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Volume XXVII
10 Pages This Week The Beaufort News, Thursday, March 3, 19 38
Number 9
Believe Carteret County Farmers Will Give' Crop Ctfitrol Majority
Politicians
Becoming
Active
New Announcements
Published In This
Issue Of News
If you turn to the Politcal
Advertising department of The
PnQ.ifm-t Npws this week you
will note that politicians are
getting busy, uunng me wet
additional announcement uj
candidates seeking a place on
the Carteret Board of Commis
sioners have been received. In
cidentally, a candidate for pub
lie office, is not officially recog
nized as one, until his paid ad
vertisements have appeared in
newspapers.
C. Gehrmann Holland, officially an
announces this week for the office of
sheriff. It is likely that Sheriff Chad
wick will formally make his an
nouncement for this office in next
week's edition of The Beaufort News.
Chairman W. P. Smith formally
announces this week that he will be
a candidate re-election to the board
of county commissioners. Raymond
Davis of Marshallberg and Martin
Guthrie of Harkers Island are also
announcing as candidates for a place
on the commissioners board. Cleve
land Davis of Harkers Island was the
first candidate announcing for a place
on the Board.
Representative F. R. Seeley has
formally announced that he will be a
fnnrlirhitp for re-election to the office
he now holds in the interest of Car
teret in the State Legislature. Rum
ored, but not formally announced
for this office is the candidacy of
P. A. Lewis of Beaufort. There was
some discussion at one time that
probably George McNiell would also
be a Legislative candidate but noth
ing definite has come from that sec
tor. W. 0. Williams stated this week
that he would be a candidate for the
office of county judge.
Farmers May Apply
For Loans Friday
Applications from Carteret
County farmers for the emer
gency crop and feed loans for
1938 will be received at the
County Agent's office on Fri
day, March 4, by Kenneth E.
Johnson, it was stated today.
The loans will be made, as in the
past, only to farmers who can
not obtain credit from any oth
er source, and the loans will be
limited to the farmer's immed
iate and actual cash needs for
growing his 1938 crops or for
livestock. The amount which
may be loaned any one farmer
in 1938 may not exceed ?4u, it
was pointed out. Farmers are
advised that they should make
every effort to see Mr. Johnson
at the County Agent's office,
tomorrow (Friday) if they are
plannig to make emergency
loans this year.
"U't a bad coat that will not bear
bntthing"
MARCH
S First patant Usud to
Wesungrious ior auto
matic air braks, 1872.
t Defender of the Alamo
. slaughtered dy Mexicans,
Wr 1836.
rinn m.-,- mnntv. Ala-
proclaimed in insurrec
tier. because of Ku Klux,
1870.
8 Oliver Wendell Holmes,
justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court, bom, 1841.
9 Col. Lindbergh opened air
mail line between Mexico
City and Brownsville,
1929
X 10 The accordion invented
!fcv by Damian of Vienna
.tSg 1829
HCor.federatecongress pro
vided lor the organization
of an army. 1861 (tut
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League 01 Nations Made Law
Prohibiting Whale Killing
Her Favorite Town
Is Beaufort
Miss Drexel Layton
"It was an accident that Drexel
was born in Zebulon instead of Beau
fort, a place which she loves more
than any other spot in the world,"
wrote Anthony Buttita a full page
feature story captioned "From Ral
eigh High School to Broadway," ap
pearing under a New York dateline
and published in last Sunday's News
and Observer. The interesting story
by Buttita was an interview with
Drexel Layton about her career on
stage and in Warner Brothers screen
shorts. At the present time Miss
Layton is part of the 11-girl Cocoa
nut Grove Revue, at the Park Cen
tral Hotel in New York. But she is
planning and hoping to return to
Beaufort again this summer and start
her dancing school for little boys
and girls and incidentally produce
some professional shows here. (Cut
used through courtesy News and Ob
server). NATIONAL USED
CAR WEEK WILL
BEGIN MARCH 5
Public Urged To Take
Advantage Of This
Observance
Four automobile dealers in
Carteret County will observe
National Used Car Exchange
Week, beginning March 5 and
ending March 12, in co-operation
with the American Manu
facturers' association. The four
dealers who are observing this
week are advertising else
where in today's edition of
The Beaufort News, attractive
offerings in reconditioned and
ready to drive used cars.
