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DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, April 24 The Senate Finance committee, receiving the House Revenue Bill Friday, after afternoon and night sessions, an nounced by midnight that it had in creased the two per cent general Bales tax rate to three per cent, eli minated the half-mill tax on each kil owatt hour of electric energy and the tax on stock of foregn corporations, nd had redced certain franchise MEN INVESTIGATE FISH WANDERINGS Migration of Gray Trout Ob ject of Study Now Conduct ed by Federal Scientists (Special to The News) KALEIGH, RECORDER TRIES NUMEROUS CASES Liquor Suspects Take Up Large Part of Docket; Have Court Wednesday Next Week RENEWS INTEREST COMING ELECTION Many Candidates File For Election Next Tuesday; Sat urday is Challenge Day April 26 Do Brewers usually deal in the manu facture of beer, but Harvey Brewer who has been operating the Lone Pine Filling Station near Morehead Bluffs turned his attention to strong er drink, according to testimony giv en in Recorder's Court Tuesday morn ing. Brewer pled not guilty through his attorney, Charles W. Stevens, to a charge of possessing a quantity of liquor for the purpose of sale. Deputy Sheriff R. E. Chaplain told of the raid, whcih took place some time during the early part of Satur day evening. He said that Sheriff El bert M. Chadwick, Murray Thomas, Jr., Louis Swain and himself went up near the Lone Pine Filling1 Station ? ' IbtiH pnncpnlpH thpmaplvps. Shnrtlv Au: ' ry Women Hold Me cuig Here Tuesday Abi "w Kty-five ladies attended the n 5 of the District Number 1 of --2 Toman's Auxiliary of the Convc i of Wilmington which was I i re Tuesday morning. The ladie f t. S,5rst at St. Paul's Episco nal C VUt ten o'clock for the . - i .lvn.4i.L-l. taxes, navinz ine measuic iwuj , , , . i j? mi"cu action by the Senate, reconvening 'Z Z M0Tnhease cLngeshad been expected, feenng J- frrieflS customer. Brewer, after talking with Considerable interest is being shown in the town election as May ; Celebration of the Holy Communion 2 draws nearer. In addition to the old ; Following this was a business meet- voters, a hundred and fifty two new-;ng at 11:15 a tthe American Leg- ly qualified voters have registered 40n Hut on Turner Street. for the forthcoming biennial choos- M Wnrth wicker, who is chair ing of the municipal officials, while a of th(, Auxiliary of this district, hundred and eighty six were regis- th meetine. The ad- just as the Senate is expectea, . t before they mature in size or without a fight, to accept the meas-' fish t in guch ure about as Presented by its finance nximhers that they do not have committee, which bill is, in fact, a - oportunity to grow up? . most exactly the revenue bill report-j J . ed by the House Finance committee.! A solution to this problem is be The House, after more than a week j mg sought, according to Colonel J. of bitter strugling, amended its com- W. Haralson, Director of the Depart mittee's bill, adding the tax on pow- ment of Conservat.on and Develop er arid foreign stocks and increas- ment, by the U. S. Bureau of Fish ing certain franchise taxes, and re-.er.es with the cooperation of State ducing the three per cent sales to Fisheries Officials, two per cent The Senate committee In 1925, the U. S. Bureau of Fish ,1,00 nw returned it to its former Lries. with the assistance of State v. , isa'i j: 1 1 .urt status. ! conservation omcuus, uistmocu The Senate will spend three to peculiar fact that most oi ine gray trout taken in these various waters were small fish, mostly yearlings. Farther north, beyond Delaware Bay, yearling trout have been found to be scarce with plenty of fish two years old and older. Officials decided to devise a method of letting the trout tell thes tory of it seems its own habits, an experiment wnicn, Revenue 'according to fisheries officials, is of five days on the measure, probably feending it back to the House in the last half of this, the 18th week of the session. The House may buck at first, or it may accept the bill as it will come back from the Senate. If It bucks, then a conference commit tee will be named and the difference worked out. At any rate, ante t.n nredict that . the measure finally adopted will not be much interest to worm oaronna nsa f ar different from the measure as 1 ermen because it will indicate wheth it has now come from the Senate Fi- er the scarcity of large fish is caus nance committee, and as it earlier jed by catching the small ones before camef rom the House Finance com-j they grew up, and whether they can mittee. hope to increase