North Carolina Newspapers

Most 01 I lie New ><* A\ll The Time M ELEVEN NO. *troyer Will jEss Southport SThis Saturday i^S. Destroyer Anderso lr^Hjll Go Up River Fc A;l to Wilmington Ove ?M Coming Week-End PILOT TO kV CARRY HER U "MlVas Named In Hone . Wilmington Man, The 'S^lond North CarolinTo Bo So Honorvaw Department is sent newest and first stroan TT^BjfStroyi !. the U. S. S. Ai to Wilmington this wee ?cour.esy to the people < Carolina and to honor th ^Ky of the Capo Fear sei distinguished son, tt rural Edwin Ale\and< for whom the ship wa Anderson will reach YVi Wv the afternoon of Satui " jaly loth, and will remai *^Hrt until noon Tuesday. Jul a?^B I: will ho berthed at th -rt wharf In front t :i house. Visiting hoe < jV. July 16th froi II. to 5 00 p m.: Moi I n 9:00 a. n I ind from l :oo ] I I. . . that the I". S. S I. s the netond ship e I-.--. in memory of I the first b< [ : glev" for Ensig I it is fitting: tha - s memor | v sn honored. |- i ersot was born i | . : listinguished ar I lent vol Lilllng iBatt M ire's < Yeel I:-: tercd the Naval Aca< I 1STS gt i. lated in i?: i tenant on the I lib iring the ear] I:! the war with Spain, 189! I the ship's boat I submarine cable of Ihp Cuba, in face of dircc | shore. H I numbers i I Kt of Congress fo I roism" on thi I 1 "ii page l) He Bits Of Big News ? Event* Of State, Hon and World-Wide itereat During Psfst ^mbliilptr ^Bsder.t Roosevelt disclose* Hay that he did not expec A' McNutt to be an activ ^fcte for the Democrat! Hfcr.tial nomination while di ' Federal Securit; ^ atration. The Presiden ^HMcNuu's nomination to th' at noon and a few hour raid at a press conference think McNut be found running as J Hteitial candidate any mon l.i other individ ^H*bo might be named easil> cf those individuals, h la't m the cabinet. Then, ii tone which indicate' s negative answer was obvi ^ v' Hoosfvelt asked whcthe H "We pushing their candi B' Some nf their friends ma; so he added. McNutt, < Hr Governor of Indiana, wil H charge of a new Federa which will direct variou Hr' activities. The Senate fin committee approved hi cation speedily. J Strike fcieral government, send ^V-men into an investigatioi disorders which led t' H^ath of a policeman at Min H-"' Minn , indicated Tues '-hat it would invoke pena ,^?sens of the new relief ac W'PA strikers attemptm, j^P'rce or threats to preven '*ork relief employes fror '? on the job. Meanwhile i m Congress to alte set provisions which re jH"' )!> the strike failed to en ^ "ic support of Presiden He said he thought th ^' ration would stick to th H^-cnt that WPA employe F'ork 130 hours a month t "security pay". Thi "tat many employes mus *ote hours to make th H as heretofore. ! THE 24 ???????????? Missior. 1. GROWTH?The above pi r- Marshall spoke to a crowd of n ehurchboat. Josephine Marsh; y was formally dedicated Frida 10 1 >f i -1 ;; Highway Crew I Now Working Out Of Town ,f T a ?? ' The foundation for widening the t highway through the business district of Southport was completed by the workers before they ceased n operations Saturday afternoon and F widening of the road as far out I _; as the Sawdust Trail probably | will be completed by tomorrow. D V Preliminary operations already | , are underway to permit speedy j' headway when the crew goes to " work surfacing the road from the ^ Sawdust Trail toward the Bell | s Swamp intersection. This work C( f will extend to about 10 miles A; t from town. th e When the out-of-town work is i in ni completed the sand-asphalt crew, G r which is working under the direc- F< * tion of W. R McAuley, will pc j come back here to lay a smooth,; ye two-inch top coat on the founda- til tion that had been set up for the co : increase in road width. It is estimated that these jobs ^ 'will require the greater part of . ' this month for completion. at ? ill Long Session Z For Recorder ar Charges Against Two De- vi fendants Required Great- in or Part Of The Day In C niirt Here Monday . " nc i ^ A long session of Recorder's e court was necessary Monday to ti( ? dispose of the cases that were | c: i nc up for trial. - is y Sam Watts. Jr.. white, pleaded -p! t guilty to charges of public drunk- w, e enness. His sentence of 30 days ex s on the roads was suspended upon I ye p payment of 10.00 and upon I condition that he remain of good U behavior. I I Ben Wilson, white, pleaded guilty to charges of reckless opera- j tion. He was fined $25.00 and cost, $10.00 of the fine being yy remitted. He was found guilty of j I drunk driving and appealed from j i the sentence of $50.00 fine, the J costs and revocation of his j I license. " J. O. McManus, white, was ra ' found guilty of drunk driving. 