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VOLUME XXIII
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1934 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 40
COMMITTEE SENT
TO SEE GOVERNOR
Fishermen Hold Meeting And
Appoint Committee To Go
To Raleigh
Rat"!leJ!i?." ... INJURED WORKMENiMORE IN AUGUST
Recorder's Court had a little long
er session than usual Tuesday. There
were not so many cases but the trial
of one or two of them took a good
jdeal of time. The most protracted
one was that in which J. C. Helms of
PAD) LARGE SUM
Carteret count;.- fishermen repre-1 Morehead City was charged with a
sented by about 150 men assembled ; bandonment and nonsunport. Mr.
at the county courthouse Saturday
to take counsel as to ways and means
of raising the prices of seafood. A
few men were present from other
counties. The meeting was called to
order by Walter Lewis of Morehead
City. T. C. Wade of Morehead City
was made chairman of the meeting
and Rodney Prescott and Lacy Willis
were elected secretaries. Charlie
. Nelson of Harker's Island was elect
ed secretary also but was not pres
ent.. Chairman Wade told the fishermen
that they ought to get better prices
for their product and that they must
Helms vigorously denied the charge
and did not want to have any trial
but as no compromise could be effect
ed, after a time the trial proceeded.
Mrs Helms was the principal wit
ness for the prosecution and she al-
Compensation For Five Year
Period Amounts to Four
Million Dollars
ON RELIEF ROLLS
Harnett County Smallest;
Wide Difference In Coun
ty; State Averages 11.2
Reverend Mr. Wicker
Called To Greenville
Lacking only a few weeks of hav
ing served St. Paul's parish hero
three years as rector the Reverend
Worth Wicker ended his connection
with the church Sunday. His resig
nation and acceptance of a call from
St. Paul's church, Greenville, N. C,
previously made to the vestry, was
bunday
Percent
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Raleigh, Oct. 2 North Carolina j Bt M. R. DUNNAGAN
workers eominir under the State Raloio-h. Oct. 1 North Carolina had made to the congregation
Workmen's Compensation Act have; 11.2 per cent of the State popula-, morning. He will begin his new du
had 139,900 accidents that were re-'Uion or 355,228 persons, on Federal .ties at Greenville immediately,
norted durinir the five vears of on-Vlipf mils Hm-ino- Ancriist. ronort of Mr. Wicker came to Beaufort on
eration of the act, for which they
have received in excess of $4,000,000
leged that Mr. Helms had contribut- and doctors and hospitals have re
ed only a few dollars towards the ceived some 2, $000,000, according to
support of his family in a long time, the biennial report of the N. C. In
said she asked nothing for herself dustrial Commission, now being com-
but thought he ought to help support ! P'lcd
Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, State relief A" baints way, iNovemoer 1, ivol.
a;i tu ct.,f i,ri -ro. I He had previously been rector of
187 families totaling 346,759 per
sons 4.8 persons to the family on
the children. There are four children,
the oldest 19 years of age. P. W.
Lincke, Captain Midgette and a Mr.
Smith, roomers at the Helms home
testified as to Mr. Helms' conduct
stick together if they expected to j and said that he did very little for
accompnsn any ining. leiegrams tne tamily.
were read from Dr. J. M. Parrott,
Suyperintendent of the State Board
of Health and Joshua M. Home of
Rocky Mount, member of the Board
of Conservation and Development ex
tending their best wishes to the fish
ermen. D. L. Ward of New Bern, who is a
member of the Board of Conserva
tion and Development, was present
and responded to calls for a speech.
He assured the meeting of the great
interest he felt in the fishing indus
try and would like to see it prosper.
He said the fishermen ought to orga
nize and have better facilities for
marketing their product.
