I fte Pilot Covers
I jrnnswiek County
NO. 4.
Ejngressma
IgxplainPrc
k'ewFarm
Line Will Be Held At
If O'clock Saturday Af. |
' In The Auditorium
Of Shallotte School
Lfting WILL BE
P NON-POLITICAL
L Held For Purpose Of
Eainmg To Farmers
Kanees Made In AAA
||n Order To Be KeI
cognized By Court
general mass meeting of the
of Brunswick county will
pi Saturday afternoon, Marat
2 o'clock in the Shallotte
Ki auditorium at which time
pressman J Bayard Clark
discuss thi new farm bill
Ktiy passed d.v Congress to
K;' the AAA program.
K meeting will be entirely
partisan, and is planned for
purpose of giving Brunswick
tr farmers an idea of what
K'may expect from the new
K set-up. County Agent J. E.
jln urges every man who
Ebly can to be present for
meeting.
is understood that Mr.
p win discuss just what the
pm of the Supreme Court on
did to the farm program
wy of invalidating the AgriKrai
Adjustment Act and
King out certain restrictions
limitations of the power of
Kress under the constitution
Kact legislation in the aid of
Kulture; just why it is that
Kress can now pass legislaK
that provides only for a
Ktaiy program; just how it
Koposed to aii yv-'se fanners
K co-operate with the governK
in the new program, and
essential the voluntary coKiUon
of the farmers with the
nam nrn.
THE
6-PAGES TODA\
nClarkTo
) visions Of
Bill March 7
HTCUJIICIU UUUC1 UiC "CW
Battle Bits
I Of Big News
Iks Events Of State,
lotion and World-Wide
I Interest During Past
Week
Wkved Of Office
I A routine War Department
I ft' relieving General John
K Hagood of his command
B < the Eighth Corps area in
I Southwest aroused a storm
' criticism in the House
I "wiay. Representative Blan
of Texas, said the order
B#? because of General Halloa's
criticism of WPA ex Mtures
before a House
I tkommittee several months
If! general described
B A funds as "stage money"
W Guard Speech
B J-rging speakers to guard
B -"c radio utterances, parties' !
on politics, Owen D.
warned Monday that
I ^om of speech for a man
||M8e voice can be heard a
5s' hundred feet is one thing"
I? for a "man whose voice
Iki heard around the
I it is another.
Wing Costs
Amid cries of "It can't be
B^V from city working girls
'-scussing a clothing bud fot
Sl.50 a week comes deassurance
from State
anf6 Ulat can be done"
5 e country. At least, girls
HJ? ave in rural sections can
j? Suite nicely on that sum,
KL ^ss Willie Hunter, ex ??IOn
Olr.fV.. .. . .
specialist, ana
ul'a Mclver, assistant
K speciaust. And what's
BC ,the two say, girls can
r88 for even less.
Iftf Session
t!h'ngton Tuesday the
m tL'/ of a special session
m C iei5i8lature in *ate?gh
m-.,. than a conversational
B^ M. .Vernor Ehringhaus,
B^irerp.0 y Presided over the
B>%1 StCe. ^HSidering the proUk
J,?*??' compact, is meetBViw
North Carolina
NS?! delegation for
I wiued from Page 1 )
I BAVARD CLARK
gram is to its success. He will
discuss in some detail the aims,
purposes and provisions of the
:new act and give to those who
are interested all the information
'that he has been able to gather
at Washington upon this all-important
subject.
County Toi
To Be"
Games Will Begin Friday A
Be Concluded Wi
Afte
The annual Brunswick
t tournament will be played
on Friday and Saturday, J
announcement made Tuesdi
principals and coaches held
! In spite of the fact that there
was an agreement to hold the
tournament this year in the
Southport gymnasium, there was
a strong move to play the games
again in the Waccamaw gymnasium.
H. D. Epting, principal ol
the Leland school, was the most
outspoken sponsor for the Waccamaw
gymnasium, declaring
that he doubted if the Southport
gymnasium would accommodate
tournament crowds in safety,
i As a result of this question
Principal C. A. Ledford, of the
l Southport school, has agreed tc
have the balcony around the loca
(court inspected by engineers before
the tournament date.
