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Volume XXVII
8 Pages This Week The Beaufort News, Thursday, January 13, 1938
5c y1 Copy
Number 2
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Channel From Bach Bay
S. S. REDSTONE
SAILED MONDAY
.Thirteenth Vessel To
Leave New Port
With Scrap
ANOTHER SHIP IS
EXPECTED MONDAY
The S. S. Redstone of Lon
don cleared Morehead City
Port Terminal on Monday for
an unannounced port in the
United Kingdom with a cargo
of 4,305 tons of scrap metal.
Not only did the Redstone take
a cargo of scrap metal but she
also took her genial Irish mas
ter, Capt. A. A. Woods, who
had made a host of friends
while his ship was loaded in
'the friendly port.' Now in port
and expected to be ready for clear
ance by the latter part of this wtwk
Is the Norwegian S. S. Bestum of
Oslo, the smallest ship under for
eign Tegistry to enter North Car
olina's only ocean port. The Bestum
will clear with approximately 3,000
tons, according to Port Supervisor
Smoak.
"Although we have no definite in
formation about her registry or ton
nage, we have been advised that an
other ship, the Soultis, will arrive in
Morehead City next Monday, (Jan
uary 17) to take on a cargo of ap
proximately 1,000 to 1,400 tons,"
said Supervisor Smoak. This ship is
coming to the port from either Sa
vannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, Fla.,
where she has taken on already a
partial cargo.
(Continued on page eight)
Covering The
WATEMl FKON1
By AYCOCK BROWN
WHEN CAPT. A. A. WOOD, mas
ter of the British freighter Redstone
of London entertained a group of
Beaufort friends at dinner aboard
his ship a few days before she clear
ed from Morehead City Port Term
inal for a port in The United King
dom he told an
interesi.:.ig story.
The story, now
that others have
heard it, has caus
ed a bit of com
ment. Capt. Wood
who had served
in the British
Army was discuss
ing the different
sizes of enlisted
ed men in tho
Aycock Brown service of King
George as compared to other nations.
SAID CAPT. WOOD; "There is
not a man in the British Army who
is exactly 6 feet tall. As a matter
of fact there is a British belief that
there is not a man in the world who is
exactly 6 feet tall and there has nev
er been but one person who was a
perfect 6-footer. There is always a
variation of a fraction of an inch,
even if medical examiners do class a
person as 6-foot tall."
(Continued on page eight)
There it no worte rebber than a lad
book."
JANUARY
IS Patent was granted on the
Otis elevator, I86l.
Hi
IS The Treaty of Hopewell
with trie t-nerosee
Indians signed. l?86.
" !7One million cubic feet of
root teu oui oi u ci ui. ui
L.n lift"" 4 Niagara Falls, 1931.
IB rrencniown on
was captured from the
British. 1813
19 Lieut Charles Wilkes dis
Asa-
covered tne niaitu.
Continent. 1840.
20 A tornado half a mile
wide nearly destroyed
Brandon. Ohio. 18S4.
21 Iohn Cutts became first
president of New Hamp
shire, 1680. ew
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Chamber of Commerce
Banquet Monday Night
The Beaufort Chamber of Com
merce will have general meeting
and banquet in the American Legion
Hut next Monday night (Januaryl7)
at 6:30 o'clock. It is the first gen
eral meeting since March 16, 1936,
and ticket to the banquet have been
sold not only to regular members of
the civic organization but also to
every civic minded citizen in Beau
fort who cares to attend. At the
meeting Monday night new officers
will be elected and it is hoped that
as a result a general re-organization
of tho Chamber of Commerce will
take place. Serving as officers since
the last general meeting in 1936 are
the following: Fred R. Seely, presi
dent; Seth Gibbs, Dr. C. S. Maxwell
and Paul Jones, first, second and
third vice-president; J. P. Betts, treas
urer and C. L. Beam, N. F. Eure,
Hugh Hill, Dr. W. S. Chadwick, Dr.
Clifford Lewis, Jack Neal, Blythe
Noe, G. M. Paul and U. E. Swann,
the board of directors. Since the
general meeting the board of direc
tors have held several meetings, but
none recently. Aycock Brown, at
the last general meeting was re-employed
as secretary. Tickets for the
banquet are being sold by Mrs. Wil
lie Loftin.
