Ive By Buying nets A dvertised his Newspaper E TEN NO. 28 xjH operatic arks Ef lans Fc sk'our In, Making It! j~ i That Number Of 11 Will Go Beyond pectations ; IOR HOEY TO STARTING GUN f Entertainment To Dances Each EvAt High School asium; Dinner Saturday Night on from every quarter I 1 the efforts or South- j is in completing plans j nthport Regatta, spone Carolina Yacht Club, sville. which will be Thursday. Friday and f next week, of the South Atlantic ; !ng Association have taken | uthport races to heart from ?ry beginning, and every able offer of aid and coophas come in along: with try planks that promises to ho total entry list far beearly expectations. Last ivas more than twenty, inall the leading boats of sociation, and every mail in more entries, ess in his efforts as chair- j the invitation committee. Keziah has written more tree hundred personal letd the response he has re- , from these clearly indicates f1 i coming regatta will draw of visitors here for the E iy race program. S nor Clyde R. Hoey will tl Thursday for the races, _ ntinued from page 2) ^ tie Bits }f Big News i. i Events Of State, on and World-Wide erest During Past W eek D Aon a sident Roosevelt told ' "apermen Tuesday he nominate a successor to iate Justice Willis Van iter, retired, in time to senate confirmation beadjournment of congress. , I,,-, rnorl " in- nssuvuticu * i cw ivH? ??v>. iMthorilativcly that the presi- ^ icnt has before him between . 5fi ami 70 names and is endea- =. miing rapidly to weed them g( fin in order to avoid a recess ippoiniment if possible. But ^ :h1 hat it had found two bundles j T1 of mail and an uninflated rub-1 ^ *r lifeboat in the wreckage of j i Pan American-Grace Air- _ rays flying boat which sank I j iff Panama Tuesday. The mail , Ii minded 52 letters. Other arti- j les salvaged included: Two ( life preservers in a sack, five eat cushions, three head rest ; cushions, one metal foot rest, "ne container of ice cream, one nig 10 feet square, and lumerous broken pieces of the 'lane. None of the 14 pasangers and crew members I'as located. All are believed lead. Snapping Two men and a woman kid-, 'aped Donald Horst, two and 1 half, from the back yard of; 'is home Tuesday and five! mnutes later telephoned a 'emand for $5,000 ransom | ** his mother, Mrs. Otto Hirst. 30. wife of a well-to-do | Intel owner and song publish- j lr- One of the men and the j voman fought fiercly with j if's Horst and a maid. Doro-! hy Mehem, to carry the bewildered child from the yard 0 a small blue sedan in which j he other man was waiting to 1 "'ve them away. i DO Y< THE l 16-PAGES TOI HP0R1 >n From A1 forts To C< >r Sailboa This Yacht Is Wei w / - ' / ^MISCHIEF?William I3mme ave a lot of. local well-wishers j akes off in the opening day's Regatta. The Wilmington man h, out h port on several occasions he course. Company Now S< For Construct lability Of Representati- . ves Of Southern Kraft j gp Corporation To Purchase Land Causes Postponement 1 f ro HCKERING NOW w FOR ANOTHER SITE Sol .pplication Has Been Made To Engineer's Office For i Permission To Construct | naj On Waterway $ \ CiO* The news story in last week's . Sa, iper regarding the Southern i cha raft Corporation starting a! ,.or in Smith nnrt was a ivaj tilling nuvn ul , ifle premature. Information was fer, ven Sunday to newsmen from tow hat was considered a reliable a|0 mrce that construction opera- j ons would start the next day. i ,.ra he story was based on this in- sev irmation. j fro| It appears that efforts were! irried on through Sunday by j presentatives of the corporation , /j i acquire the land on which ley planned to build in South-1 i )rt, but no arrangement was ;ached. Mr The corporation expects to I secor lild a dock near town, however ! ers i he U. S. Engineers office in j for t rilmington has already been ask-1 signc (Continued from page two) the < Modern Jean Val Turn Holine Jesse C. Walker, whose j he strange record of crime and ; noi repentance was climaxed in COi December by a parole from pei the Oklahoma State Peniten- noi tiary, told a reporter from usi this newspaper Wednesday fer that he now stands ready to nei do the Lord's will. 1 Walker is visiting friends no and relatives in Columbus j acl