Iq Pilots mailed to
Bders in Brunswick
Bounty this week
BjmTeight no. 24
I Principal
or Southport
I School Elected
Ia Ledford To Come
WTt From Glenn Alpine
here He Has Spent The
t Two Years As AsKant
To The Principal
y ONE vaCA*J?X TV
mi i nr.AL FACULTY ;
ill
H Principal Has Had [
Hisiderable Teach ing
^Experience And Has
^Kerved For Several
^Years As Principal
H In Western N.
C. Schools
H a meeting of the local
Hi board Friday night, C. A. j
Hord of Glenn Alpine was j
Bed principal of the South
high school for the coming
He new principal, who sucHs
L. J. Dawkins, has taught
Hlenn Alpine for the past two
Hs and has served as assistant
Hcipal of this 28-teacher school.
Hriously he had served for two
Ha as principal of the Lan
school and for six years as
Hcipal of the Bellwood school,
conies to Southport very high vcommended.
R their meeting Friday nigni,
Rbers of the local board elect Miss
Clyde Bryan of Battle-1
R as first grade teacher and
R Julia Cromartie of Garland
second grade teacher. Miss
Han taught last year at AcmeHo
and Miss Cromartie taught
the Hickory Grove school In
den county.
he election of these teachers
Res only one vacancy in the
El school faculty, one high
Rol teacher. Members of the
loot committee will wait until |
new principal arrives herej
ore electing the final member
the high school staff.
Outstanding News
I From Everywhere ;
Hews Events Of State,
Nation and World-Wide
I Interest During Past
Week
i by dorothy bell
I ?
I I
nickel parking
I Xickel-in-the-slot parking j
was introduced in the downItown
district of Oklahoma j
fit}' Tuesday and there was
la general uproar on the part
I of citizens who contend that
parking space should be proI
tided free of charge. This is
how the new meters, in ventled
by Carl Magee, attorney
land publisher, work: a motlorist
drives his car into the
I space blocked off by white
I lines. When a nickel is deI
posited in the meter, a flag
I "ies up, indicating that the
I meter has been "paid". a
I hand is set in motion and,
I at the end of an hour, the t
I hag drops, indicating that
I the time for parking is up. (
i oelay adjournment
fit? big drive in the House of ,
ppresentatives to force a hurried .
ijjournment of congress was ,
pothered Tuesday by the same
rarity that cheered the propos- j
r Monday. There was an an- j
pcement that Congrgess would ,
f?*? in session to pass the (
F^'dent's tax program and that'.
f're was no thought of a special (
pton this fall. ,
i seeking licenses
I t? ? the 148 applicants
I nn?Sl<e bar examination
I ^ i U^USl. ?are *w'? ex-conI
wLj was made public
vuuay wnen nenry >1, i>onjwn,
secretary of the state '
association, announced
Cst of applicants for examination.
Best known of the
'm,'r prisoners is the ex^rior
Court Judge Henry
r^ood who served a prison
Utence after being convict?'
destruction of public
r**ds in an effort to prou
^is daughter. Both Judge
rwood and his daughter
,jrt' wnvicted and sent to
Prison.
(Continued on page 5.)
STA1
A Good Newsj
Southport, N. (
Commissioners D
For The Vai
si
PRIVATE CLINICS
FOR VACCINATION
A number of private citizens
of the county have secured
the services of Dr. R. P. Huffman,
veterinarian,of Wilmington
to administer the antirabies
vaccination to their
dogs. A schedule for his work
in Brunswick county appears
elsewhere in today's State Port
Pilot.
It is understood that this
movement If, in no way intended
to oppose the action of
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8-PAGES TODAY
Photographs For
Paul Green Book
Mrs. Bayard Wooten And
S. B. Smithey, Her Assistant.
In Southport Saturday
To Secure Pictures
For Use In Author's Latest
Book
Mrs. Bayard Wooten, commercial
photographer from Chapel
Hill, and her young assistant, S.
B. Smithey, were in Southport
Friday taking pictures of places
of interest here to be used in a
new book by Paul Green, noted
North Carolina author and play
wright.
The book is to be about the
coast of eastern North Carolina
and Mrs. Wooten is spending considerable
time securing illustrations.
Part of the day Saturday wasj
spent over on Bald Head Island
where Mrs. Wooten ?nd Mr. j
Smithey were guests of Captain
Barnett at the coast guard station.