In the opening game Fridaj
afternoon, waccamaw gma
Shallotte at 3 o'clock; an houi
, later Waccamaw boys play Iceland.
The first game on the evening
program finds the Bolivia
girls facing the Leland lassies al
j7 o'clock; at 8 o'clock Shallotte
boys will play Shallotte.
| Both South port teams drew a
bye in first round play. Winners
jin the preliminary games wil:
match to determine which shal'
jmeet the Southport boys anc
girls in the semi-final games Sat
urday morning.
[ The finals will begin at 2 :(X
'o'clock when winners of the mor
jning games play holders of th(
semi-final byes.
|
Republicans Meet
Saturday At Supply
C. Ed Taylor, chairman of the
Brunswick county Republican ex
jecutive committee, has called a
convention of members of his
party to be held at Supply Saturday
morning, February 29, al
ill o'clock.
The purpose of this meeting
will be to choose delegates to the
state congressional and other conventions,
and for the transactior
of such other business as maj
come before the convention.
Airhlnnp Alnrkcr
On Shrimp House
Information was received here
jthis week by Mayor John Erikser
that WPA funds were available
jfor painting an airplane markei
Jon top of some building here
Permission was received to have
j the marker painted on top oi
the Fodale Brothers shrimp house
i&nd this will be done within the
jnear future.
STA1
A Good Newsj
Southport, N.
Citizens Should
Protect Timber
Forest Products Are Valuable
Source Of Income
In This County And The
Forests Should Be Well;
Protected
(By Dawson Jones)
Brunswick county is one of thej
i leading timber producing regions 1
\ in the state of North Carolina.!
, Many varieties of trees grow j
I here, particularly the long leaf
i pine which seems to thrive. It is j
remarkable to notice the short ]
time in which a fine timber crop
can be produced even with a minI
in.um of care and attention.
/ bout 82 per cent of the entire
| area of this county is forest land,
i Therefore, a large portion of taxi
es necessary to carry on our
| county government must come,
j from our forest. When the forests
are allowed to be destroyed the
1 taxes will naturally go up. This
effects everyone who lives within
| the borders of Brunswick county,
fit is to everyone's advantage to
j protect the forest.
I'he people are fast awakening
to the value and necessity of pre
serving the forests from fires,
but. there are other things just
as important if this is to be a
i good timber producing county.
11 One of the things is the careless
! practice of cutting a section bare
j without leaving an occasional
(Continued on page 6)
ornament
Dl? TTA A T-T
l iaytu jl jlv^ jl c
kfternoon, March 6, And Will
ith Finals Saturday
irnoon
county high school basketball
in the Southport gymnasium
darch 6 and 7, according to
ay following a conference of
[ Monday night.
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|
'] FINDS KNIFE HE HID
A IN OAK 30 YEARS AGO
Hallsboro, Feb. 18.?A few
days ago C. S. Sasser, local
> farmer, found a pocket knife
in the heart of an oak tree
which he hid 80 years ago.
Mr. Sasser said that his fa[
ther, A. S. Sasser, bored a
[ hole in the oak to plant a
steel brace which supported
an old-fashioned winepress,
and that he (the younger
Sasser) slipped the knife into
| that hole with the blade open
| to keep from lending it, and
' j promptly forgot what he had
| done with it until the hole in
j the tree had grown over.
During a recent storm the
wind blew the tree down and
" | the knife was retrieved in bad
' j shape, a mere skeleton of the
1; Barlow which was placed in
j there 80 years ago.
I
Garden Contest
' Still Going On
) Although Handicapped By
.1 Unusually Bad Weather,
?| Fall And Winter Garden
Contest Is Still In Progress
I The fall and winter garden
if | contest, though handicapped by
jsnow and extreme cold weather
i, this winter, is still being pushed
ijby the State College agricultural
l I extension service,
j j "Don't be discouraged," Miss
. Mary E. Thomas, extension specialist
in food and nutrition, adj
vise home gardeners entered in
r i the contest. "Other people's gar!
Hon'a have been set back, too.
"Don't give up and quit keep!
| ing your records. All you who
rj (Continued on page six.)
