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VOLUME XXII
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, JANUARY, 13, 1S32 PRICE Sc SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 3
Legislative Record
Of Past Week Given
Considerable Work Accomplished By Lawmak
ers; Many Bills Introduced, Some Local But
Many of State-Wide Interest; Manufactur
ers' Tax Proposed.
Democratic Senators
I All Head Committees
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Jan. 16 While the
JNorth Carolina General Assembly I
was in a sense marking time during
the second week, waiting for the two By M. R. DUNNAGAN
measures which will be the all im- RALEIGH, Jan. 16 Lieutenant
portant problem of the present ses-! Governor A. H. Graham, as president
sion, the revenue and appropriations 1 0f the Senate, gave each of the 48
bills prepared by the Advisory Bud-1 Democratic Senators a committee
get Commission and promised Mon-, chairmanship, and had three others
day night of this week, probably I to give, causing three Senators to
more progress than ever before had j head two committees, while the two
been made during the second week j Republican members had to be con
of a Legislative session. jtent with membership on committees.
Delay in preparation of the two ! Appointments announced by Presi
important measures, due to the late! dent Graham include the following:
start of the commission, served the Larry I. Moore, New Bern, Sena
purpose of permitting the committees -tor from the 7th district, has been
to organize and get set to go when named head of the important new
the bills were presented, along with committee on Reorganization of the
& second message from Governor Government, and chairman of the
John C. B. Ehringhaus, his budget j regular committee on Corporation
message, Monday night. Bills have ! Commission. He is also a member of
been introduced, but studied and ac-1 Judiciary No. 1, Public Roads, Sena
tion delayed until the wil of the ex-jtorial Districts, Banks and Currency,
eeutive has become known and be- Constitutional Amendments, Educa
lief is that it will be fairly well fol- tion, Internal Improvements, Conser
lowed. vation and Development, Election
Meanwhile, about 40 Senate and, Laws and Federal Relations.
120 House bills had reached the ' Senator E. W. Summersill, Jack
hopper at the end of the second sonville, also of the 7th district,
week of the session, dealing with j heads the committee on Senate Ex-
many public matters, although the penditures and is a member of Jbi-
NEW COURT MAKES
EXCELLENT START
Friday the Thirteenth Good
Day For Re-Established
Recorder's Court
majority of them, as usual, were lo'
cal in their nature. Only a few local
bills have been ratified, in addition
to such resolutions as the one invit
ing President-elect Roosevelt to ad-utes, Courts and Judicial Districts,
dress the body; one of respect on the Game Laws.
death of former President Coolidge, j Speaker of the House, Reginald L.
and ratifying the "lame duck" Cong'
nance, Judiciary JNo. 2, Public Wel
fare, Counties, Cities and Town, In
stitutions for the Blind, Claims, Com
mercial Fisheries, Consolidated Stat-
ress measure
Revenue measures that cause talk
The re-established county Record
er's court made a very good start last
week despite the fact that it was Fri
day the 13th of the month and that
there were 1$ cases on the docket. A
cold rain fell all day but this did not
prevent a right good crowd of spec
tators from attending the first session
of the court since the last of Novem
ber. Judge Paul Webb and Solicitor
M. Leslie Davis, recently appointed
officials, kept things moving briskly
and except for a few cases that wre
continued, disposed of the entire
docket. ,i
Cases against Ben Gabriel and
Hiram Springle, charged with larce
ny, were continued to next Tuesday.
Case against James Ed. Carter and
Oleta Davis, colored, statutory of
fense was continued. W. F. Bell, vib
lating prohibition law, was continued.
Ivey Scott, violating prohibition lay,
and Ray Potter, same offense we're
also continued. ?
Earl Hudgins and Price Johnsoti,
through their attorney Charles Stev
ens, entered pleas of nolo contendere
to charges of injury to personal prop
erty and disorderly conduct. They
were sentenced to the roads for 90
days, judgment to be suspended on
payment of costs, payment of $10 to
Styron for injury to personal prop
erty and on condition that they re
main of good behavior for twelve
months. W. E. Skarren owner of
the house where the disturbance took
place stated that he had been paid
$10 for damage to the house.
