EIGHT
Shirley Temple Fil
Princess Coim
It's always an event when
Shirley Temple comes to town,
but according to advance reports
when "The Poor Little Rich
Girl," the tiny star's new Fox
hit, opens Thursday at the Carolina
Theatre, it will be something
in a way of a celebration,
an epoch, a new milestone in entertainment.
For, definitely, the talented
Temple miss is said to give the
performance of her life in this
new film and, to top it off, she's
surrounded by a veritable gallery
of Hollywood's brightest stars including
Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart,
Jack Haley and Michael Whalen.
Add to the star and the cast a
modern, stirring, romantic story
and five bubbling new song hits
by those ace composers, Mack
<Jordon and Harry Revel, and you
have a few of the reasons why
" 'The Poor Little Rich Girl" is
being hailed so highly.
Next Week
"The Princess Comes Across,"
-1 r*a rnlinfl
opens iviuiiuo.y at vu4VWH.
'.Theatre.
The story, designed to give
'best possible play to moviedom's
:new favorite "sweetheart team," I
is set aboard a transatlantic super-liner.
Miss Lombard appears
as a lovely American girl, posing
as a Swedish princess in order
to gain a movie contract.
Aboard ship she meets MacMurxay,
concertian-playing band lea-1
der. and the romance begins.
A pair of murders, blackmail,!
intrigue and the snoopings of
five detectives en route to an international
convention at New j
York provide suspense and thrills
All action of the plot is liberally
sprinkled with music, comedy and
romance of the distinctive MacAIurray-Lombard
band.
1 q Popular
^ Superstitions
To stir tea or coffee with a j
.knife will surely bring bad luck.
. . .
To see one buzzard is a sign
of meeting an unexpected person.
A chair should not be turned
on one post. To do so will bring
ill fortune.
? _ .
If a garment is begun on Friday
or Saturday and not finished
"by Sunday the person for whom
it is made will die before it is
. worn out.
Kill the first snake you see in
a year and you will conquer
your enemies.
? ?. ?
The person who plants a willow
tree will die when it is large
onough to shade their grave.
,
Count seven stars for seven
nights in succession. The seventh
night you will dream of your
ffuture companion.
Tell a dream before breakfast
and it will come true.
Before going to bed, eat a
thimbleful of salt. Walk to bed
backward and you will dream of
the person you are to marry.
JJothing should be taken in the
:mouth after the salt.
* *
If you take a slice of bread or
anything else on your plate when
you already have some it's a
sure sign that somebody hungry
is coming to your house.
For a raven to flutter about
the house or enter through an
open window denotes death if
there be sickness in the house.
The same applies to a red bird.
? ?
Don't sit at a table where there
are thirteen persons. Many people
laugh at this, but the old
superstition holds as good today
as it did a thousand years ago.
* * *
Let swallows build about youi
bouse or in the chimney and yoi
-will never regret it, for the little
birds are joyous harbingers o!
good luck.
Mrs. Bragg?"This picture o
a Sunset was painted by m;
daughter. She studied abroad."
Mr. Grouch?"That explains it
I knew I never saw such a sun
. aet in this country."
"Be kind to insects," says
writer.
We never lose an opportunit
of patting a mosquito on th
back.
"A girl no longer marries
man for better or worse."
"Indeed!"
"No; she marries him formor
or less."
Debt-Collector: "Shall I call to
morrow ?"
Young Lawyer; "Twice, if con
venient! I have an idea that folk
think you are a client."
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Im And "The
;s Across" Coming
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OPEN FORUM
A column dedicated to opinions of
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friends and readers, for which we
accept no responsibility. Contributions
to this column must not i
exceed three hundred words.
I To the Editor of The State Port:
J Pilot, Southport, N. C.,
1 Dear Editor:?
May I present Southport and
Brunswick county from a visitor's
point of view?
j Religion, politics and business
would never have gained their
self-propelling positions had it
'not been for their organized efforts.
