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i M3F f REAPING TO THE MIND IS WHAEXERCI&E IS TO THE,BODY J 5'CH Your label and pay your subscription The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. THE VOLUME XXI SIX PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY; DECEMBER 29, 1932 PRICE 5c SIN( "J?OPY INAUGURAL WILL BE INEXPENSIVE Inaugural Ceremonies Will Take Place January 5th in City Auditorium By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Dec. 26 "Simple Back Sliced When Man ProtectsGirl Friend Willie Fulford, colored, received a gash som ight inches long in his back Monday night between ten and eleven o'clock, the manner in which Fulford received this wound howev er is still somewhat of a mystery. After the wounded man was treated an(1jJy Dr. Chadwick, Fulford and an other coiorea man was incarcerated PROBABLY START CARTERET COURT It Is Rumored That Commis sioners May Establish Coun ty Court Monday inexpensive," as cunu.uuu. -h" in the cuonty j,u to await a hearing and as Governor-elect J. 0. B. wi-. police Monday evening. rincrVinus desires, will be the inaug-, ... , T ural ceremonies to be held in ? ' colored, with the responsibility ' of January, o, one uay 'the wound. It was first stated by Fnl- fieneral Assembly convenes, for the , . . . . JUSTICE SENDS 3 TO HIGHER COURT CnniAsa Issued For Absent Witnesses One Jailed For j ! Contempt, of ! Court January 5, one day after tne venes, iui w . , . nli. i.i,flt. Sinjt.h put him Governor and all other elective State, . chamred his officials. The order of business starts with a meeting of the Governor-elect with Gov. O. Max Gardner at the Execu tive Mansion -about 11:30 o'clock. Joined by State officials, they and their wives will proceed to the Ral-eis-h Memorial Auditorium, where the Senate and House will convene m joint session. The Lieutenant-Governor and other State official win be sworn in by the four assocaite jus tices of the N. C. Supreme Court. Governor-elect Ehringhaus will be sworn in by Chief Justices W. P. Stnr-v and will then deliver his inaug ural address, which will be his general message to the General Assembly. The new officials will be taken to a reviewing stand on Fayetteville street, and review the military units which will come to Raleigh at their nwn expense and will be under di rection of Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts, . Tn the evenine from 8 to 10 o'clock o enpntinn. simnle in nature, will be given by the new Governor to the MemhArs of the General Assembly. Following the reception, an inaugural ball will be held at the Memroial Auditorium, eiven by the Raleigh Junior League, the proceeds, after ..nonini OTP TlM 201112 tO the League's charity activities. Mts. fiertrffA Ross Pou is chairman of the inaugural ball contmittee. ' Governor n Mrs." Ehringhaus will lead one finro-' -roViile. . tbeir twirt son ..and , " daughter will lead another. This, in brief, will mark the change in administration in North Carolina, It is a program arranged by a joint Senate and House and Raleigh com mittee. The committee is composed of Senator-elect George McNeill, ' Favetteville. chairman, and Senator- elect L. T. Hartsell, Jr., Concord; and members of the House; Bruce Etheridge, Manteo; Thomas Turney, Jr., High Point, and J. S. Massenburg Tryon. The Raleigh . committee is composed of Willis Smith, speaker of the 1931 House, chairman; John Hall Manning and Clyde A. Dillon. The Speaker of the House, to be elected the day before, will probably peside at the inaugural ceremony. Governor-elect Ehringhaus and Mrs. Ehringhaus will spend the 21st anniversary of their wedding at the Executive Mansion. It is January 4 the day the General Assembly con venes and the day before Mr. Ehring haus is to be inaugurated as Gover nor. They will be guests of Gover nor and Mrs. Gardner, on the last day they will officially occup the mansion. The new Governor and his family move into the mansion emmed iatoiv after the inaugural ceremony. Ex-Governor Gardner, then, will not go directly to his home at Shel by, butron inauguration day will leave with a knife; later he changed mind, and said htat Smith threw him bodily through a window and that the jagged edges of glass lacerated his back. Smith informed the police that Fulford was