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VOLUME XXII
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933
PRICE 5c SINGLE CO
NUMBER 23
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Receive
M
axwell-Pou
intments
Appo
Jeffress Chairman And Pou Executive Director
of State Highway And Public Works Commis
sion; A. J. Maxwell Reappointed Commission
er of Revenue; Various Other Appointments
Made
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, June 12 E. B. Jeffress
was named chairman and George
Ross Pou executive director of the
'new State Highway and Public Works
Gaskill-Mace Stock
Bid in by Dan Bell
FEW CASES TRIED
JUNE TERM COURT
Criminal Docket Disposed of
and Civil Cases Now Occu
pying Court's Attention
A two-weeks term of Superior
Court started here Monday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock with Judge Henry A.
Grady of Clinton presiding. Solicitor
David M. Clark of Greenville was on
hand ready o look after the State's
side of the criminal docket. A fairly
good sized crowd of witnesses, defen
dants, jurors and spectators were
present at the opening.
Judge Grady wasted no time in his
charge to the grand jury. His remarks
pertained entirely to the duties and
functions of the grand jury and he
gave a lucid explanation of what
that body should do. Besides giving
attention to indictments and present
ments he instructed the jury to in
vestigate the records of all county
officials and also to see whether mag
istrates had filed the reports which
they are required by law to file. D.
B. Willis of Morehead City was ap
pointed foreman and Herbert Forlaw
of Beaufort was appointed deputy in
i The hardware, ship chandlery, and
Commission, formed by the highway household an(j kitchen furniture of
General Assembly from the highway j the Gaskill-Mace Hardware Company
and prison departments, headed now ; weres old here Wednesday morning
by these two men, and A. J. Maxwell at ten o'clock and a large crowd of
wa3 reappointed Commissioner of interested people attended. This stock
Revenue in an announcement by Gov wag estimated to be worth approxi
ernor Ehringhaus Saturday night. jmately $14,000.00. The' eal i
At the same time Governor Ehring- ject to the confirmation of the court,
haus named the six members of the Julius F. Duncan auctioneered the
Highway and Public Works Commis-' stock off for the administrators,
sion, as follows: Charles Whedbee, With the exception of certain con
Perquimans county; W. C. Woodard, signed paint and rope, all the hard-
"VqcTi Jamo A HnvHisnn. Anson: wnrp was first nffprpH fnr sfllp. spn.
Luther Hodges, Rockingham; Ross arate from the furniture. D. G. Bell, 'charge of the jury
Rowan, and Frank W. Miller, Hay- of Morehead City, was the high bid
wood county. jder, when he offered $3,900.00 cash
' for this part of the stock. B. H. Noe,
Previously Governor Ehringhaus of the Noe Hardware Company, was
had broken his silence to appoint ;the second highest, with an offer of
Edwin Gill as Commissioner of Par- 1$390o .00, $1,500.00 cash and the
oles, succeeding Tyyre Taylor; Chas.lother ?2,400.00 payable in one year.
Brantley Aycock to handle workmen s Tw0 bankets, two pillows and some
compensation cases arising under re- Wishes were set aside and bid off to
lief employment through the Gover-'Mrg Maybelle Mace for fifty cents,
nor's Office of Relief; General J. Van D G Bell bid ?725 cash for the
B. Metts as adjutant General and Col. furniture stock, while D. A. Rooks,
Gordon Smith as assistant Adjutant jof Havelock, offered $730 cash as the
General, the latter two having serv- highest bid.
ed in these positions for 12 years. Then the entire stock was sold as
In announcing the highway and a whole and D. G. Bell was the high
public works officials, Governor Eh-1 est bidder, with an offer of $4,705.00
ringhaus said that the law consolidat-!casn.
ing the two departments will become
effective July 1, Mr. Pou serving - for Local pastor Breaks
a time as superinvention, ui mc pi lo
on division. He said many friends had Coat Precedent Here
urged naming Mr. Pou as chairman, .
but naming him as executive direc
tor was in line with his own wishes.
He stated before the Reorganization
Committee of the
that it was not his desire to be chair-
and he has repeated it several
man.
times since. In fact, the campaign
for him is said to have been waged
more by enemies of Mr. Jeffries than
by friends of Mr. Pou.
