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PAGE TWO ? ? THE STATE PORT PILOT Southport, N. C. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor ntared aa aecond-claaa matter April 28, 1B28, at tfca Poet Office at Southport, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1870. Subscription Rates ONE TEAR $1.60 BIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS .76 NATIONAUDITORIAL_ IflAl ^ASSOCIATION Wednesday, February 18, 19-12 When most people staid out to build up a reputation for themselves, they begin i by hammering the other fellow. Then someone h; Id ... Jap want the eart'v > liave ii?> lie Ready? One of the be pleasure to read i ten Reynolds in a about the British \ thirty official vicloi Nazi aircraft. When asked what thou Hashed 1 1 ? 1. ~K/v ii- oftoi" i tnrougn iiis miiiu whch hc j his first victim, he replied that he didn't think. "I just did the tilings they'd taughtj me to do instinctively, and 1 discovered that they worked alright." All of these meetings, all of this organization that has gone on in Brunswick county under the Civilian Defense committee may seem pretty much involved to most of us. Some may reason that there! is little likelihood that these wardens, i these nurses and the members of the various committees will ever have re; life job to do. This kind of wish thinking ; i . to our safety and all thoughts security must be erased from our We are in an area which may 1 l ; ed; we do face possible danger <> I. ling from sea, or of an air raid. A i . we are to come through our fir.-.; b: j by fire with flying colors, then we inns, take our duties seriously and see io it that we are able to "just do the things I they taught us to do." Air Supremacy? _____________ Few men have any precise knowledge of the extent of American arms produci tion today. And none can or will describe ' it except in general terms. Facts and fig| ures which could be of any service whatsoever to the enemy are not released or published. It is to the credit of the American press that it has accepted and made workable a "voluntary censorship" system which keeps the American people the !best informed in the world, and still makes public nothing which could be used to advantage by the intelligence and espionage services of the Axis powers. But non-statistical reports are being printed, written by men who have been permitted to see what industry is doing j for the war effort. At long last, those reports are becoming encouraging. This country is, of course, still far away from the goal of maxii Him war production But ii is some instance ceeded. Industry, b.. the complex change V* tion to war-prodiu celerity and ecomm i many expected. Am fense Head Donald \ ; of the unprecedentei en him to weed out bur. . ployes who threatened to Km defense drive in red-tape. The main emphasis is on airplanes. As | Times writes, "The world has not yet I' seen, felt nor imagined the full and awful might of air power." What the Germans did with planes in conquering Europe is regarded as merely the beginning. Ships of almost incredible range, fire-power and' load capacity are planned. Today the largest airplane engine in actual production has an output of 220 horsepower. Designers s?\y that such engines will seem almost tiny by comparison with gigantic ones of the future. Writing some monlh.s ago in the Atlantic Monthly, Tvi.. r i ISeversky said: "Kesearcn is protr (i successfully on airplane engines tha d velop as much as 8,000 horsepower! . . . The super bombers of tomorrow will fiy from 50 to 100 tons oi explosives ... A thousand such craft will accomplish much destruction in a single action as Germany has been able to score in six months of continuous bombings ... At least 200 Coventries could be destroyed." In the meantime, this country is building planes which reliable experts say are I unsurpassed anywhere. The war has made | it plain that the bomber is the most effec-j tive offensive weapon any nation can use,; if it is adequately supported with sea and i land power. The United States airplane production schedule involves a very high proportion of giant four-engine ships of the Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 types. It is those ships which the Dutch have used so effectively to harry and destroy Japanese shipping and military concentrations. To quote Time once again, i "It has already been established that in j building the heavy bombers with which air power strikes, the U. S. is far and, ' ' A.. _ j. ,u? ,,.