Paul Kelly of Raleigh, assistant direc
tor of th Ceonservation and Develop
ment Department spoke briefly. He re
gretted that Director Etheridge could
not be present. He said the depart
ment would be very glad to help the
fishermen in any way possible. He
referred to the fact that 800,000
bushels of oysters had been plant
ed in North Carolina waters this
year. He said the fishermen needed
to cooperate with each other and
compromise their differences of op
inion. Freezing plants for keeping
seafood were suggested and grading
fish properly would help. Mr. Allen
representing the Federal Credit
Loan Association said his department
would lend money for planting oys
ters. Captain Lewis of Harker's Is
land said the trouble with the fish
business is that too many fish are
put on the market at one time.
After the speaking was over Wal
ter Lewis offered a motion that a
committee be appointed to go to
Raleigh Tuesday and see Governor
Ehringhaus and try to get him inter
' ested in the fishermen's cause. The
motion was carried and volunteers
were called for and the following a
greed to go to Raleigh: Walter Lew
is Morehead City; L. H. Hardy, Mer
rimon; Duffy' Day, Cedar Island;
Aleck Lewis, Morehead City; John
H. Lewis and Carl Lewis, Harkers Is
land; Ray Hamilton, Sea Level; Van
nie Salter, Broad Creek; T. C. Guth
rie, Morehead City; Captain John A.
Nelson. A motion was passed call-
Mr. Helms made quite a
talk in his behalf. He said
lengthy
he had
The compensation report reflects
relief rolls, along with 8,469 single
residence persons, or a total of 80,656
cases; that is, families and individu
als. This is an increase of 7 per cent
the recent depression, indicating thejin case load over July. All but 13 of
numbers of workers in mills, factor
ies and other activities. The first
year of the act showed the largest
number of accidents, 32,821, when
the mills were all humming in 1929
30 in activity. The drop has been
large and consistent until 1932-33,
contributed as much as he could to ; when there were 23,635 accidents, .32.5, nearly one-third of its popula-
the support of his family, that he and last yar, 1933-34, there was an tion on relief, Brunwick had 31 per-
had been sick and out of work for a increase of some 20 per cent, 28, 'cent, Currituck 29.2 per cent, Gra-
the 100 counties showed an increase
in case load, the report shows.
Harnett had the smallest percent
age of its population on relief, 3.3
per cent, the report shows. Cleve
land had only 3.9 per cent and Beau
fort only 4.8 per cent. Avery had
long time and was unable to do as
much as he wanted to. He said he
was willing now to do any thing he
could. Judge Webb suggested that he
might pay $10 a week but the defen
dant said he could not possibly do
it and did not know what he could
do. The decision of the court was
that he must pay at least $5.00 a
week and start on it at once.
Lucille. Dudley of Morehead City,
a colored woman was tried and con
victed on the charge of stealing two
cartoons of snuff from the store of
W. J. Hales. Judge Webb said she
was an old offender and ought to have
a long sentence. He gave her 12
months in jail.
Governor Bryant, colored, was
convicted of an assault with a deadly
weapon, a knife on Claude Martin,
814 accidents.
Of the 23,635 accidents for 1932
33, 84 were fatal, 644 resulted in
partial permenant disability, 5,959
resulted in total disability for a per
iod, and 16,984 were medical cases
only, with no loss of time. Compen
sation paid that year was $775,420,
while medical and hospftal costs paid
were $382,923. Last, year, 1933-34,
ham 27.9 per cent, Clay 26. 9 per
cent.
Carteret county had 2,926 per
sons, or 17.3 per cent of the coun
ty's population on relief in August.
These included 746 families, total
ing 2,866 persons, and 60 single res
idence persons, a total of 806 cases,
or families and individuals. The
case load in this county increased
15.8 per cent in August over the
case load in July, Mrs. O'Berry's re-
I church at Belhaven. Since coming to
Beaufort Mr. Wicker has been very
active in promoting the welfare of
the church. Its growth during his
pastorate has been remarkable. The
membership increased from 144 to
288 and 169 persons have been bap
tized by Mr. Wicker. The. church
building too has been greatly im
proved. A heating plant has been in
stalled and improvements made to
the interior of the building. A val
uable chalice and paten have been
acquired.
