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VOLUME XXIV
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 8
Sunday Charity Movies Will
Continue Despite Objections
C0H00N TO WRITE
ON PRISON LIFE
NOTED EDUCATOR
DIED IN CAMDEN
iimiiiriiiiiiiiii4 JUL mm. mrnatr
Fred Seeley Heads New Chamber
Of Commerce Organized Tues.
i
Forty Two Expressed Desire To Become Charter Members
And Others Are Joining Daily ; Total Membership ShouH
be 100 by Next Meeting Set For March 1. President See
Francis Wade Says that Money
Refused by Welfare Worker
Was Accepted by Communi
ty Club who are using it to
Buy Milk for Undernourish
ed School Children; Minis
ters Object to Sunday Char
ity Movie, but They do not
Conflict with House Church
Services.
By AYCOCK BROWN
Despite the fact that one welfare
official in Morehead City refused to
accept a check presented by opera
tors of the Sunday Charity moving ;
pictures, the amount was turned over
to another group who looked at it
from a different angle, and subse
quent donatoins have been turned ov
er to this group who according to
Francis Wade are using the money
to buy milk for undernourished chil
dren in the public school there.
"And we shall continue to operate
the Sunday moving pictures, and
turn the profits over to the Commu
nity Club who will use it for char
itable purposes," said Mr. Wade when
interviewed Wednesday night. The
writer of this sci-ipt takes a great
deal of pleasure in giving this front
page announcement and publictiy to
next Sunday's shows; the feature
picture will be "Mills of the Gods,"
featuring Mae Robeson, Victor Jory
and Fay Wray. The two shows on
Sunday start at 2:30 p. m. and 8:45
p. m. The admission price for Sun
day movies is 10 and 25 cents.
Any one who goes to church knows
that the above hours do not conflict
with any religious services. The writ
er of this script takes pleasure in an
nouncing that the majority of church
es, including the Baptist, the Metho
dist, the Presbyterian, the Episcopal . ?ff.airs of the Legion. In addition to
and the Roman Catholic usually have'be,nS a P commander of the Rat
services as folows:. Sunday School Post, he las served the Raleigh
9:30 o'clock; Morning Worship, 11
o'clock and evening services at 7:30
o'clock.
(Continued on r-ge tight)
ADVERTISERS
We apprecaite the splendid
cooperation advertisers have
been giving the Beaufort News.
And we feel that the advertisers
appreciate their home county
newspaper. They appreciate a
newspaper which gets on the
streets and into the postoffice
boxes early on the day of pub
lication. For this reason we
must establish a 'deal-line' for
ad copy. Starting next week no
advertisements will be accepted
for publication on Thursday,
unless they are in- the News of
fice by noon, (12 o'clock) Wed
nesday. Co-operation on the
part of advertisers in this mat
ter will assure a better Beaufort
News, and one that will reach
you several hours earlier on the
day of publication.
THE EDITOR.
MAYOR TAYLOR HA
COURT DOCKET
LIGHT !
:' MONDAY
Only six defendants f.::d the
judge in town hall Monday night.
Three were white, three were colored,
one was a female of the species.
Itemized, the cases disposed of,
cause and judgment were: Pete Da
vis, colored, drunk, 20 days;
Sam
Rhodes, colored, drunk, 10 days; Al -
vin Congleton, white, drunk, 10 days;
B. F. Gabriel, white, drunk 5 days;
claud Glover, white, drunk, 10 days
and Esther Simmons, colored, drunk,
five days. Each were granted privi
lege of buying their freedom at rate
of 50 cents per day. Some did.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Denard Da
vis of Davis, February 17th a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Whit
ley of Harkers Island, February
18th a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Murphy
of Davis, February 18th, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Law
rence of Ot.vay, February 16th, a
daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clem Gilli
kin of Otway, February 17th, a son.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Dudley,
Arthur Jones and Edna
Morehead City.
Herbert O. Davis and Thelma Guth
rie, Harkers Island.
Burges Lewis and Nora Hancock,
Harkers Island.
James R Rush, Beaufort and Mil
dred L. Green, Morehead City.
FOR STATE COMMANDER
wuiiMrauiiMiiii!ni.iwauui n mm.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS, JR.