tussling with Annie Clyde Vann, colored belle, and' that m trying to protect the young wom an, Fulford was accidentally slashed in the affray. These conflicting "confessions landed both colored men in the coun ty jail to await trial. Fulford is charged with assaulting a woman, LAnnie Clyde Vann, and pulling her m his room against he will. Smith is being held for inflicting serious bod ily injuries to Fulford. DEFICIT AVOIDED BY GETTING LOAN Treasury Borrowed Fixe Mil lions In November; total Debt Large Sum By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Dec. 26 The State Treasury had a cash balance of $3,- 134,178.06 in its general f,und and $3,586,091.28 as of November 30, the combined statement of the audi tor and treasurer shows. The general fund balance is due to borrowing $5 000,000 from ' North Carolina banks in Nevembur. Otherwise there would have been a deficit. Including that amount, the general fund received $11,316,955.02 and spent $8,269,. 316.91 in November. The highway fund received $2,055,551.48 and spent $2,163,000.93 in November, the statement shows. The total State debt is shown as $185,411,371.00, of which $172,909,000.00 is in long term bonds and the balance of $12,- 502,371.00 is in short term notes. Taking notice of statements that the highway funds should be diverted to be used for other purposes or that the highway and general funds shuld be combined, Chairman tu. a. jenress, of the State Highway Commission, points out that there has been and still is a drop of about $zuu,uuu a month, in gasoline tax, and that the numbers of licnese plates sold have been declining for the past two years, causing still further reduction in the highway funds. The former $2,000,- 000 surplus and $l,OOU,uuu more is now being lost to the fund from these decreases. Mr. Jeffress states that two salary cuts have been made for highway employees, from top to bottom, the number of employees has been drastically reduced, and the State highway maintenance employ ees have been placed on a five-day, eight-hour basis, reduced to 40 hours a week. "We shall nave a gigan- for Des Moines, Iowa, where, at invi- struggle to exist on our present rev- It is rumored around the streets in Beaufort and Morehead City that when the Carteret County Board of Commissioners holds its regular monthly meeting Monday that it will take up the advisability of establish ing a county court, possibly one with civil as well as criminal .jurisdiction. Since the passing of Recorder's Court j the first of December, there has been quite a bit of discussion concerning whether the county could save more money by having a county court or by keeping the prisoners in jail until they could be tried by Superior Court. Tomorrow morning the Carteret County Bar Association will meet in the office, of the Clerk of Superior Court in the county court house for the purpose of discussing the need of a county court, and if so, whether it should have civil as well as criminal urisdiction. Recorder's Court could onlv trv criminal cases. As a result of this meeting of .the Bar Associa tion, recommendations will very like ly be made to the Board of County Commissioners Monday morning, It is understood that quite a num ber of county democratic lawyers are candidates either for the judgeship oi solicitorship of the prospective coun ty court. Among those mentioned on the. street for the first office are: M. Leslie Davis, of Beaufort, and faui Webb. A. B. Morris and -Llewellyn Phillina of Morehead City, ana sev- " i eral others. Since the termination of Record 'a Court the first of Dscembftf ft4 the October term of Superior Court, tVio tramnt. of crime has been run here in Carteret County, and has re- suited in the- county jail being tilled virtuallv to capacity. Elewenjnen, . . ....... i j woman, and one tnirteen-year-um boy are incarcerated in the county 1ail. Nine of these are awaiting the March term of Superior Court, two are awaiting a preliminary hearing in Police Court and! will likely be re manded to jail until Superior Court, one is in for contempt of court, and another is awaiting Juvenile Court. Owing to the fact that one of the prisoners happens to be a woman, fewer culprits may be lodged in the county jail. These thirteen have been jailed in the last four weeks and