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VOLUME XXX NO. 9
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, FEB. 26, 1942.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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A'ors of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Fronl Pasts: Walter Kerr
sends good word from Moscow. The
j Eeich is rushing its reserves to the
front and won't have enough men
and equipment to launch the spring
drive the Fuehrer promised his lie
dizzy countrymen . . . Midget Gueb
bels confessed he's running out of
tricks to bamboozle the Huns at
home. He claims the Times' slo
gan, "All the News That's Fit to
Print," is the U. S. order to muzzle
hs press. That's clumsy propagan-
' da. It tells the Heinies nothing and
It tells us plenty ... All kinds of
books and essays have been written
' on how to click as a newspaper man.
But we think Mark Twain summed
it up best when he urged newspa
pers to "gratify some and astound
the rest."
The Story Tellers: "Hitler's New
Scapegoat the Catholics" is Look's
amazing expose. Tells how Hitler
hopes to detybythe last remnants
of Christianity . . . Liberty's next
promises "the most inspiring mes
sage for mankind after the war" by
General Motors' vice-prexy, C. F.
Kettering . . . Movie-Radio Guide
now rates the movies with Vs in
stead of stars. "A Four V" film,
etc. . . . Nation featured an excit
ing piece on the Irish and DeVal
era. Told how the Eire president,
in a speech over here many years
ago, vowed to come to the aid of the
U. S. whenever it needed Ireland,
etc. ... In the March Cosmopoli
tan, Pierre J. Huss quotes Adolf as
boasting that he knows how to fight
America. Wasn't he the same
Fuehrer who thought he knew how
to whip the Bolsheviks? . . . Col
lier's pungent bit of advice for those
who spread fantastic rumors:
"When in doubt shut up!" . . .
Brooklyn night life differs from Man
hattan's, Pic , djscloses, because it
takes place inubi tHaT are teg
noisy and less expensive than those
over the river. Maybe, but the ad
vantage over here is that the bores
re better known and easier to duck.
Typewriter Ribbons: Confucius:
To know what you know and know
what you don't know is the charac
teristic of one who knows . . .
Lloyd C. Douglas: She could utterly
destroy conversation and leave you
sitting there with a wreck on your
hands and no place to put it . . .
Bob Landry: He was one of those
guys you had to handle with gloves
boxing gloves . . . William C.
White: His smile was like a sliver of
lemon peel . . . Daily Mirror: Gen
erals Disappear Von by Von . . .
Clive Howard: She was mad about
his music especially his C notes
. . . Charles Bonner: The tears
pearled beneath her eyelids . . .
Wilkie Mahoney: She is always mak
ing new friends because she never
can keep the old ones . . . Dale
Collins: A scorpion of a woman
stinging her way through life . . .
J. Broderick: He's this type of fel
low: If he had two apples he'd eat
one and put the other in a safe.
Buy Defense Bonds
New York Neiesreel:
Our perennial Miss America the
beautiful Statue of Liberty, which
always leaves your vocabulary
breathless . . . Dawn looking down
on hundreds of boys on their way to
the army an army that is trying to
give us a world that will be able to
enjoy the peace and beauty of dawn
. . . The very polite subway guard
at Grand Central. After shoving peo
ple into the train, he remembers to
say, "Oh, I'm so terribly sorry!"
. . . The screech of brakes and the
grinding of gears In midtown traffic.
An event that never fails to put a
rough pebble into your emotional
shoe.
The cops stationed inside many
of the midtown bars to make cer
tain soldiers and sailors aren't
gypped ... The burlesk doormen
urging passersby to go inside and
warm their hearts over a striptease
. . . The midget Roxy usher standing
in the center of its gigantic lobby,
looking lost in its vastness . . .. The
Plaza, yawny with silence at 4 ayem
listening to the winds hum a lullaby.
The large clock on the Internation
al Bldg. ticking its monotonous tale
of eternity . . . Subwayites holding
a strap with one hand and a paper
with the other, being pushed and
mauled, yet calmly continuing to
read , . . Moonlight silvering the
scalp of the Hudson river . . . Peo
ple standing at bars trying desper
ately to drown that 20th century
ache in their souls . . . The dare
devil cabbies, who drive their cars
as if they're trying to murder the
empty spaces in front.