St. Paul's church in Beaufort was
a mission church for 75 years. It is
now an independent parish. The
church was founded in 1856. St.
! Paul's church in Greenville is an old
parish and the field there is regard
ed as a very promising one. Mr.
and Mrs. Wicker have made many
friends in Beaufort and elsewhere in
this section who regret to see them
leave.
A. AND N. C. ROAD
LEASE FORFEITED
DIRECTORS STATE
Norfolk Southern Is Two Years
Behind on Rent P .ymenU
MAY HAVE COURT ACTION
of the 28,814 injuries, 86 were fatal,
695 resulted in partial permanent ' . sc,i,,
disability, 6,637 in total disability y "
temporarily, and 21,396 were medical! '
cases only. Compensation that year tL Dav Shnnrino
amounted to $7779,491, while doc nree i-rays onuuung
tors and hospitals were paid $338,-' Week Is Permitted
680.
Carteret county had 36 accidents
subject to the act last yeai 1933-34,
of which none were fatal, two were
permanent partial disability, 13 were
filling station operator, and got four medicai oniV) while compensation
months on the roads.
Guy Dudley, 18 year old youth,
charged with having carnal know
ledge of a female- under 16 was ac
quitted. The prosecuting witness,
Callie Buttrey, said that she is 1 1
years old.
Charlie Phillips who had been con
victed of non-support some time ago
was in court, his wife charging that
he has not been complying with the
court's order. He was told that he
must pay her $2.00 a week for the
support of their child or else he
might have to do considerably worse.
Fred Lewis and others from the
JBroad Creek section, assault, case
noil prossed with leave.
Stanly O'Neal of Morehead City, j
Kube Austin and Homer Kolliston of
Hatteras charged with stealing a skiff
from Bryant Guthrie of Morehead
According to federal ' regulations,
duck shooting in North Carolina will
be permitted three"'"days per week,
beginning November 8 and continu
ing for 10 weeks, until January 10,
Days on which hunting will be permit
ted are Thursday, Friday and Satur
day. Twelve of the aggregate of all
kinds of ducks compose the bags lim
it, and a hunter may not have more
than fiv9 of any one kind, nor more
Atlantic Beach and Bridge Co., to than 24 of all kinds in the three-clay
A. Block. 1 lot Atlantic Beach, for I period
$500. Baiting permits will be issued on
paid workers or their families was
$1,132.00 and medical and hospital
costs reached $568.00, the report
shows.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Grady Willis and wife to Annie N.
Joslyn and husband, 68 acres More
head Township, for $10.00.
D. M. Webb et als to James M.
Gilgo, 1 lot Morehead City, for $10.
M. L. Lewis and wife to James Han
cock, 1 lot Morehead City, for $1000.
Mamie L. Hill et al, to Anthony Dud
ley and wife, 1 lot Morehead City,
foj $125.
Sarah Guthrie Lawrence et als to
Cit.v ennf esspd tliAt thpv did it. Thev 1 Wesley Wilson, 1 tract Morehead
were overtaken at Ocracoke and
brought back for trial. The Austin
boy who is 16 years old, was allow
ed to plead guilty to trespass and
ipiaye. ;or judgment was continued,
TI Vt - A -rs r m rvnai an1 a i- fi fin f Vt rifl
ing another meeting for next Satur- said he wouid be responsible for him.
day afternoon at two o'clock to b
held in the court house at which timo
the committee isto report.
Committee See Gorernor
A delegation of 17 m.:i from this
section went before Governor Ehring
haus Tuesday to enlist his aid in
getting better prices for fish. The
Governor said he would take the
matter up with Federal Emergency
Relief officials and see if they could
help in any way. He also said he
would write the wholesale fish deal
ers and ask them to get together
and see if they could not pay bet
ter prices.
I The oi-her two were held for Super
ior Lour; unuer bond or Jfiou eacn.
II. L. Spencer reckless driving,
r.o'.l p.ossed with leave.
