"Unknown Seas"
A Dramatic Romance
of Old Beaufort
By Mrs. G. M. Paul
Here March 14, 1941
VOLUME XXIX; NO. 10.
Beaufort and Itloiehead Win
County Basket-Ball Tourney
ENCYCLOPEDIA
SET IS GIVEN
LOCAL SCHOOL
Meritorious School
Progress Results
In Needed Gift
PATRON COOPERATION
IS PRAISED BY LEARY
Meritorious consideration
for all phases of school work
has resulted in a much need
ed and useful gift being
awarded Beaufort Consoli
dated School, it was reported
here this week by Principal
Tom Leary. The gift, a
Britannica Junior Encyclo
pedia set was the gift of the
Public Relations Department
of Sears, Roebuck and Com
pany, which offered a limited
number N. C. schools. The
Junior Encyclopedia h adap
ted for grammar grade work
and is third on the list reco
mended by the Library De
partment of North Carolina
for Elementary Schools.
"Each school participating for
the award," said Principal Leary.
; See Encyclopedia, Page 7
Editor 111 Today
' Aycock Brown, Edtior of The
Beaufort News, confined to hid
bed with an attack of flu. He
h( pes to be out in a few davs.
MD
'i O KvoEfiTALLtN
' DOLLAR-YEAR-TROUBLE
WASHINGTON. Defense chiefs
jaren't advertising it, but they are
quietly trying to ward off a blow-up
lover the host of dollar-a-year men
'now working for the government.
; Some of the One Dollar men are
jconscientious and sincere public
, servants. Others are less scrupulous.
jWhile representing the government
they have sold goods to the govern
jment, exerted inside pressure in fa
ivor of their industries, represented
jclients before government agencies.
i All this has been no secret on
'Capitol Hill, where the steadily
growing corps of One Dollar moguls
has been eyed with increasing re
sentment. Recently this undercover
'Indignation took form in a bill by
jSen. Kenneth McKellar, veteran
tTennessean, to ban such business
jmen from government service and
j to probe their operations,
i McKellar's plan is to await en
iactment of the lend-lease bill be
jfore pushing his measure, but mean
while defense chiefs, seeing the
handwriting on the wall, have qui-
etly FtartpH Vaning up the situa-
See Merry-Go-Round, Page2
ALMANAC
HISTORICAL
EVENTS
FEBRUARY
Bell gets patent for telephone,
1876.
8.
9.
Stamp Act passed, 1765.
Battle of Monitor and Merri-
mac, 1862.
10. Mexican Treaty ratified, 1848.
11. Aca to found Navy, 1794.
12. U. S. Post Office established,
1789.
13. Finnish-Russian Pearl Treaty
signed, 1940.
BIRTHDAY
i Of Famous People
Feb
ruary
7.
Ben A. Williams, author 1881
8. Judge O. W. Holmes, 1841.
9. Isaar Hull, American Navy,
1775.
10. Dudley Bud, organist, ;839.
11. A. P. Gorman, statesman 183;)
12. Stewart E. White, author,
1873.
13. Joseph II, Germany, 1741.
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Good Sportsmanship
Was Evidenced By
All Concerned
WAS FINANCIAL AND
ATHLETIC SUCCESS
Coach T. McQuaid's team
won honors in the County
Basket Ball Tourney which
ended last Friday night, by
being the tournament win
ners for boys. McQuaid de
serves much creedit for pro
ducing a winning team, be
cause he was handicapped
with the loss of two or three
of his star players out due to
illness.
The Morehead City girls and the
Beaufort boys were the top-seeded
teams in the tournament and came
through like real champions. As a
rule there are many upset.3 in a
Tourney, but such was not the
case in the event ending last Fri
day which was presented this year
in the Morehead City School Gym
nasium. The nearest thing to an upset
was the Newport Girls victory over
Smyrna when it appeared that
Smyrna had safely won the gagme
only to have Newport make a gal
lant rally and overtake them in the
finale of the play.
It was tne opinion o fmany that
the best game and the highlights of
the tourney was the clash between
Smyrna and Newport girh. Mary
Emily Mann, Newport, Elizabeth
Davis of Smyrna were top scorers
for the girls and Elbert Pittman,
M. Gainer and J. W. Mason won
honrs for the top scoring boys.
