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VOLUME XXIII
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934 1 - 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 50
DEATH PENALTY
FIGHT IS AHEAD
Execution of Prisoners Recent
ly Causes New Interest In
Capital Punishment
BY M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Dec. 10 Capital pun
ishment in all of its gruesomerier.s
has been under discussion extensive-
Open Bids Tuesday
For Paving To Bridge
Prospects now seem favorable for
the early paving of the section of
highway 101 between Beaufort and
the canal. Bids will be opened Tues
day in Raleigh at the Highway Com
mission headquarters on this and
other projects.
Sand asphalt is to be the type of
paving to be used on 101 according to
BUSINESS LIVELY
IN POLICE COURT
Charged With Drunkenness
Defendants Continue Their
Spree in City Jail
GOOD MANY CASES
TRIED LAST WEEK
i
DRIVING CAR WHIL E DRUNK GOT
ROAD SENTENCE FOR YOUNG MAN
City Police Court business contin
ues active as was shown by the num
ber of cases set for trial Monday
reports. The distance to be paved is night. It was found necessary to con-
1 7.71 miles. The roaHwav is alreadv tinnn epvpmI nf thpm A lartrA rrowd
ly in recent days and is expected to j nicey graded and bridged. It travers- j of spectators were on hand and seem
reach the 1935 General Assembly in ; ea a good farmjng section and when'ed to get some entertainment out of
some fashion, following electrocution ' paved will be a big help to f armers in ! the proceedings,
of three white men at State's prison ( movjng their crops to the market, j Charlie Smith submitted to the
last week, and soon after electrocu-, It raay be that iater on the rest of cnarge of drunkenness and was giv
tion of three negroes. the road to the Craven county line en the option of paying $15.00 or
Also, Dr C. A. Peterson, Spruce jor to the intersection near Havelock ! working on the streets for 15 days.
Pine," Mitchell county legislator, has , with route 10f win be paved. Several men were tried on the
said he will introduce a bill to provide Among the other 11 street and j charge of having raised a disturbance
lor letnai gas cnamDer executions, in road projects, for which bids wll be j att he Russell House. Saturday night.
One road sentence was meted out
in Recorder's Court Tuesday and
Final Account of Business several were put under suspended jail
Transacted In Superior
Court Last Week
I.. 'but Judge Webb thought he was old-
sentences. euu vruwinc vi juit'tv.
City, who said thta he is 17 years old
The News was not able to give a
full account of the proceedings of
er, was given the road sentence.
STATE PARK SITES
SHOULD BE GIVEN
from Mount Olive to the Sampson
county line; widening of route 40
for 1.08 miles in Rocky Mount; and
bituminous surface treatment of
13.18 miles of route 44 from Whit-
akers to Leggett.
BEAUFORT STREETS TAKE ON
A HOLIDAY APPEARANCE
With well decorated show windows
and rows of colored lights suspended
above the sidewalks Front street in
Beaufort presents quite a Christmas
like appearance. Christmas trees
have arrived already and are being
offered for sale.
The children are going to have
the pleasure of seeing a real live
Santa Claus on the streets here Sat
urday and also on the following Sat
urday and on Christmas eve. Indica
tions are that Beaufort will have the
best Christmas that it has had in
several years. People seem to have
more money than they have had in
some time and the stores appear to
be having a bigger holiday trade.
COLD WAVE WITH SNOW
BRINGS TOUCH OF WINTER
place of the present electric chair. A j opened, are the bituminous surface
few states have the gas chamber, treatment on 10.82 miles of route 117
Some still have hanging on the gal
lows, while the majority have the
electric chair.
Bascom C. Green, 44, his son, Les
ter Green, 22, and his son-in-law,
Robt. E. Black, 26, paid the death
penalty last Friday for murder of
T. C. Barnes, cashier of a Taylors
ville bank about a year ago, when the
three men and Mike Stefanoff, for
eign born, held up a bank. Stefanoff
had previously been electrocuted. A
few weeks before three negroes were
electrocuted for murder.
These electrocutions and Dr. Peter
son's proposal will bring up the
whole matter of capital punishment,
with the likely suggestion that it be
abolished. People generally, except
those who come in contact with one
of the first degree capital crimes,
murder, arson, rape and btfrglary, ap
parently think the death penalty
should be abolished. When they or
members of their family become vie
tims, they become ardent advocates
of capital punishment, usually.
People who oppose capital punish
ment often dub it legalized murder
and say it should not be permitted
They forget the crime often, as well
as the aim of the law to prevent a
person given to murder, or the oth
er crimes, from again preying upon
societv. But the abolitionists can
stir up lots of sentiment.
