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VOLUME XXII
EIGHT pages this week THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1933
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NUMBER 15
Adjournment General Assembly
Expected by Many Legislators
Within Ten Davs or Two Weeks
N. C. LAWMAKERS
FAVORSALESTAX
FOR STATE
Revenue Sources Major
Problem Legislators
Have to Consider.
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, April 11 Acceptance
of the $16,000,000 item for the eight
months school term in the confer
ence report by the House of Represen
tatives indicates that the 1933 Gen
eral Assembly is well on the way to
ward adjournment. Some even think
it possible that the session will end
this week, but the majority belief is
that it will continue through all or
nearly all of next week.
Possibility of a deadlock between
the House and Senate practically
vanished with that action, which, in
final analysis, commits the General
Assembly to a sales tax. For, it is
pointed out, there is no other way in
sight for raising the revenue needed
for the eight months school and oth
er needs except a sales tax. But, ev
en yet there are members who voted
for the eight months school who say
they will still oppose the sales tax.
This number, however, apparently
will not have sufficient strength to
hold up the measure for long.
A general sales tax of three per
cent as agreed upon by the House
Finance committee and comes up for
consideration Tuesday in the Reve
nue bill, which was received on its
first reading Saturday. The House
will go into a committee of the
whole and hopes to be able to finish
in time to get it passed on its three
House readings the latter part of
this week. It will then have to be con
sidered by the Senate, which may
spend from three to five days on it,
-:-IN THE DAYS OF YESTERYEAR-:-
& 1
LEGISLATORS WILL
SEEK OTHER
SOURCES
Decision Came After
Heated Session of
Lawmakers
Since the following news
story was written and plac
ed in type the Beaufort
News has received a spec
ial dispatch stating that
the House killed the gen
eral sales tax provision in
the revenue bill at the ses
sion this morning and will
seek other sources of revenue.
Hope to Obtain Approval
StateBankCommissioner
ToRe-openNewportBank
How familiar the above scene is to many of the older folks of this
community and Carteret County, fo it depicts Beaufort's waterfront as
it was twenty and more years ago. S iling boat3 were then plentiful in
the county and many could be seen almost every day at anchor in Beau
fort harbor. The boardwalk" that extended from the business section of
the community eastward made Beaufort have the appearance of a minia
ture Atlantic City. Where this boardwalk was then situated automobiles
today skim swiftly along on the harisurfaced street. The above photo-,
graph will bring pleasant memories o hundreds of the oldsters in this
section.. , - ... , ... ... .. ----
Miss Fales Dies
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SMYRNA HIGH WINS
CARTERET TRACK
MEET FRIDAY
Morehead City Second;
Local High Third;
Newport Fourth
Smyrna High School won the an-
scnooi
om tnree 10 nve u "!. County Hieh
That is why it seems lmpossioie .. . . u t hM at the
Athletic Field Friday, 'lhe
May Allow Shipping
Beer Into Carolina
RALEIGH, April 12 A
to Senator Waynick from
petition
Guilford
the session to end before the latter
part of next week.
The appropriations bill may be
considered out of the way. The House 1
Smvrna
Smvrna boys and girls scored a total
of thirty nine and two thirds points
Moreneaa
nlano wntlp the
adopted the conference report-, 01 w. . & total of
thirty three and one third points to
40. It is considered a matter ot ior-
mality for the Senate to adopt it.
This measure, as stated, provides
$16,000,000 for the eight months
school. It makes a cut of 38 per
cent, compromise on the House 44
and Senate 32 per cent cut, in sal
aries of State employees, on the
1931 basis. On the whole, it is al
most the figures submitted by the
Senate, which was les3 drastic in its
cuts of salaries and npropriations
than was the House.
The solution almost reac'.-.ed on the
problem is not satisfactory to many
members but it is a fair compromise
and is expected to work out fairly
well if business condtions improve
as is promised and expected under
the "new deal" of President Roosevelt.
Enactment of the law legalizing
takes second place in the meet. Beau
fort was third with eighteen and one
third points; Newport fourth with
nine and '.one third; and Atlantic
fifth with seven and one third points.
