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VOLUME XXIII
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1934 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 43
BE HIGHWAY HEAD
Beaufort Young Men
Injured in Accident
While Mr. Jeffresa
Sick No Successor Will Be
Appointed
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Nov. 20 People who
profess to be disturbed that Governor ;
Two young Beaufort men figured
in an auto-train accident in New
Remains Bern Monday evening in which both
were hurt right badly but not danger
ously so. The following account of
the occurrence is taken from the
New Bern Sun-Journal.
FERA UNITS WILL
BE CONSOLIDATED
There Will Be 33 Districts;
Carteret Not in Consolidation
According to an announcement
"When they drove their Ford au- made Tuesday by Mrs. Thos. O'Berry
tomobile into a shifting Norfolk State Relief Administrator, a consol-
Ehringhaus has not done something Southern engine at the National ave-idation of the FERA units in North
about placing an active head in ue rauroaa crossing just alter i ( Carolina will take place on Decem
charee of the State Highway and ! o'clock Monday evening, Charles Man-, ber 6th. There are 104 units and
Public Works Commission since the son and Prentice Longest, of Beau- these will be converted into 33 dis- western part of the State,
stroke received by Chairman E. B. flort, were painfully though not ser- tricts. Only four counties are not
MANY TAX CASES
ON CIVIL DOCKET
County Will Seek To Get Judg
ments For Past Due
Taxes
A one week's term of Superior
Court will convene here Monday. By
reason of an exchange arrangement
Judge Parker will not be here and
Judge F. S. Hill will preside over the
sittings of the court. He is from the
Recorder's Court Had
Light Docket Tuesday
For several weeks there has been a
sort of lull in business in Recorder's
Court. It was that way Tuesday as
only two cases were tried.
Howard Rhodes, young Beaufort
colored man with a reputation for
getting into court, was tried on
charges of assaulting Thelma Chad
wick and also for hitting his broth
er Sam with a frying pan.
On the first charge there was no
evidence that he actually struck the
girl but he admitted hitting his broth
Next week's term of court will be'er who had hit him with his fist.
GOVERNOR URGES
TOBACCO SIGN UP
BY N. C. FARMERS
While Farmers Are Feeling
Good Get Them To Sign
Contracts
The distinguishing feature of the 'months in jail to be worked by the
for a period
The attitude of Governor Ehring
haus is, apparently, that Mr. Jeffress
is a casulty of the State's service;
that his condition is dueto overwork
while he was active as chairman,
and that he will make no change in
his status until he reaches a point of
deciding for himself what he will do,
or unless it becomes necessary to
take some step about it. Governor
Ehringhaus, it is said by those close
to him, would not ascertain a sug
gestion of resignation by someone
with authority to act for Mr. Jeffress,
certainly not at this time. While op
eration of the department may not
be as smooth and efficient as when
Mr. Jeffress was in active charge, it
is getting along sufficiently satisfac
tory and it will be some time be
fore Governor Ehringhaus would
think of anything about a change.
Big Highway Fund Balance
A balance of more than $12,000,
000 in highway and general funds is
shown in the Combined statement of
the State Treasurer and Auditor for
October. The general fund shows a
balance of $1,235,796.63, about a
million dollars less than a month be-
. . ... . . . . . 1- I
out quicKiy pickm up sxrengtn auer- be incr6ased sufficiently to make it
wards. He received two lacerations ib,e to investigate carefuiiy an
on tne top pi nis neaa uong. nu applicat;ons for relief Greater ef-
CUXS on me up ana loreneau, nu io ficiencv as well a economv is exneet
two teeth. An X-ray examination was
to be given Manson Tuesday after
noon at the hospital, to be certain
that his injuries were no worse than
they seemed.
Norfolk Southern railroad officials
declared that the flagman made the
proper signal for the slow appro
ach of the engine at the crossing.
