center for both
club work and social activities. Some
of the members have pointed out
that up until the old Woodmen hall
was acquired as a club room there
was no central meeting place in that
community, except the church, which
was disqualified as a place of purely
social activity. The Wiregrass club
members are very proud that they
now have a club room which will be
come the center of the social life of
the community, and which will be
educational as well as recreative,
'ii4f.r evelloTit iiidoimont. all(PP9A-
When we control the government Z1ViL ,'SZu"'uu
LAST CALL ! !
Saturday is the !at day for
' registering! All who desire to
' vote in the general election
' November 8 must qualify
' themselves by registering, if
" they have never registered be-
fore. Those who desire to reg-
ister here in Beaufort must
' see Richard Whitehurst, the
registrar of this precinct be-
fore sundown Saturday. This
is the last call I
Saturday, November 5 will
be Challenge Day. Up to this
date only two or three dozen
new voters here in Beaufort
have qualified themselves for
the November election.
HOWARD HILL SUSTAINS
FRACTURED FOOT FRIDAY
next year our creed will be to try to
restore prosperity, not merely to one
section, but to every part of th na
tion." Roosevelt concluded by predicting
that North Carolina will give the dem
fare problems, is highly endorsed by
the state, and is believed to be a for-
tuisate '"selectidn.;
Whenever an opportunity to work
on public projects at current wages
CONDUCT FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR MKS. EVA J. HAMILTON
ocratic candidates the biggest major- in the community can be provided by
m -rr . 1 1 It A. - 1 I
ity in the history of the state. lor tnose xouna to oe m
" ... . 1 1 J n 6 Anmat a n a a ntowaa Will
H .' T TA.rA Lnl1oH a, I1CCU Ul aaoiobauvc, nosto ...
Ml. lttllieio, uwicuiui wi, . . . ,
. . . - -n , 'Via noiH ft o AtaH afllp Tfir work
Virginia and James Kooseveit spoite
briefly when the governor had fin
ished.
Receive Low Bids For
Ocean-Swanboro Road
Bids were opened at the meeting of
the North Carolina Highway Commis
sion last Thursday in Raleigh for 18
projects, three of which were on
route 24 which runs from Morehead
Bluffs to Jacksonville via Swansboro.
Low bids for the three projects were
as follows:
be paid on a fixed scale for work done
(Continued on page five)
LOUIS H. LOVICK PASSES
AWAY AT WILLISTON HOME
Mrs. Eva J. Hamilton passed away
at her Stacy home Monday morning
following several months of ill health,
Funeral.services were conducted from
the late home of the deceased at one
o'clock Tuesday afternoon by the Rev
Mistrial Directed in Bullock
Case; Nettie Henry Acquit
ted of Manslaughter
After seven hours of deliberation,
the jury in the case, of Frank Bul
lick, twenty-six-year old Atlantic
man who was charged with the em
bezzlement and larceny of over $4,
000 worth of diamond jewelry from
the Cherry Hotel in Morehead City
June 29, 1932, -was called in by
Judge Clayton Moore last Friday af
ternoon and the jurors reported that
eleven were for acquittal and one
for conviction. Whereupon a juror
was withdrawn and a mistrial directed
and the case set for retrial at the
March 1933 term of Superior Court,
which will be the next court for the
trial of criminal cases.
No case in recent years has crea
ted as much interest among the peo
ple of the community in particular
and the people of-the county in gen
eral at the so-called "Diamond Mys
tery" or Bullock case. The court
room was crowded with interested
spectators the whole week. The Bul
lock case was started early Wednes
day afternoon, with former Judge E.
Walter Hill assisting Solicitor D. M.
Clark with the prosecution; the de
fendant was represented by C. R.
Wheatly, Charles W. Stevens and
Jamea W. Mason.
All of the evidence was completed
shortly after the convening of the af
ternoon session Thursday and the
whole afternoon was devoted to ad
dresses to the jury by the prosecu
tion and the defense. The short hum
orous speech of Mr. Mason was said
by regular court attendants to be
one of the best ever made before a
Carteret county jury. Owing to the
lateness of the hour when the lawyers
completed their addresses, Judge
Moore decided to adjourn court
the nand charge the jury Friday
morning.
In his thirty-minute charge to the
jury, Judge Moore reviewed in brief
the testiomny and evidence of both
the prosecution and the defense. The
cace was given to the jury, at about
nine-thirty o'clock Friday morning.
' Following several months of ill
health, Louis Henry Lovick passed a-
way at his home in Williston, Octo
ber 19, at the age of seventy-seven.
Funeral services were conducted at 2
o'clock Thursday afternoon from the
Williston M. E. Church by the pas
tor, the Rev. E. L. Hill and inter
ment was in the adjacent cemetery.
