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VOLUME XXIII
Six pages THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THU RSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 52
PAGE'S MONUMENT
Lucky Prize Winners
In Recent Contests
Frank Page Former State High
way Head Laid to Rest Last
Saturday
By M. R. DUNNACA1
As an inducement to get business
during the holiday period several
Beaufort merchants offered quite a:Many inietg Opened by Hurri
iu.muu. ui uesnauiB prizes, iicseis cane of 1933 Have Closed
iwere issued to all who bought goods ,
ior several weeks prior to Christmas Of some 75 or more inlets cut
TNT WTZ NOW OPFN iEsthonian Vessel Was
, -r Here Christmas Day
NUMEKUNLI SIX
day and a surprisingly large number 'through Core Banks from the sound
Raleigh, Dec. 24 One of the great 01 Persons tooK part in tne various to the ocean during the September
est monuments ever erected to a contests. ihurricane of 1933 only six remain
.North Carolinian has already been1 The merchants who offered prizes 0pen, according to James Caffrey,
built and honors Frank Page, who were B- A- Bell w- H- Bailey, Car-1 Coastguard telephone linesman here,
died in Raleigh last week and was,teret Hardware Co., House's Drug Core Banks extending from Ocracoke
buried Saturday in the family plot of MHe- ,JNo& hardware Company, ihe
the church graveyard near Aberdeen following named persons held the
beside the graves of two distinguish- lucky numbers or got the most votes:
ed brothers, Walter Hines Page, not- B- A- Bell diamond ring won by
ed publisher and edtior of World's 1 Miss Irene Willis. Stacy; wrist
Work and ambassador to England in watch won bv Mrs- Gerald Hill Be&a'
the Wilson administration, and Rob- lort mantle clock wn y Mr- R'ch
ert N Page, former Congressman and '. rd Bloodgood.
banker. I m. Baley's prize of 20 silver
The monument to Frank Page is in 'dollars was won by Mrs. G. D. Park
concrete and is miles and miles 0f i er of Hampton, Va. Mrs. Parker is the
ribbons over which North Carolinians j daughter of Mrs. Minnie Tallman of
naRs everv hour of everv dav. the ! Beaufort.
" I T TT T" rtt (V . I
ine joe nouse urng oiore onerea
a number of prizes for boys and
girls. Those who received them in the
order in which they stood were
jboys, Walter Chadwick, Stewart Hill,
Yancey Mebane, Tom Kelly, N. W.
main part of which was constructed
tinder the direction of Mr. Page dur
the first decade of the State's high
way program form 1912 to 1929,
while he served as chairman.
This distinguished son of a distin
Inlet to Cape Lookout before the hur
ricane was one long narrow island
but now it is a series of islands.
It was a big undertaking to re-establish
the coast guard communica
tion system along this route but it
has recently been accomplished. Tel
ephone lines and poles were washed
seaward by the storm. To rebuild the
service new poles had to be erected,
and over 25,000 yards of cable was
used to cross the inlets.
The inlets remaining open now,
and some are of such depth that
small fish boats use them in going to
and from the sound to sea, are Light
house Bay, Drum, Myrtle Hammock,
Whalebone, High Hill and Sand Is
land. Fishing in Carteret county dur 'that a notorious pirate;
euished family took the helm of the :Tavlor Jr- Jonn Duncan, Joe Beam, ling the year has been unusually good
ivuuert oaira. uiri s prizes were won ana it may De Mat tne Deuer Com-
The 'Ahto' small auxiliary sail
I yowl hailing from Tallinn, Esthonia,
? ' .1 ,L1 1 7.jAruAn1
coniinueu suuwwuu n ouucouoj
morning after being tied up at the
Inlet Inn wharf during Christmas.
This is the first yacht flying a for
eign flag that has b?en in Beaufort
harbor in several months.
Ahto Walter, 22-year old master
of the 27-foot craft was aboard. He
is taking the present cruise alone but
on five trans-Atlantic crossings in
the vessel he has been accompanied
by a companion, usually one of his
brothers.
The Ahto featured in a trans-Atlantic
race last year from the Afri
can coast with another vessel about
the same size, winning the race by
four days.
After cruising among the islands
of the West Indies this winter, young
Walters talks of a trans-Pacific voy
age in the vessel planned for prob
ably next year. During the winter he
expects to cruise in the clear waters
surrounding the islands of the West
Indies with the thought in view of
searching for a sunken treasure ship,
The sunken ship is said to be one
one Capt.