county for a few days. wh Asked if he meant that he tht planned to take up evange- j wo listic work, he declared that Ja< he will enter the field where i coi he can be of the greatest me service. He said that he is a ed member of the Holiness def faith, and that he plans to j sto attend each service in the j wa camp meeting series to be | ' held for the next few days i reS at the camp meeting grounds j to on the Whiteville-Tabor City I an< In talking with Walker it i ing was impressive to note that | fifl l 0 '"". T1 DUR PART STi A Good )AY Southpor 11 Sides )mplete 1 t Races 1-Know Here c i j :V ;'v . I i A * I I n % - ' "! . . v I I!: W$ 1 lf" ;1 gg : &Bk$- w WZ& > i': ' to, v-Vv -*?e |, ; ;' ** "v i - 1c T :n rson's Class A entry will J C( next Thursday when she in race of the Southport s< as had his boat down at J for a practice run overjr I 3 * seking Site | ion Of Dock; , r, ORTING SPIRIT jr? BETWEEN RIVALS " U ["he sensational Syndicate fl ni Beaufort, S. C. with a '' ord of having won nine w es this year, may arrive in v ithport for the regatta next J; sk on the same tow line ; ,t brings in a dangerous j tl, the Geeehee, of .Savan- e i, (ia. ending his entry of the >chee, l'rank McSwenney, of ?> 1/ !..U 1 >aiinan, wrote ?v. i>. mv.ian. lirtiian of the invitation J nmittee: "In a moment of ikness Bill Scheper has ofed to come to Savannah and r the Geechee to Southport ng with the Syndicate." I toth boats are Class "A" ft and will fight it out with eral others for the same phy. sign Positions n On School Faculty * and Mrs. W. S. Morgan, a id and seventh grade teachn the Waccamaw high school he past two years, have re- j~ ;d after being re-elected for :oming year. Ijean Will . ss Evangelist 1 avoided use of the pro- 1 un "I." Asked about his ' itinual use of the first rson plural of that projn. he explained that in ng the term "We" he re- a red to his personal part- y ship with God. y Walker said that he saw jj point in tracing again his Livities as a criminal, ich dated front the time y it he shot and fatally t unded the late Sheriff fc ;k Standland, of Brunswick ;l] inty. "I never was as [ l an a man as I was pictur- ' to be," he said in his own 11( ense. "The more times my ai ry was told the blacker it s painted." t? 'The Lord," he said, "is fr ponsible for my decision cl return to North Carolina \A 1 give myself up after be- , S, ; a free man for nearly ; m :een years. Several times j te TO MAKE T1 vte 1 News paper In t, N. C., Wednesday, A Spare Prisone Whiteville Man E Named District F Commissioner Mi lovernor Hoey Names A. F. Powell As Third District Commissioner Succeeding Robert Grady Johnson c; OHNSON APPOINTED PRISON DIRECTOR Ai Appointment Of Powell To T Commission O c c as i o ns Much Rejoicing In This Section Of The State 1 I Governor Hoey Thursday after- ent oon appointed A. F. Powell. Jr.. dai f Whiteville. as a meir.oer of to ie State Highway and Public nee forks commission succeeeding I riv .obert G. Johnson, of Burgaw, | fin ho resigned to become director i an<. f the penal division. I bai The appointment of Mr. Powell, tw< ho is a Whiteville merchant, : ing nd business man, as third dis- j 1 ici commissioner, occasioned i the inch gratification by local people 1 apj hen they learned of it. I wh The new commissioner has long | loci ten prominently connected in j J ,'hiteville and this section of the fea ate. He has been interested in fea re affairs of the state for a gra ing time, and his appointment Ha1 icets with popular aproval. | the Mr. Powell is a native of this' pul xmty, having been born and I " :ared in Whiteville. He is the1 in 3n of the late Mr. and Mrs. in . L. Powell, of this city, and j cou rior to his father's death was j Cai ssociated with him in various ass usiness entcrprizes. dep In recent years, Mr. Powell blil as taken his place in the busi- 1 pos ers world, and is one of the me aciers in the building of White- lie iilc. He has large real estate I ha! oldings in Whiteville and sur-jolii bunding territory. I thr Up until May. Mr. Powell had as ir the past 12 years been a j fur lember of the board of city al-1 sta trmen, the only political office i ing jr which he was ever a candi- per ate. In the May election, he as one