Most Of The Nevvj AH The Time By'pLUME TEN NC Officers Again look For Payne I In This Countj fderal Agents Made Sut prise Call At Suspectei Hide-Out Of Payne Nea Supply Christmas Even mother .SEARCH made near raleigj ^ Officers Continue Intensive Search For Payne And Turner, And Every \ew Clue Tracked B To Earth ; quire a magic car Br. to convey Bill Payne to al has been reportei during the past ten days Bit: nevertheless each clue ha tracked down by Feders u ho are now cooperatinj H to capture Nortl B N'o. 1 desperado. : - in the county en Bk a quite Christmas evening decended upon th BcpposeJ hide-out of Payne an . ics near Supply, bu v.is fruitless. The following morning the; Breakers Hotei Bt Wilmington Beach, but tha B- was unproductive. 1 Another scene of the Christma jarch for Payne was Wak' mintv where the leading publi leen-.v of this state was reportei L it a tourist camp Frida; teht f Officer Hugh Sloan, the patrol t L: who had the drop on Was] fctaer following a rhase severs |r*fks ago only to see his quarr; krape when he stumbled am Kl received a Christmas can Lumberton that was signei pan Payne and Wash Turner.1 forever, nobody believes that th Iptives were the persons wh< sally sent the Christmas greet Little Bits Of Big News Ntwi Events Of State, Nation and World-Wide Interest During Past Week lurders Mother In one of Cumberland Coun tv's grimmest tragedies. Mrs Nannie Belle Martin Fishei 19. is dead, apparently at th hand of her own son, and th' son. Carl Chastine Weeks, 29 is a suicide. Weeks pulled botl '.riggers of a double-barrellet shotgun and blew his head of shout noon Tuesday when of 'icers sought to question hin several hours after his moth rs home on the Cedar Creel 1?d and her bodj the ruins, witl ircd. r icr. 26-year-ol< nt, set a politi himself Tuesda; .ed by his fath vernor O. Ma? C Gardner an Shelby that h< candidate nex 10 State Senate d arranged witl a for a r',0-da; tee just before r campaign pur now a Washing served in thi his district ant tenant Govemo: ame Govemoi Governor, Clydt i uncle of yount i lent tors Corporatioi icsday that be recession in bus ximately ,'iO.OfK its automotive United State! d off effective 'illiam S. Knud , who made th said no planl ted completely workers retain iork a 2-1-hour <. Others of the of the industrj tailed operations plants, whicl on a four-day week, assembl; idle until aftei "ord sources re bout 40,000 of t 1 employes are ceek at the huge * Ford assemblj operating, bul Uon is plannec ' next week, on page 4.) THI ? 49 4-PAGES T Mrs. Mary Curt Laid To R< * { Mrs. Mary Curtis Ward, Of Bolivia, Was Well Known .. | Throughout B r u n s wick j County As Active Missir onary Society Worker ASSOCIATION HAS HONORED MRS. WARD * Death Occurred Sunday e And Funeral Services Were Conducted Monday Afternoon At Antioch Funeral services for Mrs. Mary . I Curtis Ward, beloved resident of 11 Bolivia, were conducted Monday d afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Ani tioch Baptist church by her pas^ tor, the Reverend E. W. Pate, ^ who was assisted by the Rcverii end A. L. Brown and the Reverend B. R. Page. ( i- The body was laid to rest in the church cemetery, e Mrs. Ward, who died at her 1 d home Sunday, lived a long and ? t useful life in this county, and numbered among her most note- [ y worthy accomplishments was her s I, leadership of the Baptist Worn- f t an's Missionary Society during J the early days of its existance. I s ; Unusual Shrimp ' M.J. 11 maue ner 1 c *.1 Sudden Appearance Of y Shrimp Off Cape Fear River Bar May Be Just ,j Flash In The Pan, But Boatmen Are Doing All e Right Now - BIG CATCHES ON MONDAY-TUESDAY Boatmen Have Fine Luck And Price Of $3.00 Per Bushel Makes Shrimping Very Profitable Business There are some ifs in the matter. But it can be said that if shrimp continue on the trawling grounds in the present abundance all week, if the weather continues to hold good and the price continues at its present high level, shrimp trawlers at Southport will come in for a large payroll Sat. urday of this week, i. This may be only a flash in ? \ the pan. The shrimp