I The Pilot Covers Brunswick County ,UME TEN NO iry Unabl Verdict Trie Went To Jury Abot 50 O'clock Tuesda ternoon But No Vei t Had Been Rendere 10:15 Tuesday Nigl >ND DEGREE VERDICT ASKEI Of Self Defense Is Ei d By Attorneys For pper, Who Presentid Their Case First case against Donald Ski] >r the fatal shooting < d Scott last fall in an a t at a Maco filling static o the jury at 4:30 o'cloc y afternoon; but no ve: ad been reached at 10:1 Tuesday night when tt as locked up for the nigh case went on trial Moi ternoon before Judge Sa: in, who is presiding ov< ecial term of court, ar mentation of evidence ws ed Tuesday morning. Sol ohn J. Burney did not as first degree verdict bt Iftught to convict the defendai second degree murder. Defem k nsel rested their case upc I lefense. and were the fir; ft offer evidence in the trial. |S. B. Frink and R. W. Davi Southport, and Woodus Ke in. of Wilmington. defendt kipper. I Skipper took the stand Moi ny afternoon in his own defei I He told the jury he had bee It friendly terms with Scot nat Scott had called for him U By of the killing, took him 1 lit- Maco filling station, the lt> v began the fatal quarrel. | The defendant said he and Ircro. Alex Adams, were stanc [. oeside a tree talking whe Icntt approached them and dei Ired he was tired of hearing tf wo talk about him. Skipper sai K denied having said anythin pout Scott, but that Scott nevei heless advanced upon him. [ He declared he was a man < toor physique, which was we nown to Scott. He said he feai d for his life, fired when Scol isregarded his pleas to stop. H sid Scott did not stop after h ired once, whereupon he fired ;cond time. Skipper said both his legs an sth arms had been broken an lat he suffered stomach troubi nd was no match physically fc (Continued on page 4.) Little Bits Of Big News News Events Of State, Nation and World-Wide Interest During Past Week ml f)f)ointwents Governor Hoey complete I the appointment of high jud ^B cial officials Tuesday when h I named two new supreme coui I jurists, selected three new si p< rior court judges and a sr licitor, and reappointed thre ^B special judges. Named to th state supreme court were . Wallace Winborne, of Marioi ^B state democratic chairmai I and .Judge M. V .Barnhill. c Rocky Mount, resident supei ior court judge of the Secon I district. Their appointmer was in compliance with a 193 legislative act raising th ^B number of supreme court ju.< tices from five to seven a provided in a constitutions amendment approved last yea O), Her fl ay Amelia Earhart stepped Ol of her flying laboratory an onto a fourth continent a Karachi, India. Tuesday in he "just for. fun" flight aroun the middle of the world. Th blonde flyer landed after 1.400 mile hop from Assal Eritrea. across the Red Sei the wide Arabian desert, an a part of the Arabian Sea. wAbandon Plans Administration chiefs abar doned efforts Tuesday to er I act a new "triple-A" farm bil including Secretary Wallace "ever-normal granary" propo: al. at this session of congresi Senate and house leaders, how ever, agreed to introduce th neasure in both branches, hoi extensive hearings and prepar B| the legislation for quick pas I sagc next year. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) X ; thi ' 21 4-PA' e To Reach I : In Second " il Of Donald I C. Ed. Taylor Nar * Solicitor I p. Named To Vacancy Created By Resignation Of G. i V. Fesperman Several Months Ago NAME DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTOR ' William Jorgensen Named To Succeed Curtis Tripp r" As Delinquent Tax in | Collector ft ; r- Members of the board of counts ty commissioners in special sessie ion here Friday named C. Ed t. Taylor, Southport attorney, to > serve as county solicitor. This porn isition has remained vacant since ;r the resignation several weeks ago id of G. V. Fesperman. is The appointment of Mr. Tayi lor is of unusual interest because ik of the fact that he is chairman it of the Republican executive com-; ,r mittee in this countv. se I At the same meeting members in! of the board accepted the resigst nation of Curtis Tripp as delin, quent tax collector and named s, i William Jorgensen to succeed 1- him in that office. For the past id two years Mr. Jorgensen has been employed in the county auditor's i- office, and he is thoroughly famii liar with the tax accounts, n 1 i Menhaden Boa Lockw* i ,n Menhaden Boat SouthpOrt, Remained Fast From le Wednesday Through Friid day After Being Stuck r- OAK ISLAND CREW WENT TO RESCUE )f . 