But the car crashed int othe locomo
tive and was dragged for some dis
tance before the engine could be
brought to a hurried stop. The auto
mobile was badly wrecked, but the
two occupants escaped miraculously.
Longest is a son of the chief of
police at Beaufort. He lost his left
arm in an automobile accident dur
ing the summer about 20 miles west
of New Bern, and remained for some
time then in the local hospital.
CARTERET COUNTY TEACHERS
MET HERE SATURDAY
The first meeting of the Carteret
County unit of the North Carolina
fore, due to smaller collections and i Education Association was held in
payment of teachers salaries. The i'Beaufort Court house Saturday with
October receipts were $2,089,747.10
and expenditures $3,077,486.56. In
the four months since July 1 the col
lections have been $22,712,092.38
and expenditures $18,824,923.47,
changing the $2,600,000 overdraft at
the beginnnig of the fiscal year to a
cash balance of more than a million
and a quarter.
The highway fund has a balance of
more than a million and a quarter.
The highway fund has a balance of
$10,880,735.02, having received in
October $4,831,964.89 and spent
that month $3,335,983.48. The high
way fund has received $17,435,904.58
in the four months of this fiscal year
and spent $18,734,733.77, thus reduc
ing the balance at the beginning of
the fiscal year about $1,250,000.
The State's total debt, all funded,,
is $174,156,000, of which $99,704,
000 is in highway bonds and $56,
717,000 is in general fund bonds.
Large Gai Tax Collection
Gasoline tax collections in Novem-
ber already are the largest that have j
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the history of the tax, reaching $1,- Reverend Lawrence M. Fenwick,
651,493.16 last Friday, revenue of- Mrs. Fenwick and their four months
ficials report. The November collec-0d daughter arrived in Beaufort
tions are practically all in lv I only a Monday afternoon and Mr. Fenwick
few hundred dollars will be aided by wui at 0nce assume his duties as rec
the end of the month. Even the tor of St. Paul's church. Mr. Fen-
"double month" collections of April, :wjck comes heref rom Southport
an almost perfect attendance.
Superintendent J. G. Allen made
the opening address end welcomed
the new teachers, after which the fol
lowing officers were elected :
President, Miss Josie Pigott of
Newport school.
Vice president, Miss Emily Loftin,
Beaufort; Secretary, Miss Myrtle
Watson, White Oak School ; Treasurer
Mr. J. I. Mason, Morehead City.
A number of extemporaneous talks
were made. Mr. Pruitt, principal of
Newport, spoke on the School Masters
Club.. Mr. Joslyn, pricipal of More
head City school encouraged singing
in the schools in his talk on High
School Glee Cubs, and Mr. Eagles,
principal oi amyrna school, give
suggestions on the school lunch room.
Mr. Allen discussed Curriculum
Construction, and it was agreed upon
that "Natural Science" will be the
s-rhject used in the group meetings
this term.
ed from the consolidation
So far as the News is aware there
is to be no change in the personnel
of the Carteret county unit of the
FERA of which Mrs. Malcom Lewis
is director. Quite a large number of
people are on the relief rolls in the
county. Also employment is being
furnished to a considerable number
of people in one way or another.
Two sewing rooms, one at Beaufort
and one at Morehead City, in which
about 25 women are working are
turning out large quantities of gar
ments that are being given to per
sons who are too poor to buy such
things. Under FERA auspices cafe
terias are being run in several of the
larger schools in the county where
light but nourishing lunches are serv
ed free to children who belong to re
lief families.
