muxm m BONDS hn WITH!! BEAUFORT f WS J he Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central Cfyjina Coast VOLUME XXXIII No.28 12 PAGES THIS WEEK BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1944 12 PAGES TK v EK PUBLISHED WEEKLY. TWO BEAUFORT LADIES AMONG PRIZE WINNERS AT BONDDAHCE Elective Monarchs Queen Jackie And King Bud Crowned A big crowd turned out for the War Bond Dance and crowning of Bond Babies Jackie Roberts and Bad Daniels at the Atlantic Beach Casino last Saturday evening. Queen Jackie and King Bud pro fessed no hereditary right lo their titles but were (paradoxical ly) elected to serve in presumably a very limited monarchy as they were taken off to bed as soon as they were crowned regardless of t their wishes in the matter. Jackie's i 103,555 votes and Bud's 58,545 represented something like $75, 000 spent in bonds and stamps "Skunk" Ernul and his orches tra were at their best and in ad- dition Jbefore the evening was over j net proceeds were given back to guests holding lucky numbers in '$he form of 14 $25 bonds and tone $50 bond. Mrs. Jack Windley nd Mrs. Wise of Beaufort were ; among the lucky ones. Others vUnrriptt. Whit.Ipv. 0nrirp Kline. jLibby Arendell, all cf Morchead City ; Sgt. James Marchusotta. Francis Fox, Cpl. Fritzpatrick, ' Russell E. Bowman, William A. ' Scott, Mike Yurich, of Cherry I Point; Vivian Taylor, Newport; : and Mrs. R. R. Tilghman, Snow i Hill. Clyde Jones, auctioneer extra- (tiuiuai, aisu own-, unvi v.. v.. f floor for prizes contributed by lo cal business firms of both More head City and Beaufort. Jaycecs have asked us to ac knowledge with appreciation con tributions to their successful ev ening. Tn addition to Mr. Jones' able work and the articles which the merchants so generously con tributed, they wish to thank Mr. Newman Willis for use of the Cas ino, Alfred Cooper for the public address system and installation of same, advertising by Station WHIT New Bern, and by the local papers. JUDGE HAMILTON WANTS HELP NOW Cooperation From Everyone in County Sought in Effort To Make Legion J Memorial Complete Carteret Post 46, American Legion, Morehead City, is pr;par ing an Honor Roll of men and women from Carteret County County serving (or who have serv ed) with the armed forces of the United States in the present war, whether with the Army, Navy, Ma rines, Air Corps, or Permanent Coast Guard. The names will bu inscribed on a beautiful memorial to be erected at considerable ex pense on City Hall Square, More head City. It is planned to have the names of the various communi ties appear in alphabetical order followed by names of tne individ uals serving from each community. Judge Luther Hamilton is giv ing up his vacation to the task of gathering the data for the huge Honor Roll so that it can be erect ed as soon as possible and is ask ing help of every family from which a vouner man ord woman has gone into the Service. He want3 someone in the family to send a letter or nostal card addressed to Judge Luther Hamilton, Morehead City giving the name and home address of each member of the family in the service. If someone knows of a family not likely to read this or in which members arc unable to write, he will appreciate it if he will write for them. The idea is to get the information as quickly and accurately as possible as the value of the memorial will depend on its completeness. CARTERET GIVES $509 FOR POLIO RELIEF EUND Nearest Cases n Wilson and New Hanover Counties CARTERET BOYS IN THE SERVICE PIVER'S ISLAND IN COURT TUES. Erudite Defendant Before Judge Webb Tuesday Morning Carteret Countv Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has made a contribution of $500.00 from the funds raised in the County drive to the State Emergency Fund Committee re cently organized in Raleigh to combat the polio epidemic in North Carolina. Funds given by the county chapters throughout the state plus $50,000 granted by the Na tional Foundation nnd possibly another S100.000 requested by the local chanters in the epidemic area, are to be placed in the hands of Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, htate Health Officer, to be expended for the work subject to the approv al of C. H. Crabtree, Executive Secretary of the Polio Emergency Fund Committee. Thirty-five of the 100 counties in the State have been affected by the epidemic and 264 cases report ed as of July 11 with new cases being reported at tne rate ot a hnnt. trn dav. Dr. Robert K. Oliver, Carteret County Health Officer, states that no cases have been reported for Carteret, and the nearest counties reporting are Wilson and New Hanover. Dr.' Oliver says theer is no im mediate causa for alarm in this area. The precise manner in which infantile paralysis is spread is not known and, therefore, no specific preventative measures are con templated at present, but every known effort to prevent its spread to this area is being taken. S lo William Arlington LSCu returned to Little Creek, Vu., on Monday. Quontin M. Lewis, 1st Lt,, USA Air Force, has returned from ser viep. outside the continental Unit ed States and is being processed through the Army forces Kcdis trihution Station. Miami Beach, where his next assignment will be determined. Lt. Lewis entered the Service in January, 1942, and was sent over seas in May, 1943. He flew 50 missions as a B-25 pilot during one year in the Mediterranean theatre and was awarded the Air Medal and five clusters. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira W. Lewis and an alumnus of Wake Forest College and Johns Hopkins Uni versity. Comdr. Ernest Snowden. air group commander aboard US Car rier Flagship in the Pacific, recent ly went on record as feeling so damned happy I can't see stnaght." Reason: 403 Japanese planes were shot down in the air sea battle of June IS. MR. DICKINSON DIES SUDDENLY THIS MORNING Funeral Friday Afternoon at 3 GSO NIGHT IS ALMOST HERE GSO Girls Receive Awards Tomorrow Dance Follows Norman Griffith. Charlotte; and Winfield (Shiel) Daniels, Char lottee, V-12 students at Chapel Hill spent the week-end here. S 2-c Ira D. Gillikin has return ed to bis ship at New York after leave spent here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Gillikin, Smyrna. Ira entered the Navy in February and has already mace two trips across. Gerald Dickinson, son of the late Richard and Mollie Dbk'nson died suddenly at three o'clock this morning at his home at 810 Ann Street from a heart atack. Mr. Dickinson was born here 38 years ago. He was a graduate of old St. Paul's School and of N. C. State College, Raleigh. For ten years following gradua tion he was with the Continental Life Insurance Company at Dur ham but returned to Beaufort a- bout two years ago and made his home here until a few months past when he accepted a position with the Life and Casualty Insurance Company with headquarters in Durham. Mr. Dickinson knew for some time that he suffered with angina but was only recently ordered home for a complete rest, and death came unexpectedly. Funeral services will be conduct ed Fridav afternoon at three o'clock from St. Paul's Church by the rector. Dr. huarar Jones, and the body will be laid to rest by the sido of his parents in Ocean View Cemetery. Mr. Dickinson was :i Mi.on and will be buried with Ma sonic Rites. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Miss Pauline Julian of Salis bury, a daughter, Geraldine, and a son, Richard. GSO night at the Carteret USO, Morehead City, already heralded for several weeks in THE NEWS comes off tomorrow, Friday, July 14. with a special program of rec ognition followed by a dance to the music of the 14-piece Mont- ford Point Band. Girls Darticinatiner are asked to arrive at 8 o'clock in formal dress. The program begins at 8:30 and dancing will start at 9:30. The public is invited to come out and iee girls of the community who have given appreciable support to ihe work of the USO reecivo rib bons and all GSO girls receive their gold and blue membership pins. Awards will be made by Chair man in three towns: Mrs. G. I. Mizzelle for Newport, Mrs. Robert Seamon for Morehead City, and Miss Lena Duncan for Beaufort. Among those from here who are working to insure the success of the evening are Mrs. James Rum ley, Chairman of the Beaufort committee of volunteers helping with the program, Mrs. F. E. Hvde. Chairman of the Refresh ment committee, Mrs. T. A. Rich ards, Chairman of the Entertain ment Committee, and Miss cGor- gia Neal, Chairman of the Com mittee on Decorations. HARRY TYLER DECORATED ON SATURDAY IN WILMINGTON Funeral Mon. For Mrs. Gus Johnson Funeral services were conduct ed Monday afternoon from the home on Broad Street for Mrs. Nellie Newkirk Johnson by her pastor, the Rev. M. O. Alexander, assisted by Dr. Edgar Jones of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the Rev. W. Stanley Potter ot tne Methodist Church. The body was laid to rest in St. Paul's cemetery. Mrs. Johnson died at her home Sunday morning. She recently un derwent an operation at Walker Memorial Hospital, Wiimington, and has been ill for several months. Surviving are her husband, Gus Johnson; one son: Calvin Johnson; one sister: Mrs. Henry Styron, Broad Street; two brothers: Geo. Newkirk, Pine Street; and Boats wain's Mate Clarence Newkirk. USCG. BEAUFORT AND EAST CARTERET PATIENTS AT MOREHEAD HOSP. John (Bud) Daniels USA who has been attending Alabama Poly technic Institute, Auburn, Ala., is spending a few days here. On Sunday he reports to It. bragg. Glenn Willis. USN. leaves thiy week for New York following leave