Of The News
*M 4|l The Time
ELEVEN NO. 25
Mcers Added
M County Red
I Cross Chapter
H. c. Corlette Is Elec.M.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. P.
*Hr:fnsrn '* Earned SecM,v
And H M. ShanK
first Aid Chairman
Id INTEREST
fM IN WATER SAFETY
To Be Conducted
Junior And Senior
Ae Savers In South"H
port Beginning
,-w members wore added
officio I family of the
County Rod Cross
\\or..'iv while Miss KathI
Kvtis. field worker repreH.
the National Red Cross
'.vss hero on a visit.
H Corlette will serve
of the local group;
Hf p lorgetisen will serve
^H^v'ev and H M Shannon
us first aid chairman.
< chairman of the Brunschapter.
Cross activities
II. . high tor tsrunsI
is a result of1
J. , of a Water
I. iring the first
I August Charles A. Mix.
I Saving and First
I . be here and
I irse for Junior
I"
I;-.. c the coming pro- <
I v n ijr Miss Myers si res[
he course is
I ners in this
I she expressed the
I sectii'iis will ??
I puting 11 first aid
I consolidated
I the county during the
I-;- I underI"
; work has n<eived the
I "i educaI
i
Lusiemor first aid classes
i ichool.
m Bits
Of Big News j
lt*i Events Of State.
Iihou and World-Wide
Interest During Past
? . IP.
Mure Convict
iss Russell. Oklahoma bad
farted for four kidnapings
a murder, fell for a police
Tuesday and was captured
Kt a struggle. Posing as a
Pan. Sheriff Champ CrawI
iured th* gunman from a
T. cabin on lonely Mulberry
t 15 miles from here. "Don't
t or I'll kill you". Crawford
M. producing a gun.
15 not going to move," the
he said 1 know you have
1W. Crawford found a load-1 (
Wolver on a bed inside the
- Hussell had only $8.27.
" Of State
At increased enrollment of
Estate students is indicated <
Mvsr.ce applications at State I
despite higher tuition i
? which will go into effect in j1
*Bber for non-resident stu- [
8 registered in the three units1 ]
Greater University of 11
" Carolina. The percentage i
'of-State students at State i
l5st year, when enrollment i
the record-breaking total
T-55. was 17.6 per cent. All
* of advance applications at i
-' rar tV. l Mayer's office |
% revealed that approxi-|;
20 per cent of advance ap- L
r-"a thus far have been ,
students and prospective
s residing outside of North
tea. i (
. Carolina classroom tea- '
" r-5" expect salary increases
"I about $275,000 next term,
L ^5rren, secretary of the
r --'-cation association, said
following an all-day;
r f of the salary schedule
l of the school commis|
??**ver Warren, a memL
?e committee, said the j
[ pcide how to divide j
L= " ''- - '...dents, white tea[
5" "' ;;rofc3 the $269,000
<QWfcii?d on plgt 4) i
THI
River Surve
WACCAMAW RIVER?C
Washington reveals that a s1
flood control improvement 1
Waccamaw River, pictured a
Carolina.
Survey Of Wa<
/
Ordered From
Survey Ordered With View
Of Possible Future Improvements,
A Washington
Dispatch Reveals
FLOOD CONTROL WORK
ON RIVER SOUGHT
Just When The Survey
Work Might Be Started,
Was Not Known Here
Today, But Expected
Very Soon
Major General Julian L. Schley,
chief of army engineers. Saturday
directed that a survey of Wacca-t
maw river in North and South
Carolina be made with a view of
possible future improvements, a
Washington dispatch reveals.
Major Reed Wilkinson, district
engineer at Charleston, S. C. has
been ordered to make a field investigation
of the river in both
states.
I.oca! interests have requested i
that the river be cleared and | J
straightened so as to accelerate t
flood runoff, and that a channel j
be cut front a point on the river
near the North Carolina-South
Carolina line to the headwaters ^
of Little river, so as to divert:
flood waters into the Intracoastal j
highway.
This announcement should be of j
(Continued on page 4.)
Light Session ;
In f nnntv f nnrt r
'il VVUUIJ wv?. .
