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A Mmv Olhvistutas do All fk IWtfort juh utplouees c MAKE Q Z 7- K EVERY 5ggg PAY DAY A X BOD DAY T0P THAT V0 V 77ie Mos Widely Read Newspaper 77e CcfiW Carolina Coast ii J,-. ?"fcx. Bmna 11 - M. II It JF l il II - Pi - n , E 3 C It V d j JiilJ 1 L u in I - yf7 r. VOL. XXA NU. 12 PAGES THIS WEEK DrirmnT , n BEAUFORT BOYS InThe Service 2nd Lieutenant Norman C. Skarren, son of Mrs. Susan okar ren of Moore Street, was this month promoted to the grade of 1st Lieutenant. Lt. Skarren was commissioned in August after com pleting the Officer Candidate School at Ft. Benning, Ga. He was recently stationed at Camp Wol ters, Texas as an instructor in a heavy weapons training battalion. Lt. Skarren and his wife, t!ie for mer Rose Cyure, of New York City make their home in Mineral Wells Texts. Robert Rice, Pvt. is beginning a ninety-seven day course in avia tion mechanics it Aniarillo Field, Texas. Having just received no tice of a Christmas subscription to The BEAUFORT NEWE he writes "I am just marking time until I receive the paper." Mrs. Lonnie Dill left Monday for Atlanta Ga., to spend Christ mas with Lt. Lonnie Dill who is sta tioned there. Lonnie Jr., is not ma king the trip but will enjoy Christ mas in the arms of his grand mothers. Earl Ray Willis, U.S.N'., was last week promoted from Seaman 2nd CI. to Seaman 1st CI. and given leave to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Willis, after a trip to Casablanca, North Africa, aboard one of our transports in the Atlan tic Fleet. He returned to duty at Armed Guard Center. Brooklyn, N. Y. on Tuesday. Earl's father. Earl T. Willis, Chief Machinist's Mate, U.S.C.G., is still recuperat ing at home following an accident in Marthon, Fla., on October 7. He goes to Norfolk periodically for treatment and a check up. The time when he will be able to re turn to active duty is still uncer tain. Robert-Mades, U. S. A. of M:icon Georgia, and Otis Mades, Seaman 1st Class, U. S. N. R. Charleston, S. C, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Suthey Mades, Turner Street are in town for the Christmas holidays. Ernest Davis has been selected for promotion from Lt. Com. to Com., U . S. N., but wil not receive his commission until he is detach ed from the hospital. Robert Humphrey will arrive from Ft. Bragg Thursday to .pend Christmas with his mother. Mrs. Taylor Passes Last Friday Noon Mrs. J. B. Taylor died last Fri day about noon at her home, cor ner Ann and Queen streets after a lingering illness. Her deatti was a loss to the community as well as to her devoted family. Mrs. Taylor was born in Kin ston, Sarah Elizabeth Benton. She married J. B. Taylor, also of Kin- ston, and later moved to New .Bern. He died there about eight years ago. After his death, Mrs. Taylor came to Beaufort and has since been operating the Beaufort Inn here. Mrs. Taylor is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Eugene Carrow, Mrs. Charles Stuart, both of Beau fort; and Mrs. George D. Lewis, of Durham. She also leaves two sisters and two brothers: Mis. M. F. Gregory of Portsmouth, Va. : Mr,s. J. C. Barber, of New Bern; H. T. and Will Benton of New Bern. There are also six grand children and one great grandchild. Mrs. Taylor's sister, Mrs. Gregory, was with her when the end crnie Funeral services wprn hlrl Sun day afternoon at 2 p. m. at the Tabernacle Bantist Church in New Bern, of 'vhich Mrs. Taylor was a member, and burial was in Cedar urove cemetery, New Bern. SHOPPING 1 DAY LEFT- y ...1 MAO& ir 9 :t-8Hit . TIC NY Bug Chris f mas Sejfc if a--r iy 18 MEN LOST IN SHIPWRECK Steamer Louise Wrecked Off Hatteras The Dare County Times of lust Friday carries the story of the wreck of the steamer Louise, neat Salvo, Hatteras Island, in the bit ter cold of last Wednesday night, with the loss of 18 lives. The ship was laden in part with automobile tires. The crew consisted of 20 men of which but twe were saved According to the T mes, the tra gedy occurred about two miles be low Gull Shoal, C. G. Station neat the spot where