Robert Norman, young white man
from Morehead City, was tried and
convicted on the charge of larceny
of some parts from a car that belong
ed to Ed Lewis of that city. A radi
ator cap was identified by Mr, and
Harris had the same number of com
mittees to name, but had 120 mem-:Mrs. Lewis as one that came off thd
hers t splort Ois K1 chairmen from. car. Chief Nelson also offered testii
have been introduced, one by Sena-1 Among his appointment was the fol-,ny that tended to identify the cap:
tor Hayden Clement, Rowan, being lowing: j Norman's sentence was 90' days . o
a manufacturers and producers tax Carteret Luther Hamilton, More I be worked at the Countv Home,
bill, levying one-half of one per cent head City, chairman of the commit- Willie Fulford, colored man of
on gross sales value of everything ! tee on Propositions and Grievances, Beaufort, assault on a female, Annie
made or wholesaled in the State. Es-!and member of Insurance, Judiciary j Clyde Vann, was convicted and put
timates place the revenue at from $4- No. 1, Military Affairs, Oyster Indus-! under a 90 day suspended sentence
000,000 to $12,000,000. Another is a try, Penal Institutions, Public Roads 0n condition that he pay costs and be
SHERIFF CAPTURES FIFTY
GALLON DISTILLERY TODAY
straight tobacco products tax, aimed, Courts and Judicial Districts
primarily at cigarettes. The amount!
from it is also variously estimated.
A third would place a tax of one mill
on each kilowatt hour of electricity
plants are included, it would bring in L g ? '" xt"
about $2,250,000, if not included, red tms morning early m the North
then about $1,900,000. One bill , R!vfr ectjon by Sheriff E. M. Chad
vn.,M tha h,w hi.t .ick, Deputy R. E. Chaplain and Mur
ditional taxes, by cutting cost more
A resolution to study State govern
ment, recommend consolidations and
eliminations of divisions and activi-
ray Thomas, Jr. No one wa3 near the
still, although it had recently been
run. It was said to be a first-class
outfit. About five hundred gallons of
ties, providing for debt service and'beer weer poured out by raiders-
necessary functions of srovernment. I
and asking the revenue and approprialNEW CAPTAIN FORT MACON
tions committees to report by F bra
ary 6, is proving an important meas
ure. Its introducer, Senator Larry
Moore, New Bern, waa named chair
man, with Robert M. Hanes, Forsyth,
and A. D. MacLean, Beaufort, from
the Senate, and R. G. Cherry, Gas
ton; Tarn C. Bowie, Ashe; S. C. Braw
TAKES CHARGE THIS WEEK
of good behavior for 12 months. The
prosecuting witness did not want to
testify against him and it appeared
that the affair w,as a sort of lovers'
quarrel.
Jerry Smith, colored, was tried on
the charge of cutting Willie Fulford
with a knife. The evidence was that
Willie got cut in the back and that
he was drunk and did not know much
about it. Jerry and Willie were the
only ones present at the time of the
cutting and the court decided that
Jerry must have done it. He was giv
en a 90 day sentence to be worked
at the County Home. He did not seem
to mind the sentence much,, saying
he spent most of last year there.
Polk Johnson, colored war veter
an and often in court for drunken
ness was tried on the charge of dis
turbing public worship. Polk bitter
ly denied any intention of disturbing
the church services and was merely
giving expression to his spiritual emo
tions. It was rather hard for the court
to decide whether his conduct was of
a spiritual or spiritous origin. He
promised that if allowed to go free
that he would leave Beaufort in two
weeks never to return and this he was
given this opportunity.
The charge of injury to personal
property against Pete Davis was noil
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Willis ' prossed, the evidence being that he
nassed the first and second days of : of Harkers Island. Tuesday. January i had made good the damage.
the session, before inauguration, is ' 17, a daugter. In the case of Stacy Willis, young
not effective, due to a minor oversight . Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Good-, Morehead City man, charged with
in time of ratification. Two or three, win of Beaufort, Thursday, January , a8SBult witn intent to kill, carrying
.concealed weapons, disorderly con-
Captain Pell B. Austin, of Curri
rituck, is the new skipper of the Fort
Macon Coast Guard Station, having
taken charge Sunday. Captain George
Harrison Meekins, who has been at
this station since last summletr, has
ley, Durham; R. B. Etheridge, Dare, returned to his former station at
and Ernest Graham, Robeson, tha Avon, which 13 a few miles north of
latter secretary, from
Numbers of bills are
new group.
Salary Cut Not Effective
the
going
House,
to the
. . Effort to reduce salaries of con-1
stitutional and elective officers who :
took office two weeks ago have been
continued, as the bill introduced and !
Cape Hatteras. The Meekins family,
which resides here, wil move back to
Avon within a short while. The Meek
ins' have made many friends here
who regret that they are moving.
