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VOLUME XXIII
SIX pages THIS week THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1934
Ten Years Ago
THIS WEEK
Morehead Nine Gains
3-2 Victory May Day
EDITORIAL NOTE
The Beaufort News begins
herewith the publication of a
column of news that was print
ed in this newspaper ten years
ago this week. It is sincerely
hoped that the present readers
cf the News will find this col
umn of interest and will follow
it from week to week. We wili
do our best to make it as inter
esting as possible.
By A. R. RICE
The score: 3 to 2, wtih Morehead
SEERINGAPPROVAL
25 ROAD PROJECTS
City o the big end This about cli- ,May Construct Highways
THIS COUNTY IN
DEFAULT DEEPLY
I I
maxed the great May Day's activi
ties as far as local sports fandom is
concerned, although it seemed to put
no damper on the Queen's Ball of
the same evening in regards to the
crowd. She was there in all her re
galia and the same QUEEN who had
North Carolina Near Fu
ture Which Will Cost
$1,000,000
Carteret County in Default
$665,096.00 In Interest and
Principal; Debt Amounts
to $3,301,500-00
Most anybody can be a millionaire
now if German money will make him
one. Guthrie and Bell, local drug
gists, received a supply of German
marks recently, which they are giv
ing away to customers. A 100,000
mark note is given free with each
purchase. There was a time some
years ago when a note like t hese
would have been worth nearly $25,-000.
There will be a called meeting of
the U. D. C. Monday afternoon at
the home of the President Mrs. C. A.
Clawson at 3:00 o'clock.
The Beaufort Public Library has
recently added a number of new
books to its collection. They are
works of fiction by wel-known and
popular authors. The library charges
the small sum of $1 a year for mem
bership in it and hopes to be able
to increase its membership so that
more new books can be bought.
The hotels in Beaufort are making
their usual spring preparation for
the influx of tourists that is expect
ed to be at its height here during Ju
ly and August. There about ten mo
tor boats, operated by local men,
that will be in service constantly dur
ing the summer to take the sight
seeing visitor wherever he wishes to
go on the multiferious waterways of
Carteret County or Eastern North
Carolina.
St. Paul's School won her second
successive victory of the season Tues
day when she vanquished Morehead
City High School 12 to 2 on the local
. diamond. The batteries were Eugene
King and Gherman Holland for St
Paul's and Willis and Bell for the vis
itors. St. Paul's made 12 hits and the
visitors 5.
' By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Twenty-five highway piyjiicls to
, . . i cost auouG ai.uuu.uuu. nave oeen
u!Vr..y Wn lne UUe 01 WUeen 01 !sent to Washington for annroval bvl Payment of the principa
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By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Raleigh, May 1 Fifty-five of North
Carolina's 100 counties have default-
of
iuof NUMBER 18
put
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the Bureau r.f Ptil.Hi- Ron.ls. nnd. if their bonds or ntes amounting to
About the ball game Mcrchead I approved, will be included in the let- . ' i.uu and " counties, iaiR
City quickly got off to a two run
lead on hits by Dill, Davis and Jos
in in the .first inning after two were
out. The side would have been retir
ed but for a misjudged fly by C. Rie?.
Thethird tally came in the fourth on
base blows by Joslyn arid M Salter,
interspersed with a fielder's choice.
From then until the termination of ; following counties: Bertie,
the game, Longest had the enemy
completely at his mercy, but the dam
age had been done.
ting to be held May 8. The list in
eludes nearly 50 miles of highway
work, grading, structures and top
soil, gravel, sand asphalt and bitu
minous surfacing; 14 city and town
projects of paving from a block to
a mile in length, and two bridges and ,
ly the same, have defaulted in their
interest payments to the amount of
$5,440,334, according to a compila
tion made by Lewis & Hall, invest
ment securities, Greensboro. The fi-
PRICE 5c SINGLE C g
Hundreds 1 i
Festival
Bright Cool Day Brought Many People From
All Over Carteret County to Witness Most
i Elaborate May Day Festival Ever Staged
I Here by Beaufort Graded School.
Shipped 30,000 Dozen
Crabs Month of April
approaches. These projects are in the ,at tosome cases the figures are es-
During the month of April more
than 30.000 dozen soft crabs were
nancial information given is as of j shipped from Beaufort. This is a lit
January 1, 1934, but it is explained ,tle better than the average for April.