the supply of larg- Organiaed merchants of the State, ier fish by protecting the smaller ones, through Secretary Willard L. Dowell, ! Tagging of some of the yearlings served notice in a letter to the Gen-j in North Carolina to determine wheth eral Assembly, that they will attack er some of the same individuals are and oppose the general sales tax, on1 caught later in New oYrk and New the ground that it is unconstitutional. Jersey was decided upon as the nat- Some House members who bitter-' ural way to obtain the desired inf or iv nnnoapd the sales tax. now that the' mation. Because the gray trout are bill is passed, express the hope that : delicate, especially when small, this Vip Senate will increase the rate from two to three per cent, doubt ing if two per cent will give enough to balance the budget. A three per cent tax is expected to pass the House easier now that a two per ecnt tax did in the first place. The proved hard to do. Then too, the trout has soft flesh and bones mak ing it easy for the tag3 to slip off. Several types of tags were tested, but none in use proved successful. "Finally," , says Lewis Radcliffe, Deputy U. S. Commissioner of Fish BowieCherry bloc, in the ascendency j eries, "the investigator in charge of o rf-imes.. ia "now definitely split and , the gray trout study, R. A. Nesbit, nlint.ered. R. G. Cherry deserting ; invented a new kind of tag. It con- Tarn C. Bowie early last week ana urging adoption of the sales tax com mittee report. Although the House had about 100 public bills and a few local measures on its calendar, accumulated during the week while it was engaged with sists of a strip of bright red celluloid with rounded ends and bearing a number, a notice of reward, and a return address. This is put inside the fish through a narrow' cut in the body wall. The wound heals quickly and the fish becomes entirely normal the Revenue Bill, it took the usual in about a week. This tag has two week-end off, deciding on the usual; great advantages: It stays with the local bills only for the brief Satur-Jfish as long as it lives, and it can I j day session and returning Monday j applied so quickly that it is not ,nec night. The Senate, which haa kept up j essary to keep the fish out of the andd isposed of its measures as they water longer than 12 seconds. This arose, decided on the short Saturday makes it possible to tag fish as small session but to return at noon Mon- as five inches without killing them. day to the Revenue .Ml tasK in portation o three pints 0f liquor for Se..ion Not fcnted iet ,iroui, n " fhe nuPDOse 0f sale on the eleventh of 'Anril hrouzht Robert Whaley into the man, turned and went around back of the station to a clump of bushes. From this he took a suspicious looking package and delivered it to the man in the waiting automobile. Within a short time after this took place, the officers raided the filling station. Sheriff Chadwick, at Brewer's request, started to read the search warrant. Brewer motioned his wife to the rear of the station, where they had a room in which they lived. When she started in this annex, the sheriff sent Loui3 Swain to see what was going to take place. In this room he found a half gallon jar about half full of liquor. Later the clump of bushes at the rear of the station was searched and a pint of liquor was found. The other witnesses corroborated the testimony of Deputy Sheriff Chaplain. Attorney Stevens moved for a non-suit, which was denied by Judge Webb. The defense then in formed the court that it had no ev idence. Upon questioning of Judge Webb it developed that the defendant has been ooeratine the Lone Pine Filling Station since last June. He or. iginally came from Winston-Salem, ho told the court. Brewer was found guilty and judgment was as follows: six-months road and jail sentence, suspended upon condition that the defendant dispose of his belongings and leave the county within the next two weeks. Capias to be issued if the last re quirement is not fulfilled. Ihe de fendant said he would comply with the request to leave the county. Isaac Dudley, a youngish-looking colored man of Morehead City, was also visited Saturday evening by the same sheriff's party. They found two half gallon jars of liquor in the kitchen safe. Deputy Sheriff Chap lain said that at the time this was found Dudley said that he had been sick for some time and that atten tive friends had been bringing him various small quantities of whiskey, which was poured into the two half callon iars found in the safe. iSheriff Chadwick tried to search the back yard for the contraband, but two chained bull dogs