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VOLUME XXIV
eight pages this WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1935
PRICE Sc SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 24
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Of duPont
Experiments underway at Money
Island Beach during the past week
have proven that dynamite when prop
erly placed beneath a dry sandhill
and exploded will do the work of
many mules, drag-pans and laborers
and estimates by engineers on the
project show that it can be done at a
lower cost and quicker. W. W. Al
ford, representative of the explosives
department of E. I. duPont de Ne
mours Company, has been conduct
ing the experiments.
Money Island Beach, is the devel
opment located at old Ocean Beach
Properties. The name of the firm
building the new beach is Morehead
Properties, Inc., Capt. George Brooks
of Beaufort is resident engineer on
the job. When completed a graded
road leading from the Atlantic Beach
-Fort Macon pike will have been
constructed, leading to the hotel,
now under construction near the
surf on the beach. Many sand-hills
will be leveled and the property sub
divided will be sold to persons who
want to live in a residential beach
area. The name of the properties is
derived from Money Island on the
sound side, so called because of leg
ends of buried treasure dating back
to days of piracy.
(Continued on page eight)
INFANTRY COMES
TO CAMP SUNDAY
National Guard Units Will Be
Put Through Intensive Train
ing During Two Weeks En
campment The first detachment of soldiers
will arrive at Camp Glenn Sunday for
their annual encampment. Other unr
its will follow and almost overnight
the deserted camp will be full of life
and soldiers. The soldiers are mem
bers of the 120th Infantry, North
Carolina National Guard. During the
daylight hours the soldiers will be
put through extensive training. Off
duty hours will find them swarming
the streets of Morehead City, Beau
fort and Atlantic Beach.
According to Adjutant General
John Van B. Metz, the 120th Infan
try units will be brought to Morehead
City by special and regular trains ov
er several lines. The annual regimen
tal ball will be held on Thursday
night, July 18, at Atlantic Beach ho
tel. -TRENTON DEFEATS LOCAL
TEAM HERE SUNDAY
Beaufort was defeated by Ths
Trenton Service Club heer last Sun
day 12 to 7. Batteries for Trenton,
Scott and J. Hill, eBaufort Brooks,
Willis and Potter. Oriental plays
here Sunday, July 7th.
TIDE TABLE
Information as to tne tldai
it Beaufort is given in this col
umn. Tha figures are appioi
imately correct and based 00
table's furnished by the U. 8.
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
ions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
he heads of the estuaries.
High Tide Low Tide
Friday, July 5
a. m. 5:05 a. m.
11:07 p. m. 5:20 p. m.
Saturday, July 6
11:14 a. m. 5:42 a. m
11:47 p. m. 6:07 p. m.
Sur.iiy, July 7
11:51 a. m. 6:22 a. m.
12:26 p. m. 7:00 p. m.
Monday, July 8
12:32 a. m. 7:04 a. m.
1:12 p. m. 7:53 p. m.
Tuesday, July 9
1:18 a. m. 7:52 a. m.
2:03 p. m. 8:47 p. m.
Wednesday, July 10
2:14 a. m. 8:40 a. m.
2:58 p. m. 9:42 p. m.
Thursday, July 11
3:12 a. m. 9:33 a. m.
3:58 p. m. 10:40 p. m.
Cap Lookout Tides Page 2
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SMALL CRAFT
Many boats similar to the one
pictured above will take part in the
races to be staged in Morehead City
this afternoon. D. G. Bell chairman
of the sail class vessels stated last
night that over 20 had entered and
that approximately that many more
were expected to take part in the
annual trophy events starting at 2
o'clock. Jimmie Alvin Willis had
charge of the motor boat races this
morning.
Eubanks-News Photo
Events Today
Edge water Club
Sand Crab Skeet
Championship 9:30 A. M.
Ladies Championship
(If Three Enter) 2:30 P. M.
Boat Club Races
Motor Events: Started 9 A. M
(Course: Around Town Island
M. City)
Sail Event 3 Classes
Starting 2 P. M. 2:05 P. M.
2:10 P. M.
(At Boat Club Dock)
Course Depends on Wind
Atlantic Beach
Matinee Dance 3 to 5 P. M.
Jimmy Poyner's Band
Evening Dance, Starts 9 P. M.
Money Island Beach
Exhibition Dynamite Blast. Biggest of
All. 5 P. M. (Under Direction W.
W. Alford duPont Explosive Expert.
Friday Events
Flying Dolphin and Edgewater Club
Junior Skeet Championships
Fisheries Commission
Meets Next Monday
Fishermen along the North Caro
lina coast who have important mat
ters pertaining to their profession
they wish to air should make an ef
fort to be in attendance at the meet
ing of the Department of Conserva
tion and Development in Morehead
City on July 8-9. Important matters
pertaining to this industry as well
as conservation matters all" over the
iState will be discussed at the meet
ing. DIRECTORS OF A. & N. C.