the George Kohler was wrecked in the storm of '33. Members of the C. G. patrolling the beach Thursday morning found the bodies of the men washed a shore. The two survivors had crawl ed from the icy waters and were found behind the hits. Gull Shoal Station was the one from which the lookout spied the burning tanker Mirlo, torpedoed by the Germans in 1917. The Sta tion was abandoned as an active unit of the Coast Guard several years ago when the retrenchment pragram was extended to the shore branch of the service. It is now be ing recommissioned. Rotarians Have Party Tuesday evening Beaufort Ro tarians and Rotary Anns had their Christmas dinner and party at the Inlet Inn. Mrs. L. A. Oakley and Mrs. Dave Merrill in charge of de corations were responsible for a table beautiful and gay with greens and lights. A large ref'tctor w;th a small Christmas Tree de corated with miniature silver or naments centered a large round table from which a lonw table ex tended. On it were t'.n, -bloP5C re flectors with white cam!', nr.d sil ver berries on each, a'id lown the length between the reflectors were bands of red berried yaupon. Sil vered scallop shells were used as ash trays and at each place were little buttonnieres of silver berries and yaupon. A delicious dinner was served with broiled chicken the piece do resistance topped off with iresh strawberry shortcake. Mrs. W. L. Woodard and Mrs. W. Stanley Potter in charge of the program planned various infcrmal stunts and games for the entertain ment of the group and the eve ning ended with the singing of Christmas carols. Guests of the club for the eve ning were Mrs. Jack Roberts and Mr. and Mrs. George Stovall of Morehead City. P.T.A. EDITION 2000 Copies Circulated Nets Club Approx. $65. The P.T.A. Edition of the Beaufort News which came off the press on the 10th was another fine piece of co operative work on the part, of Beaufort people for a good cause. Two thousand copies of the pa per went out and the CircuUtion Committee, of which Miss Lena Duncan was Chairman, could have handled another five hundred. The idea had its inception with Mrs. Dave Merrill, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee She and other members of the Committee presented their plan to Mr. William Hatsell, of the Beau fort News who agreed to work with them and act as advisor. Committee Chairmen were then named and wheels began moving. Miss Gladys Chadwick, Editor-in-Chief of the Special Edition, ap pointed each teacher as a sub-editor and throughout the schools the paper was used to motivate work in English. More than a hundred children's contributions made up the news section of the paper. Merchants approached by Mrs. Lewis and her Committee respond ed generously and advertisements i and sales netted the organization something like $65. The P.T.A. here dates back even before the old Court House was torn down probably 30 years ago See EDITION Page 8 J y$z k 1 Sir yMM MRS. PATRICK'S FUNERAL SUN. Death Came Friday After Long Illness A simple and beautiful funeral service was held for Mrs. Bessie Taylor Patrick at St. Paul's Epis copal Church last Sunday after ..(,;,.. at 5.30 -with 'the Kec tor. the Kev. E. C. McConnell officiating. After the service she was laid to rest in the Episcopal cemetery. Mrs. Patrick died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mr3. N. W. Taylor, last Friday evening at 6:30 after a lingering illness. A vital personality with unusual charm and interest in people, her loss will not only be keenly felt by her large family connection but by a community which has always re garded her with deep affection. Mrs. Patrick was married the first time to Allan Darling O' Bryan, A. & N. C. Railroad offi cial. Of this union four children survive: Miss Helen O'Bryan, of Burlington; Miss Catherine O' Bryan, of Beaufort; Lt. Allen O' Bryan, Charleston, W. Va. ; and Cadet Taylor O'Bryan, Pre-Flight School, U.N.C. Mrs. Patrick was married a sec ond time to Mr. J. Hill Patrick, of Rutherford, N. J. He died two years ago at which time she re turned to Beaufort to