A number of interesting
pictures were taken of scenes on
the island.
Mrs. Wooten plans to return to
Southport in August, after the
shrimping and fishing season gets
underway, for additional pictures.
While in Southport the two
visitors were guests in the home
of Mrs. George M. Rappleyear.
Lawyers Hear
Judge Cranmer
R. W. Davis, Southport Attorney,
Succeeded By E.
K. Proctor of Whiteville
As President Of Bar Association
Of 8th District
An address by Judge E. H.
Cranmer of Southport and the rejection
of Louis J. Poisson of
Wilmington to be counselor to
Worth Carolina Bar, Inc., marked
i meeting of attorneys of the
Eighth Judicial district in King's
restaurant at Carolina Beach on
Wednesday night.
A business session followed the
sea food supper and entertainment.
E. K. Proctor of Whiteville was
lamed president, Clifton Moore
>f Burgaw was elected vice-presilent,
and Aaron Goldberg of
Wilmington was elected secretary-treasurer.
They succeed, res-1
pectively, R. W. Davis of Southport,
R. H. Burns, Sr., of Whiteville,
and John Best of Burgaw.
The following executive offi- j
:ers were elected: Marsden Bellamy
of Wilmington, whose term '
lad not expired, John J. Best of {
Burgaw, Homer L. Lyon of White- j
ville, Joseph W. Ruark of Southport,
and Herbert McClammy of
Wilmington.
Colored School
Wins High Honor
Dhapel Road Colored School
Of This County Winners
In State-Wide Improvement
And Beautification
Contest
Miss Annie Mae Woodside,
:ounty superintendent of schools,
vas notified Tuesday that the
Chapel Road colored school in
his county has been declared
vinner of the Rosenwald Imjrovement
and Beautification conest
conducted in North Carolina
luring the past year.
The prize for this achievement
s a $36.00 library set suitable
or use in elementary school work
i?h this librarvsetis being sent
o Miss Woodside, who has been
isked to keep it until the fall
erm of the school begins. The
ichool also will be presented with
(Continued on Page Eight)
Large Alligator
Caught In A Net
An 8-foot alligator was caught
Cuesday afternoon in a shrimp
let and was brought in alive to
he Foudale dock. The strange
laul was made by James Creech
n the creek near Southport. He
vas using a boat belonging to
Doc Robinson at the time.
Several persons who saw the
aptured alligator suggested that
t might be a crocodile because
t appeared to open its upper
aw. An alligator opens his low>r
jaw. However, old timers who
dewed the captive declared him
o be just an ordinary alligator.
tue county commissioners in
making available clinics for
the vaccination of dogs. Those
responsible are dog owners
who are anxious to have their
animals vaccinated at once
and by a practicing veterinarian.
Propose Ere
Electric P<
OnWacc
Columbus County Commi
Hundred Dollars To Iir
Securin
Whiteville, July 17.?T
sioners in session here last 1
of $200 to investigate the p(
plant along the banks of t
county.
The proposed plant would furnish
electric power to the outlying
districts and towns of the entire
area of Columbus, Brunswick
and Horry counties.
While the plan still remains in
its formative stages, it has been
announced that a scheme is on
foot to secure a federal appropriation
for this purpose, and
Horry County is co-operating
with this county in an effort to
develop the idea. A like appropriation
was recently made by
the commissioners from the
neighboring South Carolina parish.
J. A. Brown, of Chadbourn, who
has been largely instrumental in
originating the plan to secure
the power plant, told the press
that a group of Columbus citiTona
ViqH hocn working on this
plan for more than a month, and
while he had nothing at all which
he could give out at this time,
something might be forthcoming
in the near future.
He said that the establishment
of the plant, which would be propelled
by water power from the
Waccamaw, would be in furtherance
of the rural electrification
program which has been sponsored
by the Federal administra(Continued
on Page Five.)
P.-T. A. Meeting On
Thursday Evening
An important meeting of the
Southport Parent-Teachers Association*
will be held Thursday
evening at the school building.
Mrs. Frank St. George, the
president, says that important
business will be discussed and
urges a full attendance of members.
Heavy Rains Dam;
~ m /
Delay Iral
A torrential downpour
Monday night, coming as a
climax to a week of rainy
weather, caused sections of
paved highway to cave in,
flooded the roads in other
places and otherwise demoralized
traffic in Brunswick
county Tuesday.
