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OVER 7,500 People Read The Beaufort News EACH WEEK Beaufort New?, MOVE COTTON GOODS FOR SOUTHERN PROSPERITY See Ad Page 3 Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper Established 1912 Volume xxviii; no. h. BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 4,1940. PUBLISHED WEEKLY TV Senate Commerce Committe Reports Favorably On Waterways Bill itiE SEVERAL CARTERET DELEGATES EXPECTED TO ATTEND MEETING WASHINGTON N. C. ON FRIDAY Editor Of News On Committee To Call On Pres. Roosevelt At an early date to be arranged by Senator Josiah W. Bailey in Washington, a committee from the ;-:rt fishing communitiei on ine IS'orth Carolina coat will call on President Franklin D. Roosevelt aPd extend an official invitation on behalf of the State to the Chief Executive to come to our coast on a fishing trip. R. Bruce Etheridge, director of the Department of Con tervation and Development is chair ran of the committee. , He hat asked Aycock Brown, ed itor of The Beaufort New to serve on the committee representing the North Carolina coast in general, and the Carteret Coast, Beaufort and Morehead City in particular. Brown has accepted. Others who had accepted committee posts when Mr. Etheridge called via Ion; distance on Wednesday to extend the invitation to Brown were Stan ley Wahab of Ocracoke and Tom Eaton of Hatteras. Representa tives from Manteo. Wilmington and Southpo-t will also be includ ed on the committee. Gene Brown Takes Over Management Of Purol Station .' Gene Brown, formerly in charge if the stock room of Loftin Mo t t Company here has taken over the management of the Terminal ' Purol Station in down-town More-lu-ad City. In addition to carry-i-sr a complete supply of Purol . products, the station will also fea ture certain parts and accessories for automobiles. He will estab lish a Used Car Lot for Loftin ad jacent to the station and will have a variety of reconditioned auto mobiles for sale. The manager of Terminal Puroi plans to offer a variety of services to motorists, including minor re pair jobs, grease and wash jobs, supplies and FISHING INFORMA TION' to anglers coming to the Morehead City and the Carteret Coast. Gene Brown is a brother of Aycock Brown, editor of The Beaufort News, and until coming to Carteret's coastland he lived in Florida following his graduation from the University of North Car olina. Raymond Davis of More head City will be his assistant. Jack Pot Won $50 Next Week Mrs. E. C. Boone of 330 Front Street won the $120 Jack Pot at Beaufort Theatre last night. Manager Bob Lang stated that the Jack Pot next week would be $50, instead of $20 as an nounced following the drawing inside the theatre. ALMANAC BIRTHDAY Of Famous People APRIL 5. Jos. Lister, physician 1827. 6. Harry Houdini, magician 1874. 7. W. A. Pinkerton, detective 1846. o i , W,,.,fnrA actress 1839. o. jutti y iviw. 9. Baudelaire, Fr. poet, 1821. 10. Geo. Arliss, actor, 1868. 11. Judge Chas. E. Hughes 1862. HISTORICAL EVENTS APRIL U. S. declared War on Ger many 1917. Television first demonstrated 1927. Clay and Randolph fought du el, 1826. Lee surrendered at Appo mattox 1865. First issue of N. Y. Tnbune, Queen Anne war ends, 1(13. 8. v 9. 10. 11. Purpose Of Meet To Form Waterways Association REP. LINDSEY WARREN WILL MAKE ADDRESS Several delegates from Beaufort, Morehead City, and other communities of Carteret County are sched uled to attend a meeting in Washington tomorrow, (A pril 5) at 1 o'clock for the purpose of forming a North Carolina Waterways Associ ation. Delegates from all sections of the coast from Manteo to Wilmington and as far inland as Fayetteville, Tarboro and Raleigh have been invited to attend. Kdmun Hardin?, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Washington, N. C. is handling ' i ' ! " I cal arrangements for the meeting. Movement Given Wide Approval Movement to organize a North Carolina Waterways Association is gaining wide approval. Dozens of letters have come in to Aycock Brown, temporary chairman of the meeting to be held in Washington at 1 o'clock Friday. Leadlnr newspapers throughout the Stitc have carried story after story i about the event and favorable ed itorial comment has been printed widely. Several delegates from Coastal Carteret County are plan ning to attend the meeting. Letters to municipal '.ncl county officials, and persons interested in waterway development received letters this week from Chamber of Commerce Secretary Aycock Brown here. The letter from Brown follows: "Greetings: "On the 11th and l.'ith of March the undersigned attended the meeting of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington, D C along with a dozen others from North Carolina. We were delegates' to the Convention, ap pointed by