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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 j
the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ONE YEAR $1.50
SIX MONTHS 1.00 j
THREE MONTHS 75
Wednesday, May 23, 1945
Cannot Buy To Produce
It is our understanding that OPA
prices on foodstuffs produced on the
farms were intended to be general and
that these prices were largely based on
_ times when the farmers themselves
produced sufficient foodstuffs for their
poultry and livestock.
For the past few years the price of
feed has been at a high level. At the
same time farmers in this county have
produced far less than the normal
amount, due to the labor shortage,
weather during growing seasons, etc.
The result is that much high priced
feed must be bought and when this
has been bought and paid for the farmers
just can't sell their hogs and chickens
at OPA prices without suffering a
loss.
Farm folks have plenty to eat. On
the other hand there is a shortage of
meat in all cities and towns. The explanation
of this shortage is that farmers
have little urge to produce more of
unprofitable crops than will fill their
own needs.
With the labor situation as short as
it is they don't see why they should
have to give both labor hours and
money to buy feed in order to produce
something that brings less than the cost
of the feed.
One frequently hears of truckmen
going to the country and making unsuccessful
efforts to buy chickens, hams,
etc. The reason for such is that the
prices allowed for these by the OPA
are not in keeping with what the farmers
have to pay in feed store?.
Inherited Only Trouble
Inspired by the music of the Hitler
band wagon the late Mussolini led Italy
into the war. France had fallen and
the late and now unlamented jackal
had hopes of being allowed to pick the
bones of the carcass when the time for
the division of the spoils rolled around.
The Axis was formed when Mussolini
joined Hitler, two men who believed
themselves to be destined tc
rule the world. The alliance grew
nearly two years later when Hitler
with his foot on Russia chanted
another kill call.. The Russian army
was destroyed, he said. Japan heard
the call.
As Mussolini had done, Hirohito
did. He sent his minions to nip at the
. heels of the United States, in return
for? the unrecorded promise that, as a
reward, his country should have some
?f the carcass of Russia from the new
world rulers.
Hitler's leadershin nf
r w* viW4uniijr
brought about his own death and the
,/ destruction of Germany. His promises
to Mussplini brought the same thing
to the jackal and his country. Their
united offering to Japan is bringing
the same thing down on the head of
Hirohito and his people. Hirohito has
inherited the Axis and in doing so he
inherited nothing but trouble; trouble
that will destroy him and his people,
just as Italy and Germany have been
destroyed.
Farewell To Huhn
Fritz Huhn, German born who was |
given American naturalization papers
a dozen years ago has been ordered
deported to his native country, or what
is left of it. When he arrives there the
matter of what to do with him will be
in the hand of Unite States Army officers.
When he was naturalized and took
the oath of allegiance to the United
States in 1934 he did so with the mental
reservation that his first allegiance
was to Germany. His subsequent career
showed him to be for Germany both
first and last .With his German-American
Bund he plotted for years towards
the overthrowing of the American government.
In one of his greater days he made
the declaration that he would one day
become the dictator of the Unite States.
Although he became known, there
are now few to remember the former
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fcnhd leadet or to gtiefe at his early
farewell to the- Unite* States
CropsfAre Doipg Fine
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"Despite the labor shortage, .^our*
crops are being kept well cultivated
and they are growing to beat anything,"
said the county agent one day this
week. Continuing; he said*: "Not only
are they in the finest possible shape*
for growing, they are from ten days- to
two-weeks further advanced than they
wore, on the. same. date, last: year.".
The county agent is one of those fellows
who. recognizes what, a hard time
the average farmer has under normal
conditions. Conditions for the past few
years have been far from average.
Labor has been short and with this
shortage there has been a need for the
utmost in production.
To be plain about it, we have not
seen in any previous, year in the county
agent satisfied and in the best of spirits
during the month of May. The fact that
he is satisfied now is a clear indication
that crops are doing fine; It also indicates
that* our farmers and farm women
have been working just as hard, or
harder, than they did last year.
Japs Are Up Against It
Rumors of peace feelers by Japan
cropped up pretty strongly during the
past week. It was denied that these
movements were in any way official.
Nevertheless, it appeal's that elements
among the Japanese people are able to
see the doom that is hanging over
their country and are Spreading peace
talk in an effort to see if there is any
possible way to avert this doom.
With its findings established before
there were any peace rumors, The Nations
Business, a magazine that is put
out by some of the world's greatest
analytical minds, stated' this last week
that the end of Japan was not far off.
The magazine backed this belief with
some clear and conscise reasoning that
for Japan the war, if carried on for
any length of time, will be infinitely
more destructive than it was for Germany.
We are already destroying Japanese
planes faster than they can build new
ones. The typography of the Japanese
homeland is such as to make the efforts
of American air forces much more
effective than was the case with Germany.
We are only just beginning to
send our planes against Japan in force.
Although some ot their larger cities
have already been destroyed they have
not yet learned what destruction from
the air will really mean when it becomes
an all-out affair, as it will
shortly.
Not only are the Japanese now facing
superior and better equipped fighting
forces in all branches, they are
practically cut off from supplies of all
sorts on many of their islands. Millions
of them are facing starvation as one
result of any effort to prolong the war
for an indefinite length of time.
