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ofl^t Of The News rS 4II The Time ^METEN NO. vp Production Mfjit Associat'n At Next Week Meeting Of This '^Kficiation Will Be Held ^^fffustomshouse In Wil-1 ^K,r(on Friddy, January ! ^A members * TO BE PRESENT j Report Will Be K At That Time And j K, Directors Will Be Elected < Wilmington j Ovtlit Association. | [ New Ha novei-. j ^Hj I heir fifth annual! ^^Eitrs rtins on Friday, I ^Fr Lt'tli. at 10 o'clock, in at the customshousc I ihH |H today 'intcd to a very . interest to the . arranged. Mrs. ^^K.. including reports on the : organization, and to ' attendance meeting. Two directors the (spol iation began IK-.-i it lias made loans B."- jiiT. Ivm;;. It now lias I I it the annual niectKd! include H. M. Guyot. of I 'ii Credit CorporaI viumbia. Reports will be K ly .Inhn It. Mollis. K Mi? Elizabeth T. I iry-treasurer. I Jtathews said that the 'ss'? iition was anxI lead all others in this I in attendance and I | was hoinp made] L every member present.! I < liriT Bits Of Big News Wi Event* Of State, Won snd World-Wide laterest During Past Week Hie possibility that capital Ins may lie "put to sleep" tor they are executed at rJi Carolina's central prison Bfftarol Tuesday as legislation prepared to consider a bill ^ bch would substitute elec^ mmi for asphyxiation, ^ rcmor Hoey disclosed that possibility had been proand that he believed "it * orth looking into." The ^ r;rn"r's statement was shortly after he had conBbol with Warden Hugh Wiland Chaplain E. C. Cooper |*Central prison on the pend^Pt elcctiocution bill. In a . ^fcssago to the General As-1 ^kbly last week, the Gov-j . ted that the law- j consider w h c t h e r | B7 State should return to j Bktncity as an egent of; B"ptal punishment. The lPf>5 j Hjfembly substituted lethal El Bir heme (I Mineral European war besimmer over Italy's deHhn>j fw French colonics was j W^ictoi Tuesday by the | Mftwrkan ambassadors to F"-n"- aivl Great Britain in testimony before ConI nal committees which weigh President Roosss $2,090,000,000 national program. It was learnI - from an unimpeachable that Joseph P. Kennedy. l*l?aa>jor to the Court of James, and William C. Bul ambassador to France, ini , h joint executive sesI . "f dm House ar.d Senate ' I'arv Affairs Committees ' Ixrlioved a general ' ^ration inevitable. Divide Funds State is virtually comto diverting $7,000,000 I revenues to bal 4ft tlw ?tneral fund budget th? next three yefi,-uB^ ors faced with the task a record $154,514, i*2 were told B^v- Only an unexpected Mg? -1 general fund tax can prevent that I - other infonr.aI ^tttttued on gage \) TH1 50 Superior Court After Only Tv si Jury Was Dismissed From Further Duty Monday Afternoon While A 1 1 Other Matters Were Settled Tuesday JUDGE HARRIS WAS PRESIDING Only Matters Of Minor Importance And Public Interest Were Disposed Of During Session The January term of Brunswick county Superior court which convened Monday lasted for less than two days, and jury members weren't even required to come back for the second day. Judge W. C. Harris of Raleigh presided over the term, which was for the trial of civil actions. Two divorce cases. Fred Brown vs Alice Brown and Florence Watkins vs Ed Watkins, both on the grounds of two years separation. were disposed of. A non-suit was taken in the case of Reeves, administrator, vs Thomas. Similar action resulted from an old suit of Willetts vs Cooper and in the case of Jas. McMillan vs D. L. Gore. In the case of D. B. Lewis vs i W. A. Lewis the judgment was I allowed to remain the same as' Organization A Civitans jj A. M. Whclpley, Organizer For Civitan Club, Has Been Busy This Week Lining Up Prospective Members FRIDAY MEETING ALL-IMPORTANT Will Discuss At That Time Final Plan Of Organization And Officers Of Club Will Be Elected Following a preliminary meeting held Friday night at the city hall with a representative group of eight or ten Southport business men in attendance plans have gone ahead thi3 week for j organizing a Civitan club here. | A. M. Wlielpley, organizer for j the Civitans. presided at that meeting and pointed out the ad-1 vantages to be gained from an j organized club that is intcrnat-1 in?nl 1" itu c.'nlin III' 1?>ft lllllf- ! ters up to tile men present, who expressed a strong sentiment in favor of a club for South port. Friday night of this week was set as the time for an organization meeting and in the meantime Mr. Whelpley, together with Captain John Ericksen, E. It. Weeks. B. J. liolden and Orinand Lcggett, who were named on the membership committee, li a v e been actively at work contacting local citizens. Every business and professional man in town is invited to attend the meeting Friday night. Before the organization actually is set up there must be some rules and requirements governing the local body settled u|>on. This and the election of officers is expected to take up the greater part of tlie business meeting. Work Will Begin On Road Projec Machinery And Equipment Of E. W, Grannis Arrives