PAOF 2 The State Port Pilot Southport, N. C. Published Every Wednesday JAMES M. HARPER, JR Editc I (On Leave of Absence, In U. S. N. R.) Entered as second-class matter April 20, 1928, f < the Post Office at Southport, N. C., under tt Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR SI.5 SIX MONTHS 1.0 THREE MONTHS 7 WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1945 ti Saving Face ?????? The fact that Japan is fighting on I in the face of certain great loss of I life and much destruction of property is no tribute to the intelligence of the Nips. Japan cannot win, and knows it. Continued fighting will only draw II down on her heavier penalties when I she is forced to surrender unconditij( onally, just as Germany did. In the ^ meanwhile, counting her civilian popuj> lation, she is losing human life at the jjf ratio of more than 20 to 1. She is in Aim^whRlmin? r.; a losing game, asiinisv v. o ' odds. If her Emperor and her warp: lords eared anything for the Japanese ' people they would throw intthe sponge | and save the country from destruction. | As things are. while it is the common * soldier and the civilians who are dying, t the warlords are carrying on in what f they think is comparative safety. As ,* Hitler and his chiefs hoped, and as ,<! Hitler may have done, they hope to escape when the end comes. In Japan it is all a matter of saving face. However, it is the face of the ' War Party that it is hoped to save. The ' War Party cares nothing for the face of those of their people who are to be the dead. How Did It Go? The outcome of the recent British ! election, which is to decide whether or not the British approve of Winston Churchill, is not to be announced until I tomorrow, July 26th. The election was held the first of the month* The long drawn out wait for returns is something like an incident which occured in Whiteville in 1916, when Woodrow Wilson was the democratic candidate for president. This election was held early in November, as usual, but returns were slow in coming from California, where the results could make things swing either way. For more than three weeks nothing authentic came from California. Then one morning a young Whiteville lady, much interested in missions, went to The News Reporter office. She helped herself abundantly to the available supply of white cardboard and painted a dozen or more huge signs, reading: "Africa For Christ." These signs were i placed all around the office, where they could dry, the young lady leaving them there to go about some other business. Pretty soon the boss, who had been out on the street, returned. While out he had heard some interesting news. Seeing the mission worker's signs, he had a bright idea and reversing one of the boards he painted on the oppo--x ? _:J, ii. _ ,, , , . sue sine me equally enngntening message : "California for Wilson." Naturally, the mission worker was deeply shocked when she came back to the office, saw her sign, reading: "Africa for Christ," and right alongside it another, "Califorrfia for Wilson." Tomorrow's news from England should be "Britain for Churchill." "Green Hell" Stories are drifting back from American held islands in the Pacific . . . . stories about a fantastic weapon that is aligned on the side of the Japanese. Our fighting men. over there call it the "Green Hell." They say it is far worse than Jap "suicide" planes, more dangerous even than the fanatic counter-charges of Japanese troops. The "Green Hell" is not a new type of plane, gun or explosive. It is a growth of Nature, a fungus, a part ol the fearful nightmare of living and fighting in the tropics. It attacks the very core of our fighting strategy?oui supplies. This "hellish" fungus grows manj times faster than a man's beard. II poisons the food it touches, rots cloth ing and medication ... it grows sc fast that in a few hours it can covei what was once a brightly gleaming box I of urgently needed supplies with a ; dirty green fuzz?half an inch thick. Yet inside that box may be cartons of K-rations, hundreds of blood plasma _ kits or surgical dressings waiting to be ir used to save men's lives. Fighting the "Green Hell" has been it one of the greatest battles of this war. 16 And we are winning that battle?have won it, in fact-thanks to the soundness of our own leaders?and thanks, too, J 0 to pulpwood. ! 