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VOLUME XXIV
12 PAGES TWO SECTIONS THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935
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NUMBER 14
MHOUM
Bert Thomas Shot ffiy Spurned
Lover Is Dead And Nancy May
De Or Lose
George Kirby the Spurned Lovr and Slayer is Incarcerated in
Jail Here; Chrvge of Assault with Deadly Weapon With
Intent to Kill Automatically Changes to Murder Result of
Bert's Passing One Week After he Was Peppered With
Buckshot From Gun in Hands of George.
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Nancy Debrix the Other Point!
In This Inangie wnose Leg
Was Drilled With Buckshot
Is in Critical Condition
Bert Thomas, peppered with buck
shot fired from a gun in the hands
of George Kirby, died ni the More
head City hospital last Thursday night
about 8:30 o'clock. Nancy Debrix
who is suffering from a hole drilled
through her leg by another load of
buckshot from the same gun and in
the hands of the same man may lose
her limb and also her life. And Kir
by is incarcerated in the county jail
waiting for trial in the June, term of
superior court.
He will probably be charged with
first degree murder and if Nancy
loses her leg but retains her life, al
so the serious charge of maiming a
human. The original charge against
him a day or two after the shooting
was assault with deadly weapon with
intent to kill.' Mayor Bayard Taylor
tried the case, and after the defen
dant waived examination he was
placed under bonds totaling $2,000.
Meningitis of the spine as a result
of being shot in the back was the
cause of Thomas' death. But his back
was not the only location where the
buckshot had effect. One was remov
ed from his heel. Some people think
that perhaps the shot in the heel spell
ed the Negro's doom, or maybe they
are thinking of Achilles, the Grecian
God or something another whose on
ly mortal spot was his heel. Bert was
either well liked by other members 1
of his race in the Negro section of
Beaufort or there were a lot-of per
sons with a morbid curiosity, because
a great many were present at the rail
road station when the body started
on its last journey westward, to
Mount Gilead.
The physician attending Nancy
says here condition is critical and it
seems almost a certainty that sho
will lose her leg.
The shooting occurred on Thurs
day, March 21. Bert and Nancy were
together. George in a jealous rage
attempted to eliminate both. He has,
developments are showing, accom
plished half what he was going after.
Nancy while on the operating table
the day of the shooting told 'a Beau
fort News reporter that George knew
she loved Bert and not him. So the
spurned lover ra namuck and if con
victed of first degree murder as the
result of hi3 ramphage, he will in
all probability get a bit of voltage
later on this season.
THROUGH STATE
Capital Keyholes
By BESS HINTOII SILVER
GETTING WARM Cci ;-essman
Frank Hancock, of the Fifth htrict,
paid a brief visit to Raleigh and
looked over the Legislative situation.
He would not answer questions per
taining to his chances of opposing
Senator J. W. Bailey next spring but
the general impression in some quar
ters here is that he will not run.
Hancock said he is being swamped
with mail from North Carolina urg
ing him to oppose the Rayburn bill
to give the federal government un
precedented control over the power
producing industry. "I have never
had such a fire built under me" Han
cock said and added that in his op
inion the Rayburn bill will be great
ly modified before it passes Congress.
LEAKED OUT Friends of Thad
Eure, principal clerk of the House,
who have been urging him to run
for Secretary of State against 'Stacy
W. Wade were trying to keep their
little matter a secret but it just can't
be done. Maki ig a speech on the
floor of the House, Representative
Spruill of Be tie, let the cat out of
the bag. He i t ferred to Eure as "the
man who will make the best Secre
tary of State we ever had if he
runs." Everybody, including Mr.
Wade, knew what that meant.
(Continued on page three)
EUZELIAN CLASS TO MEET
The Euzelian Sunday School class
of the Baptist Sunday School will
meet Friday night April 5th at 7:30
o'clock with Mrs. Maude Willis.
Limb; Kirby Held
LOCAL SKEETERS WIN
Beaufort-Morehead skeeters
did some good shootnig this af
ternoon winning over the New
Bern team with a margin of 48
points. Beaufort's total was 361
while the visitors fired a score
of 313.
SPENT BIG MONEY
MRS. MALCOLM LEWIS
From July 15, 1933 until April 1,
1934, Mrs. Malcolm Lewis was direc
(tor of LWA operations
in uarteret
county. With the coming of the NC
ERA she retained the position of di-
! director until a few days ago when
Carteret along with other counties
was made into a District with head
quarters in New Bern. Offered an
opportunity to be transferred to an
other district, Mrs. Lewis ' has de
clined, temporarily at least, and at
the present time she is taking a long
needed rest at the Davis House. Soon
she will go to her cottage on Roa
noke Island for a while. Under her
direction of CWA in Carteret
$165,000 was spent on projects.