TO MEET ON SATURDAY
Important matters will be discuss
ed by the board of directors of the
A. and N. C. when they meet at
Edgewater Club on Saturday. The
outcome of the meeting will have
much to do with whether work be
gins immediately on Morehead City's
Port Terminal, it has been stated.
HOME DEMONSTRATION CIUBS
Monday, July 8th Stacy club.
Tuesday, July 9th White . Oak
club.
Wednesday, July 10th Smyrna
club. . ! v
Wednesday, July 10th, 8 o'clock
Otway club.
Thursday, July 11th North Riv
er club.
Friday, July 12 th Peletier club
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ROAD TO SALTER
PATH DISCUSSED
BY COUNTY BOARD
Forward Resolution to High
way Officials Urging Build
ing of Route Leading From
Atlantic Beach Roa dto Iso
lated Fishing Village
MOSTLY ROUTINE BUSINESS
Properties in Morehead Bluffs
Assessed at $1,500; Three
Lots There Had Never Been
Listed for Taxation
In a resolution passed by Carteret
commissioners on Monday the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion were urgently requested to in
corporate in the county system "that
certain road in Salter Path leading
from the community to the waters of
the Atlantic Ocean for connection
with Atlantic Beach properties so as
to permit connection with the road
and bridge to the mainland." The
highway group were urged to give
prompt and favorable consideration
to this petition.
With a road leading to Salter Path
tourists will have the opportunity of
driving direct to one of the most writ
ten about, most unique and perhaps
the most isolated fishing villages a-
long the Atlantic Coast. The good cit
izens of that community deserve all
the consideration,- the Highway
group will show, just as the citizens
of Merrimon and Cedar Island de
serve consideration, or if not consid
eration, or if not consideration, at
least a passable all weather road.
Other matters coming to the atten
tion of the board at the Monday meet
ing were in the following minutes:
Upon motion it is ordered, tout the
bid of C. D. Jones & Co., for sup
plies for the County Home for the
month of July be accepted.
Upon motion it is ordered, that
beer licenses be issued to the follow
ing:, Atlantic Beach Corporation and
Motor Inn Service Station.
Upon motion it is ordered, that
various bills presented foe payment
be ordered paid, except E. M. Chad
wick and L. W Hassell's the same
pending correction.
Upon motion it is ordered, that
State Highway and Public Works
Commission be requested to change
location of county road between
Core Creek and Harlowe Creek, in
such manner as to meet the require
ments of the bridge now under con
struction by U. S. Government across
Inland waterway.
(Continued on page five)
BEAUFORT OUTSKEETS
NEW BERN
With a score of 218 out of a pos
sible 250, Beaufort's skeet club won
over New Bern on their field Tues
day afternoon in a 250 target event.
New Bern't score was 205 out of 250.
Those firing for the locals were Han
cock, Mason, Nelson, Noe and Tay
lor. On the New Bern team were:
Cook, Dr. Menius, Mitchell, Springle
and Harker.
Covering The
MATER FRONT
By AYCOCK BROWN
A DEEP SEA DIVING party made
Beaufort their base this week while
Kow mnrie an attenmt on two or
ithree occasions to find the wreck of
the Thistleroy, cotton laden vessel
which sank off Cape Lookout back in
1912. Members of the party seem
to think that if the hulk could be lo
cated it would be possible to salvage
much cotton. But so far they nave
not located any sign of the wreck, or
if they did, the sunken craft was
not positively identified.
IN THE PARTY WHICH is financ
by persons whose names were not re
vealed, were the following: Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. Lee, L. H. Barnes, C. L.
Clark, Capt. C. Gutrall and Capt.
John Mogg. The latter two are div
ers They came here from Norfolk.
CAPT. MOGG, A GENIAL Austral
ian went down some sixty feet Tues-1
day to the hulk of an old iron vessel
which had just about rusted away.
We asked him how things looked
down there. He told us about small
fishes by the millions which swarm a
round one's helmet. They are from
his description, probably the fry of
Sheepshead and Black Fsh. Occasion
ally there will be a school of brilliant
colored fishes passing by. They are
probably yellow-tails, inhabitants of
(Continued to page four)
She Sails To
J?
Schooner, "Luther M. Werner."