Wiiiiam Styron of Morehead City,
ltckless driving; prayer for judg
ment continued and payment of half
the costs.
Judging from the number of per
sons tried by Mayor Taylor on charg
es of drunkenness Monday night some
rather potent stuff must have been
dispensed hereabouts Saturday and
Sunday. The defendants were all
white except one. The record is as
fnllnwa;
Barbour's Machine Shop here has pavmond Smwle. drank and
installed a rather unique welding out- j fighting, convicted and given the priv
. fit by means of which electric weld-Jilege o payin? 7.60 fine or serving
i6 uuuo uu . 1 15 days on the street force.
WELDING OUTFIT INSTALLED
BY BARBOUR'S MACHINE SHOP
DRUNKENNESS MAIN FEATURE
OF POLICE COURT TRIALS
ownship, for $24.
Mamie E. Riggins et al to T. C.
Gillikin, 4.55 acres Marshallberg,
for $300.
Vivian Hancock Willis to Llewllyn
Phillips, 1 lot Morehead City, for
$554.00.
J. H. Blount and wife to P. T.
Watson, 1 lot Morehead Township,
for $600.
Eugene Dudley, Sr., et al to Roy
Merrill, 10 acres Beaufort Township,
for $400
condition that migratory waterfowl
will not be shot after 3 p. m. nor
while resting over water or land;
and each permittee must keep an ac
curate record of the number of per
sons shooting on his premises and of
the species and number killed
Every person hunting wild fowl
during 1934 will be obliged to car
ry a special Duck Stamp in addition
to the state license The stamp will
be procurable from the postoffices,
and the price will be one dollar.
CARTERET COUNTY MEN HELP
RESCUE MANY FROM DROWNING
Two Carteret county men partici
pated in the rescue of people from
the burning steamship Morro Castle
off the Jersey coast recently. They
were Warren Moulton of Beaufort
and Monroe Wilson of Marshallberg.
Mr. Moulton is an engineer on a
coast guard boat and Mr. Wilson is
one of the crew of a similiar vessel.
The two coast guard boats, 26
feet long, made a number of trips
and saved quite a number of people
and also recovered the bodies of
some who were drowned. At one
time the boat Wilson was on ran out
cf gas. He jumped overboard and
three times swam to the shore pull
ing a woman with him each time.
Finally the other boat towed the
disabled one to the landing place.
MRS.
MARGARET WHITEHEAD
DIED SUNDAY MORNING
WILL HOLD EXAMINATIONS
FOR CCC APPOINTMENTS SOON
Raleigh, Oct. 2 North Carolina's
quota of 2,138 juniors, ages 18 to 25,
and 148 World War veterans with
Mrs. Margaret Whitehead widow of
the late A. P. Whitehead of Bachelor,
Craven county ,died Sunday morn
ing September 30 at 8:30 o'clock at
the home of her daughter Mrs. J. S.
Becton of Bachelor. Mrs. Whitehead
was 79 years of age and had been in
feeble health for several years. She
was one of the most highly esteemed
and popular women of her commu
nity. Funeral services were conducted
Monday morning at 11 o'clock and
interment was in the cemetery at
Oak Grove church. A large num
ber of friends and relatives attended.
experience, in the CCC camps for the fQUr sons 8nd five d hter8. They
fall enlistment are to be examined tfce followi E M whitehead,
during the first two weeks of Octo- Brawl Ca, c T whitehead More
ber, examination starting .n the west head c;t Dr A p whitehead,
ana moving eastward, , ir. 1 Rocky Mount. Dr. J. W. Whitehead,
J. F. Duncan, Commissioner to J.: O'Berry, State ERA director, states. Smithfield. Mrs, w 0 Biggs EUza
H. Potter
$3,175.