0, Supplies now being sent into the j 5 Pacific are double and triple-wrapped ~| in specially treated paper made from j pulpwood . . . paper that is water- i proof, rotproof and insectproof. The ( "Green Hell' 'may multiply as it will? it cannot touch the precious cargo inside these special boxes. Pointing To Russia A dimout still covers most of what has been going on at the meeting of the "Big Three," President Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, in Germany, but enough has been leaking out to show a I decided trend toward Russia entering the war against Japan. This paper has always felt that Russia would have a hand in settling with Japan. What has been going on and made public at the meeting in Germany strengthens that belief. All things are pointing to Russia taking a hand. The United States and England can and will defeat Japan, but with Russia's help the end will come sooner and at less cost in American lives. The Neatest Trick I We have been watching the "Ger1 mans-Can-Do- No - Wrong - They - Are1 People-Just-Like-Us" apologists in this L country with more than a little interest and expectation ever since the Ameri- I can Army over-ran the Germans and i exposed their revolting atrocities, later j confirmed and documented by the j ! General of the Army, visiting parties, of Congressmen and Senators and a group of American editors and publishers. We have been wondering if and how they would manage 10 coine uui m favor of atrocities, a very difficult side to be caught on even for an American Nazi lover. We didn't think they could do it, but they did, and we want to be the first to congratulate them on the neatest trick of the month, if not for the j whole year of 1945. The line they have been taking is that after all, the living skeletons, madmen and tattered cadavers found in Buchenwald, Dachau and other GerI man recreation centers were not Amerii cans, but only other Germans, Russi[ ans, Poles, Belgians, Dutch, Greeks, Norwegians, French, Jews, Czechs, Jugo-Slavs, so what is all the shouting about? These were not prisoners of war, but just people the Germans j didn't like. Americans, except those ' who apparently through some organizational breakdown were starved to shocking skeletons were treated according to the Geneva Convention. So you really cannot call what happened to a Jew, a Pole, a Belgian or Dutch Slave laborer an atrocity, can you now? The millions of starved, beaten, shot, hung, roasted, eviscerated, flayed and roasted of Europe's humanity were merely local politicos who erred in not seeing eye to eye with the German government. The boys putting out this engaging line haven't yet managed to sweeten the odd couple of hundred American prisoners butchered in an open field by SS Troopers during the Bulge breakthrough. This yet unexplained affair t is a sort of untidy appendage which can hardly appeal to the neat, methodical mind of the Nazi-lover, and we hasten to suggest to them that it was merely a boyish prank, the natural exuberance of a strong and healthy soldiery carried away by the glorious stimulation of combat. And besides they were under the momentary aberration that they were going to win, that they would hold the ground on ! which the massacre had taken place until they could remove the traces in which case nobody could prove any! thing. There, that makes it all right, doesn't it? I "Will our government, after the i war, live within its income and foster business growth, or will it take the easy way of deficit financing leading r to political regimentation of business and unavoidably to the destruction of the American system of free enter> prise?"