In recent weeks a great deal of
canned beef and ricehas been dis
tributed in this county. Now fresh
meat and potatoes will be given to
the needy also. A supply of beef,
liver and brains has been received
and will be distributed.
docket is the large number of tax Boar dof Commissioners
cases set for trial. The News under- County Home.
at the
Jeffress three or four months aso. i iously hurt. They were both taken to inclded in the consolidation. They lor the trial of civil actions only. I Judge Webb gave Howard nine
might as well halt their fears, realist- Lukes hosptial, where luesday are Carteret, Dare, Mecklenburg and
or imaginary, for Governor Ehring-!they were reported to be getting a-! Wake.
haus apparently has no thought of long nicely.' It is claimed that by means of the
filling the place while there is a! Dr. Harvey B. Wadsworth, attend-'consolidation that $180,000 a year
chance of the recovery of Mr. Jeff- jinK physician, stated Tuesday that j wiu be gaved for the Government,
ress, or unless an active head becomes both young men seemed to be recov- jranch offices will be maintained in
absolutely necessary, within reason- ering satisfactorily from their injur- tllose counties whei consolidation
able limits, in facts, it is known that," ana mui apparency wrc wcic i.u is in effect, At present there are 630
the Governor will undertake the serious results. Manson remained un-jcase workera in North Carolina and
work necessary himself if need be, I conscious for an hour after the crash t jg expectej that this number will
stands that some of these cases have
been settled and therefore will not
be tried. County Attorney Luther
Hamilton will appear for the county
in these tax suits and will seek to get
judgments. Some of the suits are for
1928 and some for 1932 and prior
dates. Answers have been filed and
indications are that there will be
contests in some of the cases.
The cases docketed for the term
are the following:
Monday, December 3rd.
No.
129a Piner Bros. vs. Blythe Bros.
154 Carteret County vs Wm. C.
Garner.
155 Carteret County vs Harvey T.
Piner.
156 Carteret County vs Thos B.
Lewis.
157 Carteret County vs Elmer I.
Garner.
158 Morehead City vs .U S. G. Bell.
159 Carteret County vs. U. IS. G.
Bell.
160 Carteret County vs T. M.
Thomas.
Carteret County vs C. S. Max
well.
Carteret County vs C S. Max
well
Carteret County vs Hiland Park
Carteret County vs W. H. Gar
net. Carteret oujtyvsJ. R. Glover
Carteret County vs Wilber
Lewis.
Carteret County vs James B.
Glover.
(Continued on page eight)
New Pastor Assigned
To Ann Street Church
NEW MINISTER ARRIVES
1933, amounted to $1,627,000, ,or a-
bout $25,000 less than the present
month's collections. That was the
month in which the 1933 legislative
act, moving up collections one month,
was effective and collections were
made of practically1 two months in
that month.
License plates for 1934 reached
468,043, or 60,754 more than the
407,289 sold in 1933 to the same
date, the end of last week. This is due
to the very great increase in the
sales of new automobiles during the
where he was rector ofthe Episcopal
church.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
F. Alton Drumwright, Norfolk, Va.,
and Hazel Mae Skarren, Beaufort.
Edward O. Sutton and Mary Am
brose, Stella,.
Johnny Burden and Ruth Smith,
Stella.
David Merrill and Ersil Willis,
Beaufort, RFD.
Glenn Guthrie of Morehead City,
whose case has been hanging fire for
several weeks, submitted to a charge
of having liquor in his pc ssession. He
was arrested by Sherift Chadwiek
somet ime ago near the barbecue
stand of "King" Watsor with five
gallons of liquor. Guthri said he had
reformed and promised to walk the
straight nad narrow patl . He was fin
ed $10 and costs.
As Superior Court w .11 be in ses
sion here next week th re will be no
session of Recorder's Caurt until the
following week.
OBSERVE THANKSGIVING DAY
In accordance with its custom the
News office will be clcsed today. It
will be open Friday as usual. The
nostoffice. banks and many of the
merchants will close also. The indi
cations are that Thanl sgiving Day
will be observed pretty generally in
Beaufort and vicinity.
