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Speckled Trout 10c j
Croaken le 1
Sea Mullets 4c
G. Trout 2Ci Jacks 2c
Escallops, gal. $1.50 v
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DEPARTMENT
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EIGHT pages THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937 PR c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 7
VOLUME XXVI
inj3wim
Police Make Excellent
Headway In Solving
Recent Robberies
SIX SUSPECTS JAILED
Chief Walter R. Longest,
Sheriff Elbert M. Chadwick
and other law officials have
made excellent progress dur
ing the past few days in solv
ing the recent wave of robber
ies occurring in or near Beau
fort. Today six men had been
arrested, all of whom are now
incarcerated i n the county
... - a ii i 9 i 1 (1 A A
jail in detault ot Donas oi vow
each. It is understood that oth
er arrests may be made at an
early date.
Last Saturday Solicitor Dave Clark
of Greenville accompanied by Cap
tain Dorsey of the Greenville Police
department, a fineerprint expert and
detective came to Beaufort to aid lo
cal officials who had already made
considerable progress in the cases.
Solicitor Clark was high in his praise
for the splendid work which Chief
Longest had accomplished prior to
his arrival.
The case was first broken with the
arrest of Walter (Rags) Garner oy
Chief Longest and Sheriff Chadwick
several days ago. Garner is a suffer
er from a nervous disease which is
apparently uncurable and just why
anv robber would choose him as an
accomplice is hard to understand, un
less the alleeed robbers were ama
teurs at the eame. Garner freely
admitted his part in the attempted
robbery of the Beauiort Lumber ana
Manufacturing Company safe some
time ago. He implicated Guy Dud-
( Continued on page eight)
:: Civil War Days
:: MX HE At) FORI
T By (Late) Jas. Rumlejr Eq.
4. i
Synopsis
In the preceding installments
the reader was piven an ac
count of the fall of Fort Macon
and the ccupancy of Beaufort by
the Federal troops. By the
summer of 1862, conditions in
Beaufort had become terrible,
according to the diar; of the late
James Rumley. Ne-ro slaves
and Yankee soldiers were run
amok, causing much concern for
the peaceful citizens of this
town.
AT THE HOUSE owned by Mr.
Benjamin Leecraft, which is also oc
rnnied bv the officers. Negroes have
been allowed to take furniture, and
even the dresses of Mr. Leecraft's de
ceased wife and child, which had been
left there by him. These have' been
worn by the Negroes.
THE MASK, WHICH concealed at
(Continued on page eight)
IN WASHINGTON
WHAT
M t now - J l
UNITED STATES SENATOR
FROM THE HUMBLE start of
$23,000 appropriated by Congress
for lighthouses in 1791, teaerai ex
penditures for public works soared
to dizzy heights during the war per
for a brief period and
are now at the highest peace time
mark in history. In i9di, me rea
i How nr mihlic works amount
11 Ol VWW.J - l
a tn tho. atno-o-erins sum of nearly
$660,000,000. This is due, of course
to the fact that the deiinauon oi puu
lic works has been materially changed
in recent years to include such things
, as forestry, pest control, soil conser
vation, housing, rural electrification
and what not.
AS A RESULT, securing of Fed
eral grants has been one of the great
est activities in recent years and un
der the "prime the pump" theory
(Cantinmed om page eight)
PLACE
1 i " 1 BY
Wi
Up
SHIP FOR IRON
DUE NEXT WEEK
An 8,000 ton vessel is expect
ed at the Morehead City port ter
minal on or ibout February 25
to load the scrap iron which has
been aeeumlating there for the
past several weeks, according to
announcement made by E. W.
Dozier, A and N. C. and Port
Terminal traffic manager upon
his return from Philadelphia. In
Philadelphia the forogoing infor
mation was given Mr. Dozier by
Luria Brothers, the firm which
has been buying up the scrap
metal.
By February 25, approx
imately 2225 car-loads of metal
will have arrived at the termi
nal to load the vessel, it was
stated. Name and nationality
of the vessel or her destination
after loading was not given, al
though it has been hinted un
officially that she would be a
Jap steamer and that the cargo
would go to Japan. This ship
ment will mark the first cargo to
be exported from the Morehead
City Port Terminal completed
last year at a cost of a half mil
lion dollars and connected with
the high seas by a million and
a half dollar 30-foot channel.