Metropolitan bond buyers check
up closely on the agricultural status
of a county or around a city or town
which has bonds to sell. One was sur
prised recently at a statement by
Frank Parker, federal crop statisti
cian in the State, that in one county
of the State the tobocco crop brought
more than ?300 an acre. Thea gricul
tural production and prospects are
checked closely by bond buyers, both
present and prospective, Mr. Parker
revealed. This years tobacco returns
are not considered a fair basis for
a measurement, it is found.
Delinquents Forced To Pay
Steps were taken during Septem
ber and October to force delinquent
taxpayers numbering 2,452 to pay
previously by legal methods started
by the new regime in the revenue de
partment. Executions were issued in
1,726 cases and warrants served in
726 instances, officials report. War
rants were issued against 627 who
failed to pay Schedule B, or license
taxes, 23 were for failure to make
eales tax returns and 76 were for
bad checks. Of the executions served,
1100 were against prof essional men,
lawyers, doctors, dentist., engineers
and othrs who had failed to pay
their license taxes. Often t.'.csa be
hind in such taxes will pay up if
they realize the State is preparing to
take legal steps. In one town, for
example, about 100 executions were
issued and sent to the field deputy.
As instructed, he notified the taxpay
ers he had orders to serve them the
next day. Only three were served,
the others paying up.
How to Cook Ducks
Governor Ehringhaus offers a recipe
for killing the wild, sometimes fish,
odor in wild duoks and wild geese:
"Wrap a piece of brick in a cloth
and put it in the water in which the
wild duck or wUd goose is being
parboiled." That, -says -the Governor,
will kill the wild taste. Although he
has lived all bis life hear the ocean
and where migratory and local -wildfowl
are found in abundance, he ad
mitted that he had never been wild
duck or wild goose hunting.
The State Board of Education will
hold hearings December 17-19 at
which textbook publishers' represen
tatives will present the good quali
ties of the basal textbooks in gener
al science, bilolgy. chemistry and
It was alleged that they were drink
ing in one of the rooms and behav
ing in a disorderly fashion. They
were arrested by Police Officer Hoi
land and ejected with the assistance
of night watchman Hayes and C. W.
Thomas. Several of the men were
Superior Court last week and is pre- was that of driving a car while
senting herewith the remainder of , drunk. Another warrant against him
I An1 11, 1 A T 1 '
The chargt aganist the young man AAA- wprKers Are, weveiopin
raric reas in wmu
States
the cases disposed of. Judge F S. Hill
of Murphy presided over the court.
A large number of tax cases were re-
icharged temporary larceny of a car
belonging to Frank Klein of More
head City. The case was sent on to
manded to the Clerk of the court. , Superior Court.
The following is the record of bus- L Sheriff Chadwick and Police of
iness transacted: ficer Clarence Peletier testified that!
D. G. Bell against J. A. Guthrie. !thev chased vounS Guthrie on the
Verdict for plaintiff of $100 for in-''hhawy between Morehead Ctiy and
jury to his car, plaintiff to pay the Beaufort and that he was driving fast
court costs. A notice of appeal was and wobbly. He ran into the bridge
given by the plaintiff. and damaged the car pretty badly. He
, . . . , was arrested near the site of the old
G. W Duncan against the town of A anJ ht Beau
Beaufort, suit to recover for legal ' fa
iJTJL IJlTfJno defense and seemed to be rather
xne jurys vu "'' " isiiIIat, nml inrJiffowmL He was o-iv-
jen six months on the roads.
Brady Gillikin and Milan Gabriel,
two young Beaufort men, were tried
entitled to recover $430. It was a-
greed that the plaintiff owed the
Bke? l?ty i"1 lhZe t t Itaxed with the costs. Plaintiff's attor-
lCKCU UlttL LUCY gvli lliVI C tlMUUl was j 1
Sunday and continued their celebra- ' 6 rr .
tion j. u. jones uo., against a.
Raymond Springle, one of the a- Cooke. The suit had been reierrea
bove mentioned defendants, plead) to a reieree ana a judgment iul
not euiltv to the charee of being ?l7V.b4 was given tne piainim
drunk and disorderly but was con
victed and senten"ed to work 10 days
on thee harge of having taken liquor
to prisoners in the Beaufort lock
up last Sunday. They attempted to
deny the charge at first but two pris
oners Len Merritt and Sam Forlaw
who helDed drink the liauor testified
Sound Chevrolet Co., against Mrs. tvatt hev a-.a Kr:ne it to the iail and
B. L, Davant. Mistrial. the Judge believed their testimony.
Atlantic Life insurance tO., a-, Gabriel was given a 90 days road
cancelled. ic-ave him a dollar and that he eat
Thos. Tosto against C. Z. Chappell some iiQUOr or them. Gillikin said
and Matthew Bailey and Mrs. Zelba ne brought some of his own liquor
and gave it to them and therefore
he was not put under the suspended
ATI trip wt.rppt.B.