Only few Cases Disposed
Of Here In Recorder's '
Court Monday; Judg- .
merit Held Open In Sevcral
Matters
In Recorder's Court here Hon- v
lay Dorsey Malone, colored, was 1
found not guilty of aiding and J
abetting in the manufacture of 1
ivhiskey. 1
His brother, Joseph Malone, !
pleaded guilty to charges of
manufacturing and was given 8 j
months on the roads, this judg- .
ment being suspended upon pay- |
ment of a fine of $100 and costs. #
Willie Clemmons, white, was '
found guilty of assault but judgment
was witheld.
Stacy Jenkins, colored, pleaded
guilty to charges of drunken j'
driving and was given 6 months
on the roads. Judgment was
suspended upon payment of a
fine of S50.00 and costs, his driv- 1
ers license to be revoked for 12 1
months. ;
Nannie Clemmons, white, faced
charges of slandering an innocent <
woman. Judgment was witheld. <
Janie and Mae Clemmons, J
white, were tried on charges of
assault, judgment in their cases '
being continued.
Judgment was handed down m 1
the form of a compromise in the
case of Grover Hand, who was '
charged with non-support and as- (
sault. Under its provisions he >
will furnish his family with a
home and with necessary food
and clothing and will be permit- 1
(Continued on page 4) 1
st;
A Good
4-PAGES TODAY J
y Ordered |
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P
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)fficial announcement from
urvey with a possibility of
ias been ordered for the
ibove, in North and South
Si
s<
ccamaw River::
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Change Title Of {'
Presiding Elder y
_______________________ s
Rev. \V. A. Cade, Wllming- jv
Ion <lis(riet superintendent, 11
will be at Trinity Method- t
ist Church Sunday morning v
and will preach at the II s
o'clock hour. Afterwards he |t
will preside over the 3rd h
quarterly conference. c
Change in the title of Mr. v
Cade's office from presiding 1<
elder to district superinten- s
dent is a result of the uniting
conference and under the o
new set-up the district sup- |V
erintendent will he required I
to hold only the 1st and 1th jc
quarterly conference each [ c
year. One reason for this jc
plan is to permit him to de- ti
vote more time to cvangelis- g
tic work. is
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Shallotte Man p
Dies Suddenly |
frock Driver At Convict
Camp At Shallottc Was
Discovered Dead Under
Wheel As He Starts To ^
Work
George A. Register, 36, truck
Iriver for the State Highway
department at the prison camp)
lear Shallotte, died at the wheel
if his truck Monday morning. J -
Coroner jonn u. caison was <
ailed and pronounced the death! <
lue to natural causes, probably I f
in acute heart attack. From his i s
nvestigation he learned that Reg-1 r
ster had suffered an attack of t
vhat he had believed to be acute 1
ndigestion a fgw hours before. 1
Vpparently fully recovered, he j i
vent out to go to work, and j \
vas ready to start when the fatal j
stroke hit him.
When the truck was loaded, the; ,
-uards went to the cab and found j i
lim dead, sitting under the steer- j
ng wheel, it was reported.
Coroner John G. Caison after
in investigation ruled that he died
if natural causes, a heart attack.
(Continued on page 4)
Funeral Held
For Supply Lady
Mrs. W. L. Phelps died at her
iome near Supply Thursday folowing
an illness of more than a
,'ear.
The funeral services were in {
:sharge of the Rev. Mr. Brinson'
if Currie and Rev. P. T. Britt of !
Bladenboro.
Mrs. Phelps is survived by her
lusband, two sons, E. C. and L. J
D. Phelps, of Supply, two daught-'
;rs, Mrs. John Sing, and Mrs. H.
T. Sellers, of Supply, four broth-!
ers, O. B. Sellers, W. J. Sellers, j
G. R. Sellers, and E. E. Sellers, all:
if Supply, and four sisters, Mrs.
E. M. Parker, of Florence, S. C.,
Mil L. N. Clemmcns, Mrs. Berta,
C. Hewett and Mrs. L. H. Phelp3,!
ill of Supply. |
ITE 1
News paper In
Southport, N. CM Wedi
Ji-Annual Report |
)f County Nurse
s Made Monday
/Irs. Lou H. Smith Made
Report Of The Activities
Of Her Department During
First Six Months Of
Year
)NE DIPHTHERIA
CASE IS REPORTED
"here Were Other Encouraging
Features Of '
The Report Which
County Nurse Made
To Commissioners
Mrs. Lou H. Smith made her
eport Monday to members of
he Board of County Commissionrs
covering her activities during j
he first 6 months of this year.