A large attendance was present for
E. L. Hill. Interment was
Stacy cemetery. A large crowd of
friends and relatives were in atten
dance. The grave was covered with
many floral designs.
The late husband of the deceased
passed away about a year ago, death
being caused by pneumonia.
Two sons survive Mrs. Hamilton:
Leslie Hamilton, of Stacy, and Har
vey Hamilton, of Atlantic.
in the ' When the time came for the adjourn-
HOLD FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR DROWNED OTWAY MAN
After five days of searching, the
floating body of Moore Gillikin was
found last Thursday just before noon
only a few hundred yards away from
The automotive jinx seems to be
sitting cross-legged over the destiny
of Howard Hill. For last Friday at
noon he sustained his third automo
bile injury in recent years and bare
ly escaped more serious consequences.
This time it was again his right ankle
and foot crushed. Before it it had
been his broken left leg, and another
time it had been his right ankle crush
ed. Howard seems to have a weakness
for vehicular familiarity.
Last Friday when school turned
out for the noon recess, Howard
along with several other young fel
lowsgot on the side of Mr. Fred
Mosher's Packard sedan to ride home
or part the way home. Howard was
standing on the back left running
board as the car was driven south
ward on Marsh Street. Just as it
reached Pine Street, a Ford sedan
ender Brohters, of Earl, ?Zo,do.4o.
Grading of 1.43 miles of route 24
and approaches to bridges over White
Oak River, Harrison-Wright Com
pany, of Charlotte, $13,452.
Structures over White Oak River,
Orrell and Stone, of Wilmington,
$50,007.50.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
William. E. Branch and Marie No
lan, Beaufort.
, the last rites and the many floral de- where the man fell overboard about
24 ! signs were testimony to the esteem seven o'clock Saturday evening, Oc
tober 15, near uog island up cogue
Gradine O.tH miles OL ruuie " mara Uct.'mnnv
from Ocean toward bwansooro, ... .. . Mr LoVick was held
the community.
Mr. Lovick was a farmer and was
well known throughout the eastern
section of Carteret county.
The deceased is survived by four
daughters and one son: Mrs. S. T.
Merrill, RiFD, Mesdames Henry Hill,
Clyde Willis and Walter Willis, all
of Williston; and J. W. Loyick, of
Williston.
NEW N. C. HIGHWAY MAPS GIVE
MUCH INTERESTING INFORMATION
By M. R. DUNNACAN
RALEIGH, N. C, Oct. 25 New
North Carolina highway maps are
wit OMVlTlff the once familiar mileage
driven by Alonzo Williams ran in ' between each two county seats in the
Mi loft side of the Mosher car. state, in adition to a fund ol mior
When the collision occurred How-Jmation included under two headings:
J iU a-LIa Aa .TAO A1.ll. I II11!J .' A .tilA. ill fl T A flViOUt 100
, , art! a I lgU ctlin.10 aiiu iwv v ki. uoii- i - Historic jjiavv j ...
raised, with some earmarks ol ine. H(j wag iramAdi-tely taken to the county seats" and "Places to go and
aemagogue ... - "'Potter Emergency Hospital for treat- things to see.
"poor parent,' eveny reasonaoie as-. , ...mf.,,! t Mm Wnitall tv, haw man is not a detour map,
for several days, but is now able to since there are so few detours in the
Sound about eighteen miles from
here. An account of the drowning
was printed in last week's edition of
the News.
Funeral services were conducted at
the grave in the Otway cemetery
Friday at eleven o'clock by the Rev
erend A. P. Stevens, pastor of the
Morehead City Baptist Church. A
large crowd of friends and relatives
were in attendance at the last rites.
Mr. Gillikin was a farmer and a
fisherman. As related in the News last
week, he was on the way accompan
ied by two other Otway men, Ivey
and Bryant Gillikin to the fishery at
Brown's Inlet. The victim of the trag
. . - ,;ha.! m-in-innl edv had told the other two men sev.
cities another table gives distances eral times that he was feeling badly,
om 1 principal North Carolina c it- and just prior to falling overboard
7. or 1. i 11 ntw states, as he tried to go around the cabin,
iea 10 40 Hey v-.w ... " ------ , ,. . t. . . .
The 32 sections of the State nign-1 ne toiu mem u , - . --
hecominflr numb. After tne man leu
L-m. M, .fendard hand sienals for backward into the water, the other
ment of the October term of court
late that afternoon, the jury was still
voting eleven to one for acquittal,
so a mistrial was declared and bond
set at $500.
Mr. Bullock is quite well known
throughout Carteret County and
many have expresed their regret at
the jury being unable to come to a
decision. Popular sentiment, as far as
the News reporter was able to as
certain, was in favor of acquittal.
