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VOLUME XXIX; NO. 18.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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How To Get A Job At
When The Good Ship "Samnanger" Called At Morehead City
FIRST SHIP TO CALL AT PORT TERMINAL SlM WAR ZONE
STAMEY DAVIS
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Chairman Of Military
Affairs Praises
Project
By Aycock Brown
Public Relations Officer
Camp Davis, one of Amer
ica's first Coast Artillery An
ti Aircraft Trraining Centers
is now more than 85 per cent
complete, according to the
weekly report to the Quar
termaster General in Wash
ington from Capt. Karl M.
Pattee Constructing Quarter
master of this project.
When Representative Andrew
J. May, chairman of the Congres
sional Military Affairs Committee
was told that the project, started
during late December, 1940, was
so near complete he expressed
amazement that so much work
could be done in such a short time.
The Kentucky Congressman ac
companied by Representative Gra
ham A. Barden, Representative
Harold D. Cooley and officials of
the East Carolina Chamber of
Commerce visited Camp Davis last
Saturday. It was the first time
the Military Affairs Committee
See Camp Davis, Page 9
New Yorkers
Are Talking About:
The former Minister to Austria,
who teaches Foreign Relations at
Georgetown Univ. He is still on the
Nazzy payroll at $200 a week "pen
sion" . . . Vincent Cullen, N. V.
insurance exec and former busi
ness associate of FDR. who may
head the Stock Exchange . . . Alex
King's new mag. It'll have a page
(for obnoxious people) called The
Bore of the Month Club. Nothing
personal, I hope.
Gertrude Lawrence'! "laryngitis"
which is really heartache and
nerves over news from abroad.
Bert Lytell of the cast had to shake
her before an eve'g performance to
stop her from crying so hard . . .
Grand Duchess Marie's withdrawal
from the Paderewski Fund Party
Committee, after he heard she was
on it and hit the ceiling . . . The
frosty glances these nights between
Noel Coward and John Buckmaster
Sets. Each believes the other should
be in the British army instead of
staging benefits over here.
The truth about Tommy Corcor
an's magnesium fee. He received
no coin, merely an offer of stock . ,
Quentin Reynolds returning to Eng
land with 6,500 sulfanilamide tablets
which are marked "Made in Ger
many" ..The C-nrunist leaders
See Winchell, Page 10
ALMANAC
HISTORICAL
EVENTS
APRIL
Stonewall Jackson srot, 1863.
First Medical School in U. S.,
1765.
Battle of Chaneellorsville, 1S63.
Battle of the Wilderness, 1861.
4.
5.
6. Zepelin Hindenburg destroyed,
1037.
7. Steamship Lusitania torpedoes,
1915.
8. Battle of Palo Alto, 1846.
BIRTHDAY
Of Famous People
APRIL
2. Norma Talmad.se. actress, 1897.
3. Mrs. Geo. M. Martin, author.
1866.
4. Walt Mason, poet, 1862.
5. J. B. Stetson, hats, 1830.
C. Rudolph Valentine, actor, 1S95.
7. Joseph Cannon, statesman 1836
8. Dante, author, 1265.
Work Beginning On
Temporary Tent
Quarters
G.eneral contractors on the
construction of the Marine
Barracks at New River in
Onslow county, through Roy
Barron, employment officer,
advise that workers in the
State register at their local
employment offices and not
flock to the area in the hope
of getting jobs, it s announc
ed bv Director R. Mayne Al
bright, of the Employment
Service Division of the State
UCC.
These contractors will cooperate
fully with the Employment Serv
ice in recruiting workers on the
project, the director advised. Their
work will start next week and the
force will be built up during the
ensuing weeks until the peak is
reached. Clearing has already
started. Paul N. Howard has been
See Marine Barracks, Page 9
Local Scouts
Make Record
At Camporee
Win Blue Ribbons
Two out of three patrols of
Beaufort Boy Scouts won Blue
Ribbon Awards at the Camporee in
Washington last week-end and the
third patrol won a red ribbon which
is next to top honors. Leaders of
the Blue Ribbon Patrols were Jack
Allen and John Duncan. Red Rib
bon patrol leader was Frank Pi
ner. From Beaufort went 22
scouts. They were accompanied
by Scoutmaster Bill Blades Parkin
and Scout Advisor James Biggs.
They all reported a most enjoyable
time.