'sl * Judgment was suspended upon I payment of a fine of $50.00 and I ^ ! costs. He was found guilty of Sp s, larceny and was given 30 days, jl this judgment being suspended up- J s; on payment of $10.00 and costs.' gr j On a third ' charge he was con-1 ! victed of carrying concealed wea- Jte > pons and was given 30 days on 1 the roads, this judgment being su-1 e ' | spended upon payment of a fine ^ 1 j of $25.00 and costs. The defend- {j( 0 j ant appealed from all these judg- g. ment3 and bond for his appear- di " ance in Superior court was set at re< 1 $250.00. j be t S. Waddell. colored, was found j Pl S guilty of refusing to have his dog 1 fr t innoculated. Sentence of 30 days j o on the roads was suspended upon , t a payment of a fine of $10.00 and ^ r the costs. He appealed. if0 Jesse Goodwin, colored, was i in - found guilty of reckless operation | A t and was given 60 days. Judgment ra e was suspended upon paj'ment of re e $25.00 and costs. ca s Troy Long, white, was found t> not guilty of drunk driving. He i ^ s also was acquitted on a charge j y, t of assault. | "j e Morton Holder.. white, plead i C: (Continued on page i) de STJ A Good 4-PAGES TODAY iary Work Gets 1 ^KJ JT fryMTfr ' . H cture was taken last fall at people who had gathered t ill. As a result of his missii y night. Disbarment Pr Against G.' rial Committee Of Council I Of State Bar Association i*/-. i- ci rk~ 1 ? cio in ijvooiun IICIC VII | Monday To Hear Charg- j es Against Him ORMERLY WAS LAWYER HERE uring The Period He Practiced In Southport He Served As County Court Prosecutor The trial committee of the I wncil of the N. C. State Bar j ssociation met here Monday for i c purpose of hearing evidence | disbarment proceedings against I L. Fesperman of Salisbury, j .\sperman once resided in South-1 >rt for a period of about three lars and during part of that me he was solicitor of the Re-' irder's court. In messages to the committee, | \sperman alieged that it was |j lpossible for him to be present I [ the hearing, claiming he was | . He failed to furnish a doctor's j rtificate supporting his claims j illness and the hearing pro- j eded without him. 'c Attorney J. Laurence Jones sat i trial officer at the hearing id John D. Warlick of Jacksonlle and Don A. Walser of Lexgton sat with him. The proseition was conducted by David Cannon of Raleigh. Mr. Can- p in is secretary and prosecut-! jg attorney for the bar associa-1 >n. mi -? if fV?A Vino ninrr V ilie irsun ui uic it be announced until a report made to the bar association, j, le charges against Fesperman c ere many and varied and they ? tend over a long period of j j ars- j A oung Peopled Meeting Planned s ri 11 Be Held At Bolivia Baptist Church; Interest-, ing Program Planned For Occasion Ip An associational young people's p lly will be held at Bolivia Bapt- v i church Sunday afternoon, July j I, at 3 o'clock. Principal speak- n on the program will be Miss ^ ary Currin of Raleigh who will s ,eak on "The Message Must Go h irough." p Following is the completed pro- . am: Theme: Youth Commissioned to 1 11"; hymn. "We've A Story To j J ill"; devotional, Raymond Gil- j rt; welcome, Bolivia G. A.: reonse, Doris Lancaster; all toither telling the story, recogni- j jn of churches, pastors, W. M. , presidents. Young People's j erctors, roll call of auxiliaries, j cognize all Auxiliaries. There will ( a one minute report by Young sople's director or someone else om each church: "Telling the cry in 1938"; report by Young j :ople's