Chartered early this season by Edgewater Club, for an indefinite per
iod, the Luther M. Werner, under command of Capt. William Casey has
made angling history for this section of the coast. On many voyages to
the Gulf Stream off Cape Lookout during the past few weeks, guest-members
or those extended the privileges of Edgewater Club and use of the
boat, have yet to make a "water-haul." By that we mean that fish dol
phin and amberjack or both have been taken by anglers on every cruise
the schooner has made to the Stream. Comfort and safety combined
makes the craft ideal for off shore fishing, and men, women and chil
dren have made notable catches while fishing from aboard the vessel out
tjhere in Blue Water. Eubanks-News Photo
Parasitic Protozoan
That Looks Like Leaf
1 Of Clover Discovered
I The first line of the above head
has you guessing. It has anyone ,
except a scientist guessing but it hasjof Natural History in New lork sev-
to do with an oyster pest that is de
stroying the bivalves by the millions.
Dr. Prytherch, director of the labora
tory on Fiver's Island, discovered the
est.
wow planters are trying to aiscov-
ir some way to combat the micro-1
scopic parasite and thus save the oys
ter beds. So far no name has been
found for the protazoan, although it
has tentatively been identified as one
of the Haplosporodia. With the nak
ed eye if cannot be seen, butu nder a
powerful, microscope, it , makes the
tftseiel, or gills' and muscles of an
oyster look like a patch of three and
four leaf clovers. In oysters exam
ined that were infected with the par
asite, Dr. Prytherch has discovered
from 50 thousand to one and two
million per oyster. But the parasite
is not injurious to humans and does
not present any cause for alarm to
oyster eaters.
Locally the pest has not made its
appearance in large quantities, but
in Mabjock Bay., Va., and in Terre
bonne Parish, La., oyster planters
have lost stock amounting to millions
of dollars. Because he is undoubt
edly the best informed man on this
oyster pest and because he made the
discovery of the parasite protozoan
that looks like a three or four leaf
clover, Dr. Prytherch has been ap
pointed director of a gigantic oyster
pest control program in states of the
Atlantic coast which Congress has re
cently appropriated approximately
one hundred thousand dollars.
NOT MANY CASES BEFORE
MAYOR TAYLOR MONDAY
The following cases were disposed
of by Mayor Bayard Taylor in his
court Monday night:
John Marshall plead guilty to be
ing drunk and was given 10 days or
$5.00.
' Price Johnson plead guilty to a
disorderly conduct charge and was
given 10 days or $5.00.
The following cases were continued
Pope and Luce Johnson, Alice Fisher,
and Randolph Wells.
MORE ABOUT BRIDGES
The bridge that would be closed to
traffic was not the Morehead-Beau-fort
span but a small and little used
span connecting Beaufort and West
Beaufort. It was erroneouly report
ed along the coast according to Mr.
Roy Hart, highway engineer, that the
Beauofrt- Morehead bridge would
close. Which again brings up the
question: Wonder why the offices of
Governor Ehringhaus and Capus M.
Waynick could not have furnished
that information, when same was wir
ed for first by The Chamber of Com
merce and then the Beaufort News
editor. It gave us a good chance to
use a picture we were wanting to
run anyway.
BIRTH
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Monnie Dan
iels of Lenoxville, June 30, a daugh
ter.
Blue Watt
No Ocean Sunfish In
Stomachs Of Dolphin
Dr. Gudger Disected
We sent Dr. E. W. Gudger, noted
icthyologist of the American Museum
eral stomachs of dolphin caught off
Cape Lookout. He is making a study
at this time of Ocean Sunfish and
wanted to know if dolphin, swift
swimming inhabitants of the Gulf
Stream off Cane Lookout, at the
young of the pointed tailed sunfish.
Following the receipt of the first
batch of stomachs forwarded Dr.
Gudger by the edtior of this newspa
per, who 13 a sort of field representa
tive for the- icthologist, the follow
ing excerpt from a letter received, is
of interest:
"To my regret, and I am sure to
yours also, I did not find any young
of the ocean sunfish. However, there
were two small fishes of interest to
my colleague, Mr. Nichols. From, sev
eral of the stomachs I found various
(Continued on page eight)
A BANANA PEELING
CAUSE OF INJURIES
Miss Elizabeth Ratcliffe, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ratcliffe was
painfully injured last Thursday when
she slipped on a banana peeling. This
banana peeling was not on Front
Street in Beaufort but in New Bern.
Miss Ratcliffe is employed by the
Kress Chain store in New Bern and
was able to return to work yesterday,
according to reports given by her
mother.
Pink Bloomers and Butter
Feature Evidence of Trial
Charged with stealing one pound
of butter, valued at 35 cents, from
the Service Market in Morehead City,
on June 24, Mrs. Clara Ortlieb of
that city, was found guilty of the
allegations when tried before Judge
Paul Webb here on Tuesday during a
record breaking session of Recorder's
court. Judgment was deferred until
next Tuesday and indications are that
after judgment is imposed, the de
fense will appeal to Superior Court.