Rev Mr. E. L. Hillman, of Scot
land Neck, who has been conducting
a series of revival services in the
Methodist Church since Monday, is
meeting with success in the size of
his congregations and in the encour
agement given by members of all the
churches in town. The usual invita
tions have not yet been extended to
those who would accept Christianity
and affiliate themselves with some
Christian Church. The Baptists, es
pecially, have given their enthusias
tic support to the campaign in at
tendance at the services and in spec
ial music by the choir.
Baptists Will Conduct
Evangelistic Services
On Wednesday evening, May 9th,
evangelistic services will begin at the
First Baptist Church of Beaufort and
continue through Friday, May 18th.
The pastor, Rev. J. W. Morgan, will
be assisted by Dr. J. W. Kincheloe,
pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Rocky Mount.
Dr. Kincheloe is one of the out
standing men in the Baptist ministry
of the state.. Approximately 1900
members have been received into the
church during the seventeen years of
his pastorate. He is a man of unique
and attractive personality, spiritual
but practical and resourceful.
A measure of his ability and real
Organization of a hotel company nower is seen in the fact that he has
which is to take over the property ' continually grown in the esteem of
known as the Inlet Inn was complet- his congregation and of the entire
ed Monday afternoon at a meeting city through seventeen years. At the
of the subscribers to the stock. The'present time his congregations are
meeting was held in the offices of J. the largest in the history of the
F. Duncan, who presided over it. V. 'church.
T. Davis was made secretary of the He is in constant demand for evan
meeting. A majority of the subscrib- gelistic meetings and the fires of
ers to stock were present. evangelism never die out in his own
l church,
- Sea bass are plentful on the ocean
fishing grounds now and biting free
ly so Captain Jim Ireland reports.
Captain Ireland came in Monday with
1040 pounds which he caught alone.
These fish were caught in 13 fathoms
of water. The chief diff.eulty about
catching fish in the ocean has been
the bad weather. There has been a
great deal of stormy weather and
this has made it bad for the deep sea
fishermen.
The localites came to life, finally,
in the eighth stanza, after miserably
falling down in no less than seven
of the preceding innings in which ten
men were left stranded on the base
tracks, to push one run across the rub
ber on G Hassell's base on balls, his
steal of second and Chadwick's two
bagger. The final tally occurred in
the last frame and kept the thousand-odd
spectators in an uproar un
til the last man was retired. This run
came after two were out via R. Has
sell's free ticket to first, his steal
and Brooks' single.
Numerous opportunities were ac
corded the locals- to score, but
they failed to take advantage of
them.
Longest disposed of 14 by the
strike-out route and allowed eight
hits while Davis was whiffing 12 and
giving up only three hits.
This was the second meetnig of
these two clubs this season with the
standings showing one victory each,
,Beaufort High having previously de
feated their neighbors at M. City by
the overwhelming score of 10 to 3.
iBrooks and Wade served them up,
respectively. By a toss, Coach Pot
ter's lads invade Morehead City for
the third game in this string, the elev
enth. Newport plays here tomorrow,
Friday.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Clyde Harris and Effie Goodwin,
Cedar Island.
J. W. Stewart, Beaufort and Ethel
Bell, Daytona Beach, Fla.
Chas. N. Fulcher and Lillian Nel
son, Marshallberg.
Gaston Smith, Atlantic, and Ma
tilda Davis, Davis.
Halifax,
Martin, Perquimans-Gates, Wilson-
Greene, Johnston, Robeson, Chatham,
Alamance, Guilford, Union, Alleghany
Caldwell, Wilkes, Henderson, Mitch
ell, Buncombe and Madison.
After this letting some more than
$2,000,000 will remain of the $9,
522,000 in emergency federal aid
funds allotted to North Carolina, and
the balance is expected to be includ
ed in two or three other lettings in
the next month or two.
General Hugh S. Johnson, nation
al recovery administrator, has accept
ed an invitation to address the 32nd
annual convention of the North Car
olina Merchants Association at High
Point May 7-8, Williard L. Dowell
secretary, announces, stating that if
for any reason General Johnson can
not come, he will send a spring man
on the opening afternoon. Revenue
Commissioner A. J. Maxwell will
speak advocating adoption of the pro
posed new onstitution and the next
afternoon Attorney General D. G.
Brummitt will speak opposing its a
doption. David Ovens, Charlotte, pres
ident of the National Dry Goods As
sociation, will speak the opening af
ternoon and a banquet will be held
that night.