Coaching laurels should go to
McQuaid of Beaufort for his tour
ney winning team; Abernethy of
See BASKETBALL, Page 8
MARCH TERM OF
SUPERIOR COURT
BEGINS MONDAY
Judge Paul Frizzelle
To Preside Over
Mixed Term
Judge Paul Frizzelle of
Snow Hill will preside over
the mixed term of Superior
court which begins here on
Monday. Judge Leo Carr of
Alamance county was sched
uled to hold the court but it
was anounced today that he
had changed places with
Judge Frizzelle. Solicitor
Dave Clark of Greenville
will be on hand to prosecute
the criminal cases.
Although the docket is compa
ratively light, there is one capital
case scheduled. Jasper Dudley,
Morehead City Negro is charged
with the fatal stabbing of a South
port Negro at or in the vicinity of
Dudley's Cafe in the ocean port
city during a fracas about two
months ago. Since that time Dud
ley has been incarcerated in the lo
cal county jail awaiting this term
of court.
The first three days of the ses
sion will be devoted to the trying
See Superior Court, Page 8
Local Talent Cast
Begin Rehearsals
Of "Unknown Seas"
Rehearsals for "Unknown Seas"
a romantic story of Beaufort, writ
ten by Mrs. Grayden Paul which
will be presented by the Book De
partment of the Woman's Club, be
gan here this week. A cast of 35
local persons will take the parts of
35 living persons of Beaufort of
another day.
Everyone who has read the
script of the play has been high in
praise for the work. The plot is
built up around a true romance
which began in 1836 and ended in
1866. The late Dr. Manney,
grandsire of Miss Julia and Miss
Sydney Thomas is one of the prin
cipal characters. Being a descend
ant of Dr. Manney who takes such
an important role in the play has
resulted in Miss Julia Thomas be
ing honored by her selection as
usher.
The play will be presented oa
Friday night, at 8 o'clock on March
14 at the High School Auditorium.
There will be no charge of admis
sion and everyone is urg?d to at
tend the event which will be one of
the season's highlights of local ac
tivities this Spring.
Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper ..Established 1912 ?
Time Offers No Solution To Wreck Of Schooner Deering
SHE IS GHOST SHIP OF THE ATLANTIC
THROUGH THE COURTESY of The Greensboro Daily News this Newspaper re
prints a layout which appeared in last Sunday's edition of the Greensboro paper. The
layout illustrated a feature story by Aycock Brown, editor of The Beaufort News,
about the unsolved mystery of the wreck of the late 5-masted schooner Carroll A. Deer
ing, which foundered on the outer tip of Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras on Janu
ary 31, 1921. It seemed uncanny to Editor Brown that he should receive a letter and
photo of a 4-master shown in lower right on February 4, which was exactly 20 years
to the very day from the time the Deering was first boarded by wreckers and the Coast Guard. The
photo was made by Rev. J. FrancisFuller, of Michican, on the eve of the wreck of the Deering back in
1921, south of Hatteras. Through the years Rev. Mr. Fuller who was a seaman aboard a tanker when
he snapped the pcture, has had an inkling that perhaps the Deering was a 4-master and that his photo
was the ghost ship. Coast Guard reports, however, show that the Deering was a 5-master, similar to
the Jesse Alan Giles drawing at upper right. At left is what remains of the Deering today on Ocra
coke beach and in the photo on top of the wreck are Brantley Brown, son of the editor, Miss Hattie
Styron of Ocracoke and Beaufort.David Gaskill of Ocracoke and Miss Ruth Lewis of Beaufort who was
vacationing on the island when ths picture was made. (Photo by Aycock Brown Photo copies by
Eubanks.)
TOWN BOARD
MET MONDAY
Recind Four Year
Term Resolution
Adopt Another
Recinding the Resolution
adopted at a former meeting
of the Board relative to mak
ing the term of office of mu
nicipal officials a term of
four years instead of two
was one of the principal mat
ters taken up on Monday
night. The former resolution
would have made the term of
office four years (instead of
two as at present) through
Legislative enactment. Rea
sons given were that there
seemed to be some criticism
on the part of local citizens
to the plan.
Mrs. W. L. Woodard and- Mias
See Town Board, Page 8
Antigua Star Of
St. Johns, BWI, Is
Our New Exchange
Beginning this week, John Anjo,
editor of The Antigua Star, pub
lished in St. Johns the principal
town of the British West Indies is
land will receive The Beaufort
News each week. In exchange ho
will send his newspaper to the edi
tor of The Beaufort News. Charles
Pake of Lenoxville who lias just
returned from Antigua where hi;
was working with a Coast and Ge
odetic Survey party, brought the
message from Editor Amjo that re
wanted to exchange papers. An
tigua is one of the British islands
in the Western Hemisphere whera
the United States will establish de
fense bases, as a result of the very
wise destroyer deal which Presi
dent Roosevelt made with England.