Harker's Islander
At Duke Hospital
Cleveland Davis
Pictured above is Cleveland Davis,
Harkers Island's most widely known
citizen. For the past 30 years or
more he has carried the mail from
Beaufort on the mainland to the is
land, and this is probably a record
for any marine mail carrier. Recent
ly Cleveland Davis' health has been
bad, and a few days ago he was en
tered as a patient at Duke Hospital
where his ailment was diagnosed as a
'chest condition.' iNews from the hos
pital this week, however, was en
couraging, and it may not be long,
at any rate that is the wishes of his
many friends, until Cleveland Davis
who started carrying mail between
Beaufort and his island community
in a sailboat years ago, will be back
on the job again.
BUSINESS CLUB
HAS BUSY YEAR
This Organization Has
Been Active In All
Civic Affairs
The Beaufort Business Association
an exclusive civic and social organi
zation accomplished much good dur
ing the past year, it was announced
this week by past-President Pritch
ard Lewis, who was succeeded on
Tuesday by Charles W. Britton as
head of the organization. On Tuesday
night in addition to the installation
of Charles Britton as president, Otis
Willis was re-Installed as vice-president
and Billy Mace was re-installed
as secretary-treasurer.
During the past year the Beaufort
Business Association established the
Beaufort Auction Market, which
came a bit late for some of the ear
lier truck crops, but which resulted
in better prices being paid for several
commodities than would have been
the case had there not been such a
market. The Beaufort Auction Mart
this year is expected to be of tremen
dous value to farmers from the har
vest of early to late truck crops. The
Business Association also erected a
number of bill-boards advertising the
advantages of this town to toruists
on Route 70 between here and New
Bern.
(Cintinued on page Eight)
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To Lookout Bight Recommended by 11.
Much Local
U.S.E D. Recommendation
Barden Believes That Several Local And
Nearby Projects Will Be Started During
Next Few Months
Several of the projects recommended by the Chief of U. S.
Engineers and taken into consideration in the budget for the
coming year are of interest locally, because several of tho pro
jects are located within Carteret County. Of much interest
to citizens of East Carteret will be the news that an expendi
ture of $50,000 has been recommended for cutting the chan
nel from Back Bay to Lookout Bight. Also of interest is thfc
recommendation for $80,000 improvements in Morehead City
harbor.
In a letter to The Beaufort New?,
Representative Graham A. Barden,
who is a member of the Rivers and
Harbors Committee, and who has se
cured many waterway improvements
for his District since he went to
Congress had the following to say:
"The budget for Rivers and Har
bors projects during the coming year
is for 30 million dollars. This fund
when appropriated by Congress,
which in my opinion will be done with
in the near future, will be available
for use during the year 1938, and
knowing the situation as I do, I be
lieve I can count on putting through
the project from Cape Lookout to
Back Sound during 1938.
"The items which I think prob
ably you and your readers would be
interested are Bay River, new work
$26,000; Beaufort Harbor, mainte
nance, $17,500; Pamlico waterway
Foxes And House Cats ,
Have Put Rabbits And
Quail 'On The Spot"
Foxes and house cats roaming at
large through the forests and fields
of Carteret county have put rabbits
and quail 'on the spot' according to
Charley Kammerlean who lives on
the shore of Bogue Sound a few miles
west of Morehead City. Mr. Kam
merlean knows what he is talking
about because it was only a few years
ago that he moved to his beautiful
estate in Carteret from his former
home in the North. ..and hs was at
tracted to this section because of the
advantages offered sportsmen in the
form of rabbit, quail and duck shoot-
ing.
Foxes are the gieatsst enemies of
quail and in Carteret county foxes
are too plentiful. These predatory
animals also kill off the young rab
( Cintinued on page Eight)
President Ball
Chairman
Tom Hood
Tom Hood, widely known and pop
ular young Beaufort man is chairman
of the President's Birthday Ball
Committee for Beaufort and Carter
et county. He received his appoint
ment last week just a short while
before we went to press,, and had
story No. 1 about the coming event,
planned for Friday night, January
28, ready for that edition. That show
ed that Tom Hood, who is a banker
by profession, is losing no time in
getting eveiyth'mg ready for the big
gest January social event ever stag
ed along tin Carteret coast. Chair
man Hood hf s gone farther than just
plan a regular dance for January 28.
