North Carolina Newspapers

JES" 'Mil Of The News ?j| The Time I K3vEN NO. 3 les And Boat ( urn !o Base flowing Visit I fliiM Tool< 0ff Fr>" I Morning For Norfolk Engaging Msneuv. Iltfere For Past Ten to have them navy day H,t Already Has Been To Have Squad Of Planes Visit B,jhport On Navy jay This Year bombers roared over H:: early Friday morning then turned north ^Cpoared toward their base p.i. A short time later ten ior Thrush pulled ri steamed out the river. H . ,-;ed a pleasant 10-day target practice and for plans in the vicin. ithport. Most of the - were anchored up H-.: above the quarantine I Southport people I -v fleeting glimpses of r.ty t"ok off and returnrancrp I*-;".. yTdiim- >?"p| . morning, howI pre-arranged I formation flyf; .voJ by a landing and a I the harbor opposite 1 < dock. Since word of I- had been given in I . r many persons I t< rfront for the I t reside nts apparently I of the wai I re there were L: hope that soon It,;.: return. I : rence between I Southport citizens 1 ,::t. a formal request ptter. and mailed the comU it Norfolk Friday, askler at least two squadrons le navy bombers to be sent or .Van- Day. October 27th, their: citizens want the plansi tile officers with whom inference was held felt sure twili come. In fact, one ot I stated that with or without ita Southport would prob[ set a great deal of navy Ibs and other government oe in the future. Bnr.g the more or less uni weather conditions that daring the two weeks ining, officers in charge i that outside of the strong hat they found running at tore anchorage, everything fthpert had been O. K. The were anchored at the up' of the harbor where the si runs to narrowness anc > shallower. This combines it for more speed in the 1 Elimination of this trouas suggested through the 1 the area adjoining BatIsland as an anchorage This spot is out of the there is no current and also protected from winds nghness. It is large enough ommodate a large numbei ss and the tender could be -1 in the edge of the har" in front of the plane age. trie Bits Of Big News *' Event* Of State, B*'ion and World-Wide Wrest During Past Week m(ihis Sinks W 'he second time in threi J"'" the bow of the ill-fate< *rine Squalus thrust itset the surface of the Atlantic -n.other of foam to r't once again the craft am head settled back to thi ' ithin a hair's breadtl Ung probably the mos 'Je salvage job in nava ' the ship broke away am 90 feet of water. ^ Stopped H' Collector of the Port o "'k Tuesday ordered tb liner Bremen, the Nor mj the French Line am I p''"r; Aquitania and Tran I -0ntinued on page 8) TH1 1 September Ter Will Conveni Judge Henry L. Stevens Of First Tirrie Sinci Lest Nov A one-week term of B Court for the trial of civil c September 5, with Judge Hei presiding. This will mark the first appear-# ance here of Judge Stevens since! his election as Superior court i judge last November. He was here three years ago to speak before ' j a rally of Young Democrats and at that time made many friends in Southport. Normally the regular term of court would convene on Monday, j but since that is Labor Day the | opening was changed until Tues-j . day. I This will very probably make j no great difference, for only cases of minor importance are cnhndnlnil fn?? 1 TH*** uvuivuu ivu iv/i vii at. i lie v/iic Laot in which there was considerable interest was that of Gause, ad, ministrator for Edwards, vs Thor, genson, Allen and City of South, port. This case has been con tinucd. ! Miss Woodside Attends Meeting Miss Annie May Woodside left . | Tuesday for Asheville where she . is attending the 10th annual con, vention of Delta Kappa Gamma , society which is in session this ' , week at Battery Park Hotel. i Miss Helen Struthers of Wil- ; . mington is the only other memb. er in either Brunswick or New11 , Hanover counties. Whiteville Ma \1 Clipping ' * To Continue To Sell Million Pounds Daily; Prices Are Strong On Good Grades MONDAY WAS BIGGEST DAV OF THE SEASON Average Price For Whiteville Is Higher Than Average For Border Belt; Growers Urged To Sell Now I' > The Whiteville tobacco market | ' continued its record breaking " i pace this week by selling over ' j a million pounds of the golden 1 weed daily. Record after record j has fallen as the steady growth! ! I has even exceeded the expecta-' ' tions of Whiteville's greatest ' boosters. : The average for the Border Belt, up to an including August : 25, is $16.49 per hundredweight ' j while the Whiteville market for : the same period has an average ' j of $16.72. ' ( Supervisor of Sales M. S. Smith said Monday