Sam Forlaw submitted to the gainst Mrs. Sarah Jones Dey. By con-.sentence to be suspended for two
nw f nrimk ann Hisnrrlerlv and sent It was agreed that upon payment yearg Drovided he violates no law.
was sentenced to either pay $15.00 of $200 by June 1st judgment will be xhe evidence was that the prisoners
or work 30 days.
Len Merritt also submitted to a
drunk and disorderly charge and was
given a sentence of 30 days or pay
a fine of $15.00.
W. W. Chadwick plead not guilty
to thee harge of drunk and disorder
ly and was acquitted . On the charge
of getting drunk in thee ity jail he
was fined $10, or must work 20 days.
The eastern part of North Carolina
has been experiencing a touch of real
winter recently. In fact according to
reports the whole of the Atlantic sea
board from Maine to Florida has had
unusually cold weather for Decem
ber. Friday night of last week, the cold
wave struck tnis section and some
snow fell in Beaufort and surrounding
teritory. The snow soon disappeared
but the cold wave lingered. The cold
est here was early Wednesday morn
ing when the thermometer at the U.
S. Weather 'Station recorded a low
of 20.5 above zero. Some damage
was done to flowers and early truck,
as well as to water pipes and car radiators.
LOCAL JUNIOR ORDER
REELECTS B. H.
NOE
BIRTHS
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Lawrence of Otway, Dec. 6, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey
Guthrie of Harkers Island, Dec. 1, a
son.
Corn to 3r. and Mrs. John Pratt
of Tkaufoit at Morehead City hospit
al, Dec. 7, a daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Mason
of Atlantic, Dec. 12, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Moore
of Harkers Island, Dec. 11, a daugh
ter-.
Eorn to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lewis
B. H. Noe was re-elected councilor
of the Beaufort council, Junior Or
der, United American Mechanics, at
a well-attended meeting held last
Thursday night in the local council
rooms. He and the other officers elect
ed to serve with him for the ensuing
terms will be installed on Thursday
night, January 3.
Other officers named for the next
terms follow: C. C. Guthrie, vice
councilor; P. B. Beachem, chaplain;
Wm. L. Hatsell re-elected recording
secretary; C. P. Tyler, re-elected fi
nancial secretary; Steve Stanley, out
side sentinel; T. Piner, inside sentinel
J. H. Iver re-elected treasurer; J. D.
Biggs, Warden; R. K. Dunn, re-elected
warden.
Preceding the election of officers
an oyster supper was served to those
present which was greatly enjoyed.
Mr. E. V. Harris, fiield secretary of
Tarboro and T. O. Moore, district
deputy, and H. J. Foscue, treasurer
of the New Bern council were present.
Tosto aganist C. Z. Chappell and
Matthew Bailey, suit for damages on
account of car collision. It was ad
judged and agreed that p laintiff
should recover $1000 and each par
ty pay half court costs.
Harry E. Dickinson against Marian
E. Dickinson. Divorce granted on
grounds of separation for two years.
Court aijourned Thursday ' after-
REL1EF OFFICE WILL CLOSE
sentence. The costs were divided be
tween the two.
W. W. Chadwick on a charge of
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
Raleigh, Dec. 10 North Carolina
will lose much that would come to the
State unless counties, cities, commu
nities or individuals offer sites for
State parks while the Federal gov
ernment is in the mood and has the
money for developing such sites. Oth
er states, notably Virginia and South
Carolina, have several 'State park
areas that are being developed by
CCC camps and this State should
take advantage of the opportunity
offered, Director R. B. Ethendge, ol
Conservation and Development,
states. The sites must be in the forms
of gifts, but the Federal government
usually spends much more than the
initial cost in their development.
Permanent recreational places add to
the life of the community and attract
visitors, Mr. Etheridge points out.
Sites must be acceptable to the Na
tional Park Service, must c ontain
1,500 acres or more and must have
some or all of these assets; accessi
bility, outstanding scenery, recrea
tional advantages, particular histori
cal interest, unusual landscape feau
tures, or others.
Officials of the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries were scheduled to meet of
ficials of the Department of Conser
vation and Development at Lake
Mattamuskeet Wednesday to observe
fish life and consider plans for es
tablishing a natural pond hatchery
on this site. The group will study
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
W. P. Norris and wife to Emily
Ann Lancaster, 20 acres W. O.
