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_ ^M=====----?l-== ??^B=! The State Port Pilot Southport, N. G. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editor (On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.) Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, at | the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the j Act of March 3, 1879. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS . 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 1 Wednesday, April 11, 1945 i Winds And Fire Despite splendid cooperation on the part of the public in trying to prevent and fighting fires that broke out, this county suffered a heavy loss in the destruction of young timber during the | past two weeks. A combination of dry ' weather and high winds was simply too much for the forest fire wardens and the public to cope with, once fires broke out in the woods. In some places well matured pulpwood and some saw timber was destroyed or badly damaged. The greatest loss is among the very young pines and trees of just a few years growth. On many tracts where beautiful stands of these young trees were growing two weeks ago there is now nothing left but the marks of destruction. Other trees will arise from the ashes; j they always do. But much time will have been lost. The encouraging thing about the fires is that in practically every section where they occured there were general and wholehearted efforts to cooperate with the forest fire fighting organization. Farmers were busy planting their field crops but the urgency to get this work done did not blind them to a realization that the woods crop is one of our greatest crops,and that no effort to prevent it can be overlooked. Defense Work Diminishing It is now being generally admitted that work at the North Carolina Shipyard in Wilmington will cease early in July. The tremendous pace at which I ship construction was carried on in I yards all along both the Atlantic and ' Pacific coasts and less than the expected rate of loss of ships has resulted in the United States now havimr all needed vessels of some types. Many men and women from this county have been working in the Wilmington yards since the work was first started. Along with regret of these losing their jobs there should be general satisfaction that the goal of ship building has now been reached. The ship builders have done a great job. They have covered the oceans with ships until there is no longer need for more. Other ways can and should now be found for these men to continue making a living and to carry on to the finish the work of helping to win the ; war. When Two Fires Meet ? There are few residents of the county iwhc^have not at some time or another, witnessed what happened when two jtreat fires ran together. The result is "./^appalling; everything goes down before the tremendous burst of flames, fanned iiby each other. Something like the above is inevitable in Germany during the present week. The onrushing armies of the English speaking Allies will meet some.where and converge with equally powerful Russian armies. Everything will ;go down before the united efforts. I! It is not so much what army will arrive at Berlin first; there is now nothing left at Berlin to make it a great object of the Allied armies. The air forces have already attended to Berlin .and the big moment of the 'war will ccme when American and British Armies meet the great Russian Armies, the Armies which Hitler arrogantly acclaimed as destroyed in the summer and fall of 1941-. / Russia Will Join * This paper has repeatedly expressed the belief that as soon as Russia accomplished the major object, the defeat of Germany, she would join in the war against Japan. With Germany now in its death throes, the belief in the course .that will be followed by Russia was strengthened the past week. Breaking a long silence, the Russian 4 \ ' 1 I THE ' ~ government accused Japan of giving aid and comfort t6 Russia's own mortal enemy, Germany. In short, the declaration was that Japan was allied with Germany against Russia's allies, the United States and England. Russia declared that her relations with Japan have been "of an absolutely unsatisfactory character." Following up this official declaration of the Russian government, Russian newspapers have been assailing the Japanese government. This is clearly indicative of two things. One of them is that Russia now considers