make her home with her parents. In addition to her children, Mrs. Patrick is also survived by her parents; one sister, Mrs. Nannie Taylor Hinnant, of Beaufort; and four brothers, Bayard Taylor, of Beaufort; Lt. George Taylor. Ar lington, Va.; Cecil Taylor, Bos ton; and N. W, Taylor Jr., Cali fornia. Negro Has Throat Slashed Mon. Night Monday night following an alter cation in the Mess Hall of the Wal lace Quinn Fisheries, West Beau fort, James Williams, of St. Louis, slashed the throat of Joe Nettles, of Monroe, Alabama, with a knife. Joe, although seriously injured is expected to live. Chief Longest and the Deputy Sheriff arrested Williams. He is in jail now but there can be no hearing until Net tles is dischaned from the hospi tal. Both men are here for the fish ing season only. Christmas Services At St. Paul's Church The Christmas Eve Holy Com munion services will be held in St. Paul's Episcopal church beginning at 11 :30 Thursday evening. Many of the Christmas sarols and hymns will be used throughout the services. The Offertory will be "Ava Maria" sung by Mr. Shutt, guest soloist, of Morehead City. I II t ? HV u lj a- ri. . t-m m i-i i m i i i i ui-i a M n - ' u-t.. fAUU 1 HIS WEEK, Christmas Everywhere Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine, Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine, Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white, Christmas where cornfields stand sunny and bright. Christmas where children are hopeful and gay, Christmas where old men are patient and gray, Christmas where peace, like a dove in his flight, Broods o'er brave men in the thick of the fight; Everywhere everywhere, Christmas tonight! For the Christ-child who come3 is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small. Phillips Brooks. ATTENTION The attention of our read er! ii called to the many fine Christmas Greeting ads plac ed in this issue by busi ness firms of Beaufort and Morehead City.' These firms realize that it it impossible to see each of their friends and customers to extend them personal greeting so they are using the Beaufort News as a medium to ge(iU,eir message across to them, fif 1 these ads as tnejr have TJonl mes ge ?or tsi i i,t you. - USO Christmas Invitations CHRISTMAS EVE G. S. O. Girls have the privilege of attending, the USO Camp Show and the USO Birthday Party on Christmas Eve. We only wi.ih wc could invite all our friends but seat ing capacity denies the privilege. CHRISTMAS NIGHT All our friends however are wel come to come to the USO on Christ mas Night. Hot Russian Christmas Wassail with home-made cookies will be sedved. A Christmas story will be read in the firelight by Mr. Avison. There will be much singing a--round the piano. FIRST Norman E. Willis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Willis of Cedar Street who has been serving with the U. S. Army in Hawaii, has re ceived a medical discharge from the Army and is again in Beaufort. Willis has the distinction -f being the first service man of World War II to join Carteret Post 99 of the American Legion. BEAUFORT BOYS ON SAME SHIP CHARLES G. MADES. Charles Gerald Mades, Boatswain's Mate 1st CI., U.S.C.G., son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mades, has been in the service 13 years and in the Pacific War Zone for 8 months. Guion J. Garner Boatswain's Mate 1st CI., U.S.C.G., son of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Holmes Garner, of Turner street, en listed at the same time as Mades. These two men are now together on one of our ships in the War Zone. Leonard Hill Missing Leonard (Shorty) Hill, promi nent insurance man of Washington has been missing since last Thurs day. It is thought he was drowned while fishing in the Pamlico River below the Washington Park bridge Coast Guard officers have been cal led into the search for the body, but it has not been recovered up to this time. Leonard Hill was born in Beau fort 50 years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Hill. The family Inter moved to Atlantic, and it was ""m theVe that