Since the birth of NCERA and until
this county was made a part of the
new district Mrs. Lewis disbursed on
direct relief, and federal projects
from $10,000 to $17,000 per month
all of which was spent in Carteret
county.
SCHEDULE CHANGE
TO BEGIN MONDAY
K-S to Give Hot Schedule Mak-
irxg it Possible to Make
Round Trip to Raleigh From
j Beaufort Same Day
; EiTec'-Ivc Monday, April 7, the Nor
' foil: Southern railroad will revise the
schedules of its rail-motor bus opera
tions under the following arrivals and
and departures: Leaving Beaufort at
8 o'clock in the morning, the rail
bus will arrive in Goldsboro at 10:50
o'clock where service will be provided
through Center street to the bus line
terminal, thus making a direct con
nection with the motor bus line for
Raleigh. Leaving Goldsboro at 3:15
in the afternoon the railbus will ar
rive at Beaufort at 6:05 o'clock,
which makes it possible now for a
person desiring a short visit in Ral
eigh to make the round trip in one
day. If such round trip is desired, one
I would have the opportunity of spend
ing an hour and fifteen minutes in
Raleigh and thus make the desired
I connections for returning the same
day, according to Seth Gibbs, local
agent.
j (Continued on page eight)
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CRUISER "HOBO" STOPS
OVER ENROUTE NORTH
The yacht "Hobo" cruiser yacht of
Miami, Florida, stopped over in Beau
fort last week end enroute to New
I York. This craft one of the trimmest
crafts to visit Beaufort bound north
this year is owned by Marie L. Fav
jorite of Palm Beach Florida, accord
ling to information gleaned from the
i registry of U. S. Merchant vessels.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Rose
.of Sea Level, April 1, a daughter.
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Edge water Club on Bogue Sound
A three day Skeet Shooting Tournament starting Friday will formerly
open Edgvwater Club to Guest members. The club building, formerly
Morehead Villa, was constructed about 10 years ago at a cost of a quar
ter of a million dollars. Since acquiring the property, F. M. Simmons,
managing director of the organization has given the structure a complete
renovation and each of the 100 rooms are now ready for occupancy by
club members and their guests. One of the most elaborate skeet fields ev
er established in Easter Carolina is situated near Edgewater yacht basin
and it is there the opening tourney is scheduled to start Friday. Cham
pionship shoots will be staged on Saturday and Sunday with several tro
phies to be awarded winners.
Name "Skeet" Is From
An Old Scandinavian
Form of Word "Shoot"
Edgewater's tournament beginning
Friday, is only one of a great many
that will be staged throughout the
country under the auspices of the
National Skeet Shooting Association,
between now and August when the
first annual national championship
will be fired during the week of Aug
ust 18 to 24. "Although the scene
of the championship has not yet been
announced a complete and interesting
program of events has been worked
out and it is expected that more than
500 of the country's leading skeet
shooters will be in attendance, "Don
ald Stillman, Rod and Gun columnist
for the N. Y. Herald Tribune, stated
this week.
The national championship follows
the inception of the sport by about
twenty years. It was just this long a
go that a handful of ardent upland
gunners near Boston developed a
shooting game for their own amuse
ment, "something to keep their gun
barrels warm and their aim in dur
ing the closed season."
Nine years ago the game wa3 in
troduced to the public by "National
Sportsman" and "Hunting and Fish
ing." The name "skeet," an old Scan
dinavian form of the word "shoot,"
was selected and by 1934 the sport
had grown to such proportions that
twenty-eight state shoot3 and twelve
intercoastal shoots were held in the
United States.
Today skeet is said to have from
60,000 to 30,000 active followers.
There are more than 1,200 active
skeet clubs, twenty-state skeet asso
ciations and two sectional associa
tions. There are skeet clubs in twelve
foreign countries.
Skeet has attracted gunners from
all walks of life and numbers among
iw ""'j a
nent sportsmen and sportswomen. At
a recent snoot at tne raim springs
loumuiuiB cuccl wuu nu iv;
100 film stars from Hollywood were.,. one of the many thrilg of sport
observed.
