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IH \{ost Of The News U \]1 The Time TEN NO. 6 Explain Farm I Kill To Farmers I Before Voting lumtwick County Meeting H|s Scheduled To Be Held On Thursday, March 10, I At Supply yfCIALIST WILL y SPEAK ON PROGRAM I,tton And Tobacco ReferHoda Will Be Held On I Saturday, March 12; Farmers Urged To Cast Vote II Y. Floyd, AAA executive iH,-;cer at State College, has anH Ll,i the complete schedule farmer meetings to be held in H.:xection with the cotton and Hsecnred tobacco referenda. Brjr.swick county farmers will Hither in Supply on Thursday, ' jarth 10. to hear details of the farm program explained by I u Nicholson, of the AAA Hair office. I Eighty of North Carolina's 100 I Unties will be affected. The reUring twenty counties are lotted in the mountainous section i the State where either little i: none of the two crops is ? pwn. Floyd explained that office ~ !kers connecien witn uie cuuu agent in administering- the J pam will meet during the ning previous to the mass ting to have provisions of the act explained to them. ie cotton and tobacco refer- ^ ; will be held March 12. On date farmers will vote for igainst marketing quotas on two crops in 1938. If twoIs or more of the farmers favorably for quotas, rations will be clamped on the ? i this year. r flue-cured tobacco, the t will be set in pounds. S l Carolina's allotment will ibly be between 450,000,000 500 000.000 pounds, Floyd I ton will be handled differNorth Carolina lint growIready have an allotment of . 15 acres, and they will be ir ?d to produce all the cotton can on these acres without r( trie Bits 1; Of Big News I vt Events Of State* * lion and World-Wide t< iterest During Past Week n ei c< d< roviug I he recovery of General a J. Pershing from a grave R (ss depends on the ability K ( I of a weak and. badly damag- w ed heart to keep pumping J I large amounts of fluid his phy- n f I sician said Tuesday. "If the t] H heart is able to do this, the g) I general can get well", said Dr. a I Kolarnl Davison in an official bulletin, in which Lt. Col S. I l". Marietta, army consultant, .. eoncurred. tl I^Poet Dies ? Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy's o; I great warrior-poet, symbol of ti I Italian nationalism and presi- it dent of the Academy of Italy, I tiled unexpectedly Tuesday in Us Villa Vittorialc. A cere- J bra] hemorrhage caused his death. He would have been 75 .Vears old March 12. The body of the great warrior-poet, who I defied his own government to eapture and hold Fiume after the World war and who later became a symbol of the nationalist dreams of fascism, 'ay Tuesday in the death chamber he built for himself 'r. his Villa on the shores of Wise Garda. t'e>'n>an Defiance Germany's only active field "wrslial, Hermann Wilhelm Gocring, Tuesday rattled the caber in best Prussian fashion as he warned that the Reich's air force was ready protect the "ten millions of Germans on o r '.(orders." If | Premier Milan Hodza of Czech ?lovakin, which has 3,500,000 | Germans, and Chancellor Kurt Gchuschnigg of Austria, which H "as about 6,500,000, did not bear him, it was not his fault. "U defiant address coinmem orating the third anniversary I the uir force, which be as I J- minister crested, TH1 v / Ft. < ".: I s ^^Br. JyW': :> ^'Sj| ^m mm - _J aHHi;anH !s .v.^^agap .'^:;:4 BATHERS?The hot ws on swimmers. Above, left t Jarnette and Mercedes Wa Hlot Water We As A Sun lumber Of Fort -Caswell Visitors Sunday Probably Outnumbered Record Crowd Of Previous Sunday rISITORS APPEAR WELL SATISFIED everal Visitors Sunday Brought Along Bottles And Jugs, Apparently Intent Upon Testing ~ Water Sunday was another big day i the history of Ft. Caswell, and is probable that last week's jeord crowd of motorists was lore than equaled. The four-star attraction was, f course, Caswell's far-famed ot water well (plus the prosect of another prevue of March icrmaids). Weather that had Den cold and threatening all eek cleared up early Sunday, nd the logical place for pa and la and all the kids to go was > Ft. Caswell. > News that the warm, artesian low over at the abandonded govrnment reservation actually does ontain healthful properties evi ently has spread abroad, tor it 'as no unusual sight Sunday to ;e persons filling jugs and botles at the shower. Presiding as master of cerelonies at the