Outer Banks Group Who Treated Governor
I'
ltHhnuOMiliTffWhito iOi
WITH SHERIFF Victor M-ek ins of Dare County as their leader, the above group of residents from Outer Banks
communities of Hatteras Island went to Raleigh recently, carried shad which had been taken from nets in Pamlico
Sound the previous day, entertained Governor J. Melville Broughton at a shad dinner and then asked him to help
them get a state road down the beach from Whalebone Filling Staton to Hatteras. If any section of North Caroli
na needs a road it is the Hatteras Island region of the Outer Banks where auto owning residents are required to buy
licenses for cars (utiless they stay on the island) and where they have to pay gasoline tax which amounts to just
twice as much as elsewhere in the State because gas mileage is cut in half due to the sand and beach trails over
which they drive. Near Governor Broughton in the above picture is Sheriff Meekins, and also Maurice Burr us,
one time noted big league ball player. (Cut and photo courtesy News and Observer),
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY,
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Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
I JUST COULDN'T see any
point to that strike they tried $o
put on over at Holly Ridge this
week and I am glad it was over m
a hurry. Personally, I think any
group that will try to create a
strike on such a project, where so
many Eastern North Carolinians
are making the best salaries they
have made in years and are satis
fied well, I think that group is
a bunch of heels. My only regret
is that some of those high pressure
and high salried craftsmen who
start and take part in strikes will
have to do a tour of duty at Camp
Davis at $21 per month and keep.
LEONARD ROY of Natiom.1
Geographic told me the story about
Llmer Stink. Elmer Stink
ap -
peared in court and asked tha
Judge to permit him to clmnge his
name. "And what name would
you wish?" asked the jurist. "I
would like to change it to Joe be -
cause I have never liked the name
Elmer," replied Mr. Stink.
CARTERET COUNTY has had j
four courthouses since 1723, ac
cording to super-historian M. Les
lie Davis who can remember date i
after date better than we averse !
See WATERFRONT, Page 't j
Next Session Of
Recorders Court
To Be On Mar. 18
Due to a light docket, there was
no session of Recorders Court
this week. There will be no ses
sion next week due to the March
term of Superior Court which will
be convening here. On Tuesday,
March 18, however, there will be a
session and several cases of inter
est, some having been continued
from previous sessions will be
tried.
Miiwiiiiimlm.TW 'JSsfcg I , r', i,i ' '',t' '''f i,,.:i, ,4i ,,, m hh , M.,irm,M iumi, mailing
MARCH 6, 1941.
E. O.MOORE IS
RE ELECTED AS
TAX COLLECTOR
County Board Takes
Care Of Routine
Matters
Eugene O. Moore who
has served with real ability
as tax collector of Carteret
County for the past four
years was re-appointed to
the post for two more years
at the regular March meet
ing of the Board of Commis
sioners here Monday. Al
though there had been some
talk going the rounds that
Moore would have an oppo-
! nent for the office, it was re
I vealed when the County
' See Tax Collector, Page 8'
' c s. fC tr
secretary Ul War
I Decides That B-M
R. R. Span Is Okay
The Secretary of War, on
February 18, decided that no
alteration would be required
at this time on the Beaufort
, and Morehead City Railroad
i drawbridge over Newort riv
er, according to a statement
by Col. Earl I. Brown, U. S.
Army uistncr engineer nil
Wilmington this week. In
issuing the statemeent Col.
Brown referred to the Public
Hearing held at the City Hall
in Morehead City on Novem
ber 7, for the purpose of de
termining whether or not al
teration to the draw-span
was needed. It means liter
ally, that Beaufort and East
Carteret County is assured
continued railroad service
for some time, at any rate.
To Shad Dinner and A
Naval Affairs
Explains
For
CUSTOM HOUSE
Reports have been going the
rounds this week that the Beaufort
Customs Office would be discon
tinued r moved to Morehead City.
The Beaufort News wired Senator
Reynolds about this matter and
the following telegram was receiv
ed:
"Aycock Brown:
Have just talked to Commission
er of Customs Johnson who advises
up to this time no recommendation
received relative to discontinuance
or removal of parttime collector at
Beaufort. Commissioner Johnson
promised to communicate with me
if any recommendation is made
pertaining to closing of Beaufort
office. Will keep you advised.
Kindest regards.
"Robert R. Reynolds, USS."
Washington, D. C.
March 5, 1941.
Dr. Prytherch
Returns From Wash.
Dr. H. F. Prytherch, Director
of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
has returned from Washington, D.
