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rilC pilot Covers ^Mjrll,is\vick County 1een no. 34 Kjtv Schools I KjI Five Days ' for Christmas' HJaVS Br: -i With End-! of Days Session On 22nd And Work ReH,ei On Morning Of j Hrf HOLIDAYS h jjaDE necessary i Of Starting Sess-' .And Need For CIos- I As Eai iy As Posiaf ,ible In Spring Th? Causs H nnouncement H of Miss Annie ' Eg Brunswick I Christmas hoii December 22, and Monday, January H... held as usual ' with the exception . schools will Sa to allow , it their homes " toi-)/?hnr.Q >t five school days j |B s, nine days c H is i.<ur days fall on j The elos- t H to all white x 1 j.-sareil schools in the coun* Is v. : understood that all % .the county had to start ... owing to the ln-|i s epidemic. It is H. . that labor condi result::'..? from the war, are parents need ^Bc... to help just as soon ^B can be brought to . ^B>: These reasons account r: .I Christmas holidays WriefJVeuis |! I Hashes [! VISITING HERE f I 1 Joseph Church, Mrs. ' their little daughter, 1 a few days here 1 H.' Church's cousin, Capt. 1 9 urch. Colonel Church has ' ^B retired from the ' iERTAlNKI) SERVICE-MAN ;1 5 L. J Williamson of Shal- ^ ttlertained at a dinner par7:..: av t-vening. honoring j tt H. Leonard. U. S. N. It, af Mrs. Pearle Leonard. He 1 ? at home on leave after ' 1 months of overseas serv- ^ IS WOUNDED : and Mrs. \V. r. Long of were advised by the War ' v.raent. Monday of last t that their son, Marshall ! has been wounded in ac1 No <1; tails are available as rating the seriousness of stjtiries or in which country, i *01NI)ED IN FRANCE ' McKeithan, son of: Mrs Gaston McKeithan, 1 1 t-.p. wounded in action in 1 he according to a message hei this past week by his 'We baskets triers of the Woman's club' ' seen asked to give wastet'J to the Dos her Memorial a- '.neir Christmas gifts tot institution. The baskets, re needed very badly, may ?ven to Mrs. H. B. Smith, | Went of the Hospital Auxiij I "E PEI1V OF FICER rnsee, Jr., who **rt three weeks ago to enter '"7 ha-, been made a Petty i-c. He is the son of Mrs.! ' M. N'iernsee. 1ESIIiE.Nl E IK. Bell has purJ*1 '> ' I oved into the reformerly owned and oc' Mi ind Mrs. London ' Mis. Lewis have PW moved into the house' 'iri'y occupied by the Bells. UlTH SIXTH ARMY L' Clyde K. Stanley of Shal-; L"5 ^ng with the 3rd Bat-I P 0f Sixth Army in Pto The toughest fighting he [ ' through thus far was at hhead. With little L,' 'J"r his Company fought k}tf 'iay's >" the face of furiL"4'; for their courageous '' 'oiuiumy received a Citation. ] TH . * Pic - ":x .* ;-. HUkHP^ SAI PA X M A l{ IA X AS?Sound ed the B-29's on the raid, locks a Bomber Command, Brigadier Genei ore taking off from the Saipan I: hidne Ward II! No Court Held There was no session of the Recorder's Court held Monday wing to the illness of Judge lohn B. Ward. He is understood o have been suffering from a ery severe cold. Only four or five cases were icheduled to be heard and these vere continued. rersians (jet Americanized They Are Right There With Advertising For Thanksgiving Menu Of American Soldiers Sgt. Daniel Walker, who is staioned in Iran, which was formery Persia, sent his mother, Mrs. I. Walker, a copy of the Thanks-' riving Day menu for the soldiers n that far off gateway to Russia. The menu in much like those or American hotels and eating daces, the front page being nimeographed elaborately and the :wo inside pages devoted to a larration of the good things to )e found on the tables of the solliers on America's National Day. One of the most interesting :hings about the menu, however, vas the back page. This was demoted to advertisements, in the same way that menus and programs in America devote their jack pages to advertising. From -eading these advertisements it is ivident that some of the shops md stores in Iran are becoming :hroughly Americanized. These advertisements may make nteresting reading to Brunswick roiKS wno nave remuvca m x?i )ff places. We are reproducing some of them: CONGRATULATIONS on Your Second Thanksgiving Day Dinner In