p pilots mailed to
Bjcrs in Brunswick
Bounty this week
K^EEIGHTN034
King Members
r Fishermens j
moup In County ,'
Bng Being Held To(Wednesday)
In
Hurthouse To Form
apter Of North CaroKa
Fishermens Co-opeHtive
mt at shallotte
Joint on Thursday
rnm
Hi Plant nas
ted And Work Of
Hnning And Packing
Will Begin Between
The First And Sev
enth Of October
meeting is being held tonight
Hnesday) at 7:30 o'clock in
jrunswick county courthouse
Ke purpose of organizing a
chapter of the North Caro
Fishermens Co-operative. A
ar meeting will be held on
sday night at the same time I
pnpp's store at Shallotte
ese two chapters will be the
organized among fishermen
is county and everyone inEed
in learning more about
plan of the Fisherman's Co ative
should attend one of
meetings.
Blowing these organization I
tings, everything will be in
Hjness for the opening of the
cooling and canning plant
the North Carolina FisherIs
Co-operative some time beIn
the first and seventh of
Is. Prescott and C. J. Gause
I be present at both meetings
explain plans for the organi-l
on. They are anxious to imms
upon the fishermen that the
ng and canning plant is not
* iet project nor is it a gov ment
operated plant. It has1
m built and turned over to the I
fermen to run on a co-opera-!
' - - 1 ...:n '
: plan wllicn otriciais nope ????? |
k out as satisfactorily for
fishermen as the various
A programs have been for the
r.ers of the nation.
'Continued on Page Eight.)
,ooking Over
The Headlines
t'ews Events Of State,
Nation and World-Wide
Interest During Past
Week
ednesday
Max Baer, former heavy- j
weight boxing champion of the
world, fell victim to the savage j
onslaught of Joe Lewis, sensa- I
tional Detroit negro, Tuesday |
n'ght . . The battle ended with :
J knockout in the fourth
found . . .More than ninety i
thousand persons paid nearly
#1.000,000 to see the battle. . . j
Seventy thousand members of J
foe American Legion marched !
Monday in the opening parade !
the annual National Convenfo)'1.
in session this week In
St- Louis . . . Coal miners continued
their strike Monday . .
Operators rejected the "take it
w leave it" untimatum of John
Lewis, president of the min- j
erv Union . . Announcement was |
made Tuesday from London
foat hopes for the preservation
''t peace in Europe are some"ht
brighter as Mussolini intimated
that there was a posMity
of reaching an agreement
within the League councils.
6
Tuesday
Lobacco prices took an up*ard
trend Monday, but did not
J**4 Parity . . The job drive
as given added impetus Mon5
when President Roosevelt
e(L another billion dollars to
^VpA fund . . . The colorW
Convention of the
. ,fri('an Legion got underway
w'S in St. Louis . James
auley Landis, a member of
?riginal "brain trust" was
tinted Unnjo,,
tu j! Purities commission for
son- ,ed States . . Five per,
_ fourteen race horses
iUed Monday when a fast
er train of the Chicago
Z **ta Illinois rattan*
^ntinued on page 8)
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j THE
8-PAGES TODA
Where Murder 1
Ik
II
'*
Above are three picture
erette murder trial to be h<
left is Willie Ganus, brother
ing to the spot where he f<
Ganus. On the right, above, i
deceased. Below are the fou
part in solving the case and
Dillon Jenerette. Reading 1
are: G. V. Fesperman, South
iff Melvin Lewis and Detect
Russ, of the National Bureau
Much Inter
Approachir
Superior
Jenerette Murder Case, Ex
Court Week Crowds T
Famous St?
The October term of
Court for the trial of crimina
and the Jenerette murder <
to be tried is expected to at
crowd since the famous Si
Clawson L. Williams, of Sa
jurist.
There is great county-wide in-:
terest in the approaching murder
trial. Jenerette has admitted that
he shot Louis W. Ganus, but declares
the killing was accidental
and that fright caused him to
conceal the body of the dead
man. The state will attempt to
prove that the killing was a case
of first degree murder.
Another case that is sure to
attract considerable interest out
of the county is the one ill
which Lee Fun Howe, Chinese
laundryman of Wilmington, will
face charges of the hit-and-run
killing of Clinton Hewett last
April.
Local Committee
m l l? , n 1 .
STA1
A Good News]
lY Southport, N. (
Was Committed
'
;C :
/.
f * f f
4 '** > % '
ki??s )**
in connection with the Jenjld
here next week. At the!
of the murdered man, point)und
the body of Louis W.
is a view of the home of the
ir men who played a major
securing a confession fromj
from left to right, the men,
port Attorney, Deputy Sher-i
ives A. A. Nelms and J. B.
i of Investigation.
est In The
lg Term Of
Court Here
pected To Attract Largest
o Southport Since The
;wart Trial
Brunswick county Superior
il cases will convene Monday
case, scheduled as the first
;tract the largest court week
tewart murder trial. Judge
nfnvH will he the nresiding
fc ?