Buy Defense Bonds
The waiters In swanky eateries
who giye.you.an icy. .glance, if you
See WINCHELL Page 8
A.E.F. in Review
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After a 10 mire march with fighter planes overhead, and their band
playing American tunes, U. S. troops in Northern Ireland draw op for In
spection by Maj. Gen. Russell P. Hartle, their commander, a' an unknown
town. It was the first ceremonial of the second A.E.F. vanguard since
their arrival in Northern Ireland.
Draft Board Now
Ready For Lottery
The Carteret County Draft
Board reporting on the third reg
istration under the Selective Serv
ice Act disclosed that the number
registered for the county will be
about 1,000 when the tabulation is
completed.
Eight hundred and ninety-one
men between the ages of 21 and
I 44 reported on February 16 to
boards throughout the county. iua
reported in Craven County to the
board set up at Cherry Point and
27 in Onslow County. Several
others who could not register on
the 16th were signed up at the
board office in Morehead City the
following day. Cards for 62 men
who registered in this county have
been returned to the Draft Boards
of their home counties.
Registration cards for all those
who have reported have been
grouped according to ages and
these cards will be given serial
numbers on March 9. On March
17 the third drawing from the
celebrated fish bowl will be held
in Washington and the cards held
by local boards will be arranged
in accordance with the order of
numbers drawn from the bowl.
B&MRR GRANTED
A RIGHTOF WAY
Town Board Passes
New Resolu
tion A letter received by the di
rectors of the Gulf Stream
Golf Club and made public
through the Beaufort News
to the citizens of Beaufort
follows:
After careful conside r a t io n
from all angles the Town Alder
men in special session have decid
ed to grant the Beaufort and
Morehead R. R. permission to con
struct a railroad and spur across
the property of said town known
as Golf Course without any re
muneration to the town of Beau
fort or the Golf Club. Believing
that the disadvantage caused to
Golf Course will be more than off
set by the advantage of having the
rail connection to the tiforemen
tioned property which is Beau
fort's only chance for industrial
development. The railroad com
pany must repair any damage done
to Golf Course and make any
changes necessary to the satisfac
tion of Gulf Stream Golf Club.
We do this in appreciation of
the present owners of the Beau
fort and Morehead R. R. who
kept Beaufort from losing its rail
road when all other means had
failed.
G. M. PAUL, Mayor.
Shortage
A survey of implement dealers
in Halifax County revealed that
the most acute shortage at the
present time is in plow points and
repair parts for disc harrows.
in Northern Ireland
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The regular Saturday nirht
dance at the USO clubroom in
Morehead City was sponsored last
week by the Beaufort committees
headed by Mrs. William Potter,
entertainment chairman. The re
ception committee including Mrs.
Hill Patrick, Mrs. C. R. Wheatley,
Mrs. George Eastman, Mrs. E. C.
McConnell, Mrs. W. K. Hinnant
and Mrs. Stanley Woodland at
tended and several of them acted
as iudires for the Service Men'e
"beauty contest." The contest to
select the best appearing service
men on the dance floor was won by
Pfc. Larry Roskos of Hq. Bat.
Fort Macon, and Vincent Pybus
of the Cape Lookout Coast Guard
Station.
During the past weekend many
parents, wives and sweethearts of
service men stationed in the coast
al area visited with the men and
attended the dance. Many of them
expressed pleasure with the USO
building and the entertainment
program being sponsored by the
See U.S.O. Page 8
Beaufort Woman In
Minor Road Accident
Mrs. N. H. Russell of Beaufort
was involved in a minor accident
last Monday on the causeway near
the Morehead City bridge. Jim
Talton, 13-year-old boy living on
the causeway, dashed in front of
the car as it approached the
bridge. Mrs. Russel stated that
the habit of slowing down for the
bridge because of the guards sta
tioned there accounted for the
fact that the boy was not serious
ly injured.