Teachers Receive
Pay This Week
y ______
Approximately $10,000 will be
> paid this week to teachers in the
t consolidated schools of Brunswick
5 county as salary for the fourth
r school month.
Because of the irregularity
> with which the schools have
r operated since Christmas, not all
> faculty members will be paid on
; the same day. Twenty teaching
? ?tviAnfh
days comprise a, suiwi
I
RTPI
id Community
uary 26th, 1936PUBUS
WPA Boom With
Better Weather
Caldwell Says That WPA i
Forces Are Just Waiting
For Break In The Weather
Before Beginning Full
Program
Announcing that 523 people j
were at work on Works Progress
Administration projects in Bruns-j
wick county, Robert D. Caldwell,
listrict WPA director, said today, j
'We are just waiting for the
weather man to let up on us and |
EPOI
paper In A Goo
C., Wednesday, Febr
Brunswick Boys
And Girls Form i
A Service Club '
Organization Meeting Was
Held Last Wednesday At
Supply; Club Leaders
From New Hanover County
Present L
OFFICERS OF CLUB !{
ELECTED AT MEET <
Work Of Service Club Sim- 1
ilar To That Performed
By 4-H Groups; Mem- |'
ship Of High School
Graduates
Last Wednesday evening a
number of the high school grad- ,
uates, both boys and girls, of
Brunswick county met with the J
home demonstration agent, Miss
Marion Smith, at the county agent's
office at Supply, for the j,
purpose of organizing a service
club in Brunswick.
Harold Jeter, extension service
1 worker, of Wilmington, was present.
Mr. Jeter spoke to the eager'
young listeners concerning service t
club work.
C. E. Dillard, county agent of j
! New Hanover county, was also I
| present and brought an interesting
message to the Brunswick
county high school graduates as
I he gave an outline of the work
i of the service club in his county,
| and told something of the good
| work that is being done by the
'New Hanover service club. The
'Brunswick county girls and boys
were especially interested in the
recreational program, carried out
in~ the New Hanover county ser(Continued
on Page Six)
Receive Report
Of Diphtheria
Sixteen Cases Of Diphtheria
Have Been Reported
In North Carolina Since
j January 1; two In Brunswick
County
! Sixteen cases of diphtheria
have been reported in North Car.
?* _.. ri .nf rtf Tnnnonr
onna since uie mac ui. uauuaij,
according to Mrs. Lou H. Smith,
county nurse, who says that two
of them were from Brunswick
county.
I Mrs. Smith declares that she is
ashamed of the fact that Brunswick
county was forced to report I
cases of this disease, innoculations
for which have been available
for a long time from the \
county nurse or the family physician.
| Mrs. Smith advises all mothers
to have their children immunized
against this disease as soon as
they are 6 months of age. The
| toxoid will be administered by
'any practicing physician, or the
! county nurse.
Short Session Of
Recorder s Court
Only two cases were disposed
of here last Wednesday before
Judge Peter Rourk in Recorder's
court.
J. W. Johnson, Bladen county |
white man, was found gu'lty of j
operating an automobile with improper
lights and was required to j
I pay a fine of 15.00 and the costs'
I in his case.
J. B. Prince, white, was char-!
'ged with violation of the speed
| law, but the action against him
was nol prossed.
'Old French Mine S
Intn Pmrf
JLJLAO.VP ML V* ?. M?
The all-steel motor ship
Lexington limped into the
Southport harbor Saturday
afternoon and has been tied
up here since at the railroad
dock awaiting motor replacements
that must be made before
she continues on her
way to New York with a
load of green lumber from
Georgetown, S. C.
After developing motor
trouble, the boat was adrift
and" unreported off Frying
J Pan shoals for 48 hours,
i Temporary repairs were made
by Chief Engineer Randal]
Schleigh and, aided by a rising
tide, the vessel came in '
we will really get our workers i
jn the job."
Caldwell said that WPA projects
have been operating- remarkably
well despite adverse
weather conditions. "We have demanded
a real day's work from
everyone working on WPA when
it was at all possible to work,"
he said.
This policy is in line with the
latest regulations from Harry L.