BEAUFORT HIGH
CLASS EXERCISES
To Present Play "Isle
Of Our Dream"
May 9th
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Beaufort High School ex
ercises will begin Friday
evening, May 9th with a pre
sentation of Class Play, titled
"Isle of Our Dream," to be
followed by other exercises
which will be announced in
the next issue of The Beau
fort News, May 8th.
Class Play
Welcome Song- words by
garde Anderson.
Salutatorian Cleo
Hilde
Parkin Caste
Historian Florence Smith
Grouch Carrie Lee Jones
Statistician Margaret House
Class Song . Words by Harry Paul
Poet Evelyn Conway
Prophet Edna Avery
j Testator Marie Davis
Giftonan Hildred Carraway
Valedictorian Merry Johnson
Farewell Song Words by Flor
ence Smith.
Class Roll
Glenn Adair, Jimmy Alexander,
Ilildogarde Anderson, Roy Austin,
Edna Avery, Royal Barbour, Jack
Barnes, Louise Barnhill, Neal Cam
pen, Hildred Carraway, Hilda Car
raway, Albert Chappell, Elvin Con
See Beaufort High, Page 10
Beaufort Colored
School Finals Are
Beginning Today
The commencement season be
gins at the Beaufort Colored school
on Thursday, May 1st, at which
time a May day program will be
held with the crowning of the
May queen and guest speaker, O.
P.. Pope, Principal Washington
High School, Rocky Mount, N. C,
as the outstanding events of the
day.
The remaining programs are as
follows:
May 6. Fourth and Fifth grade
play.
May 11. Baccalaureate Sermon
preached by the Rev. T. H. Brooks,
May 13. Dramatic club presents
play.
May Iff. Class Night by Senior
class.
May 16. Commencement.
THE S. S. SAMNANGER of Bergen, Norway, was listed among the ships sunken recently in the combat zone off
the European Coast. Few details about the sinking was given. It was indicated that 17 in the crew went down with
the ship. Ordinarily the foregoing would be of little interest locally, but since the "Samnanger" was the first ship to
call at Morehead City's new $2,000,000 port development there is a local angle. The local angle is shown in the va
rious pictures above. This collection of pictures by Roy Eubanks first appeared in The Beaufort News on November
26, 1936. The Samnanger was popularly called the "salt ship", because she brought 1800 long tons of salt, evapo
rated from Mediterranean Sea water. In the upper photo is Capt. T. Hermansen, jovial and heavy drinking master
of the vessel. He is entertaining with Rewo Rye, Editor Aycock Brown and Charles R. Allen, to whom the salt was
consigned. In photo at upper right sits the late M. R. Beaman, who did a swell bit of promotional work in the build
ing of the port terminal. In lower left picture is a view of the transient sheds and the Samnanger alongside the
pier. In lower right are shown trucks transporting the salt from the Samnanger to the Transient sheds where special
machinery had been installed to process the salt. In the center picture from left to right are: Late M. R. Beaman,
Charles R. Allen, M. M. Riley, at that time assistant port manager and Charley Piner, port pilot who brought the first
vessel into port from eff Beaufort bar. (Eubanks-News Photos).
More Than 700 Juniors And
Seniors To Attend Prom On
Friday Night In The Casino
Provides Funds For
Gillette Projects
THE BEAUFORT NEWS wa.
advised this week by Senator Bai
ley that bis amendment to the wa
terways appropriation bill relat
ing to tunds tor a lu-root harbor
at Ocracoke plus a 10-foot channel
through Big Foot Slough into
Pamlico Sound and the Oregon In-
letproject passed. A total of
$105,000 has been appropriated
for these projects which have been
included due to defense purposes.
The man who engineered the
preliminary surveys and final ap
proval for the project is pictured
above. He is Colonel George W.
Gillette, who until last year was U.
S. District Engineer for North
Carolina. It was his intimate
knowledge of the North Carolina
Coast and the Coastal needs that
resulted in favorable approval on
the Ocracoke and Oregon Inlet
projects, and many other waterway
projects in North Carolina. Sen
ator Bailey, however, is to be com
mended for the successful manner
in which he got his amendment
passed which provides funds for
the projects. (News Photo.)
" 66o x
British Relief
A Ham and Esg supper for the
benefit of British Relief will be
presented in Core Creek Church
Community House on Friday even
ing starting at G and continuing
until 8 o'clock. The proceeds will
be used in British civilian relief.
Come! Get a good meal and help
a worthy cause for the small sum
of 35 cents.