spray was W. B. leziah, propogandist extradinary, 'ho, like a barker as a county lir, extolled the virtues of the lineral water. "Twill cure- everyiing from dog mange to the Ins of childhood," he promised, nd there was a growing deland for free samples. The general attitude of the visors was one of amazement at ie possibilities of development, hey apparently appreciated, too, ac unhampered freedom of the lace, and the absolute absence f commercialism. They seemed j realize that Caswell is deallg in futures. Already Plann Gulf Strear Wilmington and Southport are both preparing for the Gulf Stream fishing season, Southport being the main expedition headquarters, although many parties will form at Wilmington and come through here. Conferences were held in Wilmington Friday between the Civic Club secretary and the Gulf Stream committee of the New Hanover Fishing Club. It was assured on both sides that there would bo the heartiest cooperation. The undertaking to acquaint sportsmen all over the country with the '.diet that the best of big game fishing may be. had here will be carried on mutally. B. F. Ozmcut, publicity director for the New Hanover Fishing Club, is already busily engaged in sending out several letters to distant sportsmen, telling them all about the local iiihmg and ll' lter tb&h to. join tu tho ST. A Gooc 4-PAGES TODAY iaswell Pool Is Po p.1;"- '- . iter pool at Fort Caswell is s o right, are shown Marion F tts, four comely South port m 11 Continues ?1 ~ A tuay Miuatnuii Appropriations For WPA Gyms ' From WPA headquarters in Raleigh Tuesday came announcement that $14,881 has been allotted Brunswick coun- ' ty for the construction of high school gymnasiums at Leland, Bolivia and Shallotte. As in other WPA projects there are certain provisions that must be made by sponsors of the projects in the way of furnishing funds and materials. It is understood that these conditions already have been met, and work can i begin at onpe on these build- , ings. j Seven Cases Are , Tried Wednesday j Numerous Offenses Includ- j ed In Actions Disposed i ed Of Here Before Judge ^ John B. Ward In Bruns- l wick County Recorder's i Court Seven cases, covering a wide 1 variety of offenses, were dispos- J ed of here In Recorder's court ( last Wednesday before Judge John B. Ward. . Henry Hickman and Charlie , Simmons, white, plead guilty to , charges of assault. Judgment was suspended upon payment of , the costs. Sam Farrow, white, pleaded guilty to charges of tresspass and his judgment, too, was sus- , pended upon payment of the costs. ' James Jenkins, colored, was found of a similar offense and his punishment was the same. G. D. Perkins, colored, was found not guilty to charges of ' (Continued on page 4.) ing First n Trip Of Year > parties. The Southern Civic I Club is pursuing a like course i and has given an order for i the printing of 5,000 mailing < cards that will be sent out, starting the last of this week. I T. I. Watkins, A. D. Cas- j well and Geo. B. Canady, all i on the Gulf Stream fishing ' committee for the New Han- i over organization, are deep- i ly interested. But they are 1 not exceptions, the whole of the several hundred Wil- ( mington sportsmen arc on j their toes for the beginning < of the season. j< Tentatively, the first ex- ' pedition will sail from Southport about March 10th. It is not planned to enlist a great number of sportsmen for this event. The plans are simply to take a couple of boats with six sportsmen and a camera man out on board i each craft. They will go to points near the Gulf Stream and if they find the fish arc i running it is the plan lor (continued ob f-age 4.j 1 k- . - I , " *' ME I 1 News paper In Southport. N. C., Wee Dular B IV. D1 C< ( dis ag in{ CO] bo; an gn tui ab ty tei ty lul foi of thi er< . popular place for off-sea- tu| rink, Doris Corlette, Wilmo ^ ermaids. be, Encouragement Is ^ Seen In Regards,eE To County Roads an Information From Reliable in Source Indicates That At Least Three Much-Need- *hl ed Projects Will Receive 1,1 Attention m< WORK HAS BEGUN ON ROUTE NO. 130 ? en Three Bridge Projects, All ^ Of Them Affecting The sei School Children, To Receive Immediate VI Attention D From a reliable source comes information that at least three nuch-needed and bridge projects n this county will soon receive ittention. Work on a bridge over Calaiash