11 Efforts Of Captain Barnett r- And His Men Were HamIt pered Because Of Lack Of Adequate Pulling ie Equipment a The Menhadian boat Southd port, owned by Morehead City d interests that operate a fish facie tory here, ran aground in the ir inland waterway near the Lock; woods Folly Inlet Wednesday. She had several hundred dollars worth of fish aboard and before she could be floated Friday night this cargo spoiled and had to be thrown overboard. I Captain W. H. Barnett and his Oak Island life boat and crew went down early Thursday morning and did all that the little: boat and the men were capable of doing. The combined efforts of the crew of 20 men on the Southport and the Coast Guards finally floated the boat Friday night, and she proceeded on to her dock here undamaged, d j In addition to the factory losi-! ing several hundred dollars worie th of fish, the crew of twenty t | men on the Southport lost three l- J days of fishing labor at a time | >- when other boats were bringing e ] in deck loads that represented ie good earnings for the men and I. officers. Operations at the fac-1 i,1 tory were also curtailed at con-' i,! siderable loss. If there had been J >f a 75-foot Coast Guard cutter at - Southport it is believed the boat d would have been floated and on it j her way in to the factory with 71 her cargo intact within three or ie: four hours after she went a ! ' (Continued On Page 4.) ,s! L r Resumation 0 lt Shallotte R d ^! Promise that work on the r j Whiteville-Shallotte sector of d' Highway 130 will be resumi?j ed in the early future was a made last week by R. G. "> j Johnson, third district comi.! missioner. He told Whiteville d i people that the work will be i commenced from the Columbus end of the sector, since j Brunswick county's allotment i at the present time is exhau" ] sted, and is not in Columbus. , ! Mr. Johnson is quoted as ,g [ saying that work on the j.! road will be resumed as soon as another appropriation is made. He told J. K. Powell, ' Whiteville attorney, Thurs. j day that he thought that 1 would be in the near future. ._ .One of the principal reasons for starting the work at this end of the line rather E STi A Goo* GES TODAY South] iarly Degree I Skipper ned County iy Commissioners W*? WILLIAM JORGENSEN Another important item of business disposed of at the meet- j ing was the awarding of the j 1937 audit contract to the D. R. j Hollowell firm, of Greensboro. ,t Aground At j 3ods Folly Inlet EQUALIZATION BOARD MEETS NEXT WEEK Members of the board of county commissioners will j meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday, June 21, 23 and 25, as a board of equalization and review. This will not be a hearing 1 solely for the purpose of reducing taxes, but will be to hear complaints where property valuations have been af- I feeted since a year ago. According lo the schedule f to he followed the hoard will I hear citizens from Northwest 1 and Town Creek townships on [ .Monday; from Smithville and Lockwoods Folly townships on Wednesday; and from Shallotte and Waccamaw townshins on Friday. !