The Smyrna girls led the girls' di
vision easily with twenty two points
while Beaufort girls were second
with a dozen. Individual scoring hon
ors in this "division went to Miss
Dorothy Willis, a daring little eighth
grader, who won the girls' high jump
that was well over three feet and
eleven inches, and was a ready sec
ond in the fifty yard dash. She was
also a member of the Girls' Relay
Team that won first place. No other
girl won more than five points indi
vidually. The Morehead City boys led their
section with twenty seven points to
wholesale interests today to allow
beer to be shipped into North Caroli
na prior to May 1 in order that it
may be ready for sale on that day
brought an announcement from the
Guilford member early tonight that
he would support such an amendment
to the beer bill.
Senator Waynick said he would
confer with Senator Francis, intro-
ducer of the beer bill and the reg-
ulatory measure, controlling the sale
of beer, immediately.
To be effective such an amend
ment would have to be passed quick-
y. Senator Waynick told newspaper
nen today that he would try to have
he amendment moving through the
egislative mill tomorrow.
A motion to strike out the
gera-ral tales tax provision from
the revenue bill was made last
night in the House of Represen
tatives of the North Carolina
General Assembly by Represen
tative T. C. Bowie, of Ashe, was
adopted by the House shortly
thereafter by a vote of 59 to 46.
Luther Hamilton, Representative
from Carteret, voted against the
Bowie amendment.
The Bowie motion received
the support of both those oppos
ed to all forms of sales tax and
those opposed to a general sales
tax but who favor a tax on the
sale for some specific commodi
ties. Representatives will have
the opportunity of deciding to
day between a straight sales tax
' and a tax on the sale of select-
. ed commodities.
Three Injured at Sea
Level Saturday Night
In what is said to have been a free-for-all
affray at Sea Level Saturday
evening, several people were painful
ly injured. Warrants were issued as
a result of this, but were withdrawn
just before the case came up for
trial before Justice of Peace F. L.
King here Monday morning.
Three of the men participating in
this commotion were brought to the
Potter Emergency Hospital for treat
ment. William Taylor sustained a
deep laceration of the back and
right arm. Charles Taylor suffered a
lacerated chin, lip, jaw, and left
shoulder. Ed Taylor was injured to
the extent of a laceration on the left
side of face and ear.
Miss Annie Fales passed away
at her home in New York City
early Wednesday morning after
several weeks' illness. Heart
trouble is said to have been the
cause of death. The remains will
arrive here Friday morning and
the funeral will probably be con
ducted from St. Pauls Episcopal
church Friday afternoon. Final
arrangements have not been
made yet concerning this. She
was said to have been seventy
eight years old.
Miss Fales is well known here,
for she has been living here
especially during the summer
months for many years. An ay
count of the funeral and a re
sume of her life will be printed
in the next issue of the News.
NO RESTRICTIONS
FOR HUNTING AND
FISHING DESIRED
1 PLAN TO INCREASE
I rtmAmr mA mniT
SlUlh TU im
THOUSAND
Would Also Have Five
Thousand Dollars
in Surplus
FIND HARKERS ISLAND
MAN IN DARE COUNTY
Sheriff Elbert M. Chadwick left
yesterday for Manteo, where he was
to receive Dan Rose, of Harker3 Is
land, from the custody of Sheriff
Victor Meekins, of Dare County.
Mrs. Rose swore out a warrant sev
eral weeks ago charging her husband
with abandonment. Rose was located
by Sheriff Meekins, who informed
Sheriff Chadwick of the apprehen
sion of Rose.
More Red Cross Flour
Arrives Here Tuesday
Another carload of Red Cross flour
arrived here early this week and was
unloaded Tuesday and trucked to the
Bill Would Keep State
From Restricting
Beach Property
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, April 12 The Hanes-
Lassiter property, located in Carteret
county, between Harbor Island and
Portsmouth, an area 10 miles long
and three-fourths of a mile wide,
known as "Beach Lands," would not
be placed under restrictions propos
ed by the- Department of Conserva
tion and Development to make it a
game refuge or sanctuary for wild
fowl, under a prohibitionary bill in
troduced in the House by Represen
tative Luther Hamilton, of Carteret
county.