river, near the South Caroina line, already has been completed so that it is now safe 'or use by school buses. Cresote piling already is on fol land for repairs to the second m< nidge between the inland water- ' ,vay and Caswell Beach. This ye jridge has been condemed for be; ise by school buses. sb Another project affecting the rcl safety of school children will be thi :he erection of a walkway over thi :he Shallotte river bridge. This thi s expected to be started before an :hc end of this month. thi WnrU alrnadv has bemin on I I mother section of the Shallotte- Tr tVliiteville highway. This project wa .vill begin in Columbus county be md will extend to Old Dock. It Mi ivill leave a little more than ch jighteen miles of unpaved road ch. between Whiteville and Shallotte. ; Mi Red Cross Roll ^ Call Reported th? Final Figures For This Past ^ Campaign Have Been ^ Forwarded To Headquar- to' ters By The Rev. A. L. So Brown M< There are ninety-four mem- g[ bers of the American Red Cross In Brunswick county according jjc to the report of the last member- ta] ship campaign recently announc- pj. cd by the Rev. A. L. Brown, j,c chairman. q, "Our greatest strength lay in the schools," said the local Ba- n ptist minister. "Every school tf in the county was what wc call one hundred per cent.' That is, every grade in every consolidated school became a member of the wji Rod Cross." ' Tile work of Mrs. Boyd Moore, me of the assistants to South- w port Chairman Mrs. J. W. Ruark, -j-^ Jeservcs special recognition, ac- y,, cording to Mr. Brown. Miss Catherine Fuliwood also rendered ?valuable service. ' To Construct Fire Tower ar an Work will begin immediately co an the construction of a new fis fire tower on the Makatoka-Bol- on ton road. It will be of wood con- no s traction, and will be located w( ibeftit one mile from the Oolum- At bus ccunty line. .... 1 jj?jt P0R1 A Good Com; Inesday, March 2nd, oards Approve Plans For Farm School Program i ocational Agriculture Department For Waccamaw High School For Next , Year Is Assured [STRICT DIRECTOR , ATTENDS MEETING 1 >mmissioners Include Item )f Expense In Plans For Budget For Next Fiscal Year N. B. Chesnutt, of Whiteville, itrict director of vocational riculture, attended a joint meetl of members of the county mmissioners and the county ard of education here Monday d told members of those two oups that a vocational agriculre teacher would be made availle for work in Brunswick counbeginning with the next school m. Members of the board of councommissioners passed a reso:ion to include in the budget r the next fiscal year an item expense sufficient to cover e cost of the erection of the action of a vocational agriculre building and shop at Wacmaw. And requisition to make is a WPA project already has en made out. This will be the first vocationagriculture class in the county, t there are definite plans to pand the program to include at ist two other schools. Members of the board approva request to recommend to s state highway commission at it take over the maintcnce of the old Fayetteville road Northwest township. The commissioners authorized e employment of I. C. Wright the Bald Head Island matter. A remittance of $34,368.73 was ide to the Harris Trust and .vings Bank, of Chicago, to tire interest coupons maturing tween April 1, 1931, and Septlber 30, 1932, in connection th the Brunswick county debt rvice. ieloved Woman Passes Sunday rs. Annie L. Ferguson, 80, Died At Her Home Sunday Evening Following Extended Illness Mrs. Annie L. Ferguson died mday evening at her home here llowing an illness of several inth's duration. The deceased, who was cightyars-old, was one of Southport's si Deiovea ciuzens. up unui a. ort time before her death she tained a remarkable memory of ings that had transpired in Is community during the past ree-score years, and she took unending delight in recalling s glory of the past. She was a loyal member of the , inity Methodist church, and 1 is for over fifty years a memr of the Methodist Women's ssionary Society. She was a arter member of Endeaver apter of Kings Daughters. Surviving is one daughter, rs. Ada Morse, of Southport, , d a grand daughter, Mrs. j rk Winslow, of New York , tyThe funeral services were concted Tuesday afternoon from , s Trinity Methodist church, ; th the Rev. E. M. Hall in arge, assisted by the Rev. C. Phillips. The