OTWAY YOUTH IS
KILLED BY AUTO
Wesley Lawrence 4-year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Lawrence of
Otway died in Potter's Emergency
Hospital Monday afternoon about 24
hours after he was struck by an au
tomobile driven by Capt. Richard
Lewis of Harkers Island. Because it
was a violent death a coroner's in
quest was necessary, but the driver
of the auto was absolved of all blame,
evidence showing that the youngster
ran in front of the approaching car
which was not going at an excessive
rate of speed.
Funeral services were conducted
! from the home on Tuesday with Rev.
Mr. Warren of Newport officiating.
In addition to the parents the child
is survived by several brothers and
sisters. Augustus Lawrence is employ-
ed on the dredge Comstock now at jfort and Morehead City his car
Charleston. Capt. Lewis is skipper of j wrecked and was partly demolished,
the dredge Neverest now at George- But Mr. Taylor came out without a
town. He had returned to work but scratch.
was summoned back home Monday.
to attend the inquest. ' Support the Chamber of Commerce
Sportsman -:-
Nearly Three Hundred
Species of Fish Have
Been Collected Nearby
A total of 291 different spc-cies of
fish have been collected in waters ad
jacent to and within the boundaries
of Carteret county, according to Dr.
Herbert F. Prytherch, director of the
U. S. Fisheries Bilogical Laboratory
located on Piver's Island at Beaufort.
He gives this information to every
one interested and especially to th9
visiting sportsmen down for the f oi
mal opening of Edgewater Club this
week end.
The opportunities for sport fishing
in the vicinity of Beaufort and More
head City are exceptionally good, ac
cording to statistics gathered by
members of the U. S. Bureau of Fish
eries in this section. Among the salt
water species available and which
are relatively abundant at various
times from early Spring until late
Fall are gray trout, bluefish, chan
nel bass; (red drum), striped bass,
(rockfish) Spanish Mackerel, Cero,
Bonita, Dolphin, Amberjack, Sheeps
head, spot, sea bas3, whiting, red
snapper, croaker, flounder, pompano
and many other species of lesser im
portance. "Certain fact clearly indicate why
excellent fishing i3 obtained in this
particular region," says Dr. Prytherch
"For example, Carteret county pro
duces approximately 10 millions
pounds of food and game fishes an
nually and. exceeds every other coast-
nl rnnnh'V from Mnrvland tn Texas.
Mnnv snppips remain here duriner the
entire spring, summer and fall seas-
oris, while others conirreirate for sev-
, 'eral weeks during their coastwise mi-
grations." and she stated eany xociay mat xnis
"Greater numbers of larger and commencement is one of the first of
gamier fish can be secured from salt' a great many to be ht-ld i nthis dis
water than from fresh water and the trict. A big District commencement is
angler does not have to worry about
a closed season, when nshing :or tne
many marine species, "ur. rrytnercn
. added and thti possibiiity that a good
sized shark 01. stingI.ay wm gjve tne j
"I-UI..J.. ., hart e for h s monev is
fishing on the coast, which pays for
the extra trouble and expense in
reaching the better fishing areas.'
D"r. Prytherch extends a cordial in
vitation to members of Edgewater i
" .
Club and visiting sportsmen to ,vi.t
, . ,, i able to do so in the public schools,
and inspect the varoius exhibits and." w r
fishery incestigations that are in
progress there.
Two Auto Drivers
Have Lucky Breaks
James Rumley, the seedsman, had
a luck break this week. Sideswiped by
another car whose driver failed to go
through the formalities of stopping
and saying " I'm sorry" or something
like that, his auto was turned over
twice. He suffered only minor injur-
ies.
Robert Taylor also had a lucky
break. One night during the past
week on the causeway between Beau-
nor Believes Port
inal Development
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Recent Passage of Act By Legislature Seems to
Have Paved Way for Plain Sailing and the
Last Obstacle Preventing the Securing of
PWA Funds for Construction Has Been Eli
minated and Loan Now Probably Will go
Through Without Hindrance
NEAR FISHING WATERS
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If all the Spanish mackerel, cero,
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Xrspecier f gam fish that have enable the State to protect its invest
been tE within Tght of the above .nt of more than ?2,000,000 in the
lighthouse with rod and reel were road.
placed end to end they would reach j The fact that the revenues of the
from Carteret county to Izaak Wal-!road have been pledged to guarantee
ton's tomb and probably back again.
The late Izaak, we understand, is
buried in England.
ERA EDUCATION
PROVING HELPFUL
I r.nrteret Countv Over 600
Enrolled in Classes Taught
hv 28 ERA Teachers: Sea
Level Commencement
The first commencement exercises
of its kind ever held in Carteret
county is scheduled to be held in the
Sea Level community today, inose
taking part are not members of the
student body of the public school, but
instead the 'student body' of the a
dult classes of the ERA educational
program which has been carried on
so very successfully in Carteret coun
ty during the past several months.