of the two candidates i thr -ho did not offer for re-election, i cia be other being his kinsman. Dr. it 1. C. Sadler. I wh In the appointment of Mr. Pow- on 11 as commissioner from the ; sov bird district, the people of this i pre (Continued from Page 2.) ).iun|mnn Unvf V fdiruiiiiciii tiui i i?j In Road Mishap )eIco Man Knocks Officer Sii Down With Motorcycle And Is Arrested By Deputy Sheriff Dillon Ganey State Highway Patrolman' lugh L. Sloan was painfully but. ,ot seriously injured early last1 ' 'riday night when knocked down ter i the highway near Navassa by I f?r motorcycle. ! Frank G^oss, of Delco, rider of Go he motorcycle that knocked the Soi latrolman down, was arrested by tr'! )eputy Sheriff D. L. Ganey, but J ,-as permitted to go to a doctor !Wl or treatment of injuries he re-jC01 eived in the accident. C01 Deputy Ganey said Sloan had USI< topped an automobile in the | P?' ighway near the entersection of I err ae Navassa road. After he had lnf (Continued on page 4.) a 1 the Brunswick County the Man Died Monday ^ Richard T. Wililams, 62, died * t the heme of his sister, Mrs. .oi ola Bragdon, near Leland, early tonday afteinoon after a long ' Iness. Surviving are his wife and two n aughters, Mrs. Leo E. Sykes, of r* ,'ilminglon, and Mrs. George "1 runnell, of Washington. D. C.; fj nir sisters, Mrs. Vola Bragdon, ad Mrs. Thomas Simmons, of ( eland; Mrs. J. G. Savage, and saj Irs. M. R. Barnes, of Wilming- ( far >n: and two brothers, J. M., in ad I. O. Williams, of Leland. ser Funeral services were held yes- rcq rday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock t coi om Woodburn Presbyterian L lurch with the Reverend Mr. 200 'ithrow, assisted by the Rev. H. less Strickland, officiating. Inter- ers ent followed in the family ceme- wit iry near Leland. tra< 1 . ' V" 7 - ' - ' W .-v^ -IE REGATT POR' A Good Com ugust 4th, 1937 SF0 rs To C xpecting First 'unds For Social Security Checks oney Expected This Week For Payment To First Of Blind Applicants; Funds For Old Age And Dependent Children Later VSE WORKERS NOW OUT IN COUNTY e Covering The County 'o Visit Those Who Are Unable To Come To The Office Of Wei fare Superintendent ''rank M. Sasser. superintendof public welfare, said Tuesf that he is expecting funds cover the first payment to the :dy blind of the county to are this week. Money for the it payment to the needy aged ( 1 the dependent children pro>ly will come in about the mtieth of the month, accordto Mr. Sasser. ["wo case workers are out in county this week taking the ilications of the needed aged o are unable to come to the il office. I following is a summary of the tures of the public assistance ture of the social security p;oim that was prepared by S. J. wkins, field supervisor from I state board of charities and' >lic welfare: The public assistance feature Social security is no new thing; North Carolina. All of the inties in the state of North j -olina have been attempting to 1 ist the needy aged person, thei lendent children and the needy id person in so far as it were isible. Participation of govern:ital agencies in rendering pubassistance to needy persons i been practiced in North Carla for the past several years ough what has been known the mother's aid fund. This id has been set aside by the te to assist counties in carnnmhnt' r\f ftp. AUI" tl I1IIIKCU liumwvi w. idont children. The funds appropriated for the ee assistance programs in so1 security arc very limited and is very probable that persons 0 have not had to depend uppublic assistance as their reirce will not be eligible for the >gram in its early stages. The (Conntinucd from page 2) (odoc May Have Hoey On Board nee Governor Hoey Will Be Coining Down To Southport From Wilmington, Suggestion Is Made That He Be Passenger On Cutter fhe powerful Coast Guard cut-' Modoc which is to be here | the regatta next week along h another cutter, may bring vernor Clyde R. Hoey to I uthport when she makes her i p down from Wilmington. j governor Hoey is to speak at "ightsville to the association of j inty commissioners and acintants on August 11. On Aug- j : 12 he is to come to South t for the regatta. As the Govlor and the cutter will be com-1 ! down at about the same time, suggestion has