These advertisers include: Loftin
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Motor Company, Beaufort; Sound
Chevrolet Company, Morehead Ctiy;
Paul's Garage, Beaufort and Bar
bour Motor Company, Morehead
City.
The Carteret county program will
tie up with the national program
which contemplates an expenditure
of $1,250,000 by automobile manu
facturers for advertising. Approxi
mately two thirds of this amount is
to be spent with newspapers.
The Beaufort News is co-operating
(Continued on page ten)
But No One In This
Section Had Ever
Heard Of Law
CAPE LOOKOUT WHALE
KILLING IS PROBED
An investigation by Capt. T.
G. Crapster, commander of the
Norfolk Division of the U. S.
Coast Guard was held in More
head City Monday aboard the
patrol boat McLean, into the
killing of a whale by Dan Yeo
mans at Cape Lookout on Tues
day March 15. Considerable
testimony was taken by Capt.
Crapster and a stenographer,
which has been forwarded
Coast Guard headquarters in
Washington. It may be sever
al days before the outcome of
the investigation will be
known.
As a result of the investigation per
sons in Carteret county learned for
the first time that killing a whale is
a very serious offence. The various
species of whales are given certain
protection by a law made in Geneva
by the League of Nations and agreed
upon by the United States. Certain
species can be legally hunted at cer
tain seasons upon condition that cer
tain licenses amounting to no small
sums, are paid. But whale calves are
.riven protection at all seasons. The
finback killed at Cape Lookout was
two feet longer than the calf size of
50 feet or less. That testimony was
favorable to Dan Yeomans.
Further favorable testimony for
Dan Yeomans was the fact that he
killed the whale as a humane deed,
and not for sport or commercial rea
sons. The Cape Lookout whale was
aground at the time it was killed and
(Continuea on page ten)
POLK MUST RAISE
JUSTIFIED BOND
Negro Nuisance Is Now
In Jail; Recorders
Court Was Busy
Unless he can get a justified
bond, not one of the mortgage
kind, he usually gives, James
Polk Johnson, (Beaufort's Pub
lic Ni.isance No. 1) will remain
out of circulation and in the co
unty jail for an indefinate
period. In Recorders Court
Tuesday he was tried on
charges of assault, involving
threatenting of life and pro
perty, and after evidence was
presented he was ordered to be
placed under bond of $300.
Curtis Oden, colored undertaker, tes
tified that Polk had threatened to
kill him and burn him out as a result
of testimony given in court here sev
eral months ago by Oden and which
resulted in a prison term for the de
fendant.. Even if he can raise the
bond of $300, Polk must serve the 30
days in jail he is doing on more re
cent 'public nuisance charges, for
which he was tried before Mayor
Huntley in municipal court.
Charlie Brown gave notice of ap
peal to Superior Court when Judge
Webb sentenced him to six months
on charges of disorderly conduct, cur
sing and displaying his person. Pro
secuting witnesses in this case were
relatives of the defendant, who live
in the Mill Creek section. It was
shown through testimony that he was
drunk at the time charges were bro
ught against him. Following appeal
he was placed under bond of $200
and soon he will have an opportunity
to tell it to Judge Henry Grady.
Pearl Oden was found guilty of
violating the prohibition laws and
fined $25 and costs. On a similiar
charge Otis Fenner was given a six
months suspended sentence and or
dered to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
Mildred Baum was found not guilty
of violating the prohibition law,
after much interesting testimony had
been given. On another VPL charge
Pearl Oden was ordered to pay the
costs.