Sr., 1 lot Beaufort, for
REEMPLOYMENT OFFICE
OPENED IN MOREHEAD CITY
m a 1 - : l J il
ine quota is 70 oe recruueu mm- hMutnw vr n, M. H. n Thomas.
local relief administrators and will Mrg E g Hancock Wilmington;
be sent to several convenient point. ,MrSi c c Smith Mr3 j R Bectonj
Bachelor, N. C.
tice any where in their territory.
The piece ' of machinery consisting:
of a dynamo, gas engine and acces
sories is mounted on a chasis and
can be attched to a car and moved
anywhere.
Mr. C. B. Moring, who came here
from Golds';oro and is an experienc
ed man in this sort of workwill have
charge of the machine. The machine
can do quite a variety of work on
cylinder deads, blocks and steel..
The News is informed that the bus
iness of Barbour's Machine Shop
shows a gratifying increase over
last year's business.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph How-
land of Beaufort, yesterday at the
hosptial, a daughter.
Mark Mason, Springle's opponent
in the fight was given the same sen
tence as Springle.
Van Martin, drunk, guilty $5.00 or
10 days. ( , ;
Tommie Willis, drunk, guilty, $5.
or 10 days.
"Adoo" Rice drunk, guilty, $5.00
or 10 days..
C. D. Haithcock, drunk, guilty,
$5.00 or 10 days.
John Wolfe, drunk, guilty, $15 or
30 days.
"Pick" Evans, drunk, continued.
Pete Davi3, colored, $10 or 20
days.
any question about the age, birth cer
tificates or other evidence that the
recruit is 18 years of age must be
furnished. They must be single and
from families now on or eligible to
be on relief rolls, and must send $25
As stated in the News last week a
branch of the National Re-employ
ment Service has been opened in
Morehead City. M. E. Tyson, district !0oPn
director located at New Bern, was in j physical examinations for the
Morehead City Monday and arrang-1 quota 0f 27 recruits from Carteret
ed for opening the office. Mrs. Floyd county will be held at Washington
Chadwick will be in charge and the on October 15, Mrs. OBerry an-
work will be done in the auditorium
of the city hall. The office opens at
9 o'clock a. m.
LITERARY CLUB MEETING
nouncej.
The Re-employment srevice has no
connection with the Federal Emergen
cy Relief whatever. It has no jobs to
effer but tries to get employers who
need help to use their service. In
other words it acts in the capacity of
an employing agency. Persons who
are looking for employment are in
vited to come to the office and have
their names registered.
ANN STREET M. E. CHURCH
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Holy Communion will be adminis
tered at the Methodist church Sun
day morning, at 11 o'clock. There
will be only one other communion
service before the pastor will leave
(for the annual conference. ev
erybody be present Sunday njorning.
P j-imotion day will be obse-ved in
the Sunday School. All pupils should
be present.
The Literary Club will meet on
Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 at the
home of Mrs. J. G. Allen. Mrs. G. M.
Carraway of New Bern will have
charge of the program U3ing as her
subject. "The Progress of Women in
the last 14 years since the right of
suffrage was given them in the Unit
ed States. "Everyone who expects
to join this department is urged to
attend.
Alvin M. Congleton and Marcelle
iJohnson. Beaufort.
J Edwin C. Willis and Barbara Par-
A breeding stallion from the Black: kin, Beaufort,
land Branch Station near Wenon 1 Albert Salter and Sadie Salter,
has been secured for use in Hyde Atlantic.
County where farmers plan to begin j J. M. Franck, Fayetteville and
growing work stock at home, Marie H in ton Clawson, Beaufort.
TACKY PARTY AT HUT
SPECIAL SERVICE AT N. RIVER
CHURCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The American Legion Auxiliary is
giving a Tacky Party at ihe Legion
Hut FriJay night this week at eight
o'clock. Prizes will be awarded
Rev. C. B. Culbreth will preach a
special sermon at North River church
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock.
The Sunday School will be held at
2:00 o'clock P. M. instead of 10 a. m.
Every one is invited to attend
these services of whatever faith and
order they may happen to be. , The
pastor wants to serve everybody in
the community.
