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VOLUME XXIX; NO. 21.
Past Commander To
Attend Meeting
PAST COMMANDER June Rote
of Greenville will attend the Third
District Meeting of the American
Legion at Carteret Pott 99 Hut
here on Friday. He will be one of
the tpeakert on the program along
with other State, Dittrict and lo
cal Legion officials.
CABBAGE CROP
ALMOST FAILS
Carteret's large cabbage crop
this year was almost a failure.
First it was cold weather in March
which cause many acres of cab
bage to go to seed prematurely and
before cutting. Recently it has
been dry weather that is ruining
the crop. Farmers were saying to
day that as a whole, it was likely
that only about one-third of all of
the many hundreds of acres of
cabbage in Carteret would be
worth cutting. The prices have
been ranging from $15 to $20 per
ton, depending on the quality of
the cabbage.
Washington, D. C.
SHIP PREMIUMS TO JAPAN
It is hard to believe, but the gov
ernment of the United States actual
ly is paying war rislj insurance to
the Japanese for helping to insure
'the S.S. America, pride of the U. S.
merchant marine.
1 This is just part of the revelations
over re-insurance which are break
ing this week at the justice depart
ment. These probes also show that
when a vessel is injured, Axis in
surance companies get all the data
regarding its cargo, time of depar
ture, destination, and the interior
plan of the ship.
Thus, despite all the censorship of
Secretary of the Navy Knox, Ger
many has had an easy means of
knowing all about every ship that
leaves the United States.
This is accomplished when Amer
ican insurance companies, because
of the heavy risk involved in Insur
iing a cargo in wartime, reinsure
Jwlth various foreign companies. In
iother words, they sell part of the
policy abroad, thus distribute the
'risk. That is how Japan makes a
lush profit on insuring American
vessels, even vessels owned by the
U S. A.
! Last year congress passed a law
.providing war risk insurance for
U. S. shipping, but the maritime
commission, for reasons best known
to ItseU. has declined to take -ad-See
Merry-go-Round, Pge 3
ALMANAC
HISTORICAL
EVENTS
MAY
24 First Steamship crossed the At
lantic 1819.
25 Call 80,000 vol. for Spanish
American war 1898.
27 Morse telegraph first used
1844. '
28 Noah Webster died, 1843.
29 Wisconsin became state, 1848.
BIRTHDAYS
Of Famous People
MAY
23 Douglas Fairbanks, actor 1883.
24 Rev. H. E. Fosdick, 1878.
25 Ralph Emerson, essayist, 1803.
26 Al Jolson, actor, 1886.
27 John K. Bangs, humorist, 1862.
28 Dione quintuplets, 1934.
29 Patrick Henry, statesman 1736
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Local Merchants
Are Planning Half
Holiday For Summer
Manager Jamet Canady of the
local A. & P. Store stated today
that he had contacted teveral of
the local merchant! relative to
cloting each Wednetday afternoon
during the tummer monthi and al
so in observing the new ttore hourt
which the local A. & P. Storeis be
ginning on June 2, which is to
open at 7:30 A. M. and close at 6
P. M. except Saturdays when the
store will open at 7:30 A. M. and
close at 9:30 P. M. He stated
that the ones he had talked with
were in favor of the new hourt
If enough merchantt can be te
cured the Wednetday afternoon
cloting will go into effect. The
new ttore hourt for opening and
closing will be observed by the A.
& P. whether any of the other
stores cooperate or not.
Three U. S. Marine
Generals Inspect
Lower Onslow Base
It i3 seldom that three U. S. Ma
rine General can be found togeth
er on one inspection trip, but that
was the case over in Onslow Coun
ty last week-end. Major General
Holland M. Smith, commanding 1st
Division F. M. C, who will be in
charge of the New River Barracks;
Brigadier General Phillip M. Ter
ry, commanding Infantry of the
First Division and Brigadier uen
pral Archibald A. Vandergrift, as
sistant to Major General Holcomb.
Marine commandant, along with
Lt. Col. George E. Monson, Opera
tions Officer for General Torrey,
were in the party which inspected
Marine Barracks, New River, area.
With Major Arthur D. Challa
combe, commanding the Advance
Detachment of Marines encamped
at Taradise Point, thr group toured
many miles of country roads in
lower Onslaw, getting a first hand
glimpse of what will eventually be
America's largest U. S. Marine
base. General Smith stated that
approximately 6,000 Marines, un
til recently stationed at Guantamo
Bay, Cuba, would arrive in Onslow
within the next few weeks. They
will live temporarily, in tents,
south of Jacksonville about two
miles.