__ " Southport Loses To Whiteville Charlie Ripple Held South-' port Hitters At His Mercy When Men Were On Base And The Columbus j County Team Won Again; Southport dropped an 8 to 6' decision to the Whiteville nine Thursday afternoon in a game played on the loser's home dia- j mond. Spencer, on the mound for Southport, pitched good ball except for a couple of innings, and would have pulled through them in better shape with steady support. Charlie Ripple worked nicely on the mound for the visiting team and was in control of the situa(Continued on page four) fWork On oad Promised than in Brunswick county remains the fact that a bridge will have to be constructed across Waccamaw River at New Britton Ferry, which is the line between the two I counties, and the highway commission is anxious to get the Columbus side of the stretch completed before the construction of the bridge. The next letting, Mr. Johnson estimated, would carry the road approximately to Old Dock, or something like a distance of five miles. The same type surface as has already been started on the i highway, sand-asphalt, will be used to complete it. Nothing definite could be I learned as to when an appropriation to this purpose might be expected. ME I d Newspaper In port, N. C., Wednesday, i ___ Mrs. Dosher To ] Head Hospital Auxiliary Group " l Succeeds Mrs. I. B. Bussels As Head Of Brunswick County Hospital Auxiliary, Who Resigned Position NEW COMMITTEES FOR ORGANIZATION Meetings Of Auxiliary Being Postponed During Summer And Will Be Resumed Next Fall The Brunswick County Hospital Auxiliary met with Mrs. I. B. Bussells on Wednesday, June 9. At this meeting Mrs. Bussells resigned as president of the organization and Mrs. J. Arthur Dosher was elected to fill that ? position. Mrs. C. Ed Taylor was elected to the vice-presidency, an office left vacant by Mrs. Dosh- of er. ei The following committees for C the ensuing year were announ ced: Ways and Means: Mrs. J. Ar- | thur Dosher, Mrs. R. L. Thomp- V son, Mrs. Claude Willing, Mrs. H. B. Smith, Mrs. W. G. Butler, Mrs. H. H. Thomas. Membership: Mrs. Ida P. Wat ?" U V M Wall Mrs W E. P" Dosher and Mrs. Price Furpless. F Sunshine: Mrs. Rob Morse, Mrs. C. G. Ruark, Mrs. Charlie Hewett, Mrs. Joel Moore and Miss Annie Zuc Newton. Publicity: Mrs. C. R. Living ston. Hospital grounds: Mrs. W. S. (Continued on page 4.) Numerous Cases ; Tried In Court ' Five C*>ses Were Settled f Before Judge :Joe W.*Ru-1 t ark Here Last Wednes? ( day In Recorder's Court , Five cases were disposed of here last week in Recorder's Court before Judge Joe W. Ru- in ark. H Erwin Squires, white, pleaded guilty to charges of drunk driving. He was required to pay a fine of $50.00 and the cost in the case and his driver's license was revoked for a period of 12 *-'3 months. Woodrow Davis, white, pleaded guilty on a similar charge. He, too, was required to pay a fine of $50.00, the costs in his case and had his license revoked for a period of 12 months. Jo Henry Gore, white, was found Ml not guilty on a charge of cruelty of to animals. ev Clarence Johnson, white, was du i 1 anttinn- firn tn thf* (111 iril'U lui atbiiu p, ?wv ? woods. Judgment in this matter was held open. W. H. Elmore, white, was of found guilty of non-support. Ke cl? was ordered to provide the sum us of $5.00 per week for his wife, &e and the costs of the case were taxed against him. Wf Sights Sailfish Near Southport w 1 ab Appearance Of Most Popu lar Of All Game Fish ar< Adds To Belief That Large Game Fish Abound * Near Southport fl Making the outside run from ( Charleston to Southport Monday L morning, the crew of the Marlin, a pretty Wheeler Sport Fisher- ? man, from Miami, reported that they saw a large sail-fish a half hour after leaving the Gulf stream, and while they were about 20 miles off Southport. The sail fish, or "Broadbill's" are most eagerly sought after by _ the big sport fishermen. They are an believed to be out near the Gulf he Stream in considerable numbers, !ai and the Southport Civic Club is ca, determined that sooner or later ^ some one well versed in the taking of this and other big game ^j, fish will be brought to Southport ^ for the purpose of definitely con- cu firming the belief that they are here in great numbers. (Continued on page 4.) \ de Local Officers m( Attend Meeting Miss Lottie Mae Newton and Mrs. J. W. Ruark attended the t 32nd Annual Meeting of the Grand Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star held last week in Asheville. Miss Newton is District Depu- in ty Grand Matron and Mrs. Ru- So ark is Grand Matron