On the program for the second day
are Ernest G. Hastings, editor and
publisher of the Dry Goods Econo
mist, New York; John C. Watson,
president of the New York State
Council of Retail Merchants, Albany
on" the national recove
the sales tax. After
ficers and receipt of invitations for
the next meeting, a round table dis
cussion will be held and it may be
safe to say that the State sales tax
will be considered. A barbecue af
ter adjournment will end the meet
ing. Summer hours become effective in
the State offices in Raleigh May 1,
the offices opening at 8:30 A. M. and
closing at 4:40 P. M., Sautrdays
timated and in some others they
were secured a few months before or
after January 1.
. The compilation shows that the
public debt of the State, overlapping,
is $531,417,397.00, divided into $176
806,000 in State debt, $158,103,184.-
00 in county debt, $150,508,213.00
The season was nearly thirty days
late this year, due to the unusually
cold winter that extended over into
the spring months.
The buyers are now paying the
catchers three cents each for the
pealers and fifty cents a dozen for
soft crabs. As a result of th" cold,
blustery weather in the north, the
in city and town debt, and estimated demand for these soft shell crabs
township and district debt, $46,000,- ha3 not kept pace with the supply
000. At least $15,000,000 of the to- hence the comparatively low price,
tal is overlapping, as that amount was When the weather becomes more a-
borrowed by the State and loaned tolgreeable it is expected that the de-
counties for school bulidings
This is about $163.00 for each
man, woman and child in the State.
The assessed valuation of proper
ty in the State was $2,753,73G,2S3
in 1932 and was reduced to $2,083,
171, 716 in 1933, an average reduc
tion of 23.79 per cent. In only two
counties, Dare and Graham, were in-
mand for the crabs will increase
Last summer there was a shortage
of crabs in Maryland and Virginia
and as a result of this there was a
considerable demand for crabs up to
the time of the hurricane in Septem
ber. It is expected that this shortage
will be felt this season also, and as a
consequence of this soft crabs will
creases in valuation. The average tax,be shipped from this point through
rate for 1932-33 was $1.05 in theout the summer.
100 counties, while in 1933-34 on the j The crabbing industry is now fur
reduced valuation it was $1.10. Oflnishin? lucrative employment for
the 1932 levy, 75.5 per cent had hundreds of men in Eastern Carter-: was by far the largest and prettiest
The most elaborate May Day Fes
tival ever held in Beaufort was wit
nessed here Tuesday by hundreds of
people from all over Carteret Coun
ty. The day dawned bright and com
fortably cool, and the beautiful day
brought many out to see the festivi
ties of the day that may not have
come otherwise.
At 10:30 o'clock the more than five
hundred students of Beaufort Grad
ed 'School formed in line four a
breast under the excellent direc
tion of Capt. E. Walter Hill. This
was led by St. Paul's School band and
was followed by sixteen gaily decorat
ed floats, which were sponsored by
the following local businesses: Com
munity Club, which won first prize,
Carteret Hardware Co., winner of
the second prize, The Great Atlantic
& Pacific Tea Company, which won
honorable mention, Loftin Motor
Company, which also won honorable
mention, House Drug Store, Bell's
Drug Store, Seabreeze Theatre, Noe
Hardware Co., Adair & Rice's Ambu
lance Service, Sam Lipman & Sons,
American Legion, Junior Class,
Greensboro Daily News, Johnson
Saunders Dry Cleaning Co., Ideal
Dry Cleaners and Paul's Garage.
It was the general opinion of the
hundreds who saw this parade that it
parade ever witnessed in this com
munity. From the school campus, the
parade marched down Live Oak
Street to Front, thence to Orange
Street, on to Ann Street, back to
been collected and of the 1933 levy, j et County, and will probably con-!
34.6 per eent had been collected itinue to do so for several months to
January 1, 1934. jcome, if the demand for crabs hold
Carteret county figures contained !un-
v. n Crabs are shinned in various size
Population. 1930 census ' ...16.900 packages, ranging from ten pounds in Live Oak and on to the campus. Many
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plause as they passed down the
streets. Bill Blades Parkin attired
or rather UN-attired as Clara Bow,
truck. Shipments sent by common 1 aic a snaKe 'dance on the bea Breeze
carrier were designated as follows: -theatre tloat, and made hundreds all
but collapse in laughter as he passed
Land area, square miles 573,welRnc 10 .slxtv I'"s- ?i""r -"-""-""6
Assessed value, 1932 ..$13,997,990 14-0'4 Packages were smppea irom
Assessed value, 1933 ....$9,531,154 ; Beaufort by common carrier, besides
RttdTTrtinn in vnWintr Qi isome crabs that were shipped by
Total county debt $3,301,500
TWohH- in nvinninnl $14?; (111(1
ry program and I Default in interest rIZII$520,096 ' Baltimore, 342 packages; Philadel
election of of- Tax rate, 1932-33 $1.40 Phia 171l New York Cltv- 3'073!
