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VOLUME XXIII
SIX PAGES THIS WEEK
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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 934
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NUMBER 17
Will Stage Elaborate
estiva! Here Tues.
Day F
POLICE ENFORCING
TRAFFIC LAWS NOW
Greater Part of School Will Take Part in the
Production of the Festival, Which Will Be
Most Elaborate Ever Staged Here; Upward
of a Thousand Are Expected to Attend May
Day Program, Which Begins With Parade
and Ends With Dance at Legion Hut.
The most elaborate May Day Fes-J
tival ever held here will be staged ! t
on the campus of the Beaufort Grad- j
ed School next Tuesday, May 1st j
The committee on entertainment have
spared nothing in their effort to pre-
sent a full day of enjoyable enter-,,
tainment. i
Beginning at 10:30 in the morning,
a parade will be given under the ex-
pert direction of Capt. IS. Walter
Hill. At 12 o'clock there will be
carnival features, boxing, bicycle
racing, three-legged racing, sack rac
ing, etc, which will be concluded with
the presentation of prizes to the
winners by M. Leslie Davis.
At 1 o'clock the Queen of the
May, Miss Marguerite Dickinson, will
be crowned amid all the splendor of
her court and its many attendants.
Ben Bell will be the Court Jester,
John Davis the Herald, Eleanors
Way the Maid of Honor, Neva Allen
the Crown Bearer, Mary Taylor
Hinnant the Spirit of Spring, and
Elizabeth Thomas and Evelyn Sty
ron the Couriers.
At three o'clock a baseball game
-will start in the ball park, with Beau
fort High and Morehead City High
contesting for supremacy. The full
day wil conclude with a scrip dance
given at the American Legion Hut
beginning at 8:30 Tuesday evening,
The greater part of the
WILL OPERATE ON EDITOR
EEAUFORT NEWS TOMORROW
Just as the Newt was going
to press, a telegram was re
ceived from Mrs. W. G. Meb
ane which stated that Mr.
Mebane, editor of the Beau
fort News, would undergo an
operation at the Charlotte
Sanatorium tomorrow morn
ing. Mr. and Mrs. Mebane left
for Charlotte last Thursday,
and Mr. Mebane entered the
Charlotte Sanatorium for
treatment for kindey-postate
trouble.
Carteret Potato Crop
Looks Very Good Now
Motorists Receiving; Warnings
This Week Will Arrest All
Violators Thereafter
GREAT BEFITS
FROM CWA FUNDS
. i
One Hundred and Sixty-six
Thousand Dollars Spent in
Carteret During Winter
by CWA
The local police are now endeavor
ing to rigidly enforce the Beaufort
traffic ordiance, which has been in
effect a number of years, but dur
ing the past several years the motor
ists have been treated with laxity.
Beginning last Saturday, the police
have been informing the
Shipping Ten Million
Cabbage Plants North
Many revolutionary things have
taken place in Carteret County in
recent years, agriculturally speaking,
and the latest of these is the produc
tion of millions of plants by the
Francis Stokes Seed Company here
for shipment to northern growers.
The employes of Stokes came here
about the middle of February and
got everything in readiness for the
MARRIAGES WERE
ON INCREASE IN
LAST PART 1933
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Raleigh, April 23 Civil Works
Arlministtrntinn funrls exnemled in
Mnvth rwnimn rim-in thp. lifP nf that planting of the seed, which was start
organization, November 30 to March ed the first week in March. To date
28, reached .the grand total of $9,-'four varieties of cabbage, one of
drivers of , 062,408.70 for labor, only $54,234.-' pepper, one 01 lumuio, aim m
m f ,Uiu ...nt. ennnf St-ita on. caumiower nave uccu uiaiibeu mm
Step Toward Prosperity Regis
tered By sale of Marriage
Licenses Which More
Than Doubled
Lite tc.iiLito uuv Ultjr onifuiu M.'k w " -"- -' . .. v , J J
and the other details of the traffic ministration, leaving $9,638,234.09 xnepianxs successiuuy piuuuceu.
reflations. This we-k the i.o!ice will which went to the 100 counties, an . So far ten million cabbage plants
t i,f nw s.t,iwi.v avp ftf $96,382.35 tn each coun- have been shipped to growers
tViotr ,;n Koo-m o-iun tiplr. t.v. Mrs. Annie. L. O'Kerrv. adminis- i,LW """
NO EXAMINATION REQUIRED
to growers in
and other Northern
evening, they will begin to give ticK-.ty, Mrs. Annie u. u ceriy, aummis-,:-.: , , .
i. tu u j t i a u . Q,-,i.f, 1 states. Within the next week or two,
ets to those who do not abide by the trator, reports. I '
traffic law. I This fund went to pay wages of PefPf tomato and cauliflower plants
uncmnloved and about $3,000,000 wlu ue "'l'Iu.
