I Most Of The News I All The Time I??~ volume ten NO. 2 Interest Grows Ij I In Fishing Out I In Gulf Stream No Party That Has Made, The Fifty-Mile Trip To' The Warm Waters Off I Southport Has Returned I Empty-Handed many specimens i have been taken Bfiaracuda Have Been Tak-' I en On Every Trip; Am berjack And Sailfish Hooked; Tuna And I Others Sighted I The past two (lays have clear- ' I -Mated that big game! fuh of all sorts abound in great I near the gulf stream B ,?ff Southport. ready to furnish j B equal to that which is If::: Florida. B Sunday the Stiver Spray of fl ngton. Captain E. M. GodB it went out and brought in H<:\ liiifc baracuda, weighing1 B '.0111 IS to 25 pounds: three large B in and a number of bigj B~ :0m el. Most exciting of all. : f. H Coleman of the party I a huge sail fish which! I his wire leader and got! I,i>v after ten minutes of fierce j -.niggle. Three times the huge I :.;h broke entirely clear of the B-.jter. shaking its head in a fran-! i;.; effort to dislodge the hook.1 I The whole party had a good view r: it on all these occasions and B-jvv said it appeared to be fully . long:. It was about By yards from the boat when it kit the water. Monday the Silver Spray, argu rented by the Sea Duke of CapI !a:n Merritt Moore and the Sea . : Captain Scott, both of Southport. went out with large parties aboard. There were too cany for trolling, according to! Howie ir. the partly. I The Sea Duke brought in 24 , tore fish, including one 38-pound erjack and 12 baracuda. The Silver Spray party had nine fish, j rest of them being baracudas i I an-J dolphins. Captain Scott's H party brought in eight. IfEittlc Bits | I Of Big News I News Events Of State, I I ; Nation and World-Wide | Interest During Past I Week I Chinese Hold Japanese battered Chinese H lines with heavy land and naval guns Tuesday, but failed to crark the resistance barring their inland drive in the Shanghai sector. Despite a savage onslaught which began at sunset Mondav night and raged almost ceaselessly into this morning, the Chinese stood fast to punish their foe with withering machine gun fire. Blazing fires lighted the whole of Shanghai's northwestern skyline. I Sow We'll Tell One Several waterspouts formed in the ocean off Beaufort inlet Tuesday when the wind shifted from southeast to northwest and oldest residents recalled the one which burst 25 years ago and sprayed the town with fish. One of today's spouts tail ended in the ocean near Fort Macon and swirled like a serpent for a mile before it reached a heavy bank black clouds. Fishermen termed it a "mullet shift", saying similar spouts in the Past resulted in better fishing. I Hack To School The majority of North Carolina's 950,000 school children will troop hack to classes this week, swinging State-provided textbooks and resuming their school careers in greatly improved buildings and under more efficient methods than 'bey left three months ago, state Superintendent Clyde A. Erwin said Tuesday. Many ^hools in Piedmont and western North Carolina already nave opened and students in 'he East will join a continues back-to-school stream from now until October 1. Superintendent Erwin explained that schools in the East opened ater in the fall and closed ster in the spring because Joung boys and girls were needed on the farm. Some snctly urban schools in the ast. inculding those of the '-apita] City are opening this week. THI 13 4-PAG Rook HsBF \ * JW^ J ifiPMKIwvR?