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AUFORT NEWS
Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper. .Established 1912
JLUME XXIX; NO. 3.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1941
Help FIGHT Polio
Attend President's
Birthday Ball On
Wednesday Night
JAN. 29 ADM.$1
g Movement Founded On Little Island
amilton Endorses Humber' s World Federation Idea
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
This Picture Was Made W ?len He Spoke At Smyrna
MOVEMENT LAUNCHED by Robert Lee Humber at his Davis Island estate on De
ber 27, which was endorsed by a group of representative citizens is gaming mo
entum throughout the State. The above picture shows Humber just after he had
iplained the proposal to the group on the island, hearing the endorsement of 5upe-Z-
Court Judee Luther Hamilton in behalf of the World Federation. (Photo by
kycock BrownO
ach Bridge Is
Being Repaired
' . i- -
Several thousand dollars will be
pended in the repairing of At
itic Beach Bridge. A crew
m the State Highway and Pub
j; Works Commission have al
adv begun repairs Atlantic
each bridge has comparatively
ttlB traffic during: the winter
Snnths but durinir the summer--
lime thousands of autos cross the
pan each week.
Federal Court Limits The
Claims In Soutliland-Espee
Collision Case To $26,000
R.E.A. Pioject
' ? Washington, D. C.
BRITAIN WANTED IT. S. TO GET
EIRE TO GIVE UP BASES
3j Confidential conversations have
been takina Dlace between the Brit
ish and the state department for
some time aimed at getting Irish
naval bases for the British.
In these conversations the British
have wanted to place the United
States in the unique role of either
persuading or bulldozing Eire into
Uanding over the bases. Just how
the United States handled It, the
British didn't much care.
But in talking to the state depart
ment, the British pointed out that if
they took Irish bases by force, there
would be a burst of anti-British feel
ing from Irish aU over the United
States, particularly New England.
This, the British felt, would be ex
tremely bad just at a time when
Britain particularly needs American
support.
'i The British also pointed out to the
"state department that they were
placed in the unfortunate position of
having to bring food to Ireland at
the risk of having the ships sunk,
' ,ith nn nrotprtive pn-nneration
See Merry-Go-Round, Page2
Pres. George W. Huntley
of the Carteret-Craven Rural
Electrification Membership
Cooperative stated today
that initial plans before con
struction begins on the pro
ject are moving forward.
Easement Forms have been
nrinted and within the next few
days A. W. Styron, Cedar Island;
Lionell N. Connor, Harlowe and
Garland P. Holland, of White Oak
Township, who are being appoint
ed Notary Publics, will along with
posribly other Notary Publics, cov
er the area to be served to get
right of way easements.
REA Headauarteri in Washing
ton has advised the local group to
make arrangements about a de
pository for the money which has
been allotted for the project. The
allotment amounts to $143,000.
Any family living along the route
of the area to be served may ap
ply for membership now and be
assured of electric service as soon
as construction of the line is com
pleted, it was stated. Some of
the families along the route are
taking advantage of and attending
to this matter now.
$282,784.94 Was
Total Amount
Sought
ESTATES TO RECEIVE
FROM $1,900 TO $5,000
ALMANAC
HISTORICAL
EVENTS
January
SEVEN CASES
TRIED TUESDAY
IN COURT HERE
Non-Support Trial
Is Feature Of
Session
Although the judgment
papers in the Southland-Es-pee
case was to have been
drafted on Friday no copy
has been received by Beau
fort and Morehead City at
torneys who were represent
ing different angles in the
case. Claims totaling $282,
784.94 were sought and ac
cording to an Associaieu
Press dispat.cn irom in or-
folk on tne weeK-ena r eueiai
Court Judge Luther C. Way
allowed $26,000.
Just how the claims would be
distributed to the claimants was
not known as we go to press to
day, but it was indicated that own
ers of the Southland were award
ed approximately $1,850 which in
cluded costs of rebuilding tne ves
sel and also salvage operations. It
is understood that the vessel's own
ers had put in a claim for approx-
mately $22,000.
the Neeroes who lost
their lives were granted between
$1,900 and $2,000 eacn it was m
AontPt while the estates of the
two white men were granted ap
proximately $5,000 eacn. mere
wprn nersonal iniurv claims and
also loss of time claims, but it is
understood that no money was
granted for either.