Reirret was expressed that
nresent hiehway and prison
. . Tl I
Another step toward rational
clothing for men during warmer
O il l.V. Oor mnratiii,
General Assembly we , , I T u L V
at ine reauiori wpust cuuicu wucu
the Rev. J. P. Harris, pastor of the
church, appeared before his congre
gation at the regular eleven o'clock
service without his coat. Many men
of the congregation followed suit by
tne removing their coat3, at the request
boards,01 i'"""- , w. ir ,
The rveverena Mr. narns siaieu iu
could not oe retains, . a News rep0rter that in doing this he
ringhaus expressing appreciation of - endeavoring to start anything
their work. The new board I "embers sensationa, but the absence of coats
are all from counties not heretofore thg isgion o wive8 and
represented on the highway body. 'gweetheartS( added the Reverend Mr.
ine remain mg ui..i. ('Harris is in name of comfort. Dur-
to be named in the next few days.
Highway Fund Increases
ing preceding summers as the weath
er became warmer and warmer, some
The criminal docket was somewhat
lighter this court than usual and no
case of unusual interest was tried.
The case against Frank Bullock charg
ing larceny of some diamonds from
Mrs. B. Streeter Shepherd of Farm
ville while a guest of the Hotel Cher
ry, was continued to tne uctoDer
term of court. This was done on re
quest of Solicitor Clark who stated
that he had a certificate from a phys
ician that Mrs. Shepherd was too sick
to appear in court.
Few criminal cases were tried this
week, and most of the work done in
court the first three days of the
week was routine matter. This morn
ing several sentences were pronounc
ed and the remainder of the day was
devoted to the hearing of motions.
No jury trials were had. i
Judge Grady announced this morn
ing that all civil cases docketed for
trial next week would if possible
be tried Monday and Tuesday.
One' divorce has been granted so
far this court. Gladys Bell sued for
divorce from William R. Bell, of New
port, on grounds of five-year separa
tion. This was granted and the cus
tody of the two children Rose Al
berta Bell and Bobbie Bell was giv
en to the mother.
The matters taken up by the court
are as follows:
(Cantinued on page eight).
ANOTHER STATE
IN WET COLUMN
Massachusetts Is Eleventh
State To Vote For
Repeal
BOSTON, June 14 Massachusetts
stood in the repeal column today
the eleventh consecutive state t( go
on record in favor of repeal of the
18th amendment.
It was a sweeping victory with the
repealist piling up a margin of 4 to
1 in, the state at large and a ratio
of 10 to 1 in Boston.
The ten states already on record
in favor of repeal were: Wyoming,,
Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Jer
sey, Michigan, Rhode Island, Dela
ware, Wisconsin and .Nevada.
Three pledged delegates were chos
en from each of the 15 Massachusetts
congressional districts at yesterday's
election. The vote cast for the repeal .
pledged delegates totalled 441,195.
Those pledged to vote retention of
the prohibition amendment polled
98,884 votes.
Not a single "dry"' delegate was
elected to the constitutional conven
tion which will act on repeal of pro
hibition in the near future. Governor
Joseph B. Ely expressed "pleasure"' ;
at the result of the referendum and
said that he would call a convention
"immediately."'
Most Massachusetts communities
also voted on the question of local
license and the results showed an a
mazing overturn for the "wets." On
ly a few scattered towns stood firmly
against license.
Five other states will vote on re
peal during the remainder of
month. New Hampshire, Iowa
Connecticut will vote June 20,
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GRAFT CHARGES
PROVEN UNTRUE
Welfare Superintendents Do
Not Have Any Thing To Do
With Relief Funds
G. A. BARDEN
of New Bern whose candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for Con
gress in the third district has been announced.
Barden Candidate For
Congressional Honors
an" Judge Barden represented Craven
ana'countv in the recent session of the
California and West Virginia June ; General Assembly being a member of
27. j the House of Representatives. He
took an active part in the work of
AMERICAN LEGION TO ELECT the Assembly having been especially
NEW OFFICERS TUESDAY j interested in education and in public
The regular monthly meeting of : s.rviCes were regarded favorably by
Carteret Post No. 99 American Leg- hi3 constituents,
ion will be held Tuesday evening, j ju(jge Barden is a native of Samp
June 20 at 8 P...M. in the hut. Then -county-but hs -lived in .New
election of new officers will be held Bern since shortly after the end of
at this meeting. All members are the World War. He taught in the
urged to be present.