Preparatory To Paving 130 And Nakina Road Machinery and equipment of E. W. Grannis, contractor who will do the paving on Highway 130 toward Shallotte, and the Nakina road both, began arriving the latter part of the week, and work on the projects will begin in the immediate future. Just when the actual paving 'would begin is a matter in the future, since considerable grading, leveling and locating remains to be done on both roads before the paving can be put down. Both will be paved with sandasphalt surface. On highway 130, the six and a half miles in the new letting will carry the hard surface across the Brunswick county line at New Britton Ferry by a mile. On the Nakina road, the paving will begin at the forks at the Lewis Place in the Pleasant Plains section, and will continue in the direction of Nakina for about four miles> ( I ... ^ E STi A Goo< 4-PAGES TODAY : Adjourned ro-Day Session t-? ' Hp ' ' ^ k, ' &-" ' -^HL_ * : > I' ,* - JS^^I '1:vH . Mr/ j; k JFOGK W. C. HARRIS that passed in September, 1938. Final report of the referee in the suit of Brunswick county vs Hale Beach Corporation was made and accepted. The case of Ralph Frink vs Grissett was decided for the plaintiff by default. A survey was ordered in the case of Hewctt vs Hcwett and of Frink vs Grissett. In the land suit of Carter vs Bennett the judgment was in favor of the plaintiff. Meeting Of [ Set For Friday Trouble Finding This Dog's Owner Vallec Frcderc would Hke to know who owns the fine hound that ho and II. L. Mays, president of the North Carolina Fox Hunters have been shipping bark and forth between Southport and Taylorsville. President Mays would like to know who has one of his fine dogs. Mays, who is also Sheriff of Alexander county, was here recently on a hunting trip. At the end of the week one of his fine young hounds was missing and the journey home was made without her. A few days later I redere caught an extra fine looking hound and shipped it to Mays at Taylorsvillc. Within a week dog and crate came I... ..I- ..it I, a nnip from Max's. reading: "This ain't my dog." It appears that the hound which Mays lost, was a lady dog. whereas, the one that Fredere shipped him was a gentleman. ??? River Survey Now Being Made J U. S. Army Engineers operating from a quartermaster boat stationed at Southport, have been busily engaged in making surveys of the channel above and below the harbor during the past three weeks. It is understood that a survey has also been made to determine if the old wrecks near Battery Island are a menace to navigation and if they can be removed. Sometime ago a request was made of the engineers office to look into the matter of the | wrecks, which arc considered I dangerous to yachts and other small boats when such craft are numerous here in the fall and spring. "Whittlers Par For Arl 1 ' Southport people and hundreds of visitors will be interested in knowing that "Whittlers Park" on the waterfront near the office of the Cape Fear Pilot is loafing along on its way to undying fame. The benches that form a squared circle around the old cedar and two populars go back to beyond the memory of anyone. It is true that they have been replaced repeatedly when time and the actions of vandals made it necessary, but it has never been considered vandalism to whittle on the benches, of "Whittlers Park." There the loafers have always been allowed to whittle upon anything at hand as they discussed the ills of county, state and nation and prescribed remedies, that no one ever h4d eSough eflergy \TE I News paper Ii Southport, N. CL, W Nautical School Bill Introduced By Senator Frink Bill Proposing Establishment Of School For Nautical Training Introduced Thursday By Frink PROPOSAL IS NOW BEFORE COMMITTEE Considerable Press Comment Follows Introduction Of Bill And Indications Are Very Favorable Senator S. Bunn Frink introduced a bill in the state senate Thursday proposing the establishment of a nautical school at some point along the coast of North Carolina. The bill is now before the education committee, but the press comment given this proposal over the week-end was very favorable and from unexpected sources have come pledges of support of this measure. Emmctt Bellamy, member of | the state senate from New Hanover county, was here Monday to attend court and said that he could be quoted as saying that he was highly in favor of the bill. "There has been much favorable reaction", he said, "antl although it could not be mentioned in the diii as introduced, i dciicvc uiai Southport is the logical place for i the location of the school. "You may quote me as saying that I am heartily in fuvor of this bill and will do all in my power to secure its passage." A copy of the bill was not available for publication this week, but an effort will be made to secure one before next week. Pretty Weather Attracts Artists Painters Here Sunday Seeking Scenes Of Interest In And About City Of Southport Henry McMillan, head of the Wilmington Art Museum; Irving Guycr, assistant director of the New