of the local' TT chapter. ; th POR' A Good Com June 16th, 19. Palmetto Trees C On Mai UNUSUAL?While it is etto trees flourish on Bald w Brunswick county peopl ow on the mainland. The s ' trees near Holden's Beach itered by Edward Taylor it ontest.) Considerable ( A Krhiif Ol i?i A 1 k/KJ U V \^MUl * RE-SCHOOL CLINIC SATURDAY, JUNE 9 Mrs. Lou H. Smith, county it-it! th nurse, announces that here will be a pre-school clin- I c on Saturday, June 19th in | ler office from 9:00 until 13 ' ('clock. All mothers are urged ?y the I'arent-Teachers Asso iation to bring their children vho will enter school next fall :o be vaccinated and to be jiven a general physical eximination. This will ..be the only .date let aside for this particular uirposc. All children will have o be examined "neiore the end >f the school year, so it is ad ised that attention be paid to his date. orest Warden Urges Caution ttremely Dry Weather Makes Danger Of Forest Fire More Acute Than At Other Seasons Of The Year County Forest Warden Dawson. ncs was in Southport again on | mday ana asaea mat ciuzena the county be urged to do erything in their power to rece the danger of forest fires ring this unusually dry period. "I want to thank them for eir co-operation in the program fire control," he said, "but 11 want to ask that they help j during the present emer-1 ncy." Last week there was a fire beeen the Southport-Supply highly and the inland waterway, le blaze was brought under ntrol Sunday night after a jbborn battle in which men )m Camp Sapona did fine work, hile the blaze swept consider- j le acreage, it is reported that jch of the conflagration was nfined to bays and cut-over ea. Lnt Control Is Summer Problem ;come A Constant Source Of Annoyance At Thisi Season Of The Year And Must Be Dealt With In-1 doors And Out Ants become a constant annoy- j ce at this season of the year, cause of the damage they do to vns and flower beds and beuse of their presence in the I iehen and pantry. t Because there are about 95 ids of ants known in North rolina, their control is a diffiIt problem. What is effective! ainst one kind of ant is not! vays effective against another. Dr. Z. P. Metcalf, head of the j partment of zoology and ento-! >logy at State College, recom;nds that the insects be des>yed in their nests. If they oc(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Revival Meeting Now In Session A series of revival meetings is session this week at the' uthport Presbyterian church, le preaching is being done by e pastor, the Rev. J. R. Potts. r pil munity 37 PUBLISHE i jrow C nland In County generally known that pal- f Head Island, comparatively f< e know that these trees also ibove picture shows a group Ij. . (This photograph has been 1 The State Port Pilot Photo Conjecture Cai rantine Station j Since Government Has De- A cided lo Abandon rrop- ?f erty There Is Much Spec- j p<| ulation Regarding Final njg Disposition j pcs POSSIBILITY THAT o?u IT WILL BE SOLD knd I . Co? Location In Middle Of Riv- \ er Means That It Always Mis Is Cool And Would Be whi Ideal For Summer fell ' the The all but deserted group of The nine quarantine buildings in the j the Cape Fear River two miles above j ^or Southport are a subject of con- to jecture. Since t..c government has decided to no longer use the ? station, what will be done with the buildings. "r The answer seems to be that the buildings will be rented, if a corl renter can be found. If they cannot be rented they will be sold. \_a In either case the government is J1 probably ready to deal with the highest bidder. The buildings are all in splen- AT did shape, most of them having V waxed floors. There is also considerable machinery, including an excellent light and power plant and a complete waterworks system. The place might possibly be Co used as a fisherman's camp with | ] excellent fishing, especially forl 1 sheephead around the huge dock 1 Bert Marlow, one of the South- ] port men now serving as a wat(Continucd on Page 4) 1 Va< Vacation For The cl0! Rev. E. M. Hall Z a Rev. and