Khorramshar, Iran( Persia) The name of the above advertiser was not given. The advertisement was evidently that of some cooperative fellow who wanted to help but had nothing to sell. Next: Compliments of DUGIE'S DRUGS AND VODKA SHOP (just south of Abdul Mohamads' Pool Imporium) Near the river?Drop In The last line is the above advertisement sounds suspiciously like a hint or suggestion to some of the American boys. The next (Continued on Page 61 Northwest Negro Held For Court Jury Inquiring Into Death Of James Jennings Recommends That Douglass Ballard Be Held At an inquest held by Coroner W. E. Bell at the Evans store in Northwest township on Thursday night the jury brought in a verdict recommending that Douglass Ballard be held for the next term of superior criminal court, without bond. Ballard is alleged to have fired a shctgun through the window of the road house owned by his wife, the shot taking effect in the back of the head of James Edward Jennings, killing him instantly. The shooting occured Sunday night of last week and' is supposed to have resulted from a fight between the two men which look p'ace several days previous(Continucd on Page Six) ESL A Gooc ~6-PAGES TODAY ~ Road To Tok' photo?Brigadier Senerai Emmett I t a map of Japan with command al Haywood Hansell, Jr., right, of sland base. Twenty Bruns Get Fin Scheduled To Leave For Induction Monday, December ISth FIFTEEN MORE FOR PHYSICALS ON 19TH Understood Board Will Begin Calling The 26-37 Age Group As Soon a _ o i r /lO VlUCld V/Uilic Already having passed their preinduction examinations, 20 white Brunswick county men have been called to report Monday, December 18, to be dispatched for induction. Deferrments, when such are in order, are always made prior to the preinduction examination. The 20 called for next Monday are all scheduled to go. Their names and addresses are as follows: Buddie Wagner, Leland; Dalton Ezra Sellers, Bolivia; Walter Mainord Willetts, Supply; Hampton Herman Henry, Leland; John Sidney Grissett, Shallotte; John Bouey Cunibee, Ash; Norman Sylvester Ganey, Leland; Jefferson Elsworth Reynolds, Shallotte; Robert Lee Cheers, Shallotte; John Reynolds, Jr., Supply; Albert Laton Lee, Wampee, S. C.; Jene Tunney Hewette, Shallotte; Horace Lathon Todd, Shallotte; Johnny Earl Cavanaugh, Leland; John Benjamin Gray, Jr., Freeland; George Reaves, Leland; Edgar Excell Sellers, Supply; Arthur Dosher Reynolds, Bolivia; Wilbur Franklin Wigner, Bolivia and Walter Iredell Gore, Leland. The following day, December 19, 15 white men are being called to be sent for theri preinduction physical examination. Unless some of them are deferred, the following men will go from this group: Ronnie Jesse Varnum, Supply; Percy Leonard Weeks, Ash; Lawrence Richard Skipper, Leland; Daniel Romie Jones, Ash; Floyd Francis Ferguson, Bolivia; William Edward Clemmons, Bolivia; Pink White, Ash; William Alex Scoggins, Leland; Alvin Buford Bazen, Ash; George Franklin Lowery, Freeland; Roy Henderson Walton, Ash; Robert Lee Rabon, Winnabow; Leo Russ, Freeland; Joseph Carl Pruitt, Freeland and Linwood Gray, Shallotte. It is understood that the Local Board has not yet received orders to call for induction men in J the 26 to 37 year old group. , Such men will begin receiving j calls as soon as orders are rej ceived. [ Urges Patrons To Cooperate Local Postmaster Announces Christmas Hours for Convenience Of Public Postmaster L. T. Yaskell announces today that the Southport postoffices will be open until five o'clock on the next two Saturdays. The office has been closing at 12 each Saturday. Mr. Yaskell hopes that those who are served by this postoffice will cooperate with his office force to keep the Christmas packages moving out of the office so there will be as little confusion as possible. He reminds patrons that they must present the slips for their packages as they indicate where in the office the packages iare placed. I ME I 1 News paper Ii Southport, N. C., Wedi /? D'Donnell, Jr., Jamaica, L. I., who ing general of the Twenty-First j San Antonia, Texas, shortly be- j wick