Rail Freight Shipments
From Beaufort are Large
Growth of Truck Farming in the Beaufort Area
Cause of Increased Business For The N-S.
Railroad; Many Shipments o f Perishable
Products by Express, Including Scalops, Oys
ters, Crabs, Clams And Fish, Made From
Beaufort.
road movement and carried it sue
cessfully until he felt he had com
pleted the job to a stopping place, a
service that has been duly appreciat
ed from the beginning and will be
more appreciated as the years pass.
Under Mr. Page's direction more than
$100,000,000 was spent, without a
single thought of reproach or criti
cism. After finishing that job he took
charge of the Raleigh branch of the
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., and
executive vice-president and handled
that and many civic duties in the
same efficient and effective manner.
He built his own lasting monument in
every county in the State.
Governor Ehringhaus and his fam
ily are spending the entire Christmas
and New Year seasons in the Execu
tive Mansion in Raleigh. Plans were
to have all of Mrs. Ehringhaus' rela
tives at the mansion for Christmas
day, some 15 or more, and for New
Year's day, relatives of Governor Eh
ringhaus are to be present, probably
a dozen. The three children, Blucher,
and the twins, Haughton and Matilda,
the latter Mrs. Ruth Jolly, will be
with the family most of the time,
While taking only a short period out
by Helen Paul, Elizabeth Mace, Peg
gy Piver, Jean Norcom, Juanita
Moore, Mary Johnson, Lou Waters,
Joyce Johnson.
The prize winners in the Carteret
Hardware Company's contest were
Claude Guthrie, bicycle, Edith Mae
Modlin, Beaufort, doll; Robert Guth
rie, Harker's Island, a wagon.
The Noe Hardware Co., offered
three prizes, a cook stove, set of dish
es and a carving set. They were won
by D. H. Lewis, Mrs. J. H. Ives and
I. T. Noe of Beaufort.
TRAP SET FOR FOX
CATCHES SQUIRREL
Milton Arthur young farm hand on
Dr. Maxwel's plantation in the North
River section is a very good trapper.
Already this season he has caught
some foxes and 'catamounts but the
most unusual catch made so far was
neither of the animals mentioned. A
few days ago in one of the traps set
near a ditch he discovered a black
squirrel. The rodent had apparently
jumped across the ditch and landed
squarely on the trigger because both
munication between the waters of
the sound and ocean has had some
thing to do with it. It is thought by
some well informed presons that
these new inlets wil cause a big in
crease in the production of clams in
Core Sound also.
SON BORN TO YOUNG WIFE
AND 94-YEAR-OLD MATE
New Bern, Dec. 26 George Hugh;
es, 94-year old Confederate veteran,
and his 27-year-old second wife, are
the proud parents of a son, weighing
8 1-4 pounds, born Sunday night at
their home here. The couple were
maried just a year ago.
The Confederate veteran was
born in 1840, and moved here eight
years ago from Greene county. He
has had 16 children by a former
wife. His wife has had two other
children by a former husband.
As yet they have been unable to
decide on a name for the new son as
all family names were exhausted on
the previous children.
for rest. Governor Ehringhaus nlans I hlnd le&3 were caught in the vice like
to spend most of the time for thejj'aws of the traP
next two weeks preparing his message '
to the General Assembly, wttfch con- f BIRTHS
venes January 9, and looking after
other matters developing at the office. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Iverson
Capitol Square Improved of Beaufort, December 21st, a son.
Finishing touches have finally been Born to Mr. and Mrs Dick Weeks
put on the improvements under way of North River road, December 21st.
on Capital Square for several months. a r.on.
as CWA and FERA project, and the ! Born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wade
six-acre tract has been turned over to ' rf Williston, December 24th, a daugh
Supt. W. D. Terry and Mother Na-.tc.
ture to put on the finishing touches. Ecr.i to and Mrs. John Wilis
Recent work has been setting out of Beaufort, December 21st., a daugh
shrubbery and sowing rass seed, and ,tet.
within a few months, vhen Mother! Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alli-
Nature has had opportur.:. to get in "ood cf Davis, December 21st, a son.
Corn to Mr. and Mrs. .Norwood
Lupton of Lola, December 25th., a
daughter.
