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VOLUME XXII
SIX PAGES THIS WEEK
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1933
PRICE 5c SINGL g )PY
NUMBER 35
Tobacco Markets Will
Probably Reopen Soon
Farmers Are Signing Pledge to Reduce Acre
age For Flext Two Years; Processing Tax
Will Be Levied; It Is Hoped That Prices
Will Go Higher
IMPROVED MARKET
CAUSES INCREASE
SHRLMP INDUSTRY
CAMPAIGN STARTS
AGAINST REPEAL
Speaking Teams Will Cover
The County Beginning
Next Monday
SEVERAL SENT TO
THE STATE ROADS
Deputy Colle3i Qf
Customs DieJ. onday
COUNTY BOARD
ADOPTS BUDGET
AND SETS RATE
Mrs. Lydia Parkin c: : ins pass-1
ed awav here late Mct-W afternoon
Judge Paul Webb Tries Fullias a result of a heart attack. At thej
Docket Here Tuesday in 'time of this fatal attack, she was sit-j
Recorder's Court iting on the side of a bed playing, Tax Rate Fixed at $1 50 bv
- u-u? "u wi'"B ." Carteret commissioners
Here Monday
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Sept. 12 Probably by
the end of this week, certainly by
the beginning of next week, tobacco!
warehouses, closed for two weeks by j
voluntary action of warehousemen I
observing a proclamation to that ef-i
feet by Governor J. C. B. Ehring-j
haus, will be open for business a.
gain, but under very different cir-j
cumstances from those existing at j
the closing. I
During the interval much has j
happened. The proclamation declar-j
ing a voluntary tobacco holiday on I
the markets already opened, came the
Judging from preparations they Vaughan Bedsworth was tried in Roy Eubanks, with whom she had!
are making the prohibition forces of Recorder's Court here Tuesday on a , been making her home for the past!
Carteret county mean to make a charge of striking Arthur Smith, of j several years. She had been in de- INDORSE ROAD PROJECTS
real fight to hold the county in linejBogue, with a deadly weapon was dining health for the past few years!
against repeal of the 18th amend-, found guilty, and senetneed to serve! and had not been as well as usual1 The Board of Carteret County
ment. As told in the News last week j four months on the State roads, during the past month. Commissioners was scheduled t
a mass meeting was held Sunday .This' case was consolidated with one Mrs. Hui!gins was in her seventyy- take definite action either for or a-
m which Arthur Smith was charged fifth year. She was the daughter of gainst the proposal of the represen
with' striking Vaughan Bedsworth the late Thomas Edmund and Sarah tatives of the Bond Holders' Com
with his fist. The evidence offered Whitehurst Parkin. In early woman- mittee when it met Mondav morninar
con-; hood she became the wife of the for its regular monthly meeting, and
jlate Wesley Hudgins, and to this although J. T. Clifton auditor for
the 3rd of this month and a county
vide organization perfected to con
duct the campaign. D. B. Willis of
Morehead City was elected county Was rather contradictory and
chairman and other officials were ; fusing.
chosen.
DEMAND NOW DECREASING
Stcrms in Southern Waters
Prevent Catching of Shrimp
in I hat section of Coun
try
for all the precincts wlil undertake
!to line up the anti-repeal voters.
Placard- hnvp. Vppn nnefpd ndvprtia-
During the past ten days or two fh sn0au:na. Tho fnnwinc,
same day and almost before the ink weeks local seafood dealers have constitute the speaking teams that
was dry on a resolution adopted by!shlPPed re than a thousand box-' m shortly take the field: First
some 1,000 tobacco farmers gather-jes of shrimp to northern markets. It 'team D. B. Willis and Rev. R F
ed in Raleigh, Governor Ehringhaus: said that these large shipments ! Munns, second team, Rev' W." P
then headed a delegation to Wash-; are due almost wholely to the tem-j Watkins and N. F. Eure, third team,
ington. where he secured the cooner- porary improvement in the market, Rpv A. p. st(iv.. -j n R wl,Mf.
