^? ? I The Pilot Covers I Brunswick County I NO. SIXTEEN ~NO~i first Davis Men !| Came Thursday,) I More Will Come ;.( Osborn b. .ught First Group Oi, Davis Conval escents To Southport On Thursday On Field Trip ,!Ay BASE BOATS HERE poR CAMP DAVIS MEN rjfort Being Made To ArI range For Boats That I Would Enable Return ed Soldiers At Davis To Visit Island I And Fish In one of the big a group of men to Southport on a j I sorj' field triP from Camp Br?"s p' Thursday. The trip ;35 arranged by Sgt. Merton B. , : ami was intended for the ' reation of men who have been ! >rseas. were wounded or sick, t -who are now convalescent. y?t. Osborn came down a . "le of weeks ago to arrange < .v'this and future trips. Owing ( J i delay in delivery of tele- ' bmm. various guides, who were s contact the party on arrival 1 ?. did not show up until late.1 is men were able to see very; lit except a few boats un-1 siag shrimp and a few points! if interest. However, they met! several people who did all they1 kM to make the trip a pleasant j w ar.d all in the party declared I were returning on future < tr.ps of the same sort. Tlie least that could be said of Sis first tout is that it showed potentialities for trips of this being made interesing for . convalescent at Camp Davis. With established contacts now! ;a:e with local people and with i shrimping and other com- (' nr. al fishing just getting un-1 >way. it is believed that a interesting schedule can be maintained for future visits fee the soldiers. is.. Osborn, who in company t ivr ali who wet? in the pwrtv, r s heen overseas and wears u v? Presidential Citation Ribbon., c a. that it is hoped to get a a i' at or boats, owned by the a inry and now based on New Rh'-i to Southport. Having f here, future parties could t ; down, go out fishing and r " visits to Bald Head Island, I vtich is owned by Frank O. F 5-mill of Charlotte. The Ser- F wr.t said he was reasonably c of being able to get these 1 rats here for the above pur- c | s With the initial tour having 1 made it is honed to eet 0 I~"E< on i tegular schedule in I ! ^011 time Several local resi-ic / ' Mrs. Helen Bragaw, Post- F tiler L. T. Yaskell, W. B. ' > pah. an-i others, have already piunteercd to act as guides, j owing the men around on fu-1 i tore trips. Any other South- ' who would like to join up a little volunteer guide's ortaxation, to assist in showing fibers of such tours around, j ' get in touch with Mr. [ i fcz.ah who is the local contact when such parties are due.! . r Brief News ij Flashes L. i <1 \krivls home h: m. m. Hoscnbaum. Captain, j s- Army Medical Corps, ar;~v~l home last Friday after two *ars tn England. France, and many He has 30 days leave at the expiration of that h. will report to Ft. Bragg, r lurther orders. His wife and r- son have remained at their .' Shallottc while the ?ctor was away. , BIVEN DIPLOMAS , Barbara Fayc Adams of and was given a diploma in Mrc at the commencement erciscs at Duke Summer last week. At the time I T.vood Swain of Shal- j -iven a decree of Docter ?f Medicine. , '-i nvm licenses > Brunswick county | both white, were mar-; 'r~ the month cf June,: i!"5 to the marriage lice-1 j f- i-:-u<. : by Hegister of Deeds 1 Walton. Withe the S. CI , laws as they were, , .lave often passed without l'e-.-nsc-s being issued here. . couples securing licenses j ^ " the past months were: Burr of St. Paul, 1 A.maretta Bennett and ' ^a'Ph Gibson of FreeVa to Lena Chadwlck | r **** ? I I 1 TH 12 In Pacific mmtsm hr ft. Coast Guardsman J. C. Fil noth, Seaman first class, whose ivife is the former Eula Mae Smith of Southport is serving at in advanced base in the central Pacific area with a construction letachment unit of the Coast Giuard. His home is in Dallas, Texas. Prevatte Resigns, K i-l-1 i ruiK nppuuiiuu County Attorney bounty Attorney Resigns To Accept Post Of City , Attorney To Which He 1 Was Recently Appointed , __________ I VIRS. LOU H. SMITH RE-APPOINTED NURSE Sew County Attorney Will , Shortly be Released From Service With