Miss Sydney Thomas
To Be Lt. Thomas In
USA Nursing Corps
Mis Sydney Thomat leaves on
Sunday for Fort Bragg where she
is' reporting for duty in the U. S.
Army Nursing Corps.. .She enters
the nursing corps with the rank of
Second .Lieutenant.. , Lieutenant
Thomas is the first nurse from
Carteret County to enlist .in the
Army Nursing Corps .during .the
present National emergency
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam A. Thomas, of West Ann St.,
for the past several years she has
been assistant to Dr. L. W. Moore
here. She is a graduate of James
Walker Memorial Hospital, Wil.
mington, with the Class of 1935.
She is enlisting for one year of ser
vice and her station during this pe
riod, unless plans are changed, will
be in the Army Hospital at Fort
Bragg.
One Third Of Crew
On U. S. S. Lydonia
Are From Carteret
Fifteen out of 45 crew mem
bers aboard the U. S. S. Lydonia,
a Coast and Geodetic Survey ves
sel which recently returned from
Antigua, Trinidad and other is
lands of the West Indies, are from
East Carteret 'County communi
ties, it was stated her today by
Charles L. Pake, one of the crew
members. Mr. Pake who lives in
Lenoxville, and is home on 30
days leave stated that the Lydon
ia is now enroute to Newport, R.
I., for summer work.
Names of the Carteret crew
members of the Lydonia are : Le
on Lewis, Grant Lewis, Roy Willis,
Henry Hill and Grayden moore, of
Marshallberg; Meal Willis, and Eu
gene R. Willis, of Smyrna; J. A.
Guthrie, Harkers Island; and
Claud Willis, W. P. Willis, LeRoy
Lynch, Reuben ' George, Lester
Hill and Virgil George from other
communities.
PONY PENNING
Charlie Hancock, of Harkers
Island, announced today that there
would be a Banker Pony Penning
at Diamond Pen, Cape Lookout on
June 2, and another penning at
West Pen on June 10. The public
especially those Interested in buy
ing ponies, are urged to attend.
Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper ..Established 1912
HASKETT GIVEN
15 DAYS TO GET
OUT OF COUNTY
His Was One Of 12
Cases On Docket
Of Recorder
Vaughan Haskett of New
port faces a sentence of six
months on the roads unless
he gets out of Carteret Coun
ty and stays out for a couple
of years from Wednesday,
May 21, 1941, according to
order of Judge Paul Webb of
Recorders Court. Haskett
was tried on charges of re
sisting an officer a few days
ago when Manley Garner
was arrested at Newport on
drunkenness charges, which
developed into Army or
AWOL or desertion charges.
Garner told arresting officers
that he had rather be in jail for 90
days than go back to the Army,
which was the first time that ar
resting officers knew he was even
in the army. So he was turned
over to the Provost Marshall at
Camp Davis on the following day,
being carried there by Sheriff Hol
land and Deputy T. Murray Thom
as. There were a number of cases on
the Recorders Court docket Wed
nesday, court being held on that
day instead of Tuesday because
the latter was a State Holiday, be
ing the anniversary of the Signing
of the Mecklenburg Declaration
of Independence.
Prayer for judgment and con
tinued was the order in the case of
William Gillikin who plead guilty
to charges of operating an automo
bile while drunk.
Bennie Gillikin was placed on
two years probation on charges of
assault and violating the promo
tion laws. Bertie Gillikin was
placed on two years probabtion on
assault charges. Both were or
dered to pay the costs.
Dewey Willis was ordered to pay
the officers costs on charges of
stealing and carrying away. The
object alleged to have been stolen
was a pocket book.
For driving drunk and without a
drivers' license, Cecil Skarren was
found guilty. His licenses will not
be issued for twelve months, and
See HASKETT, Page 8
Major Challacombe
Given New Rank Of
Lieutenant Colonel
Major Arthur D. Challacombe is
slated to change the gold leaf from
his collar this week and replace it
with a silver leaf. It will mean
that he has been given a raise in
rank to Lieutenant-Colonel. Ma
jor Challacombe is in charge of
the advance detail of U. S. Marines
stationed in the tent camp at Para
dise Point of Marine Barracks,
New River.
, While this may not sound like
news to the average Carteret Coast
reader of The Beaufort News, it is
really a historical making event,
because Marine Barracks, New Riv
er, is right inet door to Carteret
being about 45 minutes drive from
Beaufort. Marine Barracks will
be the largest U. S. Marine base In
America and the $15,000,000 ini
tial expenditure there will increase
eventually to $80,000,000, those in
the "know" are saying.