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Atlantic Beach To
Present Knauff
And His Band
The gates of the Atlantic
Beach Casino will swing wide
at 8 :Q0 o'clock Friday night,
May 2, to receive the more
than 700 junors, seniors,
teachers, and school officials
who are looking forward
with keen anticipation to the
Sixth All-County Senior Class
Dance. To the strains of
some martial air played by
Billy Knauff and his Deans
of Music, the more than 200
seniors will begin at 8 :45 the
colorful grand march, and
this long awaited event will
be onj.
Admission cards went out Mon
day to 225 juniors, 201 seniors, 28
members of the Morehead City
commercial class, and to teachers,
school officials, and press repre
sentatives and their wives or hus
bands, the pleasure of the students
being heightened by the participa
tion of the teachers and school of
ficials who have so keen an inter
est in (.very phase of their school's
work and activities.
Thi
plete;
(iriilei
decorations have K-m com.
I, the stu.ients have been
! hi the grand march, favor.-
are ready for distributi.m, tha pro
gram has long since been in final
form, the casino and environs are
in ship-shape to receive the guests
and everything has been done that
is needful to provide an evening
second in enjoyment to none of its
predecessors.
Indications as we go to press are
that the weather man will smile
with favor upon this "Youth On
Parade" as he has consistently for
ach of the previous proms.
Mrs. Merrill NYA
Supervisor Given
Additional Areas
Rosa Merrill. NYA Area
j Supervisor, has been assigned the
j supervision of Onslow County in
addition to her duties in Carteret,
i it was announced this week. The
new assignment takes in a poition
formerly held by Willard Haynes
of Burgaw. He has taken up
another phase of NYA work, it was
stated. In both counties, Mrs.
Merrill will have over 200 youths
on various projects working under
her supervision.
Pells Open 6:30 A. M.-
Munimia
NAVY BASE
Morehead City will get a
small but important U. S. Na
vy Supply Base, according to
unconfirmed reports reach
ing The Beaufort News as we
were going to press this af
ternoon. The type of base
authorized for Morehead
City would supply and have
docking facilities for eight to
12 small boats of mine sweep
er type, ordnance shops and
barracks for 300 or more
men. It will be located
PortTerminal property.
on
Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
I HAVE NEVER forgotten the
time he put a dead rat down Carol
Arrasmith's neck nor the time he
threw a cockleburr at me and it
landed in our teacher's hair. I got
blamed for the latter and was ex
pelled from school wit a lightning
like speed, but was ta'.en buck af
ter the teacher (bless her heart),
cooled off and he confessed to
throwing the cockleburr. At that
time his ger.erai plans for life was
to be a Presbyterian minister and
at that time my general plans was
to be a great naturalist. We were
about 12 years old.
IT HAS BEEN more than two
decades. The scene of the forego
ing was in Miss Alice Heart's pri
vate school in Hi'.'sboro. The old
Colonial place where she conduct
ed the school was called "Heart's
Ease". I never became a great
naturalist and he Sheppard
Strudwick never became a Presby
terian minister. Everyone who
reads this knows what I became
a s.Mt of combination newspaper
num., photographer, public rela
ti".:s official, etc. If you see
MGM's Flight Command at the Sea
Breeze next Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, and note the character
Jerry Banning, you will see what
became Shep Ptrudwick's career.
And he is making a swell career for
himself out there in Hollywood.
I DON'T SEE how they do it,
but an Onslow ''Ham and Egg"
breakfast with toast buttered plus
jelly and all the coffee you can
drink, costs only 25 cents at the
Riverside Hotel in Jacksonville.
I have made it a habit to stop there
each morning on my way to Camp
See Waterfront, Page 10
Close 6:30 P
M.
Tuesday, May Sixth
Election Day
Locally
There has been very little
interest shown in the Munici
pal Election scheduled for
next Tuesday which will de
cide who will run the Town
of Beaufort business during
the next two years. The
polls on Tuesday will open
at 6:30 o'clock and close at
6:30 in the evening.
Saturday is Challenge day for
those who wish to dispute the right
of any registered person to vote.
Over 100 names have been added
to the registration list since the
last election, records show. The
candidates seeking office follows:
For Mayor: George W. Hunt
ley, incumbent and C. H. Bushall;
For Chief of Police: Walter R.
Longest, incumbent, and Louis B.
Willis.
For Board of Commissioners:
Grayden M. Paul, John White, Ed.
Potter, Clarence Guthrie, and C.
