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VOLUME XXIII
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 PRR
INGLE COPY
NUMBER 45
Democrats Victorious
In State and Nation
Carteret County Goes Democratic by Substantial
Majority. Barden Get Good Vote. Vote in
North Carolina Falls off but Democrats Get a
Large Majority. Republicans Made Several
Gains in the Legislature. Democrats Gain Sev
eral Seats in U. S. Senate and House
Death of W. L. Hatsell
A Shock to Beaufort
The people of Beaufort were very
much shocked and saddened Wednes
day moaning when the news was
spread abroad that Captain William
Lee Hatsell had died at about nine
o'clock at his residence on Queen
Street. He was taken sick during
the night but had improved and was
lying on a couch in the sitting room
when the fatal attack came. Dr.
Maxwell was called around seven
LIQUIDATION OF
BANKS GOES ON
sui 2?. At wmuton in. c. RELIEF LOAD
anocK to wmraunnyi niIA. ni,nnri ,
MiUwo VEUUUKIS
Carteret county, like many other
counties in the United States, gavo
a very substantial majority to the
Democratic ticket Tuesday. Both
Republican and Democratic leaders
worked hard before the election and
on election day to get out the vote.
The Legislative candidates Messrs
Bushall and Wade polled a combined
vote of 4681 which was about the
total number of votes cast in the
election. This year's vote was about
600 less than that polled in 1932.
un account of uncontrollable cir-j
cumstances the News will not give
the vote by precincts in detail in
this issue. .Next week a table show
ing how the county voted will be
published. The following totals will
give adequate idea as to how the
county went Tuesday.
For representative, T. C. Wade
2835; C. H. Bushall 1846; For
Clerk of Court L. W. Hassell 2641,
Jas. W. Mason 2166; Register of
Deeds, Irvin W. Davis 2855 Y. Z.
Newberry 1897. Sheriff, Elbert M.
Chadwick 2874, George Brooks 1909.
Recorders court, several precincts
not reported, Paul Webb 2216, E. W
Hill, 1550. Solicitor M. Leslie Da
vis 2243; G W Duncan 1491; Coro
ner George W Dill 2854, U. S. C.
Bell 1756; Surveyor Phillip Ball
2863, George Styron 1690; Commis
sioners C. T. Chadwick 2869, W Z
McCabe 2823, K P B Bonner 2751,
Ed H. Fulcher 2856, Martin Guthrie
2828, R. Hugh Hill 1940, Earl Da
vis 1941, Webster Mason 1474, Roy
Lincoln 1882, Fonnie E. Simmons
1860.
In the Congressional race Mr.
Barden got a larger vote than many
expected him to get, on account of
the hot primary contest of last June
He received a total of 2836 vote
against 1849 for Mr. Rouse. In
Beaufort precinct Mr. Barden got
692 votes which was higher than
any other candidate received.
REPUBLICANS WIN
IN FEW COUNTIES
Democratic Cong res
sional Candidates All
Elected by Large
Majorities
(Raleigh News and Observer)
Republicans gained five seats in
the General Assembly of North Caro
lina, a complete check of Tuesday's
voting in the State's 100 counties re
vealed yesterday, but the 1933 min
ority will lack 32 members of at
taining its 1929 status, which was
the highest of this century.
Contests loom in Randolph and
Cherokee, two counties that elected
Republican representatives, because
of alleged irregularities in the bal
loting. In another county, Polk, a life
long Democrat who switched party
Quarterly Report Made; Bank
Deposits Are Insured Now
Against Loss
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Nov. 50 fthe 162
banks in liquidation, 80 paid claims
to 22,092 depositors amounting to
o'clock to see him and prescribed for ! $1,014,707.53, .paid .$2,073,239.31
'him. Dr. Larry Moore was called in secured claims and $343,936.66 in
when the last attack came but Cap- prcierred claims in Worth Carolina
ta n Hatsell had missed awav bv the 's
time ho reached there. Heart fail- ber 30. Commissioner of Banks Gur-
Much Fine Weather
In Month of October
September was an unusually wet
month in Beaufort and vicinity but
October appeared to try to make up
for it by furnishing a lot of clear
weather. The rainfall for the month,
which occurred in the first four or
five days mostly, wa3 3.56 inches..