!A WEEK OF
Secretary of War Stimson told
his press canference this nation is
confronted with a situation in
which we cannot "buy our way out
or produce our way out," and the
our way out by intelligent offen
sive action." Every efort is be
ing made to build powerful armed
forces, he said, and when condi
tions warrant, they will "seize
every opportunity" to strike at the
enemy. In the meantime, the U.
S. must be prepared to take spo
radic attacks along its coasts, Mr.
Stimson said, because "if we scat
ter our forces for the defensive, it
is the surest way to defeat.
President Roosevelt told his
press conference that under cer
tain conditions enemy planes could
bomb cities af far inland as De
troit, or enemy ships could shell
New York City. Congress com
pleted action on the $100,000,000
appropriation f r the Office of Civi
lian Defense, to provide fire-fighting
equipment, gas masks, protec
tive clothing and emergency medi
cal supplies.
Assistant Secretary of State
Berle, speaking in Des. Moines,
Iowa, said tJhe U. S. is determined
to fight an aggresive war, rather
than a defensive one, and "the
fruits of victory wil be available to
every free people throughout the
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FISHERMEN FIND
JAPANESE-MADE
NETS INFERIOR
Savings Prove Costly
As Nets Soon
Wear Out
MANY HAVING TO PAY
ADVANCED PRICES NOW
(From Dare County Times)
Many North Carolina fish
ermen who invested heavily
in the lower priced netting
imported from Japan a few
years ago are swallowing a
bitter pill this season, for
they are finding il necessary
to buy new nets to replace
rotten Japanese netting they
thought good for years to come.
To buy new netting now calls for
more money than it might have a
year a ago, and in consequence of
war conditions, deliveries are much
more slow.
But a few years ago, many fish-:
ermen made the discovery that I
nets could be imported from Ja
pan at a considerable saving in
price. Cotton net was very little
cheaper, of course, but linen net
seemed much cheaper. Nets made
See NETS Page 8
High Winds Sweep
Coast Bringing Snow
Winds that probably reached 50
miles per hour at times blew from
the northeast all day Tuesday. At
nightfall the wind backed to the
northwest and the mercury began
to fall and Wednesday morning
the ground was covered with a
light snow. This was the second
snow this winter, about two inches
having fell on January 7. It was
clear and cold, yesterday and to
day. War Fund
The Red Cross War Fund during
the past week received several
contributions which have raised
the total to date to $930.42. The
proceeds from the presentation of
the drama "Unknown Seas," given
in the school auditorium last
Thursday amounted to $1 14.6G.
People of the Core Creek com
munity sent $5.45 and several far
mers of the county had sold their
scrap iron to dealers and turned
the proceeds over to the Red Cross
Chapter. The money from the
scrap iron was collected by J. Y.
Lassiter, County Agent, and to
date has amounted to $20.70.
We Thank You . .
Dr. F. E. Hyde, chairman of the
Beaufort Chapter ARC, and the
other officers of the chapter wish
to take this means of expressing
theii gratitude to Mrs. Graydon
Paul, members of the cast of "Un
known Seas," members of the
See RED CROSS Page 8
THE WAR!
world." Mr. Berle said "We can
no longer think of ourselves as a
supply base. . . Our work is more
than that of making guns and
planes and tanks. V inning the
war is now America's job." He
said all signs point to big offen
sives this spring against the United
States.
Foreign Relation!
President Roosevelt announced
a new loan to Russia is planned be
cause the orginul Lend-Lease au
thorization of a billion dollars has
be obligated for future deliveries.
Commitments for making Ameri
can war materials available to Rus
sia were maintained up to sched
ule until December 7. Delivery
of supplies for the Soviet Union
slowed down in December and Jan
uary, he said but will be brought
back up to schedule by March 1.
Under Secretary of State Welles
said answers from the Vichy Gov
ernment to this country in regard
to French aid to Axis forces in
North Africa were considered un
satisfactory. Mr. Weles said the
French Ambassador had reported,
however, no commitments have
been made by the French to Japan
in regard to Madagascar.
Production And Conversion
The War Production Board an-SeWARPage8
RED CROSS
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Wearing coveralls treated with a
secret formula which he developed,
Dr. O. T. Hodnefleld, Los Angeles
chemist (above) walked Into fire
and was unscathed. This was one
of a series of demonstrations on the
new anti-fire chemical, "De-Oxo-Lin,"
result of 18 years of experiment.