leader: Learning the j ory through "World Comrades", r a G. A.; recognition service I r all G. A.'s who have advanced ! the "Forward Steps" and R., ,'s who have advanced in the J .nks: "A Story Worth Telling";! port of G. A. house party; R, A. I imp. Y. W. A. camp; special usic, Bolivia G. A.'s; "The Mes- J :ge Must go Through", Miss ary Currin, Raleigh, State: oung People's Leader: playlet, ( i. Dream and a Vision", Mill reek Y. W. A.'s; hymn, closing svotions. VTE I News paper Ii Southport, N. C., Wi Results Calabash while Rev. A. H.j o hear him preach from his i 3nary efforts a new church j oceedings V. Fesperman Dredging Begins In The Waterway A dredge belonging to the Hill Dredging Co. arrived here Tuesday morning and after watering U|>, proceeded To Measure wnere u win inKin work, coming hark this way with thr project of deepening thr rhaiinrl of the inland waterway to 12-feet and making thr canal 100frrt wide on thr bottom. This was a pipe line dredge and was thr second within the past week to proceed J southward through thr waterway for thr purpose of deepening thr rhannrl. It was not learned where the other outfit will begin operations. Wrs. Barnhill Buried Monday louthport Lady Laid To Rest Monday Afternoon Following Her Death In Hospital Sunday Morning I! Mrs. .T. M. Barnhill of South; I iort died Sunday morning at tosher Memorial Hospital where 11 he had been a patient for several | reeks. In addition to her husband she . ; survived by five children, Fred- j ?: ?i- " ?T tv.c Uomhill Tr F/lna nuft mm j. ju. uuiiumu, ? , iarnhill, Mrs. E. F. Gore and Mrs. . D. Ganey. One brother, J. T. 1 [ leadows, of Wilmington, also sur Ives. The funeral services were con-1 uctcd at Southport Baptist, j (Continued on page 4) j Might Stroke Hits M. B. Wat kins I1 Friends of M. B. Watkins will 11 egret to learn that he is a ' atient at Dosher Memorial Hos- i ital following a slight stroke ,'hich he suffered Friday. i While his condition is by no j leans critical, complete rest has I' ecn ordered by his doctor for |' everal weeks and it is likely that j: e will go to the Veterans Hos-1 lital in Columbia, S. C. Mew Church Is At Calabas Coming as the first clim- i actic step in the efforts of Rev. A. H. Marshall to improve the church facilities j along the coast of North Car- j olina, St. Andrews-Brunswick, j was formally dedicated with an impressive service Friday night. Taking part in the service were Bishop Thomas C. Darst and the Rev. Walter R Noe, in addition to Mr. Marsha!!. This new church is located at Calabash, one of the points at which Mr. Marshall has been holding open air sendees for many months. Resident* of that community gave as well as they were able of their time and means for the erection of this simple, but - I . POR' i A Good Coir ednesday, July 12, 193' Bids Received For Surfacing Highway No. 130 Highway And Public Works Commission Received Bids Tuesday For Surfacing And Structures Of Highway No. 130 WILL COMPLETE PAVING OF ROAD If These Bids Are Accepted This Will Bring To An End Worry Over Important Road The Highway and Public Works Commission opened bids Tuesday on 22 projects which will provide surfacing and improvements for 95.1 miles of roads in North Caorlina, and included was a 10.07-mile stretch of highway No. 130 from just west of Shallotte to Ash. Low bid for grading and surfacing on this job was submitted by W. L. Cobb Construction Co.. of Decatur, Ga., who named the sum of $101,097. Low bid for structures on this same project was submitted by Bowers Construction Company of Whiteville, whose figure was $21,781.80. If these bids are accepted by the highway body then the last link of the Shallotte-wnueviue highway will have been let. First of these lettings was about 5 year ago. when two stretches of approximately 5 miles each were let from the Whitevillc end. Three years later came the work from the Shallotte end, followed last year by another letting on the Whiteville end, carrying the road to Old Dock. During the winter there was another contract let to carry the road across the Columbus county line