The property in question has been
donated, conditionally, to the State
for development by the Conservation
department, by 'Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Lassiter, of Charlotte, the latter for
merly Miss Hanes, of Winston-Sa
lem. The development is experimen
tal and if successful, the property is
to be deeded to the State definitely
and permanently.
The Hamilton bill points out that
Red Cross headquarters on Turner the State has acquired n ana nas or
Street. This is the last shipment that, is about to promulgate rules not on-
llv restricting and prohibiting the
liic iii.ai LiiauLci t-.s. kiiu svu vua i tf ---w
will be able to obtain for the needy
of the county.
Beginning next week, the distri
bution of the flour will be started.
The headquarters will be open Tues
days and Wednesday each week from
nine until five o'clock. Whits peo
ple will be served on Tuesday and
the colored people on Wednesday of
each week.
WIFE SENTENCED F)R THRASHING
HUSBAND'S PARAMOUR LAST WEEK
Alice Neal Pritchard of the upper
UurVioa urns lso a member of the
winning relay team and Watson was
a member of the team taking second
Continued on page 8, Column 3
Beer Licenses
. op-CLl
the sale of beer, wine and otner ngni s seventeen and two thirds.
beverages May 1 has brougiu out Frederick Hughcs 0f Morehead City
other regulatory and supplementary , scorer fof the boy3 win.
measures. One by Senator Francis d&shes easily. Ben Wat-
sets up the machinery tor manuiac- Smyrna was second high man
turing and handling such Dererag, , he broad jump and tying M R. pnminm,t PBrt.lnl- hp
placing the licensing m the nanus o . -n the high jump. BratMlM man, frMB
man naTfifi n i - i - o .
"the other woman," judging by the
recent beating she gave Nellie Foster.
The case in which these two colored
women were involved was tried in
the court room of the county court
house Saturday morning at ten
o'clock by Justice of Peace Henry
W. Noe.
The defendant, prosecuting wit
ness and other witnesses were so
talkative in open court that Justice
Noe had to station the sheriff and
deputy sheriff in their midst with the
orders to jail the first one that "per
sisted in talking. Quite a large crowd
of colored folks from North River
was prestnt for the reviews of the
rather interesting case, from the
standpoint of feminine psychology.
It was stated that Nellie Foster
was passing the home of Alice Neal
Pritchard, and the latter called Nellie
in and administered one of those old
fashioned wood-house thrashings with
public from the use of such lands,
but restrictions and prohibiting the
public from the uses of, the waters
adjacent to said lands, and especially
denying to the public the rights and
privileges of hunting in the water ad
jacent to said lands" and that such
arbitrary use of power deprives the
citizens of the State of "hunting and
fishing rights and privileges hereto
fore enjoyed by them and their fore
fathers from time immemorial, and
rights which ought to be respected,
perpetuated and made inviolate.
Continued on page 8, Column 3
pnimtv commissioners. It may be too
Stringent, as introduced, and may be
modified. One other also allows man
ufacturing, especially interesting to
grape and other fruit growers. And
another, ratified, permits billboard,
as well as newspaper and radio ad
vertising. The town of Belhaven,
which, Jbofore prohibition had a
$1000 license tax on drink handlers,
wants it removed in the light of new
developments.
A few important measures wer
ratified last week, along with th
usual "run of the mine" legislation
Measures ratified last week 57 loca
acts and 34 of a general nature
several resolutions and bills to sup
nlement other acts, making a tot?.'
of 91 for the week and 704 for thr
session, including a dozen, or more
passed but not actually ratified yet.
Nor was there a let-up in intra-
Continued on page 8, Column 4
A. T. Gardner, deputy inter
lal revenue collector, announc
ed Monday that he had received
instructions from the federal
government that federal licens.
es for the manufacture and sale
of beer are to be handled
through the treasury depart
ment and ol! prson or firms
desiring licenses for beer should
ask for application blanks eith
er through the office of t'.ie col.
lector, Gilliam Grissom, at Ral
eigh or from any deputy collac-tor.
a stick. The detenaant accused the
prosecuting witness of the alienation
of the affections of the former's hus-
Iband. From the testimony given be
fore Justice Noe, the dramatization
of the old wood-house scene must
have been a rather heated affray.