Miss Carrie B. Wilson heading the
ERA educational program in 30 dif-
itricts of which Carteret is one reach
ed Beaufort Wednesday night and
will be in attendance at the exercis-
es. Her headquarters are in Nashville
planned tor late May or eany June
,a which iicacuiau.vD
counties will be in attendance. This
commencement will be held in Green
ville. In Carteret county 28 ERA teach
ers have taught classes totaling ap
proximately 600 persons this year.
In this county as well as others in
the district hundreds of adults have
been taught the art of reading and
writing in addition to the advantages
aAava Uaitu art A re il a win n wantoi in
"
Eight Cases Were
On Police Docket
Eight cases were on Mayor Tay
lor's docket in police court Monday
night. Henry Norcom, white man,
charged with drunkenness plead guil
ty and was fined $5 or 10 days. Guy
Springle, white, charged with fight
ing was fined $2.50 or five days.
Ellis Baxter, Corney Chadwick and
jCal Stanley, both colored charged
with drunkenness were fined $5 or
10 days. Ed Davis, colored, charged
with disorderly conduct and cursing
was fined $2.50 or 5 days.
Lefty Davis, colored, charged with
fighting was fined $2.50 or five days.
Mary Louise Fulford, colored,
charged with assault with readly wea
pon, to-wit: a knife, was bound over
to Recorder's Court.
Sailirg Now
New Law Will Allow State to
Pay From Sinking Funds
Back Payments on Default
ed Bonds of Railroad, and
Protect its Two Million Dol
lar Investment in A & N. C.
The one thing that today appears
to be the last obstacle preventing
lithe securine of PWA funds lor tne
construction of the Moreheaa city
port terminal has been eliminated and
the Federal loan probably will go
through without hindrance unless
something new develops, Governor
Ehringhaus indicated last week.
The obstacle, the fact that the At
lantic North Carolina Railroad, in
which the State owns 72 per cent of
the stock, is in default to the extent
of $54,000 on its bonds, was eliminat
ed by the passage by the General As
sembly last week of an act permit
ting the State to invest sinking funds
jin the quasi-public corporations. This
new law will enable the State to pay,
'from sinking funds, the back pay
: ments on the defaulted bonds and will
the PWA loan for the construction
of the port terminals has made the
defaulted bonds, held largely by the
Duke Endowment and the Watts Hos
pital of Durham, with the Fidelity.
Bank of Durham, as fiduciary agent,
an important issue. Despite the fact
that the bond holders have been will
ing to cooperate with the State, the
PWA officials have insisted that these
bonds be guaranteed. The new act
simply enables the State to guaran-
tee payment of the bonds,
A delegation from Morehead City
was in Raleigh last week with Senator
Josiah Bailey, who was there for a
brief visit, but they did not confer
with the Governor, who backed emer
gency passage of the act permitting
the State to invest its sinking funds
in the railroad, as a means of clear
ing up what he considered to be the
last possible obstacle which PWA of
ficials could cite to block the approv
al of the loan,
Covfirinrj Hhc
WATEIl FRONT
By AYCOCK BROWN
IT'S FUNNY HOW people discover
things. Take for instance the case a
few days ago in the hard crabbing
industry here. It seems that no one
had ever thought of catching these
crustaceans with a net. Then Capt.
Alez Lewis decided to substitute a
shrimp net instead of the trot line
emthod used for so many years. The
first day his catch netted him $05, or
about $50 more than one man's crew
could possibly catch with a trotlino
in the saniet ime.
WE HAVE BEEN informed that
one of the school trucks, the one
which bears a Craven County marker
instead of Carteret County, but which
brings pupils to the local institution,
is driven faster and more reckless
than any of the rest in the fleet. Of
course one should take into consid
eration the distance this truck trav
els. But it should also be taken into
consideration by the driver that he
has a truck full of lives at stake.
Carteret county has a good school
bus operation record but a fast, reck
less and thoughtless driver could
changet he situation.
(Continued on page four)
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Leamon Corbett and Beulah May
Herring, Newport.
J. C. Crump and Meta Shine, New
Bern.
Harry Willis and Evelyn Gillikin,
Davis.
Alvie Fulcher and Vienna Rose,
Harkers Island.
Alex S. Conway and Eva Mae Gil
likin, Beaufort.