*-^y*<''4rROOKERY?The scenes ed on Battery Island, The bir the Little Blue Heron. These seasons, acquiring their adull the late summer 01 meir sei their white feathers they t Snowy Egrets, the differences average observer. Battery Island 1: As Bird Bre At Certain Seasons Of The |~ Year The Trees At Battery Island Are Filled With Beautiful Birds ROOKERY SHOULD RECEIVE PROTECTION Egrets Of Various Kinds Raise Over There; Once Were Near Extinction Because Of Plume Hunters (By WATERS THOMPSON) To the casual observer the cedar trees on Battery Island seem to have changed to magnolias. Apparently they have large white blossoms nearly covering them. This unusual sight is caused . by several hundreds of birds j roosting in them. The island is j J a nesting place for rive aum-1 ent varieties of herons. The birds, called locally cranes, squawgans and several other names, have been making the little clump of | woods on this island their breed- C ing ground for several years now. j The species represented are I I the American or Great White Egj ret, the Snowy Egret, Little Blue i Heron, Louisana Heron and the black-crowned Night Heron. The Great White and Snowy Egrets are the most beautiful' of our native wild life. These 0 are the birds that were only p j saved from extinction by the in- s tervention of the Federal Govern-; c ment. During the breeding season ii both varieties have showers of1 p I plume-like feathers growing from r | their back. These are the aigret- j e (Continued on Page Four) I Waterspout Makes Near The Caj People on the river front i i in Southport Thursday morning witnessed a rare sight. A large waterspout formed over the ocean back of Fort Caswell and was visible for ! about ten minutes before drawing back up into the cloud formation of which it was a part. While by no means an unusual sight on the ocean, waterspouts are seldom visible from Southport. In fact, there have been only three sighted in the past fifteen I or twenty years. There was a great mass of dark clouds back of Caswell from which a dense curtain of rain was falling. From this cloud-bank the spout descended to nearly the height | of the tree tops. The whirling motion was plainly visible and, no doubt, the people at the Fort and Oak Island got a close view of it. Pilot Robert Thompson, ! ST t A Good I ES TODAY erv ? 1 1 | Jul * J^m j urd c?u schi :p:<>agM| wee J|H the froi hole Go\ oth< ! i pictured were photograph-;ten ds shown are the young of|P?? birds remain white for two ; nlumage of slaty-blue in - cond year. While wearing Ji ire readily mistaken for ; being unnoticeable to the 5 Famed iM' :eding Ground i m""" DR. FURGUS WILL !ses REMAIN AT CAMP Announcement was made j Wednesday that Dr. L. C. Furgus would continue to serve Company 427 CCC as contract te(. suregon and that no reserve j medical officer will be assign- j ed this camp. I p This rescinded the order re- D' ccived last week from head- j Ag quarters of the Civilian Con- j j servation Corps stating that |Ro Dr. Furgus was to be relieved I ( at Midnight September 3. That |SQr official communication spoke mo favorably of Dr. Furgus and (.|{ his services, so it was no sur- j j prise when a decision was J gjj, reached to retain him a't the ! ( local camp. Ge ???????mo Invitation Sent To Fort Brage " ieneral McClosky Urged 3 To Allow Soldiers To Come Here For Vacation! And Fishing Trip; Com-' panies Have Come In Past M Recalling that on two previous ccasions Southport has had the i leasurc of having companies of I oldiers here for a ten days rest ] amp during the fall when fishig was at its best, the South- ^le ort Civic Club has written Gene- * al Manus McCloskey, commandr at Fort Bragg, asking that he w (Continued on page 4.) Appearance | pe Fear River Bar S ivho was bringing in a CI; tanker at the time, said that zw it was a very large spout rel and was causing great distur- An bance in an otherwise calm sea. The tanker was not much more than a mile away E1 from it, and those on board could get an uninterrupted view of the whole thing. The center of the storm was on ( the bar near the Whistling Thi buoy. me These inspiring spectacles ine are caused by the same me weather condition as the ter- o'cl ribly destructive tornadoes 1 of the middle west. In fact the a waterspout is a tornado on for the sea. me The darkness of the funnel Ne is caused by particles of dust or and other debris in the tor- sch nadoes and by water being I I sucked up in waterspouts. mo If it were not for the dust edi or water the funnel would na' not be visible, since it is only sti' a vortex of swiftly whirling the