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V si a The best advertising medium published in Cartel e Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO T. ;,PY j j ' WATCH Your label and pay your inscription ' !5 VOLUME XXIV eight PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, IJtjS PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 4 A. I : . , "T f l I i n rilE MOO OHMS 3 1 Funds For Port Terminal Reported Available Soon Telegram Received In Wilmington by Colon el Reybold Advises That All Financial Re quirements Have Been Complied With And That Morehead City is Eligible t o Receive Funds RALEIGH, Jan. 23 The last ma jor obstacles has been removed and officials of the Morehead Port Com mission expect to be able to begin work on port terminals at Morehead City about March 15, it was learned here last night. All PWA require ments have been compiled with Army officials said. A telegram received in Wilming ton by Colonel Eugene Reybold, U. S. Army, United States District Engineer, from the commanding of ficer of the Army Engineering Corp3, read: "PWA advises that Morehead City has complied with all financial re quirements and is eligible to receive funds for terminal facilities. Prior to releasing our funds for channel im provements, it is necessary for you to secure assurances that the city is ready to proceed with the construc tion of these facilities." Commission officials, after being notified of the telegram, informed him that the city is ready to proceed. This assurance will be submitted in writing, with detailed plans for the facilities. The plans for the terminals have been mapped out by the J. E. Griner Company, Baltimore engineers, and will be submitted to the War Deprat ment for inspection. -Review of the plans, it is thought will take about six weeks. Colonel Reybold was informed that the commission has already purchas ed 45 acres of property for the ter minal facilities and: that condemna tion proceedings against the proper ty has been upheld by the courts. A total allotment for the develop ment of $1,885,000 has been made, of which $425,000 is PWA money. Of this, $113,000 is an outright grant and the remaining $312,000 is a loan, which will be repaid at 5 per cent interest. The remainder of the allot ment is a War Department fund. Morehead City has voted a tax of 10 cents on the $100 valuation of real and personal property to raise money for the repayment of the loan and the income from the terminal will go for this purpose and the. payment of operating expenses. The tax act has been held constitutional by the Supreme Court. Use of the War Department fund for channel improvement already has been begun and the original eight foot channel has been dredged to a 24-foot depth, 200 feet wide. The The final plans call for a 30 foot channel 500 feet wido. The completed harir-r will cover 10,000 square acres ant. 1'ie distance from its docks to the op :i sea will be shortest of any harbor i:: Ameri ca. Judge Paul Webb of Morehead City informed the News that the dis tance is 2 miles and 8-10ths. Movies Made Aboard Old Wrecked Vessel The G. A. Kohler, four masted schooner which wrecked on Chicama comico beach on Hatteras Island dur the August hurricane of 1933, and which was washed still higher on the beach during the September storm a month later is still intact according to a telephone communcation f rom there this week received by the Beau fort News. The vessel which has a weird ap pearance and offers a ghostly appear ance when viewed from a distance was the scene a few days ago of a setting for moving pictures. A group of producers who had visited the section several months ago re turned from New York last week and shot scenes which is to be used in a picture that will probably be titled "Terror Shoals" or Guardians of the Sea. In catawba County, poultry grow ers are getting 98 per cent livability from baby chicks brooder with home made brick brooder.. A check of 14 -, 000 chicks at four weeks of age gava this result. An Editorial BEAUFORT WISHES MOREHEAD SUCCESS By AYCOCK BROWN If Morehead City should be come a great Port, at all of us hope, Beaufort also will become great, for the two are practical ly one city and such a develop ment would in fact make them one. And this is no time for the citizenship of Morehead City, Beaufort or Carteret county to allow the "streamlined" idiosyn crasy of any one individual in gender an unfriendly relation ship between two towns. It is gratifying to learn that a six column streamer display ed on the front page of a news