Township, for $400.
C. S. Weatherington and wife to
C. W. Weatherington, 20 acres White
Oak township, for $100.
X. r. j, met., iiuaiicc iu
Dec. 13, a son.
PARISH DINNER TO BE GIVEN
The vestry of St. Paul's church has
sent notices to members of the con
gregation of a parish dinner to be
held December 19 at the American
Legion hut. The dinner will begin at
6:30. Bishop Thos. C. Darst will be
present on this occasion.
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
The Ruth Bible class will open
their sale of fancy articles and can
dies Saturday morning, December 15,
at 10 o'clock in the Beaufort Shoe
Shop on Front street. As usual when
you help us you are helping others
to have a better Christmas.
E.
Howard and wife, 25 acres Newport
township for $500.
Gurney P Hood Comm. Banks to
Junius C. Hardesty, 150 acres New
port Township, for $1.
Susan Whittington et al to Lee
Murdock Jr., 6 acres Morehead town
ship, for $75.
F. M. Goodwin and wife et als to
James W. Willis, 1 lot Beaufort, for
$10.
J. Wray Stewart and wife et als to
I. E. Ramsey, 4 tracts Straits Town
ship, for $1.
C. H. B. Davis to T. C. Gilikin,
10.08 acres, Marshallberg, for $100.
I. R. Davis et ux al to T. C. Gil
likin, 10 acres Marshallberg, for $10.
This is to notify all interested
persons that the Federal Emergency
Relief office in Beaufort will be clos
ed from Saturday, December 22nd,
until Thursday morning the 27th of
December.
MRS. MALCOLM LEWIS,
Federal Relief Director.
For Carteret County
drunkenness and profanity, which he J Jang for protecting 6ggs and young
had appealed from the Beaufort Po-!fiall ot,j f ua. mtir. .riWh
lice court, was convicted. He was i putjto increase the food suppiy, if need-
uiwer a raspenaea sentence ox su!ed in order to increase each year
days . in - jail and retired to be of J the number of gam& fish in the lake.
good behavior for twi. years.: Hunter. License Sale. Good
Arthur Smith of the Bogue com- Hunting iicellses this seaS0n, up to
mun.ty, who had appealed from a ,agt week b ht in $g3 049 in reve
judgment of Magistrate C. Gould was;nue or $23il52 more than the, ?69.
not tried, as the prosecuting witness, 1 897 received to a simiiar date last
Smiths wife was not in court. The ,. ,;tv, ua,:af w uOD f
unfavorable hunting weather around
pase was noli prossed with leave to
take up again.
ESTABLISHES FARM CENSUS
OFFICE FOR THIS DISTRICT
Farm census headquarters for the
No. 7 Census District of state North
Thanksgiving, the increase will be ev
en larger during the remaining part
PPIZES OFFERED FOR 0f the hutning season. Game is re-
BEST DECORATED HOMES j ported plentiful this season, due to
little hunting in recent years and con-
In order to sponsor civic and com
munity pride in Beaufort, the Com
munity club and the Young Mens'
Business club are offering this year
$5.00 in prizes for the most beautiful
decorated homes. The homes will be
judged on Christmas eve night. The
prizes going to the homes having the
Carolina have been established at: best general effect from the street
Room 205 P. O. Building, New Bern, cither outdoor, porch or indoors.
N. C., according to an announcement
by Marvin F. Aldridge district cen
sus supervisor. This district includes
the counties of Sampson, Jones, Car
teret, Wayne, Onslow, Craven, Du
plin, Pender and Pamlico.
The actual work of taking the
census is scheduled to begin January
2, 1935.
William L. Austin, Director, Bu
reau of the Census, urges all farm
ers and ranchers who have not re
ceived a sample copy of the schedule
to procure one at the earliest possible
moment so t,hat they may give care
ful study to the questions and be pre
pared to give full accurate informa
tion when the enumerator calls.
Copies may be obtained by writing to
your district supervisor.
servation of stock. Migratory water
fowl are an exception, experts say
ing that ducks and geese have not
breeded as successfully during recent
years, due to drought conditions in
the prarie states and in Canada.
Kitchen M. Barnes, 62, native of
Wilson county, who has been secre
tary and purchasing agent in the De
partment of Agriculture for 19 years,
Judges will be from out of townafter a period as teacher, merchant
ana winners will be notified on Mon- and farmer in Wilson county, died
COMSTOCK FINISHES DREDGING
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Eddie Collins and Mary E. Wil
liams, Beaufort.
David G. Lewis, Beaufort and Hil
da Lawrence, Morehead City.