may be gone e any day. But the fact remains e that with only about 20 boats , ), operating on Monday the packing i houses gave credit slips to the i amount of $1,490.00. Tuesday they f went to twice that sum as the - number of boats had doubled and J i the average catches remained - i aDOUt lne same. c Monday the high boat brought i r in 35 bushels, receiving $3.00 per j i bushel. Tuesday the high boat I had 46 bushels, the price remaining the same per bushel. Five boats are known to have aver- t aged a hundred dollars and bet- t ter for each of the two days. ' ' Today there is still another in- L] (Continued on page 4 c" Local Picture o In Magazine 11 ! C ' The current issue of Today, a r magazine that is published by c 1 the Department of Conservation " f and Development, at Raleigh, is 0 5 (devoted mainly to the story of " " Tobacco in North Carolina. To v many people it is the most inter'* esting publication issued by the 11 e department so far. i Among the illustrations is one ! ' r of a big catch of game fish made j t' ' at Southport the past fall by Dr. j f ! F. M. Shupcrt of Centralia, III. ^ > The photograph was supplied by j r the Southport Civic Club. Widespread Int . $ ' Big Game I Not the least indicative of I i the general interest that is > being aroused in distant states by last summer's dise covcry of the abundance of I big game fish off Southport, near the Gulf Stream, arc the many letters being received by the Civic Club. . It is not the season of the f year for much interest to be felt in fishing, yet residents i of several northern and eastern states have written rey cently inquiring as to the fish. Many of them go further and say that if Soutlii port has the fish it is sitting ? pretty to become the great > mid-way sport fishing center r between New York and t Florida. ! Many northern and eastern sportsmen, unable to make the titr-ian' -trip to Florida, J I STj A Good ODAY is Ward Is est At Antioch en > u ^Kfli. i ? IP 1 MRS. MARY C. WARD In numerous occasions she was ' lonored by the Brunswick Bap- j, ist Association for her fine ^ cork. 1 She was the widow of the late )avid Ward. One son, Carl Ward, 1 urvives. In addition there are our grandchildren: A. H. Ward, I 'r., Lois Mae, Carl and Dorothy | .ast year was a good one for Southport. j Mack's Cafe has opened up i in one of the vacant buildings; the Specialty Shop has moved into an attractive reconditioned building; Rogers Shoe Shop moved into the old Hood j building, anil has been rv|niired and (tainted. Calloway's clothing store is another addition, and this husi- { ness will move next week into the building on Moore street now occupied by Hornsby In- | surancc Agency. James Ward, former Camp Sapona cnrollce, also entered the business field here during ! the past year. I \ rraffic Cases Tried In Court > dost Of Matters Disposed i Of Here In Recorder's . Court Last Wednesday < Were For Traffic Violations Trial of case growing out of 1 raffic violations featured activi- 1 } y of the Brunswick county Re- | order's court here last Wcdncsay. I Alton Clcnimons, white, plead- I d guilty to charges of reckless : pcration. He was given 6 nonths on the roads, was order- < d to make restitution to the ' irosccuting witness and pay the ( ost of the action. His driver's cense was rovokcd for a period ,1 f one year, and he was paroled!1 rito the custody of Harvey He- 1 ,'Ctt. Tom Long, white, was found ' ot guilty of trespass. Benjamin Davis, colored, was 1 ound guilty of operating a mo- * or vehicle while under the inlucnce of intoxicating liquor, le was given 30 days on the j oads, and his license was re- j (Continued on Page 1) j erestIn Fishing Future1 arc expressing surprise that big game fish arc being found so near their home as Southport. Not the least interesting is j a letter received by the club J from Florida, the center of t the nation's big game fish- f ing. Writing a general letter to the secretary of the Civic f Club last week. S. O. Chase, c of Sanford, Fla., said in part: c "I am interested in what t you say regarding the re- r suits of last season's fishing t in the