Btion of the national administration and not to the fact that there has ly fourth team Gordon Willis and
ml It 1 ... nninn n-ra Vv -i .m litnn r. V J 1 l in . nil il L II ll
inese ariegeu ouunsts tic sum uihuh uum mc viiu..u, n me oona noiuers was present at the
mention was made of
1 by any of the five
ommissioners present.
.i i.i. . ii. . ,i. .... i . '.IPDLeinuei. AJULll ucicmianiB at inii" v
.noi-iy ldKe tne stump ana a vigor-1 cha rp0P sixty-two years Mrs. Hudgins Upon a motion by Commissioner
uus campaign win oe maue. woisers -,.--. wifi.J.
1 I1C lUUUn lug WItllc-
In order to present
the question to the
county four teams of speak
I X aiiCgCU Ull Hicto .i . " . UlC lUUll HUH
..... ., f i to have taken place at Bedsworth's whom died in infancy or early child-'meeting no
voter r thP nllinS station on the highway above hood. Mr. Hudgins passed away a- this proposal
- s .,, Morehead Villa on the ninth ofjbout the time of the death of his commissioner:
ot speakers will ., , ... , .i ,.v,;i,i
in thp cause of the tobacco farmers, been an unusually good "run" of
Virginia, 'South Carolina nad Geor-I shrimp during these last two weeks,
gia joined the ranks. i The numerous hurricane-like
Then another meeting of tobacco 'f01 lon the 9,ulf and tS"th At
growers, representing almost every ,launtlc coasts greatly curtailed the
one of the 50-odd counties which I ""P ches ln h ections and
raise bright, flue-cured tobacco met "suited in a scarcity of this type of
in Raleigh, organized and arranged seafod northern cities; hence the
for county meetings on Monday of reter mand and the improve
this week. At these and the cam-i men Pnce' i"the .last ew days
paign following, it was expected that161" "nations ,n southern wa
by the end of the week every to- te,s ha become sufficiently settled
bacco grower in the State would ,to Permlfc cathf be "du and
r, f . xU ,..t (t-.j u! so the demand for the smaller shrimp
nave signed the contract offered by ... ,. . ... , '
.1 . . : I from this section is rapidly subsid
ise jguv.uini.iiL lo xeuuee in ncicngt;
a maximum of 30 per cent, the ex
act percentage to be determined lat
- er, for the years-11)31 and .1935.,.., .,
The Federal government, mean
ing.
Unless equinoctial storrr.s in the
outh.agaiairing a halt in the shrimp
(fishery in that area, shrimpers in
while, announced a processing tax of j this immediate section will be at leis
four cents a pound, average, to be ure until the large shrimp arrive
applied October 1, in order to pro-! here a little later in the autumn,
vide a fund to pay growers for loss- :One of the main reasons local shrimp
es from the reduced acreage for the erg cannot compete with those in
next two years. Just what effect this the states south of here is due to
Rev. J. P. Harris.
The schedule for spVaking dates as
arrnaged so far is:
Atlantic team No. 1 Sept. 18.
Peletier team 'No. 2, Sept. 18.
Sea Level team No. 3, Sept 18.
Stella team No. 4 Sept. 18.
Stacy team No. 1, Sept. 19.
El Dorado team No. 2, Seut. 19.
Davis team No 3, Sept. 19
Bogue team No 4, Sept 19
Wiiliston team No. 1, Sept. 20.
Wildwood team No. 2, Sept. 20.
Smyrna team No. 3, Seut. 20.
testified: ! had been a faithful member of the Smith, which was seconded by Corn-
Arthur Smith, J. W. Foy, Gray Con
way, Carlton Piner and Vaughan
Bedsworth.
