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VOLUME XXV
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK TOE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 3
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Nazi Product Passes All Specifications Despite
The Gossip of Street Corner Wiseacres Who
Said it Had Been Rejected; As A Result Ger
man Steel is Driven In American Waters at
Morehead City Today
WORK MOVES SWIFTLY
Gahagen No. 5 Left Norfolk
For Morehead City Via In
land Watreway Early This
Week And Large Hopper
Type Manhattan Will Re
place Comstock on Inlet
Work Within Next Few
Days
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Despite rumors earlier this week
by the street corner wiseacres, the
Nazi steel for building; the Port Term
inal met all specifications and today
the first pile was driven, according; to
telephone call from Mr. Beaman, the
manager. Work on the terminal is
progressing rapidly. Already the
dredge Neverest has removed much
mud from the harbor bottom and built
additional land for the port as a re
sult. Later a railroad will be built on
the north and west sides of the
piers.
Tho Gahagen No. 5- a 26-inch pipe
line dredge was due to reach More
head City today to start digging the
channel from the Inlet to the termi
nal site. Inlet maintenance has been
completed by the hopper dredge
Comstock and within the next few
days the 2,840 ton Manhattan will
start on the job of bringing the inlet
to a depth of 33 feet. C. J. Josenhan,
U.S. Army Engineer and a staff of as
sistants have opened sn office in
the City Hall at Morehead City work
ing under the direction of Major
Ralph Millis, District Engineer of
Wilmington. Invitations have been
extended a large number of out of
town property owners to attend a
luncheon and cruise on January 30
as guests of the City Builders of
Morehead City.
T. M. Thomas Elected
Chief of Firefighters
T. M. Thomas, Jr., succeeds Chas.
Hatsell as chief of the Beaufort
Fire Department, it was announced
this week by J. F. Duncan Jr., secre
tary. He was elected at a meeting
held on January 2, 1936. Other of
ficers elected at the meeting were: J.
D. Brooks, assistant chief; T. R.
Whitehurst, Foreman; C. L. Skarren
Sr., foreman; C. G. Holland, treasur
er; and J. F. Duncan Jr., secretary.
HERE IS A HEN THAT
LIVED FOR 15 YEARS
If anyone in this section or any
section has a hen that outlived one
owned by Mrs. Celia Dudley, The
Beaufort iNews will be glad to learn
about same. Her famous hen which
has layed thousands of eg?' in her
career died on New Year's Diy, ex
actly 15 years to the day from the
time she was hatched. During her
early days when still a pullet she was
almost kidnapped one night by a
band of chicken thieves who would
probably have stopped her career
then and there, but she escaped
escaped to live to a ripe old age and
get her obituary in The Beaufort
News.
"falsehood it the dcviVi dauvhin.
spting her father's language'
JANUARY
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ter 1789.
17 J.mes Cook b the first to
cross the Antarctic Circle.
1771
18 H. B Warner opens new
play: "Alias Jimmy Val
entine.'' 1910.
J 9 Robert E. Lee. greatest ol
Confederate generals.
born 1807
20 The Vgreat cold speO" In
New York. Bast River (
froteit over. 1852.
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vent the HHtrntCjtiet, 1674.
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WATUt FilOXl
By AYCOCK BROWN
IF FIVE SHIP lines have agreed to
use the Port Terminal at Morehead
City and if the Port Commission ful
fills agreement to furnish a minimum
of 200,000 tons during the first six
months of operation of the terminal
approximately 50 freight carloads of
20 tons will be moving in or out via
the Old Mullet road daily. That
would be a minimum of two solid
freight trains of 25 cars each moving
in or out daily Of course we are
not talking into consideration that
some of the ship's cargoes will be
transferred via motor truck. If 200,
000 tons of shipping is handled by
the port during the first six months it
will mean that 40 steamers of 5,000
ton burthen each will probably be
sailing in to Morehead City or 20 if
they enter loaded and clear loaded.
CONSIDERING THE loss of eleven
grand during the first half month of
operation on the part of the A & N. C.
the "Old Mullet" swimming under
independent operation might well use
the freight mentioned in the fore
going paragraph if subsequent months
of operation show similiar or even
smaller losses . . . Fifty car loads
out of Morehead City would pas? the
high Beaufort shipments during the
truck-farm harvest season when quite
often 30 or more car-loads move out
of Beaufort daily. Another way for
the A & N. C. to chalk up smaller
losses and probably profit would be
to take over operation of the railroad
known as Beaufort and Western. That
3.17 miles of trackago between More
head City and Beaufort has a move
ment of approximately 2,000 car
loads annually, much of which is
truck farm produce such as cabbage,
potatoes, tomatoes, brocoli, vegetable
plants etc., a nice little add
ition to any railroad's operation . . .