Men al Service Call ! Unusual Animal Caught Yesterday The most unusual animal captured in Brunswick county j in many years was 11 ought to town yesterday by Irie Evans and limmie Cauld i, who captured it in a sted trap below Long Bf ach. The animal presents that | rare combination, a cross between a dog and a iox. It greatly resembles a fox but is much larger and its fur is I yellow and long and silky. It barks like a dog and is rather vicious. : No one here has ever seen or heard of a cross between a ! fox and dog, but this animal J is obviously such. It was very little injured and the captors 1 are wondering what to do with it. Four Shannons Now Overseas I Three Sons And A Daughter Now Serving In Different Countries, Another 1 Son In Texas * J Four of the children of the ' i late H. M. Shannon and Mrs. Shannon, of Southport, are now ! in service overseas. A fifth, the ! ! eldest son, Cpl. John H. Shan- ' non, is stationed at Laredo, Tex. ( : and is understood to be expect- 1 ! ing to go at an early date. .' Of the four overseas, Pfc. Dan j Shannon, has only just recently ' 1 arrived. Pfc. W. J. Shannon is 1 i in SaiDan and has been there and 1 I elsewhere in the Pacific for some-11 | time. Cpl. R. E. Shannon is in 1 | Belgium and Cpl. Jane Shannon1 is serving with the WAC in'' France. Two younger sons of the ; (Continued on Page 61 IV. B. KEZIAH ' ~ When we walked to Orton from Southport, Thursday, something new in the matter of taking stock was revealed to us when Mrs. i Ethel Bogie Robbins and Miss Emma Robbins were found in the greenyards, counting camellia j plants and bushes. Their work, which has been : 'going on for sometime, is near enough completed for manager Jim Ferger to make a rough guess that there are 50,000 or more of large and small marketable size camellias in the nursery part of the plantation, not including the gardens, j The task of counting the aza- j i leas in the nursery will be the real job after the counting of the camellias is completed. In fact,, :jthe counting of the azaleas is J next to an impossible task. Api parently the easiest and about the j i only way is to measure off small, jplots of the plants, count the - " P0R1 / i A Good Cor tiesday, December 13, 3 rot her Is Killed In Leyete Battle Cpl. Sydney C. Brown, brother if Mrs. Tom Morgan of South>ort, was killed in the battle of -eyte in the Phillipines on Novimber 3, according to word relently received by his sister. His iome was at Black River Falls, j Vis. Mrs. Morgan returned last veek from visiting her parents here. James C. Stanley Dies In Holland ifoung Waccamaw Maii| Gave His Life In Action! In Holland On October 29th, Memorial Services At Soldier Bay Church A memorial service was held it Soldier Bay Baptist church at tsh on Sunday, November 26th, I or Pfc. James ' Carson Stanley, vho was killed in action in Hoi-! and on October 29th. The me-1 norial service was conducted by | lev. Woodrow W. Robbins and j vas largely attended. Private Stanley would have; >een 30 years old had he lived intil last Wednesday, December i. He was the son of the late Villiam Stanley and Mi v. Emma Stanley of the Ash community n Waccamaw township. A few rears ago lie was happily mar ied to Miss Eloise Atkinson, laughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Vtkinson of Winnabow. She survives him, along with his mother ind one brother, Taft Stanley of ish. A half brother, Deley Staney, of Ash, also survives, and wo half sisters, Mrs. Emma lane Smith and Mrs. I)osh Edvards, both of Waccamaw township. Reporting - for duty with the trmy on August 6, 1942, Aivate Stanley tarined at Fort Bragg. ?rom there he went on with the ;ourse at Fort Ontarie, N. Y.t -ong Island, N. Y., Camp Adair, Cregan, Camp Carson, Colorado ind maneuvered in Arizona and California. He was sent overseasl ;he last of August of this year! rnd killed in Holland barely two| months later. Workers Needed , For Red Cross Executive Secretary Stresses Need For Volunteers In Different Phases Of Red Cross Work Mrs. Grace Ruark, Executive Secretary for the Red