On Saturday night at several places
in the county he is arranging through
capable assistants to present Presi
dent's Birth Day square, dances. ;'
j
!
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v r x i
Interest In
connecting Pamlico Sound and Beau
fort harbor, maintenance $11,000;
channel from Back Bay to Lookout
Bight, new work, $50,000; Inland
waterway Beaufort to Cape Fear
River including waterway to Jack
sonville, $123,300 new w ork and
$150,000 maintenance; Morehead
City harbor, maintenance $80,000;
Inland Waterway Norfolk to Beau
fort $221,000; Neuse' River, mainte
nance $12,500.
In stating that the foregoing
projects are those which will prob
ably be of general interest in thi3
section, Representative Barden also
said: "I am very much encouraged
over the- prospect for Harkers Is
land, Capt. Lookout project, and I
do hope those folks who would be
most benefitted by this wil be able
to enjoy the improvement."
Hatteras Crew Saw
.Porpoises Leaping
v Over A Lazy Whale
When the State Fisheries off-shore
patrol boat Hatteras came into her
home port last week-end the crew
Drought a strange story about por
poises and a lazy whale. ' Up near
Cape Hatteras while on patrol, the
crew sighted in the distance what
appeared to be the hull of a capsiz
ed boat. They made for the scene
and discovered that it was no boat,
but instead a whale which was basK
ing at the surface of the water.
Except for the occasional breath
ing of the whale, which resulted in a
foamy spout shooting into the air
the giant marine mammal appeared
to be dead. As the Hatteras came
closer, the crew saw not just a fe-.v
but dozens of porpoises in the vici
nity, apparently playing leapfrog ov
(Continued on page eight)
He Filmed Bombing
Of U.S.S. Panay
Norman W. Alley
Norman W. Alley, whose special
Universal Universal feature, "Bomb
ing of the U. S. Panay" begins a two
day run at The Beaufort Theatre
starting today (Thursday Jan. 13).
Pictured above in his uniform is
shown Cameraman Alley, perhaps the
most famous living moving picture
news photographer of the World. He
has filmed all of the important news
events of recent years. In addition
to his 30 minute special feature
which arrived in America a few days
ago, Mae West in Every Days a Holi
day will be an added attraction today
and Kay Francis in First Lady on
Friday.
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Conservation Board
Meets January 18th
. .The North Carolina Department of
Conservation and Development will
meet in Raleigh on Tuesday, January
18, it was announced today by Capt.
John A. Nelson, Commissioner of
Fisheries. At the meeting it is ex
pected that several delegations from
the coast will be present to ask cer
tain rulings pertaining to existing
and proposed fishing laws. At a
meeting of the Board last summer a
committee was appointed to investi
gate the feasibility of rescinding the
existing purse seine law as it pertains
to taking food fish and also trawling
within the territorial limits. Several
weeks ago this committee reported
that it would recommend to the full
board that restrictions on purse sein
ing be lifted and that the present
trawling law be changed to permit
this type of fishing within the ter
ritorial limits but not within three
miles of Ct Lookout or any Inlet
along the coast. It is likely that
there will be opposition to this pro
posal. Also to be heard is the ques
tion of whether the shrimping terri.
tory in Lookout Bight shall be opened
again to trawlers, (it was closed at
the summer meeting) and whether
shrimp may be taken during the sum
mer months. Party boatmen will suf.
fer if they are unable to buy shrimp
for bait.
He Will Probably
Succeed Hamilton
Irvin W. Davis
Irvin W. Davis, Register of Deeds
of Carteret county is the most logi
cal successor to Carteret's Democrat
is Executive Chairman Luther Hamil
ton. When interviewed by the editor
of The Beaufort News this week, Mr.
Davis stated that so many of tho
Democrats in Carteret had asked him
to accept the post since last summer
when Judge Luther Hamilton tender.
ed his resignation that he had agreed
to accept the job, if all Precinct
leaders in the county were in favor.
All Precinct leaders will be in favor
of Davis for th post, because Davis
is one of the most popular Democrats
in all Carteret county today.