the. war with Germany practically over. The second, and no less important, is that Russia will soon be taking a hand and adding to the crushing weight that is being arrayed against Japan. Destructive Operations A well informed citizen of this county stated this week that with our great fresh water areas this county can well maintain wonderful fishing for this and following generations, providing the illegal taking of fish through the use of nets and dynamite is discontinued. The use of explosives is especially destructive. It kills everything, large and small, in an area varying in size with the amount used. The person who Uses dynamite to take fish gets what he is after and goes far beyond that. He leaves behind him general destruction in the waters. The penalty of not less than a hundred dollars for the killing of fish with dynamite is not enough. There should be jail sentences along with the fine. And there should be no compromise by allowing defendants to plead guilty to a lesser charge in order to escaDe the more severe penalty that comes with a conviction of dynamiting fish. In cither case illegal fishing, whether with dynamite or nets, is a matter of community action. It should be a matter of civic duty of any citizen that he reports and assist in bringing about the conviction of any one he detects netting or dynamiting fish in our freshwater streams and lakes. Words Of Wisdom "Whatever will be possible centuries ahead, it is not at this stage in our social evolution that we can dispense with the incentive of private enterprise. If we believe in the preservation of the freedoms as the inspiration of our fighting, we can only say that, in the broadest sense, freedom of private enterprise is the basis of all the other freedoms."?G. L. Wood, Dean of the faculty of commerce, University of Melbourne, Australia. For V-E Day Victory in Europe Day is coming. It will doubtless not come with dramatic suddenness comparable to the conclusion of other wars. But coming it is, coming with inexorable certainty. An appropriate observance of that day should not only be by individual impulse; it should also be according to a concerted community plan. We'd suggest eliminating the holiday until Victory Day marks the elimination of Japan also, but we'd enforce a holiday, probably more than one, upon beer joints and other businesses of a kindredike. Whatever Columbus towns plan to do about it should be done now. Few now expect a mass surrender of the German army, but V-E Day is coming one way or the other, and plans should be in readiness for it when it comes. Getting out a paper is 110 picnic. If we print jokes, people say we are silly. If we don't they say we are too serious. If we clip things from other papers we are too lazy to write them ourselves. If we don't print contributions wc don't appreciate true genius. If we do print them, the paper is filled with junk. If we make a change in other people's writing we are too critical! If we don't we are asleep. Now, .like as not, someone will saj we swiped this from some other paper Well?we did. \ The criminals of the blacf market are on the home front: th? woman who buys nylon stockings, th< man who uses black market gasoline the housewife who buys steaks at fancj prices, without ration points. " * S3 \ ? _ .! STATE PORT PILOT, SOUTH I WISE j AND ' Oflierwise i I Last week the Pilot had a[ short item about a fox which was killed by M. R. Sanders near the j home of Mr. and Mrs. Starling | Hewett on the Supply-Shallotte j I highway. The animal was describ-! ed as acting pixjlated. Rev. Hinson, pastor of Trinity1 church is quite a student of rhetoric and he came in on Sat- ! unlay with the announcement that he couldn't find the word pixilated in his dictionary and wanted I to know what it meant, i For Mr. Hinson's information, ! the word is a product of the mov-1 [ ies. In "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" J there were two old maid sisters who coined the word as their des-1 cription of a man who was slightly off his nut?but not entirely crazy. Since the time the picture came out the word has come into somewhat common usage, much the same as the word 'guisling,' which J you won't find in the dictionary, and the word 'quiz,' which originated as the result of a wager, we ' understand. A man once made the j i bet that he could chalk a mean- j ingless word on a store window and before the next day