Gulf Stream near Southport for large game j fish. If the Fisherman's Fro- j lie or Rodeo which you are ? planning to put on next May is a success "it should put South port on the map as headquarters for big game t fishing, as a mid-way point e (Continued on page e ) ME 1 News paper Ir Southport, N. C., \ January Term Of Civil Court Begins Monday Jude E. H. Cranmer, Who Traded Terms With Judge N. A. Sinclair, Will Preside Over Regular Term FEW IMPORTANT CASES SCHEDULED Headlining The Court Calendar Are Six Divorce Actions Scheduled For Trial During Term Next Week The January term of Brunswick county Superior court for the trial of civil cases will convene here Monday, with Judge E. H. Cranmer as presiding jurist. Judge Cranmer traded terms with Judge N. A. Sinclair, of Fayetteville, who was scheduled . to hold this term of court here. No cases of unusual import- I ince are scheduled for trial, but the calendar for the term is headlined by six divorce cases. The complete court calendar is printed elsewhere in this issue. , Russ Completes Special Course i C. C. Russ, Elected Last < Fall To Succeed Frank l M. Sasser As Welfare ' Officer, Is Back On Duty j C. C. Russ, elected last fall to ' succeed Frank M. Sasser as ' Brunswick county superintendent < ){ public welfare, has completed i special training course at the ' University of North Carolina and j1 s back in Southport to assume 1 ictive control of the local wel- ' fare organization. Mr. Russ was in school during 1 the past quarter taking a speci- j' il course in the administration of,1 the various features of the Social ' Security program. 11 Mr. Russ has moved his fami- I y to Southport, and they are I living in the Lottie Mac Newton i | ionic on Bowery Hill. America Looking For Jap Faith Washington Officials Regard Panay Incident As Closed Satisfactorily i Washington, Dec. 26?The , United States government looked c o Japan today to make good its s vritten guarantee that hereafter , Japanese military expeditions vould observe the inviolability of American life and property in the c "hina war zone. i Barring some new "incident", j t was believed generally that f Secretary Hull's note of last night j ,o the Japanese foreign minister s .crniinated the international affair ( vhich grew out of the bombing of lie gun-boat Panay. t Hull told Minister Koki Hirota i :hat the United States regarded j :hc Japanese guarantee as "re- 1 sponsivc" to American demands. ] Senator Borah (R-Idaho), vet:ran member of the Senate for- c sign relations committee, said to- t lay: i "This would seem to close the c neident?depending, of course, on c vhether these assurances have ice 11 made in good faith." r Officials were prepared to wat- a :h future events carefully to see i vhether actions of the Japanese d nilitary squared with the lan- t ;uagc of the Japanese diplomats, i It was noted that Hull's mes- s sage concluded with expressions if "earnest hope" that steps taken v ly Japan would prove effective v .oward preventing "unlawful in- c .crfcrencc" with American or I Ymerican interests. c SMALL BOY DIES [ YLAR OLD DOCK t t \lhert Franklin Marlowe, 8, Died At The Home Of His Parents 1 On Friday 1 c Albert Franklin Marlowe, eight- ' 'ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. V. Marlowe, of Old Dock, died at j he \ home of his parents Friday ollowing a brief illness. The funeral services were held jaturday afternoon at three I'clock from the Shiloh Metliodist ' hurch, and were in charge of 11 he former pastor. Reverend C. S i. Phillips. Burial was made in ' he church cemetery. Pallbearers were: Wilbour v laynes, Lerah Simmons, Royston 1 iuggs, Hassie Haynes, Fred 1 iuggs, and Mose Etlieridge. " s TEACHERS AWAY n Practically all tlie members of 'I h6 Soutfaport school faculty s pent ths Christinas hohdays .way itorci here. . ii P0R1 i A Good Comi Vednesday, Decem APPOINTED EH9S1 i c c 1 k. ( ?1 JOE W. RUARK * t Ruark Receives I An Appointment* .?? i Joe W. Ruark, Of South- v port, Has Been Appoint- r ed To Social Security ? Board, And Is Attending Training School Joe W. Ruark, Judge of the ] 3runswick county