First to enter the field as a can
didate for State Commander of the
American Legion is Josephus Dan
iels, Jr., of Raleigh, business mana
ger of The News and Observer. He
was unanimously nominated by Ral
eigh Post No. 1 to succeed the pres
ent commander, Hubert E. Olive,
at the State convention to be held in
Fayetteville next August.
Pledges of support have already
comet o Mr. Daniels from many out
standing Legionaires of the State.
During the World War, Mr. Dan
iels served overseas for a year with
the 13th Marines, attached to the
staff of General Smedley Butler, the
fiery military man,
He has been exceedingly active in
Society of 40 to 8, Legion honor or
ganization, as chef de gare, and has
also headed the State Society of 40
and 8.
He has represented the Raleigh
post at many State conventions as a
delegate and has been a member of
the North Carolina delegations to
several national Legion gatherings.
FRED HERRING
KILLED FRIDAY
Fred Herring, 19-year old white
boy was instantly killed at his home
on Hull Creek swamp near Wild
wood, a few miles west of Morehead
City last Thursday afternoon when
he walked in front of a shot gun in
the hand of and discharged by his
i 14 year old brother Guy Herring.
I They were out fox hunting and Guy
was shooting at knot on a nearby
tree when the tragedy occurred, ac
I cording to Coroner George Dill who
I investigated and de-clared the death
j accidental.
i Ke is tiie son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Hfivrinsr, who moved to Carteret
comity iec?ntly from LaGrange,
j where the body was taken Saturday
! for burial.
CwerifSff The
WATER FitOXT
By AYCOCK BROWN
The sea gulls hereabouts are in a
' starving condition. Large flocks hover
over Front Street. Several have been
seen to drop down to the pavement
and retrieve va particle of food. Not
little fishes, as the gulls would have
it, because there are no little fishes
on Front Street. Neither are there
any in the channel. If they are there
the gulls would find them ... or may
be they are so deep they cannot be
reached.
Farmers out north of Beaufort say
that large flocks of gulls have recent
ly been hovering over new plowed
fields searching for worms. Worms
are not the usual diet ofthese scav
engers of the shores, but they will
eat them in preference to starving.
Paul Jones and myself were watch
ing some that had landed ouf ort the
wharf back of his store a few days
ago. They were looking for meat
scraps. A gull is very pretty ajid grace
ful when in the air, but when they
come down to a wharf and you get
a close view of them they look serag
gly and ugly. That's the way thosi
looked any way. Paul said that a
few days before a group 0f them tried
to make off with a beef hide that was
claying on the pier drying. They al
most succeeded. Bill Hatsell who does
our linotyping and job directing said
that one flew over his head the other
day and grinned at him. Ask B:!!
i (Continued on page five)
Elizabeth City Lawyer Serves
48 Days of 60 Day
Sentence
Fayetteville, Feb. 20 Cumberland
jail last week lost the most distinguish
ed prisoner it has ever held when
Walter L. Cahoon, prominent Eliza
beth City lawyer was released after
serving forty-eight days of a sixty
Hav sentence for bnrsewbinnincr an
other member of the Pasquotank bar.)
He received twelve days for good con
duct.
Mr. Cahoon, a next door neighbor
of Governor Ehringhaus, was form
erly a Raleigh newspaper man, was
principal reading clerk of the State
House of Representatives for sever
al terms, and a former member of
the State Highway Commission.
What he regarded as person al in
sult in the course of a trial led Co
hoon to chastise a fellow lawyer.
For this he was given a sixty-day
sentence by Judge Grady, being al
lowed to serve it in the Cumberland
jail on account of his health. He .
made an interesting and interested
prisoner, and assisted jailer Charles character of the school advanced un
H. Randell is compiling a statistical der his leadership,
report on the prison which Randall Leaving educational work in 1906,
hopes will prove of value to students Rev. Mr. Levister was connected in
of penology. He intends to write a various capacities with several relig
comprehensive study of his expert-,ious and temperance publications. In
ences as a prisoner. Well acquainted 1918 he moved to Camden where he
with older bar members, (and now 'became welfare secretary of the West
prison bars), Mr. Cohoon
was fre-
quently visit in jail.