Cal Whaley who is no stranger in
the courts of Carteret county was
arrested on charges of taking the
clothes and assaulting Dorothy An
drews. The case however was not
tried, but continued until another ses
I sion.
Tliev Were Married In 1877
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Mr. and Mrs. T. Murray Thomas Sr.
Pictured above are Mr. and Mrs. T. Murray Thomas Sr., who celebrat
ed their Cist Wedding anniversary here on Sunday, February 20. They
are the second oldest married couple living in Carteret county today. The
oldest couple are Rev. and Mrs. J... M. Carraway of the Mernmon sec
tion who have been married for 65 years. (Eubanks-News photo)
Front Page Story In Beaufort
News Helps Win Inlet Argument
To Bring Students
To Beaufort
Dr. Archie Shaftesbury
Dr. Archie Shaftsbury, head of
the department of zoology of Wo
man's College U.N.C., in Greensboro
will again bring students to Beaufort
during the coming summer. The an
nouncement that he would conduct
classes here this year was received in
announcements last week outlining
the opening of Carolina Maiine Lab
oratory at Beaufort Community Cen
ter on Taylor's Creek. Dr. Shafts
bury has been bringing students from
Woman's College in Greensboro to
Beaufort for the purpose of study
ing marine biology for several years.
Last year for the first time the stu
dents occupied their new building at
Community Center. Another Summer
School group from Woman's College
will also come to Beaufort this year
It will be the Art Department which
is under the direction of Gregory
Ives.
Expe
ct Salt Cargo
At Ocean Terminal
About March 15th.
A cargo of Turk's Island salt is
expected at Morehead City Port
Terminal sometime during the cur
rent month, according to informa
tion given The Beaufort New3 this
week by R. Hugh Hill, local repre
sentative of the Southern Salt Com
pany of Norfolk, owned and controll
ed by the Taylor Brothers, former
residents of Sea Level, this county.
Mr. Hill stated that he understood
that practically all arrangements re
garding the leasing of storing space
in the transient shed at the More
head Ocean Terminal had been com
pleted, and that with this detail tak
en care of, it would be only a mat
ter of a few days before the vessel
arrived with the cargo.
It is likely that the salt will be
brought in on an American freight
er, which would mark the first in
stance that an import cargo has been
received at the Morehead terminal un
(Continued on page ten)
St ?j
Drum Inlet Project
Incorporated In
R. and H. Bill
Roles which a country week
ly newspaper can play in the
life and advancement of its
comunity and county was
shown early this week in Wash
ington when a front page
story in last week's edition of
The Beaufort News was used
in support of an argument.
was won which means that improve
ments for Drum Inlet wil be includ
ed in the Rivers and Harbors Bill,
which will be, in the opinion of Rep
resentative Graham A. Barden, pass
ed at this session of Congress.
On Monday, Aycock Brown, edi
tor of The Beaufort News, received
the folowing telegi-am from Repre
sentative Barden: "Just completed
hearing on Drum Inlet before Fivers
and Harbors Committee at the con
clusion of which upon motion the
project which carries 200 foot chan
nel. 12 feet deep at cost of $50,0000
was adopted and incorporated in the
Rivers and Harbors Bill, which bill,
in my opinion will be passed at this
session of Congress stop This pro
ject having been identified with the
Atlantic Project I exhibited last
week's issue of The Beaufort News
to Committee and Engineers in sup
port of my argument of benefits to
be derived from Drum Inlet improve
ment stop Am following item close
lyGraham A. Barden, MC."
The front page story in The Beau
fort News last week gave compara
tive commercial statistics of water
traffic during 1936, the tonnage and
value, and for 1937. The Beaufort
News was supplied these comparative
(Continued on page ten)
BELOVED BAPTIST
PASTOR IS DEAD
Rev. J. W. Morgan, formov ana
beloved pastor of the First Baptbi
Church here, died in the Baptist
hospital at Winston-Salem Sunday
morning after being confined Vv.vi
for six months. He had previously i
been to Johns Hopkins hasjv.tsl for
treatment but little hope was express
ed for his recovery .