and one loose nondescript dog prevented a very thorough search. Charles W. Stevens also represented Dudley, and enter. ed a plea of not guilty at the begin ning of the trial. On account ot tne absence of any evidence of sale, Judge Webb found Dudley not guilty- A charge of possession and trans- tered two years ago. Saturday will be Challenge Day. A modified form of Australian bal lot will be used, with the names of all the candidates printed upon it.. Two years ago was the first time this form of ballots were used. As an aid to secret voting, a battery of booths will be erected in the mayor's office at the town hall for the convenience of the voters. Each candidate will be allowed to have one marker in the voting room to enable voters in marking their ballots, with the exception of the commissioners. One marker will rep resent each group of candidates for dress of welcome was made by Mrs. Carrie Norcom, and in addition to the welcome it was said to have embod ied many appropriate thoughts. Mrs. John Broadfoot, of New Bern, gave the response. An interesting and inspiring ad dress was delivered by Mrs. J. Q. Beckwith, of Lumberton, who is the president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Convocation of Wilmington. An enjoyable and informative ad dress was also delivered by Mrs. Fred Outland, diocesan president of the Woman's Auxiliary. . Two selections were rendered by the local Men's Glee Club,, which was the board of commissioners. A can-'well received by tne visiting laaies didate may represent himself as a j A picnic lunch was supplemented and marker, or he may have some one else ; served by the ladies of St. Paul's to do this work for him; Church at the Legion Hut. Following In addition to the present incum-lthis, reports from the various auxii. ATLANTIC HOTEL SITE SUITABLE FOR STATE PARK State Forester Holmes Offer Suggestion For Use of Va cant Land bent, Bayard Taylor, there are three other candidates for the office of mayor. These are: C. H. Bushall, N. H. Russell. George W. (Buck) Parkin is run ning against Walter R. Longest, the present incumbent, for the office of chief of police. With one exception, John S. (Jack) iaries 'represented Were received. at the meeting TEACHERS AND FRIENDS WILL VISIT CAPE LOOKOUT Newport, April 26 A boat trip has been planned for teachers in the schools of the county, including the Parkin, the present board of commis-.two special charter schools, together sioners is running for re-election. Dr. with members of the local school C. S. Maxwell is replacing Commis-1 boards, members ot the county lioara Rioner ""Parkin on the ticket, which isitf Education, other county omciais as follows: Seth Gibbs, James Rum ley, D.4 W, Glover, Dr. C. S. Max well and Frank L.. King.'?"; -The new candidates for the board of commissioners are as follows: Georire Ireland. W. 0. Noe, A. T friends of the schools and their in. vited guests. Letters concerning the trip are being sent out this week. An effort was made to get the Pamlico for this trip, but the govern ment has called a halt on using this tin. (InrrWr. Hilton Hill and C. G. Aus-;boat for pleasure trips. Three of the best ana largest private yacnts nave been chartered for the trip and it is expected a large number of persons will go. The destination will be Cape Look- Rather out; the date Saturday, May 6; place beingi of embarkation, Pure-Oil dock in HEATED CAMPAIGN BEING CARRIED ON IN MOREHEAD Morehead City, April 26 heated campaigns are now conducted here by the various candi- j Morehead City; time ofleaving, 9:30 dates for the offices of mayor, board and return about 5 in the afternoon. of commissioners and chief of police. Invitations have been sent not on- Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, the presently to persons in Carteret County but mayor, is not a candidate for re-; to many former teachers and some election. state officials in the Department of Five o'clock last Saturday was the Education. This trip is being looked final time for candidates to file their forward to as one of the leading so- intention of entering the May 2nd cial events of the season. election. Although some of these I may withdraw before Tuesday, tneiPart Payment Made BL M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, April 25 Use of the site of the old Atlantic hotel, State owned property at Morehead City which was recently destroyed by fire, as a State Park was suggested today by Stabe Forester J. S. Holmes. Mr. Holmes expressed a belief tnat the dedication of the site formerly occupied by the historic old frame hostelry as a State Park and its de