Histories of the future wilf" list
this Barracks as an important
item, because new history for
American is on the brink of making
At some future date when Major
Challacombe is a Brigadier-General,
a Major General or a Lieuten
ant General, Carteret Coast histo
ry students will read about how he
brought the first detail of U. S.
Marines to America's largest U. S,
Marine base, back in 1941.
Recover Body Of
U. S. Marine Lost
At Paradise Pt.
Coastguardsmen from Swansbo
ro Life Boat Station recovered the
body of Corporal William G.
Holmes, chief radio operator with
the Advance Detachment of U. S.
Marines encamped at Paradise
Point in the Marine Barracks
Area of New River, last Sunday
afternoon. Corporal Holmes
missing since the previous Thurs
day night when he went out alone
in a small row boat during recrea
tion repiod, failed to return. '
The empty boat was found, but
Major Arthur D. Challacombe in
charge of the detail of leather
necks, told a Beaufort News-man
last Sunday afternoon who was
there shortly afterwards to get the
news first
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1941.
First Channel Bass of The
Season From Ocracoke Inlet
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FORTY-POUND CATCH
season 40-pound channel bass
of High Point, shown at right,
from left, at Ocracoke. Mrs.
their guide is at left.
A Coke Cecil, High Point drug
gist, has done quite a bit of fishing
during his extensive travels, but
he declared upon his return trip to
High Point that it remained for his
home state of North Carolina to
give him the thrill of a lifetime.
He and Mrs. Cecil were on a
trip to the island home of F. R.
Stedman at Ocracoke on the Outer
Banks. A few days ago the party
went surf-casting with the nation
ally known guide Sommers Spenc
er. Location selected was the
beach at Ocracoke Inlet, where the
open ocean meets Pamlico Sound
an dwithin a few hundred feet of
where the famous pirate Back
beard was finally run down and
killed early in 1700.
Cecil was telling one of the
stories for which he is famous
when he was interrupted by a tug
on his line and he went into action
in a hurry. In a few minutes it
was ample apparent that this was
Covering The
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
' EVERY ONCE and a while some
one will say to me: "You surely do
make good pictures." It is easy
for one to say that about my pic
tures because only a few people,
usually Roy Eubanks and myself,
are the only persons who see my
pictures which are definitely not
good. Some of the recent pic
tures I have shot which were defi
nitely not good, was those I made
of the three Marine generals last
Friday at Paradise Point.
SAM RAGAN, EDITOR of the
Jacksonville Record, called me at
Camp Davis to come up and make
the picture. I was working under
a strain that morning, having my
weekly news letter to get out for
the Quartermaster General's of
fice, and also with a Fox Movie
tone man to show around. Never
theless I hurriedly slipped away
for the hour and a half it would
take me to run up and get the
shots. Hurrying is what cost me
a good picture story. Upon my ar
rival at Paradise Point, I found my
subjects in the shade and discov
ered that I had no flashlight equip
ment with me. I literally burned
See WATERFRONT, Page 8
Iredell Salter
Appointed Chief
OfM City Police
Morehead City'3 board of com
missioner'e on Tuesday night ap
pointed Iredell Salter, chief of po
lice. He had been serving in this
capacity since the death of the late
Chief Jimmie Willis, tut his ap
pointment did not become final un
til Tuesday night. Morehead City
through legislative enactment no
longer elects her chief of police but
instead the town board appoints
him.
Chief Salter is well liked in
Morehead City. A member of the
Morehead City Police Department
for the past 12 years, he has prov
en himself a very efficient officer.
On his force will be Hubert Fulch
er and serving as motorcycle offi
ver will be Walter Hancock, who
has had much experience as a traf
fic officer. Chief Salter is a
native of Bettie, moving from
there first to Beaufort where he
lived for eight years before mov
ing to Morehead City. His ten
ure of office as Chief will continue
for two years. .
Here is the record first of
caught by A. Cooke Cecil,
and F. R. Stedman, second
Cecil is shown seated, and
no ordinary size channel bass. It
cut out through the surf in terricic
bursts of speed and power, zipping
150 yards of line from the reel.
Cecil fought up and down the
beach with the pole bending nearly
double for 25 minutes, and decid
ing he had enough, gave the pole
to Stedman, who was standing by.
Finally I got the fish near the gaff,
but a final run took it out again to
deep water. Twenty minutes la
ter Stedman, as tired as the fish.
landed it on the beach a forty-
pound channel bass.