^,.1^ >>| away aneaci 01 we rest ui mc num.. : ?And the rest of the world combined cannot equal our potential bomber production capacity. j The grave disasters we and our Allies i have suffered in the Pacific can be laid ' one tiling: lack of supplies and ' and \a terrible inferiority in:, i in the Philippines and Malayan L tigns Japan's control of the air has A :s almost unquestioned. Mere handfuls; Allied planes have gone into action ' st veritable swarms of enemy plan- 1 he Allied pilots and ships have given j ignificent account of themselves, but s . iill.- long run the very weight of num- < bers wins the day. 1 I That is what we are working for now ' ?to gain for ourselves and the United Nations the vital weight of numbers?in j planes, in ships, in guns?which is essen- c tial to victory. Everyone who has actually i seen action in this war reports that the j Jap planes are slower, frailer, poorer- t armed than ours. The British report that, ? plane for plane, they have no doubt of j the R. A. F.'s ability to outdo Goering's Luftwaffe. The task is simply to produce enough equipment, and transport it to the j fighting fronts, to overcome the great l numerical supremacy the enemy posses- 1 c ses. t That will not be done in a hurry. 'a Churchill has said that at least anotherL f year must pass before it will be possible j or ?lie Allies to effectively take the of-! foil. w. Other authorities plan on a three ie to five-year war. It will be hard and cost-jj iy to regain positions the enemy has seiz- u eci?in the Far East, in Eprope, in Af- h rica. The factories of America has been 0 a given a production job which is unpre-jg cedented in world history. They have ac- o cepted that job without reservation. * il Speak Up, Mr. Henderson, Is It True? " c Price Czar Leon Henderson put it on f just a wee bit too thick the other day, F and killed the entire effect of his intend- r ed spirit of "we share and share alike in f this war." F b Quizzed by newsmen if he were going to have to stand in line and wait for his stamps soon to be necessary for the pur- f chase of sugar, an emphatic "yes" was s forthcoming. v e "And furthermore" chortled Price Czar ? Henderson "if it hadn't been for a friend, J I wouldn't have any sugar in my house s right now." Well, that impromptu statement on the p 1, . ? rv-F Ifv TTnnverm will nvninnf mnnv U 1 ' I .HI. J IVIIVIVlCVli " '? """V i-loving American citizens to ^ hy Mr. Henderson isn't able to s allotted three-quai-ters of a pound t igar per week like the rest of us. a rely, the influence of no friend is ne (< ;sary for that. t Could it be that Mr. Henderson has more than his allotted amount of the n precious sweet in his larder? C ? t | Shears And Paste ; WASHINGTON "SEES d 8 National complacency stUl worries the capital. I The public is seen viewing the war as one v of air and naval battles. That illusion is to f s be shuttered. It's to be a Churchill war of toil and sweat and blood. f Taxes are to be brutal. Labor reforms arc c to be jettisoned. Individual rights are to be c crushed. Property rights are to fade. Most?if not all?the fundamental principles of democ- t racv are to be tramnled underfoot hv the f war machine. All these and many more shocks are inevit- i able, but the public doesn't yet have a full < comprehension of this inferno to come. That J worries the policy makers. They yearn for a revival of the old World war fervor?patriotic frenzy, if you please?which inspired men to 1 place their all on the altar of nation security, ] Magazine of Wall Street. i THE STATE PORT The FISHERMEN BT BILL KEZIAli From John Carlyle Bennett of Vsheville comes inquiries regardng deep sen fishing. By that he neuns sailfish and what goes vith them. He has lately been far town in the Pacific and his erstvhile fishing grounds are now veil planted with live mines, vhile the headquarters of things ire a concentration camp for terms, Japs and Itehies. * * ? So. back in his native land, Mr. Bennett assumes tnat we realize hat once a fisherman catches a ish in salt water he forgets all ibout freshwater fishing. (If this ilaim was true we might be reieved of the task of obtaining ninnows for the local postmaster, f we could get him outside once), w * Writing from Northfield, Michgan, .Airs. W. D. Davis, formerly if Southport, says she greatly enoys this column. She says that mt there 011 Lake Michigan they at<'h their fish by going out on he ice, chopping holes and fishng through it. She prefers to do ler fishing at Cape Creek. So do ve. * * * As we get nearer and nearer o spring it is becoming increasnly evident that the minds of a ot of people are turning to fishng, just as usual at this season if the year. The past week or wo has brought dozens of inquires from readers of this papet nd other sportsmen who have ,n itching