velopment could be made an under taking that would be a credit to the State and of permanent value to the people. The State forestei suggests that the entire strip of property lying be tween State Highway No. 10 and Botrue Sound be dedicated to the use of the public as a State Park. Should any suitable building remain on the property, he is of the opinion that it could be developed as a keeper's lodge or as a public comfort station for the use of visitors. A further feature of the develop ment of the proposed park as sug gested by Mr. Holmes would be the construction of permanent piers on the watefrontage of the property for the use of recreational water craft. A basin, he continued, could be dredged with jetties partly surround ing to protect boats making use of the pier from stones and furnishing a safe and attractive landing place for larger boats traveling through the in land waterway and for smaal tourists' craft. The State forester believes that a park such a? he proposes could be operated in conjunction with Fort Macon State Park on the oppo site side of Bogue Sound. Assuming that the reported insur ance in the amount of $25,000 would revert to the State as the owner of the property, Mr. Holmes asserted that this amount used in developing and improving the hotel site as a State Park would assure a place of outstanding attraction for the State and would also take care of the prop erty for several years. He assumes that the State would not want to build and operate a hotel on the site, and that the Norfolk-Southern Railroad would not care to continue its lease. For Mayor: H. S. Gibbs and Geo. W. Piner. For Commissioners: Waltei Huf ham, P. H. Geer, D. B. Willis, E. W. Guthrie, E. C. Willis, S. W. Hallo way, C B. Wade. Both D. B. and E. C. Willis are members of the present board of commissioners. For Chief of Police: Geo. J. For Seventh Month Vouchers for part payment of the seventh month of the extended term were put in the mail Wednesday, April 26th, totaling $3,902.64 the exact amount received from the state recently representing 75 per cent of ithe state's part of the seventh month. Nelson, J, N. Willis, George Daniels, i-ii t-i n i T l t 1.; n Z , a V Z' " v T VT I cording on the unform of 27 1-2 of George Austin. Mr. Nelson is the . , I Payments to teachers were made ac- present chief of police. As matters now stand, hope for ad-, in Pamlico Sound by Mr. Nesbit, as- iournment this week went a-glimmer- sisted oy miemDers or wis um oi w.c inir The Senate will accumulate a ; Bureau of Fisheries' station at Beau J B; i,i, v,i9 week while it fort. Thanks to the splendid coop- nevay iwcuu- - - ...... r deals with the Revenue BUI, but tneerat.on oi iaptam i. - 'year-old man in a car near the late House, meanwhile, will be d.spos.ng Stumpy, Point, N. C, who furnished, ,nt b(ttle of , i i i j.u x.1 4iu tuAnt wav& aonrMi in n - court. He pled not guilty to the charee. Chief George J. Nelson testi fied that he found the twenty-five- DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS STARTED. Divorce papers were filed with Clerk of the Court L. W. Hassell by the attorney of Mrs. Evelyn Chad wick Lewis, Tuesday and two years the seventh month salary, All of the $4,719.96 received pre viously by the Board of Education from the state for sixth month's sal aries due in March and of necessity carried forward to April, was paid RELIEF WORK WILL STOP ;FOR A WHILE SATURDAY Funds for R. F. C. relief work are alloted every two months. The first allotment was for January and Feb ruary and the second was for March and April. Superintendent J. G. Al len informs the News thata request has been filed for funds for the months of May and June but at this writing nothing has been heard from this request. On acount of the uncertainty as to getting additional relief funds no relief work will be done after Sat urday, April 29, except community garden work in Beaufort and More- head City. Work will be resumed if and when new funds are allotted for relief purposes. representing laries of all ; employees of the rural schools includ ing principals, teacliers, truck drivers, out for salaries only, 61.1 per cent of the of its calendar. Near the end both the nsn, tne trout were saur m f .n his hand an(J twQ other 'commercial feeds in 1932 as compar. houses can. knock ot bills in a nurry very uwiy .m ... , (Continued on page eight) ed to $38,888,000 in 1929. contrast to spending two hours for survival. I . last week on one local bill but best ! "It remains to- be seen whether any , . .. , . ,i. 4-V, fiol, mill ha -nnntiirft1 in bets are that the ena oi xne riV : V" separation