This was the first channel bass
of the 1941 Ocracoke season
caught on hook and line, and the
largest fish of the season within
the memory of the oldest in in
habitants. The fish actually
weighed between 42 and 43 pounds
when landed. Cecil took the fish
back to High Foint as concrete ev
idence of his story. By F. R.
Stedman.
LEGIONNAIRES
TO MEET HERE
State And District
Legion Officials
To Be Present
The American Legion Hut
in Beaufort will be the scene
of a N. C. 3rd District Meet
ing of the Legion on Friday,
May 23rd, at 3:30 o'clock.
There will be a cruise for vis
itors and attending members
and a Dutch supper will be
served at Inlet Inn Dining
Room at 7 o'clock P. M., at
which Ladies of the Legion
aires will be invited.
Scheduled to attend the meeting
from out of the county, are Past
State Commander, June Rose of
Greenville ; State Commander Dave
Hall,; Third District Commander
Raymond. Fuson, and Jim Caldwell,
State Adjutant. All Carteret Post
members are urged to be present.
Memorial Day Services will be
conducted at Harlowe Methodist
Church on Sunday morning, June
1, at 11 o'clock.. The Annual Me
morial Day Exercises will be held
on the Courthouse Square at 2:30
o'clock with Robert Lee Humber
as the principal speaker.
Five Selectees To
Leave For Ft. Bragg
Thursday May 29
Five Carteret Selectees are
scheduled to be inducted in the U.
S. Army at Fort Bragg on next
Thursday, May 29, it was announc
ed today by officials of local
Board No. 1 of the Selective Serv
ice System. This group includes:
Thomas Jackerson O'Neal, Wil
liam Finley Willis and Frank Dee
Merrill of Morehead City, William
Carmen Smith, Bogue and Leon
Heartman Lewis, Newport.
Should any of the foregoing fail
to pass the examination at Fort
Bragg men who will be called for
replacement are included in the
following list: Norman Elmo Gas
kill, Sea Level; Cecil Roy Brinson,
Morehead City; Clayton Daniels,
Roe; Stacy Willis, Salter Path and
Louis Bertram Willis, Willistin.
Five white men are scheduled to
leave for induction on June 4, it
was stated. Of the total number
of Selectees from Carteret to date,
four have failed to pass the en
trance examinations.
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ATTENTION
Timberland Owners!
Forest fires have destroy
ed or burned over hundreds
of thousands of acres of
woodlands in Eastern North
Carolina during the past few
weeks. In many cases the
fires, according to news sto
ries, were deliberately set by
people Ihe Beautort Isews
would term as pyromani
acs". This has been espec
ially true in the lower Ons
low County region where at
least two persons have been
caught firing timberlands by
officers.
Billv Arthur, widely known
voune newspaper owner of Jack
sonville recently told the edibor of
The Beaufort News that members
of the small detachment of Marines
who have arrived at Paradise
Point to perform forest fir duties
have orders to shoot anyone they
catch setting fire to the woods un
less said "pyromaniacs," submit to
arrest. That is 'how serious the
situation has gotten.
This newspaper has long favor
ed a Forest Fire Control system for
Carteret County, but due to cer
tain obligations which the county
owes this matter has never been
given serious thought by those in
authority. This week came an
open letter to the Chairman of the
Carteret Board of Commissioners
from the N. C. Forestry Associa
tion urging that a system to be
worked on a 50-50 basis with the
Department of Conservation be
adopted. The letter which is self
explanatory, and has considerable
merits follows.
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, Chairman,
Carteret County Commissioners,
Morehead City, N. C. .
Dear DrBonnerr' - - " -
Realizing the urgent need for
fire control in Carteret and at
least seven other counties, our or
ganization is contacting each of
the county commissioners in these
counties to ascertain their willing
ness to inaugurate forest fire con
trol on the State-County coopera
tive basis.
On Friday, May 9, 1 appeared ba
fore the Board of Conservation
and Development and secured from
that esteemed body a resolution to
the Governor requesting that he
draw upon the Emergency Fund in
an amount sufficient to match
county cooperating money on a
50-50 basis to finance fire control
in those counties desiring protec
tion for each of the next two f iscal
years, beginning July 1, 1941
The Governor is aware of the
resolution and has indicated his de
sire to cooperate with the request
provided the county commission
ers are willing to put up their
share which in Carteret's case
would be $1,000 annually.
Fifty-eight counties now have
cooperative fire control and they
are unanimous in acclaiming that
money spent for this purpose ia
the county's best investment.