BIRTHS
measures have been introduced, seek- 5, a son.
ing by amicable agreement, to secure Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hevia Noe
reduction in salaries of such officers, ; of Beaufort, Friday, January 6, a
executive and , judicial, while the daughter.
General Assembly members will prob- Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Day of
ably agree to pay of $8 a day up to Lola at Moreehad City Hospital,
75 days, if the session is that long. Wednesday, January 18, a daughter.
A reduction of legislative employees i
of 15 per cent will probably be made, j JOE MORTON KILLED
even though much will be saved al-
ready from greatly reduced numbers i A telegram received here today by
of employees. One bill would reduce
salaries of solicitors to a weekly bas
is, $150 a week for each week they
are required to attend courts and of
ficiate in their districts.
Movements to help land owners
appear in several bills. One would
duct and so on was tried and consid
Continued on page five
THREE MEN DROWN
IN CAR SATURDAY
Automobile Driven Off Trent
River Bridge Saturday
Night by Negroes
NEW BERN, Jan. 19 The story
of a rush of water so strong that it
filled the car almost instantly and
thwarted efforts to escape until the
car rested on the bottom was told a
coroner's jury Tuesday morning by
Malachi Fisher in connection with the
Trent river bridge accident which
took the lives of three negroes Sat
urday night.
Fisher was the owner of the car,
he said. Richard Whitehead was driv
ing. He begged Whitehead not to
drive further, Fisher said, both when
he first noticed cars stopped by the
open draw and again when White
head had knocked down the barrier
at the draw and climbed back into
the car after tossing it aside. The
answer he got was "It's all right; I've
got the wheel."
Whitehead had inspected the open
draw, Fisher said. When he again
started the car Fisher thought he in
tended to back up. The car went for
ward insetad. The front wheels drop
ped over the apron ofthe bridge, and
the apron tipped toward the water
to drop the car easily into the river.
Almost immediately the car filled
with water. Fisher said. He held his
nose with his left hand and groped
for the knob which lowered the back
window. He and Sam Gaskins were
on the back seat in the closed car.
The rush of water was so strong
that he could do nothing until the
car struck bottom. Then he lowered
the window. Fisher said, and made his
way through it. He thinks Gaskins
found the same opening. Unable to
swim a lick, he began a crawling mo
tion which brought him to the top and
there a man grabbed his hand and
dragged him on to the bridge.
None of them had been drinking,
so far as he knew, Fisher said. Thev
had been in New Bern only a short
time before starting back home. He
saw the warning lights and the low
ered guard ' at the" bridge, he said,
and the other cars waiting for the
draw to be replaced. Richard White
head never drank so far as he knew.
He had acted sober enough previous
to the accident.
Fisher's testimony as the owner of
the car was the only evidence taken
by the coroner's jury Tuesday morn
ing. The verdict of the jury was that
"Andrew Ambrose, Rudolph Chance
and Richard Whitehead came to tehir
death by drowning from running
through an open drawbridge which
was properly lighted and barricaded;
the car being driven by Richard
Whitehead and owned by Malachi
Fisher, the latter allowing the same
to be driven in a careless and reck
less manner."
DR. PRYTHERCH WILL GIVE
LECTURE BEAUFORT SCHOOL
An illustrated lecture on the life
history of the oyster will be deliver
ed at the chapel period beginning at
10:1 tomorrow morning in the Beau
fort High School auditorium by Dr.
Herbert F. Prytherch, director of the
Fiver's Island Fisheries laboratory.
The motion pictures that will illus
trate the lecture are considered to be
very interesting and entertaining by
those who have seen them. The lec
ture itself will be highly instructive.
All who care to attend at this time
are cordially invited by the school to
do so.
ATTENTION JUNIORS
There will be special string music
at the regular meeting of the Beau
fort Council Junior Order Monday
night. All members are invited to be
present.