paper published in this county is not the sentiment of a town to wound the feelings of their neighbor across the river, but just a dash of the pen of one person, or possibly the thoughts of a very few persons who might be in sympathy with a headline that coull possibly be classed as a monkey-wrench thrown into the cog-wheel of a great dream on the brink of being realized. A statewide press dispatch on Wednesday coming out of Ral eigh indicated that within ten days all matters now holding up the beginning of work on More, head City's Port would be set tled. That means specifically that what has been the dream will be a reality. "Beaufort May Not Have Rights In Port Terminal Devel opment," but yet Beaufort, Car teret County and the State at large are looking forward with anticipation and hope, , tone the success of this great enterprise created in Morehead City. And again, I think it is an unwise and even a milicious slip of the pen to write head lines that might otherwise cause unfriendly relationships between two neighboring communities, unless the headlines are ignored, as they should be. Great University Owes Founding To Carteret Episode A Yankee Army Captain Who Was Once an Atheist and Agnos tic 3ecame Converted on Banks of Newport River Very few people know that Temple University, the great Baptist insti tution in Philadelphia owes its found in h; to an historical episode that oc curred in Carteret county on the Banks of the Newport River during the War between the States. hut such was the case and it has to do with the conversion of Dr. Rus sell H. Conwell, founder of Temple University, who at the time was an atheist, or at least, an agnostic. In 1862, Conwell was a captain in the Union Army. His camp, on the banks of the Newport, between Beau fort and New Bern, was attacked on) day by the Confederates. Capt. Conwell had for his orderly a youth named Johnny Ring, who was much devoted to his captain. When the Union forces fled, Ring recalled that a gold sheathed sword, which had been presented to Conwell by the citizens of Springfield, Mass., had been left in camp. Ring made his way back to camp, but in returning, over the bridge, which had been set afire, was badly burned. He died later in an emergen cy hospital at Beaufort. Whereupon Capt. Conwell, struck by the boy's courage, vowed to live both his own life and that of Johnny Ring. Johnny Ring was a devout Christ ian. He had been reprimanded by Capt. Conwell on one occasion for reading the Bible in his tent at the camp-. When the war ended, Capt. Con well gave up the study of law, enter ed the ministry, founded Temple Uni versity and became famous as an ed ucator, theologian and philanthropist. MISS SADIE MOORE IS SELECTED "MISS BEAUFORT" Miss Sadie Moore, 15 year old blonde high school Junior was chos en "Miss Beaufort" in beauty contest here Friday in which 50 contestants participated. She will go to Winston Sa?em in March for the State wide contest. FUNERAL FOR MRS. MOORE ON MONDAY She Died in New York Last Thursday; Was Member of Old Beaufort Family Funeral services for Mrs. Annia Rebecca Morse Moore, 63 years of age, were conducted from the Ann Street Methodist church Monday at 3 o'clock with the pastor Rev. C. T. Rogers officiating assisted by Rev. A. P. Stephens of the First Baptist church of Morehead City. Interment was made in Ocean View cemetery here. Mrs. Moore was the widow of the late John Moore. For the past sever al years she had been living in New York with her sons and she died there last Thursday. The body reach ed Beaufort Sunday afternoon. She was born in Beaufort and lived here the greater part of her life. Her father was the late Capt. David Morse, retired sea captain who for many years piloted vessels be tween this port and the West Indian islands. She was the daughter of Re becca Morse, whose family founded and named Harkers Island in Core sound. With the passing of Mrs Moore, Beaufort lost one of the 'de scendants of the founders of Beau ort Town. ARTIST LIKES OUR BEAUFORT Jesse Giles Came to Make Study of Local Marine Scenes; Returns Soon to Make Several Drawings Jesse Alan Giles, formerly assist ant to Gutson Borglum has been visiting Aycock Brown at the Davis House in Beaufort this week. He came from his home in Washington, North Carolina to make a study of local marine scenes with the inten tion of returning here soon to make several drawings and paintings. His coastal scenes have made "the young artist one of the best known marine painters in North Carolina. A moonlight scene of Pamlico Sound