The Job Of Crushing Japan
In a report that spikes optimism,
the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion,
Fred Vinson, director, has
issued a booklet entitled "The War,
Phase Two" in which questions are
asked and answered relating to the
climactic blows against Japan. Here
are some of them:
Q. Can Japan be expected to surrender
unconditionally?
A. Unconditional surrender' and Occupation
of Japan are primary war aims. But
the Japanese "will fight to the bitter end,"
says Under-Secretary of State Joseph
Grew, for 10 years U. S. Ambassador to
Japan. Iwo-Jima's toll of 20,00b American
Casualties for 23,000 Japanese dead is an
example of the to-the-death tenacity which
may be expected in key positions.
Q. What is Japan's armed strength?
A. Japan has an army of 5,000,000 men,
less than a fourth of them south of Forj
mosa and China. She has several million
men fit for military service and not yet
called up. So far, we nave not come up
against the main strength of the Japanese
army.
Q. How strong is Japan's industrial
position?
A. Government experts have estimated
that Japan is capable of maintaining a
large production in almost every category
of war equipment and military supplies.
Although Jaoan has suffered spectacular
military reverses, a large portion of the
war machine with which Japan began the
war remains intact. The reduction of Japan's
industrial potential will require a great
intensification of our heavy air attacks.
Even blockading Japan from the mainland,
a difficult task, would not starve out
the Japanese. These people thrive on less
and poorer food than Americans.
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TATE IjPRT.PiiiOT.lSOUTH'
The Roviri' kcporter
(CoHitiaued. from, fwge one)
to' spend' last Thursiay. tit the.
Inland section. At the. last, mar
Ijfient something;; bobbed'up' ta} (
prevent1 aui;;. gpjn^: j 1
' It his* developed" that the unidentified
seven mile long- stretch I
of read hat the State Highway |
Commission was to pave, "be-,
tween Bell Swamp and Grisset- j
town," is really the improving of|
Route 17, from Supply- to the;
Sbuth Carolina line. The road is j
already paved but has- not been,
holding up so. well under the
heavy government travel
Shailotte is to have street
lights in the near future, according
to members of the newly J
elected municipal beard. Although
the REA offices are located there |
and plenty of current is available,
without much new wiring being
required, the town has never
gone to the point of using street
lights. The service will mean!
quite a bit in the way of a'
town improvement.
: vIt
takes no second look to con- g
vjnee us that our good friend, ^
Richmond Galloway, of Supply, {
is growing a mighty fine field of j
corn, across the road from his |.
store at Supply. Mr. Galloway is r
engaged in a. multiple of opera- v
tions, operates a corn mill, a
good store and goes in heavily *
for farming.
For some time, since we first j
saw him, we have been complete- i
lv sold on Star, the beautiful sad- i
die horse of Mr. and Mrs. Fel-!
tort. Garner, at Bolivia. That ^
horse has the making of a real j,
horse and some late rumors are
to the effect that he may take
up his residence at Southport for =
the summer. d
n
Going to Bald Head Island with 1
parties of girls, especially college v
girls, was nothing unusual to us c
BTW (before the war). They call-;0
ed themselves botanists, biologists a
and what not. The island intrigu- j'
ed and charmed them. With all- 0
time eoAstal restrictions now off
the visits of the interested and c
curious to the island is in pros- *
pect of being revived. For the F
last of this week we are supposed u
to sort of look after three WAC's e
from the Seymour-Johnson Air- j P
field. They aim: to spend three 1
days on the island, where nobody:^
has to bother about lipstick. j f
J. J. Arnold, of Bolivia, who T
recently acquired the old Wil- 1
liams place near Supply, is a
keen freshwater fisherman and t
at* the moment he is much in- C
terested in ways and means of
getting the upper, fresh waters, P
of Lockwoods Folly stocked with t
goggle eyes. Lockwoods Folly al- h
ways has some wonderful fish- u
ing for large mouth bass, jack t
and native perch. It is one of the
few streams that the German r
carp has never been able to in- t:
*ade and destroy the game fish, h
Since the salt water, as the t!
stream gets near the coast, would v
prevent the game fish from es- t
caping, Mr. Arnold believes this j
river, would be even more ideal I
jthan a pond for stocking with I
the better game fish.
A group of Raleigh men were
here Sunday to go fishing. One
of them asked us if we knew
Carl Goerch? Know Carl Goerch?
We will say that we do. It was
only two weeks ago when that
same scoundrel stole Battery
Island from the Cape Fear River,
in front of Southport. He moved
it to somewhere "near Beaufort."
Both bluefish and mackerel !
are now plentiful and of large
size. All sport fishing parties
have been reporting fine luck.
When the sportsmen get tired of
trolling they are finding plenty
of trout around the old wrecks
of ships off Bald Head island.
One big need is for more boats.
The limited number available for
sport fishing is not half way
sufficient to take care of the
demand.
COMMERCIAL BOATS
BEGIN SEASON
(Continued From Page One) .
understood that both these Captains
expect good fishing from
now on. Plenty of bluefish and
Spanish mackerel have been reported
running just off the coast.