Cross, vould like for anyone who is interested in taking a Nurse's Aide Course to contact either her or Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert, Nurse's; A.ide Chairman. The need for these j lides is great and valuable train- j ,ng may be secured through this | ;ourse. After completion of the I ;ourse, the graduates are eligi- j ale to be paid nurse's aides. Mrs. Ruark also stresses the leed of knitters for volunteer j ivork for the armed forces. Those | vho would like to help with this | ,, ,-n Jlitisc ui ncu viuoo huwv utv iskeci to contact Mrs. C. Ed Taylor, Production Chairman. Wool is aviable nd the knitted garments re urgently needed by the | fighting men. ) VIN Reporter ? number of plants in these measured spaces and then add up according to measurements of the whole azalea area. ' "Must be about a million of these plants", said the plantation manager. For many years a familiar, friendly, figure along the River Read was T. P. McKeithan, of Bolivia. He was in charge of maintenance for that and other earth roads for the State Highway commission. About four or five years ago Mr. McKeithan dropped out of the picture, or appeared to. With war then brewing and many changes occuring, we supposed he had gone to some sort of war work. We never traveled the River Road to Orton without thinking of him ard wondering where he was and what he was doing. While we wondered we just Continued on page four r pil nmunity 1944 " Old Plantation Will Be Held I The annual Plantation Christ-, a mas celebration will be held at Orton this year. But it will not tl seem the same. Mr. and Mrs. J. j a L. Sprunt, the owners, Manager tl James Fergus and all'of the em- E ployees of the Plantation will ir feel a note of sadness as they T recall the Plantation Christmases S of other years and the boys and | ji girls who were with them then, i s< Conspicuous among those who J ti will be absent is Captain Church-j f< ill Bragaw, who gave his life in E Italy nearly a year ago. As Man- a ager of the Plantation he was li the mainstay of the event while! he was there. I p Bob Godfrey, manager of the si nursery, is now a Lieutenant,1 a serving with the Navy in the t h Pacific. Miss Emma Lou Harrel- j si son, who was known to thousands; a of visitors to the Plantation in S other days for her engaging per- j r; sonality as a hostess and guide, I is a Pharmacist Mate in the h WAVES, stationed at a hospital j C in California. She is expected s home at Orton for a brief leave j Send Their Gr< To All Oi ? I f Lighting Contest Again This Year ? i Prizes will be offered again this year for the prettiest living Christmas tree and the I most attractive house decorations, according to Mrs. C. Ed. Taylor, president of the Southport Woman's Club. This is an annual contest sponsored by the Club and ' f this year two prizes will be 'a given in each classification. I . The trees and houses will be judged on Christmas night. v Jasper C. Mercer > Dies In Germany ' Young Bolivia Man Appar- J ently The First Bruns- J wicker To Lose His Life J On German Soil j t Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee Mercer j * | c of Bolivia were notified last week, that their son, Pfc. Jasper Car- j son Mercer, had died from wounds ' received in 'action in Germany!^ on November 22nd. L It is understood that the couple j had not been advised of their son r being wounded and this fact is c taken to mean that he died soon'' I I after the engagement in which j he was wounded. L He was serving with a Light c Artillery Division. He was 20 t years of age and was attending t the Bolivia school just prior to c entering the service two years ago. His death marks his the J first Brunswick man to give his life fighting on German soil. Served 34 Months i i vi . n_ J in ine racinc - Cpl. Frank Stanley At His; Home In Waccamaw c Township After Long i Service Overseas 11 |t Cpl. Frank Stanley, son of Mr. t and Mrs. J. W. Stanley of Ash, e is at home on a furlough, after serving 34 months in the South-j c west Pacific with a Service t Squadron of the 13th Air