Five Cases Disposed
Of By Recorder Webb
Judge Paul Webb disposed off&re
cases in Recorder's Court Tuesday. A
charge against Duffy Willis of Salter
Path charged with trespass was nol
prossed with leave. Harvey Willis
was the prosecuting witness in this
case.
Elsie Bryan, colored, alleged boot
legeress was sentenced to six months
in the common jail, with sentence sus
pended upon payment of costs, pro
eu( B,,e uuea n.wl Jviol"le f""''
w iU1 P.u .wo
tice of appeal and bond was placed
at $100.
Abraham Darling, white man,
charged with larceny of personal prop
erty, plead nolo-contendere. He was
sentenced to six months in jail, sus
pended upon condition that he re
main of good behavior and not vio
late the law for a period of two
years.
York Fisher and Jackson Marbly,
charged with violating the prohibi
tion laws were found guilty and sen
tenced to four months in the common
jail and to the county home under
the supervision of the State High
way and Public works administration.
THE
BEAUFORT NEWS
A YEAR
$1.50
NINETY ONE PERSONS LOST LIVES
WHEN STEAMPACKET PULASKI
BURNED OFF CAPE LOOKOUT IN '38
By AYCOCK BROWN
The burning of the Morro Castle
gave me an idea. The time was ripe
for a feature story about a passen
ger ship burning off the North Car
olina coast. It made no matter when
she burned, just so the data could be
obtained. It would be a sort of se-
qual story.
We were living on Ocracoke is -
land where just about every kind of
ship had wrecked at one time or an-
other since Barlow and Armidas first
sailed through the inlet there some
300 years ago. But none of the na
tives could recall any passenger ship
burning in those waters. Up the '"DESTRUCTION OF THE STEAM
beach on Hatteras island there was a (PACKET "PULASKI" OFF CAPE
good burning ship story. Most every
one knows about it. She was the. Mir
lo, a tanker which caught fire when
torpedoed by a submarine during the
War Capt. John Alan Midyette and
his Chicamacomico coast guard men
rescuued the crew which had taken
to a burning sea life boats. Later
Capt. John Alan and his rescuers
were given Congressional medals for
their part in the thrilling rescue.
During the winter of 1928 or 29,
Capt. Bill Gaskill and I returning; At eleven o'clock that evening the
from his hunting lodge on North j Pulaski was ploughing through Ons
Shell Rock six miles out in the sound; law By, near Cape Lookout when the
trom ucracoke saw a trawler ahre
ne ar the inlet. She was the Willis,
hailing from a Virginia port. She
burned to the water's edge but no
lives were lost. Here was an eye wit -
ness story about a burning vessel at
sea
But neither of the foregoing events
fitted for thes tory in mind. It had to
Rev. Charles M. Levister Was
One Time President of Gra
ham Academy at Marshall
berg; Did Much Religious
Work
Rev. Charles M. Levister noted re
ligious worker and educator died at
his home in Camden, N. J., on Febru
ary 8. Many residents of this coun
ty will recall the Rev. Mr. Levister
for his activities during the late
Nineties and early part of thi3 Cen
tury. For many years he was asso
ciated with Graham Academy, a Meth
odist Episcopal institution one time
located at Marshallberg.
He was elected president of the
academy in 1899 succeeding the late
Rev. W. Q. A. Graham who died last
fall. Before going to Graham Acad
emy he had served in many Metho
dist charges.
The institution at Marshallberg
made many improvements under his
administration. While there Roseville
Hall was erected, major repairs on
the main building were made and
farm land purchased. The general
Camden Homeopathic hospital, and
remained in this work until his death
a few days ago.
He was 65 years of age. His body
was interred in Baltimore and he is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Dora In
gall Levister.
MENHADEN BOATS
SAIL SOUTHWARD
Three menhaden boats, the Wallace
M. Quinn and J. Earl Morris, owned
by W. M. Quinn and the Lynhaven,
owned by J. A. Guthrie sailed Wed
nesday morning for Florida. They
are the first boats in the menhaden
fleet to sail for southern waters this
year but within another month 15 or
jmore similar crafts of the Morehead
Beaufort fleet will point their bows
towards northern Florida where they
will remain for several months sup
plying factories in Fernandina and
Mayport.