This brings us to the thought
of Southport and Brunswick
county, North Carolina, where
nature has bestowed its most
generous bounty. To synchronize 1
this bounty with the needs of ;
the outside world would bring the
I rose to blossom where only . the j
' thistle grows. ' I
The one-crop farmer of the} i
drought-ridden, dust-swept areas 1
of the west would be interested 1
in the cheapness and fertility of i
Brunswick county lands where at
a minimum expense and effort!
all fruit, food and staple crops i
thrive from early spring until v
late fall, and where the seasons s
are dependably regular. The man- e
ufacturer, shipper and the dis- t
tributor in Southport's geogra- j
phi eel location, deep-water harbor.
and intracoastal waterways j
with navigable tributaries offer- i
ing unexcelled receiving and dis- s
tributing advantages for the Car- li
olinas, the great southeast, and
the nation as a whole. The mer-j
chant in well-stocked stores to fc
keep the proceeds and profits of s
' ? xi A
trade at nome, rawer uuu im- c
ther enriching foreign - owned t
chain store monopolies some thir- g
ty odd miles away. The capitalist f
in the investment of his idle funds
where a great combination of
benefits and advantages is con- e
ducive to stability, safety and a
profit. The vacationist in the de- i
lightfully cool summers and beau- g
tiful bathing beaches where the e
outlook and changing panorama
is different, soothing and restful.
The sportsman in the unexcelled f
fishing and hunting so readily ?
accessible by .all modes of travel. 1
And the tourist in the mild win- i
ter climate which he travels a 1
thousand or more miles further t
southward to find and enjoy.
The people of Southport and
Brunswick county should awake I
to the billion dollar opportunity, <
combine their efforts and through i
a county-wide organization tell I
the outside world what the dis- 1
trict has to offer. The expense
would be negligible, but the re
suits would be sure. New people'
would be brought in, additional
homes would be built, abandoned
lands would be cleared and
brought into cultivation, property
values would be increased, jobs
would be multiplied, business activities
would be accelerated, and
new fields of endeavor would be
opened unto the people,
i Millions of people?with capital
to invest?are milling over the
nation in search of farming,
stock - raising, manufacturing,
merchandising, investment and
development opportunities in the
present readjustment period. They
are successful people in their separate
lines, and combining new
ideas and energies would create j
a formidable force in the . upbuilding
of the district. It would
be a happy solution to invite j
them to Southport and Brunswick
county where their partic-:
ular desires could be abundantly I
fulfilled.
Individual prosperity is often
the result of systematic savings
and consistent plugging, but
i community prosperity is the result
of teamwork and intelligent;
planning. The latter would be the
solution for Southport, and the
county of Brunswick.
H. H. THOMAS.
"Dorothy, attending the EpisJ
copal church for the first time,
1 was surprised to see the people
about her kneel suddenly. She
asked her mother why they knelt,
and was told
f "Hush! They are going to say
' their prayers."
"What!" she inquired, "With
" all their clothes on?"
First Maid (talking about a
party given the day before her
a mistress): "And they all came in
limousines and had on thegrandy
est clothes, and wore the biggest
e diamonds."
Neighbor's Maid: "And what
did they talk about."
a First Maid: "Us."
Customer: "Look here! How
e long must I wait for the half
jpoition of duck I ordered?"
Waiter: "Till someone orders
the other half. We can't go out
and kill half a duck."
s Subscribe to The State Port
Pilot $1.50 a year.
THE STATE P<
FANCIES
and
FACTS j
Something New, Something
Old, Something different
(By Carter Burke)
;
Watch and pray. Watch out
that you don't lose what you
have, pray for even more.
Money is * circufating again,
and thru the same peoples hands.
* *
Shut up! Who's writing this. .
you or me?
In the old days, when he said
"I'll pop you," he meant "I'll
kiss you." Nowadays when he
says to her, "I'll pop you," he!
means just that.
If you see that you're going to
be a failure, see me. I can help
you . . to be a failure.
* * I
Fifteen new uses have been ,
found for ground walnut shells, 11
ncluding use in roofing paper, in 1 (
ubber compounds, and as a fil- ,
er in mechanics soap and dyna-! ?
nite. t
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One edition of a large cities ' s
lewspaper, "Washington Herald" c
vill fill a book larger than the1 c
iverage 300 page novel. This is j.
,'xclusive of all advertising mat- v
er.