Longest has . more went to Durchase supplies and
equipment for projects in the various
cities, towns and counties. Since the
Chief of Police W. R
given the following information
the News, and states that he
to
hopes
For this venture about ninety ac
res of land were leased most of
which is located on the Hancock,
Carteret County's whole country
side is now green with various crop3,
especially Irish potatoes and Cab
bage. On account of the severe win
ter that hung on even after spring
should have come, many of the crops
have been held back. Despite this late
cold, Irish potatoes have been grow
ing rapidly sines the weather has be
come somewhat warmer and unless
something unforseen happens they
will be harvested at the usual time.
student Digging will probably start about
body of the Beaufrot Graded School i the 28th of May and continue thru-
is taking part in the production of j out that week,
the May Day Festival, which prom- This year Carteret has about 1,200
ises to be the foremost entertain-: acres planted in Irish potatoes, which
ment of its kind ever to be given in , is about 150 acres more than last
this locality. Upwards of a thousand season. Four hundred and fifty acres
visitors are expected to attend the are devoted to cabbage, which is a
Festival, which will be staged in the bout the usual acreage. The. water
ball park. . ; ;'; melon acreage will be reduced from
j 250 to 200. There are about 75 ac-
res of squash and 100 acres of beets.
Spring Turns Carteret Four hundred acres are devoted to
I . D iIC.l IT vJam the production of the following kinds
Into Beautiful Garden jof bpeans: Ford HookSj Bontiful
i Giant Stringless, Flat and Round;
Many Carteret County folks a I while about twenty-five acres &re
vsuting the Azalea uaraen at w u-j planted, in Cranberry beans, which is
mington and tne Magnolia uaraen ai
Charleston, without realizing fully
how much beauty is being displayed
right here in Carteret County at the
present time. Along the highway to
Swansboro and the side roads can be
seen one of the most unusual natur
al display of flowers to be found in
Eastern Carolina.
Right now the dogwoods are in full
bloom, and prestnt to the motorists
an exquisite picture of nature as they
speed along the recently paved road
in Western Carteret. It seems to the
automobilists as they ride up and
down the roads in that section that
nearly all the trees in that vicinity
are dogwood trees. These trees will
still be crowned in all of their spring
time glory this comir.fc Sunday, and
it may be worth the wl.ile of a good
many people who can t? drive thru
to western Carteret Coun'.:: and see
the beautiful evidence of the coming
of spring that can now be soen in
the form of the flowering dogwood.
In other sections of the county may
be seen millions of white and red
blooms of the wild honeysuckle, or
wild' azalea. And all over Carteret is
a myriad of wild' and culitvated flow
ers that spring has turned into a
flower garden of pleasing and varied
colors.
that the motorists of Beaufort willi,CWWA has ended, other forms 0f j Stanton and Pinner places. Since the
co-onerate with him and the ponce ,-v ii0f har .mul Beginning, irom iweive 10 a nunureu
department in the enforcement of n.-nc-j r,j n, i;t ,,fk K(!q and seventy-five people have been
the regulations necessary to the pub- 841.27 in relief funds, including
lie safety. When drivers park their those to Greensboro and High Point;
vehicles on the south side of Front ; Mecklenburg was second, receiving
Street or the west side of Turner inth0 county and in Charlotte, $52,
Street. thev must either see that asq rs.
they are parked BETWEEN the white received $374,575.60; Buncombe and ; continue the production ot plants
lines, stand an excellent chance Asheville got $388,351.43, and Dur-here,ln Carteret for the shipment to
nf farino- thp mavnr in Police Court . eioc qoi an northern growers. The Francis Stokes
When motorists park on the north I Carteret county reecived $166.-
side of Front Street or on the east 361.52 as compared with the aver
side of Turner Street, they must be'age 0f $96,382.35 for each of the 100
parked so that the right side of thejC0Unties of the State, Mrs. DBegS
vehicles win touch the curb ana reDorted.
employed in the planting, cultivation
and pulling of the plants.
Mr. Stokes is pleased with results
of this somewhat experimental ven
ture here this spring, and intends to
'Seed Company is located at Wood
bury, N. J.
I TOBACCO CHECKS ARRIVE
WITHIN the white line that paral
lels the curb.