Sections of highway SO on
both sides of the bridge at
Piney Grove, near Bolivia,
caved hi during the day and
a washout also occurred at
the Royal Oaks bridge near
Supply. All traffic over this
road was forced to detour
until highway forces could
erect temporary bridges. They
were working on these late
Tuesday afternoon.
It was impossible to go
from Southport to the Bell
Swamp intersection Tuesday
without going by Bolivia.
Water covered the road in
rEPOi
paper In A Goc
P., Wednesday, July 1'
raw Schedule I.
xination Of Dogs
K
Vaccinations Will Begin
Monday, July 29; Owners
And Keepers Of Dogs,
In This County Are Urg-!
ed To Co-operate
COMMISSIONERS MET
LAST WEDNESDAY
No Other Business Of Unusual
Interest Came Up
Before The Board At
Their Call Meeting
Here On That
Day
Vaccination of all dogs in Brunswick
county against rabies will
begin Monday, July 29, when inspectors
in charge of the work
will be at appointed places in
the county for the convenience
of dog owners. A complete copy
of this schedule appears else(Continued
on page eight.)
action Of
S i
)wer Plant
amaw River
ssioners Appropriate Two
restigate Possibilities Of
g Plant
'he board of county commisweek
made an appropriation
vccihilitv nf erectinc a Dower
he Waccamaw river in this
*
TUBERCULAR CLINIC
TO BE CONDUCTED
,
Dr. Eason, a member of the
staff of the State Sanatorium, !
will be in Brunswick county
(1 u ring the week of July 29Augnst
S for the purpose of i
conducting a series of tuber- I
I cular clinics. Anyone who
I wishes to be examined should
I get in touch with Mrs. Lou H. j
Smith, county nurse.
Dr. Eason will be at the j
local health office on July 29, I
I 31, and August 2 and 3 and
will be at Dr. YV. R. Goley's
office in Shallotte July 30 and
August 1.
I . I
: .
American Legion
Meeting Tonight
An important meeting of the
Brunswick county post of the
American Legion will be held to-1
night (Wednesday) in the court
room and all veterans are urged
to be present.
Among the. important business
which will be discussed is the!
annual election of officers. Dele- j
gates to the state legion conven-1
tion, to be held in Fayetteville |
on the 4th, 5th and 6th of Aug- j
ust, also will be appointed at j
that time.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Only one marriage license has
been issued from the local Regis-;
nf r>e?ds office during the
month of July. That was to Miss j
Callie Kirby of Supply and John |
i Dawson.
!
age Roads And
-fie In This County
one place too deep for an <
automobile to go through.
The route to Bolivia was covered
with water much of the 11
way and a person wishing to 11
continue to Wilmington was I:
forced to go through water j
up to the running board of
an automobile on both sides
of the Bell Swamp bridge.
Further up the road, toward
Wilmington at Town ]
Creek, the water was even i
I deeper and state highway JI
trucks towed automobiles i 1
across this inundated span. 11
During the time that this j i
stream was at its high water j
mark, water was backed up
to Henry's filling station at
Winnebow. That was before 1
day Tuesday morning. I
The bridge over Lockwoods J i
Folly at Supply was passable
early Tuesday morning but 1
(Continued on page 8.)
>v
RTPI
>d Community
7th, 1935 publisf
Distressed Boat
Comes In Safely
Following Storm
Men Aboard Declare That I
They Had Hard Night
Aboard Last Tuesday,!
But Deny That They Cal-1
led For Help
NAUGATUCK CALLED
TO GO TO HER AID
Fishermen At Wrightsville
Said That Was First
Time Boat That Size
Had Remained Outside
O v e r n i g ht
During Heavy
Storm
Wilmington, July 12.?After
spending 24 hours three miles off
Wrightsville Beach awaiting
abatement of a sea with waves
"as high as houses," Sam C.
Woolvin, local aviator, and Fred
F. Singleton, shipping clerk for
the American Bakeries company,
brought the former's 30 foot cabin
cruiser, Bobby, through Masonboro
inlet at 5:30 o'clock yesterday
morning.
The boat, built at Southport in
1930 and powered with a Pontiac
motor, was not damaged. Mr.