to go fishing. * * * For those who think it is too arly for freshwater fishing, we could like to express the reminder hat on February ICth, two years ,go Charlie Farrell of Grcensmrii mill nnstnnister I.. T. Yaskell f Southport wont to Orion pond .ml caught 10 big mouth bass, ;oggle eye perch and other perch f various sorts. The next day 'harlic and 1 went and got 47 n about two hours. # # # It is now safe to begin lookig for sportsmen from Greens-' loro and dozens of other North Carolina towns to be showing up or fresh or saltwater fishing, deiending on the weather at the ime. We don't know this year's ates for guides at Orton, but we eel assured that as a result of ilentiful rains the fishing will ie the best in many years. * * ? Last summer probably presentd the lowest peak in freshwater ishing this county has had in evcral decades. Last fall and this rinter has seemingly marked the nd of the longest dry s|?ell the ounty has ever had and for this ear and succeeding years the reshwater sport should steadily ;row better. ? ? ? During the dry weather many ionds and lakes dried completely p with the loss of all fish life, 'hey will have to be restocked if hey are to again afford sport, leveral of the larger lakes reained plenty of water to sustain ,mple stock and these places will fford good fishing this year and nth it growing increasingly beter for several years, at least. * * * One place which we will have 10 hesitacy in recommending to reshwater sportsmen this year is >rton Pond. There is a moderate harge for boats and guides. And he fishing Is worth it. It was rorth it last year, even with the Iry weather, and will be more ban worth It this year, in our pinion. The water in this pond lid not fall to the extent of the tock being damaged. * * * Mercers Pond and McKenzie's 'ond should also offer good freshvater fishing this year. Neither dace is actually a pond. They are limply freshwater points at the ipper end of tidal streams. So ar as we know the fish life they lontain were not effected by the iry weather. * * * (loose Lake on the n|>|>er realties of Lockwood's Folly River, should also be fine for freshvater fishing this year and thenire various other streams and akcs that can be counted on. For Folks in the lower part of the county there is a choice area in the Waccamaw river. * When all is said and done, there ire various and sundry Brunswick sportsmen who have said and who will continue to say that Town Creek offers the best freshwater i PILOT, SOUTHPORT. N. C. [ THE HOME j FRONT 5 _????????- t'or the] Just because Axis warplanes sjZe | haven't yet raided Americani i cities, don't make the mistake of j ! thinking the Axis is ignoring our sonr , home front. 1 A Remember the Axis method?: the divide and conquer? Night and iday. Joe Goebbels' radio-ranters "u r have been telling us the British j :'1C were trying to get us to fight j bur their war. Meanwhile, they were t^a telling the British we were trying to steal their markets and make Washington the capital of wic the world. How successful have actj they been in selling their wares? and | Well, tne measure of their success ! lies in the amount of suspicion, wln ! grumbling and mistrust which Sou they can produce among the j.0,. United Nations. Instead of falling victim to such ^un ; obvious propaganda, let's inject scjc into our conversations some of ajo: the facts and figures about our af[( war program. Instead of fuming be : about what the British arc doing, j tot or not doing, in Burma of Libya, j jza( 1 let's keep posted on what we, as [ra( civilians, can do to help America fel. reach her maximum war effort, j j AUTO GRAVEYARDS TO GO j A Field men of the Bureau of In-, reC( dust rial Conservation, working in fa)s I cooperation with the WPA, havejjn , ! begun a survey of automobile j j0 j graveyards in Virginia and the i tjor j Carolinas in an effort to expedite jnV( I the flow of scrap materials into ' ^;re | war production. Most graveyard j ]jve I operators are demonstrating their j c]eS( ! willingness to aid in the program. | saje In cases where operators fail to cooperate, however, they will be j -j I given a reasonable time to strip !p|et jout automobiles of usable appli- i tion ances and the government then j acci ' will resort to requisitioning. ' tyI)l SALVAGE TO THE FRONT j trat Twenty-three states, including | itlnj i Virginia and the Carolinas, are [ wrj, j either organizing salvage commit-1 pa,.