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DRUNKENNESS AND MGHTING
BRINGS SEVEN TO COURT
Funeral Services
For Hugh Dickinson
Core Creek, Nov. 27 All that was
mortal of Hugh Allen Dickinson was
Herman Lance and Dollie Slade,
past several months, many of them Newport,
being for only three-f ouths, or one-. Alex Murrell and Gertrude Mur
be.lt, or one-fourth of the year. The.rav. Beaufort. RFD.
total piste saiea win not go much
As a result of appointments made
at the North Carolina Methodist
Conference held in Washington last
week Reverend C. B. Culbreth, who
has been pastor of Ann Street Metho
dist church during the past year has
been transferred to the church at
Sanford. Reverend C. T. Rogers, who
is a native of Carteret county and
who has served thee hurch at Wil
liamston for four years, was assign
ed to thee hurch in Beaufort. Rever
end L. C. Larkin former pastor at
Sanford has been assigned to Centen
ary Methodist church in iNew Bern.
Reverend A. J. Hobbs, formerly at
Centenary Methodist was sentt o Wil
son. The appointments for the New
Bern district are as follows:
T. McM. Grant, presiding elder.
Atlantic, W. J. Freeman; Aurora,
H. R. Ashmore; Ayden, T. A. Sykes;
Beaufort,, C. T. Rogers; Dover, E. L.
Hill; Fremont, E. R. Shuler.
Goldsboro: St. Paul's, O. W. Dowd;
Goldsboro Circuit, M. C. Yearby.
Greenville-Jarvis Memorial, C. R.
Combs; Grifton, D. H. Fields; Grimes
land, J. C. Harmon; Hookerton, J. G.
Phillips; Jones Circuit J. D. Young.
Kinston: Queen Street, R. E.
Brown.
La Grange, L. L. Smith; Morehead
City, D. M. Sharpe; New Bern, Cen
tenary, L.. C Larkin; Newport, M.
W. Warren ; Ocracoke-Portsmouth,
W. A. Tew; Oriental, J. C. Humble;
Pamlico, J. M. JolifF; Pikeville-Lem
Street, Leon Russell; Pink Hill, N.
B. Strickland; Riverside-Bridgeton, J.
B. Thompson; Seven Springs, R. W.
Barfield: Snow Hill. W. L. Maness:
Straits-Harlowe, F. B. Brandenburg; NEW BERN, Nov. 27 The Nation
Vancehoro. T. E. Davis: Miasionarv al Forest Reservation Commission
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Seven cases were tried in the May
or's Court Monday night. Drunken
ness and fighting were the charges on
which prosecutions were 1 ased. The
following named were the defen
dants: .,- ' . - V V-.- a
f Hward Rhodes' color assault
on a female and assault w th a dead
ly weapon on his brother Ssm Rhodes.
Sent to Recorder's Court.
George Johnson, colored, drunken
ness and fighting, guilty and sentenc
ed to pay $15.00 or serve 30 days on
the street force.
Spencer Copes, colored, drunk and
righting was convicted and given the
option of paying $15.00 or working
30 days.
James Johnson, colored, for the
laid to rest Sunday afternoon in Har-same offense as the above two was
higher than the present figure, as
new 1935 plates may be bought De
cember 1, bat may not be used until
December 15.
A warm ma- is in progress for the
speakership of the 1935 House of Rep
resentatives, participated in. by Rob
ert Grady Johnson, of Pender; Laurie
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Gilli
kin, November 19th, a son, Ronald.
Christmas Shoppers
It is time to get busy. Only
twenty shopping days remain
until rhvuffnAi 'I'Iiaia urhrh Vmv
kin, of Franklin. All of the candi-j learly usually get the best selec-
dates have been on the warpath, seek-' The index finger usually is lonzer tinnn. RA tk .vortUomontA
ing votes that will be cast In the than the ring finger in women, but in in the News and come and
Democratic caucus on the night be- men the ring finger often is longer, look over the stocks which the
Five thousand persons are engag
ed in washing gold by hand in the
streams of the province of El Oro.