RODANTHE PEOPLE WILL
OBSERVE OLD CHRISTMAS
Swan sailed over 200 years ago and
in the vicnity of unhabited Swan Is
land one of the U. b. possessions in
those waters.
Two Young Men Killed
As Car Leaves Bridge
INTERESTING BOOK
, ABOUT THE PIRATE TEACH
Several books have been written
about Edward Teach, who was bet
ter known as Black Beard the Pi
rate, but one of the most modern is
wyn Parish, ...wibicti has"Juit " been
published by Farrar and Rinehart.
The book is written in fiction style
but quite often throughout the pages
the fiction coincides with historical
facts.
Black Beard fitted out one of his
sloops at Topsail Inlet, near Beau
fort. He was alleged to have been in
cahoots with the Provincial Governor
Eden and other officials and his ulti
mate, fate was to be captured by
Lieut. Robert Maynard near Ocracoke
Inlet in 1719 and beheaded. Parish
brings to light in his book many in
cidents about the North Carolina
coast and gives a blood curdling de
scription of the depradations of
early pirates.
Aycock Brown.
NEW BEiRN, Dec. 26 James R.
Bell, 24, of Bridgeton, and Andrew
W. Overman, 20, of the marine
corps at home on vacation, were
drowned about 11:15 Tuesday night,
when the Chevrolet coach in which
they were riding towards Bridgeton
to carry medicine for Mr. Bell's moth
er, crashed through the bridge rail
nhnnt 200 vards on this side of
Bridgeton on the Neuse river passen
erer bridge.
Investigation of the cause of the
accident was made Wednesday by
county authorities and Coroner G. M.
Henderson. There was evidence that
thef ront of the car had been struck
by some hit-and-rund driver, being
whirled off the right side of the
bridge. The coroner did noot deem an
inquest necessary at present.
Mr. Overman, on Christmas leave
from his marine corps duties at
Quantico, Va., bad driven Mr. Bell to
New Bern from Bridgeton to get med
icine for Mrs. Uell, who bad suffered
a heart attack. Their car crashed
through the rail, head down, into wa
ter about six feet deep..
By 12:30 a. m. a wrecker had pull
ed outt he car. Inside was discovered
Mr. Bell, who had been trapped in
the machine, unable to get out. A
coast guard patrol dragged the water
nearby for Mr Overman's body. It
was found shortly. He had been
thrown from the car, and the body
was badly bruised.
Millions of folks all over the world
Tuesday celebrated Christmas but
there is one place, right here in
North Carolina, where this happy
occasion will not be observed until
Jan. 6, 1935.
Residents of Rodanthe, on the up
per Hatteras Islands, are Methodists.
They number less than 500, and are
descendants of early English settlers
who came to the coast during the 16th
SCHOONER YACHT INDRA
GETS IN TROUBLE AGAIN
For the second time in less than
three weeks the auxiliary schooner
yacht Indra of Boston has been tow
ed into port by the U. S. Coastguard
vessel Travis. On December 4 the ves
sel after four days of distress at sea
was brought into port by the Travis.
The Indra sailed again early Thurs-
a few links, the place wi.i 'ie beau
tiful bevond description. The Memor
ial Hall was completed nome six years
ago, but the recent work has includ
ed tunnelling for heating and other
other purposes, erecting fountains,
building the Vance Plaza, laying
walks and driveways and otherwise
carrying out the plans drawn for the
uquare under direction of Governor
A, W. McLean. The permanent plant
ing plan, as provided in the plans, is
to be followed in detail for years to
come, and the square will be a beauty
epot of the State. Flood lights are
playing in the beautiful old build
ing during the holiday season.
North Carolinians have shown al
most complete and unanimous faith in
two New Deal movements by popular
vote of those affected in as many
weeks. Last week, by an even greater
majority than was given the Bank
head cotton control act, the tobacco
growers gave approval to the Kerr
Smith tobacco control law. Both have
meant many additional millions of
dollars in the pockets of North Caro
linians durin the past year and the
feeling is alir.ost unanimous that the
control plan should be continued as
to both of these important North Car
olina crops. The cotton act was ap
NOTICE TO C. C C APPLICANTS
Boys interested in enrolling in C C
Camps please call at Relief office
next Monday morning at 9:30. En
rolment closes Friday, Jan. 4th.