body was laid rest in the family plot of the uthport cemetery. Active pallbearers were: Joel >orc, John Boyd Finch, R. C. . George, C. Ed. Taylor, J. J. imseur and Rudolph Saunders. < inorary pallbearers were: CapIn W. C. Thompson, R. F. ixco, I. B. .Bussells, W. E. Dosr, J. Berg, Captain J. B. urch and C. M. Crapon. . oy To Return To Reformatory Burris Bozeman, of Shallotte. , io escaped several weeks ago 1 >m Jackson Training School, at ncord, was in the hands of I elfarc Officer C. C. Russ on' ics'day and will be returned to i Concord institution. air Luck For Local Boatmen Thirty-five or more trawlers c making fair to good wages; d expenses this week with | mbined catches of shrimp and I ih. S. I. Burris, who operates e of the four buying houses w open, had fourteen boats irking Monday and Tuesday, her buying housey aUo lud oarihera fit boais. I r pii munity 1938 ruB" Tells Tale Of ( John Wil Picture Recalls Tale Of Heroic Action Of Pilot John William Anderson, Of Civil War Fame STORY HAS BEEN SPREAD ABROAD Released Through State News Bureau, This True Story Of Civil War Bravery Will Appear In Many Aapers A picture and story, shortly to be released to northern and southern newspapers from the local Civic Club by a cooperating- agency, will be of a lot of interest to Southport people. The picture shows the old New Inlet lighthouse, on the river two miles above Southport. The lighthouse is shown as it looks today. The story has to do with the lighthouse as it was during the Civil war when New Inlet, just opposite the lighthouse, and the West Entrances, at Bald Head lighthouse, were both important channels into the Cape Fear. Of chief interest, however, is the story of the blockade runner, Mary Celeste and her memorable trip to Nassau in charge of Pilot John WllBasketball Toi Will Be H Northern Lights Fool Reporter In Wilmington there is a man who, through re|>eated contacts .wijji Qoiyjtj; Forest Warden Dawson Jones, has become very much interested in the forest protection program in Brunswick. Consequently when he sees a dull, red glow down this way he makes a nclevator trip to the top of the Murchison Building to sec if it is a forest fire. If it is, he immediately calls Warden Jones. Several weeks ago the Brunswick county fire warden had an excited call from his friend. "There's a big fire in the northern end of your territory," he said. Warden Jones wasted no time getting started, but search as he may, he was unable to sight a blaze. It was not until the next day when he read reports of the aurora borealis that he understood the reason for his wild-goose-chase. Contributions Fnr fivmnacinm v? VI UMIUVIU1U Splendid Response From Patrons And Friends Of Bolivia High School Help Secure Lumber Considerable lumber for construction of the Bolivia high school gymnasium already is on the grounds and enough other material already has been promised. Under the direction of Coach Ealo Cesseroa, thorough canvass was made of the community. Re(Continued on page lour) PAIRINGS FOR E SOUTIIPORT Monday, 4:00 LELAND BOLIVIA * Monday, 8:30 SHALLOTTE WACCAMAW C Monday. 7:30 BOLIVIA SHALLOTTE Monday, 3:00 SOUTHPORT WACCAMAW rrri'.n ,0T SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Captain I lliam Anderson 3k ; ? ! i . il^r fit i ? i Ham Anderson. < As is already pretty well 1 known, the Mary Celeste got 1 through the blockade despite < being discovered and fired up- 1 on during her outward bound l voyage. At Nassau Pilot Anderson was stricken with 1 yellow fever, and he lay on 1 his bunk dying as she ap- 1 proached the Cape Fear on 1 her return journey at the 1 dead of night. (Continued on page 4) < irnament [eld Next Week * Southport Will Be Host To j Annual Brunswick County High School Tourna- < ment, Which Opens On i Monday PAIRINGS MADE FOR ALL GAMES Tournament Will Be Run Off In Two Days, Necessitating Two For On* ' Of Finalists Op Same Day The annual Brunswick County high school basketball tournament will be played in the Southport gymnasium Monday and Tuesday. High school coaches and principals met Monday afternoon and mapped out the tournament schedule. Deaf ears were turned to the proposal that the number of teams in each division be limited to four;and a proposal to run the tournament for three days in an effort to avoid the necessity of two games for one team on Tuesday also