Mcbachern of Hoke, and W. U Lump ; Ecuador.
lowe Cemetery. Hugh was the young
est son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dickin
son and was nineteen years old. He
was very seriously injured by a fall
from a log truck Friday afternoon,
and died Saturday morning from its
effect. The funpral services were
conducted at Harlowe chunih by Rev.
Mr. Stevens from Morehead City.
Hugh was a young man who had
many friends. He will be greatly miss
ed by us all. His seat at the Sunday
School was seldom vacant. He leaves
to mourn his loss his mother and
father, three sisters, Mrs. A. H. Out
law of Elizabeth City; Miss Madie of
this place and Miss Beth who is in
training at the General Hospital at
Charleston, West Va. Three brothers
Doy of Bridgeton and Floyd and
Raymond of this place, five nieces
and one nephew.
The many beautiful flowers show
ed the high esteem in which he was
held. Our hearts go out in deepest
sympathy to all his loved ones, and
may He who sorrows with them, heal
the wounded hearts.
Honorary pallbearers were: K. L.
Dickinson, J. II. Dickinson, W. A.
Foreman, Charlie Thomas, Dan Og
lesby, and Solomon Willis. Active
pall bearers were: Leo Whitley, Cecil
Langdale, North Sabiston, Maxton
Sabiston, Ralph Thomas and David
Dickinson.
given the same sentence.
John Henry Smith, colored, drunk
enness charge, guilty and given eith
er $5.00 or 10 days.
Wade Goulden, drunkenness, guil
ty, $5.00 or 10 days.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Shepards Point Land Co., to W.
W. Freeman, 1 lot Morehead City,
for $75.
Town of Morehead City to Steph
en Styron, 1 lot Morehead City, for
$10.
J F. Duncan, Comm. to J. H. Neal
Trustee, part lot Beaufort, for $8
800. J. L. Gaskins and wifet o Cleve
land Gillikin, 3-5 interest 50 acres,,
Straits, for $330.
LARGE TRACT PURCHASED
FOR NATIONAL FOREST
to Africa, J. D. Barden; director su- has approved the- purchase of 5C,-
anuate fond, T. M. Grant; superan- 609 acres of land at Croatan to De-
TIDE TABLE
Information ni to trie tide
at. Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
tabUs furnished by the U. S.
Geodetic Surrey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
uatea: S. A. Nettles, J. M. Wright, R.
A. Bruton and Guy Hamilton.
fore the General Assembly convenes, than the index finger.
Views have been expressed all along
that Mr. Johnson was probably in the
merchants have to offer. When
you buy from local merchants
von see what you are getting
come part of the Crotan purchase un
it at Wambaw National Forest
According to the Sunday New
York Times, Secretary Dern has ap
proved the purchase from th Intr
state Cooperage company at a cost
of $139,635.50. The average payment
per acre is about $2.75. It was lern
ed on good authority here that the
company asked approximately $7.00
per acre.
So far is known this is the first
approved local purchase to be public
ized by the commission.
High Tide Low Tide
Friday. Nov. 30
2:30 A. M. 8:57
2:32 p. m. 9:15 p. m.
Starday, Dee. 1
3:29 a. m. 9:52 a. m.
3:32 p. m. 10:01 p. m.
Sunday, Dee. 2
4:21 a. m. 10:46 a. m.
4:26 p. m. 10:47 p. m.
Monday, Dee. 3
m.
m. 1138
Tueday, Dec. 4
5:56 a. m. 11:34
6:08 d. m. 12:28 p. m
Wednesday, Dec. S
6:41 i. m
5:10 a.
5:18 p.
12:21 a. m.
The larcest rnral repf in the world 6:56 n. ill. 1:16 p. m.
lead, although it is known that Mr. that Mr. Lumpkin is covering a lot You cannot tell nvich from a 'is in Australia. It is the Great Bar- Thunday, Dec. 6
WcLachcrn is conducting a vigorous of territory and making a good im- You cannot tell much from a rier Reef, 1,000 miles long and 30,7:29 a. m.
and probably effective campaign, and pression. mail order catalogue. miles wide. 7:42 p.m.