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, June 12 In fully 20
(North Carolina counties reports have
been circulated freely that county
welfare superintendents were getting
a "rake off" of Federal funds distrib
uted through the Governor's Offica
of Relief by taking a few cents of
every dollar. Invariably the reports
are almost identical in every coun
ty: that a worker expecteing $1
would get 75 cents, raise a kick and
get told that was all he would get.
The worker would turn out to be a
Federal secret service man and would
show his badge, thus catching the
welfare worker redhanded, accord
ing to Ronald Wilson, acting relief
director. None of the reports are
true, and Mrs. W. T. Bost, State wel
fare commissioner, issued a statement
showing that the wlefare officer nev
er touches the money, which is sent
to the county treasurer and is paid
out on order of the welfare officer,
approved by the county accountant,
on check issued by the sheriff. Mr.
Wilson says it may come about be
cause city workers are paid $1 and
rural workers 75 cents, due to the
difference in living costs,
i Governor Ehringhaus relates that
Lone man, calling on him, said he did
.not want much from him, just the
appointment as secretary of the N. C.
Railroad Co. "It might interest you,"
the Governor replied, "to know that
there have been more applications
for that job than any other I have to
appoint. D. F. Giles, Marion, now
holds the job, from the Gardner ad
ministration. Judge Wiley G. Barnes,
of the Raleigh city court, held it un
der Governor McLean. It's a part-
time job, with fair enumeration and
raliroad passes.
The State Corporation Commission
has granted the Winston-Salem South
bound Railway Co., to remove its one
round-trip , passenger . train --from
Winston-Salem to Wadesboro under
the 19S3 law wh'ch allows the com
mission, to order removal of passen-'
school there for a time and then be-iSer.trains lf there w no public con
For some weeks there have been
rumors afloat that Graham A. Bar
den, former judge of the Recorder's
court of Craven county, would be a
candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation for Congress in the Third Dis
trict. The News is informed that
Judge Barden has now definitely de
cided to become a candidate but as
the time for holding the primary is a
bout a year away he will not begin
an active campaign for some time
this : yet.
welfare legislation. It is said that his
CIRCLE WILL MEET
jgan the practice of law. He served
'as county Judge for six years. He is
,a Sudan Shriner, past master of Doric
1 cf the Woman's Lodge A. F. and A. M. and is a mem
Beaufort Baptist ber 0f several other fraternal orders
and the American Legion. Congress
man Abernethy has not made any
public annuoncement as to whether
'he plans to be a candidate again or
, not but it is generally assumed that
he will run again.
Circle Number
Society of the
Church will meet at the home of Mrs
Hubert Fodrie on Craven Street Fri
day evening at 8 o'clock. All mem
bers are requested to be present.
Pome person or persons entered the
i 1 " . . ' , . A1 n.u t Woof Rami.
tv, SK.t bie-hwav fund increased men refused to attend cnurcn on ac-:nome oi i..a... -
about three-fourths of a million dol-' count of the supposed necessity of
lars last month, to a total balance of .wearing coats.
$7 509,043.41 at the end of May, but! This summer season the Reverend
the State's general fund showed a:Mr. Harris has anticipated the num
slight deficiency, bringing the casherous hot-weather excuses for not at-
nvprHrfltt to S1.035.558.UU Way dl, I terming tnuim, uu u
the combined auditor-treasurer
SAFE CONTAINING $410 AND OTHER
VALUABLES STOLEN FROM DWELLING An Impressive Service
ts Given Here by Orphans
fort Sautrday evening between eight
and eleven o'clock and removed a
three-hundred-pound safe which con
tained four hundred and ten dollars
in currency and also many other val
uables. At this writing neither the
thief or thieves or the safe have been
n art t no - nn-1'iin i iiiuvcMiriiL 111 an ci-
fort to make church attendance more rapprenenued or recoveieu.
v ' I comfortable for the masculine mem-
The general fund overddraft May hers of his congregation.