From the testimony of these wit
nesses it appeared that Arthur Smith
First Baptist Church here and up missiorier Guthrie and passed, the
until the condition of her health jbudget for the fiscal year 1933-1934
ceased to permit she always attend-j was adopted by the Board. Thi3
ed the services and took an active .budget carries a rate of $1.50 on the
part in the church life. Her friend-1 hundred dollar valuation.
stopped at Bedsworth's filling sta- liness and Christian character won A committee from Cedar Point ap-
tion last Saturday afternoon. Liquor her many friends in Beaufort, Car-peared before the Board and request
figured in the case. During the teret County and elsewhere. led that it pass a resolution indors-
"meeting" Smith punched Beds-' After the death of her husband, : ing the proposed hardsurfaced spur
worth's nose and then apologized for Mrs. Hudgins was employed as a mil-from the new highway at Cedar
this unkindness. Shortly thereafter ; liner by several local merchants, andjPoint down to where the inland wat-
ith;for a time she conducted her own erway comes right up to the main-
Bedsworth slipped up back of Smi
and crowned hi mwith a club. This
lacerated a gash that required the at
tention of a doctor and five stitches.
The witnesses in these cases were
strong in asserting that their defen
dantwhich ever it happened to be
was" right. The court seemed to
think that the witnesses on both
sides were stretching the truth con
siderably, but believed that both de
fendants were guilty as charged and
so found thenj. .
Bedsworth Was sentenced to
Newport team No. 4, Sept. 2d 'serve the four-months road sentence,
22.
Marshallberg team No. 1, Sept 21
Wire Grass team No. 2, Sept. 21,
.Straits team No. 3 Sept., 21.';. v
Harlowe team No. 4," Sept. 21.
Otway team No. 1, Sept. 22.
Merrimon team No. 2 and 4 Sent.
Bettie team No. 3, Sept. 22.
Harker's Island teams 1, 2, 3
will have on prices when the tobac-Jthe fact that shrimp caught in the.an(l Sept. 23
co warehouses reopen is uncertain. 'Gulf and South Atlantic waters are
Belief is that it will boost prices a of a superior quality,
bit, probably to the "parity" point, j Later in the season when the larg
which is now figured at around 16 er shrimp arrive here they will bo
cents a pound for the present crop, j of as good quality a3 the southern
Regardless of the effect on prices shrimp, and the local shippers will
this summie rand fall, the joint ac-jbe in a better position, geographi
tion of Governor Ehringhaus and cally speaking, to market the seafood,
the Washington administration will, because of the fact that the express
apparently, bring about a condition , charges will be about half of whath
that has never existed before m the tne soutnern snippers nave to pay.
nearly 300 yeara since the first in- Beaufort dealers have been pay
dignation meeting was held, the firstling the local shrimpers from one to
resolutions and (the first proposals about two dollars and nity cents a
Portsmouth, C. R. Wheatly, date
to be supplied.
but cave notice of an . anneal, stat
ing to. the court with a langh that by .sang "Abide With Me."
thetime it is tried in October term
of Superior "Court i- wilt be -cooler
and road work will therefore not be
so irksome. In the case of Smith,
prayer for judgment was continued
as to the fine and the defendant
held for only one half the costs of
fhe consolidated case.
.For accidentally shooting James
millinery business here. During the land. Andrew D. Ennett, who was
past eleven years she has served in the spokesman, said they had been
the capacity of the Deputy Collec-! given to understand that this would
tor of Customs in the local office. be done by the state highway com
The funeral services were con-j mission if proper indorsements were
ducted from the First Baptist church i procured.
Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock I Mr. Ennett further stated that if
by the pastor, the Rev. J. P. Harris, this road was run the third of a mile
assisted by the Rev. Worth Wicker, to the point where the inland water
rector o fthe St. Paul's Episcopal 1 way runs parallel with the bank at
church. "It is Well With My Soul" Cedar Point, a freight staion will
and "Asleep in Jesus" were sung by .be situated there. R. Hugh Hill, lo
the choir. M. Leslie Davis sang "Un- cal agent for the Norfolk, Baltimore
enswered yet,'; "At" '.th'graye-'; Mn tod.JaroliBa-.-Freight Line was pres
Ocean View Cemetery. the choirjent and let it be known that the N.