York Art Museum; Lawrence Stuntz and Miss Pat Kcrncy of Washington, D. C., and Claude Howell of Wilmington spent Sunday here painting Southport scenes. McMillan got an especially interesting drawing, using the famous old Stuart House for his subject. He advised the Civic Club secretary that lie wanted to bring a lot of the students and instructors of the Wilmington Art Musuem here and take them to Bald Head island sometime Soon. Over there is plenty of the scenic beautiful awaiting to be transferred to canvass. This was the first visit of Miss Kerncy and Stuntz to Southport. The others have been here on painting trips many tunes dur(Continued on page 4.) Freshwater Fish Begin To Bile County Forest Warden Dawson Jones and Postmaster L. T. Yaskcll got five beautiful two and one-half pound large mouth bass Monday afternoon. They also took several goggleyc perch and an equal number of jacks. Despite the carliness of the season both of the sportsmen avowed they would have made a better catch if they had been able to secure any live minnows for bait. k" Headed t Hall Of Fame to administer. The original "brain trust" was organized at "Whittlers Park" in Southport. It is still functioning there. Last summer artists began to take note of "Whittlers Park" and its rustic beauty, which they reproduced scores of times on canvass. These pictures arc now on exhihi-tion tn a dozen different art museums. Still others are in private collections. One such painting has already received a bid to be placed on exhibition at the Worlds Fair in New York. At present it is on exhibition in the museum in Richmond, Va. From there it will be carried to the World Fair in April and remain until November. The paintings all bear tfce same simple name, "Whittlers Pifk, Soutfcport, N. C." POR' n A Good Con ednesday, January 11, Wilmington Will Help Southport On This Project From Louis T. Moore, Secretary Of Wilmington Chamber Of Commerce, Comes Pledge Of Support In Asking Naval Base NAVY PROGRAM TO BE EXPANDED Moore Says That Southport Appears To Be Ideally Situated For Location Of New Base From Louis T. Moore, secretary of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, has come an offer to cooperate with W. B. Keziah, secretary of the Southport Civic Club in an effort to have one of the new bases to be included in the naval expansion program established here. Present indications point to the United States putting on a great Navy program this year, and such a program is actually underway at the present time. The navy has already recommended expansion in the way of bases for naval aircraft, destroyers, submarines and ammunition storage as the indispensable necessities of peace-time operation of the expanding fleet. Influential officials at Washington predict that a vast program will be authorized by Congress in the immediate future. One bill has already been introduced calling for 10.000 army airplanes and 100,000 reserve pilots. Believing Southport especially adapted for some of these shore bases or at least meeting requirements of some of the items in the naval expansion program, manager Louis T. Moore of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce is working with the Southport Civic Club secretary, W. E. Kcziali, to see that Senators Reynolds and Bailey and Congressman Clark keep the advantages and possibilities of the Southport harbor before the naval authorities. The offer of every assistance from the' Wilmington organization came voluntary this past week in a letter from Mr. Moore to Mr. Kcziali. Newspaper clippings relevant to the matter were inclosed and both Mr. Moore and Mr. Keziali arc already working witli Washington to have the possibilities here seen and recognized. Seek Reserves With Experience Plan Advanced For Securing Army Reserve Corps With Considerable Strength For Emergency Duty Major General Stanley D. Embick, commanding the Fourth Corps Area, with headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia, announces that the Army is desirous of securing the enlistment in the eight Southeastern states comprising the 1th Corps Area, of 1,600 men with prior Army service in the newest component of our National Defense, the Regular Army "Reserve. This latest addition to National defense was authorized by the 75th Congress with a view of maintaining a corps of trained men of approximately 75,000, available for immediate call to duty 83 reinforcements for the regular army, in the event of a national emergency. Major General Embick states that approximately 1,000 Southern lads have been enlisted in the reserve since the effective date of the act July 1, 1938. The reservist is not under military jurisdiction and will not be called to active service except in case of an emergency declared by the President of the United States. The reservist Is not required to attend drills or camps and is assured that his civilian (Continued on page 4) Two Sessions Of County Board Members of the board of county commissioners held their regular first of the month meeting