It is also understood tnat tne
hai-P-P Esnee owned by the Sol-
vay Process Company and Mallory
Transport Lines, owners or cuai-
See Federal Court, fage
MANY ON TOAST Carteret Citizens With New GVnor
GIVEN JOBS AT
NEW ARMY CAMP
W. C. Carleton Says
Big Demand For
Carpenters
W. C. Carleton, manager
the N. C. Employment Office
told The Beaufort News this
week that he wouM be able
to place every available
rough or finished carpenter
Pi i fA T-v : TT . 1
on .loos at uamp uavis, noi
ly Ridge. He also stated that
over 100 persons. from Car
teret County were already
employed on the-j construc
tion work now underway at
the firing center oi the I), b.
Armv. I
Manv of the carpenters and
Unllv Ridee employees are going
to and from the construction job
daily. It is over 60 miles to Hoi
lv Ridsre. but Seashore Transpor
tation Company has established a
special bus from ceautort and
Morehead ity as well, as many
other Eastern North', Carolina
cities. An advertisement relative
to tne new uua dcivc us
elsewhere in this editiqn of The
Beaufort News. f
Mr. Carleton was contacted in
Wilmington last week-nd by a
representative of The! Beaufort
News and he reported s near riot
which occurred at theilMorehead
City branch of the N. d Employ
ment Office last Tuesdiy. Word
had falsely gotten out tiat all per
sons now employed on WPA pro
... . j. t.
jects would nave to go 119 vne new
nnti-aircraft finntr center, and
that resulted in several hundred
persons rushing to the branch of
fice seeking work. The crowd
filled the halls of the municipal
building and also pushed the door
open and did some damage to the
draftees number of Carteret Se
lective Draft office which are dis
played in the lobby, it was report
ed.
Thfi waires at Hollv Ridge are
so good, it is possible fof a person
to pay the bus fare there and re
turn each day and still make a
good salary.
NORTH CAROLINA'S new Number 1 citizen, Governor J. Mellville Broughton is
shown in the above picture with three well known Carteret citizens, namely County
Auditor James Potter, Sheriff C. G. Holland and County Democratic Chairman Irym
W. Davis. The photo by Roy Eubanks was made at Smyrna High School last Spring
where Governor Broughton had just made the Commencement address. Auditor
Potter was Broughton Manager in Carteret during his campaign for the gubernatori
al office to which he was elected. (Photo by Roy Eubanks.)
BEAUFORT COLORED SCHOOL
CLOSES DUE TO INFLUENZA
SHIP YARD
Officials Keeping
Close Check On
Situation
HATTERAS WEATHER
HEAD TRANSr tKKtU
TO WASHINGTON.
17. Prohibition went into effect,
1920.
18. Electric trolley patented 1892
20. F. D. Roosevelt inaugurated
1937.
21. Edw. VIII of Eng. ascends
throne 1936.
22. Panama Canal treaty signed
1903.
23. Floods in Ohio and Mississippi
at high point, 1937.
BIRTHDAYS
Of Famous People
January
17. Lloyd George, British States
man. 1863.
18. Daniel Webster statesman,
1782.
19. Gen. Robert E. Lee, 1807.
?ft. .Tosef Hofman. musician 1877
21. Gen. "Stonewall Jackson 1824
22. Lord Byron, poet, 1788.
23. Geo. I. Mannus, cartoonist.
1881.
Coast Guard Plane
On Mercy Flight To
Beaufort On Friday
Mrs. Roy Clemmons, critically
ill, was transported to John Hop
kins Hospital in Baltimore last rr
day by a U. S. Coast Guard ambu
lance plane. The plane, from the
Coast Guard Air Station at Eliza
beth City, was making its first
mercy flight to Beaufort, although
the nlanes make frequent flights
to the Outer Banks after ill per
sons. No definite word has been
received here from Baltimore rel
ative to Mrs. Clemmons condition.
Mr. Clemmons, an employee of
the U. S. Coast Guard Communi
cation Division and their little son
Roy also went to Baltimore.
While it is definitely
known that a Carteret Coun
ty corporation, recently tor
med is now in line to secure
a shipyard and construct a
number of vessels, there was
no authorative " announce
ment relative to the matter as we
go to press today. During the
past week a ship building con
cern, said to be a subsidiary of
Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company, has been or
ganized in Wilmington and it was
further reported that this organi
zation is in line to ret contracts
for building 24 of the 200 cargo
shin DroDosed recently: This,
however, in no way effects any
plans of the local groups.