1 was $961,283.81 rnd receipts for There has been a growing move
the month were $948,039.07, leaving ment during the last few years to
a continuing overdraft cf $12,644.74, war(j m0re rational summer clothing
n which ia added the month's dis- The fact that the ladies are
bursementa of $1,022,915.26, bring- ahie to dress in the most comfortable been carried from the closet to one
ing the total cash overdraft to $1,- fashion rankles the men at church of the adjoining rooms and thrown
033,558. Total receipts for the 11 and other formal gatherings as the out one of the upper windows. The
months of the fiscal year are $33,881, iatter often swelter in their coats. It depression in the ground where the
569.89 and the disbursements $34,- j3 thought by some that the men mem safe landed could be plainly
414.R15.46. which, with the deficit of hrr. of the Bantist Church may have .Sunday morning.
$502,612.43 at the beginning of the started something that will lead to Distinct tracks made by
years makes the overdraft above a more rational clothing for the men
million. int all local formal gatherings.
I i
The highway funa balance May lj MRg EDWARD F CARRAWAY
was $6,753,999.83, while the month Sj .
receipts were $3,045,673.90, a total; Morehcad city, June 12 Mrs.
of $9,799,673.73, Irom wnicn ais- Ch itv HaU Carraway died Wednes-
This safe was kept in a ciotnes
closet located in the upper story of
the Graham home. The absence of
the safe was not discovered until
earlv Sunday morning. Upon an ex
amination it was that the safe had
seen
bursements of $2,045,673.90 left a
balance of $7,509,14.41. Receipts of. ' .
automo
bile tires were traced from there to
a place where the safe fell from the
running board of the vehicle and
made another depression in the dirt
roadway. At this point a small part
of the automobile fell off and was
found by the Grahams. When the
safe was again loaded on the car it
the beginning of the year was
130,515.06, which is slightly increase
to $7,509,143.41 on May 31.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
. i t Jf i
n,e v at tne resiaence oi ner
Mr. R. T. Willis with whom was evidently placed in tne rumoie
the hiehway fund during the 11 , . ai1 upr home since the sPflf of the Ford roadster as later
months of the fiscal year have been , . , . husband the late E. F. investigations disclosed.
S37.871.020.85, while disbursements raavtav nt Mrrimnn. She had been On account of other trouble the
were $37,492,492.50. The balance at gick or 8everai weeks. ghe was the Grahams had had with Adrian Scott,
I daughter of Wallace and Rachel a twenty-four-year-old white man or
Piner. Funeral services were conduct- iginally from Marshallberg, Scott
ed from the home by Reverend Mr. was suspected of the crime. James
Watkina pastor of the M. E. Church and Alex Graham, Jr., then went to
assisted by the Reverend Mr. Stev
ens, pastor of the First Baptist
church. Interment was in the family
cemetery near Wildwood. Mrs. Car
raway is survived by a number of
nieces and nephews also many friends ; that the itres
who regret her departure from this with the tracks,
life.
rumble seat of the automobile
seen. !
Following the disclosure of this A most impressive song and pray-
evidence, Scott was taken to the .r service was rendered by nine
court-house by Sheriff Elbert M. 'members of the Methodist Orphanage
Chadwick and questioned concerning 1 singing class during the eleven o'clock
the robbery. No confession of anyjhour Sunday morning before a con
kind was obtained from him. TheLre;ation that filled the Ann Street
prisoner claimed that he could prove i Methodist Church to capacity. This
that he was in Morehead City during !was under the direction of Mrs. Nellie
the time of the alleged crime. On ac- ir. Reeves, who is the voice teacher
count of the lack of further evidence, !at the Orphanage. Sunday was Or-
the young man was released. Iphanage Day a tthe Methodist church
After obtaining other evidence here, and it was for this reason that
Sunday evening, Mr. Graham swore the singing class came down at this
out a warrant here and carried it to tune.