ART LEWIS SHOWS
SIGNED FOR FAIR
Midway Feature Will
Be Largest Ever
To Come Here
Ajt Lewis Shows Inc., of New
York City will be the midway attrac
tion at the Carteret County Fair this
year. The date of the fair this year
will be October 10 through 15th.
The contract between the Fair Assoc
iation and Art Lewi? Show: was sign
ed in Raleigh Tuesday.
Representing the Cartsret Fair
Association in the signing of this
contract was a committee composed
of Tom Kelly, Hugh Hill and Ray
mond Ball. This committee wa3 ap
pointed for the purpose of going to
Raleigh and attending a meeting of
carnival representatives by the Fair
directors at a meeting last week.
They returned from Raleigh late
Monday.
Art Lewis Shows Inc., is the fastest
growing carnival in the East, it was
stated. They feature 14 shows, 14
rides, 25 concessions, a sound truck
and an airplane for advertising pur
poses. One of the popular riding
devices, which was featured here by
Cetlin-Wilson but not by O. C. Buck
is an electric scooter contraption
iwo Dig iree attractions, one an
aerial act 130 feet above the midway
and a three-way wire act will be pre-
(Continued on page eight)
Engineers
POLITICAL PARTY
GROUP WILL MEET
HERE JANUARY 15
Luther Hamilton
Re-Tender His
Resignation
To
IRVIN W. DAVIS IS
LOGICAL SUCCESSOR
Special Superior Court Judge
Luther Hamilton, chairman of
the Democratic Executive
Committee of Carteret coun
ty has called a meeting of the
committee to take place at the
Courthouse in Beaufortt Satur
day afternoon at 2 o'clock. At
the meeting Judge Hamilton
will re-tender formally to the
committee his resignation as
chairman. At the same meeting a
successor to Chairman Hamilton,
who has been serving the Democrat
ic Executive committee as chairman
for many years, will be elected. The
most logical successor, and the per
son who will succeed Hamilton, if tha
news that one hears on the political
front is true, will be Irvin W. Davis,
register of deeds, and a true Dem
ocrat from thet ip of his toes to the
top of his head.
Chairman Luther Hamilton gave
the following release to the press on
Wednesday:
Jan. 11, 1938.
TO The Members of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Carteret
County.
You will recall that in Juiy, 1936, 1
tendered to your Committee my res
ignation as Chairman, which resigna-.
(Continued on page eight)
iWNJXMNG
LIGHTS
By JOHN SIKES
SINCE LAST appearing in this
corner opposite Edtior Brown one
Christmas Day and one New Year's
Day, among the more obvious things,
have come to pass. Too, I have ad
ded a birthday to my growing col
lection. Because of this and that,
mainly holiday inertia, I have skip
ped to chance ,
tn talk with vou'i-fS1
gooa people. How
, 1 TT
ever, I was happy
to note upon my.
return from holi- s.
day meanderings
that my friend
Jimmle Guthrie,;
whom Editor
Brown r!gh t 1 y i
calls the Harker's!
Island Philosopher
filled in for me
John Sikes
one week. I should like to hear more
from Captain Jimmie, as well as
others in the section whose mental
processes daily are grinding out
(Cintinued on page Eight)
TIDE TABLE
Information ns t the tide
at Beaufort i givei. in thi
column. The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
tables furnished by the U. S.
Geodetic Survey. Some allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
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High Loyf
Friday, Jan. 14
6:17 a. m. 11 :50 a. m.
6:39 p. m. 12:49 p. m.
Saturday, Jan. 15
7:11 a. m. 12:49 a,, m.
7:34 p. m. 1:41 p. m.
Sunday, Jan. 16 '
8:03 a. m. 1:45 a. m.
8:28 p. m. 2:29 p. m.
Monday, Jan. 17
8:54 a. m. 2:35 a. m.
9:21 p. m. 3:15 p. m.
Tuesday, Jan. 18
9:44 a. m. 3:26 a. m.
10:11 p. m. 4:01 p. m.
Wednesday, Jan. 19
10:31 a. m. 4:17 a. m.
11:10 p. m.' 4:46 p. m.
Thursday, Jan. 20
5:08 a. m.
11:16 p. m. 5:32 p. nu