| I tees or have completed organiza- j duc j tion. The public may assist in the program ny collecting scrap; metals, rags, rubber and waste-' paper. Collections should be sold 1 use j to local waste dealers or given to j j collecting charities, j SEEKING RUBBER SOURCES neei The Japanese thrust into Mai- 1,ar aya and the Dutch East Indies out ! may have cut off a great part of ava 1 our rubber imports, but already! aml 1 we are preparing for the day a')'t ! when our present reserves are ex- Per hausted. Not only will plants be established for the manufacturing T of synthetic rubber, but the orgi U. S, is working \v*.: IZi izil ian for the development of t Ama-: ? zon Valley as a vast rubber producing area. It is estimated that ; from 60,00 to 70,000 tons a year ' can be gotten from tiie wild forest regions, although President Roosevelt warned recently that there will be a real problem in getting crude rubber out of the hitherto virtually inaccessible area. THOUSANDS GIVE BI.OOD During December and January, 55,505 persons gave blood donations for the Army-Navy plasma supply?a 100 per cent increase over the period preceding the Pearl Harbor attack. Hundreds of thousands of donations are still needed, however, the Red Cross reports. DON'T WASTE FOOD Consumers who have built up hoards cf sugar will have stamps torn from their ration books, thus deriving them of their right to buy more sugar until their hoards are used. When consumers apply [ for War Ration Book No. 1, they [ j will be required to make a certijfied statement as to the amount : of sugar per person in their family. All sugar in excess of two pounds per person will be considered hoarded. "It should be a point of pride with every good American not to hoard or waste food," declared Claude R. Wickard, secretary of agriculture, and Leon Henderson, administrator of the Office of Price Administration, in a recent joint statement. They said the aim of their agencies would be to stabilize living costs and prevent inflation. WAR BOOSTS BUILDING New construction will reach a total of S10,750,000,000 in 1942, topping the dollar volume of construction in any year since 1928, according to Labor Secretary Perkins. "More than six billion dollars, or 60 per cent, of the 1942 construction", she said, "will be j Federally-financed work under the j expanded war program . . . Ali though private construction and ! non-defense public works will decline sharply in 1942, the increase in construction for the war program will more than offset this decline." REFRIGERATORS FROZEN Stocks of new mechanical reI frigerators have been ordered froI zen by the War Production Board, [and refrigerator production will j shut down completely after April au. neiauers may sell 1-12 the I fishing in the county. We think it I probably does if you can get the I right boatman and know how to I fish for the especial inhabitants I 'of this stream. L - NOT aptain Fridolf Anderson, director b at Southport, has broadcast ov t-wide network . . . And that rei re probably isn't another town t in the state more capable of iety radio show than is Southp lebody might get around to tryin) .ccording to the men on the Ra man with the Model T is better ler of a Rolls-Royce pleasure sed s: and soon the home heated ner will be a warmer place in n a place served by an oil-bur re marches on?in circles . . . Wh k County Basketball tournament ion next week we don't see why Waccamaw girls should not t Ready to bump off the favoriti thport and Bolivia boys, with Sh; se possibility; and the Shallotte iber of new refrigerators they Lt I in 1941 or 100 new refriger- fu rs, whichever is the greater, j th ;r which no further sales may 'pc made. Manufacturers and dis- pi utors must get specific author* | ea ;ion from WPB to sell, lease, ' h? Je, lend, deliver, ship or trans- j tii new refrigerators. fo RUBBER FIRM INDICTED ,n Indiana firm was indicted j fo ;ntly on a charge of filing a i pr ~ iMiwnfAM, rtF Hrefi nnH tuhes I C8 >c - . stock. The company is alleged t have attempted to evade ra- ] ling regulations by destroying jntory records and storing j s in homes, making secret de-' ries and making false invoices j ' Bribing sales of new tires as is of used tires. DIO PLANTS CONVERTING! he radio industry will be com-1E ely converted to war produc-1 in within about three months, or siding to pr esent plans. The t E ewriter industry is to concen- ] in :e on war production also, lim-' d? g the manufacture of type- j d? ters and converting a major! af t of its facilities to the pro- rg tion of ordnance. ' H 1)1 r.S GETTING SCARCE a( ivilians are being urged to w dark shades of dyes sparingMost of the raw materials ] n which dyes ate made are! S< led in large quantities for mil- i re y programs, the WPB points' It Certain dyes will not be i th ilable for civilian use at all, j j{( the quantities of those avail-1 y, i