The first and only foreign cargo
to arrive at the terminal to date
was a cargo of salt aboard the
Norwegian steamer Samnanger
which arrived last fall from Sfax
in Tunisia, Africa.
Tax Supervising Job
Has Many On Tip-toe
The job of tax supervisor in Car
teret county must be a mighty attrac
tive proposition considering the many
candidates reported out for the po
sition. The matter will be settled by
the board of commissioners at an
early date and in the meantime
those in authority, are considering
candidates for the job, and the
suggestions by those who have au
thority over those in authority. Those
in authority, of those in authority,
are the political bosses of the coun
ty. The foregoing set tence sounds
somewhat mixed up, but it contains
a lot of truth. Naturally Alvah Ham
ilton, now holder of t?ie job wants to
continue holding same. Others in
favor for the job include Eugene
Moore of Marshallberg, C. M. (Kid)
Hill of Newport. Three persons whose
names have been mentioned in con
nection with the job have been Er
nest Guthrie, Harkers Island, Lam
hrpt Morris. Atlantic and Represen
tative Fred Seeley of Beaufort. The
Beaufort News takes no choice m
the matter and the foregoing story
and names are those which have
been mentioned in connection with
same whether there is any actual
foundation or not.
Skilled Workers
Mrs. Floyd Chadwick, Man
ager of the Narth Carolina
State Employment Service to
day announced that she has re
ceived Clearance Calls for the
following skilled workers:
5 Brickmasons (Colored)
I Mechanical Engineer
1 21 E. Smith Paver Mixer
Operator
1 Registered Druggist
2 Rivetters
1 Rivet Heater
1 Saw-mill Engineer
3 Structural Steel Workers
1 Hoisting Engineer
1 Planer Mill Foreman
1 Salesmen for Men's Dept.
Store
1 Printer and Combination lin
otwpe operator.
Anyone qualifying for any of
the above jobs will be assured of
immediate work. Please com
municate with Mrs. Chadwick
at the Employment Office lo
cated in the Municipal Bldg.
Morehead City, N. C.
Ancus calves as club projects.
Farmers from the counties sur
rounding New Bern sold 78,000
pounds of fat hogs for $7,200 cash
at the New Bern hog market last
week.
J. C. Byrd of Harnett County re
cently killed 23 hogs from which he
secured 8,000 pounds of pork. '
This Is Ship That
It Was
In a northeast gale on February
5, the Norwegian motorship Rigel,
pictured above was in trouble 400
miles southeast of Cape Hatteras.
Her distress signals were sent after
the general cargo consisting chiefly
of flaxseed from the River Plata
and Beunos Aires shifted, causing
the vessel to list. When the Modoc
arrived, the Rigel had a 30 degree
NINE MEMBERS OF
BAR GATHER HERE
Carteret Lawyers Voice Oppo-
... fm n l.t L
sition lo Kooseveu s woun a
Views On Split Vote ,
Fiva memhers of Carteret's Bar
Assoc iation. mostlv Republicans, in
meeting here this week against PreSJ
iHont Rnnspvplt.'s SuDrtmft court DOlirl
ties. Two members, . bothf "fifemoij
crats voted in favor of the proposed
change in the court. Two members
present, did not vote.
A day or two later Luther Hamil
ton, who was not nresent at the meet
ing, requested that if The Beaufort
News wa3 using a story on the Bar
meeting, to please say that he op
posed all of the resolutions they pre
sented, including the resolution a
gainst the proposed change of the
Supreme court setup. That will
come as a sort of surprise to many
people hereabouts, because, many
people thought bucner Hamilton,
while in favor of everything Roose
velt has done or probably will do,
would have kinda soft pedaled in this
matter since his staunch ally Josiah
William Bailey, Sr. Sen. was opposing
the proposition.
Other resolutions which were
passed at the meet here but opposed
by Luther Hamilton was one having
the maximum costs of recorders court
(excepting cases coming up from Jps
or Mayor Courts) set at $7.50 in
stead of the approximate $18.55 at
present, which sometimes increases to
as high as $28. The majority pre
sent at the meeting, excepting Ham
ilton favored this resolution which
will be drawn into Legislative Act
form and given to Representative
Seely to present during the current
(Continued on page five)
County Agent Issues Bulletin
To Farmers
Information About Seed Loans,
forestry And soil conser
vation in General Letter
A o-eneral letter from Hueh Over-
street, Carteret county farm agent
was mailed Wednesday to au iarm-
ers in the county. The letter contain.
ed bulletins about seed loans, torest
ry and wood cutting and toil conser
vation. The bulletins as written by
Mr. Overstreet follow:
'"You will recall that last year
before one could secure a Seed Loan
for more than $100.00 it was nec
essary to first make application to
the Production Credit Association.