Mrs. E. M. Hall and sch son, John, left Monday morning dai for a vacation of three weeks, wei They will meet their son, Edgar,1 me: Jr., in Philadelphia, where the J 1 latter is a student in the Uni-1 wa; versity of Pennsylvania, and visit I ceil relatives in Franklin, Pa. fiv( During the pastors' absence the ami Sunday morning services will be F in charge of the Board of Stew- whi ards. Capt. J. B. Church will j F speak on June 20th, and other j E. speakers will be announced later, j Lei No evening services will be held j Est until further notice. Captain Fred Burrisi Good Shrim Expectations of a busy V summer and of Southport be- v ing a greater attraction for fishing parties were increas- ^ ed Saturday by the taking of fc 150 pounds of large shrimp, t in the space of three hours. The catch was made by the n boat of Captain Fred Bur- s ris, who went out alone on a ii prospecting trip to the shri- C mping grounds. t Lewis Hardee, local shrimp i d and seafood buyer, stated to j u newsmen that he expected j b that the Burns catch would j C result in the many Southport d boats now working in South j a Carolina and Georgia returning home immediately. There | ii are a number of the local b craft at Murrells Inlet, Myr- d tie Beach, Georgetown, Bay- e boro, Rockwell and Beaufort, ii S. C. Mr. Hardee has sev- s eral of his big boats at p Rockwell, and is operating a e house there. Bill Wells, an- | d other Southport dealer, is also operating at Rockwell. a A rather interesting circum- a stance in connection with the j a ? OT [ :D EVERY WEDNESDAY Citizens Cor Submits Re The Comi * Bulletin Trial of Irman Clemmons, oung Brunswick County ' hite man, for the fatal buring of Hobson Sellers be- F an this morning after Dis-Ict Solicitor John J. Burey had announced that the p tate would not seek convicon upon a charge of first egree murder, and therefore ould not demand the death enalty. R. W. Davis and S. B. 'rink, of Southport, are de- n Miding Clemmons. a ijured Seaman ? Taken Off Boat ? ptain W. H. Barnett And ,, Four Members Of Oak n Island Coast Guard Sta- p tion Crew Made Trip On c Monday r b in injured member of the crew j the tanker Comet was remov- r from that vessel on Monday c ht eight miles from the Cape ? 1 ? nnil 1IT1C Hr/MMrht t U i l vci uai a>iu > uu b..? the Brunswick County Hos- 1 ll by Captain W. H. Barnett a I a crew from the Oak Island 0 ist Guard Station. |? V. J. Clanston, of Greenville, i is., was the injured seaman r 5 was hurt Saturday when he [1 between the grating aboard i3 Socony oil company tanker, i s vessel came shoreward with e injured member of her crew e the purpose of bringing him c a hospital. I Tie transfer, was effected at c 0 o'clock, and less than an ' ir and one-half later the sail- jc was in the Brunswick County ( spital, where he is in serious 1 idition. With Captain Barnett * the trip were Chief Boatswain 1 te Daniel Willetts, Motor Me- t nist A. E. Huntley, Dan Sad- * and Sammy Owen. c s acation Bible |; School Closes I I V mmencement Exercises t For 1937 Session Of Daily Vacation Bible School Were Conducted Friday t Night | "he 1937 session of the Daily ;ation Bible School came to a k Friday with a commenceit program given in the . ithport high school auditorium "he total enrollment for this ool was 129, and the average! ty attendance was 100. There | e 23 persons who served as mbers of the faculty. "otal expenses for the school 5 $14.77, and the offering re-1' wed Friday night lacked about s i dollars of making up this c ount. 