everyone! would want to know what it meant. The result was that the word 'quiz' came to mean a question or interrogation. In this day of rapid word-coinage it is sometimes hard to keep up with the words that are used. We take 'globaloney', "pillbox", 'cheesecake,' and 'D-Day' in our, stride, but when it comes to asking us to understand the double! talk and unintelligible jargon in which we understand the jitter-' bugging age converses we have to 1 confess that we're a little like Rev. Hinson. and 'want to know, what it means!' Charlie Lee has been the faithful janitor at Southpnrt School for-well, a great number of years. He's been janitor since long ago when part of the school was over in the building which is now the City Hall. I know, because he started me off in school. The other night Charlie was on hand at the schoolhouse when the senior play was presented. It was an awful night; everything was sloppy and it was a mighty good night to stay at home However, there was an excellent crowd to witness the enjoyable performance. As we went into the auditorium, Charlie, who is a great churchman, called mother off to the side and said to her, "The only place people stay hpme from is church!" Charlie's right, because all the churches in town are down on their attendance, even in beautiful weather like we've been having. Under modern factory methods, 1 40 separate operations on 40 diff-j erent machines, linked with two miles of conveyors, are utilized to produce a single 155 mm. projectile. The name "comet" is derived from the Greek and Latin words I fnr hair frr\ry\ a fo noiocl re eoni _ blance between the tails of comets and long hair streaming in the wind. PACK OF HOUNDS KILLING FOXES (Continued iwm page 1) left. Getting around to tobacco planting, a crop of which he is said to be the largest producer1 in Brunswick, the Longwood man said he had never before known a crop to^be planted as early asj is the case this year. The plants. I too, are exceptionally fine, he says. LION'S CLUB IS ORGANIZED HERE (Continued CIO Page Swain; Third Vice-president, Lanier Furpless; Lion Tamer, Paul Fodale; Tail Twister, Pierce Cranmer; Secretary-Treasurer, James Hewett; Board of Directors; Ro1 bert Willis, J. W. Ruark, William Jorgensen, and J. J. Loughlin. 1 LONG CASE SET j FOR MAY TERM OF CRIMINAL COURT (Continued ti'XLza Page Onej ! a jury. The jury was obtained without great difficulty and after two days spent in hearing the > evidence and speeches by defense and prosecuting attorneys the case went to the jury. After a full day and part of a night spent in deliberation the jury advised the presiding judge that it was unable to agree. Accordingly, a juror was withdrawn and a mistrial was ordered. TANK COMPANY IS COMMENDED (Continued from page One) strongpoints witji their 75mm L guns and machine gun fire. i The Citation mentioned several , other conspicious actions in which ' C Company led the way, over , mined roads and facing heavy opposition and blinding snowstorms. The tankmen were credited with playing gallant and courageous V PORT, N. C. parts in the advance of the Am-fs erican forces. b EGRETS HATCH AT h BATTERY ISLAND u (Continued from Page One) E hatching periods. The crows are c in greatly increased numbers this S year and young Jones fears that ^ if they continue to increase and destroy the eggs the egrets and ^ herons may seek other nesting grounds. STAR OFFICERS j' ARE INSTALLED " (Continued from page One) borne; Warder, Mrs. Maty St. ? George; Sentinel, and Mrs. Anna Davis. j* Lt. Garrett Writes Mother ; About His Part In Invasion (Continued From Page One) w plane came down, you can well imagine how rapidly it grew in n size as it approached us. Our b guns were blazing away and the lead was pouring into him. We must have hit the pilot fatally or p knocked his plane out of control, because he failed to "lay his eggs" and crashed into the water just eastern of us and exploded. ' I mean that plane exploded into a thousand pieces, making rancid Hamburger of the Son of Nippon flying it. Our only casualties were one officer and one man who were P slightly knicked by pieces from' the exploding plane. We arrived off Lingayen Gulf on the appointed day, proceeding ' with our mission which was for our planes to bomb shore instills- " tions and cover the approaching troop convoys and supply ships, a and otherwise paving the way for ? the landing of our troops on "S" ' Day. The