there will be over two months before the March term of Superior Court. It is said that if offenders are arrested pro- nnrt.ionatelv during the next eight or ten weeks, that the county jail will be more than overflowing by the time the March term of Superior Court convenes, Closed Ban Large Su NUMBER 52 T7 a Wi'ay - ivi nnpv If anv one thinks, that a ' magis. trate court ia superficial, he should have been in Justice H. W. Noe's '.court in the courtroom of the county court house, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, when three men Were bound over to Superior Court . on. sizable bonds, capiases were issued for nine men and women who failed to appear as witnesses in one- of the cases, and one drunken and rather audible spe&alcir was jailed for two days for contempt of court. J . .. Benjamin (Ben) Gabriel and. Hir am iSpringle were jointly ; indicted for 'breaking, in and .entering into tne boat.ef Gus Ellison the "Harvester," and-iaking therefrom articles .of per- sonai propeny ou siuns suii-s, l.uh-c pot j clothes, pans, tood ana otner thingl to the value of. O." This- oc curred during the night oi uecemDer 20jand .wag the third time in recent wefcs.4hat the "Harvester" has been broien ia and. a good many things- stoteluf'.'...5i , Sme of the oil skin clothing was soldfts Louis Henry, colored. Mr. El- lisotfpositively identified the oilers, and he? warrant and arrests were subsequently made. The defendants didit, acknowledge tney naa any thinr.tk do with the oilers until after thefcrasecuting witnesses testified to the lfi4to Louis Henry. Then the de- fendbnts. claimed that they'Xpund the ;in clothing on Jones'. Rock at outh of Town Creek. Both Gah jid Springle tried to prove ali- biesfby their friends and relatives as to teir whereabouts and intoxicated . . , . .... i i. condWon orj.tne mgnt tne DreanuiK in'"WM alleged to have occurred THete seemed to be sufficient evi- RALEIGH. Dee. 27 Gurney P. Hood, state bank commissioner, today reported the liquidating division oi his department has paid $1,118,145. 92 to 28.710 creditors of closed banks in North Carolina since October 1. Of this amount $713,9485.71 was paid depositors; $107,263.76 -to se creditors, and - $97,296.45 . to preferred creditors. , , MUCH PILFERING THIS CHRISTMAS and Onlv $123,497.65 of. this amount was borrowed from the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation, Hood said "One loan of $6,927.27 was made to the liquidating agent of the Citizens bank, Mount Olive. This loan.- has been tepaid in full. One loan of $.116,570.58 wa made to the liquid ating agent of the Merchants Bank, Durham. This loan has been curtailed $14,781.94. Payments to depositors include : .Beaufort Banking and Trust com pany, $29,742.12; Farmers bank, Bel haven, $6,596.35; Marine bank More head City, $3',486.07; Farmers and Merchants bank, Kinston, $20,616.51. Payments to secured creditors in cluded: Eastern Bank and. Trust eom pany, New Bern, $1,048.92; Citizens bank;-Richlands, $685; Bank'ol Beau fort. S3.062.47: Citizens Bank and Trust company, New Bern, $6,866. 29. ' - oil the riel MANY SIGN PETITION ASKING THAT BANK BE OPENED HERE A petition inviting the, North Caro lina Bank and. Trust-Company to op en a bank in Beaufort was put in cir culation here yesterday and in a short time many names wre signed up, Nearly all business firms, in Beaufort signed the petition and a Consider able number of individuals as well More names could be secured - but the committee in charge- thought that enough had been gotten to show the hank nennle that, a branch bank denctto,hold th men for Superior WOuld be welcomed here. .... Cpjuao aiage.N eCtheJustifid N; Ci lJank 'a'nd lTrt;Com. nt flnvernor- elect Clyde L. Herring, first Democratic Governor of the State in 50 years, to address a joint meeting of the Iowa General Attsemblv. the grst Democratic as sembly in 75 years on January 9 7 .. r, Din- "The JNortn aronna , BEAUFORT HEIGHTS HOUSE DAMAGED MUCH PY FLAMES bond' at $200 each, in default of I which they will have to remain in ail until the March term of Superior Court. C. R. Wheatly wa3 the attor ney tor tne aeiense. Hollister Lassiter came before Jus tice Noe on a charge of assaulting Telford Gaskill with a deadly weap on: to-wit, a knife. Both were from Sea