Thi rulp will he ricidlv. enforced
this year, and I am urging that if
you want to borrow more than $iuo
00 this vear that vou see Mr. Allen.
with the P. C. A., corner of Middle
and South Front Sts., New Bern, at
once and secure your rejection slip
if you cannot qualify for a loan
there, and so be ready to get your
Seed Loan with as little delay as
little delay as possible. Just as soon
as the Seed Loan blanks are receiv
ed, we will let you know.
Didn't Come In To
mi ji i mil minniiii )) i I I lima hi i ' m '
First Reported She Was Morehead Bound
list with her lee-rail shipping water.
A day or two later leports reached
the Associated press man in Beau
fort that the Modoc was escorting
the vessel to Morehead City and tc
be on hand for photos. In the mean
time the sea calmed down a bit and
the crew of 29 aboard the Rigel
managed to restow the cargo and
reached New York safely on Febru-
Beaufort and Morehead
Town Elections In May
Resident of Paris
Visits Uncle Here
RobertHumber who for the past
several years has been living in Paris,
France, where he is associated with
an oil concern, was an overnight
visitor in Beaufort, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. M. Leslie Davii on
Front Street, this week. Robert
Humber, Sr., of Greenville accom
panied his son here.
The younger Mr. Humber left
Paris on January 17 of this year.
While in America he will in addition
to visit 1113 relatives, waii, mc ium. (
office of his organization in Okla-
homa. Mr. Humber is a graduate oi
Wake Forest, was a ctadent at Har
vard, and as a Rhodes scholar, grad
uated from Oxford University in
England. He has traveled in many
countries of the world. One of his
interesting trips was a walking tour
through Turkey, during one vacation
while he was a student at Oxford.
New Fishing Ground
Approximately 1,000,000 pounds
of fish valued at approximately $30,
000 have been taken during the past
week by sinknetters fulling in ths
ocean abreast the Hammocks, a few
north of Cape Lookout. This section
is reached by fishermen going out of
Drum Inlet, and is a new find for
fishermen.
Of Carteret County
"I have arranged to have a Wood
Cutting and Thinning Demonstra
tion under the supervision of R. H.
Page, Jr., with the Extension For
estry Department, on the morning of
Feb. 23rd, Tuesday on the farm of
Fred L. Bell. Wildwood. and one on
the same day in the afternoon on the
farm of C. R. Jamerson, Merrimon.
If you have even a few acres of
woodland, it would be? worth your
while to attend this demonstration
and see iust how the Extension De
partment advises that wood should be
cut and thinned. Bring an axe or
Raw nlon?.
"I should like to know at the ear
liest possible moment if you expect
to rpmain -'n the Soil Conservation
Program this year, and if so, if you
are tendinir exactly the same land
you were on last year. If you did
not sign up last year, 1 would be
elad to have you come by my office
at your eailiest convenience and let
us eo over the 1937 urogram with
you. I believe you would find it to
your advantage to take part in this
program."
HUGH OVERSTREET,
County Agent.
Morehead City
1 1 TVift Modoc
escorted the
t.ooaoi in Pane Hatteras and then re
turned to her berth ;n Wilmington
via Beaufort Inlet where the Asso
ciated Pressman received the film3
which were rushed to Washington,
D. C. The photo here is used thru
courtesy of Commander Farley of
the Cutter Modoc.
Very Little Comment To Date,
But Municipal Leaders
Priming Their Guns For
Coming Race
-" So "Tar most "6T tfe talk concern
ing tha town elections in Morehead
City and Beaufort have been talked
about behind closed to a great ex
tent, but the news will be out in
the open and become one of the chief
topics of conversation within a few
more weeks. The elections in May
for Beaufort and Morehead City
will be hot affairs, if they are like
most elections of the past.
George W. Huntley has been spok
en of as the most likely candidate to
succeed Maynard Taylor, if Mayor
Taylor decides to retire from the
office. Mayor Taylor has not made
any e'efinite statement that he will
retire from the office he now holds,
and if he runs again there are many,
many voters who would cast ballots
for him as their favorite. But the
political dope to date has it that
Taylor does not want the office again,
and that George W. Huntley will be
the choice of those casting Democrat
ic ballots.