The female of the seventeen- J
'ear locust cannot make a sound, i
t is the male who does the ;
inging. Also the female is much ii
aiger than the male. It
's
* *
The salmon and the eel both c
ielone- to the fish family, yet, at
pawning time, the salmon trav- ,
Is thousands of miles to reach
he ocean and their spawning
;rounds there have not yet been ^
ound. 0
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An annual lugubrious sports n
vent is held in Calcutta India,
ind is known as the "Noahs (trk"
race. The competitors are
generally a goat, a horse, and an ^
lephant.
European scientists are identi- .
ying storks by leg bands in an
ffort to learn the routes folowed
by these birds in their long t
nigrations. We would like to : c
enow which way the stork heads, I
:oo! It
f
Weed seeds dug up at the Ar- I
ington, Va., experiment station 1
>f the U. S. Department of Agri- j1
:ulture, after having been buried t
thirty years, were grown successfully
on exposure to the elements.
EXUM NEWS
i
Mrs. Marvin Stubbs, who prior ]
to her marriage was Miss Madge 1
Babson, of Ash, died at the Co-J
lumbus County Hospital Sunday i
morning. The body was brought ]
to New Britten church for fun- :
eral and interment on Monday .
afternoon. Surviving her are her .
husband, her parents, Mr. and
*r? **r:n
IVLI S. VV 111 DdlJOUii, auu a ot vtiai
brothers and sisters.
Her many friends will regret
to learn of the death of Mrs. J.
E. Dodson's father, Mr. Ferris,
of Greensboro, which occurred ;
there on Monday of last week.
Odell Bennett and Misses Dap- 1
hne Bennett, Myrtha Phelps,
Blanche Phelps and Mr. and Mrs. .
W. B. Edwards attended a Sun- ,
day School meeting for churches
of the Dock Association at Old
Dock Sunday afternoon.
Little Annie Goley Ray has
returned from Conway, S. C.,
where she spent several days
with relatives. She was accompanied
home by her cousin, Miss
Bessie Gore.
Miss Rosalie Evans has been
spending some time with her sister,
Mrs. S. B. Smith, at Bolton.
Mrs. B. M. Crawford is recovering
nicely from a minor operation
she underwent a few days
ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dutton, of
Nakina, spent Sunday afternoon
here with her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph M. Edwa ds.
Miss Ruth Ludlum taught a
study course for Sunday School
workers at Myrtle Head Baptist
church, near here, last week. A
good attendance was reported.
The six point record system was
nujtancu onu uic auiwi g i aucu
Sunday morning.
Mrs. J. L. Bennett and little
daughter, Rachel, visited her sister,
Mrs. Will Formy Duval, at
Old Dock Sunday.
VISITS FRIENDS
Miss Lillian Collins has just
returned to her home on the
banks of Cape Fear river, near
the old St. Phillips church. She
has been spending some time
with Mrs. Jesse Bryan, of Wilmington,
and visiting other friends.
She was at Carolina beach
and Wrightsville beach with fri.ends.
3RT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N
Teacher: "Johnny; who was i fc
Anne Boleyn?" jj(
Johnny: "Anne Boleyn was a .
flat iron."
Teacher. "What on earth do a
you mean?" ^
Johnny: "Well, it says here in "
the history book 'Henry, having e
disposed of Catherine, pressed his a
suit with Anne Boleyn." n
Unseen by the referee, the all- G
in wrestler bit his opponent sev- "
erely. ' P
"You're biting," hissed the suf- b
ferer. je
"Well," gasped his adversary, I"
"do you expect me to swaller is
you in a lump?" ,8
Judge (at adjournment of 1
court): I've just lost my hat. 8
Lawyer: That's nothing I lost P
a. suit here yesterday.
LITTLE BITS g
OF BIG NEWS .
(Continued from page 1) s]
Rebellion ?
!n
Spain pounded out a military sl
lprising in its leftist capital a
vith artillery and airplane bom- w
jardment today, announced
:onfidently it was smashing re- b.'
a:
solution tnrougnoui trie uuuiibi j
ind rushed a royal peasant army j11
o a rebel stronghold. Police oficials
at Hendaye, on the French 111
lide of the Franco-Spanish bor-1 ir
ler, estimated from refugees ac-!