?James A. Farley, former Postmaster General. M Hit STATE PORT PILC The Rovin' Reporter1" (Continued From Page One) 'Q. ter, hunting and fishing editor of a the Washington Daily News, and bj Boh Wilson, big genial "Up the f( Stream" man on the Washington h; Times-Herald. Although they ,a headed different parties, each ^ | having their favorite fishing ni cronies, Don and Bob could be ^ depended upon to show up here several times a year. The war ^ stopped that, Bob got too busy eI with things, Don went into ser- h, vice with the U. S. Marines, with|b]' whom he had formerly served for many years. With his present ^ hitch with the Devil Dogs he rose1 a] to the rank of Captain and was er given an honorable discharge tf] some months ago. He is now w back writing for his favorite M Washington paper. In a round- A about way we heard from Don this week. He wrote folks in jg Raleigh, saying that Washington p. sportsmen were sold on South- jn port and asking about ue. The p, jink charged he had written us H and that we hadn't replied (which B charge is incorrect as we haven't J heard from him since he was in Alaska nearly three years ago).!j,? He is fixing to come back this sj, summer and do some fishing on!aj the Gulf Stream. p] The other day Captain Tom ^ Lewis, who is, here from More- A head City fishing, brought in a1 j-p catch of exceptionally large and10f nice blue fish he had taken with' f0 his net. Among the admirers of ji the catch was the traveling audi- [V tor for the Selective Board. Cap- q tain Tom remarked to her that a, with the bluefish he also caught1 y, some tuna and- threw them over-[jn board, as "they were no good w for eating." "My goodness," said pj the traveling auditor, "up state ea we have to pay 50 cents an nj ounce for tuna. We call them cc the chicken of the sea." All of w this serves to remind one that a a, lot of fish are thrown away that m are about as good as those that are saved. 5 ! B Four or five years ago we, furnished Jimmie Briggs with jQ considerable stuff for his fishing- of for-fun broadcasts. We heard fromi Jimmie this week with some interesting news. He writes us that M Fred Flyetcher, tops in sports H writing and sport broadcasting, j has rented a cottage at Long' T Beach and will be there for two ^ weeks with Captain nugn Mc- j g, Manus, an Army doctor. Jimmie i wrote to tell us that Fletcher is1E one swell guy and that he, Jim- j ne mie, had already told him that M we would give him all of the j how, whc.i and where there is to j p fishing around Southport. After j _ telling them to this effect Jim- j * mie thought it best to write and | tip us off to the fact that we ^ had better do that when Fred ^ shows up. . 1 p ! w The regularity with which we j go to Shallotte each Saturday ' was complimented in a highly un- j c, usual manner this past Saturday.' p The bus was two miles out from p Supply and bowling along when ' our good friend G. R. Sellers S( flagged it down. The bus driver j stopped, thinking he was going to | ' get a passenger. When he found j out that Mr. Sellers knew we were on board and just \Vanted to ^ renew his subscription to the j' State Port Pilot he grinned and; p took it all as being In the days | 1 work. Until this week we never knew H just where Tar Landing was, j much less how it got its name. s' Saturday Dr. G. V. Dayis took us111 around there after treating us to jai a fine dinner at the home of ioc Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gray. We still don't know how the place m came to be named. As at mat- J p ter of fact that matters little, e The main thing is that Tar Land-1 et ing is a mighty attractive place | on the Shallotte River. Some day d it will have a lot of friends and c patrons among the folks who like I a quiet, beautiful place where the V best can be found in hunting and ^ fishing. L Fed Brunswick people live to tell it after having two such rr 1 W. B. & S. BU South no rt BUS SCHI Effective Jur SOUTHPORT TO Monday - J LEAVE Read Down AM AM I'M PM 3:00 9:00 A: 00 6:00 Sontlipor 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 Wlnnabo 8:16 10:15 6:15 7:15 Lanvale 8:30 10:30 6:30 7:80 Wllmlngt SUNDAY sc: 7:30 10:45 4:00 6:00 Soutlipor 8:00 11:15 4:30 6:30 Supply 8:16 11:30 4:46 6:45 Bolivia 8:30 11:46 6:00 7:00 Wlnnabo 8:40 11:65 6:15 7:10 Lanvale 8:65 12:10 6:30 7:25 Winning! SOUTnPOKT T( (EXCEPT 8 5:00 1^30 9:30 Sonthpor 5:65 lt55 9:65. Mill Cre? |:45 2:05 10:15 Wlnnabo 6:00 2:20 10:30 Lanvale 6:20 2:60 11:00 Shipyard 8HALLOTTE TO (EXCEPT 8 }: If ' Shallotte :00 1:80 Supply 1:M SXla V.tS o:io Wlnnabo: ilia I'm Lanvale 4.80 8:00 Shipyard ?..v, .a. ... t . >T. SOUTHPORT; N. tj ?i 4 i mm >t mili | it' f ' 1 "* sar nibbing of shoulders with sath as L. S. (Luther) Holden, f Supply has had. A few years jo Mr. Holden sustained a roken neck in an accident. He' (covered