Mr. D. W. Morton told that his nep
hew Joe A. Morton was killed yes
terday. No particulars were given
however and it is not known at this
writing how the death occurred. He
was the son of the late Jos, A. Mor
ton of North Harlowe and has been
ask joint stock land banks, insurance! in the employ of the State Highway
companies and others holding mort-1 Commission for some time. He is Bur
gages and deeds of trust to declare 'vived by three sisters and a brother.
a moratorium until Nov. 1, 1934, on (
principal payments when taxes and r NOTICE
interest are paid on property. A form I
The regular monthly me-eting of
NO TRIALS IN RECORDER'S COURT
WHEN JURIES ARE DEMANDED
RALEIGH, Jan. 10 Demand for
jury trial in the Recorder's Court of
Carteret County by either the defend
ant or the prosecuting attorney would
require the recorder to transfer the
action to the Superior Court of Car
teret county and a new and justified
bond would be required of the de
fendant for appearance in the Super
ior Court, under provisions of a bill
introduced in the General Assembly
last week by Representative Luther
Hamilton. At his request, the bill was
passed immediately by the House and
sent to the Senate, in which body it
was referred to a committee.
The bill follows:
Carolina do enact:
Section 1. In all trials in the Re
corder's court for Carteret County,
upon demand for a jury trial by eith
er the defendant or the prosecuting
attorney, the Recorder shall transfer
said cause for trial to the Superior
Court of Carteret County, and the de
to execute a new and justified bond
f endant thereupon shall be required
in such amount as may be named by
the Recorder for defendant's appear
ance at the next term of the Superior
Court of Carteret County for the
trial of criminal cases.
Sec. 2. That all laws and clauses
of laws in confli.-t with this act are
Scientists Say T, GreenGill
Make Oyt ei and Clams Better
c o
Extension Poultrym
vonaucis ocnooi i
By JAMES G. WHITEHURST
While the average user of eggs de-
. i mands that the yolks be of a darker
ef (coloration n
Carteret County farmers w..V believe the selfsame person positive
interested in poultry raising will be ly refuses to eat what is popularly
pleased to learn that C. J. Maupin, J termed "green gill" oysters, although
extension poultryman from State, the green gill is caused by a similar
College, will be in the county Wed-, and equally harmless substance.
nesday and Thursday of next week
for the purpose of instructing poul
try raisers.
Wednesday evening at 7:30 o clock
in the office of County Farm Agent
Hugh Overstreet in the courthouse
annex Mr. Maupin will conduct a
poultry school, and instructions will
be given concerning the scientific
production of poultry from the egg
to the incubator and on until the
grown bird reaches the laying house.
All those interested in poultry are
cordially invited to attend this school
in order to get the latest information
concerning poultry production for
profit.
FIRST WINTER CABBAGE
SHIPPED AWAY TUESDAY
Earl R. Oglesby, of the Crab Point
lection, must believe that the early
bird catches the worm, for he shipped
the first winter cabbages from this
vicinity Tuesday afternoon. Twenty
five hampers of these went to a Mary
land firm via the N. B. C. freight
line.. .These will be followed by
thousands of other hampers, if the
price is at all reasonable.
BASKET BALL CONFERENCE
HAS BEEN ARRANGED
By Fred G. Lewis
Two weeks ago the coaches of the
Smyrna, Newport, Atlantic and St.
Poul's schools met in the County Su
perintendent's office and arranged
Since early in the autumn the oysters
and clams in Newport River and the
vicinity of Beaufort have been
"green," and hence the market for
these has been nil. And the shatter
ed market is in direct consequence
of the greenish colaration coming
from the food consumed by the oys
ters, despite the fact that these bi
valve mollusks are in far better con
dition when "green"- than at any oth
er period.
But custom is hard to change. Re
gardless of the fact that green-gill
oysters are far better for human
consumption than those free of it,
people will perhaps in this locality
go on demanding those without this
discoloration. And customs are fickle,
too.Over in France and many other
European countries the oyster-farmers
bring about the conditions to
produce green-gill oysters, because
these are in far better demand than
those without the green gill ! Such is
the eternal paradox.
Scientists have for more than a
hundred years studied green-gill oys
ters and have learned just what caus
es this phenomenon in Nature, states
Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch, Director
of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
Laboratory on Piver's Island. It was
found that the oysters eat millions
of microscopic those far too small to
see with the human eye animals
and plants. Some years there are
prevalent in the waters a certain
greenish miscroscopic plant, known
to the scientists as Navicular ostrear
ia, which the oysters eat, and it is
the greenish coloring matter from
for a county basketball conference.;""1 '"Dt maner irom
Ti,io ,;n .ni,nni 0niv.(these PIants that causes the so-called
it and friendship among the students ' reen pU after it is deposited m the
ALBUGO vj. iiiivoq v-Lgaua
-Oyster .grpw.; principally in ..this
ucamy aunng me iau ana spring,
Doctor Prytherch told a News report
er; both hot and cold weather seems
to stunt their growth. An oyster four
or five inches long normally takes in
fifteen or twenty gallons of water
every twenty-four hours, and from
this seemingly large amount of wa
ter strains the food upon which it
subsists and grows. Whenever the
Navicular ostearia is prevalent in the
water, it does not take the oysters
long to assimilate enough of the
greenish-colored microscopic plants
to change the gills to green.