Epent at Home, i RATION BRIEFS GASOLINE A-10 good through Aug. 8. SHOES No. 1 and 2 "Airplane" Stamps in Book III good indefinitely. SUGAR Stamps No. 30, 31 and 32, Book IV, good for 5 pounds of sugar in Hpfinitelv. No. 40 cood for 5 lbs. canning sugar through February 28, 1945. CANNED GOODS Blue Stamps, Book IV, A-8 throughZ-8 and A-5 good indefi nitely. MEATS Red Stamps, Book IV, A-8 through Z-8 good indefinitely. FUEL OIL Period 4 and 5 coupons good through September. During Octo ber unused coupons may be ex changed at Ration Board for new 1944-45 heating season coupons. NOTICE Every car owner must write his license number and State in advance on all gasoline coupons in his possession. Rent Control All persona renting, or offering for rent, any living quarters -whatsoever must register each dwell ing unit with rent control office in their rent area. Dr. A. S. Pearse, Director of the Duke University Summer School, was heard in Recorder's Court Tuesday on the charge of slowing for a turn without giving the proper signal causing the car following driven by Mr. Brown to run into him damaging both cars. In the presence of such a dis tinguished and erudite defendant, a.rorvhnHv minded his d's and q's used as elegant phraseology as he could, and tried to give his Latin Wal terms iust the approved pro nunciation. Dr. Pearse did not, however, try to be formidable. He regretted the incident and wanted tn An the nroDer thine in regard to it but felt both parties culpa ble. He was driving irom Beauiorc to Piver's Island in the pouring rain of last Saturday with two wet students in the car with him, drew out toward the center to make the turn, and the car close behind rammed him in passing with either no horn or none that the riders in the car ahead were able to hear. He expressed a will ingness to talk the matter over and make an amicable settlement in regard to damages and the matter was dismissed. From the learned professor,' the Court went to the other extreme and tried "Patience" John Hen derson (colored), Morehead City, charged with having in his posse3 .inn non tax naid liauor for pur pose of sale. John sat uneasily on the edge of the witness chair as he told of Chief of Police E. J. Willis and M. P. Arthur Fleming com ing tn his home Sunday morning about nine o'clock and finding a small amount of whiskey on the table, a larger amount in the stove, and 68 empties smelling of whiskey in the bushes back of the house. "Patience" John according to officers has a reputation for selling liquor, doesn't work, had some thing like $200 with him wnen ar retprl and was able to stand his own bond. He said, however, that he has not been in Court beiore since "I cut up the girl I was go ing with" about 30 years ago. He protested that what he had was inct "n little hit to drink on" and na he haH been drinking fcince midnight, he felt politely that the officers must hame been mistaken in the amount they said they found. The verdict was continued until Tuesday the 18th in order tn verifv a leral ooint. R. Clyde Smith (white) a tail or of New Bern was heard for op Mrs. Elmo Gaskill, Stacy,, re cently underwent an operation, is making an excellent recovery and is almost ready for discharge. Amanda Congleton, Beauofrt , had an apendectomv over the week-end. Progress is satisfactory. Mrs. Bertie Chadwick, btarits, went home Snuday f olowing a per iod of treatment. Mrs. Walter Styron. Portsmouth had an apendectomy over the week end and is doing well. McKinley Yeomans, Harkers Is land, is a patient undergoing treatment. Gaston Simnson. New Bern Road, had an apendectomy and i making satisfactory progress. Mrs. William Dudley. Davis had an aoendectomv at the week' end and is recovering sat;3lact- only. Set. Ravmond Lawrence. USA. Rockfield, 111., has been ordered to New York presumably for ser vice abroad. Raymond has already seen service in the Pacific. More Stills Uncovered Sheriff C. G. Holland and De Dutv Sheriff T. Murray Thomas ran down two more whiskey stills in the Big Neck Section ot Car teret and Craven Counties on Tuesday afternoon of this week. No arrests were made. Both stills were of 55-gallon ca pacity made from gasoline drums. The first had been onerated the night before and 200 gallons of mash were found; the second, tne same type of stil, was running but operators were notified of the ap proach of the law enforcement of ficers bv three shots from a gun and made a get away. At this still 650 gallons of mash were found INDUCTEES The following Carteret County colored men reported to Fort Bragg for duty last Thursday: Ot to Johnson, Beaufort, Route 1, Bennv Murray. Beaufort, Route 1, William E. Pettiway, Bejufort, Samuel Green, Beaufort. Seven more went up for pre-in duction examination the day be fore: Reuben Franklin