WANT AD BRINGS
QUICK RESULTS
In the Want Ad column of
The State Port Pilot last week
[ there was printed an announI
cement that a bunch of keys
had been found on the road to
Caswell Beach. The ad stated
that the owner could recover
| his keys by calling at the
newspaper office and paying
the cost of the advertisement.
The papers were put in the
Southport postoffice about 8:00
o'clock Thursday morning. Less
than two hours later Captain
Fred B. Leitzsey, commanding
officer at the local CCC camp,
called for the keys.
There were 13 keys on the
bunch, all to separate locks on
buHdings at the camp. Quick
results from the want ad
which appeared in The Pilot
saved him many times the cost
of the advertising.
Announce Dates For
Cotton Assistant
Landis Formy Duval, cotton as- j
sistant for Brunswick and Co- j
lumbus county, will be in the office
of County Agent J. E. Dodson
on the following dates next
month for the convenience of
Brunswick county cotton farmers j
who wish to buy or sell excess
tax-free poundage: Wednesday,
October 2; Wednesday, October
16; Wednesday, October 30.
Cotton farmers are once more j
reminded that no excess pound- j
age may be purchased at the gin
as all transactions must be made
through the office of county
agent.
DOING NICELY
Friends and relatives in this
county will be glad to learn that
Malcolm Frink, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. B. Frink, Is recovering
as rapidly as could be expected
from the effects of a spinal injury
suffered, two weeks ago iii
an automobile accident
lo Adjust ueots
H. B. Ludluni, of Southport, ]
Chairman Of Volunteer
Debt Adjustment Committee
For Brunswick
County
Work of the volunteer debt adjustment
committee in Brunswick j
county is being continued and expanded
under the supervision of
the Resettlement Administration. J
H. B. Ludlum, Southport, is
chairman ana m. rvu u>, ply,
secretary of the local committee.
The debt adjustment program,
inaugurated in 1935 by the Farm
Credit Administration, has been
transferred by President Roosevelt
to the Resettlement Administration.
An allocation of two'
million dollars from the Works
(Continued on page 5)
Jailed Following
Shooting Spree
Fred Fulford, local white man,
is in the Qrunswick county jail
following a promiscuous shooting
spree 4n which he indulged Saturday
night at Shailotte. He is reported
/t? have endangered the
Uvea of several citizens of that
oommunity.
' vi.
fEPOl
paper In A Goo
2., Wednesday, Septe
Southport To Be
Included On The
Carolinas Tour i
Coleman W. Roberts, President
Of The Carolinas,
Incorporated, Was Visit-:
or Here Monday While
Mapping Itinerary '
TRAVEL EXECUTIVES
WILL COMPRISE PARTY
Forty Or Fifty Leading
Northern And Eastern I
Travel Executives Probably
Will Make the
Trip, Which Will
Be Through The t
Two Carolinas ,
Coleman W. Roberts, president j}
of The Carolinas Incorporated, j j
was a Southport visitor Monday ,
and talked with local citizens j (
concerning a tour which will be j j
conducted from October 14th' (
through the 24th for the benefit j
of more than two score northern I}
and eastern travel executives. , (
The purpose of the tour will be | (
to reveal heretofore unknown tra-1,
vel markets to these men who:
specialize in mapping out tours, IJ
and outstanding points of interest;,
in North and South Carolina will j j
be included on the itinerary.
Neither the exact day nor the i j
hour when these distinguished |,
visitors will reach Southport has [
yet been determined. The party ' j
will rnme here from Myrtle ,
Beach, S. C. where they will I [
spend the previous night, and
will continue on to Wilmington.
If arrangements can be made to
have them here at noon, a sea1
food luncheon will be served. An
outstanding feature of their stop j
here will be a boat ride over the
harbor and possibly out to the
fishing grounds.
Mr. Roberts 'appeared- to be
very much interested in SouthI
port and promised to give the
| party as much time as possible
here.
County Schools
Opened Tuesday
Large Enrollment Noted At
Three Of The Five White
Schools In The County;
i Many Parents Attended
Opening Exercises Here
The white schools of Brunsj
wick county opened Monday for
their fall term and reports from
three of the five schools indicate
| that first-day attendance was |
' very encouraging.
| At Southport, where C. A. Led'
ford is beginning his first year'
as principal, more than a hun- j
dred patrons and friends of the j
| school attended the opening exer-1
; cises. Although no official check
I was made of enrollment, crowded j
' conditions in two or three of the
j class rooms indicated an unusual- j
ly large attendance.