here Friday afternoon and being unable to complete their business met again on Monday. Most of their time was devoted to hearing delegations with regard to road petitions and to making tax adjustments. A resolution was passed to pay John B. Ward $125.00 as balance on his salary from July 1, 1938, to December 1, 1938. r pii imunity 1939 pubu; Dr. J. Arthur D Following E Beloved Southport Physician Passes At Brunswick County Hospital Where He Was A Patient FUNERAL BEING HELD THIS P. M. Body Will Be Laid To Rest In Southport Cemetery With Fellow Lodge Members As Pallbearers Dr. J. Arthur Dosher* beloved Southport physician, died Tuesday afternoon following an extended illness. At the time of his death he was a patient at the Bruns1 wick County Hospital where he , has been for the past few weeks. Dr. Dosher was a native of Southport, the son of J. Julius and Mary Piner Dosher. Had he | lived until April 30 he would have been 61-ycars of age. Following his completion of public and private school training here he studied at the Maryland Col| lege of Pharmacy, from which institution he was graudatcd in 1900. Continuing his studies at the Medical school of the Unijversity of Maryland he was graj duatcd in 1903 as doctor of medicine. Returning to his home he became a practicing physician, gradually devoting more and more of his time to surgery; and from Frink Appoint Commi I M/?n; i-Iirfli M il U I I L 1 V ?? X ll^ll i it i 1?V7 For Bowling Set i Two new high score re I'vrli were sot at tin- South|?ort Bowling Alleys last week as players went after the prizes offered In dead earnest. " The men's high wore of 207 posted several weeks ago by Arville t'otrell was topped Friday by W. C. Beeee, whose high seorc was 213. The woman's high seorc prize, held jointly by Sirs. II. T. St. George and Mrs. W. t'. Recce at 171, toppled Tuesday before the dead-eye bowling of Mrs. I'rcstoii Bryant, who hiked the record to 174. Winner of fhe women's high score prize for last week was Miss Blanche Lewis, with 150. Colonial Dames Visit Brunswick The society of Colonial Dames made its annual early spring pilgrimage to old St. Phillips Church on the Cape Kcar river eight niilcs above Southport this | morning. A short but interesting program was given. While the ruins of St. Phillips arc admittedly of later construction than the church at Bath, many well informed people now believe that a church or churches at Brunswick preceded St. Phillips and that the St. Phillips parish is really the oldest in the U. S. Correspondence is now being carried on with authorities in England for the purpose of ascertaining if there was not a church near here before the building of St. Phillips. Unusual Fish / Ten Thousaii A most unusual fish that thrusts both upper and lower jaw out for about four inches when its mouth opens, was sent to the State Museum in Raleigh Tuesday by W. B. Keziah Civic Club secretary. The fish weighed 22-pounds and was caught Monday on Frying Pan shoals by the crew of the Maude and Mable. They were using hand lines and the fish bit like any other. As a matter of fact, it was little different from other fish, except for the peculiar mouth action. A hurried search through Websters International dictionary failed to reveal any picture of classification of the specimen. For want of a better name and inspired by the fact that it bore some resemblence, a local wag named it Donald Duck. Two other strange fish and a nine pound crawfish were also do&ted by Captain Tom iOT [ SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 'osher Dies xtended Illness * . ^ ^nrnwl SmIMI 9 BWfeliiHI WSKrik ' ',?f t ;. fltta ' I v; ^ 1I"."?,\- y i '" "iTfW''^r '' ?-???i , i DR. J. ARTHUR DOSIIKR | that time until his health gave way two years ago he sacrificed his life in unselfish service to the sick and suffering of this eonimuhity and county. . After the' United States, entered the World War in 1917 Dr. Dosher served on the medical 1 staff of thrise army training camps before sailing for France, where, lie spent ' 11 months at Bordeaux. In 1919 he became acting assistant surgeon of-the United States Public Health Service and served in that capacity until (Continued on Page 4.) edOn 17 ittees In Senate k L Southport Man, Beginning Second Term As State Senator, Named Chairman Of The Commercial Fisheries Committee NAMED IN OTHER IMPORtANT GROUPS \ Senator Frink And Reprej (tentative Thomas Returcd Home For WeekEnd Following First Week S. Bunn Frink, Southport attorney who is beginning his secjond term as member of tlic State Senate, was named Friday by Lt. .Governor \V. P. - liorton as chairman of Uie important commercial fisheries committee and was given membership 011 17 other senate committees. hi addition he is luetnbar of tlie following groups: Appropriations, Conservation and Development, Consolidated Statutes, Counties, Cities and Towns, Courts and Judicial Districts, distribution of the governor's message, engrossed bills, enrolled bills, institutions of the blind, institutions of the