There is no doubt of Carteret's
need for fire control we have but
to recall the fires of this spring to
freshen our memory on that point.
According to the official estimate,
which is unusually conservative,
Carteret suffered, for the year
1940, 45 fires, burning over 31,
000 acres and doing damage in
excess of $46,000. The least that
can be done for three-fourths of
Carteret County which is forest
land it to give it the benefit of
protection from fire.
Please confer with your fellow
commissioners and advise me at
your earliest convenience of the
action which you propose to take in
order that a date may be arranged
with the Governor for a joint meet
ing of representatives from the in
terested counties, the State Forest
Service, and this organization.
Very sincerely yours,
William L. Beasley,
Sec.y-Treas.
In a letter to the Editor of Tha
Beaufort News Mr. Beasley stated
that if Carteret is to share in the
forest Fire Control system- imme
diate action i3 necessary as budg
ets for fiscal year will be drawn
up the first Monday in June. An
interesting excerpt from the let
ter to the Editor relative to how
the system works follows:
"The fifty-eight cooperating
counties have proven beyond a
doubt that fire control pays both
See TIMBER, Page 8
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Burned Over As
Newport In Danger
Of Flames Last
Saturday
BELIEVE BLAZE UNDER
CONTROL EARLY TODAY
Forest fires which were
started carelessly along the
ralroad tracks about three
miles north of Newport were
still burning Thursday morn
ing, and despite ettorts on
the part of CCC units, State
Forest fire fighting forces,
pulp mill employees and civ
ilian workers, the only solu
tion for complete extinguish
ing of the flames is rain and
plenty of it, according to F.
M. Simmons, local fire war
den at Newport.
The flames in the forests were
brought somewhat under control
Wednesday, but the danger is not
past and with abnormally dry :
weather, heavy winds before the
much needed rain would probably
refire the entire area, yet un
burned and as dry as can be.
On Sunday night the largest
fires were raging in the vicinity
of Masontown about three miles
from Newport, another to the
northward and still another out
See Forest Fires, Page 8
Man About Town
New Yorkers Are Talking About:
The 400 per cent law biz tilt for!
Willkie after his Collier's piece (an
swering Lindbergh) ... The trouble
Haile Selassie's daughter Is having
getting a visa to come here . . . -Adolf
Hitler's nephew, Wm. Patrick
Hitler, being summoned by the N.
Y. draft board, and his plans to en
list in Canada, instead . . . The
muffled groans over at the Sateve
post because one year ago it paid
St. Ethical McKelway a big advance
fee (for a series of South American
pieces) and not one word has been
submitted yet.
Peeler's terrific mad-on with Lib
erty mag. He sold it a yarn on.
unions, guilds, etc., but it'll run side
by side with a yarn debunking hia
piece. The debunking smarticle i
bylined by J. Woll, of the American
Fed. of Labor . . . Shep Fields'
definition of an isolationist: A guy
who sits on a fence long after a
normal man feels splinters.
FDR being fed op with the Axia
propaganda and his belief that a
counter-offensive of free ideaa shouU)
be sent abroad. He thinks it is UiU.
ler'a weak point because in Europe
any man who believes what he
sees is a Fifth Columnist against
HiUer! ... The "beat" of the
week: That the administration has
been sounded out by influential Ital
ian exila" 9rT r'.rw,"-!i f set ud in
See WINCHELL, Page 2
TIDE TABLE $
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given in this
-olumn. The figures are ap
proximately correct and are
based on tables furnished by
the If. S. Geodetic Survey.
So meallowances must be
made for variations ii the
wind and also with respect
to the locality, thai is wheth
er near the inlet or at the
head of the estuaries.
HIGH LOW
Friday, May 23
6:23 A.M. 12:26 A.M.
6:38 P.M. 12:25 P.M.
Saturday, May 24
7:01 A. M. f 1:08 A.M.
7:15 P.M. 1:05 P.M.
Sunday, May 25
7:39 A.M. 1:46 A.M.
7:52 P.M. 1:41P.M.
Monday, s May 26
7:17 A.M. 2:23 A. M
8:29 P. M. 2:17 P. M,
Tuesday, May 27
8:57 A. M. 2:58 A. M.
9:06 P. M. 2:53 P. M.
Wednesday, May 28
9:36 A. M. 3:33 A. M.
9:43 P. M. 3:28 P. M.
Thursday, May 29
10:14 A.M. 4:08 A.M.
10:23 P.M. 4:07 P.M.