Woolvin said it did not "ship"
any water, with the exception of
a small amount that came
(Continued on page five)
City Board In
Regular Meeting
Ordinance Passed Requiring
Out-Of-Town Launderies
And Dry Cleaners To
Pay Annual Tax Of $651
For Soliciting Work In
City Of Southport
At their regular meeting held
Thursday night, members of the |
city board of aldermen paused j
an ordinance to require all laun- j
dries and dry cleaning establish-1
ments soliciting business in
Southport to be done outside the!
county to pay an annual tax of
$65.
This measure was passed after j
members of the board had heard
the complaint of H. C. Corlett, |
proprietor of a local dry cleaning |
establishment.
Members of the board heard |
a resolution offered by J. W.
Ruark regarding the $3,000 note
put up by the city to secure
money with which to meet its
part of the cost of the construe- [
tion of the fish freezing and
storage plant here.
At the meeting, members of
the board formally signed the
contract with the North Carolina
Fishermen's Cooperative for the
construction of the local plant.
Two Chosen For
CMTC Service
Two Willetts Boys Qualified
For Appointments
From Brunswick County; j
To Be In Camp At Fort
Bragg Next Month
Styron L. Willetts, of Winna- j
bow and Dotridge R. Willetts, of;
Bolivia, have been appointed dele-1
gates to the annual Citizens Mil- J
itary Training Camp at Fort |
Bragg, to be held this year dur-j
ing the thirty days following,
August 5th.
Lieutenant R. I. Mintz, procurement
officer for Brunswick |
county, co-operatea in uie aeicttion
of these young men.
All arrangements for the an- j
nual Citizens' Military Training I
Camp are now complete, it was
announced yesterday at Fort
Bragg. Out of nearly eleven hun(Contlnued
on Page Eight)
LEASE GARRISON
It has been reported unofficially
here that the bid of $18 per j
month made by Fred Willing I
for rent on the garrison was the
highest received. Mr. Willing has
received no official notification
concerning his bid.
TO DISCUSS PENSION
W. B. Fisher, state manager
for the Townsend Revised Pen-;
sion movement, will explain this
revised bill to the people of j
Brunswick county ih the courthouse
at Southport on July 22 at
I o'clock.
/ '
LOT"
LED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Bolivia Faculty I
For Coming Year!
O. C. Johnson Has Been
Re-elected Principal; Five1
New Teachers Included *
On Faculty Announced
By Mr. Johnson
O. C. Johnson has been reelected
as pricipal of the Bolivia
school for the coming year and I
j five changes have been made in |
j the porsonnel of the faculty, ac
j cording to a report made this
j week to Miss Annie Mae Woodi
side, county superintendent of ]
j schools.
Mrs. Ruth J. Gladstone and S.
j D. Wright are the other high
j school teachers in addition to Mr.
Johnson.
W. E. Gladstone, who taught
high school work last year, will
I have charge of one of the grammar
grades this year. This change
( was made necessary when BoliI
via lost one high school teacher
during the annual re-allotment of
, teachers. B. R. Page and Miss
! Elizabeth Griffin are old teachers
i re-elected for grammar grade
(Continued on Page Eight)
Unusual Case In
Court Wednesday
Defendant Allowed To Go
Free And Prosecuting
Witness Sent To Colored s
Asylum At Goldsboro 1
[I
Archie Robinson, negro of the' t
Northwest community in this (
county, was in Recorder's Court j I
here Wednesday to answer char- j s
ges of assault preferred by his! f
wife, Susie Robinson. | c
Upon investigation of the case, | v
a nol pros was taken as to the h
defendant and the prosecuting j
witness was sent to the insane /
asylum for negroes at Goldsboro J|
Fred Pelham, colored preacher,
was found guilty of trespass, but
judgment in his case was suspended
upon condition that he
pay the costs and make restitu- [
tion for trees which he had cut
on property belonging to another
man.
Ira Evans, white, who was
tried a week before and in whose
case judgment was withheld,
was found not guilty of transporting
liquor. | ^
These three were the only cas- t
es to be heard by Judge Peter |3
Rourk at last week's session. |1
Young Officer jj
Suicide Victim?
Lieut. William T. Schell- j j
house Found Dead In Hisjf
Automobile Early Thurs- \
day Morning; Coroner J
Declares It Suicide f
3
Wilmington, July 12.?Lieuten- r
ant William T. Shellhouse, exe-11
cutive officer of the U. S. Coast I
Guard cutter Modoc, whose bullet
pierced body was found in his t
parked automobile at the inter- t
section of state highway 30 and li
the old Nigger Head road, just c
west of the Northeast Cape Fear j v
river bridge, early yesterday mor- j t
ning, came to his death by his j c
own hand, Coroner Asa W. Al
len announced last nignt ioiiow- i ing
an investigation that lasted |
all day.