the Governor of our State. "I was greatly impiessed with the solidarity of the delegates from the other sections of the United Staets, and while not surprised i was very much impressed with (Continued o Page 8) Judge Frizzelle And Judge Bone Preside In June Judge J. Paul Frizzelle, of Snow Hill and Judge Walter J. Bone, of Nashville, (Nash County) will preside over the 2-weeks term of c ;r Court here in June it was announced this week by Mrs. i Eva Bravaldo, assistant Clerk of Superior Court. Judge Frizzelle will preside over the first week, or j . ..:.,,;.,! term. Judge Bone will preside over the second week which will be devoted ot civil ac tions. Joyce Johnson And Florence Smith In N. C. Music Finals Joyce Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson of Front Street, and Florence Smith, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Billie Smith of Atlantic Highway brought hon or to Beaufort Consolidated School at the music elimination contest in Greenville last week, and a" thus entitled to enter the State Contests at Greensboro April 10-1. Stevens, another local contestant made an excellent showing in the program, and was runnerup m ic ings. Joyce won ratings in the in strumental solo contests; Florence attained a high rating as an alto soloist. They are students of Mrs. Virginia Hassell. Morehead City High School also shared high honors in the elimina tion contests. The Glee Club and mixed chorus was high and receiv ing ratings which will permit them to compete in the Greensboro com petitions were Miss Ruth Webb, soprano soloist and Miss Joyce Willis, instrumental solo. And A Good Time Was NEWPORT FUTURE hi L Z wV- - " PARENTS OF THE Future Farmers of America, county and school, state and nation al officials were honored guests on Friday night, March 22, when the Newport Chapter of the national vocational agricultural class of the Carteret school presented their an- , r .1 c .1 XT l o . i 1 1 1 : nuai ratneroon oanauei in trie f entertainment was played by those to right in the picture are: Irvin W. r . . d . . . i tommuice; ncpreicniaiive uranam oargen, ui tuc x unu (.uiigiwivuai " mauc w.c speech of the evening; District Supervisor Chesnutt of Vocational Agriculture; Master Teacher C. S. Long, director of Newport vo-ae work: Roland Murdoch, toastmaster and R. L. Pruitt, principal of Newport school. The delicious banquet was served by the home economics class future farmerettes of the New port School. (Photo by Aycock Brown). Calls Convention Of Republicans C. H. BUSHALL, Chairman of the Republican Executive Com mittee in Carteret County has called a convention to be held in the courthouse he"re on Saturday, A:l C . 7 nVlnrk. Pumose of the convention is to elect delegates to the Republican State Conven tion, a chairman and secretary for the Carteret Executive Committee and other business. A. L. Wilson is secretary of the Republican Ex ecutive Committee in Carteret County. BROUGHTON TO MAKE TALK AT SMYRNA SCOOL Baccalaureate To Be Preached By Dr. Russell The Hon. J. M. Broughton candidate for Governor ot North Carolina who is cover ing much territory in his campaign now underway has accepted an invitation to make the commencement ad dress at Smyrna School on May 9, in the school auditorium. Of all the gubernatorial candidates now in the field, Broughton is the first to make a definite speaking engagement and his talk to ths students will not be of a political nature but a message for the grad uating members of the school. rnmmeneement exercises at the 5mvma School begins on Sunday, May 5, with the baccalaureate ser mon being preached by Dr. J. a. Russell, superintendent of the Jew Bern District of the Methodist Churches. Principal E. L. Gaskill made the foregoing announcement this week A complete schedule of the com mencement exercises in all the schools of the County will probably be carried in next week's edition Th Beaufort News. I" V-. :,.!-.- X'.-:' ? i ; - -v M i MM f, J Had By All FARMERS' BANQUET A SUCCESS gymnasium ai iiewuon. shown in the candid flashlight Davis, register of deeds and chairman of the Democratic txecutive k d i e .L "7"L : i r i , ,.,u J L Laui.n,n (Mill nYV H. S. Gibbs, insurance bro ker and prominent "business man of Morehead City an nounces elsewhere in this edition that he will be acan didate for Carteret : Repr sentative to the General As sembly subject to the wishes of the voters in the Demo cratic Primary on May 25. Previously filing for this of fice were the incumbent F. R. Seelev and Charles L. Skarren, Jr. To (late no other candidates in the County have announced for public office, although it is expect ed that Republican candidates will be announced following the Con vention here on Saturday. Only political speech of the week in Carteret was delivered