Funeral services were conducted
at Rocky Mount Monday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock and interment was
made in the Rocky Mount cemetery.
A quartet composed of Messrs. M.
Leslie Davis, Grayden Paul, Edgar
Swann and Halsey Paul sang at the
funeral rites. Mr. Morgan resign
ed his post at Beaufort shortly be
fore going to the hospital. He had
been in declining health some time
before his retirement. Surviving is
one brother, S. F. Morgan, one of
the leading Baptist ministers of the
state. He is also survived by a daugh
ter, Jean. News of the death of the
well known minister was received
with sorrow at Beaufort and in oth
er parts of the county where he was
known.
Referendum To
Be Held On
March 12
Series Of Meetings
Underway To Give
Farmers Slant
Approximately 600 tobacco
and cotton farmers in Carteret
county will march to the polls
on March 12 for the purpose of
voting for or against crop
control measures which is be
ing given more publicity in
Eastern North Carolina at the
present time than any other
news. It is generally believed
that a majority will be given the
control program, although there will
be a few voting against it in scat
tered areas. The Beaufort News in
vites correspondence from farmers
of Carteret favoring or not favoring
the Control Program.
In connection with the scheduled
Referendum the following story was
released by the Carteret Farm
Agent's office today:
All tobacco and cotton farmers of
Carteret whose names are listed in
the County Agent's office have been
notified of the time and place of
meetings in their community at which
time the Cotton and Tobacco Refer
endum to be held on March 12, will
be explained. In addition to the
community meetings, a group meet
ing will be held at the Newport grad
ed school on Tuesday, March 8 at
7:30 o'clock, at which time a speak
er from State College will be present.
Farmers are urged to attend these
meetings, which started today. De
tails of the referendum and places
for voting will be published in next's
week's edition of The Beaufort News.
Barbecue. Dinner
Beaufort Fire Department will
have a barbecue dinner at the Fire
man's Hall tonight at 8 o'clock, it
was announced today by Chief T.
Murray Thomas, Jr.
They're Paying Up
Court officials of Carteret county
stated today that defendants indebt
ed to Recorders Court for past due
fines and costs are paying up very
nicely now that some publicity was
given through The Beaufort News
recently that unless they, (those who
are indebted to the court they
might have to explain the matter to
Judge Henry Grady, when Superior
Court convenes here on March 14. It
is understood that Judge Grady is
never lenient with defendants who
have become indebted to a county
court and failed to pay their obli
gation in full so the publicity The
Beaufort News has given the matter
might be helping all concerned.
Mr. Fred Hooper left this morning
for Norfolk where he will enter the
Marine Hospital for eye treatment.
TIDE TABLE
Information the tto'
at Beaufort is givoi. in thi
column The figures are approx
imately correct and based on
tabic 3 furnished by the U. i
Geodetic Survey. S; i'ie allow
ances must be made for varia
tions in the wind tuid ;:Im with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High
9:32
9:52
10-:?
10:36
Low
Friday, March 4
m. 3:26 a. m.
m. 3:39 p. m.
Saturday, March 5
m. 4:09 a. m.
m. 4:18 p. m.
Sunday, March 6
10:58 a. m. 4:55 a. m.
5:02 p. m.
Monday, March 7
11:25 a. m. 5:49 a. m.
11:49 p. m. 5:54 p. m.
Tueiday, March 8
12:17 a. m. 6:52 a. m.
12:39 p. m. 6:57 p. m.
Wednesday, March 9
1:17 a. m. 7:59 a. m.
1:43 p. m. 8:03 p. m.
Thunday, March 10
2:27 a. m. 9:06 a. m.
2:59 p. m. 9:15 p. m.
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