been made bv ! Southport Civic Club to the1 nmander of the Modoc that 1 Governor be allowed to imb his way down on the boat d send his car overland. t is understood that the Moe may moor at the U. S. Eneers dock here, through the idness of Major Ralph Millis, io is in charge of the Wilmingoffice of the Engineers. armers Comply Vith Farm Program bounty Agent J. E. ifodson 's that SO per cent of the ' mers who signed work sheets connection with the soil con- ' ration program have sent in 1 uests for measurments for I npliance. >ast week measurements for 1 farms were completed, and i than 10 percent of the farmwere found to be out of line I h the provisions of their con- ! :ts. , GA A SUCCE r piL munity PUBLISH RYA( operate Southport Man Legion ^? Frank M. Sasser, Former | Commander Of Brunswick Legion Post, Was Elected District Commander At Durham M. B. WATKINS MADE VICE-COMMANDER I n s t a 1 1 a tion Ceremonies Will Take Place Sixty Days From Election And Mr. Sasser Will Ask That They Be Held In Southport Frank M. Sasser, of Southport, who last week was elected commander of the seventh district of the North Carolina Department of the American Legion, is a former commander of the local post, having succeeded S. B. Frink in 1932. That same year Mr. Sasser was named vice-commander of this district, and since that time has served for two years as child1 welfare officer and as chairman ~ on Americanism for the Bmnswick County Post. M. B. Watkins, past post com- jw mandcr, and leader in affairs per-, tl taining to the Legion, was elect-1 S ed at the Durham meeting as rr vice-commander for this district, h Brunswick Com Will Make Fa ijc " SAMPLE DETAILED FOR SECOND TOUR Lt. John W. Sample, commanding officer at Camp Sapona, recently received official < notice that he has been reassigned to this camp for a second six-months tour. . Since Lt. Sample came here to take charge of Company 427 several months ago, noticable changes and improvements have been made. These j changes elevated the rating of the local camp from sixtli place in a seven-camp sub-dis- 1 c trict to first place within the course of three months. C -? . I c Commissioners In d Regular Session t t Members of the board of coun- (c ty commissioners held their re- 1 gular first of the month meet- ? ing Monday. A good part of the j, day was devoted to a discussion r of matters pertaining to the bud- s get. ,:a Other routine business was dis- j u posed of. Gracious Lettei IFrom Yach From W. W. Storm. Commodore of the Carolina Yacht Club, of Wilmington, the following gracious acknowledgement of an invitation to attend every event of the coming yachting regatta was received this week: "Mr. W. B. Keziah, Chairman, "Invitation Committee, "Southport, N. C. "Dear Mr. Keziah: "It is hardly necessary to 1 express to you my keen and most grateful appreciation of the invitation to attend the Yacht races to be held in your splendid city in August. My plans are being definitely determined so that the extreme pleasure of witnessing practically all the scheduled events may be mine. "As usual, Southport is doing its accustomed gracious and friendly act in inviting | your neighbors to enjoy the festivities in connection with j the yacht races. t "The Carolina Yacht Club has considered it an unusual privilege to cooperate with I our friends of Southport in the general arrangements for the August event. We be ss ,0T i [ED EVERY WEDNESDAY Wr Fishing Elected 1 District Head W?Bm: iMlttflir mBmH ' FRANK M. SASSER le ?-? : rr The installation ceremonies for | a| fficers for the seventh district c? ill take place 60 days from I'! leir election, according to Mr. asser, who says that he will fj lake every possible effort to ave them held in Southport. 