about 1 mile into Brunswick. The present letting would carry the road from the end of that project to a connection with the road where it left off near Shallotte. ' I Roseboro Men Like Southport Party From Sampson Coun-j ty Town Had Profitable; Trip To Gulf Stream Waters On Sunday Dr. John T. Denny and other Roseboro and Fayctteville sportsmen became enthuasistic boosters of the Gulf Stream fishing at Southport this week. Although they had to quit fishing at 9:30! o'clock and return to port owing to a very severe case of sea- j sickness on the part of one of the members of the party they I made a very fine catch. Dr. Denny declared that Southport offered the best fishing he had seen anywhere. He did not even make an exception of Florida. in the waters of which state he has often fished. He declared without reservation that it was a pity there are not more North Carolina sportsmen and sportsmen i from other states who are ac- j quainted with what the Gulf Stream off Southport has to offer in the way of big game fishing. His companions on the short trip were S. C. Rankin and G. A. I Shaw of Fayetteville; A. F. Har-j ris, J. H. Harris and J C. Butler jf Roseboro. Among the dolphin taken was a beautiful 20-pound specimen. It was caught by J. H. Harris. A large arctic bonita ivas another interesting catch, i Two big amberjacks and ten barracuda, each weighing from ten to twenty pounds, gave the sports(Continued on page 4) Dedicated h Friday Night sturdy little chapel. Church services will be held at this new charge twice each month, according to the tentative schedule proposed by the Rev. Mr. Marshall. A Sunday school will' be organized immediately, he says, and the church will also serve as a sort of community center and a place where periodic health clinics may be held. With this building completed and eddicated, work for Mr. Marshall now turns to other fields, this time to Tar Landing, above Wilmington, where four years ago he held the first of his services from the churchboat that has since become nationally famous. ? _ 79 OT [ IED EVERY WEDNESDAY. ; Laws For Are Changed >e Were In Morehead City :eting Of State ConBody ummer meeting. When the local ituation was explained Monday o the board by Wells there was suggestion that the closed water e limited to one mile on each ide of each inlet. Wells objected o this, and the logic of his posi- j ion apparently was understood y the men making up the Board: f Conservation and Development. Wells then explained that the ets commonly used for shrimp rawling are 1-inch mesh, butj bat when fished they shrink to 's of an inch. To enforce the ule requiring nets to be 1-inch rhen fished would necessitate the, urchase of all new equipment, nd members of the board decided :> leave the net business as it is. Wells made one other suggesion pertaining to shrimping, but id not force the point in an ffort to have it enacted into I iw. He told members of the1 oard that eventually he believed j lerc must be a law making com-; lercial shrimping in inland! raters illegal. He said that this ould not be designed to inter;re with local fishermen who ike shrimp for bait inside. at Pays Harbor Here 1 remendous Navy Seaplane i r piL imunity 9 PUBLISH The Shrimping Brunswick W. S. Wells And L. J. Hard< Monday To Attend Me servation Two important changes were s made in the laws governing s shrimping in the state by mem- t I bers of the State Board of Con- a j servation and Development in ses- h sion the first of this week in 8 ! Morehead City. b Scuthport was represented at t meeting by W. S. Wells and L.! b J. Hardee, local shrimp buyers,; o who pressed for changes made in i the shrimping laws during the n winter meeting held in Raleigh in ti January. tl One of these laws would make '' it unlawful to trawl for shrimp i1 within 3 miles of any inlet; the w second was a rule setting the size p of the net mesh at 1-inch when a fished. ti Protest against the first of these rules resulted because it; ti would virtually wipe out all avail-1 d able shrimping ground from e | Southport to Little River. In that if I area there are 7 inlets, and with bi i six miles of closed water at each tl one the forbidden area would n overlap. Shrimping has been per- w mitted in this territory for the w first part of the year pending ft the action of the board at the t; Huge Flying Bi Visit To Marlin TnL..? IJ Near Southport Add to Southport'3 tropical fish j j stories the fact that an honest-to- C I goodness blue marlin was left on 1 the desk of the Southport Civic! Club yesterday afternoon. The V fish was small, but was freshly l caught. 