1'iJot Covers ick (bounty R[~~n!l!: around in 11 - rly turned ; i to the opening of! market in a hope fori' SMauch or more. i ' ' 'N' Iront their I < IB5'-VtT> a.vaiviiiv ^ I. the 19.6 average I states Depart- ] I ilture as a guaran- ( I Some bids sky- 1 I .the levels of ( I - a pound while ' I of much lower I . . for only one cent. ] I- jjx 11 ces, where to- . I ttei grades, prices , I eta. Among such L Douglas hit a top price ' I foi one basket, 32 L 34 at Tifton, L 42 .it Waycrosa [: auctioneers L tit: in a 20-30 I which boost-J I: Georgia market average i lb "jc twenties. r runswick Crash I Fatality Probed cry Impaneled To Fix Responsibility In Death Of [ 17-Year-Old Ted Messick [ Near Leland On Friday I Coror.- r Joe Caison of Bruns-1 c lt'< coiiuntv. Friday impanneled \ E to investigate the death!. - Missick. 17. of Winston- ^ ife" who was killed in an auEK. afrirjfsnt npar T.*>1arul at I e . k Friday morning. f |v however, that j ^Be qrv.v.ion of whether or not ^ ^B inquest will be held will not ^ : immediately, pen^B. on affidavH of the driver of the ^ I I treated at aj ' -jiital for minor!8 was released J * ^B return to his 8 in Salisbury Friday. |' B- accident occurred, v ;Hb?r'. a stray mule wandered in-1 lIB the highway and was struck 1 c ^B die car. Messick's skull was v ^Bcturcd by the impact. If B~r , youth is survived by :v M iml Mrs. T. R. I and a sister. Miss Ruth s ^Bsack, of Winston-Salem. ' ^B ? . o ' to People Have Paid Taxes , ::s have paid Brunswick JaBo-Hy since the advertising list : for publication on' ^ f Bordeaux, Northwest "" W. A. Stanley, Shal-. ^Fte township; R. M. Hewett, J Louis Wad-1 Estate. Town Creek town lohn Bryant Est- , o wnship (color-' M.-K-ithan. town township (colored): Harry Northwest township (col-; Savings I Presbyterian I ^B ^t "(Xt Sun,!ay ,hurch services' K,. %' lcontinue until the old: about Octo-j applies to both Sun-' I So f ?C' an ' (hutch services. | cat,Qn ?! tlur': has i'f'u no indi-j mb at ostein standard time | tttati rt"(i ^e other con ot Southport TH 7 4arketA\ Cents On gHop e T Mintz Ordered For Activ< Southport Attorney Will Service With 3rd B At Cai R. I. Mintz, prominent South port attorney, has been orderei to report for active duty at Cam] Davis on August 15, 1941, fo service with the 3rd Barrage Bal loon squadron. His rank will b that of First Lieutenant. For so long as he is assignei to Camp Davis, Lt. Mintz hope to be able to spend most of hi jff-duty hours here. Lt. Mintz graduated from tin R. O. T. C. unit at State Col lege in 1929, and was commis sioned at Camp Meade, Md., oi July 29, 1929, as Second Lieuten int. On December 3rd, 1934, hi received a promotion to rank o First Lieutenant, and was rein stated to that rank on Octobe L4. 1940. Included in his active duty witl :he army have been the follow ng periods: Unit training en :ampment at Ft. Oglethorpe ii 1934, and again in 1934 at Ft Vtoultrie; on the staff at th< "MTC school of 1937; participa don in the Third Army man )euvers in DeSota National For ;st in 1938. Lt. Mintz occupies a prominen jlace in the business, social, re Prospectors 1 Gold 4 Vlecha ical Indicator Show ed That There Was Trac< Of Gold In Alley Betweer Thompson And Tayloi Homes SEARCH FOR GOLD PROVED FRUITLESS Wen Have Transferred Op> erations To Town Creek Section Of This County; To Try Island Stede Bonnett, that old buryei >f rich treasure, must have hac in uneasy time of it during th< >ast week-end, for prospector! vere in town digging for burriec fold which their sensitive me ihanical indicator said was to b< ound in the alley between th( r. W. Thompson home and th( tome of C. Ed. Taylor on th< vaterfront. But legends to the contrary tnd the mechanical indicator not vithstanding, excavation to e toint eleven and one-half feet beow the surface failed to disclose tny treasure, and the prospectors lave transferred their search tc i piace in Town Creek where il s also reported that hidder wealth awaits some discoverer. An interesting thing about the iperations here is that after the vork had progressed some distince into the ground ,an old bricl vail was discovered, identified bj ome of the older residents as he probable foundation of the ild Dr. Elliott home. Since the (Continued on page 5) Tropical Trav< Now Avai Transportation, a matter that has