will be reduced to about 50 jj< cent of last year's supply. i ]U TO REVAMP OCD b( here is to be a complete re- io rnization of the Office of Civil- R Defense, according to Director i> This week list, and becau were in arrear continued. If any misl we have kept know at once s sue you should If the trout have overlook send in your cl so we can keep With a wa coming up, yo your county n< The S "YOUR S( WEDNES EXACTLY NE of the USO all, it should be er NBC's na- Headlining' the ninds us that mington will be tl >f comparable and Dick Lever, putting on a adjudged the mi ort. Someday world by fans at g it. tangle with the 1 tioning Board "The Devil and J off than the j slickest comedy h an with slick j the Amuzu on W with a trash ' week, which to live Two radio show ning furnace, jy?although they en the Bruns- "Sunset Serenade' : swings into to 6 o'clock ovei Leland boys j "Sunday Serenade le favored to make for mighty ;s will be the would be conside allotte a dark suggest that its gills. All in good dance? rndis. Pointing out that OCD d notions revolve primarily around b e task of preparing the civilian A ipulation against che danger of d lysical attacks, he declared that ti ich person in the OCD must fi ive a clear and definite funcan and must be qualified to perrm that function. 0 "We need to organize our ]( rces", he said, "and then hold j, actice tests to see whether they ? in function." 1( SHALLOTTE ; SCHOOL NEWS ' , ti PRESENT PLAY Under the guidance of Miss mma Barker work has been gog on for several weeks on a le-act play entitled "Thursday Sl vening". This play was entered c the one-act play contest Frily evening at Southport. It was z ifeated, but all Shallotte school F frees that Doris Robinson, Geo-:3 ;e Dance, Leona Bellamy, and P ilda Kirby did a good job cf's iting and that Miss Barker did; ell at directing. JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET Details relative to the Junior- ? mior banquet were settled at a,, cent meeting of the junior class., was concluded by the class that le banquet should be held in, I ieping with high school tradi- [ I on everywhere. It was decided, I wever, that expenses not abso- j tely vital to the program would | : eliminated. The generous jun-1 i rs decided to give S5.00 to the ed Cross and to present a $50 J ! efense Bond do the school in ad-, j Pilot PER" ;DAY, FEBRUARY i8,^L a tournament worth Friday wrestling show- .Kg ie bout between Strangle The winner probably ast unpopular wrestler j, .^^B y the ring-side. Ab Vouti,. ^Hyo :ndian. Chief Little Beaver iiss Jones." one of the w . BM^ its. in the feature attraction ednesday and Thursday of W o s that we started hearing are not new are Glenn Mr .. l^B S1 ' each Saturday front 5 o ' Mutual and th. Sammy i," starting at 2 o'clock. wJ^K good listening . . Wondet d .^^B" ted fri.'ilous ot unpatriotic .J^V about time for mother xJ^K ition to giving the hanquet/j^^BR anquet was set fot Friday vrgy^^B , kpril 10th. A patriotic the . ecided upon in keeping urh mes. Waitt esses were eecisj^^Bm rom the 8th and Hit gradea^Kji SPORTS Perhaps the most unusual f the season was played at Ste.^H,, ttte last Thursday evening igh school teachers player iris' team and almost won Hiked like war for awhile uvnt^^H [ n the court. The life of the r'..^^L ree wasn't worth two cents i-^Kj act they threatened to call ante on account of datkret^^L ain, and general uncertain ions. As near as anyone o..H| igure .the girls team finally y two points-ot ill that geV.eni^Hf eighboihood. ^Hii The boys' team had a gat '.:. ^^B ame night. There was a little c-^B ertainty as to whether the te-s^H aey played was Whites Wra-^B' " VI nwuivM I '1 ,J;r;;.. led-Bugs." Neveitl .^K chool boys were rtefeate: y ^Bs oints. That is what the refc, aid. anyway. EH MKDH AI. PATIKNT |B T. T. Willis of Southpoit atient at Doshei Mioii ital 'Tuesday through Sui Relief for Miseries of HEAD tOLDSl Put 3-purposs Va-tro-nol up cut Hd aostril. It el) shrinks swollen tea;. Hi Pranes. (2) soothes irritation,nt ^H (3) helps clear cold-dog- i I jed nasal passages, yi/ire V HE Follow complete di- 111 ^H -ectlons in folder. VATMHCIH II I our mailing I >w that they I rs were dis- I i the record I ilease let us B s a single is act that you I lent, please I er this week I an election 9 be without 1 T O we have corrected se our records she s, many subscribe :ake has occured ii in your account, [ ;o you will not misi receive. de arises from the 1 :ed making paym leek or money ord< i the paper coming. _? r going on, with u will not want to iwspaper. State Port! COUNTY NEWSPA 5UTHPORT, N. C. I
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