There were 25 clear days. The prevail ; in the
ing winds were easterly. It blew from
the northeast 14 days, southeast two,
east southeast one, east one, north
one, northwest six, west northwest
one, southwest thrte, west two.
The temperature during October! Two Senators and 13 Representa-
was mild. The colder1 day was on tivs wor? ehctcd on the Republican
the 29th when the mer.-iry dropped ; ticl' Jt, giving the party the largest
to 42 degrees above zero. On the 6th ilcgl-lrtive representation since 1929,
it was auite warm reaching ? high of ! aft" an nvalanche of anti-Smith
ure was the cause of his death. The
day before he died Captain Hatsell
was going around apparently in ex
cellent health.
Captain Hatsell was 63 years old.
For 37 years of his life he was in
the employ of the U. S. Engineer
ing Service. He was retired on the
first day of last February. For
many years he was in command of
the Neuse and was well known not
dnly in this community but in New
Bern, Washington and other ports
along the coast. He was a quiet
unassuming man of the highest type
of character and was greatly re
spected by all who knew him.
Beside his widow, Mrs. Daisy Rum
ley Hatsell, CaptainHatsell is sur
vived by his son, iW. L. Hatsell Jr.
four brothers, George of Tampa, Flo
rida, Ben of Alexandria, Va Henry of
Norfolk, Va., Charles of Beaufort
and a sister Mrs. Charity Reverly of
Roanoke, Va. Also several nephews
and nieces. Funeral services will be
conducted from the home on Quoe-n
affiliations when he became incensed Street Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
: i t 1., . ... i
in a mcai political squaDDie, was
elected to the House on a Republican
ticket.
Majority 2 to 1
Late reports from the State-wide
voting served merely to strengthen
assurance of an overwhelming De
mocratic victory. Giving the Demo
crats a lead of over two to one, 1,423
precincts of a total of 1,838 cast
238,508 votes for Democratic candi
dates to 114,301 for Republicans on
the State ticket.
Tardy returns from the 11 Con
gressional districts gave all the De
mocratiic nominees wide majorities,
and rolled up the lead of the five
candidates for State offices: Chief
Justice Walter Stacy, Associate Jus
tice Michael Schenck and Herriot
Clarkson; Treasurer Charles M.
Johnson and Utilities Commissioner
Stanly Winborne.
However, political leaders predic
ated that the total vote would not
reach 400,000 which is considerably
less than the 711,000 ballots cast
two years ago, and well under the
535,000 votes of the 1930 off-year
contest.
As has been the case for several
years, the only major elective office
State which a Republican
will occupy will be the solicitorial
post in the 17th judicial district,
where John A. Jones, incumbent,
had no opposition.
Largest Since 1929
City Board Meeting
Held Monday Evening
86 degrees. The figures day
are given -below:
Max.
.8-1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
.81
.75
.74
.81
.86
.85
.81
.82
.79
.82
.82
.79
.69
.72
.79
.75
.79
.76
.68
.76
.85
"69
.69
.73
.73
.74
.69
.72
.72
by day
Min.
66
61
69
65
68
70
65
63
64
66
69
63
55
43
44
50
56
57
64
51
54
63
58
55
56
58
votes resulted in a Republican land
slide thaf -swept 12 Senators and 35
Representatives into the General
Assembly.
That year saw the largest Repub
lican representation since the be
ginning of the century,
The Thirtieth and
The regular monthly meeting of
the Beaufort Board of Commission
ers was held at the City Hall Monday
night. Those present were Mayor
Taylor, Commissioners Gibbs, Lewis
and King.
Fire Chief Hatsell appeared be
fore the Board to discuss matters
pertaining to his department. He
said that he was resigning as chief
because of lack of cooperation on the
part of the department. A motion
was offered by Commissioner Lewis
that Chief Hatsell draw up such rules
as he deemed necessary for the care
taker and truck driver of fire ap
paratus. The motion carried.
Commissioner Lewis also offered a
motion, which was passed that fire
truck No. 2 be put in good condition.
The question of parking regula
tions for Front and Turner Streets
came up and after discussion Com
missioner Gibbs moved that Chief
Longest measure the width of the
streets so that the Board may decide
something about a truck parking or
dinance. This motion was carried.