Level. The alleged knifing was said to have taken place on the nine teenth of December. C. R. Wheatly represented Gaskill, while Luther Hamilton, represented Lassiter. In the fracas Gaskill was badly cut on one of his hands and also sus tained minor bodily injuries. Immea iately after the trouble he was taK- en to the Potter Emergency nospitai for treatment, where he has remained ever since. He returned to the hospit al after the-trial. Ten witnesses from the eastern part of the county were supposed to Number of Cars Stolen Houses Entered ; No One . Apprehended ' Quite a bit of stealing and "Other similar acta were' committed around Beaufort during .tlia Christmas holi- . days, but so far no one has beit ap- - -prehended by the police" fot -these -misdemeanors. :. , , TX Captain and Mrs. W. K. Hinnant'S' LaSalle sedan was stolen- Christmas evening. After the same night the au tomobile was found abandoned at th back of a warehouse on the Lenox? ville road. , '' -. The Chevrolet sedan belonging to . Rufus Sewell was taken Christmas Eve 'evening and was discovered here in Beaufort near th mgnway cnugc abandoned the next morning, .r. Monday night the.'.Fojrd .coupe; et Christopher Janes was almost stolen from in front of his home. Someone came along and scared off the" thiev es after they had rolled., tbe' car -a considerable distance down the street Saturday evening while, Mr, and Mrs. W. G. 'Mebane were at supper, some' one shoved their car down the street a ways and evidently tried to start the motor. Passers-by must have caused the thieves to abandon .. the car hastily, for. they left both doors of the Ford coach open wide.- . Mrs. M. Leslie Davis lost a pocket- book containing some ovre Seventeen - dollars' in currency and five dollar in . checks Christmas Eve about sijn o'clock. She may have lost it on her way home, but she believes that some. one entered hex home and nicnea tne pocketbook. - , -.r .f ? - V x: ' Saturday someone opened the iront door of Mr., and Mrs. W. A. ifwree's home on Turner vStreet and took. some mail, but left the dally paper,. There:; were; several -lette "an'd;-om . . envelopes containing checks., Ihese envetowfs wewe found i the eastern patTo! fhe-T6w1fnTUV Mrp-eerf-epMeU, buf their contents were f 6urrd ; with them. . ' - " - While the Reverend J. P. Harris was holding services in the Beaufort Baptist Church Christmas morning, a pany is a very large concern, its- headquarters are in Greensboro and it operates banks- in Wilmington, Raleigh, Rocky Mount and in about a uu,t;u uuiei piaucs. ci.jr . UF- )Mj v,ie inst. 1 1 1 XT T J T) It lilWWlCl ffvu " enea orancnes m ivw ana. - ransacked the 6ntire boro. As related in a recent issue of ' 4.v,m nOUSe. 1WU UUls viae mui.vu6'"jr the iNews N. S. Calhoun, president of the banking company, and Gurney Hood, State Banking Commissioner were here December 21 and held, a conference with a number of citizens relative to opening a bank here. SANTA DID NOT FORGET TO VISIT BEAUFORT CHILDREN Depression or no depression old Santa Claus did not fail to pay his annual visitation to Beaufort this year. If there was a child in the town who did ntt get a remembrance on Christmas day Santa and his assist ants in Beaufort have not heard of .inJw.Nne ordered that cap- some 54 families white and colored; iases'be issued for the absent witness .were remembered in a distribution of es and that Sheriff Chadwick bring gifts which was successfully planned 4.vm ,t and managed by Chief of Police W. LUC 111 llllfV v-v , 7 . , , 111J Sufficient evidence was also tounaK. congest ana omers wno neipeu i enues and decreased basis of opera tion," he stated. Instead of having their rates to consumers reduced, they should be increased, gas company representa- on tivea told the N. C. corporation com mission at a hearing last weeK, neia f o rthe purpose of seeing if gas Tates along with electric and telephone rates, can be reduced in this period nf depression. The gas companies ic Mr. and 1 nearly all losing money, their repre Renuf ort I c,oatives said, and those coming Uwmg to tn iu r " , nnW ntie was in iit. About 125 children, representing civil cases-many ot tnem p-, .. - -- - , white and colored. are now clogging the docKet oi su perior Court, it is being rumorea iut it would be infinitely