Recorder's :ourt and prominent Southport awyer, has received an appointnent as special attorney for the Social Security board, and is in xaieign uus witk unending u [ iraining school designed to horoughly acquaint him with the lutics of his new office. It is understood that the work ;hat he will be engaged in will ie the adjustment of claim dislutes in connection with Social Security payments. Two districts, one with headquarters in .Vilmington and the other with leadquarters in Williamston, arc /acant. It is not known to which >f districts Mr. Ruark will be j issigned. Review Of Work j In 1937 Given Dairy Specialist At State College Makes Complete Review Of The Achievements Made In Past Year On the valuable pieces of work tarried on by Extension dairylien in 1937 was pasture developlicnt, John A. Arey, in charge of lairy extension at State College, laid in reviewing the past twelve f nonths. At the beginning of the year, ixtension dairy specialists, workng through county agents, planted 550 pasture demonstrations, i ncluding both temporary and per- I nanent pastures. These demonstrations were distributed thr(Ughout the State. Reports to date indicate uiai his number has not only been cached, but probably doubled, Yrey decarlcd. This project will >e continued and pushed through c .938. F In commenting on 4-H calf ' :lub work during 1937, Arey said c hat at the beginning of the year, * t was planned to have 935 calf t tub members. This goal was rea- 11 hed and passed. The 4-H calf show at the an- 0 lual State Fair was the largest n ind best in quality ever shown '' n the State, Arey said. In ad- S lition to this, 17 county and dis- r rict calf club shows were held n which extension dairymen as- o istcd. a Another important project in e rhich progress was made in 1937 c ras dairy herd improvement asso- si iation work, Arey pointed out. s1 luring the year, one new asso- . iation was formed, bringing the . State total to 9. There were more " lerds and 106 more cows on * est at the close of 1937 than at he beginning. This brought the otal cows on tests to 4795. Arey also said that dairy cxension specialists assisted in lacing 217 purebred animals whih will be used in developing purcired herds. 'liquify About N at ideal Visit o rs Recent inquiries from Miami, "la., directed to the Civic Club, ndicate that they now have the ;reatest fleet of pleasure craft hat has been assembled in the lay of Biscayne. The inquiries .ere to ascertain how many of he craft had stopped there this all. It was assumed that a great lany that had passed here were till somewhere down the coast, ot yet having, reached Florida, 'wo sizable boats, bound South, pent the whole . of Christmas .ere and others are still coming i daily. r PiL munity iber 29th, 1937 publish E.R. Weeks Wil Over Du *designs As Member Of Board Of Aldermen To Assume Position As Tax Collector For City Of Southport 1. E. CARR IS THE RETIRING OFFICER -Ie Has Bought The Hornsby Insurance Agency And Will Manage It In Addition To Building And Loan E. R. Weeks, who recently was ilected to replace J. E. Carr as :ity tax collector, will take over he duties of that office Saturlay. Mr. Weeks will resign as l member of the local board of ildermen, which for three years ie has served as Clerk. Mr. Carr tendered his resignaion as tax collector to the board ast month with the announcenent that after the first of the rear he was going into private lusiness. He has purchased the B. M. _ lornsby Insurance Agency, and vill assume its active manage- ^ nent. Mr. Carr says that he tv ilans to move the insurance of- er ice into the same building with er Many Persons C In Decon T BOY INJURED BY BIG FIRECRACKER . Sam Robhins, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Roll- Q bins, of Washington, was painfully but not seriously injured Friday when he attempted to ? stop the explosion of a large firecracker he had unintentionally igniter). The lad was playing with his sister, Alma, and his first cousin, Eloise St. George. The two little girls got in an auto- j ' mobile and locked the door. ^ When they wouldn't open the a| door