Justice Noe found the defendant
guilty and the sentence was given as
follows: the defendant must keep
the peace for a period of six months,
and in the event that she does not
she will be confined in the county
jail for thirty days. She was given a
month in which to pay the costs of
the action.
. Other witnesses were Lillian Mer-
xill, Obelia Merrill and Dorkis Smith.
This case gives no encouragement
to the wife who desires to chastise
her husband's paramour, but it
self-evident that it would take a
stronger deterrent than this to keep
!an infuriated spouse from pulling
the hair of the third ingredient to tho
.eternal triangle. '
MARRIAGE LICENSES
and Elva
Henry Smith, Atlantic
Hill, Williston.
George J. Brooks and Sarah Par
kin, of Beaufort.
Christopher D. Jones and Marjorie
Lewis, of Baufort.
Catching Fish
At a meeting of the major
depositors of the Bank of Newport
in the auditorium of the Newport
Consolidated School Monday evening
at eight o'clock, it was unanimously
agreed that they send a committee
composed of Charles V. Webb, W. A.
Mace, G. W. Huntley and W. H.
.Bell to Raleigh to see if Gurney P.
Hood, State Bank Commissioner,
would agree to let them reopen the
Bank of Newport if they would raise
the capital stock from five thousand
to ten thousand dollars, with an ad
ditional five thousand dollars for a
surplus. This committee is planning
to go to the state capital Friday in
the interest of this banking institu
tion. The meeting was called by L. C.
Carroll, president of the closed bank,
and the directors. W. H. Bell was
chairman of the meeting and Charles
V. Webb was secretary. Virtually all
of the depositors of the bank having
twenty-five dollars or more to their
credit when the National Bank Holi
day was proclaimed were present at
!the meeting.
Those present voted unanimously
in favor of the proposal that one
fourth of the deposits be converted
into preferred stock in an effort to
bring about a reopening of the bank.
A committee composed of Charles V.
Webb, W. A. Mace, G. W. Huntley,
G. W. Huntley, D. F. Garner, M. I.
Simmons and C. M. Shark was ap
pointed to meet with the president
and directors of the bank to go ov
er the assets of the institution. This
committee met Tuesday morning at
nine o'clock in the office of the bank
and minutely examined the assets.
Everything was said to have been in
satisfactory condition.
It i3 the hope of the reorganizers
of the bank to increase the stock
from five thousand to ten thousand
dollars with a five thousand dollar
surplus. In order to do this it is pro
posed to assess the present stockhold
ers fifty per cent, thus giving a sur
plus of two thousand five hundred
dollars. In addition to this, it is pro
posed to sell five thousand dollars
worth of' preferred stock to present
depositors with an additional fifty
per cent added on. This sale would
yield a capital of five thousand dol
lars and a surplus of two thousand
five hundred dollars. This would then
bring the total up to the desired a-niounts.
If this proposal meets the approv
.1 of Commissioner Hood and the re
organization is effected, the Bank
f Newport will then be in as liquid
condition as any bank in North
Carolina, it is stated by C. M. Hill,
cashier of the closed institution.
Hundreds of people in Carteret
County, particularly the business
people, are sincerely hoping that the
efforts of the reorganizers will meet
with success. People throughout the
county have become accustomed to
dealing with and through banking in
stitutions during the past thirty
years, and they find it difficult to car
ry on their everyday businesses with
out the aid of a bank now. By the
time the next issue of this paper
reaches you the process of reorgan
ization of the Bank of Newport will
probably be underway.
Approximately sixty thousand
pounds of fish have been brought
into market here the first three
days of this week. The majority
of these fish were sea mullets,
while the remainder Was a gen
eral mixture. The fishermen have
shifted from the grounds near
Ocracoke to the vicinity of Cape
Lookout. Most of the fish mar.
keted here this week were
caught at the latter location,
but some fi:h were caught on
the inside around here.
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ANY
SALES TAX WILL BE TESTED
Fayetteville, April 12 T. M.
Hunter, a director of the North Car
olina Merchants association, to-day
said the constitutionality of any sales
tax passed by the legislature would
be tested in the courts. The directors
meeting in Raleigh last night, he said,
decided to pay the sales tax under
protest and to carry a fight for a re
straining order against it , to th
United States Supreme court