Force.! i Young Cpl. Stanley made five ; different ocean voyages while in \ the Pacific. He considers himself 1 lucky to have arrived back in 1 the United States. He landed in t Australia in February, 1942, with j 1 the second contingent of Ameri- \ can troops. An interesting incident of the < early part of his service is con- j I nected with the fact that he was i raised with in just a few miles t of Elwood Mintz, youngest bro- 1 j ther of Major Rudolph Mintz of i ; Southport and of LeRoy and Fred i | Mintz of Shallotte. LeRoy Mintz 11 , was his teacher in the Waccamaw j i 'school for three years. Despite ; 1 this, he and Elwood had never! I heard of each other until they 1 arrived together at Fort Bragg 1 | and compared notes. They went < ioverseas to Australia together! and Elwood is still somewhere < down there. On the expiration of his fur- I : lough Cpl. Stanley will report to 'the Richmond Air Base, at Rich-ji mond, Va. JW OT [ $1.50 FEH~Y?A> /UbLtei Christmas ust The Same bout the 20th of January. > Two of Miss Harrelaon's brolers, Ed and Walter Harrelson, re with the Navy somewhere on le Atlantic. Another brother, >an Harrelson, is now somewhere i the Pacific on the battleship exas. Her brother-in-law, Dan hannon, is understood to have ist arrived with other troops imewhere in the warring counties. This leaves the father, irmer deputy U. S. Marshall I. i. Harrelson, pretty much alone t Orton, except for his daughter, irs. Shannon and her children. Of Mr. and Mrs. Spunt's own ersonal family, Sam Sprunt is erving with the Army in France nd Germany; Lawrence is in the lavy and is somewhere overeas; Kenneth is still in school nd Peter Brown Ruffin, Mrs. prunt's son by her former mariage, is with Navy Intelligence. Many of the colored boys who ave been at Orton on other Jiristmases are also in service omewhere. Christmas will be ob(Continue!, on page 4) serines ir Servicemen iouthport Folks Send Public Greetings To Those Who Are Away From Home ? ? ?~ ?i - - ?> ?? m, rdir ? ?-? f kVHi.Kfc.VtK IMtT AKt ALL OVER THE WORLD ?eal Remembrance Of The Boys In These Days When War Separates Friends In this issue of the State Port hlot is a large "Christmas Card" ind every man and woman who oined in paying for it has relaives and close friends in the ser'ices. It is their way of saying Merry Christmas" to our men ind women in the service* ? As one of them said: "We want o send Christmas Greetings to iur Service Men everywhere whetler they are in the Army, Navy, tir Corps or Coast Guard. We ire not forgetting the branches hat are filled by women. We vant to express the prayers and lest wishes of all Southport peo>le for those who are serving our ountry." To reach the more distant (laces where this paper now goes t will take more than two weeks, i. few of the men may not get heir Christmas greeting until ifter Christmas. When they do ;et it, it is hoped that all will ealize that Christmas back home lid not come and go without nany a heart turning in grateul rememberance to them. In wishing all service men the rery best Christmas that war :onditions will permit, "We hope hat another Christmas will find he world at peace and our loved >nes safe at home again." Soil District Officials Meet First Gathering Of Officials At District Office At Whiteville Since Organization Was Formed With the organization just reiently completed, the first meetng of the Supervisors of the x>wer Cape Fear Soil Conservaion District was held in the Disrict office at Whiteville on Decimber first. D. H. Harrelson of Bladen :ounty, chairman of the Board >f Supervisors, presided over the neeting and at the business session M. L. Inman, of Whiteville, vas selected secretary, replacing ^eRoy Mintz, of Shallotte. Mr. tfintz resigned the post of secreary some time ago in order *tc jecome Soil Supervisor in Brunswick county. Soil Conservationists from all )f the four counties in the dis:rict, Pender, Bladen, Columbus ind Brunswick gave reports ol ;he progress of the Conservatior Program in their counties. County Agents Dodson of Brunswicl ind Raper