At the present time most of the
boats in the fleet are being overhaul
ed by their crews in preparation for
the trip south. Engines are overhaul
ed, while some of the boats are tak
en on dry dock for painting or other
repairs. The menhaden industry
off the northern coast of Florida is
said to be usually better than in this
immediate section, especially during
the spring and summer fishing.
Silage from the 36 trench silos
in Stanley County is proving to be
highly satisfactory in feeding dairy
cattle.
be a passenger ship and one that had
resulted in tremendous loss of life,
to be a good sequel to the Morro Cas
tle disaster.
Finally I got what I wanted. Not
from a native because no native in
these parts is old enough to recall
things that happened 97 years ago.
it so happened that the University
j library had among other books sent
i "Tragedies of the Seas," values that
were being used in a sort of one
man coastal research I was staging.
, This book was published in 1840. And
there in bold type over one, of the
stories included was one about the
LOOKOUT."
Briefly the story follows:
The packet with ninety passengers
aboard sailed from Savannah on
Wednesday, June 13 1839. She ar
rived at Charleston the same after
noon, took on more passengers and
sailed for New York on the morning
of June 14. The passenger list includ
ed the crew and slaves of persons on
the voyage totaled one nundred and
(fifty.
boilers exploded with a tremendous
' force, blowing off the promenade
J deck and shattering the starboard
side of the ship about midships. This
(state of affairs caused the boat to list
to the port, (it was called larboard
I in those days) catapulting passengers
into the water. Four lifeboats aboard
4 (Continued on page two)
ley Makes Appointments
KNOWS THIS STATE
CARL GOERCH
Thousands have heard his broad
casts from WPTF each Sunday night
wnen ne gives nis inui lu vivim ,
, . ,. . -v,
not many down in this section of the
country have ever seen the fellow.
a. i, ei
$
1 '
ou wc M v - 17" Tr' composed of the representative cit
Carl Goerch, who had the nerve to "'"f" " r , . . -
.m tv,. stBfo izens of the town," was the gist of
iv Z a p Cm a ;; , ri
published in Raleigh) during the late
depression and who is making a splen
.j o iUr?rJ i
did success. He is one of the best in-.
formed men on current events in nQ1? co'T w t .7p, h
North Carolina. One day he will be " th.ls ,anRd f6'
. ivt4.. . iVjfi 1, twhave heard of Beaufort as a summer
next in Wilmington and probably the
next m West Jefferson. He travels
over Tarheel soil, and just how he
manages to cover so much territory
and attend to his business of maga-
i i .1. : .1 : l
... , , . three vice-presidents should be elect
ing misrht puzzle some people but , , . . 0..
they are people who do not know this
much 'talked about and energetic
man, personally. A native of Mt.
Vernon, N. Y. Carl Georch many
years ago became an adopted child
of North Carolina, and the State in
general is sorta proud of her young
ster. .
Capt. Roeberg Says
Many Octopuses Are
Caught Off Lookout
And among other things wt
catch in trawl nets off Cape Lookout 1
are escallops, squid and octopuses,"
said Capt. Herman Roeberg, master j
of the Virginia fishing smack Cavalier
which tied up in Morehead City last I
week-end.
If anyone in Morehead Ctiy or:
Beaufort wishes to recall, the name
'Herman Roeberg' might bring back
memories of the famous rum-running
era in Carteret county which was
hushed up like ' nobsdy's business'
during the late 20's of this century.
Capt. Herman was one time master jto display their basket ball ability
of the Pilot. The Pilot while under , in the new gymnas;um Tuesday night,
his command wa3 brought into More- This game startg at 7 0-clock sharp
head City one night (in company of ;Jy at g 0'clock the bovs of Beaufort
232 and Otis Meekins) loaded to the!and Morehead High will stage their
'gunnels' with squatty quarts of fine : contest. The third game will be play
imported whiskies. The retail value ;ed off between Smvrna Hitrh ha
of the cargo was estimated at 50
grand. There was a little black bag
filled with green American money
that accompanied Capt. Roeberg to
Federal court. He walked out of Fed-
eral court a few days later without
the black bag and it is all an inter -
esting story but this one happens to
be about octopuses.
Fishing off the Cape has been rath'
er good for the Virginia smacks un
til last week. One week the Cavalier
caught 400 boxes of fish. Just how
many escallops were taken was not
estimated, because they are shoveled
overboard again along with scrap fish.