Mrs. Malcolm Lewis,
Director.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Shelton Lupton, Beaufort and Leo
na Hardesty, Newport, RFD.
Horace Nelson, Harkers Island and
Georgia Weeks Bell, Bogue.
James C. Guthrie and Lois O.
Willis, Morehead City.
George Mason, Beaufort and Lola
Willis, Marshallberg.
centruy. Presents will be bestowed I day morning, (Dec. 27) but aparent-
and trees displayed, but it all hap
pens on Jan. 6, Old Christmas, as the
residents there call the day. It is a
custom that has been handed down
from generation to generation since
about 1550.
Chicken Pay College Tuition
Lexington, Ky Cyril Kelly of
Pendleton county, Kentucky, is pay
ing his way at the University of Ken
tucky with profits from the sale of
chickens he raises, during the summer.
ly was in trouble shortly after pass
ing the bar, her jib-sail being blown
away, and about three o'clock dur
ing the afternoon she came back to
her starting point of a few hours be
fore. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Pond with
two men in the crew are aboard the
vessel which plans a West Indian
cruise this winter.
RESIDENTS IN LENOIR COUNTY
IN FAVOR OF ELECTRIFICATION
Kinston, Dec. 25 Every resident
of Cucumber valley, lower Lenoir
county wants electricity, according to
C. A. Walsh, who has been conduct
ing rural electrification surveys in
Lenoir and Greene counties.
There are about a score of fami
lies in the "valley" which is quite isolated.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
B. A. Grant and wife to George
Hall, 1 lot Morehead City, for $10.
George Hall and wife to Clyde
Jones, 1 lot Morehead City, for $10.
C. L. Dickinson to J. L. Morton, 1
acre Beaufort Township, for $25.
ROOSEVELT BIRTHDAY BALL
Reports from Piedmont dairymen
indicate that ensilage stored in trench
silos is keeping perfectly and is rel
ished by the cows.
Plans are now under way to hold a
Franklin D. Roosevelt Birthday Ball
in Beaufort on January 30. Wilbur
L. Willis wil act as chairman of the
1 committee in charge. Details will be
'given about the ball in next week's
issue of the News.
A STRANGE SPECIMEN OF FISH
BROUGHT IN BY "LITTLE JENNIE"
By AYCOCK BROWN I 'found in invariable proximity to re-
Along with some 6,000 or more sourceful newspaper corespondents.'
sea-bass brought to Potter's market j He further asserted that 'they will
on Christmas Day by Capt. Larsen find, by all odds, that it is a sheeps
and his crew aboard the Little Jen-head or something quite as common-
nie of New Yory was a strange and
mysterious fish that no one in Beau-
j w 1H1S, iwaiaiituiutig. j uiy Met luua "on vns
I Foy Hamilton and Madeline Smith, f0rt could identify
Atlantic.
Hardy Lawrence and Ruby Law
rence, Beaufort, RFD. .
Shaped like a sheepshead, weighing
about 12 pounds, colored like a rain
bobw with deep orange predominat
ing and with a mouth that was mark
ed by protruding lips of a greyish col
or, the identy of the fish even had
ties cooneratine in the control pro
gram having caused damage of $13,- Charley Hatsel of the U. S. Bureau
714.00 and burned over b,7775 acres, of Fisheries stumped, uuring nis um
the Conservation and Development jty years or more at the laboratories,
VDA w hmit a 10 to 1 vote, while : Department shows. November fires , Mr. Hatsell said that he had seen no
the tobacco figures will show a much were the heaviest since May, when ; such fish.
nnifisii nniniAn whpn the renorta . 2 104.479 in damages were shown. I An Associated Press story
are all in.
Forest fires again got in heavy dam
age in (November, despite the heavy
rains the latter part t tne month,
the 155 fire reported in the 44 coun-
about
Smokers caused 64 of the fires. Camn- the fish appeared in the Thursday pa-
ers. fishermen and hunters caused 45,'Ders this week. Mr. Smethurst of the
Rnuli knmsn caniKxH fi. railrnnrla fiv Nsui and Observer in his Column
lumber operations three and 13 are said that like sea-serpents, strange
charged against incendiorists. I fish, animals and natural freaks are
place.'