the Sheriff of Craven County early , Rev. A. S. Barnes, superintendent
Monday morning for the arrest of ; 0f the Orphanage, gave a short talk ,
Scott, but the young man could not at the beginning of the service. Ihe,
be found in or about New Bern, nor Reverend Mr. Barnes held the pastor-
has he since been apprehended. The 8te here for several months about
grand jury found a true bill against nineteen years ago, which was his last
Scott Monday afternoon, charging charge before being called to the su
him with housebreaking and the lar-;perintendency of the Orphanage,
ceny of the safe and its contents of- Following this, the entire hour
money, deeds, notes and insurance was turned over to the singing class,
papers from the dwelling of Alex which was composed of six young
Graham. Information given in this ladles and one young man. Then fol
story is based upon information giv- lowed what is said to be one of the
en a News reporter by Alex Graham best services of its kind ever heard
Tt- is thought that Scott had aid in hv a Beaufort congregation. The ar-
venience or necessity involved. But
it continued indefinitely the petition
of the Atlantic & Yadkin Railroad to
be permitted to remove its daily
round-trip train. Senator Robert R.
Reynolds and Congressman Walter
Lambeth asked that the' hearing be
continued, on the ground that pend
ing Federal legislation might give the
relief sought. Earlier petitions by
both roads were denied on the ground
that the commission did not have the
authority, which was granted by the
1933 act. No one protested the W-S
Southbound train removal, but a del
egation opposed the A. & Y. petition.
In 1922, diphtheria caused 508
deaths out of 8,136 cases, and in
1932 it was the cause of 150 deaths
from 1,895 cases, the State Board of
Health advises in its plea to parents
to have their children immunized
and thus help to eradicate this dis
ease from which 75 per cent of the
deaths are of children under five
years of age. Most of the deaths oc
cur in early fall, and a campaign ia
being waged this summer to get par
ents to have children between ages of
(Contnued on page 8)
W. H. Whealton and wife to B. A.
Grant, 1 lot M. City, for $55.
F. L. King et al to John G, Jones
and wife, part lot Beaufort, for $10.
W. A. Allen, Lig. Agt. to Julian
Brown, 2 tract3 Marshallberg, for $5.
J. R. Morris and wife to Melvin
r,.; 9-inn ofrpa. Atlantic, for
lunula, , t .u tU f,. o
.q oi taiaw ua turnip , nu
Alvin Mason and wife to Melvin ! freight train on which he was "bum-
3-16 acres Atlantic, for iu. -ming a riae near ueic ...Bv,
. ...Hed in a hospital here xociay irom h
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New Bern and brought Scott "back in
order to compare his automobile tires
getting the safe, but no one but
Scott was named in the true bill
Several years ago Scott was arrest-
hundred dollars. In order to give the
young man a second chance, Mr. Gra
ham himself paid the costs of the
case. After last Christmas Mr. Gra-
rangement of the program and the
manner in which it was delivered wa3
a credit to the Orphanage at Raleigh,
ed in New Bern for forging checks jit was said by many local church at
on Mr. Graham aggregating about aitendant3 who were present at the
service Sunday mornnig.
The singing class arrived here Sat
urday afternoon, and the members
were the house guests of various
members of the Methodist church.
After remainnig here until about
three o'clock Sunday afternoon, the
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tides
at Beaufort is giren 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.
ham lost a five-gallon can of paint,
and since the safe robbery it has been
with the tracks near where the safe I disclosed that young Scott late in the
landed when it was thrown out of winter tried to sell a five-gallon can i class left for Vanceboro, where it
tho eomnrl Rtorv window. It is said I nf naint to various colored people was scheduled to sing at the Meth-
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correspond exactly here in Beaufort.
Dies of Injuries.
Hickory, June 13 Roy Lingle, 30, was being carried
odist Church there at the evening ser.
Furthermore, a hor- The Three Fates have evidently vice.
izontal scratch was obsei-ved on the been sitting cross-legged over the des
side of the car, which was thougt to;tiny of the Graha msafe, for before
have been made bv the safe when it: the Grahams removed to West Beau-
on the running fort from Harlowe a store in which! Ervm Gillikm and Nina Oulikin,
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Mason,
board of the car. The automobile the
part found near where the safe tumb
led off the runingboard was missing
from the Scott vehicle. Evidence of
the safe being carried later in the
afe was located was burned to.Beuafort, RFD
the ground in a rather mysterious; Wilbur Sabiston, Beaufort, and
nanrcr and the metal money in the 'Maltha Olive Harrell, Greenville.
r.fo pl-f. hut. lit.tlp riainnirp ; .
actually done the safe.
4:04 a.
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was
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