Leonard went to Wajhii:gi'v :-")( years ogo. His parents are no longer but he has a wite and two cniiuren hi Washingtoi : ihrje sUu-rs in this County, Mi Byi-t.iv Willis, of Beau fort, Mrs. ik'wk' V;on and Mrs. Robinson of Atlantic. He has abn a number of half sisters and bro thers in Carteret. Mrs. Alice Smith of Ann Street, is an aunt, and Mrs. Lizzie Chadwick, Mr. Charles and Mr. Lon Hill of Beaufort; Mr. Herman S. Hill, of Morehead City; and Mrs. Sadie Whitehurst of the Straits, are ail half sisters and brothers of his father. COLD To all those who felt as if the temperature dropped to zero last Sunday night officially, ac cording to Pivers Island, it stopped at 15 degrees.. Soup I-atest of the new foods to roll off the food production line for overseas shipment is a special kind of dehydrated soup made of pea meal, soybean grits, and dry i,kim milk. A bi-weekly British Army news paper with a circulation of more thsin a million is printed in eight languages. I GUION J. GARNER. P"" jv5J v6v Major Fishing Disaster Early Friday Morning Survivors Tell Of Friday's Tragedy Of the seven living men closest to the tragedy of last Friday morn ing, six were in Potters Emer gency Hospital until the first of this week. Herbert Davis, brother of Capt. Dave, talked to us about the dis aster. Davis says he is 36 years old and has been fishing since he was 11, yet never has he been on such seas. "Dave," he said, "kept his head. The boys were hollering, but he told them to be quiet, that the Coast Guard would pick us up." About the men still missing, Davis says he thinks they must be caught beneath the sunken purse boat, and wil be found when it is raised. "How are you going to feel about fishing again.?" "Well, I certainly hope to go out again." Asked to tell his version of the fatal night he said, "We had a big set of fish two or three miles off Ft. Macon, and it took a right good time to get them because there were so many. We asked Captain Dawson of the Brewster to help. He came with his crew and lent a hand. They left before we got into trouble, but four of their men stay ed with us. It was breezing, but not so rough when we finished, but when we got underway and started the sea came up faster all the time. We would have made it though if she had not sprung a leak, and the pumps couldn't keep her afloat. We knew she was gone unless we could get the water out. We had men go with buckets, but we could not get it out. Then we threw the anchor overboard and brought her head to to keep water from wash ing on her. We thought this might give the- pumps a chance, but the water continued to rise until we cut the pump engines in the cabin Then we lowered the purse boat I anu mate boat and got in. The purse boat broke down, the online wouldn't run. Wo smarted the motor in the mate boat and tow ed the purse boat. The Coast Guard from Fort M.won came to pick us up. They towed the mate boat to the end of Capt Lookout break water where she sank. Then they turned loose the boat and 7 of the men who had been in it got in the purse boat. The purse boat drifted about for an hour or an hour and a half leeward until she hit the breakers of Shackleford then it overturned. The Coast Guard in the meantime had circled leeward to try to rescue the men in the water." John Henry Pritchette, from up on Bogue Sound, says he has been fishing five years. He was in the first boat when it overturned and caught the second. Somewhere a long the way, he was struck on the hoac' and says he .v;v-- i-nconsci' us most of the time. He says the wa ter "was smooth when we made the set, it began breezing, and the storm came on while we were load ing the big boat from the purse boats." Asked about fishing again, Pritchette merely laughed uncer tainly without committing himself. Isaac Simmons, also of Beaufort has been fishin.r since 1924. He al so says he has never been out in such weather. Clarence McCoy of Virginia has fished "ever since I was big enough to work, and five years for Mr. Smith.". He's never seen anything like it. Says all the men had life