Doctor Prytherch states that dur
ing the green stage that the oyster
and clam are in the prime of condi
tion, and that during this period they
should enter more Into the diet of
those who like oysters. The chlor
ophyll that is taken out of the mi
croscopic green plants and deposited!
in the gills of the mullusk, then ren
ders the oyster and clam healthful
in the same way that spinach is well
known. It is Doctor Prytherch's opin
ion that if a sufficient amount of
green-gill oysters and clams were eat
en by a person, spinach and other
similar foods could be dispensed with
io a certain degree.
Oysters are rich in the principal
(Contnued on page 8)
of the county, The.. .conference Jn-
with the exception of St Paul's. This
school has only a boys' team.
St. Paul's School organized its
team last year and has made a rap
id progress. Of the twelve games
daved the team lost but three. This
year better material has been devel
oped and the two games played were
won.
The following schedule has been
agreed upon by the coaches of the
teams entering the conference:
January 13 Smyrna vs St. Paul's
at Smyrna, 7 P. M. Newport vs
Atlantic at Atlantic: 2:30 P. M.
January 19 Smyrna vs Newport
at Newport: 2:30 P. M.
January 20 Atlantic vs St. Paul's
at St. Paul's: 3:30 P. M.
January 27 Atlantic vs Smyrna
at Smyrna: 7:00 P. M. Newport
vs St. Paul's at St. Paul's: 3:30 P.
M.
February 3 Smyrna vs St. Paul's
at St. Paul's: 3:30 P. M. Atlantic
vs Newport at Newport: 2:30 P. M.
February 10 Newport vs Smyrna
at Smyrna: 7:00 P. M. St. Paul's
V3 Atlantic at Atlantic: 3:30 P. M.
February 17 Smyrna vs Atlantic
at Atlantic: 2:30 P. M. St. Paul's
vs Newport at Newport: 3:30 P. M.
This schedule subject to change
due to condition of weather.
ATHLETIC FIELD FENCE
BUILT AT LOCAL SCHOOL
A fence has been erected around
two sides of the Beaufort Public
School athletic field during the last
several weeks; the river will form
the other two sides. Lumber for this
was received in exchange for the tim
ber cut off the woods land near the
school building. Money necessary for
the erection of this fence in addition
to the lumber exchanged for the logs
was received from public subscrip-j
tion, Supt. Robert L. Fritz stated to
a News reporter.
The land where the timber stood
is being cleaned up and made more
presentable. Since the trees have been
icut down,, the.school building can be
seen clearly Irom the highhway com
ing into Beaufort from the east.
There has been some criticism con
cerning the cutting down of the trees,
but Superintendent Fritz said that it
was done to provide a fence for the
athletic field and in order that the
children woulr have sufficient health
ful sunlight. There are enough trees
left to provide the necessary shade
during warmer weather, Superinten
dent Fritz said.
er bill would do likewise by borrow.
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rans Loan fund to buy or build Community Club room Friday even- TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING Set- 3 Tr Tii ac &tV
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numes. Aiiuuicr urn woum aaow lor- i.Jj? as, i meiuoeis am urgea 1U lilt, KtiUUKDLK'S COURT FOR full force and c;Tect from and
mer owners to re-purchase property (to be present. TTT" p,,TTY OF CARTERET. jits ratification
(Cantinued om page eight) . Jf 5 .General Assembly of North 1 '
after
MARRIAGE LICENSES
William Nolan and Annie Felton,
Beaufort.
TIDE TABLE
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 is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High
2:22
2:34
3:32
3:46
4:41
4:57
5:47
6:01
6:46
7:00
11 :a 1
Tide Low
Friday, Jan. 20
a. m. 9:07
p. m. 9:05
Saturday, Jan. 21
m.
m.
Sunday, Jan.
m.
m.
Monday, Jan.
a. m.
p m.
Tuesday, Jan,
m.
m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25
10:11
10:12
22
10:49
11:15
23
11:14
12:15
24
12:17
1:10
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEY5
$2.00 A YEAR
8:29
8:46
m.
m.
Thursday, Jan,
m.
m.
1:13
2:00
26
2:05
2:45,
Tide
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