wouici w a ' j (Continued on page 8) ; Drownings Hav Heavy ! The last five bodies which Coroner John G. Caison has J been called to view were vic' tims of drowning, and Brunswick county has more than i contributed her share to the record total of deaths from this cause in North Carolina this summer. North Carolina's epidemic of deaths by drowning con- | tinues unabated, figures released by the State Board of Health show. The total for last month was 33, as g " compared with 21 a year ago, while the June, 1939, totat was 35, against 21 the corc responding month in 1938. The State's total death-toll 1 from drowning in 1939 stands e at 104. During the first seven 1 months last year, it was only t 66. The Board of Health's Vital Statistics report for July, this year, shows a total of 115 deaths attributed to preventable accidents, as compared with only 107 a. year f ago. There was a noticeable e decrease, however, in deaths from all causes, the total for d July, 1939, being 2,453, against 2,635, last July, the death rate for the month I . *- . ' I STj A Goo Southpoi m Of Court e On Tuesday Warsaw Will Bp Here For ? His Election 'e*vber runswick county Superior ases will convent Tuesday,) iry L. Stevens, of Warsaw, j Convalescing be^ |H -\ Friends wil be glad to learn :hat Captain Tommie St. George s much better after being serously ill for several days last veek at Dosher Memorial Hospital. irket Still Million Mark Marsh Hen Season To Open Friday Brunswick county sportsmen will steal a march on fellow nimrods from other sections when they fare forth Friday morning bright and early on the first hunting foray of the season. This time it will be marsh hens they are after. That is, they'll be after them if the full moon tide holds over long enough to make big Friday morning and drive the new crop of marsh chickens into the open where they may be shot. The tide is a rather fickle thing to outguess, and there is no knowing this far in advance whether Friday will be a good day, or whether sportsmen must wait until later in the month for the big September tides to ' *! " rolrl nn thf? IIUtHC I III" infli imu vu 1989 marsh hen crop. re Taken Toll In County dropping from 9.0 to 8.3, while the infant mortality rate for the month dropped from 82.5 in July, 1938, to 57.8 for the corresponding month this year?the total number, from 505 to 373. There was also an upturn in the number of births last month, when 6,454 were reported, as compared with 6,120 a year ago. This is in contrast with the general trend so far this year, up to July, which has been consistently downward. There were only nine deaths from typhoid and paratyphoid fever throughout the State last month, against twelve a year ago, and only 2 from measles, compared with 23 a year ago, when an epidemic occurred. There were no deaths from infantile paralysis, compared with one a year ago, while deaths from pneumonia dropped from 113 to 73 and from diarrhea and enteritis among children under two years old from 174 to 113. Tuberculosis deaths dropped from 137 to 119, while pellagra claimed 25 victims, five more than July of last year. ME >d News paper ] rt, N. CM Wednesday, i Tenant Farmers Will Be Given Chance To Buy ! It Is Purpose Of The Tenant Purchase Program Of Farm Security Administration To Make Farm Owners COMMITTEE FOR BRUNSWICK NAMED Persons Who Now Rent Their Farms Should Investigate This Plan Of Making Purchase Three Brunswick county men 1 have been appointed to the Ten- j ant Purchase Committee by the' secretary of the United States I Department of Agriculture. William C. Gore, Shallotte, A Preston Henry, Winnabow, and James E. Gilbert, Bolivia, are the men who are to aid in executing the tenant purchase, program in Brunswick county. The purpose of the program is to aid tenant farmers through government loans to own their own farms and homes. The farmers, selected by the committee and others who have to approve the loan, will be able to borrow money from the Federal Government at a very low rate of in terest to purchase a selected farm. In some cases the farmer will be given from 20 to 40 years in which to pay for the farm. In other cases the rate of repayment will be determined by his net earnings. | Before the farm is purchased it will be appraised by representatives of the Farm Security Administration and it must indicate that it will support the farmer and his family and repay the loan. The borrower works under the supervision of the Farm Security Administration. Tenant farmers, share-croppers and farm laborers who are interested in making