Upon the request of the solicitor.
the first-degree murder charge pre
ferred against Nettie Henry, color
ed, was changed to second degree
murder or manslaughter when the
case came up for trial Friday morn
ing. Solicitor Clark stated to the
court that the reason he asked for
the change was on account of the
necessity of a special venire should
the first-degree charge be accepted
by him. Nearly half the court room
was occupied by colored spectators
from the time this trial was started
until the verdict was rendered; and
(Continued on page six)
turning and stopping, and explana
tions of signs and other ready and de
sirable information a sto rules and
regulations.
Other illustrations are an airpiane
atimntion is now the best time to en
ai into . A contract for books, since
.. - . , .. , .... n out nn cruicnes. umera huhik m oiate. nwsv u- w - -- o - - . , ,
fJZ' on the side of the Packard es- for only a short time, It does .show .WJ-
tor several days, dui is now aDie 10 1 since mere are su i" v. - - --- , .
be out on crutches; Others riding in State, most of them short and lasting J flying : over Kitty an
the
cars were considerably damaged as a
result of the collision.
half the cost of these books could bj -
saved on prices it - Both the Packard arid
at this tuns, ine uoaru v
will act before January 1 on the rec
ommendation of the State Textbook
Commission, which met in Greens
boro, Monday. The books will not be
changed unless a big saving can be
made to buyers, even though the
present books are out of date and
not entirely satisfactory.
SUSTAINS SPRAINED ANKLE
.
Mrs. Clarence Whitehurst sustain-
CHANCE POLICE COURT
TO 7 O'CLOCK MONDAY
m.-v network of hard-surf aced roads
Ford all ove rthe State, including roads of
other types, bearing the new nonn
Carolina and United States numbers,
and a marginal index indicating lo
cation of towns, cities, and places of
interest.
The outside of the folded map
shows scenes of "Land of the Sky,"
with a mountain scene; "The Pied-,Vi-nt
" with smoke issuing from in-
The time for Police Court has been
permanently changed from 3 o'clock
Fridav afternoon to 7 o'clock Mon-
dav evening by Mayor 'Bayard Tay- dustriat plants, and The coastal
. J u-u:i..-ll.. A.,At ICAAtinn " nritVl - n liphthOUSe Casting
Z Xv ,nurt will therefore have to 'its rays over the waves, along with Hampton, erected 1809 O Id sea c it
rr L. .e-t tn' rr.rduetion of the seal of the. town. Near here lucnara wuag
cnanirfc) men unu1" i. --t --r
Devil Hill, a liarhthouse oh the coast,
Chimney Rock, entrance to Fisgah
National. Forest, and the "Old East"
(or Old West) building at the btate
University.
Included in the "Historic piaces m
and about 100 county seats" is the
f oliowinsr :
Beaufort, Carteret Co., Formed in
1722. Named for Sir John Carteret,
ater Lord Granville. Fort Macon, Con
federate stronghold, now a State-
Park, erected in 1824, replacing ion
two men endeavored to save him, but
t . . . c j LI-. Tli nir an.
were uname 10 uu mm.
licited the aid of a Coast Ouard crew
but they too were unsuccessful.
His wife, Mrs. Priscilla Gillikin,
and nine children survive the drown
ed man.
NF.W EUDY AUTOMOBILE
BURNS EARLY. TUESOAl
The new sedan in which Howard
Eudy was driving about two o'clock
early Tuesday morning caught on
fire from a mysterious source and
burned almost completely up near the
Huntley farm on North River, road
No iniurv was sustained by the driv
er. The entrine, wheels and the chas-
will nrobablv be salvaged, lhis
TIDE TABLE
High Tide-
Friday, Oct.
6:11 a. m.
6:45 p. m.
Information as 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 la
whether near the Inlet ot. at
the heads of the estuaries.
Low Tid
28
11:51 a. m.
12:35 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29
7:08
7:33
a. m.
p. m.
Sunday, Oct.
sis
was a comparatively new
Eudvs having had it only
car,
a
the
few
weeks.
aa . K.iiw .nrn inert ankle in a minor.-""""" . . ... - .1.. 1- Pi.i. - tpcteel tne Lit in gun. nome 01 vay
automobile accident last Friday. She conform with the manoares ox u.e t0 th table giving dis- tain Otway Burns, famous privateer .the autom
i, still confined to her home on t.rav-
Fortunately for the owner,
obile was insured.
en Street by the painful injury.
tances between every two county ; of 1812.
7:57 a.
8:21 p.
8:46 a.
9:12 p.
10:40 a.
10:06 p.
10:38 a.
10:58 p.
11:07 a.
11:43 p.
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m.
12:37
1:25
30 ,
1:23
2:16
Monday, Oct. 31
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3:07
Nov. 1
3:02
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