of Columbus gave their evaluation of the progran md outlined their ideas of th( job that is to be done. The district conservationist, H M. Stott, reported his finding 01 the extent of the aid that can b< sxpected from the U. S. Soil Con servation Service during the pres ent war time cond^ions. E. C. Johnson, assistant Stat' Soil Conservationist, outlined worl that has been done in varion soil conservation districts in thi (Continued on Page Six) Most of The News All The Time i?D EVERY WEDNESDAY Information j For Tax Payers Is Given Final Date For Filing Declaration Is Changed FARMERS ARE GIVEN THEIR INSTRUCTIONS | Government Officials Re! lease Information In Order To Aid Farmers Jcseph D. Nunan, Jr., Commls-* I sioner of Internal Revenue, today i reminded individual Income taxpayers that Congress has changed from December 15, 1944, to January 15, 1945, the final date for filing Declarations of Estim- jj ated Income Tax, either original (as in the case of farmers), or amended, and paying of install| ments of estimated lax for the calendar year 1944. Among the taxpayers affected by this change in dates are: farmers who exercised their right to defer filing declarations last April 15; others who have already filed 1944 declarations but ' desire to change their estimates by filing amended declarations; all persons who owe the final installment of 1944 estimated tax. If a taxpayer who would otherwise be required to file an originj al or amended Declaration of ' JCat-imntoH Tax hv Januftrv 15. 1945, files his annual income tax return for 1944 (on Form 1040) and pays all tax due by January 15, his return will serve as both a return and declaration and he need not file the 1944 declara- fj : tion. | Also, if a taxpayer files his j final 1944 return (on Form 1040) ; and pays the tax due on it by January 15, he need not pay the final installment which otherwise would be due on his estimated tax. A bill from the Collector tor the final installment of 1944 estimated tax may be ignored by a taxpayer who files his annual return (on Form 1040) and pays the tax due on it by January 15. L. These changes will tnahlu a M rmpi^TTTflTaesira U!'& so, '4 to wind up all of his 1944 income tax obligations by January f 115, but it does not affect the fil- * |ing of his 1945 declaration which will be due March 15. Also, taxpayers who do not file their final 1944 returns by January 15 must i do so by March 15. Seed Loan Now i Making '45 Loans ' Seed Loan Offices Ready To Make 1945 Loans To Farmers; Advise Farmers To Get Application In Soon Emergecy crop loans and emergency feed loans are now avallI able to farmers in Brunswick 1 and Columbus counties. Applica- I tions for these loans are now be- 4 ing received in Brunswick County by R. D. Holden, receiving agent, at Supply Commisary, Supply, [ and in Columbus County in the office of Mr. William G. Brad- , I shaw, field supervisor, located in , , the Columbus Theatre Building, I second floor, room 7. Loans are [ being made early this year, as for I the past few years, to enable farmers to purchase fertilizer early and thus help to eliminate transportation difficulties in the handling of fertilizer in the spring I months. These loans will be made to farmers whose cash requirements are relatively small and who are (Continued on Page Six) Ration Pointers I : ~ PROCESSED FOODS Blue A-8 through B-2 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points i each. Good indefinitely. MEATS AND FATS Red A-8 through S-5 (Book I 4) now valid at 10 points each for use with tokens. Good ini definitely. f SUGAR ! , Sugar stamps No. 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34 good indefinite[ ly for five pounds each. , CANNING SUGAR , Stamp No. 40 good for five > pounds canning sugar until February 28, 1945. . I SHOES Airplane stamps No. 1, 2. and 3 valid indefinitely. FUEL OIL Period 4 and 5 coupons from last year and Period X e coupons for this season now t valid. ^ s GASOLINE c | A-13 coupons valid through j December 21. 1 V
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