applications may do so at the county agent's office, Supply, or to the Farm Security Administration's office,' Room No. 11, post office building, | Wilmington. Teachers For Two Schools The Faculty Members For Southport And Bolivia Have Been Completed With Only One Or Two Vacancies With consolidated schools of the county scheduled to open on Monday, September 11, for the fall term the faculty list for Southport and Bolivia already has been turned in to the office of Miss Annie May Woodside, county superintendent. One vacancy still exists in the Southport teacher group, with Principal W. R. Lingle still looking: for a boy's coach. Two va cancies exist in the faculty lineup for Bolivia. Following is the list of Southport teachers: Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Lingle, Salisbury: Miss Louise Asbury, Newton; Miss Thelma Comer, Dodson; Miss Myrtle Poore, High Point; Mrs. Thelma Willis; Mrs. Warren Hood; Miss Bertha Colvin, Lincolton, Ga.; Miss Marjorie Welborn, High Point; Miss Louise Ward, Eden ton; Jack Livingston, Lock Haven, Pa. The following will be members of the Bolivia faculty: Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Tucker, Carolina Beach; Norman Chadwick, Straits; Albert Rosser, (Continued on page 8) Club Official Friend Of City T. E. Pickard, Formerly Of The Governor's Hospitality Committee, Now Connected With Motor Club Southport and Brunswick County now have a very good friend in the Carolina Motor Club organization in T. E. Pickard, formerly Executive Secretary of the Governor's Hospitality Committee of North Carolina. Mr. Pickard is now executive assistant to the club. In his work with the state organization Mr. Pickard came Into contact with the Southport (Continued on page 8) P0R1 In A Good Coir \ugust 30, 1939 Evangelist Is | Well Known In This County HPi i? " JUL H. A. Forester Has Concluded Series Of Revival Meetings H. A. Forester, representing the Rescue Mission of Charlotte, has just completed a series of meet-1 , ings at the Peters Chapel com- j * ?J? _1 1_ -t n ??, "NT nnh ! muniiy cnurcn ac ouunc a ncwiv. A feature of the meeting was the special music by Mrs. Forester and her daughter, Miss Mary Frances Forester. The For- . esters were located in Brunswick : county several years ago and! residents in many sections will j remember them for their work at that time. A meeting has been scheduled for another Brunswick county church the third week in September. Routine Session Before Recorder , A. S. Hewett, Prominen! Sawmill Operator, Was Tried Monday For Setting Fire To Woods Judge Walter M. Stanaland reserved judgment for one week' in the case tried before him Mon-, day charging A. S. Hewett, prom-' inent Brunswick county sawmill operator, with seting fire to: woods. The county forest warden \ was prosecuting witness. Harry Clemmons, white, plead- j ed guilty to charges of reck- j less operation and was given 41 months, judgment being suspend- J ed upon payment of the costs and a fine of $25.00. The case charging Thomas 11 Lewis, white, with public drunk- j enness was remanded to the trial justice who sent it up. J. B. Vereen, white, pleaded p guilty to charges of carrying con- j cealed weapons. Sentence of 4 j months on the roads was suspend- j ed upon payment of a fine of $25.00 and costs. Lonnie McLean, colored, pleaded guilty to charges of reck- i less operation. He was given 4 '' months on the roads, Judgment J being suspended upon payment of h a fine of $25,000 and costs. g B. F. Penny, white, pleaded j guilty to charges ot drunken ? driving. He was given 6 months j, on the roads, judgment being suspended upon payment of a fine c of $50.00 and costs, his drivers 0 licenses to be suspended for 121 c (Continued on Page 8) ] Bolivia Farm Boys In Camp ] I ???? | Young Tar Heel Farmers Class Of Bolivia High School Attended The White Lake Camp Last , Week 2 _____ a | A number of the agriculture v boys of Bolivia high school at- * tended the Young Tar Heel Far- $ mer's camp at White Lake dur- v ing the week of August 21. On , ^ Thursday of that week they vis- ja ited Raleigh and. Fort Bragg, js While in Raleigh they visited the j I following places of interest: the | hall of history, the state museum, 11 the state prison, the state hospit- j * al, State College, the state capi-11 tol, and the governor's mansion.!1 They were fortunate in having c the opportunity of meeting and e shaking hands with governor s Clyde R. Hocy. c At camp the boys participated i1 in baseball, Softball, volley ball s and swimming. On Friday night, ' (Continued on page S) ' PIL