Of particular interest was the
act that during this period there
as only 1 case of diphtheria reorted,
and not a single case of
yphoid fever. One case of scarit
fever was reported.
Following is the report as ;
lade by Mrs. Smith to the [
oard: j
Thirty-eight school visits, 1,000 ?
chool children inspected by nur- |
e; 060 homes visited; 7 visits .
lade to county home; 20 visits
lade to hospital; 27 conferences
,-ith doctors; 10 conferences with
ounty officials; 955 office con:
rences.
Ten days of typhoid clinics
eld; 5,000 people took typhoid
loculations, in office and couny;
217 babies took toxoid this
ear: 205 were vaccinated tor i
mallpox.
Four hundred seventy people
. ere examined in this office for,
lalaria; 170 malaria smears sent
o laboratory; 20 Waasermann's
. ere sent to laboratory: 12 other
pecimens were sent to la bora ory;
318 persons reported to1
arc malaria; 17 reports on venal
disease: five reports on I
. hooping: eought; 1 ease of scar- ,
ft fever reported; 1 case of
pinal meningitis reported.
One visit made to State Board
f Health for a conference; 5
isitors from State Board of |
lealth; 2 trips made to take j
hildren to eye specialist; 1 eye i
linic held in the county. 65 \
hildren examined; 1 T. B. clinic
icld in March. 160 persons were
;iven the examination; 3 preehool
clinics held; 7,500 miles !
Iriven during these six months;
case of diphtheria reported and '
io typhoid fever.
aood Catch Of \i
Big Fish Made
/isitors Here Front Lum-1
berton And Raleigh Have
Fine Luck Fishing For
Barracuda Sunday
A party from Raleigh and an-1
ither from Lumberton brought |
n seventeen bararcuda Sunday.11
rhe Luniberton folks apparently t
:arried off the honors for the
lay as they took eleven of the,
ish. The Raleigh folks got only j1
six barracuda. Both boats claim-11
;d the loss of a good many fish! I
hrough breaking away. A num-ji
jer of the Raleigh party said they: i
ost fifteen in that manner. A i
'air sized number of other fish 1
vere also taken, these being dol- t
ihin, bonita and blues. js
(Continued from page 4.)
If Water Is Wh
Then Their Pr<
The report of water re- I
source engineers, sent here
last week to make a preliminary
survey to determine if
a daily supply of fifty mil- |
lion gallons of water was
available, will be favorable
it has been learned. The re- I
port is being submitted this |
week and in addition to showing
the presence of the desired
quantity, it will show
the location as being less
than a third of the distance
in which it was expected to
be found. Orders were to cover
a 20-miles radius of a cer- j
tain point in search of water.
The discovery was made
scarcely seven miles from the I
point of need and by utilizing
certain headwaters only
about five miles of conduits 1
would be required.
The preliminary report will
be followed in a very short
>
P0R1
A Good Comi
lesday, July 19th, 1931
Destr
VISITOR?The U. S. D(
Saturday by Captain H. T. !
nloted by Captain Tom Sellc
"ear Pilots Association. The
spent three days in the up-ri
(Cut Courtesy Star-News.)
Homecoming At
New Hope Is
Planned Sunday
The 45th anniversary of
the founding of New Hope
Presbyterian church will be !>
observed Sunday when annual
homecoming day is observed.
Each year this is an event n
looked forward to by regular i
members and by scores of
friends and former members.
Rev. H. G. Bedinger, D. D?
president of Flora MacDonald
College, will preach at
11 o'clock. At noon there will 1
be a picnic lunch spread on
tables in the oak grove surrounding
the church.
In the afternoon comes the
session which each year
proves to be about the most j
enjoyable feature of the celebration.
Everyone gathers in
the church for an informal
period of speech-making, and
during this time varied and
humorous experiences arc
shared by those present.
\ir Port Plans
To Be Talked
iVilmington Man Will Be
Here One Day This Week
To Talk Over Possibility
Of Constructing Flying
Field
Meares Harriss, Jr., of the Penlineton
Flying Service, Wilming-1
.on, will meet with a committee J
>f Southport citizens sometime j
his week relative to the estab- j
ishment of an airport at South)ort.
He will present a plan lookng
to the establishment of a
ield here.