Tax rate 1933-34 $1.50 souln Carolina points, o; vvasiung-
Percentage 1932 levy collected .-32,, 310; Richmond, 33; Illinois,
Percentage 1933 levy collected i3"ts, 4; Norf1,k; 6: Chicago, 61;
.Boston, 68; and Maryland points, 1.
A survey has shown that Japan '
MAYOR TAYLOR SENTENCES
FIVE DEFENDANTS MONDAY
Fisherman Who Changed Rebate
Tickets Brought Before Judge',
On a charge of changing the fig
ures' on the gasoline rebate tickets he
sent to the State Commission of Rev
enue, Jim Lupton of Lola, was
brought into Recorder's Court Tues
day morning and was convicted of
the charge.
Cecil Morris, of Atlantic, was first
placed on the stand. He admitted that
he was one of the owners of J. R.
Morris and Son of Atlantic, and that
hed had on numerous occasions sold
Mr. Lupton gasoline. When shown
some of the rebate tickets sent to Ral
eigh by Mr. Lupton, Mr. Morri3 de
nied issuing some of them and also
denied that he signed them.
A. G. Cox, of Mount Olive, who
represented the State Revenue De
partment, told on the stand about
trying on several occasions to get up
-with Mr. Lupton, but that the man
was always out fishing.
Mr. Lupton stated that he bought
part of the gasoline from Bill Daniels
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Mathis left Twn aprvice will be held dailv. at' t -i- vont t r
Sunday for Lewiston, Mr. Mathis will io o'clock in the morning and 7:45 jujorris and Son. Mr. Lupton said that
in the evening. Mr Daniels did not have blank re-
runa store at a mill near Lewiston.
Mr. Richard Whitehurst has recent
,bate tickets, and that he did not con-
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iy entered tne employ ol the Bank day morning for New York, Boston igider it ft wrongful act to make out
ui uenuion. !and (joncord, N. ii., wnere tney wm u. own tj
Miss Julia Rumley has accepted a 'visit relatives and friends. They will
position with Bayard Taylor. be gone several weeks.
l his own tickets for the gasoline pur
chased of Mr. Daniels.
He was found guilty. Prayer for
Messrs. Eld;r Lund and J. O. Rog4 Mrs. M. C. Holland left yesterday 'judgment continued upon condition
ers, of Arizona, who are ministers of .for Richmond where she will enter a
the Church cf Latter Day Saints, 1 hospital for treatment.
commonly kr.Dwn as the Mormon
Church went to Sealevel Saturday
where they say they will hold preach
ing services.
Miss Neva Willis, daughter of Mr.
Solomon Willis of Beaufort, return
ed home last. Saturday from Craven
has more than 2,500 sites on which
hydro-electric power plants could be
developed on a commercial basis. .
Five defendants were tried in Po-
12:30, half an hour earlier than th0;lice Court Monday evening by May
winter opening and closing hours. ,or Bavard Taylor- Thev were as fo1"
. i lows :
Bernice Williams, a man, charged
with fighting, was given the privi
lege of paying $5 or serving ten
days with the street force. He decid-
that the cash-and-carry policy was
the best.
Wade Golden, of Bettie, was tried
season he estimated the number of, on two counts of drunkenness, and
gallons of gasoline he had used dur- judgment in each of the counts was
ing the season, he said, and boost-,tnat tne aeienaant eitner pay a nne
ed the rebate tickets given him byjof $5 or serve ten days on each
Charles S. Wallace, distributor of, count. He preferred to serve the 20
Texaco gasoline, at Morehead City. days.
He informed the court that he was! John Bunyan Congleton, charged
not trying to steal anything from the jwith theft, was sent to Recorder's
State, but was only trying to get" Court for trial.
what he considered to rightfully be- Ida and Thelma Chadwick, color-
long to him. He said that he did notjed, charged with fighting, were ecah
receive rebate tickets from any com- given ten days, and they are at pres
pany but Wallace in Morehead City. ' ent serving this in giving the Town
He was found guilty. Prayer for I Hall its spring cleaning.
judgment was continued upon con-1
dition that the defendant pay the May Day Concludes
costs at once. I ir?ji r l U..I
John Bunyan Congleton was con- VV lin Lsance l iiui
victed of stealing a chicken from the
coop of C. V. Hill, found guilty, and ! With the Hut packed to its capac-
then turned loose, because Judge ity, Tuesday evennig, the beven Aces
Paul Webb said that the county of- did them.. - proud to the utter en
ficials did not want him in pail so joyment of i ,. probable 150 occu-
that they would have to feed him, and pants. This ounce climaxed the May
the State roads officials were of the: Day festivities, a day that saw thous
same opinion. ands enjoy the parade, races, ball
Lester Gillikin, of Morehead City, 'game, etc.
was convicted of driving a motor ve-j With their variations of musical
hide on the streets of Morehead City numbers from Sweet Alice Blue
by.