was voted down. As a consequence, one of the finalists in each division will enter Tuesday night's championship game after already playing in the afternoon, and will face a , fresh opponent Bolivia, defending champions in ( I the girls division, has another ; good team this year. Their crown will be threatened by a fine team from Waccamaw and a determined bunch of lassies from Shallotte, Waccamaw boys have been carrying on their winning ways this season and promise to be strong enough to more fhan hold their own against Lcland and Bolivia, their principal antagonists. The bracket below probably i will explain the pairing and time of games better than it can be done in English. TOURNAMENT toys Tuesday, 4:00 Tuesday, 7:30 ;irls Tuesday, 8:30 Tuesday, 3:00 ?? ( . The Pilot Covers 11 Brunswick County | I $1.50 PER YiAK I Fisheries Man I Discusses The I Fish Industry! Says That Sport Fishing U ! Definitely Tied In With I Commercial Fishing -On, I Coast I CHIEF WORK HAS I BEEN WITH SHAD Impressed With Sport Fish- ! ing Possibilities Off Soyth- j I port, Especially In I Gulf Stream H. L. Canfield of the U. S.j! 3ureau of Fisheries, Washington,H D. C., was here Saturday and IB lad a conference with the Civic IH ^lub relative to the fishing in-jS iustry. B Mr. Canfield stated that it wasifl tard to divorce sport from com-[H nercial fishing. In fact the'B :ommercial and sport fishing are /cry much dependent on each ot-lH ler. The sport fishing gives |H >mployment to men and boats atjfl times when there is no com-|H nercial fishing to engage in.lH 'Therefore," he said, "both thelH Federal Bureau and the N. C. B Department of Conservation and H Development are very much in-| H tcrested in the sport fishing off B Southport" | His work, recently, has been in| M connection with the shad fish- I mg industry, and he is still en-|l ?aged in this. He presented tha i cause of the shad fishermen on I the Cape Fear and other eaaternjl Carolina rfters in a very interest-iflj ing light. He described howjl some communities were literally I dependent on these fish for con-ll siderabie periods in the late win-JI icr and early spring, sportsmen | often coming hundreds of miles^H for shad dinners and, in addition! to paying the high price that H the fish command, they also I spend other money in the com-1 munities. B Mr. Canfield stated that a '?w\B days ago Captain John NelsonJI N. C. Fisheries commissioner, was B discussing the sport or n-crca-^E tlonal side of fishing here atjfl Southport and at other points on| the coast and was very much'B interested in the development be-IB cause it meant so much to thcH boatmen and others in the com-^H munities in which it was carriedjl The Civic Club plans to enllstil the aid of both the Federal and>H State Bureau in the development^* of the wonderful sport fishing adl Southport, especially that part^J (Continued u" Page 4) B Three Men Toss i Hats Into Ring ! Another Candidate F-o ill Coroner, Another Sherifnl Candidate And An Addi-jl tion To Commisjionersjl ?. -nil 1 I* I III IM \Lne poillicai put UiCVTO xaimm er and warmer week by week h?B Brunswick county, and since lastB Wednesday three more men hsvefB announced their intention to oeekfB nomination in the Democratic |>rl4B mary in June. ilWrent Mlntz, well-known er of the Freeland section, will B oppose Sheriff J. A. Rush &nd^| Dillon Ganey. B Coroner John G. Caison w'.l^B hu\< opposition from Drew Longj^f of Shallottc, who has announce<^B his intention to seek the nomin-B ation. B Latest addition to the race forjfl county commissioner is RolandjH Mintz, a citizen of the Grissett]B Tide Table H Following is (be tide tabio for Soutbport during (he nMrt IB week. These hours are appro- IB limatelv correct and were fur- Mj nisbed The State Port Pilot IB through the courtesy of tha iB Cape Fear PUot'a Assodatkw. H High lido Low Tldo IB TIDE TABLE J>, B Thursday, March It!IB 8:21 a. m. 2:26 L m. IB 8:37 p. m. 2:11 p. m. M Friday, March t IB 8:59 a. in. 3:05 a. iu. V 9:18 p. m. 3:18 p,, in. Bj Saturday, March 6 ' _ IB 9:12 a. in. 3:45 a.viii- H 10:02 p. ra. 3:56 p. m. |B Sunday, March 6 US 10:30 a. in. 4:26 a. in. H 10:52 p. m. 4:36 p. Ui. Monday, March 7 iB 11:23 a. m. 3:13 a. m. |B 11:16 p. in. 5:21 p. m. |B Tuesday, March 8 iB 6:19 Ik m. |B 12:22 p. m. 6:27 p. m. Wedneeday, March 9 0:16 a. tn. 7:32 a. m. iOtp si. 7:12 f. m.