Dr Gutsell of the Fisheries Labor
atory brought his reference book
over on Wednesday to try and identi
fy the fish. One of the workmen at
the fish house had unintentionally
nailed the specimen up with a box
of sea-bass and it was on the way
to northern markets when he arriv
ed. From descriptions given Dr. Gut-
TIDE TABLE
Information ai to tne tkiec
at Beaufort is eiren in this col
umn. The figi es are approx
imately correct - and based on
table'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.
High Tide
Friday, D
12:47 a. in.
sell he declared that the fish might 112:51 p.
be one of several varieties of 'parrot
fishes' that are not common along
the Carolina coast but are to be
found in tropical waters.
' Capt. Larsen landed the fish off
Frying Pan Shoals about 85 miles
southward of Beaufort Inlet and
near the Gulf stream.
m.
Saturday, Dec,
1:33 a. m.
1:40 p. m.
Sunday, Doc.
m.
m.
m.
2:27 a.
2:36 p.
Low Tide
28
7:11 a.
7:28 p.
. 29
8:08 a. m,
8:15 p. m
30
9:07 a. m
9 :05 p. m
By AYCOCK BROWN
Opponents of the present operation
of the railroad between Beaufort
and Goldsboro have recently criticiz
ed on various occasions the equip
ment in use along the route. These
persons probably do not recall the
many wooding stations between here
and Goldsboro hardly more than a
quarter of a century ago where all
trains had to stop and be delayed for
long periods to take aboard more
fuel to keep steam up in the toy-like
engines. These persons have probably
not considered the present day steam
engines pulling hundreds of cars of
freight and express over the line or
have they eyet had the opportunity
to ride the new and fast stream-lin
ed motor-busses that the Norfolk
Southern will place in operation on
the route early in January.
The 'Old Mullet Line" was one of
the principle pioneers of railroading
in the 'State. From crude and obsolete
wood burning engines pulling the
trains, the next step by operators was '
to establish the coal burners and now
over this line that has played an im
portant role in developing Eastern
Carolina is to be operated the first
streamlined rail busses on any line in
the South. The 'Old Mullet Line' ia
again a pioneer in a railroading field
that will bring drastic changes in
rail operation for speedy and comfort
able transportation during the next
few years.
The Beaufort and Western divis
ion of the Old Mullet Line has play
ed one of the most important roles
in the depelopment of the line. When
the railroad came to Beaufort back in
1906 this section of Easiern Carter
et was in reality one of the 'lost
provinces' of the State. With the
coming of the railroad it was possible
to ship perishable and truck produce
to markets much quicker than when
same had to be transported to the
nearest rail terminus or to the mar
kets by boat.
With the construction of good roads
in the Eastern part of Carteret, a
truck farming district that ranks
with Southern Florida, (according to
official data from State and National
Agricultural agencies) was opened
and has been developed. It is interest
ing to note the importance of Beau
fort's railroad to this particular in
terest. During the first 10 months of 1934
over 400 carloads of truck produce
shipped out of Beaufort over the
Norfolk Southern tracks. Not so many
years ago, a local freight official stat
ed, only 30 barrels of Irish potatoes
were shipped out of Beaufort by rail.
That was before the days of highways
too and represents practically the en
tire crop. During the first 10 months
of the current year 71,000 barrels or
355 solid car loads were shipped.
The casual observer does not real
ize that gross revenue from traffic
by rail in and out of Beaufort dur
ing the first 10 months of 1034, a
mounted to $124,186.31.
Fifteen hundred and three freight
cars had moved in and out of Beau
fort during the first 10 months of
1934. Of this number 942 cars mov
ed from Beaufort, and 561 cars mov
ed into the town. Of this total num
ber of cars in and out, 98-5 were load
ed to capacity, others being classed
as 'less car-loads and it is interesting
to note that 400 of the outgoing car3
contained truck from products po
tatoes, peas, beets and turnips.
Few people realize that from Beau
fort alone over 22,885 packages of
perishable express had been shipped
up to the end of October. The bulk
of the perishable shipments were soft
shell crabs from the eastern section
of Carteret county. Other perishables
included escallops,, diamond back ter
rapin, oysters, shrimp, clams and fish.
3:28 a.
3:37 p.
Monday, Dac. 31
m. 10:04 a. m.
m. 9:58 p. m.
The Caldwell county curb market
at Lenoir has sold $9,003.98 worth
of produce for farmers and farm
womon of the county this year.