These fish usually feed on menhaden
and seldom put in appearance
until the menhaden are
plentiful. Another boat, the John
M. Morehead, with Captain Thomas
St. George in ^charge, will be
ready to start fishing in a few
days.
I Tax Collector Jorgensen
1 Given Leave Of Absence
I (Continued From page Onel
ergetlc and well liked throughout
the county, there is general
| regret at his leaving.
Miss Louise Reece, who has
been assisting him in the office '
for about four years, has been g
made temporary acting tax col- jj
lector. She will carry on the du- g
ties for a month and if Mr. Jorgensen
accepted by the army a
permanent acting tax collector
will be appointed by the com- j;
missioners at their second meet- ?
ing in June. Jj
In addition to Tax Collector
Jorgensen, the following Brunswick
men are to leave tomor- 4
row, Thursday, for induction in- j
to the service: Roy G. Sellers, 5
Winnabow; Horace Julius Lewis, j
;qkT, W. C
OUR LUCKY
ss
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Vinnabow; James Merrell Hawes,' i
lhallotte; Edwin L. Bellamy, <
Vdmpee, S. C.; Clyde Hewett,;
Ish; Xvey Calvin Ward, Leland;
oseph Norwood Lewis, Winna-;
iow; Robert Leslie Mincey, of
Nichols. S. C. Shelton LaRue
Vright, Longwood; Hubert Gris- t
ftt, Shallotte and Leon Junior, 1
if Supply. j j
:hild labor law h
s not effected |i
(Continued ifrc-n Page 0^e> ! (
ears of age for employment ,
hat is permitted by the labor '
aws of this State.
"Considering me two raws iu- ((
;ether, one can readily see that
luring the coming fiscal year (
ninors 14 years of age, since '
hey cannot work under the pro-1'
isions of the Child Labor Law, '
annot, as heretofore, quit school 1
nd ream the streets. On and i fter
July 1, 1946 this will be <
rue of all minors up to 16 years' i
f age." 1,
Work permits are issued by!
,'ounty Welfare Superintendents.1,
ipplication must be made and I
lermit issued before any minor
inder 18 years of age can be '
mployed. Brunswick county i
a rents with children who desire <
o enter employment should see i
frs. Maude Phelps, County Wei-'.
are Supt. I1
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MANY SHRIMPERS <
ro SOUTH CAROLINA <
(Continued from page One) L
hey will bring their catches to
leorgetown, selling them there. (
Paul Fodale has opened a temwrary
buying house at George-11
own. Last week he took five
oats to that point and it is '
inderstood that, more are going '
his week. '
Inquiries of the fishermen!'
evealed that all of them expect P
hat shrimp will be abundant!
lere in another month. The boats |1
hat have gone to South Carolina , <
rill be returning about that.]
ime. A goodly number of boats <
We can furnish you w
materials as follows: Insul
"Roofing, Brick, Cement, Ro
Board, Plaster Board, Dc
Hardware, Kyanize Paints
Lumber when necessary pe
cations are furnished. Ca
. quirements.
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SMITH BUILDEI
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am am pm rm
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7:30 9:30 4:30 6:30 Supply
7'45 9:45 4:45 6:45 Bolivia
8-00 10:00 6:00 7:00 Wlnnat*
8-15 10 15 6:16 7:15 I.anvale
1:30 10:30 6:30 7:30 Wllmlns
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are still here and will go right
an looking for shrimp.
NEW HANOVER
JURY TO HEAR
TOM LONG CASE
(Continued from page Onel
some of them near the Wells
home. Investigation revealed that
Mr. Wells had purchased poison
an the day before the dogs died.
Mrs. Wells is said to have admitted
at the time that she put
aut the poison intending to kill
stood that Mr. Staton has conIt
was claimed, however , that
the poison was watched and that
rats ate it all. Investigation of
the contents of the stomach of J
ane of the dogs, the property of
Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Fergus, re-1
sealed poison in it, sufficient to j
:ause the death of the animal. |
After the plea of nolo conten- j
lere was taken, Judge Frizzelle j
reserved his judgment until tolay.
Solicitor Clifton Moore advised:
l newsman last night that he I
A-ould call the case of Mrs. Flosiie
Ridge, charged with carry-!
Jig" COIlCeaiUU Weapuua auu aa- j
sault with deadly weapon, the
'irst thing: this morning. Follow- j
ng that he will take up minor j
:ases to occupy the time until
he jury panel from New Han- j
>ver county arrives at two this i
ifternoon.
ORDER NOW BEFORE "
CARS ARE NEEDED
(Continued Fn m Page One)
juate. Placing orders at once is
[he only certainty that we have
5f getting this material for use
Dn crops now and for winter
legumes and pastures later.
Applications for limestone may
be placed with certain designated
local AAA committeemen or
it the Brunswick county AAA
office.
ith non-rationed building I
ation Board, Rock Wool, I
ck, Sand, Plaster, Beaver I
vrvi'o Win/^AWa PllilfUnOf
J\J I Of M IIIUV# M Uf UUlIUlllg,
, TeiTa Cotta Pipe. Also
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