The U. S. dredge boat Comstock
which has been working on the bar
here for several months has finished
and gone to Charleston, S C, where
she will work. The Comstock's job
here was to deepen the chanel of
Beaufort inlet to 20 feet which was
done.
day night, December, 24 and the priz
es $2.50 from Community club and
$2.50 from Young Mens' Business
club will be presented then. Let's
make Beaufort one of the most at
tractive towns in eastern North Car
olina this year.
THE BEAUFORT NEWS
A YEAR
$1.50
TIDE TABLE
Information afc to tne tides
at Beaufort is giren in this col
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct and bated on
tabls'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 is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
M. S. Arney of Burke
threshed 11,200 pounds of
County
Korean
Three Gates county farmers bought Mespedesa seed from 34 acres of an
... . . . . .. .. ! o o n 41..
18 pure bred ttampsnire Dreaer pig3go i uuuv f m "
at Goldaboro from the State farm last acre.
AYCOCK BROWN RETURNS AND WILL
WRITE SOME FEATURE ARTICLES
To collect data for a book he is
writing about the central Carolina
coast and to do some other writing,
Aycock Brown who at one time was
connected with the Beaufort News
nhvsics, on which the board will re- hop electricity, automobile mechan-
ceive bids December 20. These books, ics, art, jewelry and work books are
for use in the high school grades, are 'also to be purchased. These largely
tn he contracted for to use begin-! will be used from the school librar-
ning next fall for five years Labor-1 ies and many of them will not have but who has been living on Ocracoke
atory manuals are to go with the ' to be bought by the students. High J Island for the past several years,
books, as well as geography and ' school textbooks now are placed in returns here this week for an indef
physiography books. Supplemental the same class with the elementry inite period. While here he will con
books in health, home economics, books and will be uniform in all pub- duct an extensive research among old
woodwork, drafting, printing machine lie schools in a few years. records in search of data for a
book he is writing about the Outer
Banks and central Carolina coast.
Mrs. Brown and their two and a
half year old son. Brantley will ac
company Mr. Brown. They will live
at the Davis House. In addition to
the data he will collect for his book
Hik Tide
..FrMay"D.
2:25 a. m.
2:43 p. m.
Satarday, Doc
3:37 a. m.
3:54 p. m.
Sunday, Dec.
4:39 a. m.
4:58 p. m.
Monday, Dec.
m.
Low Tide
14
8:50 a. m.
, 9 :03 p. m.
. 18
9:52 a. ra.
9:57 p. m.
1
10:53 a. m.
10:50 p. m.
17
Friday night from an attack of ap
poplexy in the Agricultural build
ing in the afternoon.
Coordination Favored
One of the first problems tackled
by the new head of the State High
way and Public Works Commission,
Capus M. Waynick, High Point edi
tor, Guilford senator and director of
reemployment in the State-, is a clos
er cordination between the highway
and the prison divisions of the de
jpartment. He has already been hold
jing conferences with Jack Roach,
head of the prison division; Sam
Smith, auditor, and W. Vance Baise,
acting State engineer since the death
of John D. Waldrop, to bring about
a closer cooperation in these divisions.
Prison labor is not permitted on fed
eral aid highway construction, the
object being to give employment. But
jit may be used on all repair work
and in providing materials for high
way work, and this is to be done to
a greater extent. Still another prob
lem is the Wright Memorial bridge
from the mainland peninsula to the
banks over the sound. Owners declin
ed the State's offer of $125,000, ask
ing about twice that much. Tenta
tive plans have been started to erect
a parallel bridge to cost about $500,-
000. Mr. Waynick is "assistant chair
man" at a salary of $5,000 a. year.
Chairman Jeffress, stricken in the
summer, is continued as chairman.
5:34
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Tuesday, Dec. 18
m. 11:42 a. m.
m. 12:42 p. m.
Wednesday, Dec. 19
7:10 a. m. 12:32 a. m.
BOY FATALLY WOUNDED
WHILE ON HUNTING TRIP
6:24 a.
6:40 p.
Mr. Brown also plans to write a se- 7:24 p. m. 1:7 p. m.
ries of feature stories for the State Thursday, Dec. 20
,;i, nnnfvt- onA rartoret7:SS a. m. 1:18 a. m.
Ltlklt-tS Willi ACI Ui W n . ... .,1. 1 .
county settings. 8:05 p. m. 2:00 p. m. and d:ed there Sunday night.
Herman Wethington, 14 year old
son of George Wethington of the
Stella community, was accidentally
killed while in the woods hunting
last Saturday. The boy went hunting
with some men but was alone when
his gun was accidentally discharged
and he was fatally wounded. He was
taken to the Morehead City hospital
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