imunity PUBLISHED EVERY Late War The chance of avertir noon seemed to be fleetir picture in the European dark. At two o'clock thi these dispatches from Eurc ing clouds of war: BERLIN?A showdov crisis was expected within LONDON?Chancelloi Polish cession of Danzig transmitted in his latest n< ters into any kind of nej England for a general Eui chance for any further ne VATICAN CITY?Ex tions in the Vatican were believed to have had defin situation. WARSAW?Reports < noon said that Russian trex on the Russian Western fi BERLIN?Reichfuehre ted to retire to his Baravi day. In the German capita either that he expects the or else he expected war ai luded spot out of the pro; \ldermen Arc Increase ' # Pnmpif |pnr*p I tl V><WlllVlMViivv -m. a a Two Accidents Two prominent Snuthport residents have suffered in- , juries in Lumberton within a week. Last .Monday Mrs. C. Ed. Taylor, stopped for luneh in the Robeson county town en route to Charlotte to visit her daughter. In crossing the ! street she tripped and fell, causing a fracture of her right knee cap. The extent of her injury was not determined until she returned to Southport the last of the week and had x-rays made. Monday of this week H. W. Hood, state inspector for the Bureau of Weights and .Measures, was standing on a street corner in that town when a passing car struck him and knocked him to the t pavement. He now is a patient at Dosher .Memorial Hos- | pital, and his chief injur}' is a busted knee cap. :uneral Held For Mrs. Henry 'rominent Winnabow Lady Died Friday At Home Of Her Son In Winnabow; Funeral Services Held Saturday Mrs. Lizzie Henry, widow of ^ ohn S. Henry, who died several 'ears ago, died Friday at the lome of her son, at Winnabow. | >he was born near Winnabow, j day 26, 1851, and was a charter | nember ot wcw Hope i-resoyier-1 in church. Funeral services were conductd Saturday afternoon at 3i 1'clock from Zion Methodist hurch, of which she was formery a member, by the pastor, lev. W. J. Freeman, assisted by | (Continued on page 8) | Brunswick Coi Really P VV. B. Edwards, of Ash, Route !, was just drifting into pleasint dreams one night last week fhen suddenly he was aroused ly the terrifying squeals of a >ig. Thinking that an old sow vas eating the younger porker, le bounded out of bed, grabbed i flashlight off a nearby dresser ind checked out into the swampy lasture. Heading directly toward the lig's pitiful, and horror, provokng origin of squeals, he pressed he switch of his light and then msiness began to pick up. Be:ause *a large old she bear rearid upon her hind feet over the leriously wounded pig, took one >wlish peek at Edwards and then leaded for him as swiftly as a rwallow ever headed for a chimley. Then business picked up a little ,0T WEDNESDAY Bulletin ig war in Europe this aftei ig with the hours, and th capitals seemed extremel s (Wednesday) afternooi >pe drew a picture of hovei -T" ejsf yn in the tense Europea the next 48 hours. Hitler's insistence upo and the Polish Corridoi ote to Britain, before he er gotiations with France an ropean settlement, left littl gotiations. tremely important negotii s reported today, and wei ite bearing on the Europea :urrent in Poland this aftei ops were being concentrate ontier. ir Adolf Hitler was expei an mountain retreat by Fr 1, this was taken to indical crisis climaxed by that timi red was retiring to some se< ipective bombing district. : Forced To The Tax Rat< Rate Is Hiked From $1.3 To $1.60 To Take Cai Of Demands Of Bom holders For Refundin Plan REFINANCING HAS RFFN WORKFn OU Plan Has Been Submitte To Secretary Of Local Government Commission For Approval Of That Group The tax rate for the city Southport has been raised fro $1.30, the figure- upon which tl 1939 budget was tentative adopted, to $1.60 as a result recent action by members of tl board of aldermen. In explaining this change rate, E. R. Weeks, city tax c( lector, says that the move w necessitated by urgent bondhol ers who are insisting that t city refinance its bonded indebte ness. Details of this refunding pi gram have been worked out wi the local government commissi and the plan has been submitt to Chas. M. Johnson, state tre surer and secretary of the kx government body. The lowest ra which the state officials woe permit the city fathers to le for this year was $1.60, accor ing to Weeks. This action was brought abo when attorneys representing t bondholders threatened to brii suit on September 30 unless plan had been worked out to i sume payment of principal ai interest on the bonds, as well to catch up on the defaulted i tercst. The advantage which the new financed program will have ov the old, according to Weeks, a lower rate of interest, whi will be at 3 percent instead at the old rate of 5V4 and 6 p< cent. The total indebtedness to refinanced is around $158,000.