Of course if the A & N. C. insists on
not taking over the B. & W. they
might consider seriously a joint
operation with the Norfolk and South
ern. UNLESS BUSINESS improves in a
big way for the A & N. C, during the
noxt few months our bet would be
that the Norfolk-Southern can have
the road back with the compliments
of North Carolina, the principal stock
holders ...... TOMATOES will
form a large bulk of the shipments
out of Beaufort during the current
year if the crops do not fail. One
farmer who knows his stuff seems to
think that with the increased tomato
acreage which is already assured that
a minimum of 250 car loads of toma
toes alone will move out of Beaufort
by rail during the late spring or early
summer . . . that is if there is rail
facilities here at the time.
(Continued on page eight)
Amateurs To Present
Interesting Program
One of the most interesting pro
grams ever presented an audience in
Beaufort is promised for Friday night
when the Community Club sponsored
"Amateur Hour" will bo staged in
the high school auditorium at eight
o'clock. Already over 20 amateurs
have registered with Mrs. Noe and
Mrs. Beam to take part in the pro
gram and this talent comes not only
from Beaufort but from all the
schools in the county.
Cash prizes of $5, $3, and 1 will
be awarded the first, second and
third best amateurs. Competition will
be keen and if the program cannot
be presented in the allotted 'Hour'
it will continue until you have had an
opportunity to hear every amateur.
Included In the talent will be singers,
musicians, readers and other types of
entertainment often heard over the
radio in similar "Amateur Hours."
Graham Duncan whose drawl is not
unlike the famous Major Bowes will
be the master of ceremonies. He will
have the proverbial gong to ring out
the bad numbers. Admission charges
of 10 and 25 cents will be made end
the proceeds will go for various com
munity Activities.
Crime In Carteret County
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Tools of A Net Lead Gangster And Jail Breaker
These implements of crime were loaned The Beaufort News by Sher
iff Chadwick and Jailor Chaplain for
jack on the left is used and quite often found on unrested trouble mak
ers in certain sections of Carteret. They call themselves the net-lead
gang," said the sheriff. On the right
en knife. Believe it or not those two implements were used by a jailed
criminal last year for digging theloose cement from around jail bars,
which resulted in his escape. "'That goes to show just what sort of jail
we have in Carteret county," said Jailor Chaplain. Eubanks-News Pho
tos.) .
Recomend Appropriations For
Beaufort Harbor And Inlet
When Beaufort Harbor Is Mentioned It Means This Entire
Area, of Which Morehead City Is A Part, Will Be Included
And Not Necessarily This Town's Harbor; Thoroughfare
Cedar Bay Channel is Scheduled For $5,000 Allotment.
Beaufort Harbor and Inlet were
mentioned to the tune of many thou
sands of dollars in the appropria
tions recomended by the P. S. Engine
ers for River and Harbor work in
North Carolina during the fiscal year
1936-37. Approximately ?1,004,-
000 wus recomended to Congress of
which $809,000 was estimated for
maintenance and $195,000 for new
work .
Proposed work which pertains to
Beaufort Harbor is all regular main
tenance. It includes: Inland Water
way from Norfolk to Beaufort Harbor
$105,000; Beaufort Harbor, $17,500;
Pamlico Sound-Beaufort Harbor wat
erway, $11,000; Beaufort to Cape
Fear River, $150,000 and Beaufort
Inlet, $30,000.
Most of the new work will be cen
tered on the dredging of a ten-foot
channel in New river to Jacksonville
costing $117,300, as approved last
APPRAISE ASSETS
OF DEFUNCT BANK
The remaining assets of the Bank
of Beaufort were appraised on Wed
nesday by a depositors' committee at
20 percent. The committee was
appointed at a meeting of depositors
on January 9. The appraisal at 20
percent means that depositors will
be allowed that amount of their
original deposits in purchasing power
of remaining assets, If anyone is so
inclined.
Starting next week the plan for
final liquidation will be advertised for
a period of 30 days and following tha,
the assets will be advertised for dU
days. A similar plan of liquidation
is now underway with the defunct
Beaufort Banking and Trust Co.
The Bank of Beaufort closed its doors
on September 15, 1931 the second
Carteret bank to close. The Marine
Bank of Morehead City closed two
days earlier on September 13.