air currents. Clu ' - T ? LTE I ^ews paper In Southport, N. < ldge Spears Is C Jnable To Hold B Term Of Court t rist Taken 111 Saturday R< Dn Way From Whiteville To His Home In Durham \nd Is Advised By Doc:or Not To Hold Court > OTHER JUDGE F. FOUND AVAILABLE nutes Of Clerk Of Court C< low That Term Was I \djourned After Being Opened , telegram received here Satay afternoon by Clerk of j ar rt B. J. Holden informed him | co t Judge Marshall T. Spears, at eduled to preside over a one- Ti :k's term for the trial of civil j tir ?s, would be unable to hold Jr rt. Following is the text of je< telegram: Was taken ill on way home j tic n Whiteville yesterday. My i th sician has advised me not to W 1 court next week. Regret un- Si i to be able to be with you. j w< "ernor's office advises that no bo jr judge available to hold ibu r court. Judge Marshall T. th ars." |ra he minutes in the clerk's of- j show that the court was to neil, and adjournment was j 'n en because of the illness of | juuge. | 'his means that the September jst m probably will be indefinitely jis tponed, unless there is a call n{ a special term of court. I P J Si iiry List For p October Term >mbers Of Board Of Com- | _ missioners In Session Here Monday Drew Jury List For Criminal Term "he members of the bo 'rd of inty commissioners in regular or slon here Monday drew the p; y list for the October term j a( Brunswick county Superior | th irt for the trial of criminal I re ;es. Judge Marshall T. Spears, j tr Durham, will preside over the' jf m. ni following is the jury list: |o( N. Evans, C. D. Carlisle, C1 G. Carlisle, L. N. Babson, H. i fa Jenrett, H. J. Formy Duval, fc h. i. C. Woodard, B. D. Bennett, J c bert A. Little, Freeland. ss 3. A. Lewis, David R. John- w i, W. H. Tharpe, O. D. Clem- U] ins, T. M. Danford, Quincy w immons, Bolivia. lo J. S. Chadwick, R. O. Lewis, 01 allotte. 3. R. Hewett, C. G. Roach, w orge A. Swain, Ralph Clem- tl ns, Supply. oi A W. Moore, W. B. Varnam, i w Jthport. ! pi M. McLamb, Wampee; G. pi Ennis, Leland; Oliver R. Litt- C Bolton. e< ? hi 1 J XIT eiovea woman i* I ^ Dies At Homeg . r . 1 rs. Annie Missouri New-1 J ton Died Wednesday J Night At Her Home Fol-I lowing Attack Last Week Mrs. Annie Missouri Newton, J oved resident of Southport, d at her home here Wednesf night at 7 o'clock. Her death s ascribed to an heart attack iich she suffered several days iviously. rhe deceased, who was 80 years w age, is the widow of the late lius Newton, Cape Fear river 'r ot. She has been an invalid a several years, but had main- c| ned a bright, cheerful outk upon life. She is survived by one son, j fde Newton, of Southport; and 0 daughters, Mrs. Z. E. Mur- J jj' I, of Wilmington, and Miss nie M. Newton, of Southport. (Continued on page four) 3 irst Service Club Meeting Thursday I u )n Thursday, September 9th J t County Service Club will j et at the home of Miss Paul-1 Lewis at Winnabow. The I eting will begin at 8:001" lock. rhis is the first meeting of!01 Service Club since it closed the summer months. All v< mbers are urged to attend. in w members are invited, boys Ul girls who have finished high te tool. o( Meetings wil be held once a nth, at night, and will be both er icational and recreational in ,ure. Boys and girls who are |dt 1 in school are asked to join,at 4-H club?not the Service I"1 ib. jn< P0R1 A Good Comi Wednesday, Septei Officials Attended lighway Meeting leld By Powell agister Of Deeds R, I. Mintz And Members Of Board Of County Commissioners Attend Meeting Tuesday AVOR WORK ON HIGHWAY NO. 130 ounty Board Asked To Vame Other Projects To Be Given Preference In Future By Highway Register of Deeds R. I. Mintz, id members of the Brunswick unty Board of commissioners tended a division highway meet i lesday in Whiteville, at which I ne Commissioner A. F. Powell, heard petetions for road proits in his district. The Brunswick county delegain declared their preference for e completion of the Shallottehiteville hardsurfacing project, milar action was taken several :eks ago