The officer was found with one
foot on the running board of his
coupe and the other on the starter.
He was dressed in civilian
clothes and there w^re two bullet
wounds in the body, one in j
the head and the other in the
chest.
An autopsy performed on the
body yesterday afternoon in a
local mortuary by Dr. W. D. j
Carter, county physician, revealed)
that one of the bullets, fired
from the officer's service automatic,
entered the body about
three inches to the left of the
center line of the body about on
a level with the nipple and coursed
downward, grazing the heart
and emerging from the back
(Continued on Page Eight)
Mule Killed When
Lightning Strikes
During an electrical storm last
Wednesday afternoon, lightning
struck the barn of A. M. Phelps
of Shallotte Village and killed a
valuable mule. It was reported
that several chickens in the barn
also were killed.
Most Of The News
All The Time
$1.50 PER YEAR
Ready To Begin
Work On Local
Freezing Plant
rwo Engineers Have Been
In Southport For Past
Week Ready To Begin.
Work When Weather
Permits; H. W. Hood
Appointed Inspector
C. J. GAUSE IS NOW
ON COAST OF MAINE
Left Saturday With John
Sykes To Study Fishing
on New England Coast;
Unofficial Report
That He Will Be
In Charge Here
Roy Gay. state engineer, and
Pete Reynolds, district engineer,
have been in Southport for the
past week ready to begin work
an the local freezing and storage
plant of the North Carolina Fisherman's
Co-operative just as soon
is weather permits.
At a meeting of the members
ef the board of aldermen Moniay,
H. W. Hood was appointed
is city inspector on the project.
A contract has already been
nade to secure piling for the
plant and the two engineers were
n Wilmington Tuesday afternoon
:o secure estimates for piledrivng
C. J. Gause resigned last week
is rural rehabilitation officer for
3runswick county and left Satirday
morning with John Sykes,
lead of the North Carolina Fishirmen's
Co-operative, for the
ifaine coast where they will
ipend several days studying the
ishing industry. There is an unifficial
report that Mr. Gause
vill be in charge of the plant
lere.
Cheers Declares
Story Is Untrue
>enies Any Part In Plot To
Burn House And Say*
That Statement Made By
Joseph Fryer Implicating
Him Is False
Joe Cheers flatly denied that
ie had any part in the scheme
o burn his home in Southport in
. statement made Thursday to
he editor of The State Port Piot.
In the confession of Joseph
rryer last week, he implicated
Cheers as the one who persuaded
lis wife, Mrs. Minnie Cheers, to
iet fire to the house after he
vas unable to bribe him to do it.
All three were convicted at the
ipring term of Brunswick county
Superior court. Cheers was given
rom six to seven years, Fryer,
vho was tried under the name of
roe Cheers, Jr., from three to
ive years, and Mrs. Cheers one
fear. The men left Friday morling
for the state penitentiary in
taleigh to begin their sentences,
rfrs. Cheers is in jail here.
Although Cheers denied the
toy's story that he was the one
tack of the scheme to burn the
lome, he said Fryer's statements
oncerning his name and family
re re true. He said that it was
he boy's idea, not his, that he
ome to Southport and live as
(Continued on Page 8.1
nrv?wi^l
iauic
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are approximately
correct and were furnished
The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Wednesday, July 17
8:23 a. m. 2:23 a. m.
8:42 p. m. . 2:28 p. m.
Thursday, July 18
9:14 a. m. 3:11 a. m.
9:31 p. m. 3:22 p. m.
Friday, July 19
10:05 a. m. 3:58 a. m.
10:21 p. m. 4:16 p. m.
Saturday, July 20
10:58 a. m. 4:47 a. m.
11:14 p. m. 5:12 p. m.
Sunday, July 21
11:52 a. m. 5:37 a. m.
6:10 p. m.
Monday, July 22
0:09 a. m. 6:30 a. m.
12:49 p. m. 7:12 p. m.
Tuesday, July 23
1:08 a. m. 7:27 a. m.
1:48 p. m. 8:16 p. m.
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