better to have ,,tv rmirt with civil jurisdiction, so that it could at least dispose ui the minor civil cases. The Bar Asso ciation will discuss this pnase as weu as the rieed of a county court for criminal cases at its meeting tomor row. Then recommendations will very likely be made to the Board of Com missioners Monday; morning. It is known whether the members of this Board are in favor of a county t- ntv Whatever is aone tun- CUUlb v - .... aj cerrfing this n.atter win do prmwu in the News next week, nril CIVES TWO PHILCO RADIOS AWAY CHRISTMAS iw .Tnnior Philco radios were giv i i v v Rell. Druoreist. en away neio u ' . r n' in this case to hold the defendant for Superior Court, and the justified bond was set at $0U. Abe Darling was intoxicated in court and when he started to become boisterous, Justice Noe ordered the heriff to incarcerate the offender in he county jail for two days for con tempt of court. EARL W. WEBB JR., FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOUN MOREHEAD CITY, Dec. 27 The the undertaking. A survey of the town was made by Chief Lonerest. Police officer Gher- man Holland and Town Clerk T. M. Thomas Jr. The names of all fami lies who needed some assistance were j secured and listed and contributions were asked and received for this pur pose. Many individuals contributed to the fund. Two classes of the Ann Street Methodist Sunday Scholo gtve $5.00 and the South River Club made a liberal contribution of cash and o-ift.s. With this money a supply of searched. Mrs. Hams' diamond ring that was wrapped up in some paper, was skipped by the thieves. So far the Harrises have missed nothing ex cept a 32 calibre pistol and some bul lets that went with it. Some one entered the home of Mr, and Mrs. Ray Wheatly on Ann Street Christmas Eve afternoon and purloin ed a few Christmas presents and Rex Wheatly's fountain pen. Just two doors away the previous afternoon filchers went into the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Eure and "went through the household. The onlv thing that was missed by the Eures was some six dollars worth of fireworks that had been ecreted in the buffet by Fletcher Eure. There was perhaps more pilfering this Christmas season than ever be fore. Those that participated in this stealing and there were perhaps more than one or two were rather sly, for no one ha3 been suspected or arrested for these misdeeds At. on the right side of the ledger are earning from less than one per cent to not more than 6 lj per ceiu, The house occupied by Percv Marshall at Heights was" -considerably damagea Tuesday night between ten and elev- en O 1-jui.iw v, ."-, v. r- - . j""'" t .. . fi i j Qf o ni ofthe household furniture and ciotn-when a iair reiui i Sg It tne Marshall family was t de- cent. It is not likely, in. view of thee stroved "by the flames. "This house conditions,' that gas rates can be re siroye u, Reonfm-h a,a ,ph. if anv. and reductions was tne pri " -"-."rr" "T LX 'in of to, the first Lumber and Manuracturing com- vm not do maue uuw v. ot tne year. : - , r. a km ti been drawn, known as the "Uniform Operators' and Chauf It was conjectured that the fire i started asa result oi lauity eiec The lire was nre ma- was ifi-innl wirin covered in one of the bedrooms. i i -nrots turned in and ' the firemen responded immediately. Chemicals were used to extinguish the blazing house. Owing to the quick work of 'the firemen, none of the flames came on the outside of the house. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS i ' A. I. Act." to provide for An i!A.,.nSi ontnmobile drivers in North local 'Carolina," in the same manner as is ne in 37 .of the 48 states, drivers annual fee would be:7B cents, fam- aljj,. v.va ve,nincf -Captain G. H. Meekins, skipper of the Fort Mac on Coast Guard Station, was the win ner of the white awards wmie ueuiKc Williams won the colored raaio. . These contests bega nabout six $r eight weeks before Christmas. Each of - irobds at .Bell's received a ticket for each fcwenty-nve ' cents thev snent. Some, over twelve tnoua- attd tiekets were used, buttmany pur wer not eligible to receive tickets owing .to i the fact, that they (mend the required amouiu, while many other purchasers did not imiYirinate'in the contests. , F, R. Bell nas put on Biumm tests for the past several Christmas- , and these always create mucn m- i , i T7.,..i w Wohh . r.. was tovs. canuieaauu nuna ,,.v...." S sndH afternoon at 2:30 at the ed by Mrs. John Brooks and Mrs. It. ;;,.T.u ette "Journey's B. Wheatly and with the aid ot Mr, End'. Rev. Worth Wicker, recotor of and Mrs. Bill Skarren, Mr. Longest p.i'. Ti?nifonal church, ueau- ma omen canwu w j. aut a j' - l St. fort, assisted by Rev. W. R.' Watkins various homes. And so the hearts of ily licenses $1.50 and chtuffeurs' h f; nn. Examinations woul( he required of those who have not store meqhandise ne be requirea oi J flPt'out Carteret County, ..L.'