but could only move is head with difficulty. This' :st winter he had an attack of lilk fever, a disease that is sarly always fatal. Prom this; Ir. Holden again recovered, after lending many weeks in a Willington hospital. He is now ijoying better health than he is ever had since his neck waS roken. His recent sickness ap-j iars to have resulted in a great [ iprovement of the neck injury! id Mr. Holden is now actively j igaged in the management of le hotel at Holden's Beach, of hich he is the principal owner. { r. Holden has two sons in the rmy Air forces and another in le Navy. Cpl. Massey T. Holden! wit hthe air forces in thai acific; Lt. K. R. Holden is flyg a big army transport at' anama City, Fla., and John F. olden is with the Navy at San runo, California. At Tar Landing Dr. J. V. Davis is an interesting family in the! tape of six young deer hounds, j 1 brothers and sisters, whom he ans to use as fox chasers. The >gs will be six months old on ugust 10 and they are from the ae deer dogs of Tom Hickman, Southport . Eight puppies rmed the original family, but) r. Hickman elected to retain! ro, selling the other six to Dr. | a vie. The dogs are now talk id rangy, extremely active. Al-j lough they are of a deer hunt- j g breed Dr. Davis believes they' ill make valuable fox chasers, e plans to let them get some irly'wind arid training by runng rabbits, but before they be>me set for such hunting he ill introduce a trained fox dog! ""1 ciiiri f nli tkam oiiar fr> I IU i>(T>kUl UIDIII U?l?l IU Hit ore speedy and exciting chases. HALLOTTE MAN URIED MONDAY (Continued From Paae Onel tte and Mrs. Hortense Carlyle ' Wilmington. Graveside services with Rev. j E. Lowe in charge were held, onday afternoon at the Chapel ill cemetery. Active pallbearers were Harry itum, Leo Levenien, Earl Milli-! m, Elhvood Cheers, W. M. j Vinson and Bob White. Honorary pallbearers were I j , Reynolds, Bill Reynolds, Kensth Benson, D. L. Gore, Alvin illiken and Dr. J. W. Hayes. UNERAL MONDAY OR MRS. SWAIN (Continued From Page One) Mrs. Swain is survived by ven daughters, Mrs. W. L. ewis, Mrs. W. E. Lewis, Mrs. rank Lewis, and Mrs. C. T. 'illetts, all of Winnabow, Mrs. sssie Skipper, and Mrs. J. T. tipper, of Leland, and Miss larice Swain, of Wilmington, W. . of Elmhurst, Long Island, T. , of Burgaw, and T. W. Swain, ith the U. S. Navy in the juth Pacific; three brothers, E. and E. Danford of Bolivia,' id Thomas Danford, of Wilington; three sisters, Mrs. Wilim Eichorn of Bolivia, Mrs. A. Rouse, of Rosehill and Miss avina Danford, of Carolina each; and 41 grandchildren "and ght great-grandchildren. The daughter of John ?nd arriet Greer Danford, Mrs. wain was a life long member of le Mill Creek Baptist church, id had lived in the Winnabow immunity for the past 50 years. Active pallbearers were Jack cCracken, Elmore Willetts, loyd Hickman, Dewey Lewis, uclid Eichorn and Joseph Will- j ><3 Honorary pallbearers were Dr.. . R. Murchison, Dr. J. B. Hayes, . G. Berry and H. C. Stone. VILL DEVELOP iFTER THE WAR (Continued from page one) anding. Mr. Martin's property has one lile of river frontage, affording S LINES, Inc. , N. C. iDULES ie 16, 1944 WILMINGTON Saturday ARRIVE Read Up AM P? PM PM PM< t 8:30 3:00 5:30 7:50 11:30 8:00 2:36 6:00 7:20 11:00 7:15 2:20 4:45 7:05 10:46 IT 7:30 2:05 4:30 6:50 10:30 7:15 1:50 4:16 6:36 10:16 on 7:00 1:35 4:00 6:20 10:00 HEDULE 1 10:25 3:00 7:45 11:25 0:55 8:30 7:15 10:65 9:40 2:15 7:00 10:40 it 9:25 2:00 5:45 10:20 9:15 1:50 0:35 10:10 en 9:00 1:35 5:20 10:00 9 SHIPYARD DNDAY) 1 9:00 0:25 1:26 k 8:35 6:00 11:00 it 8:15 4:40 u:tf 8:00 4:25 11:20 7:25 3:55 11:60 SHIPYARD CTKDAY) 6:35 1:30 6:20 1:10 6:00 12:65 IT 4:40 12:30 4:26 18:30 5:06 11:60 / I L . WASHINGTf WASHINGTON, July 18?With the HoUse of Representatives vacation-bound, the Senate shines in the glare of publicity surrounding the consideration of the United Nations Charter. A number of Representatives have gone direct to their home districts to feel the pulse of their constituents on current questions. Others have welcomed committee assignments which will give them a "tour" of the world at govern-1 ment expense. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to report the treaty at an early date but no one can safely predict when the oratory about this country and its place in world affaire will end. There la, however, strong sentiment for the Senate to conclude its labors and close up shop early in August. New Cabinet officers with their own ideas of houeecieaning in their departments have made vacations less desirable for topflight hokl-overs. By staying on the job the executives feel they have a better chance to hold berths in the pending personnel reorganization. The first movss of Secretary of Agriculture Anderson and Labor Secretary Schwellenback indicated sweeping changes were in the offing. The departing House membership left with a bitter taste of politics. The compromise on the Fair Employment Practices Committee satisfied no one. Instead, it skyrocketed to titular leadership Representative Vito Mareantonio, the sole American Labor man arid hence not a member of the two major political parties. He forced a settlement on this highly explosive racial question Wlin wnicn congress nas oeen playing ducks and drakes for six weeks. The appropriation cut materially actually leaves the future operations of the F. E. P. C. under a cloud and probably hamstrung in effectiveness. It was noteworthy that the House carefully avoided a roll call. The issue will be revived after the recess when an effort will be made to provide the F. E. P. C. with a permanent status. Formulating transportation policies, which will Be effective, j is a source of concern for variousi Federal agencies. The limitation, of luxury travel by the transfer' of Pullmans for military use ls| only a step. The' main trouble is j the optimism of travelers that; the transportation mess will work1 out all right. Despite warnings, travel by passenger car is in- j creasing as gas rations are liber-1 lized and the tire situation is j serious. Too many assume that! I some of the best fishing on the! Sh&llotte River and only about I three miles above the ocean, i Much of the frontage is in high I bluffs that are well wooded, af-; fording ideal cottage sites. The | four cottages already build arej above the average of beach construction work. Until the Martins! return Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gray will move in from their' nearby farm and Mrs. Gray will provide facilities for hunting and fishing parties. RATION BOOK 5 IS ON THE WAY (Continued From page One) the fourth war ration book to bei distributed by school teachers and other volunteers, Johnson said. The first book was distributed! May 4, 1942. THE NEW "A" BOOK The new "A" gasoline book, the third issued under rationing, will differ from the present book only in color. The book will contain five sets of coupons, six coupons to a set numbered A-18 through A-23. Each set of coupons will cover a different period. The first set, numbered A-18, becomes good December 22, Johnson said.! I _ DA1 j: n - SAVE All Brunswi the year 1944 ha advertised durin court house door The cost of : to the amount of Pay your ta: this added adver Statements ( to the county wil W. Brunsw 0 WEI DN LETTERS ths military gains in the East fra Indies means immediate ship- nu ments of natural rubber. High op. government experts insist the scl basic problem hefe is whether we qu are going to have enough natural thi rubber to get through this war thi without curtailing our consump- foi tion pattern below its already,tio dangerously low level. It is esti- se> mated we will cease to have a of working supply of natural rubber dri during the early months of 1946 en( unless we immediately regain ad- sol ditional rubber regions not now 'hi available to us or unless we dnas- int tieally curtail the use of our bu limited remaining stocks of na- ?f tural rubber. ' So grave is the scl transportation mix-up that the U1 House has scheduled a thorough ma probe of the matter beginning mi this fall with the idea of provid-, tal ing sound policies. 