Principal jH. D. Epting reported I
successful opening day exercises
at Leland. There was a large
I number of visitors present for
the chapel program and the Le- j
I land school apparently was away j
J to a fine start.
Principal O. C. Johnson of the j
.Bolivia school was particularly)
well pleased with high sch : >1 en(Continued
on I\ige EiguL) j
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Story Of Sailboat F
Another Fourl
Three weeks ago there appeared
in The' Pilot a story
of the Fourth of July victory
of the "Elizabeth Stevens" in
the annual Fourth of July
sailboat race held here in
1895. Captain D. W. Fulcher
piloted his speedy little boat
TO Viciurj.
The story apparently aroused
the interest of other old
timers who participated in
the races for P. C. Tharp, local
barber, has hunted up a
handsome silver pitcher which
he won in the annual celebration
five years earlier, in
1890.
The race that year, Mr.
Tharp recalls, attracted more
than forty entries. The race
course began at the combination
dock, ran up the river to
the yellow buoy at Pearce's
Creek, thence down the river
to the number 5 red buoy and
0
RTPI
>d Community
;mber 25, 1935 P?BUS
Uncle Jim Lewis j
Local Pos
during That Time He Has
Served Under Six Different
Postmasters; Has
Handled Millions Of
Pieces of Mail
3LD DARKIE HAS
NUMEROUS DUTIES
serves As Mail Dispatcher,
Janitor and General
Handy Man At Post Office;
Is at Beck and
Call of Southport
Citizens
Twenty-five years of unbroken
service, over two and one-half
nillion letters dispatched, more
:han 50,000 parcel post packages
stamped and hadled and fully fifty
thousand special delivery letters
delivered?that is the statispomrd
of Uncle Jim Lewis,
back to the starting line.
His boat, the "Grove," is
said to have been the first
dead rise bateau ever built in
Southport. She was made by
Mr. Tharp himself during his
spare time from his other
work. He ran a barber shop
down on the water front in
those days.
The trophy that year was
given by the editors of The
Leader, Southport weekly
newspaper. At that time the
paper was 6wned and edited
by C. L. Stevens, now In the
insurance business here, and
Percy J. Farreil, deceased.
When memories of the old
sailboat races were revived,
Mr. Tharp polished his trophy
to a shiny lustre and
loaned it to the editor of
The Pilot to be exhibited together
with the cup won in
1895 by Captain Fulcher.
-* ; J . #t
lighly respected colored employee
>f the Southport post office.
There is no way to check the
lumber of times that Southport
citizens have rushed around to
the back door of the post office
vith a breathless plea to Uncle
Tim to please get off their last
ninute letter, nor is there any
vay to figure the countless other
ittle favors that he has granted;
jut these are the things that
lave endeared him to patrons of
die Southport post office.
Six men who have served over
-i? cinnrppiate bet
urn ao pvoi.iiiaovv4 M^r.
:er than anyone else Uncle Jim's
falue as a postal celrk. He bejan
his work in the post office
Gracious Letter
Attractive
R. O. Johnson, secretary of
the Port . City Civic Club, received
the following gracious
letter last week from Miss
Sylvia Elgutter of Baton
Rouge, La., who Southport
citizens will remember as the
attractive young lady who
landed here three weeks ago
from the Texas Oil tanker
Reaper with nine other passengers
that had been picked
up off the ill-fated liner Dixie:
Dear Mr. Johnson:?
It was almost worth being
shipwrecked to have had the
opportunity to come to your
community, and to meet the
hospitable people there. I
can't tell you how wonderful
we felt when we set foot on
land in Southport, and were
School Principal
Kills Big Rattle;
O. C. Johnson, principal of thi
Bolivia school in this county, wa:
a visitor in Southport Mondai
and told of running over a hug*
rattlesnake Sunday afternoon.
The reptile was 5 feet 2 inche;
long, 5 inches across the bad
and weighed 10 pounds. His sig
nal system was equipped with if
rattles. Several old .timers whc
saw the snake declared it to be
one of the largest ever killed ir
the Bolivia community.
This was the fourth rattlesnake
which Mr. Johnson has run over
and killed this summer.
(ace Recalls
:h Of July Contest
I After tiring tnrougu one window
at the sleeping couple the
midnight assailant is reported to
(Continued on Page 8.)
.
Short Session Of
Recorder's Court
Judge Peter Rourk presided over
a short session of Recorders
court here last Wednesday.
The case against Afton Smith
for violation of the city milk ordinance
was dismissed, but counsel
for the city has appealed to
the Superior court.
The case against W. C. Smith
for violation of the game laws
was continued for a week.
hope some day I'll be able to
visit again and see its com!
pletion.
Mother and Daddy send
! best regards.
Bestest to you,
SYLVIA ELGUTTER.