Bell, North Harlowe, Edward Henderson, More head Citv. Johnnie Sutton, Beau fort, John Bell Jordan, Morehead City, Willie Lee llson, Beautort, Kenneth Rudolph Jones, Morehead City, James Godfrey Jones, Stella. eratincr a motor vehicle from 45 tn RO miles an hour at 5:40 P. M. during the hour of the hiavy Cherry Point traftic. Verdict "Not guilty." Case of Harold Wilton charged with non support of his wife and minor child was continued from last week. Case again continued for judgment Lt. William H. Unham. USA, son of Mrs. H. G. Hambright of Marsfield. Wis., is Aide to tiThZ. Gen. William G. Weaver in Eng land where he has been station ed for the past six months. Uphani took ROTC training at the Univer sitv of Wisconsin and was .:om missioned a 2nd lieutenant in the Infantry in 1939. He volunteered for active dutv in 1941. was order ed abroad in April 1942, and two months later was advanced to 1st lieutenant. UDham holds a Ph. D. fr&m his University and was in law school at the time he entered the Service. He has a small son whom he has not vet seen. He is pleasantly re membered in Beaufort by mends made during visits with his aunt Mrs. C. L. Duncan. Crin Jones. Army Transport Service. Newport News, is expect ed to arrive tomorrow for a week's stay with Mrs. Jones and his young son Kit. Bill Davis. Beaufort and Smith field, is an MP in the Army. He entered the Armv in 1943. train ed in New Orleans and Houston, Texas, and has recently been trans ferred to New York. Bill is an old Beaufort High School boy with many friends here. WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN M. C. MONDAY AFTER DISAPPEARANCE LAST THURSDAY Mrs. Godfrey's Mysterious Death Being Investigated ANOTHER ONE OF OLD COUNTY FAMILY PASSES Mrs. Cora L. Davis Laid to Rest. Wed. Local Boy Receives DFC, Air Medal Oak Leaf Clusters Harry S. Tyler, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Tyler of Front Street, together with three others who" have Histincuished themselves in the U. S. Army Air Force was dec orated on Saturday, July 8th.f at the Army Air Base, Wilmington. The ceremony began with a parade and review of troops in honor of the four men to music of the Camp Davis Band after which Col. Snively, Commanding Officer, of the Base, made the awards in the presence of the men from the Base and several hundred civilian spectators. Tvler was siven the DinUnar- uished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and two Oak Leaf Clusters the only decorations awarded specific- ially for feats of heroism and nire- itorious service in the air. Staff Sereeant Tyler entered ihe Army in 1939, within two weeks was sent to Hamaii and was serving there on the fatal Decem ber 7, 1941. Except for one fur- lough he served in the Pacific con tinuously until last fall. Among the civilian spectator? present were Mrs. Harry Tyler, the former Maxie Thomas, and her sister, Mrs. Frank Ritter, who accompanied Harry to Wilmington in an Army Staff Car. Pvt. James W. Lanedale. son of Mrs. Maireie Lanurdale Orange Street has received word thai ner snn has heen sent overseas. He went to Fort aragf about two years ago and from there has ueen to numerous camps about the country and then to California from where he went overseas. Pharmacist Mate Clarence Guthrie, USN, has wired his fam- !v of his safe arrival in New York following service somewhere out side the continental U. S. SSzt. and Mrs. Robt. S. Fit Gibbon have returned from a vaca- ion at their home in New Jersey and -are again with Miss Annie Rumley. ROBERT SAFRIT INJURED SAT. R. W. Safrit, Jr., was injured last Saturday afternoon at the plant of the Scarboro-Safrit Lum her Company and has been con fined to his home this week. He is improving and is about the house today. Mrs. L. C. Godfrey of Carolina Beach and Ocracoke was found dead in her car just before 9 a. m. Monday mornins on a road lead ing off from Route 70 the other side of Morehead City after a mys terioMs disappearance last Thurs day. Members of the city trash de partment havine seen the car park ed in the same spot Friday, Satur day and Monday morning got someone to go with them to inves titrate and found the body. An ir.quest was held on Tuesday by a Coroner's Jury composed of T. C. Wade, C. V. Webb, E. A. Council. Abbott Morris, Dpffie Wade, and Capt. Chas. Bennett at which Countv Health Officer K. K Oliver eave as cause of her death homicide perpetrated by asphyxia or assault. The body was taken to Wilmington Tuesday afternoon for burial. Mrs. Godfrey's husband eperat ed a cafe at Ocracoke. She was returning returning there from Carolina Beach in a 1941 Chryys ler Sedan registered in her hus bands' name intending to park it in Atlantic and take the mail boat for Ocracoke. She reached Atlantic too late for the boat, and she