the boy put a firecracker jn in the door handle and threatened to blow it open. Carry- el ing his joke still further Sam made two or three apparent attempts to light the fuse. The 0, last time he came too close, n( and the fuse ignited. Realizing the danger for the girls, he jj, rushed up and grabbed the ex- yj plosive to tear it off the car, and as he did so it went off. R Four stitches were required to ^ close a gash he" received on za his face. ar Sritish Vessel To Pass Through - iVl -I. M. S. Apollo, 7,000-Ton Pl Cruiser, Will Visit Port u Of Wilmington On January 13, And Will Pass Through Here H. M. S. Apollo, 7,000-ton light IC ruiser of the British navy, will j ay a courtesy call at the port of Vilmintgon on January 13, the ity commissioners were advised xi londay in a letter from Cap- w ain M. C. DeMcrric, command- pl rig officer. lii While the time of her arrival J nc ff the Cape Fear river bar has j of ot yet been reported, the visit- | br rig vessel will pass through to louthport on her way up the | al iver. ' be The Apollo, with a complement ge f 550 officers and men, is one of j group of eight new light cruis-, th rs completed by the British gov-1 ge rnment in 1935. Like her sister j ga hips, she is armed with eight i fo ix-inch guns. |fr< Southport Postc Very Busy Pla From the viewpoint of observers, Southport never has had as great a volume of Christmas mail as passed through the office last week and the week preceding. The volume of Christmas cards was especially heavy. There were no regular hours for putting mail in boxes. Long after the incoming mail had been received and letters and newspapers had been placed in their boxes the postoffice force worked tirelessly at handling the great stacks of Christmas cards to patrons at the windows, or distributing them in hoxes. It was an eleven or twelve hour stretch of continuous distribution. during which the faithful workers hardly had i time off for meals. The local office had no extra, help. This .probably ac >? ,0T IED EVERY WEDNESDAY iTfake^ ities With City f' ^ I " u i ki ki r< r? P /X r* avt wiiNmtK^ ur DECORATING CONTEST rettiest Living Tree Is In H. W. Hood Yard; Mrs. C. G. Ruark Has Prettiest Porch Tree In City Never before in the history of j TTiflVprnT rtin 'the citizens "coopeii-1 ;e so wholeheartedly in decorat- ] g for Christmas, and a tour of le town made Monday night was' lough to convince an observer iat the judges for the annual I roman's Club contest had a job ' 1 their hands to decide the win- j :rs for this year. Prize for the best decorated ,-ing Christmas tree went to j rs. H. W. Hood: for the pret- J est porch tree to Mrs. C. G. | uark: and for the most effecve house decoration to Miss Eliibeth Taylor. From the following list of trees id decorations that were still ;hted Monday night it is posble to get a fair idea of the anner in which Southport citi-1 ins joined in the lighting pro-1 am: The following had living trees: | rs. H. W. Hood, Miss Margaret! arkhill, the Mollychecks, Mrs. R. Davis. Mrs. Harold St. George, rs. E. M. Hall, Willie Cooker, iss Vera Swain, Mrs. W. G. (Continued from page 4) 'aptain Bowmer Makes Good Haul Not having any crew last nursday, Captain H. T. Bowmer ent out shrimping alone. He irchascd $4.00 worth of gasole before starting. One drag tted him a pretty good catch shrimp and another that was ought up soon afterwards was o heavy for him to get aboard one. He towed his net to the :ach and finally managed to it the catch aboard. It sold for $56.95. Deducting e $4.00 that he had paid for is and still having much of this is in his tank, he netted $52.95 i r the four hours he was absent | om port. office Was ce Last Week counted for the fact that j very few, if any, errors occurred in the way of wrong mail being placed in boxes. At the same time, the hand- J ling of the record breaking j volume of business so efficiently speaks volumes for every worker in the office. Uncle Jim, the janitor and general factrum. worked tirelessly cancelling the many thousands of pieces of outgoing mail, placing them in their proper packages and bags. starting