showing wild geese feeding a long the shore, done in water colors, was presented to Governor and Mrs. Ehringhaus. It now hangs in the ex ecutive mansion in Raleigh. George Green Jr., of Chester, Pa., recently purchased an oil painting depicting a section of the Island's shore line. A number of years ago Mr. Green was a summer visitor at Ocracoke and became greatly impress edd with its quaint beauty. Upon his return to Beaufort, in ad dition to marine sketches, Mr. Giles plans to make several drawings of points of historical interest in this very old and picturesque town. IMPROVEMENTS FAVORED BY CONGRESS MEMBERS Senators Bailey and Reynolds have both written and Congressman Bar den wired persons here that a resolu tion forwarded them by Irvin Davis, Register of Deeds, from he Board of County Commissioners had been received and that the matter which pertains to the harbor improvements will be investigated immediately. Other resolutions from various civic bodies have been forwarded also. asking that the breakwater which pro tects the harbor, the harbor itself and Taylor's Creek cut be improved. This action was taken after the En gineering department suggested $17- ooo for miantenance of Beaufort's harbor during the current year. THIS PROPOSITION SHOULD BE ATTRACTIVE TO MANY The Beaufort News would annrp. ciate it very much if all subscribers living in Carteret, who have rela tives living in other counties and states, would bring or mail us their names and addresses, so that we can mail them sample conies of this home-town and home-county newspa per. Many things will be happening this year that former residents of this section will be interested in. If you have friends who have moved from Carteret to other counties or states, drop raound to our office and give us their names. This will cost you nothing unless you wish to go ahead and subscribe for the person whose name is given and we will send a sample copy. TICKETS SELLING FAST ' Ticket sales for the President' Ball scheduled to be presented nert Wednesday evening has been unusu7 ally good. All arangements have been completed and it promir-es to be on- of the most mln ever present ed in Carter tuty. rAXPAYERS MIGHT LOSE PRIVILEGES Possibility of Law Being En acted by Present Legislature That Would Forbid Payment Back Taxes With Bonds There seems to be a movement un derway to have the State Legislature pass an act that would mean persons desiring to pay their past due taxes for years prior to 1933 could not do so by the purchase of bonds. If this Act is passed it will Drove a hardship on many persons who would otherwise benefit from the Dres ent law that allows them to purchase county bonds for the purpose and thus save approximately 50 percent of the original amount. County Attorney Luther Hamilton commenting on the rumors pertain ing to the movement tells the Beau fort News that he is apprehensive that such a law mav be on scheduln land that "It may be that the people of this county would not have the op portunity later on to avail themselves )f the use of bonds for the payment of their taxes because it is felt that certain pressure will be brought to bear upon the local government com mission to have the commission give ts support to such a measure to be proposed for action by the present general Assembly." orerisig The 'WATER FROST By AYCOCK BROWN There were shady doings along he waterfront last Saturday evening. It is street gossip and anyone inter ested in such knows about it already so here endeth this epistle. Might be seeing you about next Tuesday. The Out of town orchestra at the President's Ball will be the Seven f Aces of Beaufort but that's okay the lads have rhythm and what it takes and an unknown out of town band might not. Tickets selling fast, The CCC lieutenant did not like the falling wheelbarrow publicity. He told the corespondent so and said it would not have mattered just so the report had reached Fort Bragg before it reached the press. But that ain't newspaper reporting Lieut enant. Your General McGloskey knows this correspondent well enough to know that he will make every ef fort to give the news and give it quick, regardless how it might re flect on one of his CCC camps. The weatherbound Orchid, light house tender which is anchored just inside Old Topsail inlet as this is written gives a touch to the marine scenery that will not be unusual when freighters start using the port term inal. She is approximately the same size as many sea going one funnel freighters. All lighthouse tenders or manv of them are named after