discouraged many would-be visitors to Bald HeadIsland, is now available according to Charles M. Mathews, manager of the property, this week. An automobile, a truck and a station wagon are the various accommodations for travel about the roads of the island, and a card giving a complete schedule of rates has been printed for distribution. Two or three Southport boatmen have been making a business of ferrying sight-seers over to the island .for a number of years, but there has been a definite limit to the amount of sights that could be seen by a party who elected to go over without making previous arrangements for travel about the island. The island includes 17,500acres, and the principal points of interest are several miles E ST A Go< 28 PAGES TODAY verages i Opening 0 Farmers 1 To Report e Duty In Army Report On August 15th Foi iarrage Balloon School mp Davis - * - -m m i * R. I. MINTZ e ligious, fraternal and political affairs of the town and county and many groups and organizations t will miss his counsel and atten tion during his absence. Dig For I In City Limits * ?? - * i : I Man Treasures ' Brass Matchbox A prized possession of John j' Sellers of Supply is a brass match box which belonged to his wife's grandfather, John Staliings, and which was plowed up in a field near his house , by Mr. Sellers after being lost for more than 29 years. What's more, the long-lost I match container had two mat, ches in it when .Mr. Sellers dug it im. ?nr1 Imth of thpm striirk j and caught fire the first time he tried them! , heedless to say, the box is ; completely water-tight. It also [ is in excellent repair for an , article as old as it is, and one that has been subjected to such hard treatment. i $5,000 Alloted To ; RE A In Brunswick ! The Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, which oper' ates in Brunswick, Columbus and 1 Bladen counties, has been alloted $5,000 to finance house wiring J and plumbing, the Rural Electri' fication Administration in Waslington has announced. 1 The money thus alioted will be r re-ient by the co-operatives to i finance their installations of wir, ing and plumbing and their pur, chase of electrical appliances and equipment. el Tour Is ilable On Island apart. Up until now visitors who wished to see more of the island than just the southwest tip adjoining the boat landing were more or less dependant upon the coast guard or the private conveyances of the Bald Head farming enterprise to bum rides. No more of that. If you want to visit the old coast guard station, the rate schedule shows the distance, plus the charge for each passenger. If you are a fisherman and wish to visit the favorite fishing grounds off the cape, you can take a rate I card and figure out the price of your trip in advance. The same procedure holds for a ride down to Corn Cake inlet, a trip that may be made only at low tide. It may cost you a little money, but Bald Head Island may now be seen with a minimum of discomfort. ? ATE 1 >d News paper In Southport, N. C., Wed; County Budget I Adopted Monday With $1.60 Rate | i Board Of County Commis- I I sioners In Regular Sea- I sion Here Approve Bud- I get As Submitted To I Them By St. George PP LOCAL GOVERNMENT ' COMMISSION O. K. . Commissioners Also Passed I Resolution To Dispossess All Persons Living On County Property The budget for the fiscal year I 1940-42 for Brunswick county H was finally adopted Monday by I members of the board of county H commissioners in session here. County Auditor R. C. St. Geo- I rge was in Raleigh last week to I appear before the Local Govern- I ment Commission for approval of ? his budget estimate. Having gain ed this approval, he submitted his _ figures to the commissioners and a saw them accepted. I The commissioners passed a resolution Monday to the effect that all persons now living on property for which Brunswick county holds title will be dispossessed on October 1, 1941, unless satisfactory arrangements have 1? been made with the board in the meantime. | ne Routine Session ? I Of County Court ? i Five Cases Disposed Of "? Here In Recorder's Court of< Monday Before Judge BM Walter M. Stanaland COI Five cases weer disposed of ' here in Recorder's court Monday th< before Judge Walter M. Stana- of land. Be Beaty Fullwood, colored, was thl found guilty of being a