The ' Coast Guard 1 i At their meeting Monday the < Kiard of county commissioners {appointed Mrs. Lou H. Smith 1 is county health nurse for the urrent year. Mrs. Smith was i ,)so reappointed as county quar- 1 ntine officer. E. J. Prevatte, who has been ' erving as county attorney for j i he past two years, tendered his, ] esignation, which was accepted. I < dr. Prevatte was recently ap- > j ointed city attorney for South- ; ort and his resignation was in irder that he might accept this Eist named job. On motion of 1 ounty commissioner J. N. Sowell, econded by commissioner A. P. ' f.uss and made unanimous by the hairman, S. B. Frink was ap- 1 lointed county attornty to sue- j1 eed Mr. Prevatte. The salary j1 aid Mr. Frink will be the same j is that which Mr. iPrevatte has i ieen receiving. . j' h County Nurse Urges Action Thildren Must Be Vaccinat- j, cd Before Entering School In Fall; Nurse Or Doctor Can Do It Mrs. IjOU II. Smith. County,i Yurse. leaves County on July] 1th to be gone for a month or| ive weeks. Mrs. Smith advises hat all parents sec that their children are protected against liphtheiia and smallpox before ntcring school in Septembor. rhe last law on the smallpox j accination reads as follows: Secion 130-183 "All children in! Jorth Carolina are required to [ >e vaccinated against smallpox1 >efor c attending public, private! >r parochial school." All children must be protected igainst diphtheria before enter-' ng school. Mrs. Smith expects ( o be in her office on August , Continued on page two I Wife Plans To Return To WAC| Voting Soldier Now At Home With Wife Who Was Discharged From WAC Because Of Being' Under Age Pfc. Gollie M. Bellamy of ShaliotU has been spending a 30 lays leave with his wife, who has seen living with her parents near | Bolivia. Private Bellamy was wounded in the Normancty invasion on, June 6, 1944. After a short stay, in the hospital he returned to duty and was again wounded, | this time more seriously, in France on July 13, 1914. Since j (Continued on page 2) E ST j A Gooc Spaces today"5 Sgt. Redwine Had 2 Horrible Years In Prison Camp In''OW. Instance He And Fellow Prisoners Were Marched 100 Miles Without Food Or Water; Many Died FREED BY RUSSIANS BEFORE BERLIN FELL Was With Russian Army For A Month As It Pushed On To Take Berlin, Praises Treatment They Accorded Him Weighing 35 pounds less than he did when captured by the Germans in Africa on February 14, 1943, Sgt. Ruffin Redwine arrived at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Redwine, near Shallotte, last week. For two terrible years, two months and a few days, he was held a prisoner of war by the Germans. He was liberated by the Russian armies at Stalag IIIA. Luckenwalde, Germany, 37 miles south of Berlin on April 22nd, 1945. Sgt. Redwine was with a Field Artillery Battalion. The entire organization of some five thousand men was surrounded and captured by the Germans in Nortft Africa, They were at first confined in prison camp in Africa and from that point they were forced to march 100 miles without either water or rations. "Hundreds of the men," says Sgt. Redwine, "fell out from exhaustion on this trip. Those of us who got through never knew what became of them. We supposed they were left to perish where they fell." Before being placed in the camp in Africa the prisoners were confined in railroad box cars, 60 men to a car, for three lays without food or water. During this time they were let out inly once to relieve themselves. Many of the men became deathly -sick and some died. After being moved from Africa to Germany, Sgt. Redwine and bis fellow prisoners were fortunate in not being shifted from camp to camp, as were the inmates of many of the other prison camps. It was a joyous lay to him and to his fellow prisoners when the advancing Red armies reached the camp where they were confined and liberated them. Since the Red Army was then bound for Berlin ind to finish the war, the liberated Americans and other pnsuiicrs iiuciaitru ai 1-in m , 1 ivalde