by members of the / iard of commissioners in Colum- ! is county, so it is believed that . is work will be advanced as i pidly as possible. The local delegation was asked 1 designate certain other roads the county for improvement r the highway forces. Grading of the four-mile . retch of highway no. 130 that being prepared for paving is laring completion, and it is ex- [ icted that hardsurfacing will ben within a few days. Vospects Good r .. i i r ror Liocai ^anip eassuring Information Is 1 Received Regarding The Plans To Maintain CCC Company At Southport Recent rumors that -Camp Sapla might be abandoned have apirently been laid to rest, and :cording to reliable information lere will be no readjustment or ilignments of camps in this dis-1 let until the first of January, then. Should it then be found icessary to dispense with one the camps in the district, the 1' loice for removal will hardly , ill on Sapona, according to in- | irmation received the past week. In a letter to W. B. Keziah j ongressman J. Bayard Clark j lid "I realize the extent to I hich Brunswick must depend , pon its timber resources and I 1 ant the camp to stay there as mg as it is possible to keep le anywhere." The Civic Club secretary had ritten Mr. Clark pointing out lat 80 per cent of the land area : Brunswick was classed as ] oodland and that during the . ast few years of forest fire rotection and control, in which ' amp Sapona has so ably assist-!' i, much valuable young timber ' ad started to growing. The re- 1 loval of the camp would remove ' luch of the protection from both' lis young timber and future i1 rnwth < Timber Worker !; Fatally Injured im Long, Of Old Dock, , Dies After Being Hit By i Limb From Tree He Was 1 Cutting Near Crusoe Island Jim Long, 50-year-old timber! orker of Old Dock, was fatally, ijured Thursday at 1 p. m. when i limb fell out of a tree he was I itting near Crusoe Island and :ruck him on the head. He was carried to the Columas County hospital where he ,ed at 9 o'clock that night. His | ead was badly crushed and he j ever regained consciousness after j eing struck. Long was in the employ of J.1 . Smith, 306 S. Madison St. j (Continued on Page 4) Superintendent Beck On Inspection Trip Supt. H. L. Beck, in charge of le Charleston District, U. S. ighthouses, was here Thursday l an inspection trip, on board J le tender Cypress, one of the ;ssels used in his district. Visitig the Garrison Building, now sed as the home and headquarxs for M. F. Mollycheck, keeper ' the Cape Fear river lights, apt. Beck made the following itry in the inspector's book: "Much good work has been >ne at the kepper's headquarters! ; Old Fort Johnston. No special j structions were ever given as' >ne were necessary." j r pil nunity riber 8, 1937 publish Gradi ; , ;> .: :.: working?Grading wc roadbed for the hardsurfacin the Shallotte-Whiteville high1 The machines used for pourii have arrived at the Shallotte Second Deep S< Of Season Goi ?im LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG?ALL 16 OF 'EM Mr. and Mrs. Valle I'redcre ami two children, three grown ilogs and thirteen hound pups spent the past week-end with < friends in Columbus County. Mr. Fredere is forestry foreman at Camp Sapona. About . a month ago his registered Walker hound hitch became the mother of 18 pups. With a demand for food that far ( exceeded supply, the mother received help from a foster mother of another breed; and c the pups prospered. - . < When Mr. and Mrs. Fredere and family got ready to leave ? for their week-end trip, the c problem of what to do with s their dogs was solved by pack- v ing them all into a trailer and v carrying them along. | ' ~ ~ ~r Cars Burned As \ Train Derailedr s Five Cars Of A. C. L. [ Freight Burned Thursday 'j Near Maco In Brunswick County When Derailment ci Occurs I Five cars of Atlantic Coast t L,ine freight train No. 227 were ? Durned Thursday morning near J Vfaco in BrunswicK county after t the train had derailed en route 3 from Wilmington to Florence, S. s C. All the crew of the 50-car t train escaped. i s The engine itself did not leave the tracks, and only five of the t cars actually left the tracks. t Fire broke out in two tank \ cars loaded with gasoline when j the valve on one of the cars ; was broken. Until 8:30 o'clock 1 0 Vvlo7n annrnxi- 5 p nuay jiiuimug c* uhhk ?c-i? matcly 150 feet high spouted in- I to the air like a huge blowtorch. 