B. C. boats would then stop atCe-
A large crowd of friends and rel-jdar' Point. Mr. Ennett said that this ,
ativesattended thejlast rites and would give western Carteret and
the many floraftribuites attested tryOnslow -imi.-y--,.k.Hi adA- nl-a-n-a.- Iin, ;jt
the high eseem wih which Mrs. Hud-'means of moving the weighty, non
gins was held by her host of friends. 'perishable freight. Other members
The deceased is survived by the j of the Cedar Point committee were:
following sister and brothers: Mrs. 'Alex Weeks, W. F. Taylor and J. S.
Julia Brooks, of Beaufort; Edmund Jones.
Parkin, of Philadelphia; James Par-j The board also passed a resolu-
Anderson in the knee on the fifth of ,kin of Swansboro; and Harry Park-tion asking the State Highway Com
Sentember during an exhibition of ,n, Herbert Parkin, Sr., John Parkin, : mission to take over the mile and a
Cedar Island Dr. F. E. Hyde and; his firearm techniaue. Alex Wilson and George W. Parkin, Sr. all of .half road from Pettiford's Creek to
Mr. C. R. Wheatly, date to be sup- wa3 given four months at the County ( Beaufort. jEnnett's CroSs Road which inter
plied. IHome. Both young fellow3 were col- sects Highway To. 20 and make it a
Salter Path, speakers and date to ored. Wilson pleaded guilty to the,rtA"ul ln vmi a innwi jF-it m me aiaxe s primary system,
be supplied.
RESULTS IN DEATH TUESDAY It was stated by the Cedar Point
. jcommitee that the road i used
William N. Lewis, two year and by both the school buses and the
three month old grandson of Will .mail truck and that it is all but im-
for a tobacco growing holidays wiere.box for the shrimp caught here re
considered, and ordered. cently; the average price being a
In many, many meetings, the to- bout one dollar and a half per box.
bacco growers have been as mad,
Stamped as loudly, resoluted as vig- LADY DIES AT SALISBURY
orously, threatened as vociferously i -
and ordered tobacco holidays as ear-1 Word has been received here that
nestly as they did in Raleigh two j Mrs. H. A. Welker's mother, who has
weeks ago. Numbers of times have been quite ill recently, passed away
they entered into solemn compacts at her home in Salisbury yesterday
to sow no plant beds and set out no morning. Funeral sevices were held
plants the next year while the cur-; in Salisbury this afternoon at 2:30
rent cron was being so".' at ruinous o'clock. The Rev. and Mrs. Welker
prices. But as the next season roll-: have been in Salisbury for a weeM
ed around, everything had been for- or ten aays
gotten and all resolutions, threats orj
nar9 find flc-rf-ementa were foreotten. TOBACCO GROWERS ALMOST
The usual crop was planted.
Now, the conditions are different.!
Now, while resolutions, threats, nnd
agreements are being made, ire
Government, spurred on by the Gtv-j
ernor's lead, is getting the names of
the growers on the dotted line, ' a
solemn pledge to their government;
that they will restrict acreage next ',
year. This will be a pledge that cmi-
not be disregarded, an agreement j
that cannot be. brokon. And, for the
first time in nearly 300 years, some-1
thing will undoubbedy result from '
theindignation meetings and price!
protests. The crop will be reduced to!
a maximum of , 30 per cent for thej
next two years. i
The inexorable law of supply and .
demand has always, is now and will
shooting, but said that it was acci
i dental. Evidence given the court was
RECEIVES APPOINTMENT that Wilson carried a concealed
AS U. S. COMMISSIONER wennnn. .Tamps Andprann. f.pnrcrp
. Petwav. Leonard Fenderson and the Lewis, of Marshallerg, passed away passible.
A. T. Gardner, former deputy 'defendant all testified. j early Tuesday morning in the Mem-1 Charles S. Davis, of Harkers Is-
collector of internal revenue who re-1 Bedford Dudley and Robert Ray- J orial General Hospital at Kinston land, was allowed a reduction of
cently resigned his position, has beenlnor, both Morehead City colored ,?fter an operation was made in an $1507.00 on the valuation of a five
appointed United States Commission-(men, were charged with the trans- effort to remove a Peanut from the hundred acre tract of Harkers Is-
. D l.l .. iL. l;i, i 1. I I 1.. J 1
er by Federal Judge I. M. Meekins,
Commissioner Gardner will maintain
headquarters here in Beaufort.