were allowed their choice of going to the rear or marching with the Russian armies. Most of the liberated prisoners,! all who were physically able, elected to march and fight. All who asked for arms were outfitted by the Russians, and fought on with them to Berlin. Interviewed at Shallot te Saturday, Sgt. Redwine said, "We received the finest treatment and the utmost consideration from the Russian soldiers. I was with them ai little over a month. They were in the field to take Berlin and finish off the war. Naturally, they had no time to stop and treat us as guests. (Continued on Page Four) Returns From 6 Years Service Young Waccamaw Township Man Soon To Receive Honorable Discharge After Long Service Cpl. Hampton E. Leonard, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leonard of Ash, has returned from overseas and is now at Fort Bragg, awaiting the honorable discharge to which he is entitled by reason of his service. Cpl. Leonard has been in the army six years and for the past thirty-one months has been serving overseas. He fought the battles of North Africa, Sicily, Belgium, France and Germany and ? -HI 4 .. a/.?,lnk came tnrougn wiuiuuu a or bruise. ? Last Thursday Cpl. Lcoijard obtained a 24 hour leave from Fort Bragg and rushed home to see his parents and other relatives for the first time in several years. He was accompanied by two friends who were overseas with him. They stopped at the home of his sister, Mrs. Bennle Russ, at Longwood. His mother was there alone, the rest of the family being away at work. It was a happy reunion between mother and son and the happuiess increased within a short tie when Continued on page four \TE 1 News paper Ii Southport, N. C., V Home From NEW YORK.? A view | helicopter showing the Trans j Mary as she sailed up New 1 ing more than 14,000 U. S. battlefields. This was the shi Day. Curing Tobacco In Full Swing (Farmers Up Against Trying Period With Tobacco Crcp Ripening Fast And Labor Supply Short Tobacco growers of Brunswick county are now passing through the most trying period of crop ( production, the cropping, curing: and grading of tobacco. The situ-1 ation is calling for the utmost exertion from all classes of avail-! able labor. Men, women and1 children are working from dawn j to dusk and in many cases the j men, and also many women, are, laboring through the nights, j watching the tobacco barn fires | and maintaining such even tern-1 nnratnres as the StaLTCS of curing I may require. j "It is a busy time for us, you lean take that from me," said one grower who had to be in. town Monday, much against his \ j will. He was called in as a wit-1 | ness in court when he woultl: 'have much preferred staying at! home and helping with the to- ( bacco. | Next week, with more and 'more of the crop ripening and no|j extra labor being available, the j i tobacco growers will face an even I j worse situation. There is much i (work ahead between now and the l I time wehn all of the 1!?45 crop I (will have been harvested, cured 1 jand sold. \v. BTkezuh_ _ | Fishing piers at the parious t J beaches along the Brunswick J coast would do more than any-p thing else toward attracting at- 1 tention, bringing new people and holding the interest of those who already know the good fishing J and bathing along the Brunswick i coast. There should be fishing I | piers at Caswell Beach, Long ' beach, Holdcn's beach, Shallotte 1 Foint, Seaside and other places. ' They would pay the owners for the money expended and be of ] enormous am in me general development. The end of the war should see the beginning of a general deve-' lopment, especially in farming, in' J the coastal sections where there j is now much unused land. Bruns-i jwick, with its great uncultivated areas, much of it have rich agricultural soils, should. prove es- ' peci&lly desirable to r.ew home- [ i { \ P0R1 i A Good Coi Wednesday, July 4th, The Wars from a U. S. Coast Guard i- Atlantic liner S. S. Queen fork Bay, June 20th, Carrytroops back from European p's first