3cing out of his office [ I when the fish was taken there, j the club secretary had not been able to ascertain who caught the fish and brought it to his office. | ei Plenty of marlin have been re- j f, ported as sighted on Frying Pan, ^ but thus far nobody has caught one, or even fished for them. This C specimen aparently would indi- h catc that there are plenty of J tc large ones waiting for the angl- J ty ers. ' c Need Water To ^ m Operate Plant Men Here Prospecting For Possible Factory Site But hi Fresh Water Problem m Confronts Them Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bell of J*1 b( Raleigh are spending this week | y, here, Mr. Bell coming on business. i0 He is assistant industrial cngin- be eer of the State Department of ? Commerce. Representatives of j large New York and Delaware in- ^ terests are also here with Mr. j w Bell. Today and for the next sev- be eral days an exhaustive search j will be made of the territory in j o' a radius of 20 miles of Southport,, n< the objective being to find a huge j ar volumne of fresh water. | ec It is understood that for the [ required purpose something in the! I neighborhood of fifty million gal- J Ions of water will be required j daily. This is a rather large order, j In fact it is about seven times as j much water as is used daily by j the city of Raleigh. H. B. Smith of the Brunswick j Port Commission and W. B. r Keziah of the Civic Club are assisting in the search for water. he H o m eco m i ng D ay m At New Hope\l? The New Hope Presbyterian1E Church. Winnabow. will celebrate Jc its 45th Sunday School anniver- la sary and home coming, Sunday. w July 23rd. JExercises begin at 11 a. m. B< There will be a picnic dinner at W 1 o'clock, reminiscence of the past in the afternoon, the speaker j L< for the occasion will be Dr. Bed- M inger of Flora McDonald College, j bi Rev. J. R. Potts, pastor of the! of church will have charge of the | W devotional. se All past membess and attendants of the church are especially j be invited to attend. Come and let's i at er.joy an old time gathering. |fo Landed Tuesday Morning And Spent Several Hours Before Taking Off For Norfolk FFICERS WERE INTERESTED HERE /ere Looking For Site From Which To Conduct Bombing Operations; May Return Later Yesterday a huge Sirosky fourngine flying boat came down om Norfolk and spent several ours here. It was in charge of ommander Griffin and carried 'n officers and men in addition; > the commander. Interviewed ^ y a representative of The Pilot, ommander Griffin was naturally I uarded with respect to divulgig naval plans. He, however, ad- j litted that the visit was made ! ith the object of making a sur;y for the Navy. He also said i expected to return soon with is ship and that there would ;ore than likely be others. From the conversation of offices with local citizens while the j >at was here it was learned that le purpose of the trip was to cate a suitable site for holding jmbing practice for navy planes, f particular interest to Comander Griffith was the amount 1 available anchorage space and le availability of a target ground f here bombing operations might ' : engaged in. The ship landed about 10 l clock, and it was shortly after ! >on when she headed up river | id took off into the wind, head- , 1 for Norfolk, Va. i oseph Wesley Beck Passes ied Monday Morning At His Home At Winnabow Following An Extended Illness Joseph Wesley Beck died at his < >me near Winnabow Monday orning at 4:50 o'clock after a J ng illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. thel Lucille