MRS. KATIE SMITH
IS LAID TO REST
Wife Of Former
County Commis
sioner Passes
Mrs. Katie Sanders Smith,
daughter or the late uavia
anH F.milv Sanders, died at
her home in Beaufort Wed
nesday morning of this
wool- Rh is survived bv two
cicfora Mis Lnrt.ip Sanders
with whom she has made her
home recently, and Mrs. W.
L. Bell of Dover, and three ne
phews, W. S. and Fred Sanders
of Norfolk, and Rudolph Sanders
of the U. S. Navy.
Mrs. Smith will be remembered
as the wife of the late W. P. Smith
who died in August 1940. Mrs.
Smith was married to V. P. bmitli
about 46 years ago. He came to
Beaufort from Merrimon and
clerked for a time in Sanders
Hardware Store, owned by hh
wife's father, Mr. David Sanders.
Mrs. Smith assistej her husband
through his career as owner of the
one time largest dry goods firm in
the county, as a member of the
Board of Commissioners of the
County, and as the recent owner
of a grocery on Live Oak street.
Funeral services for Mrs. Smith
was conducted at 3:30 p. m. this
afternoon at the Ann Street Meth
odist Church, The services Shem
odist Church, the Rev, Stanley
Potter officiating.
First Tax Sale
Held Wednesday
The first sale of property under
the legislative act requiring coun
ty officials to sell property at auc
tion in order to recover unpaid
taxes wms held at the County
Court House on Wednesday of
this week.
A greater number of buyers
and much more activity than was
anticipated marked this sale. A
great deal of the previously ad
vertised property changed hands,
but there was disappointment evi
denced by many who found that
most of the desirable properties
had been taken care of by owners
who made a last minute rush to
pay taxes.
One of the county officials stat
ed that some of the real estate
brought from one to ten times tht
amount of back taxes levied a
gainst it.
A second sale of advertised
properties will be held on Friday
of this week after which a sum
mary of transfers will be available.
Social Security Agent
To Be In Beaufort
Next Thursday Mch. 5
Mr. Raymond J. Wildman, man
ager of the New Bern Branch Of
fice of the Social Security Board,
will be in the post office in Beau
fort on next Thursday from 10 to
1 1 o'clock in the morning.
Persons desiring to see Mr.
Wildman will please go to the of
fice during that hour.
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BASKETBALL OPENER
WAR
IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON The Navy to
day recorded one of it wont At
lantic diiaster the lots of at
least 189 officer and men who
perished when an aged dettroyer
and a modern Naval cargo hip
were caught up by a howling gale
and pounded to piece on the New
foundland rocky coat.
LONDON Painting a comber
picture of wrath to come, Prime
Minister Wintton Churchill fore
shadowed further defeats and dis
asters to come in the southwest
Pacific in a frank but gloomy
speech before the House of Com
mons today.
ANKARA, Turkey A bomb
thrown at Franz von Papen, the
German ambassador, exploded only
SO feet away from him on' an An
kara boulevard today, but both the
embassador and his wife escaped
with minor (hock.
ISTANBUL, Turkey Most of
the 750 Jewish refugees from Ru
mania aboard the steamship Stru
ma were feared drowned today
when the vessel sank seven miles
outside the Bosphorus after prob
ably striking a mine.
MOSCOW An entire German
army of 45,000 men has been shat
tered and 12,000 of the enemy kill
ed in a smashing, 10-day red army
victory below Leningrad, the Rus
sians announced today in a special
communique.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.
Army and Navy seaplanes and
Navy submarine detectors swept
the Pacific today in an ever widen
ing search for the submarine, pre
sumably Japanese, which arrog
antly shelled an oil refinery last
night while President Roosevelt
was addressing the nation,
One Hour, Please!
Have you seen the advertise
ment of the Town of Beaufort on
page four of this week's edition of
the News? Read it and see de
mocracy at work in a small city.