In the meantime it is learned
hst the corooration which in
cludes a number of Morehead City
and Beaufort business men will
be in line to get contracts for
building various types of vessels,
including jtankers, and possibly
U. S. Navy vessels. It was an
nounced in Raleigh Tuesday that
the Carolina Shipbuilding and En
gineering Corporation had been
granted a charter to carry on a
general industrial, maritime, ship
yard, bridge and ship construction
engineering in all phases.
The Beaufort Colored
School closed Monday on ac
count ot mounting aDsences
(72 out of 66)) due to coicis
and influenza. The Beau
fort white school reported in
creasing absences 'DegmmnE
with 65 on January 6 and
reaching 113 (out of 837)
last Tuesday absences con
stituting a serious problem
with mid-term examinations
beginning yesterday, when a
slight improvement was re
ported. The Smyrna School
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Bailey have
left Hatteras temporarily to make
their home in Washington, U. U,
where Mr. Dailey, who is chief of
the Hatteras Weather Bureau, has
been assigned to special temporary
duty. Garland M- Byrum, Mr.
Dailey's first assistant, has been
I left in charge of the Hatteras bu
reau.
U 1 1 f?rfctA
Covering The
Waterf ron t
By AYCOCK BROWN
HARKERS ISLAND
SCHQOL CLOSES
With 76 out of 254 pupils en
rolled absent due to influenza or
colds, Harkers Island School closed
on Wednesday and will reopen on
Monday if the situation improves,
it was announced today by Super
intendent J. G. Allen.
Two assault cases, two
liquor charges, two non-support
and one highway drunk
charge was aired in Re
corders Court on Tuesday.
Head liner on the docket
m'qc thp charcrc ncninst R. TI.
Rrnrlrlv. hrnii p-Vit hv his wife
who claimed that she was
not properly supported. At-
fnvnpv nianrl R. Whpatlv
i.V1 , ...
represented the defendant
and alter nearmg tne evi
dence Judge Webb decided
to hold the case open until
March with tnougnt mat tne
parties involved would be
able to worK oui some satis
factory arrangement.
It was shown that Braddy now
pays his wife $7 weekly, that he
furnished the house she lives
in, the fuel, the electric lights and
water, etc. Still his wife from
whom he is separated, wanted
more money. Braddy was once a
well-to-do merchant but business
reverses, according to his testimo
ny, has just about ruined him, fi
nancially. Jumps ndpn was aiven a four
months road sentence when found
guilty of violating the prohibition
laws. On a similar charge Mary
See Seven Cases, Page 8
State Ready To Try
Abernethy's Case
DUNN, Jan. 13 The State is
ready to try the case in Wayne
county this week in which Charles
L. Abernethy Jr., former candi
date for congress from thet hird
district, is charged with election
law violations, it was announced
by Solicitor Claude C. Canaday at
his home here yesterday. ine
case will be tried in Wayne coun
ty superior court.
The case is set for trial on Wed
nesday, and thes tate is ready for
it if it can be reached at this term
of court. The case has been hang
ing fire for quite somet ime.
Tobacco Meeting
At Newport Jan. c6
Hnnntv Atrent J. Y. Lassiter an
nounced today that a meeting of
farmers interested in tobacco dis
eases, insects and growing would
be held at Newport on inursoay
night (January 23), at 7 o'clock.
New slides will be shown and J. I..
Rose, Extension Entomologist; I
T. Weeks, tobacco specialist and
H. H. Garris, Extension patholo
gist will be present to take part in
program.
HAL THURSTON
ITS WORTH A trip to Holly
Ridge to see the building program
now underway which will be an anti-aircraft,
firing center of the U.
S. Army in less than two months.
Just before Christmas and a day
or two after activities started
there I stopped by to make some
pictures. The west side of the.
railroad track was a pine forest at
that time. Two weeks later 1
went there again and vast acreage
had been cleared up and on my last
trip to the booming community
last week several buildings were
already completed and others were
under construction.
HOLLY RIDGE is providing em
ployment for thousands of person;
A hundred or two persons from
Carteret County are woiking there
and the majority of these go back
and forth each day. Seashore
Transportation Company is pro
viding a bus service from Beaufort
and Morehead City to Holly Ridge.
The distance is about 60 miles and
that is a long way to have to trav
el each way to a job, but it is me
only way that the work can be
carried on satisfactorily. Com
paratively few people live in the
immediate vicinitv of the firing
center, although several trailer
camps have sprung up nearby.