visit here since V-E Reports On 7th Due On The 7th It is certain that Brunswick county made its overall War Boml quota, with some to spare, but there" still ' ovists doubt if the folks on the street and in the homes? those who buy or should buy "E" Bonds?made good. There Is a ]>ossibility that the "E" quota is still short. County Chairman LeRoy .Mint/, stated Monday that war bond issuing agents had until Saturday of this week, June 7th, to make their final report on the sales. This means that "E" Bonds can still be bought this week and be counted in the 7th War Loan. Stanley Brothers Doing Fine Work Colored Farmers Of Shallotte Community Doing Fine Cooperative Work On Farms They Own When they brought * their big ?rain combine, pulled by a large lcavy duty Farmall tractor to the Reynolds Blacksmith shop for repairs on Saturday, a reporter for the pilot was moved to ask the Stanley brothers about their farm machinery and farms. (Continued on Page Four) ?????? WING Reporter seekers who are interested in farming and at the same time want to be near good hunting and fishing. Former County Fire Warden Dawson Jones has us all wrong. He came in Monday and made limsclf about the umpty fourth man to bawl us and the paper out, allegedly for negleeting North Wcat township. He asked us to kindly remember that Norah West pays more taxes than any other township in the eounty. "Yet," said Jones," wc are treated as jf we are not a part of Brunswick county. We are getting fed up with it." Ia may be true,, as Mr. Jones alleged, claimed and deposed, that the paper has not given North West as good news service as it has been given some other sections of Brunswick. This, however, has beer, entirely due to Continued on page two r pil nmunity 1945 Fiser Ra Big Docket Up / In Court Monday Eighteen Cases Heard Or Were Continued At This Week's Session Of Brunswick Recorder's Court A big docket, involving cases called for varied offenses, was awaiting Judge John B. Ward and Solicitor J. W. Ruark at ] Monday's session of the Recorder's Court. The Minute docket shows the following mat- | ters and the disposition made of them. Morton Holden, assault with deadly weapon, continued to July 9th. Perry M. Spivey, speeding and , no operators license, $15.00 fine and costs. Charlie Royal Waddell, carry- v ing concealed weapon, $25.00 fine , and costs. ( Edward J. Beskie, speeding, judgment suspended on payment . of costs. \*li< Alex Porter, no operators license and passing traffic on v curve, continued to July 9th. Murphy Blackman, no chaffeurs license, judgment suspend- ' ed on payment of costs. Harvie Olden Johnson, improper | lights, judgment suspended on 1 payment of a fine of $5.00 and j costs. ' Charlie Carney Stewart, speed- 1 | ing, $10.00 fine and costs, fine 1 ! remitted. 1 Sidney Holden, assault, con- ' tinued to July J6th. i Mildred Evans, assault with deadly weapon, continued to * July 16th. < Ethel Evans, trespass, con- 1 (Continued on Page 3) ( T nn M HP iuu iiiuui iiaiiua For Masonboro New Hanover Lads Wallopped For Fourth Sffaight Time Sunday, Coming Back For More Today Before the fine battery work ;of Hanna and Webb and general-; ; ly good support of the whole I team, the Masonboro Baseball! Club met its fourth defeat of the year at the hands of the Southport Coast Guards here Sunday ! afternoon. The score was 13 to 0. Hanna has pitched his team, mates'to victory in all four of I the encounters with Mason-1 boro. In the last three games, two o f which were extra inning affairs, he has allowed only two hits. Blackie Webb, behind ^ the plate, has given him able support. Smarting under the repeated' defeats by the Southporters, the| Masonboro boys are returning j this afternoon, the 4th of July,' for a fifth game. Hanna and Webb are again scheduled for the battery work for the locals a and a bang-up good game is ex- } pccted as Masonboro, with an eye to vcngenance, is said to be, reinforcing its team for this 5th t game with some tip-top players. jThc affair is being staged