nuisance wa and was given 12 months on the his roads. Judgment was suspended Br upon payment of costs and a fine tin of $25.00, upon the further condi- od tion that the defendant "remain of good behavior for 2 years. th? Arnold Page and C. J. Cole- no' man, white, were found not guilty of larceny by trick. |V Sam Dudley, colored, was found wl guilty of making an assault with a deadly weapon and was given 6 months on the roads. Judgment was suspended upon payment of costs and a fine of $25. R?' The defendant must remain of ' good behavior for 12 months. I George Green, colored, was ^ found not guilty on charges of c carrying a concealed weapon and making an assault with a deadly weapon. Kir' Dickie Ganey, white, was found nif?f cnlltv nf heinp- drunk and riis- Uet* orderly. He was given 30 days ' on the roads, judgment being suspended upon payment of a fine 1"a of $25.00 and costs. He rrust re- ' main of good behavior for 12 months. ?r colo Funeral Monday ^ For Aged Lady the Mrs. Alice W. McKeithan XU Buried Monday Afternoon " Following Last Rites At Zion Methodist Church Final rites for Mrs. Alice W. p McKeithan. 81, who died Satur- , day night at Town Creek, were ? held at the Zion Methodist church ^ Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. * Revs. Walter V. Pavey, Walter B. a Freed and J. W. Freeman offici ated and burial was in the church cemetery. sat': Active pallbearers were grand- en01 sons of the deceased. Honorary au^' pallbearers were O. A. Durant, E. M C. Woodbury, J. A. Lawson, C. be Ed. Taylor, E. V. Evans, J. L. that Henry, Dr. E. C. Anderson, Mel- ?ord vin Edge, Jesse Knox, F. L. Gal- bay loway, A. B. Rodes, H. E. O'Keef, E. R. Clark and W. C. Davis. Tl Five sons and two daughters etl ' survive. They are R. S., W. S., grai and G. P. McKeithail, all of Wil- a 0IJ mington, Roy McKeithan of Lum- Co11 berton and Claude McKeithan of Jacksonville, Mrs. George H. Fick c0 ( of Wrightsville Beach and Mrs. by W. W. Knox of Town Creek. Sev- tlnu eral grandchildren also survive. a? SERIOUSLY ILL ^ Rev. J. R. Potts of Southport nitp became seriously ill Friday and of j since that time has been a patient ti at Dosher Memorial Hospital. grai malf RETURNS HOSIE Floj Roy Daniel, Jr., returned home H last Wednesday from Bullock's gro\ Hospital, Wilmington. i POR i A Good Co nesday, August 6, CHAIP i I 3erk Of Court PresentsFriend, Sam T. Bennett Clerk of court Sam T. Ben tt was busy waiting on a ilor Monday when we went to get the Recorder's court ws. "I want you to meet m T. Bennett", he said, and 9 stranger stuck out his hand. It turned out that there was joke, that the visitor in his 'ice really was Samuel Thoi* Bennett, formerly of the labash community in this imty, now of Wilmington, rhe Wilmington version of 5 Sam T. Bennetts is the son the late Captain George nnett, famous mariner of a county. It seems that he s born at sea, and that when i parents returned to their unswick county home with ;ir new youngster they learnthat he bore the identical me of another new arrival in i comunity, the man who is w clerk of court, ne Arrested In Store Robber) jbers Broke Into Elber Cirby Store At Suppb ,ast Week And Escapet Vith Valuable Merchan lise obbers broke into the J. H jy store at Supply Thursda; it and took merchandise val at between $250.00 am ).00. lcluded in the loot was i ntitv of shoes, cigarettes hing, etc. herlff Dillon L. Ganey sail iday that Anderson Harvej red, has been arrested in con don with the crime and tha ortion of the stolen goods ha 1 recovered. fficers are still working 01 case. eed Farmers Grow Grain* Y. Floyd, Extension To iacco Expert, Urges More Veed Farmers To Grov Irain; Warns Of Appro ichtng High Prices o tobacco farmer should b sfied until he has growi jgh small grain and hay t >ly all home and farm needs oreover, hay is expected t< so high in price next yea tobacco growers cannot af to run the risk of buyinj and growing tobacco to pa; it. sbacco fields can be prepar easily to sow wheat or smal n, says E. Y. Floyd, exten tobacco specialist at Stat ege. artilizer applied to the tobac :rop was not used up entirel; the tobacco plants, he con ed, and that which still re ns in the soil is generall; icient to start small grains, (lis means that the grain need only a top-dressing o ogen fertilizer about the las February