Sales of barrels, baskets, crates
and other packing cases and contain-
, ers, when made to producers and
wnen parting on an omer and contractors engaged ,
lit luwii, wie unvcia niusi jain. mci
' " ffrrtwin w oiirl nrnr1iirin(r will ha nlnaa.
In the past many drivers havci. . f roaaa n , nt
right,
either driven right on by stop corn-'
ers or have barely slowed down,'-
drivers must bring their automobiles
to a COMPLETE 1STOP at ALL STOP
CORNERS. Furthermore, he ..says
that there is a state law to the'ef-
A hundred and thirty-five checks
were received by Farm Agent Over
street yesterday for the rental and
equalization of government tobacco
contracts. Mr. Overstreet requests
that no one call at the office for his
ject to the retail general sales tax'eclLunlessAhe ceiv a ?ard fr.om
I him that his check has arrived. This
wil save much time and confusion,
Mr. Overstreet stated.
fe..thno"7hltck,may be Jpfrked taii the-lthve
within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant, tax the rVenue off
Cold Causes Gladioli
Season Somewhat Late
a new variety for this vicinity.
Floating Theatre Here
For Week's Production
The Original Floating Theatre,
the one Edna Ferber travelled on in
order to get her "local color" for
her now-famous book, "Show Boat",
returned Monday and is playing the
week here. This same "Show Boat"
was here last autumn, and its pro
ductions were greatly enjoyed by the
crowds that thronged the theatre at
every performance.
"ISaintly Hypocrits and Honest
Sinners" was presented Monday ev
ening. "Other People's Business"
Tuesday evening, and "Smiling
Through" last evening. Tonight
"Within the Law" will be presented,
with the "Rosary" and "Tamed and
How" Friday and Saturday evenings
respectively. The floating Theatre
troup numbers thirty people, and
features a first-rate orchestra.
MONDAY WILL BE THE LAST
DAY FOR LISTING PROPERTY ,
The last day for listing your prop- j
erty will be Monday, April 30. The j
list takers ask that every one that ,
has not listed to do so Friday, so
that there will not be too great a
rush Saturday.
FOUR DEFENDANTS TRIED
BY MAYOR MONDAY NIGHT
Four defendants were brought be
fore Mayor Sayard Taylor when Po
lice Court convened Monday even
ing. The cases were as follows:
Bert Lloyd and Tom Noe, drunken
ness, fined five dollars or ten days
with the street force.
Linwood Taylor and M. C. Willis,
failing to stop at stop corner, two
fifty or five days with the street
force.
Solicits Co-operation
During the absence of W.
G. Mebane, the editor of the
Beaufort News, who is receiv
ing treatment at the Charlotte
Sanatorium, the paper will be
edited by James G. White
hurst, a former member of the
Beaufort News staff, who has
not been connected with the
paper since last October.
The News' personnel earnest
requests that the advertisers,
readers and other friends of
the paper will co-operate In
every way, so that a creditable
newspaper may be published.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Revenue Maxwell holds in a ruling
just issued. When such packing cas
es'or containers are sold for consum-
yption by thep roducer or grower and
not resold, they are taxable as re-
ee per cent sales
ffiffif.ial saA
ne siaies inai uiu law wm oe ngiuiy Dr. A. T. Allen, State superinten
enforced here in this community from jdent of p;i,,ic instruction haa been!
now on- j advised b Senator J. W. Bailey in j
Chief Longest states in addition Washington that National Recovery
that he has no desire to bring any Administrator Harry Hopkins had:
one into Police Court, but that if af- approved a grant of $500,000 for
ter this week of warning a driver per-' North Carolina .teachers. In advance
sists in violating the traffiffic ordi-' 0f receipt of conditions, Dr. Allen
nance in any way he will have no ' said this fund would go to completing
other alternative than to arrest the ' tio cnlnrips nf tpnpViPi-s fm- thp full
person. He says that traffic, especial- j eight months, as none of it can be ! Pbably be marketed about May 15
lv on Front Ktrep.t on Saturdav. has naari t.n 0i,rmioort v,p sniarion that I The reason that Mr. Hayne- has on
become rather disorderly, but that 'have been paid during the year. lv about four acres in flowers at the
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Raleigh, April 20 More than twice
as many marriage licenses were is
sued in North Carolina during the
last half of 1933 than in the same
period in 1932, or 13,998 as against
6,458, as reflected in the cold and
unsentimental cash record of Commis
sioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell,
whose office collected three for each
license issued, or $19,373 for the
last half of 1932 and $41,994 for the
last half of 1933.