several days befoie and ^ after the invasion were most try- g ing on us physically, because ^ there were Jap planes around r* continually, it seemed, and we were running up and down lad- ? ders to General Quarters at all " " J-" niwht rill v! nours OI Lite UttJT aim ^ planes did an excellent job in this! operation as did everyone else on b the ship. As a matter of fact, our ^ Admiral has sent us the tradition- g at Navy "Well Done" .several f times for the part we played. It j was a Lunga Point that gave the|p signal, over the beach, for the ^ Warships in Lingoyen Gulf to lift, their gunfire inland and for the! invasion forces to head for the ] c beach, where they landed at 0930 on "S" Day. We surely had a; first-hand picture of it all. Thej night before the invasion, , the , troop convoy passed us, it being1 the largest in history and 70 miles long according to the Associated Press news release, and it was really a sight to behold. Our! planes, over the invasion beach- jS head, radioed a word picture of j(the invasion to the controlling \ ships in the Gulf, and our radio!? intersepted, and passed it along ? to all hands over the Ship's gen- ~ eral announcing system. It was, just like watching a big parade pass in review. At 0930 on Jan. 9 (Jan. 8 to, you) the first wave: of troops hit the beach, with practically no opposition, which' *means that the withering gunfire 6f our ships and the bombing of|T our planes had made the Nips ? beat a hasty retreat, and we ( established a beachhead 15 miles j c long, with practically no casualties, much to our surprise. We put \ on the beach thousands of troops ^ and vehicles the first 24 hours, j ^ and they continued landing them jv for several days afterwards. Our Army has seen so little of!a the Japs that it has us all puzz- j led. We feel quite confident that ja they have a trick up their sleeve to pull on us, but we can't help! but feel that they missed their best chance while Lingayen Gulf e was literally full of American transports on "S" Day. It must be that the blasting the Army and Navy planes guve the entire Philippines area completely ^iaz-1 ed the enemy. The road to Manila, 100 miles south, will not be an easy one. On the contrary,- it will be stained with the blood of many a fine young American, but we, on board, do feel that the ll greatest obstacle in regaining the Philippines has already been achieved, and with practically no d loss of life, and that was the establishment of the beachhead. Our Captain has kept us all ' well-informed on developments, not only on "S" Day but most every night since, by giving us informal talks over the general j J announcing system, covering not! only the naval 'strategy employed c but also the#Army strategy; so t; we will certainly be in a position [ to tell our grandchildren about the b "Battle of the Philippines." Our I b Chaplain has followed the Cap- [ ti tain's talks with prayers for our4f We Are Al> To Servi COME TO SE1 R- GALL SUPPLY i I uccess and safety, which have een both timely and comforting. I repeat that the Lunga Point as come through without loss of fe thus far, but attendance at j livine Services has materially inreased since that Jap bomber j ave us that scare. It is still a >ng ways to Tokio, and to do to 'okio what we have just done to ,uzon will take not only the coninued devotion to duty of the ten in the Lunga Point and all ther vessels, but, what is just as nportant, the 100 per cent back-1 lg of those on the Home Front. | 'ou continue to do your part, nd, we'll do our best to help make his a short war, in the hope that re will soon be re-united and en-| jjing everlasting peace to-gether. j As ever, JOSH PS: We are 'not coming back I 'ith our bridge undecorated; there I re little Jap flags painted there ow, representing the work of oth our Ship's guns and our lanes. trunswick Teachers Active In Work For Federal Aid I Continued From Page Onej rom our own Seventh District. Congressman Graham A. Baren, Chairman Committee on Fed. .id. Senator Josiah W. Bailey, at resent undecided. Senator Clyde R. Hoey. a friend f the bill. Congressmen from back home teachers from out of this Co.) j Congressmen measure the senti-! lent of the voters back home by le number of letters, telegrams, nd personal visitations received n any particular bill. All out ef-1 jrt should be made to get lay eople to write, or wire. Anyone oing to Washington should be sked to get