Flowers or Trees. There is a Juniper. Cedar. Hawthorne, Hibiscus, Hyacinth Ar butus and many more. The Orchid caries supplies to Diamond and Look lighthouses and also 'tends to the off shore buoys marking shoals or cour- es. The Little Jennie, Jersey fish boat which brought a strange specimen from black fish grounds several weeks ago is now fishing off Florida The specimen although never authentical ly identified was believed to have been one of a species of Parrot Fishes found only in tropical waters. The little shack on the fill between here and Morehead City is not a double decker what it looks it is. The structure was placed there by local skeet shootine enthusiasts. AnH th clergy might object to the proposed Sunday skeetmg, but that remains to be proven. Carteret county's bonded indebted ness is only three million and seventy six thousand dollars and outstanding notes amount to only 216 grand.' Mrs. Loftin Died At Four O'clock Mrs. Lulu Kornesrav Loftin. 62. mother of Horace Loftm died sud denly at 4 o'clock this afternoon (Thursday) at the home of her son on Craven Street. She had onlv come to Beaufort yesterday from her homo near Kinston to pay her son Horace visit He has been seriously ill for several days, and was reported in serious condition follow-in? the death of his mot'doi turn afternoon. Court Allows Bill Fifteen Day Those Coins Around Kinston Are Merely Babes To This One A. Leslie Davis Has A Portugese Coin That May Have Been Lost By Spanish Pirates Who Captured Beaufort Town 1740 Kinston has been having too many stories in the papers about old mon ey recently and something had to be done about it. So something was done when the local correspondent for state papers discovered that M. Leslie Davis, local attorney and historian, owned a piece of eight, sheckel or something that was old enough to be the grand papa of anything Kinston was writing about. The story was pub lished in some of the papers this week. Mr. Davis has a piece of Portugese money dated 1738. In three more years this piece of money will cele brate it's bi-centennial. It was dug up in a garden or something here many years ago and duet o the fact that the coin shows no wear, the engrav ing being plainly visible, the indica tions are that it was lost nearly 200 years ago. And that offers an interesting an gle in connection wren the com, Something that modern histories sav little about, if anvthine-. is the fact that back in the 1740's Beaufort was captured by Spanish pirates. Colonial records prove it, and back in those days Spaniards no doubt carried Port ugese change in their pockets so use your imagination and connect thes tory. Motor Yacht Drifted Aimlessly All Night When the engine of a boat . goes dead in the -vicinity of '" Lookout Shoals it quite often means the craft will founder and be destroyed. It has happened dozens of times in that section both with small and large ves sels. But such was not the case with the Catharine S. of Baltimore with Dr. Fielding Reid and a woman com panion aboard on Monday night. Dr. Reid sailed outside through Oregon Inlet Monday morning about 8 o'clock. Sailing close inshore at Cape Hatteras the two and a half feet draupht vessel passed Diamond Shoals and the 'graveyard of the At lantic in safety. Reaching Lookout and nearing Old Topsail Inlet the engines went dead, late Monday even ing. All night long with engines dead. the boat drifted aimlessly, playing hide and seek with the shoals and beaches. Early Tuesday morning the engines were repaired and the craft, j i , . i uuseu aer way across tne oar and was on Tuesday night berthed near the coast guard vessels in Morehead City, after an experience that has caused the swan song of more than one vessel, especially in the vicinity of Cape Lookout shoals. LEGIONAIRES URGED TO ATTEND R DIO ADDRESS I .Anal .fil.iAnai.nn am.J ! fort next Tuesday night, January 29 at 7:d0. ihe occasion has been des ignated as 'Bonus Night' and a fea ture of the meet will be a radio ad dress by Hubert E. Olive, Department Commander of the American Legion in North Carolina. A radio will be installed and the address which comes from Station WPTF in Raleigh will be received by local posts of Ameri can Legions throughout the State. Considerable interest is manifested locally in the 'bonus' and every ex service man whether a Legionaire or not is urged to attend. POLICE COURT MILD HERE MONDAY NIGHT There were only three cases on the docket for His Honor Bayard Tay lor Monday night. Two of those were continued. T. Ricks, white charged with drunkenness