Hopkins, national administrator
of the Works Progress administration
in Washington, Caldwell
said. In a letter to local administrators
Hopkins said that habitual
and intentional shirking will
not be tolerated, and that in
case such shirking existed em(Continued
on Page Six)
Convict Is \
In Attem
Scarboro Faircloth, Columbi
cally Wounded Tuesd
Escape
Scarboro Faircloth, Col
tical condition at the Brim
being shot Tuesday morning
fellow prisoner, attempted
of convicts working near Ex
LIGHT SNOW FELL
FRIDAY EVENING
The ground in Southport
was practically covered Saturday
morning with a light snow
that fell early Friday night.
The warm sun soon removed
the last evidence of this second
snow of the year.
Out in the county, the fall
was heavier. About the middle
of Friday afternoon the rain
turned to snow, and by nightfall
the ground was completely
covered in many sections.
The snow continued after dark,
and a fall of four inches was
reported at Shallotte.
Wilmington was blanketed
with snow and ice of sufficient
depth that the draw bridge
over the river could not be
raised Saturday morning to
let a ship through.
Epidemic Over
At Camp Sapona
Quarrantine Imposed On
Local CCC Camp Lifted
Today (Wednesday) And
Men Went Back To Their
Work
The epidemic of mild cases of
influenza and serious colds released
its grip upon the men of
Camp Sapona this week and the
week-old quarantine was lifted
today by Dr. William Dosher,
company physician.
During the past 10 days, at
least 100 men enrolled at the
local camp were confined to
their beds with influenza or
(Continued on page 6)
weeper Came
iturday Afternoon
under her own power. Captain
Bonner Bussels was the
pilot aboard.
The Lexington was built by
the French government and
was used during the world
war as a mine sweeper. She
is 150-feet in length and carries
a crew of 10 men. Captain
Oscar Gallis is in char- [
trfk I
o ?
Parts for the damaged mo- ;
tor were expected to arrive
today (Wednesday) in Wil_
mington and it was thought
likely that repairs would be
completed and the boat ready
to sail by the latter part of
this week.
Most Of The News
All The Time
$1.50 PER YEAR
rownWhen
: Overturns;
f Recovered
Tragedy Occurred During
Early Hours Of Thursday
Morning As Men Returned
To Ship Anchored In
Harbor
ONE MAN RESCUED
BY YACHT ALTAIR
Several Boats Spent All
Day Thursday Dragging
For Bodies Of Missing
Men; Dynamite
IJspfl Snndav
?? J
Four men were drowned during
the early hours of Thursday
morning in the river channel a
short distance from the pilot dock
when a rowboat in which Bill
! Creech, Southport man, and four
members of the crew of the
freighter Chippewa were returning
to the steamer capsized.
Their cries for help were heard
by Captain Kempton Adams, of
the yacht Altair. This craft proceeded
at once in the direction of
the men, but E. Arnio, member
of the crew of the Chippewa,
j was the only one rescued. He was
found clinging to the side of the
overturned boat.
The men lost were: Bill Creech,
I of Southport; J. M. Conklin, of
';New York City; M. H. Strahan,
Baton Rouge, La.; and Thomas
Casey, Long Island, N. Y.
The body of Strahan was sigh|ted
Monday by Charlie Swann
and Tony McKeithan, Southport
fishermen, off the point of Battery
Island as they were returning
from their shad nets. The
body was towed to the Southport
dock, where it was turned over ,
to Coroner M. A. Northrop,
j Location of the remains of
Strahan came as an anti-climax
to the intensive four-day search
for bodies of the drowned men.
Throughout the greater part of
the day Thursday several shrimp
boats, whose expense was paid
by owners of the Chippewa, plied
back and forth through the
Southport harbor dragging for
the bodies.
this work was under the direction
of Warrant Officer W. H.
Barnett and the coast guard crew
from Oak Island station. Rain
i [ fell in torrents Friday, but the
(Continued on Page Six)
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Leland Women In
Monthly Meeting
The Leland Home Demonstration
Club met February 18, at
! uie nome or Mrs. K. B. Dresser.