at ' the old base ball park at 3:30' this afternoon. ! Farm Committee j: Is Discontinued j a Farm Transportation Orga- s nization Discontinues Op-|r erations After June 30th j d The Brunswick County Farm a Transportation Committee has for j c the past two years been serving j farmers ill the county in connec-' t tion with the Office of Defense '1 Tiansportation and Price Admin- t aeration in nanunng applications c for off-highway gasoline, trucks f and tractor conversions from steel to rubber. This program was de- 1 signed in an effort to eliminate any holdup in the wartime food production job and beginning July 1 all functions of this committee will be handled by the Office of Price Adminstrution and the Off- . ice of Defense Transportation. It is hoped that the efforts of all will, in the end, accomplish that which we look forward to most? (a lasting peace. farmers should take note that 1 jail problems that arise in the fut- 1 jure in connection with these pro- c grams should be taken up direct-11 jly with the Office of Defense Tra- f j nsportation and Office of Price c Adminstration. The agencies will 1: continue to render to farmers the1' same helpful services that they have in the past. j11 Members of the committee were: II (Continued on Page Four1 1 ? ,0T I $1.50 PER YEA> PUBLISH! ge In Ja Now Surveying ( Caswell Beach Development1 New Owners Of Valuable ' Nearby Beach Property Started Surveys Monday Morning PROPERTY ATTRACTING n GENERAL ATTENTION o tl Unusual Among Beaches In o That It Faces Prevailing 0 Summer - Time South d West Winds c While they do not expect to be- 0 ;in anything like the complete J levelopment which is their ulti- b nate plan until the lifting of 8 var-time priorities, the Goldsboro ' nterests who bought the Caswell b Carolina lands at Southport last b veek are losing no time in set- b ing about such development as :an be done at this time. On Monday a surveyor began f vork on the tract, running off|1( ine? and nreDarinsr for mapsi'1 ;hat will give the new owners nore concrete ideas of what they 0 lave and what they can do with S t. Some building lots are already b reing sold and inquiries are be- s ng made about others. An- t louncement of the purchase of n ;he property had hardly been e nade before prospective buyers C )f building lots began to mani- o "est a keen interest. I It is understood that the buy:rs of the property would like to eventually construct a hotel, 1 Davilion, and fishing pier, as part t >f their plans for general im- s movement. Lights from two d sources, the Southport city c riant and the REA are already t ivailable. Two miles of paved o -oad runs through the property, ? vhich, with its east-west shore t ine, is probably swept by more c jooling summer-time breezes than I iny other Jjeaqh along the At- t antic coast. I Caswell Beach, by reason of 'acing southward, is very unusual imong beaches along the Atlantic a :oast. Most of them face east- a vard or northward. With Cas- 1 veil facing right out on thejf >cean in the direction of the pre-1 ... l J_ I / ailing summer wniua uie ucawi i s unusually cool, pleasant and I ? las a very wholesome freedom! ? rom insect pests, j I Storm Damages jj Generally Small" Hood Results To Crops1' From Heavy Rains Appears To Outweigh All f Storm Damages lj< Is Reports from many well in-1 s ormed sources ir> Brunswick ounty are indicative that dam- , .ge to crops during last week's ' xccssivc rainstorm was slight, rlany good farmers incline to he opinion that the storm dani.gc in various spots was far out- j (alanced by the general good rc-Jg ulting from the rain. ; j. Along the coast below South- j ? loit, especially in the Shallottc j irea and west of tlierc, very! n ittlc tain had fallen In weeks. ^ ,"rops were suffering badly, rain a vas needed in practically all sec-1 j ions of the county. While manyip armers could have wished for|y ess than the damaging seven1 fi ind a half inches which fell, all j ee m to be now viewing the good j, esults. ti Some early corn was beaten lown rather badly, but has been! traightening up well. Most late | tops were greatly benefited, dost of the damage was to tolacco and other crops growing on owlands. With these lands unler water for several hours the rops growing on such places suffered from scald. v Participated In Battles" . is Lcland Man Fulfills Duty . 