PRETTIEST home I have ever
visited, barring none, is the resi
Aanrt. of Miles Clark in Elizabeth
City. Located on the shores of
See Waterfront, f age 4
TO MAKE MUSIC
FOR PRES. BALL
Douglas Dowdy Has
Charge of March
of Dimes
reported 37 absences due to
illness.
At noon Tuesday attendance
was reported normal in the More
See Influenza, Page 8
Census Data Is
Given On Coast
Towns And Homes
New York Heartbeat
Faces About Town: Virginia
Bruce, being beautiful at Fifty-fifth
and Fifth. Oughtagetta ticket for;
obstructing sidewalk traffic like that
. . . Ben Bernie, the poor man'
Toscanini. The very, very poor
man's . . . Jimmy Walker, who i
doins a musical comedy with Rob
ert Stolz, who composed "Two Hearts;
in Three-Quarter Time" . . . Oscar,
Levant, the Milton Berle of the ta-
telligentsia. ;.
TTnl Thurston and his or
chestra will furnish the mu
sic for the annual President's
Ball scheduled for Commun
ity Center on Wednesday
night, January 29, it was an
nounced here this week by
George Brooks Jr.. chairman
of the event which is being
presented in behalf of the In
fnf;in Pavalvjia Pr.nrl ram-
laniii a c. 1 1 1 .... ,
naicrn ' Thlirstrm has a C00U
band and the fact that he is
playing for the local Presi
dent's Ball is expected to be
a big drawing card.
Chairman Brooks stated that
there would be arrangements for
eheckinsr hats and coats and
urges all persons who will attend
to take this precaution as in the
past various articles of clothing
left in cars have been stolen.
Tickets for the event were
printed this week through the
sponsorship of First-Citizens Bank
and are on sale at Joe House Drug
Store in Beaufort and at Dowdy's
Furniture Company, Morehead
City Drug Company and Hufham
I See Hal Thurston, Page 8
Carteret County with a total
population of 18,284 persons has
4,602 dwelling houses with a 141
listed as for sale or rent and 200
vacant otherwise, according to
data received by The Beaufort
News from the Bureau of the Cen
sus in Washington.
Beaufort has a population of
3,272 with a total of 847 houses
with only 45 vacant. Morehead
City has a population of 3,005 with
1.048 houses with 133 vscant when
the census was taken during 1910.
The Census data further reveals
that Charlotte is the largest city
in North Carolina with a popula
tion of 100,890. Wilmington's
population (scheduled to increase
with the building of the shipyard,
plus the activity brought about by
nearby Camp Davis) has only 33,
407. Wilmington was one of the
largest cities in the State a few
vpnrs asro. Todav there are seven
or eight cities which have a larger
population.
Mid town Vignette: Two months
ago a young man and a girl met aft
er reading for roles in "The Cora
Is Green," and admitted they were
discouraged about their chances of
making the cast. "Tell you what,"
she said, by way of brightening up
the conversation. "K I get into the
show I'll buy you a bottle of chr m
pagne, and if you get in you can,
buy one for me" . . . "Okay," he
said . . . The other Saturday night
a boy and girl bought two bottles of
wine and split the check . . . They
were Richard Waring and Thelma
Sch'-oe
See Wincheil Page 2
TIDE TABLE
Information as t;- 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 Survty.
Some allowances must be
made for variations in the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, thai is wheth
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
Friday, Jan. 17.
10:57 A. M. 4:42 A. M.
5:16 P. M.
Leon Mann Gets
Triplet Picture
Printed Upstate
Leon Mann, young Newport
Wh school student has photogra
phy as his hobby and he seems to
be getting along very well with his
pictures. Recently a splendid
shot he made of the famous New
port triplets was published in The
Greensboro Daily News. Young
Mann not only takes pictures but
finishes them himself.
11:29
11:46
12:24
12:39
1:22
1:37
2:27
2:45
3:37
3:56
4:43
5:01
Saturday, Jan. 18
A. M. 5:37 A. M.
P. M. 6:08 P. M.
Sunday, Jan. 19
A. M. 6:39 A. M.
P. M. 7:05 P. M.
Monday, Jan. 20
A. M. 7:45 A. M.
P. M. 8:05 P. M.
Tuesday, Jan. 21
A. M. 8:53 A. M.
P. M. 9:07 P. M.
Wednesday, Jan. 22
A. M. 9:59 A. M.
P. M. 10:08 P. M.
Thursday, Jan. 23
A.M. 11:03 A.
P. M.