or the first of March obacco followed by smal ns as a winter cover cro] ;es a good crop rotatior rd added. e also stated that man; vers have not yet cut al (Continued on page 5} T PI] mmunity 1941 IMAN AND THE ] ?. JS&Sl - v 1 "*" HEADS BOARD?L. T to succeed C. Ed Taylor trustees for Dosher Memo by a joint board named b commissioners. : Yaskell Is Ch Of H Southport Man Is Nam Chairman Of Board Trustees, Succeeding Ed Taylor In This Caj city SUTTON RETAINED BUSINESS MANAGI Trustees Enter Into An Ei nest Discussion Of Plar For The Best Possible Operation Of Hospital A meeting of the newly | pointed board of trustees for | Dosher Memorial Hospital * held Tuesday night and L. Yaskell was named chairm succeeding C. Ed. Taylor. J. D. Suttoh was re-appoin business manager, and no chan were announced in connect with the personnel of the in. tution. The meeting produced earn discussion of problems relating the welfare of the hospital i there was an indication that new board will take an agr sive stand in forwarding the terests of the institution. All members except Ru Dosher and W. R. Holmes w t in attendance. Those present r eluded Yaskell, Taylor, Sutton, j I. Mintz, Charlie Woodbury ? S. B. Frink. : White Escapee [ Is Recapture i Edgar Henderson, W I !, Broke Out Of Local J Last Wednesday, Tak i In Onslow County Mc day t Sheriff D. L. Ganey, assis s by Onslow officers, captured 1 gar Henderson at Sneads Fe n Monday night, and returned t to the Brunswick jail from wh he escaped last week by drill a hole through the brick w Henderson, a young white m has a rather interesting co > record. A year and a half i ^ he broke into the home of J. Ramsaur at the Oaks Plantat . and stole from there a pistol, ? longing to F. B. Adams of N f York, owner of the plantation Convicted of breaking into home and stealing the gun, H derson drew 18-months on e roads. He finished serving n (Continued on Page 5) l Halting Of Si May Boc Y ? Well, gals, cotton stockin) may be on the way. I Moreover, you may be wea ing cotton dresses, cotton ui e dies, or at best a reasonab facsimile of what used to I silk. It's all about the U. S.-Je ^ fracas, and the requisitions of all silk on hand in this coui try by the Office of Products ^ Management, and there beir not much chance of gettir ? away more from the Nippoi ^ ese for a long time to come. 1 The OMP has stopped all pr ' cessing of raw silk in th I country, with the result th: P the hosiery and silk manufa '' turing operators of the com try had to shut down and leai II an estimated 175,000 worke ' idle. 0 LOT LISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY HOSPITAL . Yaskell, left, has been named as chairman of the board of rial Hospital, which is operated iy the city aldermen and county iairman ospital Trustees * Of I I^i fir* mimnf 1\11IV Ulll/Vl C- Holds Interest ia>Ioc Du Bois of the Whiteville Post American Legion j attended a meeting of the I Brunswick County Post here ar" J Thursday night and members ,s i held a rifle -shoot that lasted | until well into the evening. An improvised target range j was rigged up in the high school < gymnasium with the aP" j broad brick chimney as back j ground, and legionnaires presvas | out and a fine time busting tarT gets. an' The session was prolonged through the dead-eye rivalry cc between Lacy Dawkins and *P"'S .lack Potter.rf! ho couldn't r.iiss. '?.n This and other factors contrlb3 1 uted to make the event a big success, and C'has. >1. Trott, cst commander of the local |>ost, *? promises another rifle shoot at irK' an early meeting, the i" j Coy Formy Duval H Brags On Weed in-1 H. [Brunswick County Farmer; indj Says He Has Best Tobac-S co Crop He Has Ever j Raised This Year One man who is mighty proud d! of his 1940 tobacco crop is Coy I Formy Duval whose farm lies next to the Waccamaw river in Brunswick county, l o Mr. Formy Duval is mighty ail proud of his place, and he claims en that it is the finest farm in )n. Brunswick county. But this year, according to his story, he has the best tobacco crop that he has had ted in years, and the tops he has seen 2d- anywhere. rry One secret of the success of dm his this yr-r's venture is that his ich land is well drained, having a ing natural fall into the river basin, all. so when his neighbors were sufan. fering from the floods