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nortatinn of limmr for th nnrnnsp throat of the child, which was chok- land outland
of sale on the 27th of Aueust. Of-i m t0 dpath. Funeral services were i Officials of the Tide Water PoW'
ficer Saltpr told thp court that nn conducted at one-thirty o'clock Wed-jer Company appeared before the
the night that the arrest was made
( Continued on page six)
Carteret County Treasure
Hunter Rather Successful
When Captain George Hay, the'ith velvet The jar had been bur
skipper of the "Popeye" dreamed ied so long that the silk and the vel
that if he went to a deserted farm-! vet had all but disintegrated.
UNANIMOUS IN AGREEMENT house at Crab Point and dug in the To the naked eye, these stones
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nesday afernoon from the home of 'Board with their legal representative.
the grand father by the Rev. C. A. ; Julius F. Duncan, and asked that the
Lineberger. Interment was in the thirty-three and one-third percent
Marshalberg Cemetery. reduction in the valuation of real
' estate be applied to their lines in
LOCAL ATTORNEY INJURED .Beaufort, Morehead City and other
WHEN CAR RUNS IN TREES parts of Carteret County. The com--.
'missioners and County Auditor
A tobacco-tign-up campaign
ha been conducted in tha watt
ern part of Carteret thig week
under the direction of County
Farm Agent Hugh Oventreet,
and the News wa( informed last
night by this agricultural as
sistant that all but two tobac
co farmers in the county have
signed the agreement to co-operate
with the Federal Govern
ment for the marketing of this
year's crop and to reduce the
'acreage next year.
Yesterday afternoon white C. R. i
Wheatly was driving alonsj the I
Bogue Sound road, something hap-'
riened to the steering gear of the au
tomobile and caused it to swerve off
the roadand sideswipe a line of
ground at a certain point that he were so perfectly cut each facet .trees that were grownig alongside of
would a half bushel of red corn, he. wag so accurately finished that ther oad. This almost completely de
took this to be prophetic informa- Captain Hay's hopes began to soar, imolished the automobile and injur
tion. Shortly after this, Captain Hay '.Ye Gods, buried treasure ! A report- j ed Mr. Wheatly considerably. When
went over to the dreamed-of spot on er of the Newg saw these stones on he was brought here to the Potter
a recent Sunday afternoon. After I a recent afternoon and held them in Emergency Hosptial it was found
finding the exact location, he began the light; they sparkled as if each that he had sustained a fracture of
to dig a hole in the ground. It was 'contained a sun of its own. Captain the second finger of the left hand, a
a sultry, scorching afternoon, but he Hay could hardly get to a jeweler .badly lacerated left ear and bruises
kept assiduously at work. fast enough so great was his de-jand scratches about he body. After
At about two feet beneath the sire to have the stones adjudged as receiving reatment, Mr. Wheatly was
surface, Captain Hay hit something diamonds. Perhaps they were stolen released from the hospital
years ago from the crown of some
dynastic ruler, he thought. Captain
Hay told the jeweler that he want- . (
(Continued on page six)
BIRTHS
hard, something on which his shovel
grated ominously. He carefully re
moved the clav subsoil from arouni
it and. behold! it wag a stone jar that'ed to have some stones examined and
woull hold approximately a quart and 'perhaps authenticated.