1 rhe accident occurred one mile -1 south of Maco on a straight fill. {i When the cars derailed, one of 1 the tank cars rolled down the j 1 (Continued on Page 3.) All's Well That Er Even In C The dance Thursday night in the Community Center Building was one of the best held here in recent months, and everyone had a mighty good time. Thanks to the management of Ed Weeks, every detail of the arrangements went off without a single hitch. But this happy occasion was made possible through a series of fortunate misunderstandings. Several days ago Ed Weeks received a letter from an orchestra leader in Charlotte saying that his band would be through this section about the last of August and offered for a modest guarantee to play for a dance at Southport. Ed Weeks wired at once, accepting the proposition. He soon learned that the orchestra had done radio broadcasts from Charlotte, and he began to advertise the band to everyone he met. When the uosters arrived he learned that he had booked a colored band. ,0T [ED EVERY WEDNESDAY ?g r * i i \ y-. w?*~ ? o ?rk and preparation of the F g of a four-mile section of t way is nearing completion, t ug the hardsurface already 1 end of the project. J1 sa Expedition l es Out Sunday 5 i: rrip Will Be Under The a Auspices Of The Dolphin s Club, Of New Bern, But ' Will Number Members t From Wilmington SEVERAL MADE nrrTMT TDID IM.V_.Ln 1 i l\ll i . ' Profiting By Experience Of f That Expedition, Fisher- 1 men Will Be Prepared / To Make Big Catch The second big game fishing ' ,'xpedition of the year will leave! ( Southport fdr the Gulf Stream I. :arly Sunday morning and ac-1 .ordlng to present indications, |' ;ome sixty or more sportsmen i1 vill make up the party. The trip : fill be aboard Wilmington and ' jouthport boats. A party composed mostly of J nembers of the New Hanover Wishing Club made a trip from ' Southport to the Gulf Stream two ' veeks ago and caught 24 barauda, a number of amberjacks, ] j io one in the party having lines J' trong enough to hold the big ( ish. One fisherman lost upwards : if $25.00 worth of spoons and ' dugs, and numerous costly lines. The trip to be made next Sunlay is under the auspices of the , Dolphin Club of New Bern. This irganization has members all . hrough the state and in Virginia. Heretofore it has made a 'early fishing trip to the Gulf Stream with Morehead City as he point of embarkation. This ] rear the decision was made to lail from Southport, with Wilnington as the point for the aslembling of the party. In addition to the members of ~ .1-:_ u it !? I ,ne l^nipillll v^iuu, ic ia unuvi aiuuu 1 :hat many other sportsmen from , arious points in the state will . join the party in Wilmington or ( it Southport and make the trip. 3. F. Ozment, of the Wilmington S.ar-News, and T. I. Watkins, of ;he Gregg Hardware Company, in Wilmington, are handling the ar angements and these gentlmen ire to be in Southport today to ook after the securing of boats. It is probable that a fleet of 10 (Continued from Page 3) ids Well omedy Of Errors Came Thursday night and the orchestra. The leader stopped in the colored section and inquired for Ed Weeks Somebody told him that Ed worked at the barber shop, but that the dance was to be held in the upstairs of the Community Center Building; so the men went on over there and got ready to start the dance. The crowd was slow to ar- | rive, and two numbers were j played before the first couple 1 was on the floor. Two or three more partners came in, and the expression on the face of the orchestra leader grew more and more puzzled. Finally he went over to the doorkeeper ajid said, "I thought that I was