(Continued on page eight
Fisherman Dies In
Boat At Drum Inlet
Herbert Pigott, resident of
Gloucester, died aboard the
sink net fishing boat Fannie
Quidley of Drum Inlet early
this morning. His death was
due to heart attack, according
to Edward Nelson, owner of the
boat. They were bound, with
the rest cf the r-bk net fleet, to
the fishing grounds off the
Hammocks, north of Caps Look
out at the time.
The body was taken to At
lantic where W. E. Adair lo
cal mortician, met same and
brought it to Eeaufort where
it will be prepared for burial
sometime tomorrow. Funeral
services will be conducted at
Gloucester. Two sons, , Lloyd
and Tasman Pigott, and Mrs.
Pigott his widow survive.
BANKS TO CLOSE
ON FEBRUARY 22
The Firt Citizen Bank and
Trust Company with tranche in
Beaufort, Morehead City and
several Eastern Carolina town
will be closed on Monday in ob
servance of George Washing
ton's birthday, which is a legal
holiday. Persons or firms hav
ing business with the banks in
Carteret are urged to attend
same on Saturday or wait until
Tuesday of next week.
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Seelg to Ask
For Patrol
Boat
To Be Used In Wateri
Infested By Traw
lers
Non-resident trawlers, drag
ging within the territorial lim
its of the ocean adjacent to
North Carolina have ruined the
fishing for native sink-netter3
according to reports which
have been heard from Curri
tuck Beach to Bogue Inlet for
the past several years. Efforts
to curb the illegal trawling by
N. C. Fisheries Commission
have proven fruitless to date,
due primarily to the fact that
North Carolina owns no boat
suitable for patrolling the wat
ers of the ocean.
Representative Fred Seeley hopea
to do something about the existing?
situation and thus save the fishing
industry which is now on the down
grade. At an early date Representa
tive Seeley will ask the N. C. Legis
lature to appropriate $25,000 for the
purchase or building of a seagoing
patrol boat and $10,000 a year to
operate same for the current two
years.
Fishermen all along the coast, es
pecially the coast adjacent to Carter
et, Hyde and Dare counties are in fa
vor of the sea going patrol boat t
enforce the law which the trawlers
are violatniff. The bill which Seely
will present is also sanctioned by
North Carolina Fish?vi: Commis
sion. Just what a group of law makers
who do not know the difference be
tween a mullet and a croaker will d
about it remains to be seen. Very
few of the state legislators know that
the fishniff industry along the Caroi
lina coast is a tremendous industry
furnishing a livelihood for thousands
of families.
Covering The I
WATEMl FROX1 i
By AYCOCK BROWN
I HAVE PLAYED a bit of golf
on the Community Center course
this week along with Philip Ball, and
while it is not open to public use
and is still unfinished, one can get
an idea what will be offered when it
is completed. And that may be a
round June 1, in plenty of time to
give our native residents an oppor
tunity to play the course and also
coastal visitors. It will be the only
course in Carteret county, and as a
a result it will attract many people
who have heretofore chosen ocean
resorts where there is a golf course
THE COURSE WAS designed by
Philip Ball, and when it 13 in A-t
condition the fairways and hazards
(Continued on page eight )
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TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
column. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. a.
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
nces must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or a
the heads of th3 estuaries.
High Tide
Lo
iw Tida
Friday. Feb.
13
3:46
3:10
20
3:30
3:50
21
4:15
4:31
. 22
5:06
5:17
8:50 a. m.
a. m.
p. m.
a. m.
p. m.
a. m.
p. nu
a. m.
p. nu
a. m.
p. nu
9:09 p.
9:33 a.
9:45 p.
10:17 a.
10:40 p.
m.
Saturday, Feb
m.
m.
Sunday, Feb.
m.
m.
Monday, Feb,
11:03 a. m.
Tuesday, Feb,
m.
. m.
23
7:03
11:28
11:52
7:11
Wednesday, Feb. 24
12:22 a. m. 7:07
a. rrb
P. mr
a. b
p. nv
12:43
p. m. 7:11
Thursday, Feb, 2S
1:22
a. m. 8:13
1 :46 p. m.
8:17