preservers on, but there wasn't much could be done in such a fast sea." In talking with Mr. Smith, he paid high tribute to all of his men, and in talking with the survivors it was interesting to see that each of them took every possible oppor tunity to speak of him with great respect and appreciation. Stores And Offices Give 2-Day Holiday The First Citizens Bank aw' Trust Company, Court House. Of fices and City Offices will all be closed both Friday and Saturday of this week in observance of Christmas. Most of the local stores have also arranged to clos3 in order to give their employees a rest after one of the most stren uous Christmas Seasons merchants and clerks have ever experienced., A 60-year old blind woman of Owasso, Okla,, collected 180 pounds of scrap metal in her back yard without assistance. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Menhaden Boat Parkins Founders In Storm, 18 Men Lose Their Lives In the storm of la-t. Th day night the heavily loaded lu-ioot Menhaden boat Par kins, owned by J. Harvey Smith, of West RpnnfnH- foundered and sank two or three miles off Ft. Macon with a loss of 18 lives. The mast of the sunken ship can be seen from here. David Davis, Captain of the Par kins, had considerable reputation as a fisherman which he wished to maintain. It is said that it was ap parent that a storm was approach ing but he wanted to land a last catch. The Brewster, also fishing for the Smith factory, came in, bt four members of her crew stayed behind to help the men on the Par kins The Parkins was caught in the heavy sea that proved too much for it, and she foundered and sank. Immediately upon re ceipt of the distress signal, the Coast Guard at Ft Macon sent out a motor lift boat. The Coast Guards men found the entire crew of the Parkins and the four Brewster men in the two purse boats. They took them both in tow, but one was overturned by the waves. The Coast Guardsmen cut the line of the second boat to look afte : the men in the water, and that, too, overturned. When the Parkins left th'j Sin clair Dock on Thursday morning she carried her normal crew ex cept that instead of a captain, engi neer, and mate, she had two engi neers. Of the twenty-one men in volved, 18 were drowned, the bod ies of 16 of these have been re covered. There were seven survi vors. George Garner was able to go home; six fishermen were sent to thf local hospital for treatment for shock and exposure. Of these two were discharged on Monday, and the rest have gone to 'heir homes since then. The recovered bodies were tak en to Morehad City for identifica tion, and then divided between Bell and James and Adair's Funeral Homes where they were prepared for burial. Bodies of all the men from out of town have been ship ped out as fast as shipping instruc tions have been received. F'uneral services were held at North River Monday afternoon for Alexander Merrill; Tuesday after noon at 2 o'clock services were held for William T. Davis at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Beaufort; as we go to press services are beinfc held at the same church for Earl Henry; and on Sunday afternoon at 2 ,also at Mt. Zion, there will be a service for Capt. David Davis. In discussing the situation, Mr. See DISASTER Page 8 I TIDE TABLE f T Information as to the tide f j. at Beaufort is given in this X column. The figures ate ap- v proximately coirect and are X based on tables furnished by X the U. S. Geodetic Survey, t A So meallowances must f made for variations in tht t J wind and also with respect i T to the locality, that is whett ? er near the inlet or at th' head of the estJaries. VWVV VVVVVV-M-V-K- ..j.v..;. v j, HIGH LOW Friday, Dec. 25 P:IT AM 4:24 AM .1:12 PM 5:00 FM Saturday, Dec. 26 11:24 AM 5:53 AM 11:51 PM 5:41 PM Sunday. Dec. 27 12:01 AM 5:3!) AM 6:19 PM Monday, Dec. 28 12:32 AM 6:23 AM 12:40 PM 7:02 PM Tuesday, Dec. 29 1:16 AM 7:15 AM 1:22 PM 7:51 PM Wednesday, Dee. 30 2:06 AM 8:17 AM 2:11 PM 8:45 PM Thursday, Dec. 31 ' 3:02 AM 9:22 AM 3:08 PM 9:41 PM
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