everything right on its journey to a waiting recipient at some other harried post office. When the mail came in he was right there with the opening of all bags, placing everything on the distributing ( table and expediting the work ci the other employees. (Continued on Page four) 1,1' " ^ ' J i?, I ' I 3 The Pilot Covers ji Brunswick County ii J k] $1.50 PER YEAR Intangible Tax To Greet Payers At First Of Year ? i Income Tax Blanks To Be Accompanied By Abstra- || cts For Intangibles, Re- I venue Department Discloses DEPARTMENT MAKING SOME NEW VENTURES Classification Of Property By State Inaugurated With ..Taking Over Of Intangible P r i v a te Property Taxation ?1 Raleigh, Dec. 26?North Carolina will have a surprise when they receive their income tax blanks in January?an abstract v for listing intangible property, being taxed for the first time by | the state. The abstracts will mean a new job for the state department of revenue that of bringing into taxable light all intangibles in the state and collecting the vary- I ing levies on each class. Like the income tax, the levies I on intangibles will be due by ] March 15. Taxation of intangibles is one phase of the state's latest taxation experiment. Another phase is the classification of property for ) taxation. For the state tax, in- ji tangibles have been divided into seven classifications, each with a ?l different tax rate and a different it manner of collection. After December 31, the counties , A in the state no longer will be )| allowed to tax intangibles. All returns will be made, to the state, which intends, however, to share its collections with the counties and cities. Half of the estimated revenue of $2,000,000 a year from taxa- i> tion of intangibles will be divided ' among the counties according to i; collections from each of them. In i 1 turn, the county's allotment will , !' be divided among cities and towns according to population. i For the elucidation of puzzled lax tx vers, tlie^ revenue dem^U , Tnefic h:uf ~ "prepared ,, J booklet listing rules and regula- 3' tjons governing the administration arid application of the state's intangible personal property taxes. Urge Estimates On All Timbers ; R. W. Gracber, Extension Forester, Says Accurate Estimate Of The Number t Of Cords Of Pulpwood 1 Cut ,U. Of. Value. An accurate estimate of the 1 number of cords of pulpwood ' j stumpage which can be cut_Xrom .'J an area may save considerably . 1 more""than the cost of the estl? I mate, says R. W. Greaber, exten- ' sion forester at State College. j I While it is generally advisable Ml to sell pulpwood on the basis ( of the number of cords actually cut, Greaber says that in some . Jfl cases it may be necessay to make III advance estimates of production. gjjH The State College forester itil quotes the Forest Service of the sHB U. S. Department of Agriculture ' [ill as saying that an estimate or ij^B cruise should be made by a compctcnt estimator on any tract of jj H more than 80 acres if there is a I good stand of timber about ten I cords or more per acre. I On a small tract, the estimating ,|J ijfl can be done at the same time f I the trees arc marked. With a'| [jjB small brush and a can of white I; '.|B paint, each tree to be cut can' ngH (Continued on page four) ( H Tide Tablej I Following is the tide table' B for Southport during the next H week. These hours are approxlraately correct and were fur- fl nished The State Fort Pilot JB through the courtesy of the | B Cape Fear Pilot's Association. | '.JB High Tide low Tldo 1* ' fl TIDE TABLE fl Thursday, December 28 |fB 12:38 a. in. 6:38 a. m. SB 12:50 p. m. 7:10 p. ni. Ufl Friday, December 24 fl 1:31: a. in. 7:43 a. m. S^B 1:45 p. m. 8:10 p. m. [fl Saturday, December 25 , 2:25 a. m. 8:48 a. 111/ tlfl 7:41 p. 9:08 p. m.' |l Sunday, December 28 : ffl 3:20 a. m. 9:47 a. m.? flB 3:41 p. m. 10:02 p. m.\'?kfl Monday, December 27 jfl 4:17 a. m. 10:40 a. m. jB 1:43 p. m. 10:50 p. m. ' BjB Tuesday, December 28 |B 5:12 a.m. 11:30 a.m. j I JB 5:19 p. m. 11:88 p. m. jifl Wednesday, December 29 6:00 a. m. gljH 3:26 p. ai. 12:16 p. m. Bfl I. 'ifvnit - 'nrr i If|