were the ground J. U1S Will UC UUtftCtCU iui cue uuuc , , , c?.. . j . j term of Superior Court. Hardy Lew-" ounty """""' is, Jr., is the defendant named. !or,FORD SINGING CLASS . . -J COMING HERE MONDAY umo iarmers speni $o,io,uuu 101 , will hot be reached until well into next week. A possible, nut not ex pected, deadlock on the Revenue Bill may carry the end further away. While 86 bils were ratified last week, 76 of them were local meas ures, leaving only 10 State-wide, and half of those were ready for ratifica tion the week before. One of the new ones permits transportation, storing and handling of beer, wine and other 3.2 per cent beverages. tv, in machinery bill, which sets up methods of licensing, taxation, restrictions and regulations on sale of beera nd wine, is under way and will be passed this week. One new law provides for reggula tion of automobile liability rates; -tV,oi. ollnwa tnhnero hoards of trade to New Ytork and New Jersey, for the fishery there does not get into full swing until June; but the prospects are good for settling the question one way or the other, for recapture of 72 of these fish up to the middle of April proves that many of them sur vived. The success of the experiment will depend in a large part on coopera tion of persons finding tags. These should be sent in at once, together with the information as to when or where the fish was caught, or if it was bought in a market, the name and address of the dealer and the date of sale." I The sinffine class of the famous I Masonic orphanage located at Ox- I ford will be in Beaufort Monday and zive a concert Monday night in the 'auditorium of the Beaufort Graded DUKE HOSPITAL RENDERED SERVICE TO 84 COUNTIES IN N. C. IN 1932 tour of the State every year and its special concerts are heard and enjoyed by thousands of people. School. The singing class makes TIDE TABLE Information trn to the tides at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures "are approx imately correct nd 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. DURHAM, April 26 Medical and hospital services were rendered to the people of 84 North Carolina conn ties by the Duke hospital during according to a .report just issued. Days of hospital care to North Car olinians totaled 65,478, and cost $354,776.21, of which $80,978.16 was paid by patients, $1,830.79 by counties they represent, $1,519.33 by others, and $270,477.73 by the Duke hospital and the Duke endowment. indicate, since the cost of tests made in laboratories, and that for the diagnosis and treatment of the people who made 26,212 visits to the Duke public dispensary are not included. MARRIAGE LICENSES and Lela In order to build some of her air nnrfs it was necessary for Siam to IW3 IUUOLLU j . . . .... . l -.1 ake rules governing the organize hunting expeditions to kill sale of leaf tobacco at auction; still off tigers irom tne jung.ei-.iu .. another allows trustees of the State dering the sites before natives would (Continued on page eight) do any work. m Reginald F. Conway An especially valuable service haSMorse, Morehead City. Norman L. Guthrie, Newport, and Geraldine E. Russell, Bogue James R. Willis and Guthrie, Salter Path. Madeline been performed by the public dispen sary in providing a diagnostic ser vice at an average cost per visit of 66 cents for patients in the earlier staares of disease, before hospital care Patients from Carteret county, ';s necessarv. During the cast vear 75 were given 583 days of care costing per cent of tj,e patients in the Duke $3,159.86, of which $85(2.80 was paid hospital have not been able to pay by patients, $2,277.06 by the Duke i , , . hospital and the Duke endowment, ' J " ' . ! none by their own counties, and ?50 medical care, and only 13 cf their i About 50 per cent of the popula by others. i respective 84 cm'tiHc-s have assisted tion of the United States are active The amount of medical care given tM-- i-- BmoumV . .'vinnr frm $1.75 numbers of some church demomina- was much larger than these figures" to $768. tion. 11:42 p 12:00 a, m. m. Ninety two per cent of the foregn born population of the United States over 10 years of ape are now able to speak the English language. High Tide Low Tide (Friday, April 28 10:2$ a. m. 4:31 a. m. 10:36 p. m. 4:22 p. m. Saturday, April 29 11:01 a. m. 5:00 p. m. 11:16 a. m. 5:57 a. m. Sunday, April 30 5:46 p. m. 6:47 a. m. Monday, May 1 12:30 p. m. - 6:45 p. m. 12:00 a. m. 6:45 p. m. Tueiday, May 2 12:47 a. m. 7:43 a. m. 1:21 p. m. 7:50 p. m. Wednesday, May 3 1:40 a. m. 8:36 a. m. 2:22 p. m. 8:55 p. m. Thursday, May 4 2:40 a. m. 9:28 a. m. 3:24 p. m. 9:56 p. m.