1n Fircroom Of Destroy- 3 er In Pacific v ABOARD A DESTROYER IN TIE PACIFIC ? Arthur H. v Trnmoo Ts 01 fivaman , iivtuotT, ut.| ?x, iiiyuiaii, mob lass,. of Leland, has helped I v nalntain his ship's efficient per- j ormance through four major I. ngagements in the Pacific. He J/ s stationed in the forward fire-; oom. 1 Since he came aboard this ship n November, 1943, Thomas has 5 larticipatcd in the raids on the (Continued on Page 2) v HHHHH V I 4 ' Most of The News All The Time />jjj lD EVERY WEDNESDAY p Cities jreat Superfort Raid Leaves Wall Of Fire Devastating Great Cities Of Nipponese LAST INDIES SPLIT BY BARNEO INVASION 'resident Truman Makes Personal Delivery Of San Francisco Treaty To Senate _ > 1 MANILA ? Australian troops lade a successful major landing n Balikpapan Sunday in the hird phase of a triple invasion f Borneo. MacArthur, in personal ommand, said this secured the omination of all of Borneo and plit the East Indies, virtually ompleting Allied tactical control f the entire southwest Pacific, ap resistance was aggressive as augh infantry and tank troopers mashed ashore in the suburbs of ! he Far East's greatest oil center ehind most intensive pre-invasion ,, ombardment yet unleashed in his theater. GUAM?The greatest wall of i ire ever unleashed in warfare j japed through four of Japan'a -nportant industrial centers today ursting from a record 4,000 tons > f incendiary bombs. Nearly 600 luperfortresses showered fire ombs with "good to excellent re- J ults". The most clearly visible arget was Ube, Japan's great nagnasium-producing center. The ntire waterfront was aflame. )ther aerial blows west headed n Kure, Shimonoseki, Kumamoto, J be. | WASHINGTON President human truvels familiar path to he Senate, this time as Ambas"-j"" 4-lnofr ri'Q n f froti. _ ) auui iui iiaiivna uiab nuim *?w j | lom from wars. The President j lis own choice. MACKINAC ISLAND, MICH? Sounding keynote of the 37 annual overnor's conference, Governor lerbert B. Maw of Utah declared ij he American public does not /ant federal regulation of its life /hen peace comes, Maw, chaii* t' nan of the conference, led off alf a dozen speeches dealing pri- \ larily with asserted agreement j f states to cope with postwar econversion. i , SAN FRANCISCO?Fires raged j ive hours in Kure, Tokyo ac- 1 nowledged, in a broadcast today aying fire-bombing cuperforts wept over naval base city. In AnnuaLTrip To Old Home Town * -I Mrs. James E. Wilson and MisT laude Galloway, natives (if outhport who have been residlg in Washington, D. C., for ! lany years, have been spending '1 lie past week here t tile Camcla Inn, and visiting old friends. Irs. Wilson and Miss Galloway re sisters, daughters of the late ,ewis A. Galloway, who was '; ostmaster at Southport for 30 " ears. Following his death his >' amlly moved to Washington and Irs. Wilson and Miss Galloway 1 ave since made yearly visits to he old home town. Ration Pointers j PROCESSED FOODS (Blue tamps): T2, U2, V2, W2, X2 jj . . now valid . . . expire July 31. Y2. Z2, Al. Bl, CI . . . now | alid . . . expire Aug. 31. Dl, El, Fl, Gl, HI . . . now alid . . . expire Sept. 30. Jl, Kl, LI, Ml, N1 . . . now alid . . . expire Oct. 31. MEATS & FATS (Red tamps): K2. L2, M2, N2, P2 1 . . now valid . . . expire July jj Q2. R2. S2, T2, U2 . . - . now ' | alid . . . expire Aug. 31. V2, W2, X2, Y2, Z2 . . . now W alid . . . expire Sept 30. Al, Bl, CI, Dl. El . . . now D alid . . . expire Oct 31. SUGAR: Sugar stamp No. 3# . . good for' 5 lbs. . . expires tug. 31. SHOES: Airplane Stamps Ns, , No. 2, No. 3. now good. FUEL OIL: Periods 1, 2, 3. W , valid for 10 gallons each. .f GASOLINE: A-16 coupcnsU alld June 22 through. Sept 2L