While lifting of the economic re
straint is given some credit for the
huge increase, lifting of the re
straints on issuance of licenses is
given the major part of the credit.
The social legislation enacted a dec
ade ago, requiring the bride and
groom to undergo certain physical
and mental eraminations, including
veneral diseases for the groom only,
was attacked in the 1933 session of
the General Assembly, especially by
border county representatives, until
that law was repealed, along with the
requirement for file notice of inten
tion to marry if either of the con
tracting parties was under 21 years
of age.
Women's organizations fought to
retain what they had secured in this
social legislation, but the call for
restoration of revenue from that
source was loud. Other surrounding
states did not have such desirable
laws, so they were getting the mar
riage license fees. Now the groom
merely makes affadivit with the regis
ter of deeds that he does not have,
has not had for two years, active tu
berculosis or a veneral disease. Also,
to keep the record straight, North
Carolina couples marrying in other
states are required to hie the cer-
S. E. Hayne, who grows Hayne
Quality Gladioli, now has about four
acres devoted to gladioli and other j tificate in the groom's home county,
cut flowers. Mr. ttayne is planting The first full six months of oDeration
restores the fees.
a -i. t c
tlUi miwt'ls at liitf dum's laim, vviutii
is near the Pinner place. In addition
to the gladioli, Mr. Hayne has sweet
peas, shasta daisies and helianthus.
He says that his first gladioli will
the enforcement of the traffic ordi
nance will straighten this out and
will in the course of a few weeks
meet the approval of practically all
concerned.
that
This amount is expected to bring the j Prese.nt time, is
fnnri nr. t hp amnnnt nopripri fin. Will have & SUCCeSSlOll
ian rtsnrino. trip tpslrVip- thnt mllpfl nf ' rather
than
this year he
of flowers,
large quantities at one
a shortage appearing in
ments.
the allot-
North Carolina Governor
Tried by Carteret Judge
time only. Mr. Hayne is experiment
ing this year with other bulbous
j flowers, in an effort to find others
beside the gladioli that may be grown
here successfully.
JAMES DUDLEY SERIOUSLY
INJURED WHEN RUN OVER
In most counties the figures are
doubled, or more, but in some, espec
ially border counties, greater increas
es are seen. In Perquimans the num
ber increased nine-fold, in Scotland
seven times, in Avery and Columbus
six times; in Anson, Hertford1,
Hoke and Orange, five times; in
Granville, Richmond, Robeson and
Rockingham, four times. Macon
shows an increase from two to 208,
which may or may not be an error.
Dare and Washington alone showed
decreases.
Carteret county showed 60 licenses
issued before and 81 after the modi
fication of the license laws for the
two six months periods.
More than 225 young mountain
boys and girls have enrolled in the
4-H clubs being organized in Clay
County by D. G. Allison, farm agent.
W. II. Marks and wife to Lillie
Marks Kirkman, 1 lot Morehead City,
for $5.
W. A. Allen Liq. Agt. to F. . R.
Bell et al, art lot Beaufort, for
$440.68.
Wallace M. Quinn and wife to
Quinn Menhaden Fisheries Inc., 6 ac
res, Beauofrt Township, for $10.
" C. S. Carrow, Atty in Fact to E.
F. Middleton Inc. T. D. 550 acres
Straits Township, for $1750.
A North Carolina Governor was
tried here in Recorder's Court Tues
day morning, but the evidence was
insufficient for conviction, so Judge
Paul Webb found him not guilty.
This North Carolina "Governor" was
Governor Bryant, an Upper North
River negro, who was charged with
assaulting Charlie Phillips, young
white man of the same community,
pointing a gun at him on the twenty-second
of April, and with carry
ing a concealed weapon.
Charlie and his mother both tes
tified that Governor delivered a quan
ti ty of whiskey to a couple of cus
tomers and receive money for it.
Whereupon Charlie tried to collect
thirty cents the colored man owed
him. This infuriated the Negro, Char
lie testified, and he threatened to kill
him and even drew a gun from his
pocket and pointed it at him.
Gene Spnngle, young Beaufort
man, who Charlie claimed was on of
Governor's customers, testified that
! he was on hand at the time, but that
there was no gun drawing or sale of
j liquor. He stated that this was mere-
i ly a misunderstanding and a distur-
Sadie Monroe, widely know More
head City negress, was brought Into
court on a charge of keeping a house
of prostitution. Edward Price and
Nora Henderson were charged' with
prostitution. As these two cases grew
out of the same alleged trangression,
these were consolidated for simplic
ity of trial. All thiee defendants
pleaded not guilty.