and Mias Ila RigiS Smith, of Atlantic, retuined to Morehead City on a kind of "joy ride." According to Chief of Po lice E. J. Willis, cf Morehead City. Mrs. Gdfrey's disappearance was reported Friday night by Mi. Godfrey and Miss Smith. Sheriff C. G. Holland, Deputy Sheriff T. Murray Thomas, P-itrol-men Nelson, Craig, and Clay nre making the official investigation assisted by Provost Marshal Klick nd his assistants from Cherry Point who came down with photo graphic and fingerprinting equip ment. These officers have ques tioned witnesses throughout the days and nights since Monday. Miss Smith first named tne last time she siw Mrs. Godfrey as ap proximately C:20 P. M. Thursday when they, accompanied by U. S. Marine R chard Mattnew Koster, Toledo. Ohio, stationed at Atlan tic Field, came to Morehead City, drove hv the USCG dock to r-ee a friend of Miss Smith's Coastguards man Marshall Forrest. He ins.sted that she come aboard while he change. The car immediately left and she said that was the last time she saw of Mrs. Godfrey. On second questioning, Miss See WOMAN FOUND Page 8 Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock for Mrs. Cora Leffers Da vis, 82, who died at her home in Straits Monday night of a heart attack folowing a long illness. Kev. W. Stanley Potter of beaulort conducted the services and burial wa sin the family burying ground at Straits. Mr. Davis' husband, Robert Da vis, died several years ago. She is survived by one son: Harry Davis; two sisters: Mrs. Tarah Whitehurst of Harlowe, Mrs. M. M. PigoU, Southport; two brothers: Sam Lef fers and Richard Leffers of Straits four grandchildren; and a step daughter and step son: Mrs. Char les Freeman of Morehead City and Julian Davis of Straits. Farmers Busy Planting Sweets Farmers in the eastern part of the County have been busy since the rain getting their sweet pota toes in. It is estimated that be tween 800 and a thousand acre of them will be set out this week potatoes that would normally have bee nin the ground by the fourth. Early potatoes from sprouta were already in before the rain. SOME POTATO o o Mr. I. N. Moore of the City Grocery is displaying a huge vege table potato twenty-three and a half pounds which was grown up on Bogue Sound. He says it's a variety grown for frying and pie making. Claud Glover Drowns in La. Army Camp Claud Glover, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jody Glover, of Pine olreet, died from drowning last Sunday morning at Camp Poulk, La., where he had been stationed for the past 18 months. No further de tails were given except that In died enroute to the base hospital. Glover was 37 years of air., at tended St. Paul's School, and for the past two years has been serv ing in the U. S. Army. Hi was home on leave about six w.eeKS ago. He is survived by his parents anu three sisters: Mrs. Glen Wade. Mrs. W. A. Cole, and Miss Dot Glover, all of Beaufort. The body arrived in Beaufort at noon today. Smith said that thev had severu) drinks with Koster rnd together bought three quarts of whiskey at the store in Beaufort. On third auestionirar. she re- veilpd that s,he knew that Mis. Godfrey and Koster were going off but were to come oacK ana pick her up. She had several drinks with Forrest on the boat. Officials have expressed them selves as feeling this Miss Smith knows nothing of Mrs. Godfrey's death despite her luctance to tell that happened. Marone Koster said that he had started on a 5-day furlough and was nicked uo at the Atlantic Field Gate by the two women. He Salvage of Timber Urged Farmers and timber land own er, who suffered damage from re cent forest fire fires, can salvage their dead or dying trees and still get going market price if they act now, according to Project Forester Wm. J Nothstein, of the Tcmber Production War Project, Wash ington, N. C. "The war demands for sawlogs, pulpwood, veneer logs and piling continue to be heavy and many forest product indus tries will be glad to pickup logs and other wood products at the nearest road." It was brought out that woods labor is increasingly scarce and for that reason farm ers are urged to cut their own products. The County Agent can further advise interested parties. 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. Some allowances must be made for variations in the wind and also with rosnect to the locality, that w ah eth er near tlia inlet or t th) head of the estuaries. HIGH LO.' Friday, July 14 3-50 AM. 10:03 AM 4:31 PM. H:0i I'M. Saturday, July IS 4:52 AM. H02 AM. r.:32 PM. Sunday, July 16 5.r.3 m 12:03 AM. B:27 pm. 12:01 PM. Monday, July 17 6:48 AM. 1:00 AM. 7:18 PM. 12:52 PM. Tuesday, July 18 7:37 AM. 1:48 AM. 8:05 PM. 142 PM. Wednesday, July 19 8:25 AM. 233 AM. 8:47 PM. 2:30 PM. Thursday, July 20 9:07 AM. 3:15 AM. 9:27 PM. 3:14 PM.