'a half. -When the cover was remov-
Odolphus ed, it was found that the - jar did "not
Born to Mr. and Mrs.
w6rk. The crop will e reduced, thus O'Neal, of Broad Creek, Sunday, contain red corn. On first sight, it
reducing the supply. The demand will fseptember iu, a daughter. . looked as u tnere were aoout a aoz-
continue, or possibly increase mod-j Born to Mr. and Mrs. Steve Ma- en small objects done up separately
erately. The result will be that grow-, son, of Beaufort, Monday, Septem- in velvet. Captain Hay quickly cover
ers will get the higher prices desir- ber 11, a daughter. Jed up the hole he had dug and left
led. It took three things to bring it ; Born to Mr. and Mrs. Iredell Gas- posthaste for the "Popeye."
about. The growers had to get mad; kill of Sea Level, Tuesday, Septem-j Upon arriving on board he began
thp Governor had to lead that mad- ber 12, a daughter. to satisfy his curiosity by unwrap-
ness into effective routes and get the ' Born to Mr. and Mrs. Corbett H. ping one of the largest of the tiny
ear of Washington; and Washington Davis, of Davis, at Morehead City velvet bundles and alas and alack!
had to act while the growers were Hospital, luesday, September 12, a Captain Hay tound what was od
still mad. Those three things will ac- sen, Corbett Harvey, Jr. . . viously a diamond of the hrst order
complish the desired results. They :
..ill o Knm Tli cVl ellfpae- U'hprA hU Old-itme Doulterers found
tory hag recorded failure for 300 prise in the performance of a pet and found that he had ten small and jeweler knows enough about precious
chick ot Mrs, W. xt. uiibert ox nous- four large stones, all penecny cut. 'stones to judge wnn tne accuracy
Ehringhaus issued a ton, Tex. The chick, when four days;Each one was first covered wita t:s-,ani skill of a lamdary. Perhaps
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
TIDE TABLE
Information ai to tha tide
at Beaufort ia given in thia col
umn. The figurei are approx
imately correct and based on
table's furnished by the U. S.
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ancea roust be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that to
whether near the inlet or t
the beads of. tha tstuariea,
Mary V. Bell and husband to C. High Tide
W. Fodne, 6 acres Beaufort . Town-
Low TiU
Friday Sept. IS
The jeweler hooked his magnify- ship, for $240,
ing' glass to liis spectacles and pick
ed up one of the largest stones.
Slowly, slowly he turned the spark
ling stone and carefully examined it.
Seemingly minutes passed .... the
jeweler continued his examination.
After what seemed hours of tire
some waiting, the jeweler slowly
but firmly shook his head. . . .
And then if the fl:?r had opened
up like a prehistoric m3nster and
had engulfed him, Captain
Groves Thread Co., Inc to H. H.
Groves, part 2 lots Beaufort, for $1.
j 4:50 a.- m.
5:05 p. m.
10:50 a. m-
11:09 p. m.
Saturday, Sept. 16
Charles D. Harris and wife to D. ;5:39 a. m.
R. Lewis, 1 tract Marshallberg, for: 5:49 p. m.
$63. " j Sunday, Sept.
6:19 a. m.
INJURES KNEE PAINFULLY 6:29 p. m.
Monday, Sept.
11:37 a. m.
11:43 p. m.
17
12:21 a. rtu
12:31 p. m.
18
12:59 a. m.
1:16 p. m.
Misg Oleta Davis, of Marshalberg, ; 6:59 a. m.
received a painful cut on her-left s 7:08 p. m.
knee when she stumped her toe and ; Tuesday, Sept. 19
Hay fell down on some glass. She was i 7:37 a. m. 1:36 a
would have felt no worse. But there .taken t othe Potter Emergency Hos-17:48 d. m. 1:58 p
iii, was as large as xne nan vi man : swu lurtvs iu uun. ua uaj iincmcui.
sur- little finger. He unwrapped the rest' head a doubt a doubt whether the
years.
Governor
m.
m,
', Continued on page five)
old, crowed like a rooster.
sue paper, then with silk and lastly but that is only a hope.
7:48 p
Wednesday, Sept 20
8:15 a. m. 2:11 a. m.
They grow big cucumbers in Hold- 8:29 p. m. 2:40 p. Bi
enville, Okla. Ed Phillips., " of . that ! Thursday, Sept. 21
town recently exhibited one from his 8:57 a, m. 2:45. a. m.
garden 5P '12 inches long; ' 9:11 p. mi. 3:22 p. nv
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