KINSTON, Sept. 29 Declaring
forfeited the Norfolk Southern lease
of the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad, directors of the company
in a special meeting there this morn
ing placed in the hands of Governor
Ehringhaus full authority for nego
tiating and concluding with responsi
ble parties a new lease to the best
advantage possible, for securing con
tinued operation of the road in a
manner most conducive to the protec
tion of the corporation's property, bet
ter service of the public, upbuilding
of the territory and its Atlantic ter
minal and just and reasonable reduc
tion of rates for transportation to
the people of the State.
The Governor was empowered by
the directors to take all necessary
steps to carry out these purposes and,
do whatever may be considered nec
essary or expedient in connection
with this duty. Due notice of the ac
tion in forfeiting the lease was author
ized to be sent at once to Norfolk
Southren Railway officials and receiv
ers.
Meeting It Brief.
e of a lengthy resolution,
providing for the lease forfeiture
and placing further steps in the hands1
of the Governor, formed the only ac
tion at the brief meeting of the direc
tors. Eleven of the twelve directors
were present, the only one absent
being Don. C. Humphrey, of Golds
boro. President Luther Hamilton, of
Morehead City, presided; and C. L.
Ives, of New Bern, secretary-treasurer,
acted in secretarial capacity.
Action in pasting the resolutions was
unanimous.
The directors accepted the report ,
of the special committee named at
the regular meeting on August 9 at
Atlantic Beach, the committee re
cently in Raleigh having decide-d that
the Norfolk Southern lease should be
forfeited as the railroad had "sub
stantially failed to comply with the
terms and conditions of the leases by
failure to pay the rentals, neglect
and failure to keep up the property
as required by the lease, and breach
of other stipulations."
No Right Surrendered.
These defaults regarded as war
ranting immediate action from the
Atlantic and North Carolina Com
pany, the directors made it plain in
their resolution tTiat termination of
the Norfolk Southern lease would in
no way serve to cancel or surrender
their rights at redress, collection or
remedy for the present amount!!
still due.
It was stated informally by direc--tors
after the meeaing that court or
der or action might become neces
sary to enforce the lease forfeiture.
as it was believed the Norfolk South
ern would endeavor to keep it in
force. It was also stated by directors
that the iNorfolk Southern would
very likely make an effort to present
a new bid for a new lease.
The Governor sometime ago, rec-
ommended that the present lease be
declared forfeited, because of the de
fault in annual rentals for the past
two years. Satisfactory adjustment
of the road income is essential be
fore the PWA bond contracts can
be completed for obtaining the au
thorized appropriations for the More
head City port development.
The Norfolk Southern has operated
the line from Goldsboro to Beaufort,
for 27 years. The lease wa3 for 93
years.
The Norfolk Southern failed to
make payments to the A. and N. C,
Co., for the past two years. Other
breaches of the lease were alleged.
The Norfolk Southern, which is in
the hands of receivers, owes approx
imately $125,000 to the A. and N.
C.'s owners. Luther Hamilton, of
Morehead .City, president of the A.
and N. C, said he was sure that
there would be no difficulty in ar
ranging for continued operation Of
the road.
The A. and N. C. was built about
80 years ago. It is 97 miles long. It
was used by both armies in the Civil
War. Because of the thousands of
tons of fish hauled over it, it was
known for years as the "mullet
'road." The State owns the majority
of stock, having helped to build it.
Onslow farmers continue to re-
for joic over tobacco prices and are pay
the tackiest costume, and there will ing taxes, back debts and governmen-1
bo an evennig of entertainment. Thejtal loans. Eighty-seven borrowers
public is cordially invited. A small; from the production credit associa-j Morehead,, City. No further detail
admission foo will bee harged. tion have fully repaid their loans, were given, .
REEMPLOYMENT OFFICE OPENS
A message from New Bern to
the News office today stated that tha
National Reemployment office which
was closed some months ago, will b9
reopened Monday, October 1, at