A motion offered by Commission
er Lewis that the City Clerk ascer
tain the cost of a car for the police
department was carried. The Board
recessed subject to the call of the
Mayor.
ney P. Hood reports.
Commissioner Hood is reporting
splendid progress in the liquidation
of the banks which closed during the
depression period, since which time
none has closed after the March 4,
1933 banking holiday declared by
President Roosevelt. All except one
commercial bank in the State has its
deposits insured under the Federal
Insurance Deposit Corporation.
The reports hows that 76 of the
banks paid no dividends in the three
months period. In eight instances pay
ments were made on court orders; in
two cases the-final payments were
made to the clerk of superior court
to meet unclaimed deposits, and in
cases of three banks the depositors
were paid by trades and offsets.
Included in those on which pay
ments have been made in the last
three months are Bank of Beaufort,
Beaufort, $1,467.29 in secured claims
(a 10 per cent dividend had been
paid to depositors before); Beaufort
Banking and Trust Co., Beaufort, 10
per cent, or $20,733.27, to 854 depos
itors, and $3,263.28 in secured claims
(a 20 per cent dividend had previous
ly been paid) ; Bank of Morehead
City, $1,476.70 in secured claims on
ly; The Marine Bank, Morehead City,
10 per cent, of $6,974.28, to 235 de
positors. (40 per cent had previously
been paid).
Captain Bryan Longest
Has a Narrow Escape
saufort
death
The people of Williston, and
those of other communities as well,
were greatly shocked Saturday when
the news was circulated that Miss
Mina P. Willis had taken her own
life. She left home that morning
after telling her mother that she was
going to the creek to get some oys
ters for the family, as she frequent
ly did. Around noon she had not
returned and becoming alarmed her
mother accompanied by Miss Chris
tine Fulcher and several others went
in search of her. On arriving at the
Bpot where she went to get the oys
ters they looked around and found
her lifeless body suspended by a rope
from the limb of an oak tree.
Coroner George Dill was notified
of the death and had a' jury em
panneled. After hearing all the
evidence in the case the jury pro
nounced the death a suicide. Fun
eral services for Miss Willis were
conducted Sunday morning at the
Methodist church in Williston by
her pastor. Rev. Mr. Barfield assist
ed by Rev. Leffers of Straits. Two
duets were sung, "Jesus my Jesus"
and "Face ito Face" by Mrs. Theo
dore Willis and Mrs Morris Bedford
of Davis. The pall bearers were G.
F. Everett, Thomas C. Everett, Wal
ter Everett, Charlie Willis, Jesse
Piner of Williston. Interment was
in the family cemetery. The services
were attended by a large crowd.
Miss Willis is survived by her moth
er, Mrs. Nancy Willis, two brothers,
Stacey C. and Eugene Willis. She
was nearly thirty seven years old.
September Less Than August;
Carteret County Had 417
Families
PURCHASING AGENTS AND
FISH DEALERS CONFER
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
B. S Taylor and wife to Trustees
Church of God, 1-4 acre W. O. Town
ship, Con-
Irvin S. Garner and wife to Cecil
C. Jones and wife, 26 acres New
port Township, Con-$700.00.
Lina Garner Mortgagee to D J
Ward Trustee, 125 acres Newport
Township, Con-$400.00.
Mrs. Lucy Garner McCain et al to
Mrs. Bessie Garner Elliott et al 15
acres Newport Township, con $1.00
D E Mann widower, to A L Mann
and wife, 2 pant lot3 Newport, con
sideration $1.00.
Emma Jones widow, Wm. Harvey
Jones, 1 lot Morehead City con-$1.00
Adelaide Wade et als to Theodore
J Willis et als, 1 lot Morehead City
con-$1.00.
D M Webb et als to Starkey Mo
bley 1 lot Morehead City, con-$10.
Carteret Lodge No. 2 K. of H.
to Joseph W. Glover, part lot Beau
font, Con-$1.00.
Alice Green Widow to George
Sparrow, 2 part lots, Beaufort, con
ideration $10.00.
T G Willis and wife to Connie
Daniels and wife, 1 lot Beaufort,
consideration $2000.00.