was given his prefer ence of paying $2.50 in cash or five days in the street, engineering ser vice. He chose the former said Chief Longest. James Davis' case of drunk disor derly conduct was on the docket but it was continued and Owen Vann charged with assault on a female wv not inea eitner. his case continued to a future court. was THE v. ..fu.v, nuu cA-seivite aia not wish to prosecute his neigh men are urged to attend a meeting at ibors although he perhaps believes the American Legion Hut m Beau- that it was a necessity tn Jn BEAUFOT NEWS A YEAR King Watson to Abandon Place Watson Also Ordered to Pay Fine and Court Costs But Al ton Alligood Only of Three Arrested During Recent Raid Who Was Convicted of Vio lating Prohibition Law COURT HAD BIG DOCKET A. H. Mcintosh Took an Appeal When Ordered to Pay $25 Monthly on Abandonment Charge; Bound Over to Higher Court Under $500 Bond The many friends of Bill King Watson will regret to learn that he is moving his establishment away from Morehead Bluffs within the near future. The "finest of oysters and tastiesjk of barbecue" served at his place will be missed and probably too the "corn-bread"' Charged with being the owner of the barbecue stand which Sheriff El bert Chadwick raided a few days ago and where was found over 20 pint3 of whisky, Mr. Watson plead "nolo contendere' when tried on the charge before Judge Paul Webb in Recorders court Tuesday. The court's decision was, "prayer for judgment and con tinued for 30 days upon condition that within 15 days from January 22 he abandons the place now operated and known as "King" Watson's Place in Morehead Bluffs and pay a fine of $75 and costs." Alton Alligood of New Bern who was arrested in the sheriff's raid at Watson's place, plead guilty to pos session of whiskey and was sentenc ed to 90 days, suspended upon pay ment of costs and on condition that his behavior is good and that he vio lates no prohibition law for two years. J. D. Styron and Norman Lew is were also arrested in the raid and both plead 'not guilty' and were , found not guilty by the Court. " f ArH. Mcintosh, white' employee in' the railroad shops at New Bern whose wife, Mrs. Mcintosh, lives in More head City was charged with non-sup- port and assault. It was brought out during the trial that the defendant was 55 years of age while Mrs. Mcintosh was 67. It was further brought in the trial that Mcintosh had given her but $15 or approximate ly that much since April of last year ' and it was further aleged that in ad- dition to the $15 he had transferred i loathsome disease to his aged mate whom he at one time years ago prom ised to "love, honor and cherish." Alex Moore and Burnett Willis of Salter Path weretried for trespass on the property of Mrs. Alice Hoffman. They had trespassed to secure fire wood, which they both stated along with many witnesses in their behalf, had been promised them by Mrs. Hoffman. Judge Paul Webb is a considerate judge. Evidence pointed out that these good people of Salter Path had only gone on the property to secure, old dead wood to burn in their stoves. Judge Webb is familiar with the difficulty the residents of the little Bogue sound village have in se curing fuel. His verdict was not guil ty so until further developments Salter Pathers can escallop in peace, and burn wood from th Hoffman es tate. In court the kind face of Har- VOV Willia inrlinofnj I, - lt j v mW wwe William Potter and Mark Washington, Negroes were charged with assault on a female. It was brought out in thetrial that the as sault consisted of alleged robbery and stripping the clothes from the female's body. Nothing more but they were found guilty and were giv en light sentences of 18 months each on the roads under the supervision of the S. H. and P. W. Commission. Guion Whitehurst Passed Away Sunday Guion Whitehurst, 35, one of Beaufort's popular young men was buried Tuesday afternoon. He died Sunday afternoon at 2 :30 o'clock fol lowing a lingering illness. The direct cause of his death was pneumonia. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Henry Whitehurst and two brothers, Graham and Reuben Whitehurst all of Beaufort. Funeral services were conducted from the home at 3 :30 o'clock Tues day, afternoon with Rev. J. W. Mor gan of the Baptist chuTch officiating assisted by the Rev. Mr. Rogers of th Methodist church. Pall bearers were fellow lodge members of the de eewwd. They were: J. T. White, Wwy Weeks. Ernest Guthrie. John 1.50 Rinej Robert Lewis and W. B. Longest
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