going to play for a colored dance to- I night. All the people I see I are white folks." Only then was it known that EM thought he was negotiating with a white man, and that the orchestra leader believed that he had been corresponding with a colored promoter. , The Pilot Covers B Brunswick County 9 $1.50 PER YEAR 9 iVhiteville Mart I Pays High Prices I For Good Weed , I -ocal Market Should Have No Trouble Reaching 25 I Million Goal, Officials B Believe; Strong Offer- B 1ETTER GRADE WEED 9 BRINGS HIGH PRICES B bounty Markets Report An - B Influx Of Tips And Poor- B er Grades Which Tend fl To Pull Down The K Market Average B During the past few weeks, Vhiteville has proven itself to e a grade market; although the J |^H rcat quantity of poorer grades f weed and tips have pulled the verage down, the better grades *1H| f tobacco have brought excellent ' rices. B The sales remain heavy, more obacco having been sold to date han was sold last year by Sept. 7. A number of very high sales ave been made on the market ' fist week. Over 100 farmers av- B raged over 40 cents for their B rop and some grades have sold s high as 60 and 75 cents. There has been a great influx >f trashy tobacco on the market 'he farmers who have been hold- B ng their quality weed, however, H ire urged for their own good to fl ;ell it as soon as possible, as past ecords show that the better } I^B trades tend to drop in price after 1 he Eastern Belt markets open. Bj Over three and a half million ' II rounds of tobacco were sold on he local markeb this week. fl Some of tne better saies re:orded on the amrket last week j 3 ire: Inmon and Duncan, 216 lbs j it 42c; Judge Mllliken, 220 lbs at I 16c; M. C. Stcpphens, .156 lbs | it ,15c; J. K. Barnes, 162 lbs at it 49c; G. G. High, 50 lbs at l|H Whiteville warehouses sold 500,)00 pounds at an estimated av- . iH jragti of $2.1 cwt on Thursday."' I |H One nice lot of wrappers sold for ' H 560cwt straight sale. Friday's . sales were 800.000 pounds at an f iverage of $21.50cwt. Immense v quantities of common leaf and I turned tips pulled the average j jj^B price down. There were more i baskets during the week than in H my previous sales, but poundage ivas below average. H Tabor City: 125,000 pounds lold Thursday at an estimated ' iverage of $28.45 per cwt. Frl- ' M lay's sales were 246,000 pounds i it an estimated average of $25 ? per cwt. H Fair Bluff: Approximately 135,- , B (Continued On Page 3) B Revival Meeting I To Begin Monday 9 2 Series Of Evangelistic Ser- 1 mB vices Will Be Conducted I Next Week At Trinity j fl Methodist Church 1 B A series of evangelistic services^ H will be conducted next week a<^ Bj rrinity Methodist church with | H the Rev. O. L. Hathaway, pas- 1 H tor of the Epoworth Wesley | :harge, in Wilmington, doing the ; preaching. B Services will be held each eve- U^l ning at 8 o'clock, and the public - B is cordially invited to attend. H Next Sunday has been set aside * LI as orphangc Sunday at Trinity ! HB Methodist church, at which time $ Jufl a special offering will be taken j I for the Methodist orphanage, in IB Raleigh. The sermon will be del- |B ivered by the pastor, the Rev. E. ' jB M. Hall. Tide Table I | JjH Following is the tide table j H for Southport during the next | t l week. These hours are appro- ' !:B ximately correct and w ere fur- If B nished The State Fort Pilot fl through the courtesy of the k IjB | Cape Fear Pilot's Association. j BJ ! High Tide Cow Tide ' [JB] TIDE TABI.E H Thursday, September 9 ( |9B 111:08 a. m. 4:50 a.m. B 11:25 p. m. 5:21 p. m. *> B Friday, September 10 B | 11.50 a. m. 5:28 a. m. J HB 6:10 p. m. i Saturday, September 11 Jt B 12:09 a. m. 6:12 a. ra. B | 12:35 p. ip. 7:08 p. in. ,B 1 Sunday, September 12 B 12:57 a. m. 7:14 a. m. r B 1:23 p. m. 8:16 p. in. B Monday, September 13 B 1:50 a. m. 8:26 a. m. I iSB 2:14 p. m. 9:18 p. m. j B Tuesday, September 14 fl 2:51 a. m. 9:28 a. m. fl 3:14 p. m. 10:11 p. m. R fl Wednesday, September 15 iuj H 3:58 a. m. 10:22 a. m. 4 fl 4:17 p. m. 10:58 p. in. B i?? fl