C, where he went to attend the
Conveition of Fish and Wild Life
directors. While there he confer
red with government officials rela
tive to securing funds to finance
the oyster culture program which
is to be conducted from the
laboratory here
PLANS OF NOES
WOULD RESTORE
OLD BATH TOWN
Bath Association To
Have Units In All
Parts Of State
Rev. Alex C. D. Noe, Vicar
of St. Thomas Episcopal
Church at Bath, and his
brother Rev. Walter Raw-
leigh Noe, secretary of the
Episcopal Diocese of. East
Carolina, Wilmington, called
on the editor of The Beaufort
News late Tuesday and told
ot the Bath Association.
Main object of the association is
to create state-wide interest with
the thought in view of letting
North Carolinians help restore
their State's oldest town, just as
it was when it was the seat of gov
ernment of the Province of Bath;
when it was the only community in
America with an Episcopal (then
the State Church of England)
See BATH, Page 8
Town Board Orders
That Dances Cease
In Center Building
One of the firt actions taken by
the Town Board of Commissioners
as the Park Commission was abol
ished, was to instruct Caretaker
Johnson of the Community Center
to cease having dances after the
current Saturday night. Mayor
Huntley said that the reason this
action was taken was because of
r f 1 . a
reports or tignts ana general row
diness at the Community Center
Auditorium. "With such condi
tions," said .Mayor Huntley, ";t
would be very likely that the sum
mer school units which now use
the Community Center during th
summer would be driven away
from the building."
deed Him For A Road
For Important
News of the Coast
Read The
Beaufort News
Each Week
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Committee
Why Base Sites
arines Were Chosen
Onslow and Pamlico
County Sites Met
Requirements
Although the majority of
citizens seemed to be well
satisfied when the sites in
lower Onslow and Pamlico
County were selected for the
new U. S. Marine base which
will cost a total of approxi
mately $40,000,000 to estab
lish, there were some who
thought Carteret, especially
me western part ot the coun
ty should have been chosen.
Under the present proposals,
Carteret would share in the
expenditure, only from a dob-
sible construction of a direct
road from the land base in
Onslow to the Air Wing unit
at Wilkerson Point.
The direct route would be ap
proximately 40 miles and would
possibly mean a bridge would be
constructed across the Neuse sev
eral miles east of the New Bern
Bridgeton bridge of U. S. Route 1.
The existing highway distance
from Lower Onslow to Wilkerson
Point is about 80 miles. To give
Beaufort News readers the official
reason why Onslow-Pamlico sites
were selected for the base, the ed
itor secured from Washington the
complete report of Mr. Vinson,
chairman of the Naval Affairs
Committee. Three paragraphs of
this report give the reasons as fol
lows:
"One element of a Marine Corps
division is the air wing, a unit con
See Naval Affairs, Page 8
Notes of a New Yorker:
Newspapermen know how United.
Press feels about the following fact
... It reminds its staffers that news
may break any place and it warns
them not to be indifferent to any lo
cale for scoops ... It stems from
1917, when the late Bob Bender,
(who became UP's vice president) i
was in the White House washroom,
and In came Joe Tumulty, secre
tary to President Wilson . . . Tu
multy was so upset he couldn't
steady himself, which made Bender
nervous . . . "What the devil's the
matter with you, anyway?" shouted
the newspaperman.
"Y-y-y-you'd b-b-b-be n-n-n-nerv-ous,
too," chattered Tumulty, "if
you h-h-h-had j-j-j-just seen a Dec
laration of War!"
Bender, still disarranged, sped out
of the place and down to the UP
offices with the notable sccop.
There is danger that Hitler can
take America, but there is more
danger in those so-called Americans
who would give it to him.
The newspapers, as you probably
have heard, always wrile the obitu-
See Winchell Pa?e 2
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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.
So meallowances must be
made for variations in the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, that is wheth
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
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Friday, March 7
2:24 A. M. 9:05 A. M.
2:51 P. M. 9:14 P. M.
Saturday, March 8
3:30 A. M. 10:05 A. M.
3:59 P. M. 10:14 P. M.
Sunday, March 9
4:32 A. M. 11:01 A. M.
5:00 P. M.
Monday, March 10
5:29 A. M. 11:13 A. M.
5:53 P.M. 11:55 P.M.
Tuesday, March 1 1
6:20 A. M. 12:08 A. M.
6:43 P. M. 12:45 P. M.
Wednesday, March 12
7:08 A.M. 1:01A.M.
7:23 P. M. 1:31 P. M.
Thursday, March 13
7:56 A.M. 1:49 A.M.
8:21 P. M. 2:15 P. M.