First-Citizens Banks
Facing Bright Future
Considering the fact that business
,has been done of a rather conserva
tive basis for the past two pr three
years and people are more or less
free and relieved of a great many
pressing obligations, R. P. Holding
iold stockholders of the First Citi
zens Banks at the annual meet in
Smithfield this week, that he feels
that the year 1936 should prove to be
a fairly satisfactory one, notwith
standing the fact that the farm pro
gram is more or less in an uncer
tain state and also nothwithstanding
the fact that 1936 is a presidential
year. In Beaufort C L. Beam is cash
ier and James H. Davis assistant
cashier. I. E. Pittman is cashier of
the Morehead City bank.
HAMILTON TO SPEAK
Luther Hamilton will make an ad- .
dress at the Annual President's Ball In honor of Robert E. Lee's birth
to be presented in the Beaufort Gym-day which falls on Sunday the First
nasium on January 30, it was an-Citizens Bank here will be closed on
nounced today by Wilbur Willis. Monday it was announced today.
making the above photo. The black
is an ordinary metal fork and brok
year. The remainder would include
$27,000 for clearing Rollison chan
nel; $11,000 for Smith's Creek above
Wilmington; and $40,000 for dredg
ing Merherrin River between the
mouth of Murfreesboro.
Maintenance sums were suggest
ed as follows: $225,000 for Wilming
ton and the Cape Fear River; Eden
tor Harbor, $5,000; Cashie river $5,
C00; Swan Quarter Bay, Deep Bay
Waterway, $3,000! Belhaven Harbor,
15,000; Pamlico and Tar rivers,
$1,000; Neuse river $12,500; Swift
Creek $350; Contentnea Creek, $1,
000; Trent river, $2,100; Thorough
fare Bay-Cedar Bay channel $5,000;
Intra-coastal waterway, Cape Fear to
Winjah Bay, S. ., $123,000; Cape
Fear River above Wilmington, $15,
000; Northeast river, $3,000; Black
river, $3,000; operating Cape Fear
river locks, $12,000.
TICKETS ON SALE
FOR ANNUAL BALL
Tickets are now on sale for the
second annual President s Ball which
will be presented in the new Gymn
asium on Thursday evening, January
30. Wilbur Willis is again chair
man of the President's Ball Comm
ittee and he promises that the event
will be as good or better than the
ball given last year.
A good out of town orchestra will
be engaged; Persons who want to
look on instead of dance will be
allowed to go on the balcony at a
minimum charge of 25 cents. There
will be no charges for ladies this year
and the males who attend will pay
only one dollar for their tickets.
Several attractions other than danc
ing are being planned. The pro
ceeds will help in' the fight against
polio and a large percentage is re
tained locally for that purpose.
CPA Arrives to Audit
Court Clerk's Office
' O. O. Hewitt, CPA of the A. L.
Pullen Accounting firm in Richmond
arrived this week and is now engag
ed in auditing the office of L. W.
Hassell, clerk of superior court. He
could not say how long it would take
to complete the job but he was mov
ing merrily alnog with the work yes
terday. During the general county
audit completed last year by Abra
hams and Whitakers, the CPA here
on the job declared that it would be
impossible to give an intelligent aud
it of the office. But as stated, Mr.
Hewitt seems to be progressing with
the work nicely and so far has call
ed for.no figures or no facts which
Clerk . Hassell has not produced
promptly.
BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY
Forward Bids For
Auditorium Logs
Indications Are That Construction of Communi
ty Center Auditorium Will be Underway at
An Early Date; Grounds Have Already Been
Cleared And Everything in Readiness For
Further Work to Begin
HAUPTMANN
GETS REPRIEVE
Just as we go to press
The Sun Journal advises
that U. S. Supreme Court
refused Bruno Richard
Hauptmann a writ of hab
eas corpus, whereupon
Governor Hoffman gave
the condemned m a n,
scheduled to die Friday,
a 30 day reprieve.
Will Bell Of Newport
Faces Sentence If He
Messes Around Liquor
Will Bell of Newport who has pass
ed the three score mark will have to
serve six months on the roads if he
does not remain of good behavior
and evades the law if ho sells any
whiskey for the next two yean. It
was the second time that the near
aged gentleman has been in court
during recent months for violating
the prohibition law. Judge Webb is
quite liable to put him out of circul
ation in the Newport section if he
does not walk the straight and narrow
path during the next two years.
Theodore Lawrence was found
guilty of driving an automobile while
drunk.' Iiutd of serving a jail
sentence he was ordered to pay the
costs, although he too, was given a
60-day suspended sentence. Inci
dently his drivers' license is liable to
be revoked, when the Bureau of
Safety in Raleigh learns of his
escapade.