Dimer Gillikin to Guy Gillikin, 3
3-4 acres Straits Township, con $25.
L H Pake ct als to Chas W Pake,
8 acres Marshallberg, con-$50.00.
A meeting was held Wednesday at
Morehead City by wholesale fish
dealers of Beaufort and Morehead
City at which State purchasing ag
ents A. ,S. Brower and W. Z. Betts
were present. The object of the
meeting was to consider plans for
selling fish to State institutions.
There was a general discussion of
the matter and those present hope
that some good will result from it.
It was suggested by the purchas
ing agents that whenever ithere is a
glut on the market that dealers ad
vise the agents and they would un
dertake to handle as many fish as
possible. ,
BY M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Nov. 5 North Caroli
nas relief load showed an appreci
able drop during the month of Sep
tember, as compared with August,
the report of Mrs. Thomas O'Berry,
State relief director, shows.
Cases handled in September were
3,000 fewer than in August, the re
port of Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, State
relief director, shows..
Cases handled in September were
3,000 fewer than in August, or 69,
022, as compared with 82,187. The
amount of money spent was $1,472,
590.36 in August and $1,055,542.39
in September, while the number of
individuals receiving some form of re
lief decreased from 346,759 in Aug
ust to 333,210 in September.
The decrease in September, the
month in which the case load usual
ly begins to show an increase for the
winter months, is attributed in part
to the order sent out by Mrs. O'Ber
ry discontinuing all direct and work
relief in rural communities, in order
to make labor available for fall crop
gathering.
Avery showed the largest percent
age of its population on relief, 31.8
per cent, while Greene showed the
smallest, 3.4 per cent.
Carteret county had 417 families,
representing 1733 persons, and a to
tal of 467 cases, aggregating a grand
total of 1783 persons, on relief in
September. The decrease in numbers
of persons in the county was 42 per
cent, the total amount spent in the
county was $7,638.99 and the part
of the county's population on relief
was 10.5 pepr cent.
SEVEN YEAR OLD BOY DIES
Capt. Bryan Longest of B
VinH fl nflrrnw parflnp frnm
Monday morning while in the hold of F,ND "EAVY DEMAND
the fishing boat C. P. Dey. Mr.
Twenty-fourth Longest is the engineer on this boat
Senatorial Districts, most powerful and was on her most of the summer
FOR RADIOS AND RIFLES
Sam Bland, seven year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Bland of the
Bebtie community, died Monday at
eleven o'clock after a short illness
from diabetes. The boy was taken
very sick about a week before his
death. He is survived by his parents
and several brothers and sisters.
Births Exceed Deaths
By A Good Majority
A large preponderance of births
over deaths is shown in the vital
statistics report for Carteret county
for the month of September. There
were 54 of the former and only 13
of the latter. Morehead City with
14 births and four deaths was con
siderably in the lead of the other
places reporting.
The following tabulation gives the
report in detail:
Births
9
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Marriage Licenses issued for week
ending November 6th, 1934.
John Tyson to Amy Wilson, of
Beaufort.
William R. Gould to Ethel Gray
Pringle, Newport.
Ottis Smith to Minzette Wilson, of
Beaufort.
Most Cases Continued
in Court Wednesday
Towns
Beaufort
Morehead City
Townshipa
Beaufort
Cedar Island
Harkers Island
Harlowe
Atlantic
Davis
Sea Level
Stacy
Marshallberg
Merrimon
Morehead City
Newport
Portsmouth
Straits
13
3
0
5
2
1
0
2
1
1
1
10
4
0
2
Deaths
3
4
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
Republican sijjngholds in the State,
o?c
Gibbs, Burnsville and Joe Williams,
Yadkinville, to the upper house.
Cloud Elected
E. B. Cloud elected as a Republi-
on the Jersey coast where the Dey
has 'been fishing.