appointments with tongressmen to discuss this topic, i Washington Congressmen are lad to see any person from: ome. Federal Aid will mean much ) every teacher who plans to ?main in the profession. It will e allotted to J.he various states = tn h?' 11 LIU MJ L Slllllgo aiiav/Hvu, vv? mv rlministered just as othef state inds are administered. Have you read the material on j 'ederal Aid to Education in the latch issue of Education, and le February issue of the Journal f the National Education Assolataion ? Please try to read these, nd then write, write, write, and et others to write! Voman's Club Flower Show j Will Be Held On Friday I Continued from page One) !. St. George. To receive guests. Miss Mararet Parkhill and Mrs. Clarence Jrapon. Shadow Boxes, Mrs. E. M. McJachern and Mrs. Fred Willing, pecial Mantle Decoration, Mrs. L. !. Fergus. Advertising, Mrs. 'ierce Cranmer and Mrs. Elizaeth Gilbert. , Prize Chairman, Mrs. Helen! Iragaw. Tea: Mrs. R. L. Thompson, hairman, Mrs. D. E. Arthur, Mrs. lary Bussells, Mrs. H. C. Corlette, ., Mrs. Prince O'Brien, Mrs. H.! [. Thomas, Mrs. Murley Hood, trs. Velma Ward, Mrs.- E. H. j Iranmer, Mrs. S. B. Frink, Mrs. I u L. Lewis, Mrs. A. L. Brown,1 trs. Joel Moore, Mrs. Frank liernsee, Sr., Mrs. Fred Asburn, Irs. C. Ed Taylor, Mrs. G. Y. | Watson, Mrs. Arthur Weeks, Mrs. I larry Weeks, Miss Susie Newton, I nd Mrs. G. E. Hubbard. Classifications for the show^-arc s follows: Class 1 Perfection of bloom. Class 11 Artistic Arrangement. A. Dining table (without dishs, j B. Mantle U. cottee tame D. Porch E. Boudoir F. Wild flower G. Large table (living room) H. Small table (living room) I. Public building J. Miniature K. Seasonal arrangement (Easer Xmas. etc.) L. Dried material Class III Dining table with ishes Class IV Potted plants A. Flowering B. Non-flowering Class V Junior entries Class VI Shadow Boxes rhe Rovin' Reporter (Continued from page one) ounty viewed it with satisfaclon. Every daylight hour that can e put in the fields this week is eing devoted to the planting of obacco. The plants are being set ully two weeks earlier than durvays Glad r% aid t e i uu ; ? US OFTEN OWAY ft. c. ? ml ; v . - v . , 55 MILES 1 ^L-vSi_ '" -~-^ 4-?-yr ing a normal year and three i weeks or more earlier than they i were planted last year. Last year j the rains caused unusually late ] planting. In addition to being ; planted at about the earliest i known time this year, all plants 'i are of unusuaily large size, firm 1 and stock. The fine plants, early J transplanting should combine fori a splendid crop of fine quality weed this year. Provided there is a good growing season. Donie Robinson, Shallotte col- ' ored man, founci a fox under his1 house one day the past week. The I' animal was in no way disposed j < to come out, refusing all attempts 11 to be frightened out, where killing might be easier. As a last re- : sort Donie proceeded to shoot it 1 where and as was. I * * * 11 Reports of unfoxy doings of foxes are still bobbing up. The 1 latest report of unusual behavior ' of these animals comes from Char-. ' lie Bryant, colored farmer of the 1 Suppiy section. Wednesday Ciit.r-,J lie was working in his garden, in front of his house. A neighbor ' called out to him and told him 1 there was a fox in the garden. 1 Looking up ne saw the animal ji trotting towards the house, carry-11 ing a cat squirrel in its mouth.'I Charlie seized his pitchfork and i got in front of the fox, which ' paid no attention to his move-, ments or call. As jt was passing him he gigged it through the neck < with the fork. He says it squalled < pitifully until overcome by death, i but it never once released its < jaws from the squirrel. i * * * Our good friend J. L. Henry of ; Winnabow has called us to task,'] can we blame him ? We have re-'1 peatedly credited him with being : a member of the board of wel- ] fare in news stories. A repetition ; of the offense last week appears i to have been a little too much, i He sat down and wrote us that1 ] he did not helong to that board, ji it should have been A. P. Henry, ' (A. P. as in Associated Press, not i J. L.) The error, while ours, was 1 perfectly unintentional. VVe were entirely without bias or prejudice. . There was absolutely no disposi-': tion on our part to reflect upon': Mr. J. Lt. Henry Dy saying ne was a meniber of the board of wel-! i fare. 11 The six feet three inches of Dr. ' Fred Mintz of Shallottc proved 1 very useful Sunday. The Dr. is i more adept at mixing medicines than at piloting a speed boat. At the above mentioned time he was going down the Shallotte river at i a lively clip and decided to pass the big shrimp trawler, Jonn C., belonging to Captain Herman Stan? land. While the Joan C., was not speeding her propeller was kicking up plenty of backwash. The Mintz boat passed ' close by and ran into this back- i wash. Immediately it tried to go seven ways at once, including up . W.B.