'so1 The movement to shift govern- a ment activity from Washington is mi gaining recruits. The Bureau of to Internal Revenue led the way same years ago and occasionally fj other agencies established regional or field offices. Postmaster General Hannegan now has before him the recommendations of ' Frank Walker, his immediate pre- Jw decessor, for a reorganisation of mc the Department and a program of M? decentralisation. Walker's final arf report to Mr. Truman observed Ot "administration of the Postal 8er- tha vices is too highly centralized in ch Washington." Walker found too ow lar many matters of relatively minor importance are now referred to Washington from poet offices 1)01 throughout the country. He be- ala lieves they could be disposed of }hj more speedily and satisfactorily by responsible field representstives of the Department with authority to supervise local operations and handle routine mat- 8rI ters in given areas. The overcrowded conditions in the Capitol A' City may hasten the decentraliza-j tion projects. gij' Racketeers utilizing the mails mo have felt Uncle Sam's heavy hand during the fiscal year just ended. Reporting to the President sm the Postmaster General points 35c out that fraudulent enterprises American Ps IV il*M" |il c. When dov B happy consult Jlpj22ijOl M upon all affa HA J3 '*!?| Hj business, horn HL ST* Bfl fluences are venting you f mi life. consult t No neart so sad, no home so d sunshine and happiness to it. She ) and troubles and starts you on th( ness. Readings?White and Colored, dallj LOCATED In House Trailer or Earl Baas' Service Sta. Look for 1 - SEE US CHRYSLER MAR WISCONSIN AIR CO Gasoline & Diesel P Michigan Machined Bronze SI MARINE, MILL & AUTO Machine Shop and Motoi MACHINE & S On Causeway Foot 1 Beaufort, Y TAXES NO1 ADVERTISING CO ck county property on w ive not been paid by Au g the month of August, a oh the first Monday in ! advertising the property unpaid taxes. tes during the month of tising cost. >f the amount of your tax II be furnished on reques P. Jorgen: ick County Tax Coll l )NgSSAY; JULY 21, 154* ind the postal inspectors hot their trail. During the year (ion was taken under the postal tud order statues against a jnber of persons and concern i rating ao-calied skip-tracer lemes for the location of delin ?nt debtors. In these schemes : promoters usually represented it they were holding a parcel delivery and sought inform* n concerning the debtor's pre it whereabouts under the ru,%establishing the proper ad>ss and party for delivery, The iiess chain scheme' was aiso a iree of lively activity during > year. This scheme not oniy rolves the elements of fraud t also constitutes a lottery One the principal fraudulent lemes against whicn action was ten was the so-called patent idicine quacks. Promises of raculous cure by an easily cen home treatment containing lie mysterious ingredients offer lure not easily resisted by iny people who are unwilling seek competent medical aid oats Returning From Fast Coast [ he big fishing boats Ottis and jn C. have returned from two inthn fishing off the coast of iryland and New Jersey and I occupied with shrimping. The tis Is owned by the Wells Broirs and is skippered by Capt arles Wells. The Joan C. is ned by Captain Herman Stanid of Charlotte, who has charge her. He has another hig ,4 f eonH m n loViinh 111 ? MM? VJ? U11UIIIU, IT1IILU Will 0 be brought up from Shallotte s week for the fishing rhe big high powered Mary irk of Dr. L. C. Fergus, skipred by Capt. Clarence Simins, is still fishing on the east1 coast and it is not known len it wiH return. THLETES FOOT GERMS KIM- IT FOR Sir Biggest seller in years" say drifts everywhere. Why? Te-Ol re than a surface application j ntains <M) percent alcohol, MAKES PENETRATE Beaches norma faster. APPLY FULL RENCSTH for itchy, sweaty or elly feet. If not pleased your back. Today at WATSOJPS PflARM.W V 80CTIJP0BT, N. C. am Dean ilmiat?Life Reader?Advisor IS) Licensed by State of N. ibtful, discontented and unt tbid medium. She advises .irs of life. If worried over e unhappy, love or some inholding you down and prerom obtaining your object in his gifted lady, reary that she cannot Drlng lfts you out of your sorrows i road to success and happlr and Sun., 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. i Clark ton Highway at? Hand Sign. WhitevlUe, N. V. FOR JNE ENGINES OLED ENGINES % n arts and service Pitch Propellers lafting MQTIVE SUPPLIES r Rebuilding Service UPPLY CO. Seaufort Bridge N. C. wSTS hich taxes for gust 1 will be nd sold at the September, will be added July and save : indebtedness it, sen lector A

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