Raynor Dennis was sentenced to
the Courthouse Green for 60 days to
work under the supervision of Cust
odian Johnson. He was charged with
assault with a deadly weapon: He
will be allowed the privilege of spend
ing his nights at home. Matthew
Brown and Freddie Johnson, charg
ed with violating the liquor law will
have judgment passed when certain
accomplices are apprehended. Judg
ment will be passed in the case of
David Merrill, charged with giving
worthless checks, on January 21.
Tom Gilbert was found Not Guilty
of reckless driving. J. E. Willis in a
similar charge will be tried next week
His case has been postponed from one
court to another since October 22,
but he is under bond. John L. God
ett's case involving a violation of the
liquor laws will be tried when other
parties are arrested. Brady Lewis
and Nellie Jones charged with pros
titution will have a verdict passed on
them on January 27. Charges
against Dan Piner for assault with
deadly weapon and Gaither Lewis for
Simple assault was held over until
Tuesday, January 21, for further
evidence.
DICK CHADWICK OWNER
OF THREE LEGGED COCK
A Plymouth Rock rooster
which ha afmoag other odd fea
tures, three legt was brought to
town oa Friday by Richard
Chadwick who live near the
Lenoxville Rookery. The strange
fowl weight several pounds and
is in apparently the best of
health and spirits at all times as
ha goes crowing about the barn
yard. Mr. Chadwick might con
sider telling the freak if offered
an attractive price.
New ABC Enforcement
Officer Now On Duty
Stephen Smith of Newport was
sworn in Wednesday as an ABC En
forcement Officer. He will assist En
forcement Officer George Nelson and
Lonnie Foreman in their drive against
bootleggers and illicit liquor brew
ers. During recent weeks quite a num
ber of arrests have been made by
the enforcement group and with the
addition of a new man on the force
it is probably that even more arrests
will be made.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEWS
MARCH 31 IS DEADLINE
Other WPA Projects in Carter
et Seems To Be Moving A
long Nicely; Thousands of
Garments Have Been Made
In Sewing Rooms; Salaries
Are Delayed No Longer
After much delay, which was caus
ed according to reports, because the
kind of pine logs were not specified,
indications this week pointed to
wards further work on Beaufort Com
munity Center progressing more
smoothly. The few acres on which an
auditorium will be constructed has
been in readiness for several days
now and the only holdup has been se
curing the order for pine logs.
This week bids were offered by
several persons in Carteret for 2,000
pine logs. Bids were also presented
by Noe Hardware, Carteret Hard
ware and Beaufort Lumber and Man
ufacturing Company for the founda
tion materials. Later bids will be let
for heavier logs from which the lum
ber for making floors will be sawn.
The auditorium building is scheduled
to be completed by March 31.
In the meantime work on other
WPA projects in Carteret are appar
ently moving along nicely. Thousands
of garments have been made by the
WPA sewing room employees. The
Sewing project is one of great value
to Carteret. All of the garments
made are distributed to the, needy of .
this county.
Fishing Matters Will
Be Discussed At Meet
Business concerning the Commerc
ial Fisheries of North Carolina will be
among the matters to be brought to
the attention of the Board of Con
versation! and Development at its
regular semi-annual ' meeting in
Raleigh next Wednesday, January 22,
at 10 o'clock according to a Raleigh
announcement this week. It could
not be determined here just what
matters local fishermen would present
to the board.
COUNTY DEFENDANT IN
SUIT FOR $28,446.49
Ben Hur Life Insurance Company
which holds an unpaid claim against
Carteret county in the sum of $28,
446.49, started suit for same in Su
perior court here. The complaint in
the case was filed with the clerk of
superior court on January 3. No ans
wer has been filed to date. This is on
ly one of the several suits or several
claims for several thousands of dol
lars that Carteret county is now fac
ing. TIDE TABLE
Information u to Us tids.
t Beaufort is given ia this col
ttna. The figure art approi
imatcly correct cd baaed oi
tabltfs famished by the U. S
Geodetic Survey.- Some allow
ances must be mad for varia
tions in the wind and also wttt
respect to the locality, that L
whether near the inlet or a
he heads of the eatuariea.
High Low
Friday, Jan. 17
1:49a.m. 8:25 a.m.
1:54 p.m. 8:33 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 18
2.45 a. m. 9:23 a. m.
2:53 p. m. 9:24 p. m.
Sunday, Jan. 19
3:48 a. m. 10:21 a. m.
3:58 p.m. 10:19 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 20
4:47 a.m.
4:58 p.m. 11:18 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 21
5:40 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
5:51 p. m. 12:10 p. m.
Wednesday, Jan. 22 .-
6:29 a. m. . . . 12:08 a. m.
6:43 p. m. " 12:58 p. m.
Thursday Jan. 23
7:18 a. m. 12:58 a. m.
7:35 p. m. 1:44 p. m.