&S7 Bl Southpori BUS SCH Effective Ju SOUTHPORT TO Monday LEAVE Road Down AM AM AM I'M PM 5:15 7:00 9:00 4:00 6:00 Kunllipo | 5:43 7:30 9:30 4:30 6:30 Supply I 6:00 7:45 9:45 4:45 6:45 Bolivia 6:15 6:00 10:00 5:00 7:00 Wnuilh I 6:35 6:15 10:15 5:15 7:15 lmivule 6:40 6:30 10:30 5:30 7:30 IMImlui Sl'TiDAT Si 1:30 10:45 4:15 6:00 Soullipo 6:00 11:15 4:45 6:30 Supply 6:15 11:30 5:00 6:45 Bolivia 6:30 11:45 5:15 7:00 Wlonuh 6:40 11:55 5:35 7:10 I anvale 8:55 12:10 5:40 7:25 Mllmlnf SOUTHTOUT 1 5:00 1:30 9:30 Soutlipo 5:25 1:55 9:55 Mill Cr< 5:45 2:05 10:15 WlnuaO 6:00 2:20 10:30 I.anvale 6:30 2.50 11:00 Slilpyar SHAU.OTTE T I 4 45 1:15 Shallot* 5:00 1*0 Supply 5:20 1:50 Bolivia 15:40 2:10 AVInnalv 5:00 2:30 I.anvale 5:30 3:00 Slilpyar* i WEDNESDAY^jd^ I A DAY ! "^1 I k our i*l I vas nsijpl : I gr-J I into the air. It finally comprornisset by running into a big piling and knocking a huge hole in its bottom. This feat accomplish*!, it straightway snak, Dr. Mints and all. The water was only five and a half feet deep and the speed boat enthuasist only got wet to bis chin. * * * We had a letter this weelr f ?v Kip Farrington of New York, lie is one of the nations most widely known big game spoit fishermen and is now pinning his faith on Frying Pan Shoals uwl the other ivateis off the Brunswick coast, is having the greatest potentanties of any place east of Florida. In New York recently Mr Farrington was telling us that tnu section could and would become a ,<eat salt water sport fishing center. His letter repeated that belief and he added he hoped to be down soon. Among the women a ho arc devoted to salt water sport fishing Mrs. Farrington holds the same rank that het husband holds among the men. Both' she and her husband ar.d hundreds of other New York sportsmen and sportswomen are looking for tops in sports fishing at a point nearer to New York than Florida. They believe they have found it on the Brunswick county coast We hope they have. We found it long ago. * * One day this past week we were a breakfast guest at Kellwood. the beautiful country estate of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stone, near Greensboro. For twelve years Mr. Stone was on the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development. He founded and built up the big Stone Printing Company in Greensboro and is still active as its president. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stone are ardent lovers of fresh and &Ut water fishing. In addition to often going on fishing trips ot various parts of the state, including coming to Brunswick county, they have a wonderful fish pond on their estate and their beautiful home is perched on a wonderful woocled hill about 100 feet above Alamance Creek. When not looking after his printing business ot fishing, Mr. Stone is always some where about Kcllwoocl, aaaing w its beautiful surroundings, or down in his wood working shop constructing treasures for the home. Beth Mr. and Mrs. Stone are expert craftsmen in the woodworking shop, * ? ? Among salt water fishing incidents of the wo k was the reporting of -a catch of 10 beautiful a trout by Roger Commons. All of the fish were large, the heaviest weighing three pounds. Mr. Clemntons is keeper of the State Highway bridge acioss the ink'--I waterway leading to Kort Caswell and Long Beach. The catch was made during a bit of spare t'me from his duties. IS LINES, Inc. 1, N. C. nm tr rc CUULDlT ne 16, 1944 WILMINGTON Saturday arrive Read Up AM I'M I'M J'* 1ir,J rl* 8:31 3:01 ?.?' : ]! ? 8:01 3:3a 5:1 ; - , 7:15 3:31 < ' ' J ? 1" W ow 7:30 3:05 1 i? IS 7.15 1 50 1 1 ' " 10:1* :l?n 7:00 1.35 < LHEDULE rt 10:35 301 7" J- ;? !;8 215 :5 OW 9:25 2:01 > J r, 3:15 1:50 0 U fton 9:00 1:35 ' -0 1 70 SHIPYARD rt 9:00 5:25 1 :ek 8:35 5:00 11 :;0 OW 8:15 4:40 11 . 8:00 4 :-5 1 :J .i 7 ?<; 3'f.ii 11 U .?V ? ?* (> SHU'IAHD B 5:35 1 '? 5 -n 500 ow 4:4? o t till s:s
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