by Dr. Zeno Spence in Morehead City High School Auditoruim. About 300 or more persons attended. Adding interest to his appearance was music by Bob Moore and his junior band of Goldsboro, the ac robats of the Goldsboro Drum and Bugle Corps and a sextette of wo men singers from Davis. Dr. Spence is running for Congress. I: was reputed by a New Bern paper that Charles Abarneth" would make a speech at Salt Path last Saturday night. No fU ' inite news, whether he i-r i has been received at The r. ..v:' News office. bevn:thv is a'-' a candidate for Congress. Fishing And All Outdoors By AYCOCK BROWN IX MOREHEAD City there is a person who deserves more credit than he has ever been given up to now for the part he has played in the exploitation of the Gulf Stream off Xorth Carolina. Many of the anglers in North Carolina who have- landed dolphin and amDer jack or sailfish while fishing out of Morehead City will be glad tc see Capt. Ottis Purefoy getting recognition. But he deserves it. CAPT. PUREFOY led the move ment of installing more than one motor in a boat for offshore fish- ir." here in Loastai tarieret. m his newest vessel the Shearwater, he has three motors, and his boat i nn of those pieces of timber that will take you there and bring you back. Capt. furefoy owns two boats for Guif Stream fishing. His second, and slightly smaller craft is the Barracuda. OTTIS keeps an accurate record if iii nrtivities and a report on what he did in 1939 during a period (Continued on Page 8) rrincioai roics in mc cycuhw picture above. Reading from left Named Manager Of Atlantic Beach JOHN SINGLETON, native of Georgia and a resident of Char lotte for many years will be mana ger of Atlantic Beach during the 1940 season according to mforma tion received in Morehead City (,;. ,rL- Mr. Sincleton is no stranger on the Carteret Coast and Atlantic Beach. For the past two seasons he has been manager of Hotel Atlantic Beach, and Mrf Singleton, whom he married last Fall, is th former Miss Eloise Freeman, dauehter of Mr. and Mrs W. P. Freeman, of Morehead City. Mr. Singleton will be assisted by Newman Willis, Mayor of the Town of Atlantic Beach and year tound superintendent of the prop erties. COMMISSIONERS r County Board Gives Attention To Many Matters v.rU fnr County Home dur ing the current month were awarded to (J. v. Jones Lom pany of Beaufort. ' The Gulf Oil Company and the , A. and P. Stores of Beaufort and i Morehead Citv are requested to! appear before the Board at its next meeting for the purpose oi showing inventory of stocks of merchandise on hand Jonuary 1, 1940. This is being done to give the Board a clear idea of the val ue of stocks they carry and had on Continued from page one) Bamby 100 Percent "Bamby" Small, coatal repre sentative of Royal Baking Compa ny, of Raleigh, which introduced Bamby bread and productt in Car teret two wee-Its ago stated that ap proximately 100 percent of the stores in Beaufort are now hand ling the prodact. He credits this to ajt effective newspaper adver tising campaign in The Beaufort News. r'- ' PI! jpp Amount Involved So Large Final Passage Seems Unlikely Glamour Girls Taking Part In Beauty Contest Beaufort glamour girls, from tiny tot age to the late teen age will take part in a beauty contest having its premiere at The Beau fort Theatre tonight and conclud ing on Friday night. Seventy girls are taking roles in the even, competing for the title "Miss Beau fort''... The winner receives a trip to state contest to compete for "Miss North Carolina" honors and also receive a screen test which will be shown back in Beaufort at a la ter date. Little tots are compet ing for the title "Little Miss Beau fort" and she too will compete in a picture contest and if chosen "Lit tle Miss North Carolina," will re ceive a trip to the National Con test to compete for the role of "Little Miss United States." Director of the event tonight which is scheduled to be presented on the stage at 8:30 o'clock is Miss Gretchen Parker. Ayccok Brown will be master of ceremonies. The finale will be presented on Friday night at :30 o'clock. There will be no advance in admission charg es, (however, passes will not be honored), and the screen attrac tion prior to the contest will be The Farmers Daughter, starring Martha Raye and Charles Ruggles. Local business firms are sponsor ing the various entrants in the Eeauty Show. Hotel On Atlantic Beach Opens May 3 Atlantic Beach Hotel will open for the 1940 season on Friday, Mav 3. according to word received at The Beaufort News office as we fro to press today. The Atlan tic Beach Hotel, famous for it': dining' room service was purchase i (luring the past winter by the Ihr- ricksen Brothers. ernnn and W al ter, who operate at present tw i hotels, one at Norfolk the other at Portsmouth. Writer (Jimmie) pi-rrickson, will be manager of The Atlantu Beach Hotel. He is a veteran ho tel man and is widely known by tourists and commercial traveling men in this and adjoining states. The Derrickson's at one time op erated the Fort Macon in More head City, the Gaston in New Bern and about 10 years ago, the Inlet Inn in Beaufort. North Harlowe Is Scene Of Another Big Shooting Case Cleveland Godette, prom ising young Negro bootleg ger and blockader of the North Harlowe section in Craven County, (near tho Carteret line) who has been sought for sometime by T men. died in Morehead City hospital at 1 o'clock from a bullet wound over the left eye. Hugh Webb Johnson, who the T-men would like to hook on tj iillegedly fired the fatal shot with a .32 ctilehre Iver Johnson revolv- Johnson Captured Hugh Johnson, accused murder er of Godette was captured by Craven officers this week and is held in jail at New Bern. er about 7 o'clock Sunday even-1 ing. The argument all-.-ge ' started over a girl, and eyewitness es claimed that Godette was goim? I after Johnson with a knife when j the fatal shot was fired. Patro'man J"hn La'" of the State H ghway Tat ' md Sheriff C. G. Holland wtr.t t. the s.-ne of the shooting and searched awhi' for Johnson. Looking for a North Harlowe Negro, in that section, after he has committed a felony i just like looking for a needle in i havstack. He was not found, but now that he faces charges of mur der as well as charges of prohibi tion violation, it is likely that lie will be apprehended, home peo- Dle claim that the only way to catch a North Harlowe Negro af ter he has killed someone is to set fire to the woods and burn him out. As that covers considerable acre age, it is usually cheaper to just (Continued from Page 1) North Carolina To Share In Final Passage While it was an encourag ing note for those interested in development of water way projects in Beaufort and along the entire North Caro lina coast, a wire received from Senator Josiah W. Bai ley, chairman of the Senate flnmmprpp Cnmmit.tee earlv this week, does not mean that the projects amounting to a total of 231 millions of dol lars throughout the nation will be gotten underway at anv nonr rlnfp As a matter of fact, unless final approval - r: 1 TT u is given a juveis aim imiuuis Bill this year there is no tell ing when the North Carolina projects will begin. This Bill, so important to the wa terway interests and every cnmmnnitv nlnno- th Q North Carolina coast was nassed by the House last May. Huntley Receives Wire Senator Bailev's wire to Mayor Huntley follows: ''Commerce Com mittee favorably reported today Rivers and Harbors Bill including Beaufort Harbor improvements. Following the report from Washington via the foregoing channels, a Greensboro Daily News story from their capitol bureau ap pearing on Wednesday contained the paraiaph which follows: "But President Roosevelt left. mm.v .'n,ult this afternoon, with his press conference, whether he would sign the liver and harbor bill, as reported by Senator Bailey, if passed by Congress. He, has thought, he said, that before still more authorizations are approved, some others, amounting to a cou ple of hundred miliion dollars, (Continued on Page 8) Salvation Army To Establish Outpost On Carteret Coast Knvov K. V. Farmer of the N'ew Bern Corns of the Salvation Army in Beaufort last week made plans to have eekly ertnesday night meetings here in The American Legion Hut starting on April 17. It is hoped, said Envoy farmer, that this will be the starter for establishing a peimanent Outpost of the Army in tne Beautort-Mora-head City territory. It is needless to tell anyone wha is familiar with the great work of the Salvation Army, both in war time and peacetime, that the en deavors are worthwhile. The Sal vation Army reaches those whom the churches cannot reach an 1 they serve those who may profit bv the motto: "A r.'.an may be down, hut he is m ver out." Th-! public is extended a cordial invita tion to attend tb-? Salvati m A nr.y Services, said Envoy Fanner. TIDE TABLE Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given in this column. The figures are ap proximately correct and are based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey Some allowances must be made for variations in th wind and nW -v'b to h i er hear the inlet r at tnc head of ;hc estuaries. HIGH LOW Friday, April S. 6:46 A. M. 12:42 A. M. 6:57 P. M. 12:54 P. M. Saturday, April 6 7.22 A. M. 1:22 A. M. 7:33 P. M. 1:31 P. M. Sunday, April 7 7:57 A. M. 1:59 A. M. 8:C8 P. M. 2:05 P.M. Monday, April 8 8:33 A. M. 2:38 P. M. Tuesday, April 9 9:07 A. M. 3:07 A. M. 9:19 P. M. 3:10 P. M. Wednesday, April 10 9:43 A. M. 3:41 A, M. 9:56 P. M. 3:44 P. M. Thursday, April 11 10:20 A. M. 4:19 A. M. 10:35 P. M. 4:20 P. M.