counts that 25,000 persons had I
leen killed in the Spanish re- 1,1
olt. w
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Death Toll >
IA
Two grade crossing tragedies h
i Michigan contributed 14 deaths e
o a national total of 70 in 20 ci
tates. in week-end automobile ac-1 to
idents throughout the nation. m
hs
Dies Suddenly s
- i th
Patrolman A. D. Newton, of nl
he Wilmington police force, died ni
n his beat early last night near S(
'ront and Orange street while
laking an arrest. Cause of his R
udden death was attributed by'
,'oroner Asa W. Allen to a heart
ttack brought on by over-exer- 171
ion. | ai
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Young Democrats i["
tt
J. Edward Butler, of Morgan-1SI
on, was elected to the presidency j ^
if the North Carolina Young aj
)emocrats at the annual conven- a
ion in Greensboro Saturday de- tt
eating James A. Abernethy, of
Jncolnton, and George L. Hund- s,
ey, of Thomasville, on the first ,-j
'allot. Butler got 177, Aberne- n
hy 99; Hundley 74 votes. w
Unmoved ?
Si
Saved from the electric chair tl
ay a court order for a new trial, s
Mrs. Dorothy Sherwood showed v
little joy over release from the fl
Death House at Sing Sing' and h
returned to the comparative com- n
fort of the county jail at Goshen, a
N. Y? to await a new hearing. |
A former actress and Salvation '
Army worker, she was sentenced
to death for drowning her baby.
Murdered i!
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No clues to the identity of the I
person who brutally murdered r
pretty 19-year-old Helen Cleven- r
?er in her room at the Battery t
Park hotel in Asheville about 1
o'clock Thursday morning have "
been uncovered by sheriffs depu- H
ties. a
t
U nh armed
Edward of England, a king for
almost six months, rode unharmed
Tuesday into range of a load-'
ed, levelled pistol which was v
knocked from the hands of a o
London Malcontent. The pistol i,
taken from the hand of its crippled,
baldheaded owner by a t
middle-aged heroine in grey, clat- a
tered harmlessly to the roadway r
behind the king's horse in crow- r
ded Constitutional hill. The Malcontent,
George Andrew McMa- v
?"'?34' once an editor and a i
native Scotsman, struggled in tne i
strong arms of London bobbies. i
STATE OFFICIALS ?
IN SESSION HERE
LAST WEDNESDAY <
'Continued From Paee T>
was no less interested than Mr. '
Etheridge, making numberless in- (
quiries as to what would aid the '
fishermen. He showed a keen interest
and surprising knowledge, <
saying that he and the department
were now awakening to
conditions here and that the fishing
interests were going to find
help in all things in which it was i
within the power of the depart- ]
ment to give aid. 1
Commissioner J. L. Home, Jr., i
Rocky Mount newspaper publisher,
was more than interested and :
turned loose a deluge of ques- '
tions, suggestions and asked for I
suggestions. He said he was genuinely
interested, wanted to help, i
jwas going to help and he asked .
. c.
sr a lengthy report, giving all
>cal information relative to fishlg.
A sixteen page report, such
s he asked for, was mailed him
londay of this week and a copy
,'aa also sent to Director Ethridge
who had also desired all
vailable information on local
ratters.
Commissioner Jos. Stone, of
Ireensboro, a sportsman from
ay back, gleefully told the reorter
hp had it on all the other
oys on the commission. He fishd
at Southport 45 years ago and
as a going to come back here,
lince 45 years ago he has been
pending much of his summers
i more eastern Carolina counies,
where he keeps boats. He
aid that hereafter we could exect
him back here. His return to
is first love is prompted, to a
irge extent, by the fact that
rout abound here. He stated they
ad almost disappeared from the
lore eastern Carolina counties.
Several other commissioners al5
exhibited great interest in the
shing industry here and the uphot
of it all is that the Departlent
of Commerce and Developlent
and the Fisheries Commision
have been invited to hold
n informal meeting of about a
eek here in September or Oc>ber.
From statements made
y Messrs Etheride, Home, Stone
nd Kelly, it is fairly certain
lat the whole commission will
t back here in two or three
ionths and will go exhaustively
ito local conditions.