.-i. r, iha niivphnsera of drug- Examinations wouia . tVirmlI,n. driven for six months when the act would become ettective, virgi.u, South Carolina and Tennessee have this law, and it is approved by many race officers of the State ,it is point- . i j Licenses wouiu be revtked Gross and Pearson Co., to Gross et als, 10 tracts fti 100, .. ... ., r,. n0t0 'rienta and recklessness. Carolina Mortgage - ";oath injuries and damages Record ChrUtmas Heat of the Methodist church of this city, officiating. - '" ,"'.' The spacious home was nnea wun, sorrowing relatives and friends. Sel dom has one seen such weaitn oi beautiful flowers. Two musical num bers were rendered by Edwara swam of New York, "Jesus uives tagm m Darkness'! by Chadwick, and "When God puts out the light" by wme Jacobs Bond. , Active pallbearers -a ere nt r ui ford and Bacon Fuller of Durham. D. -G. Bell, Jr., Morehead City; Allen James Potter and Gray Wflssell. Beaufort, and Clifton Bostic Af Oreonville. Honorary pauDearers were Milton Harrington and Troy Burnette of Greenville, lorn Henry of New Bern and Ralf Cook in Bay View cemetery. ' - " ' '- manv children, and their parents as well, were made happy on Christmas day, RETTS BAKERY BRINGS OUT TWO NEW LOAVES RECENTLY Mayor Remands Negro Man to Superior Court Several cases were tried in Police Court Monday evening by Mayor Bayard Taylor, and one colored de fendant was held for Superior Court. Allison Fulford, colored, charged with forcible trespass ana aesirut- tion of personal property, was rele gated to Superior Court for trial un der bond, of m ueiauiu u which he will be a guest at the coun ty jail until the March term oi tne higher court convenes. - - - ' Pete Davis, colored, arunnenness, thirty days on the street force. Charles Green, colored, arunnen ness, five days cleaning the streets. . Abe Darling, elderly white man, who was charged with drunkenness, was called and failed to answer, inis CHRISTMAS MARRYING KEPT ELDER SEWELL QUITE BUSi BIRTH OF DAUGHTER City, ior,ea ouu :, ni. mo, ,iBW. the for cause, sucn """-"r' ";' QVoa BVpr reCOrded for the nuuui tiuiip , . Goldsboro, Dec. 27 Mercury reg istered 61 in Goldsboro on Christ- highest reading tor tpe , , ,. 11 . 1 13 isotn or ueceiiiuci-. night was 64. The low for the The Betts Bakery here has recent ly installed two new machines and is ; case was continued now putting out two new ioavea. "Betts Better Bread" and "Lady Carteret." The first is a live cent loaf and the latter a ten cent loat. "Lady Carteret" may be had either sliced-or unsliced. A dough break, a new machine, makes the bread much finer. The slic- inn, machine slices a whole loat at one time and can slice over a hun dred loaves an hour. Within the wrap per of the sliced bread is a patent band that holds the slices tightly to gether so that the moisture in the bread cannot evaporate. This is the only bakery now operat- Christmas Eve mornnig was rather busy for the Elder John W. Sewell. Within about an hour he married three couples, one in the office of Poo-iser of Deeds in the county court house, and the other two couples were married in Elder Sewell s home on Cedar Street. He united lillman A. Taylor ana Aimeia n. son, of Sea Level, in the Register of Deeds' Office. A little later he mar ried at his home the following coup- . i i News has been rece Cleveland L Gillikin and Lula the birth 5.?,fMfer xw Pern Sient is trying to sell to the peo-i Gillikin, of Beaufort RFD, and Eu Mss. Alfred Abbott of New Bern, ngement is u , nB to e i ... i a i u'-v n n r t r n vr m i:w uiilv luw tvnv MIS. ADUUU was f-- . . Morrison of Beaufort. best bread obtainable. nings, of Beaufort RFD.