( "An 80-percent collection the 1939 levy, plus an active cai paign to clean up a lot of t (Continued on page 8) mty Man tides Bearbacl more. Edwards made a qui jump and landed on Bruin's bat and away they headed toward denser section of the swamp, wi Mr. Man riding backward, a all the time he was flailing t said Bruin with a short sti that he had picked up previouf to have beaten away the hog th he supposed was offending t P'gBut now Bruin dived into su a thick clump of bushes that fell off and from there he start walking toward the pig or more. Then suddenly Bruin i 1 turned in high gear, we mig | say, and swerving, brush I against Edwards again, whe | she received a couple more wi i lops from the stick in the mai J hand, which helped somewhat accelerate her speed, and s ! headed away for keeps. The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR Aeronautics Man 7. To Arrive Here y Sometime Friday N _ "(Truman W. Miller, Associ. ate Airport Engineer J With Civil Aeronautics n Authority, Has Been In Touch With Mr. Keziah n WILL ADVISE AS r> TO LOCAL FIELD I d Believed That His Visit 'e Here Will Set Into Action Plans For Construction Of Local Air Port i e Truman W. Miller, associate I n airport engineer with the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Washington, has advised W. B. Keziah r- the Southport Civic Club secred tary that he will be here Friday September 1st, to inspect the proposed airport location and to : advise regarding its construction, i- Engineer Miller will be in Wilie \ mington Friday morning, inspecte, | ing work being done at the airc port there. He will come directly from there to Southport and will ? I probably be accompanied here by I Faycttevillc and Wilmington parI ties interested in airports and by I a United States Army official. Engineer Miller had planned to y. get here earlier than this date " but unforscen developments and . necessity for making inspections ,q at other points held up his coming. It is expected that followj ing his trip here something definite will be done towards getting an airport built at Southport. It is hoped that both the army and navy may sec possibilij. tics for making use of an airport here, if one is built. One of the j proposed locations if it proves to | be available, will make it possible to service seaplanes, in addition to the primary object of being a landing field. 11 Bethel Church iy Will Celebrate Of he One Hundredth Anniversary Of Founding Of in That Church Will Be Obj served With Fitting Cereas mony Sunday he I The One Hundredth anniversary c'" j of the founding of Bethel Baptist church will be celebrated Sun o ^ day, September 3, with the folon lowing interesting program to be ed carried out: a- Sunday school will convene at :al 10 o'clock in the morning, folte lowed at 11 o'clock by the anild niversary sermon, which will be vy delivered by Rev. A. T. Howell, d- of Aiken, S. C., oldest living pastor of the church, ut There will be a picnic lunch he spread beneath the oaks on the ig church grounds at the noon hour, a and at 1:30 o'clock there will be e- a song service. Fifteen minutes (id later W. H. Cox of Wilmington as will lead in devotional. Then will n- come a welcome from Rev. G. W. Bullard, pastor, special music ly. by members of Mt. Olive church cr choir, tracing me cnurcn nistory is by Mrs. W. O. Smith. At 2:30 ch o'clock Rev. Z. G. Ray will speak of on "Look Back 100 Years." There :r- will be more special music, a talk be on "Looking Forward", followed 10. by adjournment at 3:15 o'clock, of : Tide Table I ? j Following Is the tide table for Soutbport during the next week. These hours are appr?, xlmately correct and were furknished The State Port Pile* through the courtesy of the | Cape Fear Pilot's Assoclatlo? ck High Tide Low Tttr :k, TIDE TABLE a Thursday, August 31 [ th 8:20 a. m. 2:24 a. mJ nd 8:33 p. m. 2:44 p. m. he Friday, September 1 ck 8:53 p. m. 2:58 a. m. dy 9:07 p. m. 3:19 p. m. at Saturday, September. 2 he 9:28 a. m. 3:29 a. m. 9:42 p. m. 3:52 p. m.| ch Sunday, September 3 he 10:04 a. m. 3:58 a. m. ed 10:22 p. m. 4:27 p. m. 1Ce Monday, September 4 re. 10:46 a. m. 4:29 a. m. ht 11=08 p. m. 5:07 p. m. etl Tuesday, September 5 ,re 11:34 a. m. 5:06 a. m. al 6:02 p. m. ?'S Wednesday, September 6 t0 0:02 a. m. 5:58 a. m. he 12:80 p. m. 7:16 p. m.