1)( " l'; nty Farmers irm Tour Soon!0 .is four Will Be Conducted ? Under The Direction Of a County Agent J. E. Dod-j1 son And Extension Spec- w ialists From State College a iPECIAL EMPHASIS " ON TIMBER PROJECTS 0 h )n Eve Of Opening Of New Market For Timber | Products, This Will Be I Good Time To Learn Tree Measurement A farm tour of Brunswick ounty will be conducted Friday V tugust 13, by County Agent J.1 3. Dodson, who will have R. W. Jraeber, extension forester of j itate Colege, with him for the lay. A special effort will be made o show farmers who make the our the value of timber as a j w ash crop, and each of the five' jc imber-thinning projects in the cj i- -. ...ill k/, oiaitnd \jf ? drtlP UUJlly Will Lie VIOILCU. KM. L?l? J-( ler will bring with him measur- J ^ ng instruments and other equip- | nent that will be used to demontrate to the farmers methods for " ccurately determining the amo- f. nt o ftimber in a givfn tract with which our tender of help " Received * it Club Offical ci _____ lieve that the willingness S( and assistance was accepted, , is an indication in itself of 1 the fine characteristics of your community. Certainly, the long existing friendly feeling and pleasant understanding between Wilmington and Southport will be ce- ! mented as a result of the event soon to be held. "It is a matter of gratification to us as well, that Southport will receive a wide and favorable degree of publicity from these races. Your community is richly entitled to same. We feel confident that the kindness and thoughtfulness which Southport is now exhibiting to j others will be returned many ( fold to your community in substantial and material results. "Again thanking you on behalf of the Carolina Yacht Club for your very gracious | and courteous attitude, and I with assurance that you may continue to command us as you will in this and other matters, we are with all good wishes, "Faithfully and sincerely yours, "W. W. Storm, Commodore, "Carolina Yacht Club." j The Pilot Covers Brunswick County $1.50 PER YEAR ACES rCamp fisheries Will ' Be Operated By , Convict Labor ( lorth Carolina State High- j way Commission In Sess- ] ion Thursday Arranged For One Year Lease On Fishery At Holden's Beach HE CATCHES WILL BE ALTED DOWN FOR USE Ian Is To Use Products Only Within The Prison System Of North Carolina As Part Of Prison Diet Members of the North Carolina tate Highway Commission in ssion in Ra'eigh Thin "day urmgi d tor the lease of a comorrial fishery at Hotrion's Oca en i be operated by convict labor. Fran* L. Dunlap, chairman of le commission, said a year's asc had been taken on a coinlercial fishery at Holdon's Beach jout nine miles from a orison imp at Supply. This fishery will obably commence operation on r convict labor shortly after ugust 1 to supply prisons with sh. Hendricks Phelps, experienced ach fi."h?inian, will t>e employed > serve ns captain of the fislirg and his experience in ^ his usin . t ) ; ' I vied l.o tie Jj*> iv.V.abio in an., ag a stress a f the undertaking. The lease included the fishing ite, said to be one of the best n the coast, the seins and boats nd the houses for the men on he beach. Dunlap said the season's catch ouhl probably tie sailed down nd preserved to use as meat l the prison camps during the inter. Its products will be used nly within the prison system, c said. ilect Principal For Southport V. R. Lingle, Of China Grove, Elected Tuesday Night By Local Committee To Fill Position Held Last Year By C. A. Ledford ?' D T incrln of China GrOVe. ras named Tuesday night by the I >cal school committee as prin- I ipal of the Southport high school m >r the coming year. He succeeds I I !. A. Ledford. I Mr. Lingle has taught for the I ast four years at China Grove, I nd for several years prior to I flat in his home county. This rill be his first position as prin- I He is a graduate of Lenoir- I hyne College, Hickory, and has I ttended several sessions of the I 'Uke University summer school. I With the naming of the prin- ' 9 ipal, only one other faculty vac- I ncy now exists at the local J Tide Table j Following is the tide table for Southport during the next C week. These hours are appro- II ximately correct and were fur- |l nished The State Port Piloi 9 through the courtesy of the I Cape Fear Pilot's Association. I High Tide Low Tide I High Tide I m li?lt I Thursday, August 5 I 6:30 a. m. I in. I 6:48 p. m. 13:33 p. in. I Friday, August 6 I 7:17 a. m. 1:30 a. m. B 7:34 p. ni. I:p. in. I Saturday, August 7 M 8:03 a. m. 3:06 a. m. I 8:17 p. in. 3:17 p. m. I Sunday, August 8 9 8:47 a. ni. 3:50 a. m. 9:00 p. m. 3:03 p. m. Monday. August 9 H 9:30 a._ m. 3:30 a. m. ' I 9:43 p. hi. 3:47 p. ni. 9 Tuesday, August 10 I 10:14 a. m. I :