But the squid are packed in boxes and
shipped to northern markets. So are
the octopuses. These members of the
cuttlefish family are sold to a cer
foreign population (mostly Italians)
and are considered a delicacy. The
price paid is quite good, so the fish
ermen saw who ship them.
All of the Octopuses taken off
Cape Lookout are small fellows.
They are not the large type that have
been Actionized in Sargasso Sea stor
ies. And to persons who have not
eaten octopus, (the writer of this
story has) their tenacles when cook
ed taste somewhat like escallops, but
masticating a bite is somewhat like
chewing a shoe sole.
There might be- readers of
this!
story who are not familiar with this be at 11 o'clock in the Ctiy Auditor
(Continued oa page tight) ium ia Raleigh.
Seth Gibbs, Dr. Maxwell And
Blythe Noe Are on Member
ship Committee; Wiley Tay
lor Elected Treasurer And
Aycock Brown Secretary.
WILL ADVERTISE BEAUFORT
Beaufort now has a chamber of
commerce. A group of business and
professional men met in Old Topsail
club room Tuesday night for the
purpose of organizing. There were no
long winded orations on the part of
any individual, there was no banquet,
but there was a great deal of serious
interest shown by some 40 Beaufort
residents present representing prac
tically every phasg of business and
professional life of the town.
Fred R. Seeley, lumber dealer was
elected president of the newly or
ganized chamber and presided at the
meeting. In a two minute acceptance
of office speech, Mr. Seeley explained
the great need for such an organiza
tion in Beaufort. "Not only as a
chamber of commerce needed for
contacting possible industries that
might be seeking in this locality a
- nr hranr-h
provements for Beaufort, that can be
v:J 'u, rnnah
.6Ut ul" u'.u rf"
such an organization, that will be
Mr. Seeley's acceptance speech. He
',,, ,lt w ,kmher
Z.
of commerce can and will properly
,
"frt and desir.e aPa?'nrhftoe;
data or Tooms for vacations or for
the entire season.
The meeting did not lag along. Ay
cock Brown was elected Secretary.
While he was busy taking notes of
ed. They were, and included, Seth
Gibbs, Dr. C. S. Maxwell, and Paul
Jones, Wiley Taylor was unanimous
ly elected treasurer. T
A motion was offered and carried
that Dr. Hendrix, Seth Gibbs, and
Wiley Taylor, appoint a board of
directors. The nine directors appoint
ed who will serve along with the six
officials elected making a total of 15,
included; Dr. W. S. Chadwick, Dr.
! Clifford Lewis, Jack Neal, Blythe
Noe, J. F. Duncan, J. P. Betts, G.
M. Paul, Roy Willis and U. E. Swann.
(Continued on page eight)
i'BALL TOSSERS TO
DISPLAY ABILITY
Carteret Basket Ball Tourna-
af MnrAMJ p.vm
fce Feature of Coming Week;
um:.finjl!- Thp1.u tA f;
nals Thursday Night.
The feminine cageis of Morehead
and Newnort Hiu-hs will hp the first
;and either a team from Nevvpolt "or
Atlantic. This game starts at 9 o'clock
and wm mark the end of the gemi,
i finals.
The hottest g.al7jes will be 0 Thur3
dav nieht when the team win.
n;ng Tuesday night will play Smvrna,
and the two winners of the bovs'
Uames Tuesdav will nlav for rham-
pionship honors. Basket-balls and oth
er trophies will be presented the win
ners by J. G. Allen superintendent
of all Carteret schools.
Tobacco Situation to be
Discussed by Wallace
H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Ag
riculture accompanied by J. B. Hut
son of Washington, D. C., will be in
Raleigh next Monday, (February 25,
to give a detailed discussion of the
tobacco program for 1935, accord
ing to a letter received this week by
Hugh Overstreet, county agent, from
E. Y. Floyd, Extension tobacco spec
ialist at the state capital.
"This is an unusual opportunity for
tobacco growers of Carteret county
and North Carolina to get fully ac
quainted with the tobacco program
for 1935," said Mr. Overstreet, and
he is hoping that Carteret county wilt
be well represented. The meeting will-
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