Following the return of the parade
to the campus of the school, a carni
val was held in the ball park. Charlie
Styron won the boxing match, Ed.
Hancock the bicycle race, Naomi Con
way and Leone Bell the three-legged
race, James Runnings the sack race
and Ancil Chapin and Julius Eric
son the clown race.
At 1: 30 o'clock, with the water
and the forest as a background for
he stage setting of the Pageant of
the Nations, in which four hundred
school children took part, several
(Continued on page five)
DEADLINE FOR LOANS
EXTENDED
County Farm Agent Hugh
Overttreet hu asked the Newt
to announce that the time for
making applications for the
Emergency Crop Loans has
been extended to May 15th
According to the N. C. Highway
Bulletin bids (have been asked on
projects Number 212 Crvaen County
which is a part of route 10. This
project 9.9 miles in length is between
Croatan and Havelock where it con-
County, where she has been teaching nects with the Morehead City-New-school
during the past winter. j port road. The bids asked are for
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Duncan move ! j grading alone. The lettnig of this
today from their former residence on - contract will bring the Central High
Front Street tothe Simpson house enjway that much nearer Beaufort also
Queen Street. as it connects with the Beaufort end
Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Lay left Mon- of the highway.
that the defendant pay the costs of
the court. C. R. Wheatly represented
Mr. Lupton, and he entered a plea
of not guilty at the beginning of the
trial, but later changed it to nolo
contendere.
Gown to Tiger Rag this organiza
tion played to their third dance as
semblage. The orchestra is unique in
that six of its numbers are from
Beaufort and one from Newport.
They are: Frank Thomas, trumpet,
Charles Thomas, sax, Alvin Congle
on April 25 while intoxicated. At
the outset of the trial a plea of
guilty was entered by the young man.
Sergeant A. T. Moore, of the State
Highhway Patrol, and Patrolman J.
A. Merritt, testified in the case. Pray
er for judgment was continued upon
condition that the defendant pay theton, trombone, Billy King Taylor,
costs of the court. banjo, Carelton Garner, piona, Wil-
William Willis, then of Newport jliam Willis, bass violin and William
and formerly of Hatteras, pleaded , Tyler, drums.
George W. Smith, of Salter Path, guilty to a charge of driving a motor Thursday night, the tenth, another
was in court on the same charge that vehicle upon the streets of Morehead j script dance will be put on at the
Mr. upton was convicted of. His City while intoxicated. After hearing Legion Hut with this band playing,
attorney, C. R. Wheatly, entered a 'the testimony of Officers Iredell Sal- .Everyone is urgently asked to attend.
plea of nolo contendere. When Mr.. ter and Clarence Peletier, Judgel
Smith was placed on the stand he Webb gave the defendant a 90-day j A large transport airplane of
said that he bought gasoline for sev- jail and road sentence, capias not to French design has twin passenger
eral gears at Salter Path from a num issue within a week. This would per-'compartments with landing gear un
ber of oil dealers at Morehead City mit the defendant to leave for other' der each, the pilot's cabin being a
and Swansboro. At the end of the parts. bove and between them .
TIDE TABLE
Information a to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are approx
Imately correct and based on
table's furnished by tha U. S.
Geodetic Survey. Soma allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in tha wind and also with
respect to the locality, that la
whether near tha Inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High Tide Low Tide
Friday, Mmy 4
11:32 a. m. 6:06 a. m.
11:57 p. m. 6:14 p. m.
Saturday, May 5
12:29 a. m. 7:08 a. m.
12:58 p. m. 7:26 p. m.
Sunday, May 6
8:09 a. m.
1:33 a. m.
2:08p. m.
Monday, May
2:44 a. m.
3:25 p. m.
Tuesday
i. m.
8:35 p. m.
3 :58
4:32
9:07 a. m.
9:42 p. m.
May 8
10:01 a. m.
. m.
m. 10:44 p
Wednesday, May 9
5:00 a. m. 10:53 a. m
5:28 p. m. 11:01 p. m
Thursday, May 10
5:53 a. m. 11:41 a. m.
6:16 p. m. 11:43 p. m.