of July, urt his weed crop was using what it igo needed and letting the rest run J. off into the nearby stream, ion Mr. Formy Duval is like most be- of the other farmers of the coun'ew ty. He believes that anybody who has good tobacco will be paid a the good price for this year's offeren ings. What's more, he plans to the have some graded up and ready his to put on sale the day the market opens. Ik Imports >st Cotton Prices ;s Priorities Director E. R. Stettinius, Jr., Friday ordered the r- "freezing" of every bale of raw silk in the nation's mills and lc warehouses promptly after no3e tification from the army and navy that the milUary require'P | ments for silk in the next two | years will approximately equal n~ i the total stocks in the coun)n try. i s All of which may work to the advantage of the southern cotton grower. Cotton may be the 0_ logical substitute for the silk js which this country has been importing from Japan. c. In North Carolina, the shutti ting down of all factories which 'e were processing silk affects rs some 11,000 workers in the state- _ jkuA 1 1 i Most Of The News All The Time jfe 1 $1.50 PER YEAR ? Restrictions On Gasoline Impose Shorter Hours ?? Filling Stations Have Been Closing At 7 O'clock Since Sunday In Effort To Reduce Gas Consumption OTHER MEASURES LIKELY TO FOLLOW This Is First In Series Of Moves Designed To Protect Supply Of Gasoline Now In This Section Washington, ? In a move toward compulsory restriction on the use of gasoline. Secretary * Ickes has called upon the oil industry to close 100,000 service stations in the eastern States from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m., seven days a week, effective August 3. The closing would affect all gasoline retail stations on the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida. I Declaring that "voluntary rationing to date has not achieved the reduction which must be accomplished if we are to avoid a more serious situation later," Ickes spoke of the possibility of more serious rationing, including issuance of rationing cards. The recommendaiion for closing of service stations during night hours would be applicable throughout the states of Maine, mew XlcUIipailll C, VCIUIUIU, rnaooachusscts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, II J Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, the peninsula of Florida, the District of Columbia, and all marketing areas in or cast of the Appalachian mountains in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, and such addi- . tional marketing areas in said J states where any substantial part of the motor fuel supplied is cither produced in any of said states or shipped into such areas J from any point east of uch areas. f To assure effectiveness of the | closing, Ickes said he was requesting, suppliers of gasoline to take such action, including the I j refusal to make further deliveries of motor fuel, as may be appropriate in cases of continued jjj and deliberate failure on the' c part of any retailer to observe the recommendation. Special consideration was giv- ; en by Ickes to emergency use of vehicles at night. Nine White Men Leave For Camp r Nine Brunswick County White Men To Report To Selective Service Board Friday Morning To Leave For Camp Nine Brunswick county white men will report to the Brunswick County Selective Service Board in Southport Friday morning be- i fore leaving on the bus for Ft. Bragg, where they will be induct- , ed into the United States Army. The men reporting for duty are: Elbert Sprunt Clemmons, Wilbur Caison, William Purvis Andrews, Eliga Ander Robbins, George Atwood Milliner, Ivan Olan Coleman, Leon Anderson Modlin, Cyrile Allaccn Carter and Rice Coda Smith. ???? Tide Table ; Following is the tide table for Southport during 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. High Tide Low Tide TIDE TABLE ? i Thursday, August 7 7:29 a. m. 1:31 a. in. 7:49 p. m. 1:44 p. m. Friday, August 8 8:11 a. m. 2:16 a. m. 8:31 p. m. * 2:32 p. m. Saturday, August 9 8:54 a. m. 2:58 a. m. 9:13 p. m. 3:16 p. m. Sunday, August 10 9:37 a. m. 3:37 a. m. 9:55 p. m. 3:57 p. in. : Monday, August 11 10:21 a. m. 4:15 a. ra. I, 10:38 p. m. 4:38 p. in. Tuesday, August 12 11:04 a. m. 4:51 a. ra. 11:21 p. m. 5:21 p. m? Wednesday, August 13 11:49 a. m. 5:31 a. ra. 6:09 p. ra, u