Other Department of Conservaon
officials and Fisheries Comlissioners
making the trip here
? ^ IfnniAn Fi T.
ere: J. uuaejr, ?>? ? , ? ?
fard, New Bern; Jas. L. Mcair,
Laurinburg; W. C. Ewing,
ayetteville; F. Percy Carter,
sheville; E. S. Askew, Merry
ill; R. N. Sanford, Raleigh;
apt. John A. Nelson, Morehead
ity. Incidently, Mr. Kelly stated
i a reporter that W. C. McCorick,
State Forest Fire Warden,
id made the statement to the
ithering before the arrival here
lat Brunswick county had the
ost efficient fire control orgazation
of any county in the
:ate.
ollie Walton Keeps The
Mail Coming In On Time
(Continued from Page 1 )
ade travel between Southport
id Wilmington extremely hazrdous,
the W. B. & S. mail bus
dn't miss a trip. At times durig
the more than five years
lat he has served on his run,
noke from forest fires has made
practically impossible to drive
long the highway, still the mail
Iways managed to find a way
irough.
A young man of pleasing perrnality,
Rollie is called upon to
0 a dozen errands each day for
isidents of the communities
hich he serves.
He is a Southport boy and was
ducated in Southport high
chool. His parents live near
own, and he is married to a
outhport girl. However, if he
rants to keep the job in the
imily, it looks like there will
ave to be a girl driver on the
lail and passenger route. For
11 his four children are girls.
JEW HOPE CHURCH
HOMECOMING DAY
OBSERVED SUNDAY
(Continued from page 1)
1 the forum were Hugh Mcleithan,
of Durham; Henry Mc'eithan,
of Florence; Mercer
'aylor, Wilmington; Mrs. Annie
>. Robinson, Southport; Foster
ridgen, of Rocky Mount; and
he Rev. Mr. Crowley, of Willington.
A large crowd was in attenance,
including out-of-state visiors
from Georgia, Florida and
iouth Carolina.
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On Care Received At
Hospital
(Continued from page 1.)
,-as wet from a leak in the roof
if the garage that developed durng
an early morning downpour,
The child appeared to be beween
a month and six weeks oi
ige. Although well formed and
lormal in other respects, he ap>eared
to be undernourished.
Chief of Police W. P. Moore
vas in Wilmington late Tuesdaj
ifternoon checking up on a clue
hat might possibly shed light
lpon the parents of the baby
however, no report of his inves
.igation was available last night
Meanwhile, the baby is the
:hief topic of conversation local
y, and Mr. Sasser says that sev
sral Southport people have spok
;n to him regarding adopting the
.ittle fellow.
JESSE C. WALKER
LEAVES RALEIGH
BUT NOT FREE
(Continued from page 1)
He already has paid for the
murder of Jackson Stanland
Brunswick county deputy in 1914
but he still must serve 30 year!
n Oklahoma for a killing there.
Walker spent from 1914 te
L919 in North Carolina jails
rhen he broke out of a camp ir
he western part of the state.
"I won't say just how I die
it," he smiled. "It might give
someone else an idea. I'm not the
W
same man I was then. I've^changed
since I met the Lord."
Oscar Pitts, acting director of
the penal division, thinks Walker
has changed, too.
"He's the most completely rehabilitated
man I ever saw,"
Pitts said.
Walker went to Gulfport, Miss.,
after he took French leave from
| the prison camp. He became a
jeweler. He married, he was a
respectable member of his community.
| But his conscience pricked.
| "Then I saw the light," Walker
said. "It came down from a
tree top on a country road. A
iman never forgets a thing like
that.
| "You remember a part in the
I Bible that says 'murderers shall
not inherit the kingdom of God'
?something like that?
I "It worried me and I knew I
had to go back to pay the debts
I owed. Because the Bible also
says man shall be forgiven for
all sins if he repents in time and
confesses his sins and his faith.
I thought the hardest things
would be to tell my wife about
my past?but I found out she
had known for years and never
had mentioned it to me. She
stuck by me and said she too
thought I should go back and
pay."
I When North Carolina's Jean
Valjean walked into Central prisson
one Sunday afternoon a year
ago, he told Warden Honeycutt
"My name's Jesse Walker. I'm
, wanted here for murder."
"I recognized you when you
walked in. Walker," the warden
said. "We've been looking for
you for a long time. Sit down
and tell me why you came back."
And Walker did.
Governor Ehringhaus immediately
became interested in the
case. He granted the former killer
a parole June 26, with the reservation
that Walker be released
to Oklahoma authorities.
"But I keep looking on the
bright side," Walker repeated, "I
want to square my debt. And if
WILMINGTON Care
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present need.
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