Beck; two sons, iseph Vanderbilt Beck, of Oak-1 nd, Calif., and Marland Beck, of; innabow; three daughters, Mrs.! W. Sullivan, Miss Ida Mae, ?ck and Miss Marguery Beck, of | 'innabow. Also three sisters, Mrs. Lennie swis, Mrs. Rowena Lewis and rs. L. Lewis, of Bolivia; three others, Alex and George Beck. Bolivia, and Albert Beck, of 'innabow; four grandchildren and veral nieces and nephews. Funeral services probably will s held tomorrow pending the rival of relatives from Cali- i mia. |' The Pilot Covers ^ Brunswick County .50 PER YEAR ?J Believes Tobacco Crop 25 Per Cent Larger Than 1938 Weeks Says That Percentage Of Increase Will Run Considerably Higher In Some Counties TOBACCO IN COUNTY RIPENING TOO FAST Much Of Surplus Over Last Year Will Be Lost Because The Crop Ripening Too Rapidly North Carolina's 1939 flue-cur- Iff ed tobacco crop unhampered by federal restrictions, is moving rapidly from field to curing barn, if Lloyd T. Weeks, tobacco special-, ist of the State College Extension service said today. ! On a basis of observations over most of the producing areas, 1 Weeks estimated that this year's leaf acreage has been increased at least 20 per cent or better over that of last year. In some ? counties the percentage has run considerably higher, particularly in the Border belt, while in other counties, notably in the Old belt, ., the acreage has not varied much from that of 1938. Curing began nearly a month ago in some communities, and i( has speeded up steadily since ff then. Now, most farmers in eastern North Carolina are putting ' their tobacco in the barns. r i Good weather conditions have ; prevailed generally over most of the flue-cured belts, although in some sections either too wet or 1 J-" 'noIKni. bua initit'aH IW VII y V> cauivi iiaa uijutvu ?..V | crop. There has been hail in some spots. Insects and disease attacks are about normal this year. Weeks has found with no outstanding j outbreaks being reported from any belt. Damage in most in- g stances has beeh local. Wilt has li appeared in a number of fields, and conditions for this disease Jf have been unusually favorable. Yields apparently will be average, the tobacco specialist said. C Last year eastern North Carolina grnwerr produced in average of jfl 875 pounds of leaf to the acre, and the average this year will 1 probably be about t'lc same. Weeks also declared that the quality of this year's crop ap- 9 pears to be good. Legal Visitors I Enjoy Fishing I Prominent North Carolina 111 Lawyers Were Here For ?1 Week-End Prior To Offi- H cial Business Monday I Southport took on a bit of the I appearance of a convention of the I State Bar Association over the, ill week-end with half-dozen out- ! standing state lawyers coming In 91 Saturday for a bit of an outing prior to Monday when they had fl a matter due to come up for a hearing at the court house. The attorneys were Edward L. Cannon, Raleigh. Secretary of the bar association, J. Lawrence 1 Jones, Charlotte; Don A. Walser. P. R. Roper and D. L. Pickard of \ Lexington. They had a delightful {? time, fishing, bathing and relaxing from the dignity that is us- f ually considered a part of the i legal profession. Mr. Cannon, who s a son of Bishop James J. Cannon, was very much attracted to Southport, its natural charm and ; the friendliness of the citizens. He jeclared that he hoped to pur :hase property here some day. I Tide Table J Following Is the tide table I (or Sputhport during the mil I week. These hours are appro- I xlmately correct and were fur- ' j nished The State Port Piled I through the courtesy of ths I Cape Fear Pilot's Association. I High Tide Low TMi TIDE TABLE | Thursday, July 13 il 1:15 a. m. 10:20 a. in. 4:43 p. m. 11:18 p. m. Friday, July 14 5:17 a. m. 11:14 a. m. 5:38 p. m. , Saturday, July 15 6:13 a. m. 0:12 a. m. 6:39 p. m. 12:10 p. m. Sunday, July 16 7:01 a. m. 1:06 a. m. 7:16 p. m. 1:06 p. m. Monday, July 17 7:51 a. m. 1:57 a. m. 8:06 p. in. 2:00 p. m. Tuesday, July 18 8:41 a. m. 2:46 a. in. 8:56 p. m. 2:54 p. m. Wednesday, July 19 9:34 a. m. 8:32 a. m. 9:48 p. m. 8:44 p. m. j _ * .