1 Each member received a valentine.
Games and contests were
enjoyed. The leader prepared and
served hominy date pudding to
the following members: Mrs. Dan
Lewis, Mrs. Lee Blake, Miss Marr
ion Smith, Mrs. C. A. Watts and
Mrs. K. B. Dresser.
Members are looking forward
to a Saint Patrick's party next
month at Mrs. G. C. McKeithan's
home.
The club accepted with appreciation
an invitation from the
Phoenix home demonstration club
to visit them the first Tuesday
| in March.
I Tide Table
Following la the tide table
for Southport daring the next
week. These hours are approximately
correct and were furnished
The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
I High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, February 27
11:24 a. m. 5:17 a. m.
11:48 p. m. 5:30 p. m.
Friday, February 28
6:15 a. m.
| 12:20 p. m. 6:27 p. m.
Saturday, February 29
0:45 a. m. 7:23 a. m.
1:20 p. m. 7:35 p. m.
Sunday, March 1
1:47 a. m. 8:34 a. m.
| 2:25 p. ra. 8:44 p. m.
Monday, March 2
2:54 a. m. 9:38 a. m.
3:34 p. m. 9:47 p. m.
Tuesday, March 3
4:03 a. m. 10:34 a. m.
4:40 p. m. 10:43 p. m.
Wednesday, March 4
5:04 a. m. 11:25 a. m.
5:34 p. m. 11:85 p. m.
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LOT
HED EVERY WEDNESDAY
FourMenDi
Small Boat
One BocF
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SKUNK LOSES FOOT,
BUT GETS REVENGE
A skunk whose foot was
frozen fast to a steel rail of
the VV. B. & S. railroad one
morning during the extremely
cold weather, following the
first snow of the season, had
his erring limb amputated by
the wheels of the work car.
The car was stopped and one
man, who evidently did not
know about skunks, got off to
put an end to the suffering of
the little black and white animal.
An unwilling victim of
this act of mercy, the little
fellow died gamely with a final
flourish of his tail that embellished
his would-be benefactor
with a never-to-be-forgotten
fragrance, sending him
into retirement for the day.
W. K. Cox, in charge of
] maintenance on this end of the
line, is authority for this story.
I
Voutided
Lpted Escape
ts County White Man, Critiay
Morning In Second
Attempt
umbus white man, is in criiswick
county hospital after
: as he and Vaughn Speight,
to escape from a road crew
tim
mil.
* Speight, white, also is from
Columbus county. It is reported
that this same pair succeeded in
escaping from the prison camp
near Whiteville several months
ago.
Guard R. B. Holden fired the
shot that dropped Faircloth and
brought Speight to a stop without
using the other barrel. The
wounded man was taken immediately
to the Brunswick county
hospital, in Southport, where an
'emergency operation was performed.
Buckshot wounds were in
the back of his head, the right
side of his abdomen and in his
arms.
j Faircloth was transferred to
the Brunswick county prison
camp, near Supply, last month
from the Columbus county camp.
He had served 6 months of a 15
to 20 months sentence.
The attempted escape Tuesday
was the first to occur at the
! Brunswick county prison camp
since last July.
Fatal Wreck In
County Friday
Bradford C. Royal, High
Point Man, Died Following
Wreck Which Occurred
When Coupe Skidded
On Highway 20
Bradford C. Royal, 57-year-old
salesman of High Point, was instantly
killed Friday afternoon
shortly after 1 o'clock when the
light coupe he was driving skidked,
left the highway and turned
lover in a ditch near Malmo, on
[route 20, about thirteen miles
.west of Wilmington.
Coroner Asa W. Allen said the
cause of death was pulmonary
Ishock.
| The man was taken to Wilmington
by Billie Ganey, of Le{land,
but was pronounced dead
when entered at James Walker
Memorial hospital.
Mr. Ganey told state highway
nntmimen that the Chevrolet
I coupe driven by Royal passed
his machine, traveling in the diIrection
of Whiteville, and that a
few minutes later he came upon
the scene of the wreck. The top
(Continued on page 6)
Moving Wing Of
j School Building
The second wing of the old
school building was torn away
last week and is being moved by
WPA workmen to the colored
school, where it will be used as
a vocational building.
The project is under the supervision
of A. E. Peterson.