Z. Chappell, incumbents, and the
other candidates are: A. T. Gard
ner, John E. Noe, H. M. Parkin,
H. W. Peterson and Marion Noe.
Six Months Quota
Supplies For Red
Cross Has Arrived
The Beaufort Chapter of the
American Red Cross has received
a large, six months quota of sup
plies to he made for relief work i:1
European countries. The quor
requests that 204 sweaters plus a
great number of women's an !
children's dresses, boy's suits, lay
ettes, etc.. be knit and sewed !;
the local chapter.
Several groups of women in
communities about the county
have agreed to ai l in the l-.ni' t ir.-j-.
To insure enough knitters t t take j
care of the unusually large- quota
of sweaters and other knitted ar
ticles a class of instruction will b
held in t. Paul's Parish House
each Tuesday morninjr beginninc
May 13. Members of the Junioi
Red Cross and any others desiring
to knit are asked to attend the in
struction class which will be taught
by Mrs. E. C. McConnell.
As soon as materials for sewing
arrive a work room will be opened
in the Parish House where a num
ber of sewine machines will bo
available. Further information
regarding the Red Cross work will
appear in the paper shortly.
Theft Of Fourteen
Dollars Results
In Long Terms
Through a clever piece of
detective work on the part o
Stanley Davis, Morehead
City Scout Master and em
ployee of Carteret Ice Com
pany, the mystery of where
certain monies have been go
ing from the Company's cash
register has been solved, and
two Negroes have gone or
are going to the roads for six
months and 18 months.
"Detective" Davis removed the
insulation from a couple of elec
tric wires so that when the copper
touched it would ring a beU in
another section of the ice plant
where the office man may be at
times. The wires were fastened
in some manner to the door. Of
course Obey Hester and Filmore
Davis who entered the Company
office, rifled the cash register of
$14 and started out knew nothing
about the detecting wires, and they
were apprehended before they
knew it because Stamey Davis'
burglar alarm worked. Both Ne
groes, Obey got six months and
Filmore, in trouble on many oth
er occasions, was given a year and
a half.
Mildred Baum, frequent violat
or of the prohibition law, was in
toils of the law again but she has
been put in storage for a while
See Stamey Davis, Page 10
Washington, D. C.
NAZIS SHY OF MAGNESIUM
Examination by U. S. experts of,
the captured Messerschmitt sent
here by the British has uncovered
one highly significant fact: The
Nazis are now using only 1 to 200
pounds of magnesium in the con
struction of these famous fighter
planes.
This low Nazi magnesium content is
compared to the 400-500 pounds used,
in similar U. S. planes made of this,
featherweight metal, one-third light-;
er than aluminum. Our big bomb
ers use as much as 1,000 pounds of
magnesium. The more magnesium.'
used, the lighter the over-all weight
of the planes.
This is considered evidene that
German magnesium production ia
not keeping pace with Luftwaffe re-1
quirements. If it were, the Nazi
would certainly be using more mag
nesium in their planes, because of
its extreme lightness and strength.
Heavier metals increase the dead
weight, reducing the ship's lifting
power, speed and cruising range, all
vital factors in aerial combat.
If, as the experts believe, German
magnesium production is falling be
hind war needs, it is highly im
portant. Under the Nazis, Germany
took the world lead in the output of
this strategic metal. ' '
For y.axs.theUjiitejlStales lagged.
See Merry-go-Round, Pge v)
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
;-olumn. The figures are ap
proximately correct: a:' '. ar?
based on tables furnis'.t :-,! b
the U. S. Geodetic -r.rvey.
So meal'.owar.es ... bv
made for varia': :. ir. l '
wind and al-o .vi.'a n v .
to the locality, thai is w.ieti.
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
HIGH
Friday
LOW
IV.-ay 2
5:56 A. M.
6:C4 P. M.
11:29 A.. M.
12:00 M.
Saturday,
12:15 A. M.
12:51 P. M.
May 3
6:51 A. M.
7:05 P. M.
Sunday, May 4
1:08 A. M. 7:48 A. M.
1:49 P. M. 8:11 P. M.
Monday, May 5
2:10 A. M. 8:47 A. M.
2:54 P. M. 9:16 P. M.
Tuesday, May 6
3:18 A. M. 9:45 A. M.
4:00 P.M. 10:19 P.M.
Wednesday, May 7
4:24 A.M. 10:41A.M.
4:58 P. M.
Thursday, May 8
5:24 A.M. 11:20 A.M.
5:52 P.M. 11:37 P.M.
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