deaf, insurance, judiciary number one, justices of | the peace, committee on senate expenditures, 'wiiiiiuti^g vn commerce and committee on (Continued from page one) Choi era Kills Several Hogs County Agent J. E. Dddson last week reported that one farmer ; near Supply had lust six hogs from cholera and that about 26 others in the same herd were down with the disease. The agent was vaccinating all hogs in the immediate neighborhood. He had no reports of the 'disease being anywhere else than i the one jwln't at Supply. ^mong The td Pound Catch lin and the crew of the Maude and Mable to be sent to Raleigh for classification. From the tip of his whiskers to the tip of his tail, the crawfish was about four feet in length. He looked Just like a good old fashioned, country crawfish, but his proposing whiskers gave him ah extremely respectable appearance. The whiskers and the nine pounds which he weighed made him some crawfish. On this trip the' Maude and Mable was out- five days and she brought in. 10,371 pounds of fish. Most of the catch were black fish but there were also a lot of sailors choice, grunts. lady fish and snappers, in addition to a half-dozen other sorts ! which no one could name. Half-dozen pictures were snapped of Donald Duck and the venerable nine-pound crawfish before they set out via express for the museum in Rileigh. 'it ' * 1 ' ? i i The Pilot Covers Brunswick County . * ???n i ?? t 91.80 PER YEAH t Warns Against Underestimating Treaty Danger In Letter To Editor Of Tldt Newspaper Geo. W. Rap* pelyea Says Facts Cannpt ( Be Lightly Explained Away CUES-PROVISIONS -OF THE TREATY In Following Letter ?* cerps From Treaty Aft . Picked Out And Explained By Maritime Lawyer January 2. 1939 Mr. James M. Harper, Jr. Editor State Port Pilot Southport, N. Carolina Dear Mr. Harper; I notice in the issue of the Pilot for Wednesday December 28th, that you make an apology or a retraction for your story in the previous issue concerning the International Labor Treaty which was based upon my story in Motor Boating. This is the only paper that I know of that has made any such apology or retraction. The New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times carried the story based on my article on the front pages of their newspapers. Under date of December 28th f I received a letter from Hill Taylor of the New York Herskl Tribune, who says in part "I have noted with some amusement a tot of cover tip announcements from Washington?I got one the other , lav that started out to prove there was no cause for worry and completely disproved Its own Jj point before It got through. I haven't seen any reuson yet to retract','. . Miss Perkins unit some of her fellow Cabinet members have Issued a lot. of statement!), and have referred to other conventions in order to cover up the dangers of Convention 53. You say that you received from ,J. your Congressman a copy of tin; c; Treaty, flic Treaty plainly says . that the master Is the person-in charge of a'boat and he must'he licensed and when the master is not on duty then the person in charge of navigating or piloting the boat is the mate and must be licensed. It says that the person in charge of the propelling machinery is the chief engineer and must lie licensed and when he is below for any purpose, whoever is in charge of the engine mast be licensed. The Treaty says that it applies to All boats and just to make?certain Ihat-therc-wM no mistake on this score the Senate made a grave error of i*e-j taking the Department of Commerce's statement of fact that.jt would affect all boats for thP 1 Department's suggested revi^&n that it apply only to those boats not subject to inspection and they added their understanding in ratifying the treaty that the treaty I would certainly apply to all boa^p. If you nave rcaa me treaty, I don't see how that you or anyone else can lightly explain away I these facts, lite Department .-ofj Labor says there La no danger,Jto jS j small laiata but Uiey arc draw- j I big an exemption law. The D?epartmcnt of Commerce and L)epartmcnt of State makes the same kind of a statement. -If i there is no danger then why all 1 this talk about proposed exemption laws ? The American Power Boat Association with 220,000 members have endorsed 100 per cent the (Continued on Page Four) Tide Table Following Is the tide table for Southport during .the nqg? week. These hours are approximately correct and were furnished Hie State Fort FlM through the courtesy of tte Cape Fear Pilot's Association High Tide Low THt TIDE TABLE ft Thursday, January It <*' 9:44 a. m. 6:69 a. na. 12:69 p. ra. 7:27 p. as. Friday, January 13 1:39 a.m. 8:04 1:64 p. ra. 8:29 p. atSaturday, January 14 14 2:37 a. m. 9:06 a. li. 3:55 p. ra. 9:24 p. OL Sunday, January 15 Ifr 3:37 a. ra. 10:03 a. Tit 3:57 p. m. 10:16 p. PL Monday, January 16 4:36 a. m. 10:54 a. m. 4:66 p. m. 11:06 p. nfc Tuesday, January 17 -T- . M 5:27 a. m. 11:42 a. m 5:47 p. ra. 11:64 p. ra. Wednesday, January 18 -fit; 6:12 a. at. Mm fj 8:31 p. m. 12:20 p. Oh . " ' " ?