Some time ago both the merch
ants who operate stores on Front
street and many of the citizens
who like to drive their cars to the
business district and park near the
store where they have shopping to
do requested that the city authori
ties pass an ordinance limiting the
time for parking in the business
area to one hour.
Our good friend Cap'n Dave
was appointed to the police force
with the task of checking on vio
lations of the parking ordinance.
It seems, now, that many car own
ers have become dissatisfied with
the parking ordinance, for they
insist on leaving their cars parked
within the limited zone for hours
on end, and when they return and
find a ticket notifying them of a
violation of the regulation they
disregard the summons to appear
at the City Hall to pay the fine.
See PARKING, Page 8
Killed In Action
Word was received Saturday by
Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. McCa'je of the
Wildwood section that their son,
Edwin Bonner McCabe, pictured
above, had been killed in action at
Pearl Harbor on December 7. He
enlisted in the Navy in October
after he graduated from the New
port High School in 1933 and was
a Water Tender 1st Class at the
time of his death. The McCabes
have many friend in Carteret
County who share with them their
sadness. Mr. W. Z. McCabe is a
member of the Carteret County
Board of Commissioners.
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The Beaufort High School bas
ketball teams made a fine begin
ning in the County Tournament
which started Tuesday night in
the Newport gymnasium by win
ning both the boys and girls games
which were scheduled.
The boys defeated the Harkera
Island team to the score of 35 to
14 while the girls took care of the
Smyrna cagers to the tune of 25
to 17.
By having won their opening
games of the tournament both
Beaufort teams will advance to
the semi-finals which will be play
ed Thursday night in the Newport
gym. Star of the girls game was
Pake who made a total of 14 points
during the game. Piner and Wil
lis tied with nine points each for
the boys game.
In Wednesday night's games
Newport girls whipped Atlantic
girls at the rate of 39 to 11. At
lantic girls got the first lead at 5
to 3, but with Newport coming up,
Atlantic lost as their girls foured
out.
In the second game Newport
boys knocked over Morehead City
cagers 32 to 17.
Morehead City girls came out
for a win over the Island girls 29
to 9.
Tonight Atlantic and Smyrna
boys fight for the chance at the
winner of the Newport-Beaufort
boys encounter, a thriller, inci
dentally; while Morehead and
Beaufort girls will scrap for a
chance at the Newport girls Friday
for the championship.
Sugar Ration Book
At an early date, probably be
fore March 15, all civilians will
make application for War Ration
Book One for sugar, "at the public
elementary school nearest the ap
plicant's residence in the county in
which he reside."
No information ha been receiv
ed a to the date between which
civilian will apply, nor any in
structions or materials for use in
this connection.
When the local official, thru.,
whom the rationing program i to
be carried out, receive notice of
the dates between which applica
tion shall be made, it is easily pos
sible that there will be no time a
vailable for any wide-spread an
nouncement of the dates, etc., thru
the local press. Accordingly, all
civilians will be on the alert on or
after March 5th for information
through the school children in con
nection with this program.
This word of advanced caution
is given because it is not now
known what arrangements, if any,
can or will be made for civilians
failing to apply for their "sugar
book" during the date to be pre
scribed. 'Purl Harder'
NEW CASTLE, Penn. Junior
Red Cross members here hav
formed a knitting club to produce
warm articles for the armed
forces. Their slogan is "Remember
Pearl Harbor and Purl Harder."
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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
made for variations in the
wind and also with respec
to the locality, that is whett
er near the inlet or at th"
head of the estuaries.
HIGH LOW
Friday, Fei. 27
AM 11:12 AM
PM 12:00 PM
Saturday Feb. 28
AM 12:03 AM
PM 12 :44 PM
Sunday, March 1
AM 12:49 AM
PM 1:24 PM
Monday, March 2
AM 1:33 AM
PM 2:03 PM
Tuesday, March 3
AM 2:14 AM
PM 2:40 PM
Wednesday, March 4
AM 2:56 AM
PM 3:18 PM
Thursday, March 5
AM 3:38 AM
PM 3 :37 PM
5:36
5:59
6:21
6:12
7:05
7:25
7:46
8:07
8:28
8:49
9:08
9:33
9:51
10:19
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