Magistrate Henry Noe, heard four
hours of the preliminaries of the case
last Friday night in a packed court
room. After hearing the evidence
offered, he found probable cause and
bound the. defendant over to Record -
er's Court under a bond of $100.
E. C. Willis, manager of the Ser -
vice Market had Mrs. Ortlieb arrest-
ed, alleging that on June 24, she en
tered the establishment and purloin
ed the 'now famous' pound of butter.
Several witnesses for the State testi
fied that they saw Mrs. Ortlieb con
ceal the butter beneath her dress,
(petticoats and bloomers wei-e often
mentioned during the hearing) and
that same was removed after she had
walked to the sidewalk, either in
front of the vegetable rack or adja
cent to the car in which the defend
ant's daughter was sitting. Witnesses
further testified that after handing
the object to her daughter, the daugh
ter drove off, going around the block
to return within a few minutes. De
fense witnesses testified that the car
was backed out into the street, but
Control Or No
Control Issue
Before Voters
Vote Saturday in Twenty Six
Carteret Precincts Will De
termine Whether Carteret
Will Have "Control" or "No
Control" Over Liquor Mat
ters. Other Counties Voting
Give Majority For Control
And Two Have Opened
Stores With No Apparent
Excitement
The Beaufort News Urges Temper
ance in drinking matters, whether it
be legal or illegal liquor. That has
been our argument from the begin
ning. We stick to it.
Polls opening at sunrise Saturday
will close at sunset. Official returns
will not betabulated until next Tues
day, but along about 9 o'clck Sat
urday night the larger precincts will
have made tabulations that should
show how the county at large feels
about the matter.
Liquor is being sold rapidly in Wil
son and Edgecombe counties, by
county control stores. No excitement
was registered, when liquor was sold
over the counter legally. North Car
olina collected $30 in sales tax from
the first day of liquor sale in Wilson.
It was the first time in a quarter of a
century that liquor has been sold
legally in North Carolina.
The prices of legal liquor as glean
'ed casually from an ad in the New
iYork papers today follows: Ben Nev
is Scotch, $2.89 bottle; Cabin Mill
Rye, $2.09 per quart; Henry Watter
'son straight, 93 cents pt. Sevilla
Wines, $1.54 gallon; Burke s Jamacia
Rum, $2.87 bottle; Derbyshire Dry
Gin, 95 cents fifth; Baldwin Apple
jack, 89 cents pint.
The price of local intoxicants as
gleaned from various reports: Corn,
colored with Coca Cola, $1.25 per
jar; Corn in short pints, 50 cents;
'Rubbing Alcohol, 18 cents per bot
tle; Beef Wine and Iron, $1 per
pint; Lemon Drops 10 and 25c per
bottle; Bay Rum, 25c; East Lake
Rye, $5 for five gallons f.o.b. Buffa
lo City if demijohn is furnished; $6 if
demjonn not . , lurmsnea ; Carteret
Corn can also be purchased at $5 per
keg that holds almost 6 gallons, it has
been reported.
Being a non-drinker the writer of
this article had to get local prices
from "what I have heard" reports of
various citizens picked at random.
MRS. SARAH J. DEY
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah J.
Dey were conducted last Friday af
ternoon in St. Paul's church here.
She died on Wednesday. Burial ser
vices were conducted in New Bern
where her late husband, Charles P.
Dey lies buried. She had lived in
Beaufort for several years. Mrs.
Dey was a native of Caldwell, a
mountain county.
that it was not driven off, as alleged.
Mr. Willis sent his son for Chief
J. N. Willis to come and arrest the
woman. Chief Willis, who is More
head City's most popular officer, tes
tified that he found no butter, even
though he was invited to make a
thorough search of the car and of
the defendant's person. He searched
the car and Mrs. Ortlieb insisted that
he see for himself that she had no
butter concealed beneath her dress.
In raising her dress, Mrs. Ortlieb dis
played certain undergarments. Chief
Willis testified that the "bloomers
the defendant was wearing were
pink." Anyone in close proximity of
, the car could have testified to the
pink bloomer3 episode, as it was of
'the defendant's own accord she made
.the display,
So far no butter has been produc
ed as evidence. Damaging evidence
was offered by many witnesses how
ever, and one, Fred Guthrie stated
on the stand that he had been offered
$5 to testify in behalf of defense.
Witnesses for the defense testified
that the car was never driven a
way from the front of the store. The
woman was found guilty, neverthe
less, and after judgement is render
ed by Recorder Webb, next Tuesday,
indications are that an appeal will
be taken to a still higher court
Other cases on the docket disposed
of or continued to future terms of
court were the following:
Jack Greer, violating prohibition
(Continued on page five)