Mr. Johnson sent Miss Elgutter
a copy of The State
Port Pilot in which there api
peared an account of their
landing in Southport. In the
same issue announcement was
made of the port terminal
project, hence her reference
and kind wishes for the suci
cess of the development.
Two Injured By
Shots In Dark
3
r I Mr. And Mrs. Ernest Bab
> son Shot Last Thursday
Night While Asleep Ir
Jj Their Home; Jesse Mo
Keithan, White, Admit!
Shooting
>
1 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Babson
; of Ash community, were injured
| Thursday night when they were
,' fired upon by a shot gun while
,, they were asleep in the bed room
of their home. Jesse McKeithan
young white man of the same
community, was arrested Friday
morning by Sheriff Jasper Russ
and admitted that he fired the
shots.
According to reports of the
shooting, Mr. Babson and McI
Keithan were in an argument
earlier in the evening over some
money. Enraged over this duscussion,
McKeithan went to his
! home, secured a shot gun and returned
to the scene of the shooting.
LOT
HED EVERY WEDNESDAY
????
Mas Been In
t Office 25 Years
^
Hr
Br .
wfa jr ^
Cr^HUj
t- ^ |
UNCLE JIM LEWIS
when R. W. Davis was postmas|
ter. The others were: Howard
Curtiss, Robert Newton, D. O.
j Daniels, S. W. Watts and L. T.
(Yaskell, the present postmaster.
There is a table in the back
of the postoffice which other
! (Continued on Page Eight)
Received From
Survivor Of Dixie
I greeted by so many friendly
faces. My parents join me in.
thanking all of you for youi
kindness.
My congratulations to
Southport on the approval of
the port terminal project. I
Most Of The News
All The Time
$1.50 PER YEAR
Citizens Raising
Funds to Support
Port Commission
Citizen's Fund Committee
Was Appointed At Mass
Meeting Held Last Mon>
day Night In The Courthouse
GOAL OF $1,000 IS
SET AS OBJECTIVE
Funds Contributed Will Be
Used To Defrav Neces
sary Expenses Of Port
Commission In Pushing
Project Through
To Approval
A citizens fund committee was
appointed last week at a mass
meeting held in the Brunswick
county courthouse to raise funds
to defray the necessary expenses
of the Brunswick County-Southport
Port Commission as this
body continues its work to secure
final approval by PWA officials
in Washington of the $4,000,000
port terminal project for Southport.
An unofficial report of this
| committee early Tuesday morn|
ing indicated that approximately
1 $200 of this amount already has
been raised and practically every
citizen in Southport has pledged
some contribution.
The largest donation made so
far was from the Southport Investing
and Promoting Company,
which gave $100. Several other
business firms and private individuals
have made substantial
contributions.
i R. O. Johnson is chairman of
the citizens fund committee. Other
members are: Dr. William S.
Dosher, C. Ed Taylor, J. J.
Loughlin, Jr., and S. Fodale.
Prospects for securing the port
development here appear to be
bc-tt? f day. *Vm?rous let|
ters of encouragement' have been
received by the port commission
(Continued on page 8)
n r>
rarents i avor
Rental System
_
Opportunity To Rent Books
For One-Third Purchase
Price Apparently Appeals
To Elders; Must
Purchase Some Books
Parents of school children in
this county apparently are in
favor of the text book rental
system which goes into effect
j for the first time this year if
first day reactions are any true
i indication.
Although it still will be neces- ,
! sary to purchase most of the
high school books and one or two
L of the grammar grade books, the
i opportunity to rent most of them
f at one-third the regular purchase
price apparently appeals to par'
ents. Provision has been made to
i sell any book outright to anyone
who does not wish to use the
i rental plan.
Books included in the rental
list are being handled through
, the office of the county super11
intendent of schools. The county
superintendent is sending the
(Continued on page eight)
j Tide Table
1
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are approximately
correct and were fur!
nished The State Port Pilot
thrnnnrll tkn artaav * * "
j imvu^u VUV WUI WOJ U1 IlUC
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Wednesday, September 25
5:58 a. m.
6:13 p. m. 12:10 p. m.
Thursday, September 26
6:36 a. m. 0:28 a. m.
6:15 p. m. 12:50 p. m.
Friday, September 27
7:12 a. m. 1:05 a. m.
7:29 p. m. 1:29 p. m.
Saturday, September 28
7:47 a. m. 1:39 a. m.
8:04 p. m. 2:06 p. m.
Sunday, September 29
8:20 a. m. 2:11 a. m.
8:38 p. m. I 2:41 p. m.
Monday, September SO
8:52 a. m. 2:41 a. m.
9:12 p. m. 3:18 p. m.
Tuesday, October 1
I " 9:25 a. m. 3:12 a. m.
9:48 p. m. 3:53 p. m.
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