Captain Longest knows very lit
tle about what happened to him. All
he knows is that he had started up
the pump and that the next thing he
Kinston, Nov. 5 Local dealers
have been unable to fill the demand
for radios, shotguns, and rifles, it
For several reasons, including the
election, it was found necessary to
continue most of the cases in Re
corder's Court Wednesday. In one
case, that of Brady Wade of More
head City for driving a car while
drunk, there was a submission. Ia
his case prayer for judgment was
was saia loaay. Virginia ana Aor-tn- ,. . nn on(1ition that he be of
Carolina have been scoured for sec-1 d behavior for gix monUls and
ond-hand instruments and weapons. . . Quii j-:
The record demand resulted from
can in Polk county, represented that , knew was in the hospital-
county as a Democrat in the 1931:Taylor fortunately came aboard the
House of Representatives. boat and found Captain Longest be-
Other Republicans elected to the fore it was too late. He got assis
House were: B. C. Brock, Davie; T. 'tance and carried the unconscious
S. Bryan, Wilkes; H. P. Craver, Yad-;man to 'the hospital where he was
kin;-L. F. Klutz, Catawba; Charles ' revived. Tuesday he was up and
H. Jonas, Lincoln; George Head, going around town apparently none
Kuinercora; w. ij.-A.euy, ampson; the worse lor his experience.
H. S. Regan, Randolph; J. S. Bowers,
Avery; Herschel Sprinkle, Madison;
Dr. Charles A.. Peterson, Mitchell
and Edwin Hyde of Cherokee.
Sprinkle and Brock were members
that time.
t nia i the new prosperity that has come to
tobacco and cotton tarmers. Auto- in tne case or u. r. -Rice cnargea
mobile- dealers, of course, have done, with abandonment of his wife and!
a record business, while watch sales child the case was noil prossed with
have been heavy. Farmers of the the understanding that the defend-
TIDE TABLE
Information as to tne tides
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
table's furnished by the U. 8.
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that it
whether neat the inlet or at
the bead of the estuaries.
49 i of the 1933 Hjouse.
48
42
48
60
Matters involving alleged irregu
larities will be laid before the Ran-
ANOTHER SHIRT FACTORY
MAY START AT KINSTON
Kinston, Nov. 5 Reports that
this city will have another shirt fac
tory, employing several hundred per
sons, were current today. One of
tobacco belt of Eastern North Caro
lina are liberal spenders when they
have money. They have seldom had
it in recent years.
Woman and Five Men Held
on Bogus Money Charge
.ions toaay. nenry u Ingram or
Randolph, who trailed his Republi-
To keep apples from turning dark , :an opponmt by slightly less than
soon after they are peeled, they may 200 votes, was a member of the 1933
be placed in water containing salt Senate. His supporteis claim irre
two teaspoons of salt to a quart of ularities in several rural precincts
water. :f Randolph.
lolph and Cherokee boards of elec- the largest manufacturers in the
country was said to be contemplat
ing leasing a building at the wlge of
the business district. A plant open
led about a year and a half ago has
. Laurinburg, Nov 4 A woman and
five men who said they had been op
erating concessions at a negro fair
in the upper part of Scotland county
were arrested here today on charges
of possessing counterfeit money.
ant would provide sufficient groceries
to feed the child and pay his wife
$10 a month.
The following cases were continu
ed: Glenn Guthrie violating prohibi
tion law, Cleve Morris same charge,
W. H. Riley driving car while drunk,
Ike Simmons assault with deadly
weapon, G. E. Sanderson, reckless
driving, Lee Dudley breaking and
entering and assault.
BIRTH
High Tide
Friday,
9:23a. m.
9:38 p. m.
Nov.
10:11
10:29
11:03
11:14
11:19
11:58
12:23
12:54
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Phillips
Beaufort RFD., November 7th a
They said they were from Pitts
burgh, Pa. They crave their names
been rushed with orders. It gives as Bernice G. Baker, Raymond Davis daughter.
employment to hundreds of women IB. R. Milford, Joseph Dohek and I Born to Mr and Mrs. W. B. Robin
and girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Herbert.
son of Atlantic a son, November 8.
Saturday, Nov,
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Low Tida
9
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3:52 p
10
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m.
29 a,
58 p
2:44
3:10
3:38 a. m.
4:41 p. m.
11
4:29 a. m.
p. m. 5:36 p. m..
ETA
12
5:30 a. m.
6:35 p. m.
13
6:43 a. m.
7:37 p. m.
14
7:56 a. m.
8:36 p. m.
Thursday, Nov. 15
m. 9:06 a. m.
m. 9:31 p. m.
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