REFERENDUM IN DECEMBER
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Nov. 26 Another to
bacco sign-up to limit tobacco grow
ing for another two years in North
Carolina, as well as in other states,
is being urged by Governor Ehring
haus, who last week wired J. B. Hut
son, chief of the tobacco section of
the AAA, urging that the sign-up be
conducted at the time of the refer
endum to be conducted probably the
second week in December on the con
tinuation of the Kerr-Smith tobacco
control act, effective the past year.
Governor Ehringhaus talked last
week with Mr. Hutson and folowed
up his plea by telegram, telling of the
unanimous and insistent approval of
control at the Farmville meetnig a
few weeks ago. He urges that Mr.
Hutson not wait for authority from
Congress, since the sign up last year
was made and the authority given lat
er. Now, while the growers are elat
ed over the success of the first years
control results, i3 the proper time
for the sign-up. Governor Ehring
haus urges, sying "we have every
thing to win and nothing to lose" by
it
A referendum on the Kerr-Smitb
act will be conducted not later than
Dec. 15, and it is believed that the
sign up should be conducted at the
same time. Also, the referendum on
the Bankhead cotton control act is
to be conducted on Friday, Decem
ber 14, and it is possible that the to
bacco referendum will be held at the
same time, as there are many coun
ties in which both tobacco and cot
ton grow.
Forest fire damage in Otcober con
tinued at a low figure in the 44 coun
ties ; organized for protection.' Only '
29 fires were reported, burning ov
er 815 acres and causing damage of
$1,699. Damage in September was
$1,289 and in August only $48 in
these organized counties. Only one
fire occurred in the two western
North Carolina divisions, 22 were in
in the eastern and southeastern di
visions and the remaining six were
scattered over the State. Smokers
arec harged with 14 of the 29.
Prof. E. C. Mcintosh, State direc
tor of the education division of the
ERA, will hold three regional con
ferences and discussions on types of
work, hourly wage rates and other
phases of the Federal Aid program in
the State. Meetings will begin at 11
oclock on the following schedule:
November 27, East Carolina Teach
ers College, Greenville; Lenoir-Rhyne
College, Hickory, on December 4,
and December 5 att he University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. All col
lege and university presidents and
other faculty members are invited to
take part. Prof. Mcintosh will "eak
at the annual convention of the Na
tional Association of University and
College Business Officers at Pine
hurst December 7 on the subject;
"The Federal Student Aid Program
in North Carolina."
New Highway Project
Fourteen highway projects, involv
ing building of about 50 miles of new
roads, four bridges, one underpass,
approaches to bridges and underpass
es and widening several miles of con
crete roads, have been turned over to
the Federal Bureau of Public Roads,
W. Vance Baise, acting State high
way engineer announces. As many
of them as are approved in time will
be included in the next highway let
ting, to be held next month, Decem
ber 11 or 18, probably. The State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion wil hold a meeting December 4.
The projects are in Edgecombe,
Nash, Wilkes, Carteret, Robeson,
Granville, Wake, Hoke, Madison,
Rockingham (two); Durham, Ran
dolph and Stanly counties.
The Carteret county project, prev
iously announced, is sand asphalt
surfacing on Route 101, between the
intersection with Route 10 and the
Inland Waterway.
Governor Ehringhaus has accept
ed an invitation to deliver an address
at the annual convention of the Na
tional Association of Life Insurance
Prisidents to be held in New York
City December 13-14. One governor
is invited to address the convention
each year. Insurance Commissioner
Dan C. Boney, who is expected to be
a. m. elected president of the National As
p. m. sociation of State Insurance Commis
sioners, following their annual con
vention in Florida December 4, is
also expected to be on the program
of the "life presidents" with Gover
nor Ehringhaus, as one of the speakers.
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