'ollowing is a list of officerslc a served during the session: |' 'rincipal, A. L. Brown; pastor) M. Hall; Music director, Miss j' a Hubbard; Assistant, Miss:' elle Furr; Boys handwork: jr (Continued on Page Four) s Makes ! p Haul Saturday j Veils boats being at Rockwell is that this is the first eason in about 25 years when they have not been at Vrightsville Beach, catering o the summer fishing paries. If operations up to the diddle of the week show the hrimp here in the quantities ndicated by the catch of laptain Burris Saturday, hen, next Saturday and Sunay will probably bring aboit 30 or more Southport oats to their home port, laptain Burris found a reay local sale for all his catch ,t 15 cents per pound. In addition to being desred for the market and tale consumption, a great eal of shrimp are used here ach week as bait by fishng parties. With plenty of hrimp available for bait, the iresent catches of trout, blus and bass should be about [oubled. Some of the boats that are .way from here and which .re expected to return soon .re splendid party boats. . Most Of The News All The Time $1.50 PER YEAR l|H nmittee H port To I missioners I Citizens Committee Appoin- | I ted To Investigate County Financial Situation And To Make Recommendations C o m p 1 e tes '|^H Job tEPORT IS MADE BEFORE THE BOARD iecommendations Of Com- JHB mittee Approved And Copies Of Report For- j^Hj warded To Raleigh Hflj Members of the citizens comlitteo appointed several weeks jjj^l go by the Board of County Ij^H lommissioners to make a study f the financial condition of the ounty completed their work last reek and turned in their report a the board in special session 'riday. flH After carefully reviewing the ||B eport, members of the board aproved the findings and recomlendations of the committee and assed a resolution to have a HH opy sent W. Kelvin Gray, rep- HHfl esentative of a large group of I^HB ondholders, and Charles M. ohnson, state treasurer and di- IHR ector of the local government |HS ommission. pHH .Following is the most impor ant section or tne report, omit- kh ing some statistical figures that .re available from the minutes H|B f the last meeting of the board f commissioners: "We find that the county has nade an attempt to carry out he spirit of the plan under conideration beginning July 1, 19.15. "But we also find that in the ||Hfl ffort to conform to the propos- fHBJ d plan that the current county ibligation for governmental purloses are in very precarious conlition, that the current Qbllgaions of the Comity7"government :annot be met, that county offi:ers are several months without lay, that there is no money on I^H land with which to ran courts, HB hat the increasing demands on he county government for social letterment measures reduces the jEflfl :ounty officials to a continual |^HB tate of embarrassment, and ren- flHj Icrs the future of some of these j^H vorthy undertakings to an ex- HB rcmely hazardous position. We ind that the modest expend!- (I H urc required and heretofore proided by the county to aid in the orcstry preservation service inlj^H he county is in immediate peril, (Continued on Page Four) Checking Routes fl For School Bus H ). S. Dillard, Representative Of The State School Commission, Is Spending f?H This Week In Brunswick Iflfl County O C I-Ulla-a ranmuntalliM nf he state school commission, is |H| pending this week in Brunswick :ounty checking up on routes for JHH he school buses at the various onsolidated schools of the coun-1 i^^B y during tlic coming school year XflflH This work is done each sum- l^^B ner with the idea of bringing ransportation facilities to a |^B| naximum number of school chit- (I I Iren with a minimum mileage. Proposed changes in the rout- <^^B ngs at two of tnc county schools las made it necessary for Mr. j^H Dillard to spend a full week here. IBB Tide Table I Following is the tide table | for Soutbport during the next I week. These hours are appro1 ximatcly correct and were furI uished The State Port Pilot M| i through the courtesy of the | Cape Fear Pilot's Association. I High Tide Low Tide jj^H Thursday, June 17 ^^B a. m. I 3:11 p. m. 10:09 p. m. Friday, June 18 a. ni. | 1:39 p. m. 11:00 p. nt Saturday, June 19 HB 15:01 a. m. 11:00 a. m. H| i 5:27 p. m. 11:47 p. m. ]HH Sunday, June 30 1111 5:54 a. m. 11:51 a. m. j^JB 16:14 p. m. 9 Monday, June 31 Hfl 6:10 a. m. 13:31 a. m. IB^B Tuesday, June 23 7:31 a. m. 1:18 a. m. 7:37 p. m. 1:21 p. m. Wednesday, June 23 ! 8:00 a. m. 2:03 a. m. 18:02 p. m. 2:03 p. m. :9H I- ?^ . ..-f H

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