Officer Clarence Peletier testified
that he obtained a search warrant
for the purpose of searching Sadie's
home for liqor. When he and Officer
Iredell Salter and Chief J. N. Willis
While walking on the causeway tQ
ward Beaufort last night about ten
she told them that she had rented ( o'clock, James Dudley was run aown
the room to a man and his wife for ! by on unknown automobile and was
the afternoon and that they were I seriously if not fatally injuivd.
then taking a "nap." The officers in-j He was shortly removed to the More
sisted upon the door being opened. . I head City Hospital, ar.d whsn the
Whereopon Sadie knocked several (News went to press this afternoon he
times on the door and requested ad- i had not regained consciousness. It
mission. After several minutes had is known that he sustained a serious
passed, Officer Peletier testified that'ly fractured skull, but owing to his
Edward Price came to the door and j unconscious condition further exami
they told him they wanted to search ; nation has been postponed. During
the room for whiskey.' When no whis-jthe past year or two, Mr. Dudley has
key was found they started to leave, jbeen employed as storekeeper here
But Edward Price acted somewhat f0r the Federal Emergency Relief.
peculiarly, so the officer asked him
whether he and the woman in the .CONDUCT LAST RITES FOR
bed, who had covered hr face when ATLANTIC WOMAN TUESDAY
the officers entered the room, were.
married. At first Price claimed that Mrs. Dora Morris passed away
they had been married two weeks a- Monday morning at her home in At
go in Wilmington, but later said that Jantic, after an illness of only a few
thpv were unmarried. Officer Peletier hm, rinrnf.inn. Funeral services were
(testified! that Price was fullly clothed ' conducted from the late home Tues-
SEED LOAN APPLICATIONS
SHOULD BE MADE AT ONCE
All applications for seed loans must
be in by May 1st County Farm Agent
Overstreet stated to a iNews reporter
this week. Mr. Overstreet urgently
requests that all desiring loans to
make applications at once.
when he opened the door for the jay afternoon at two o'clock, and
officers. were held bv the Rev. C. A. Lineber-
It was the opinion of the court peI.( 0f Marshallberg, assisted by the
that the circumstantial evidence was ReV. R. W. Barfield, of Atlantic. The
not sufficient for the conviction of gongs sung at the funeral were: "A
Nora Henderson and Edward Price hd0 With Me," "Old Rugged Cross,"
on the prostitution charge, but that "I Can See the Lights at Home," and
the reputation of Sadie Monroe was "The Last Mile of the Way."
that the negress did keep a house of Mrs. Mason is survived by one son
prostitution. Nora and Edward were and three daughters: Irvin Morris,
acquitted, but Sadie was found guilty
and sentenced to serve Bix months in
the county jail, suspended upon the
condition that she pay .the costs of
the case immediately and be of good
(behavior for a period of two years.
She was turned over into the custo
dy of the sheriff until the costs were
paid.
The case against George- W. Smith,
and Miss Myrtle Morris, Mesdames
William Mason and Mervin Nelson.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
went there, they found the door to
one of the rooms locked. When .they 'coitinued under former order,
tried to get Sadie to open the door,
Harold Russell, Bogue, and Rose-
lyn ewis, Newport.
Harvey D. Lewis, Morehead City
and Mary E. Elliott, Newport,
C. M. Merrill, and Sarah L. Smith,
who carries the mail to Salter Path, ; Beaufort.
was continued until next Tuesday, John W. Smith, of Atlantic, and
upon the request of the defendant. jMarjorie E. Murphy, fo Davis,
A't Smith, charged with slander, was;
THE BEAUFORT NEWS
$1.50 A YEAR.
TIDE TABLE
Information ak 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 ii
whether near the inlet or at
the htads of the estuaries.
High Tida Low Tid
Friday, April 27
a. m. 12:30 a.
p. m. 12:35 p.
Saturday, April 28
a. m. 1:15 a.
p. m. 1:15 p.
Sunday, April 29
m. 1:59 a.
m. 1:56 p.
Monday, April 30
6:23
6:43
7:06
7:27
7:49
8:10
m.
m.
ra
ni,
m.
8:34
8:57
9:20
9:46
10:09
10:38
11:01
11:08
3:20
3:22
m. 2:43 a.
in. 2:37 p.
Tuesday, May
m.
m.
Wednesday, May 2
m. 4:16 a.
m. 4:10 p.
Thursday, May 3
m. 5:08 A,
5:07 p.
p. m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m,