The meeting is being arranged
jy W. B. Keziah, secretary of
he Civic Club, to which organisation
Mr. Harriss wrote Satur(Continued
on page 4)
at They Need
jblem's Solved
time, it is understood, by a
corps of civil engineers who j
will make a thorough investi- j
gation and determine upon :
ways and means of placing
the water where it is desired.
The territory gone over last
week embraced both the
streams and watersheds of
Lockwoods Folly River, Town
Creek and Allen's Creek, j
Some surprising results were
found. Actual measurements
of the flow in all of the
streams were made and one
of them showed a flow of
forty-four million gallons daily.
Another stream that was
expected to show a great deal
gave a response of only about
five million gallons daily to
the instrument.
In one instance a location
was found where an expenditure
of only a few thousand
CContinued on page 4)
r piL
munity
} PUBL1SI
oyer Passes South
^ 'r#
' ' M /
' 'ft
g&i, .,
' ' * * * * ?t t <
;strover Anderson was pilot*
3t. Georjre and on her down
srs, both of whom are membi
Anderson, named in honor
ver port and was visited by
Negro Capturi
Escaping
?
James Hodges Grabbedi
Sheriff Dillon L Ganey's
Gun And Black Jack And
Made Escape Tuesday
WAS RECAPTURED
FOLLOWING CHASE
Negro Spent About A
Couple Hours In Swamp
Before Being Recaptured;
Bloodhounds
Used In Chase
James Hodges, negro was cap- j
tnrcd about 11 o'clock yesterday!
morning about two hours after he
had taken a gun and blackjack,
from Sheriff Dillon Ganey, ofj
Brunswick county, near Loland,
and escaped into a swamp.
Sheriff Ganey said he had arrested
the negro on a charge of
assault anil disorderly conduct
and was taking him to jail in
his car when Hodges suddenly
reached into the pocket on the;
automobile's dashboard, grabbed !
the officer's gun and blackjack [
and jumped from the car after a
tussle.
The negro was surrounded in a
swamp and captured about a mile
and a half from the scene of his
escape.
Bloodhounds from the New
Hanover prison camp were I
brought to the scene and placed j
on the negro's trail. Captain ]
Aiken, of the prison camp, said I
the dogs struck hi3 trail and enabled
the posse to locate Hodges
in the swamp.
The negro surrendered when he
discovered he was surrounded and
the gun and blackjack were recovered.
He is being held in the
Brunswick county jail at South- {
port and will be tried next Monday.
Sheriff Ganey said.
Sheriff Ganey escaped unhurt
in his tussle with the negro.
Southport Boys
Back From Camp
Johnie Simmons And Paul
Dosher Of Southport Attended
CMTC At Fortj
Bragg For Past Month
Johnie Simmons and Paul Dosher
of Southport were among the
6S8 young men of North and'
South Carolina who Friday com-!
pleted a 30-day voluntary period
of training in the 1939 Citizens'
Military Training Camp at Camp j
Sykes.
Under the command of Brigadier
General Wm. Bryden, U.
S. Army, in Command at Fort 1
Bragg, the trainees were given
instruction in field artillery, with
emphasis on the three-fold ob-|
iective of military preparedness,
good citizenship and body and
character building. A total of 93'
reserve officers from field artil-'
lery regiments of the south aided
in instructions during the camp
period.
The military phase of camp1
life gave the trainees actual ex-j
perier.ee in the- horse drawn field
(Continued or. page 4)
,0T
iED EVERY WEDNESDAY
port
jd up river to Wilmington
river trip Tuesday she was
ers of the Wilmington-Cape
of a Wilmington native,
thousands of civilians.?
ed After
From Sheriff
t
Alligator Found
* ?
In Local Garage
A new use for :t garage
was <lisenverr<l Sunday when
si three and one-half foot allgator
was found In the garage
at the Wm. T. Ottoway
home.
The Ottoway family had
gone to the beach for a
swim, and upon their return
the wayward reptile was discovered
in his strange quarters.
Even then, his new surroundings
were no stranger
than the treatment to which
he was speedily subjected as
lie was made prisoner and
hound, this formality being
attended to by Buster Northrop
and the Ottoway boys.
Since there is a limited use
for three and onc-lialf foot
gators, the sinimal was killed
the next day.
Sentelle Case
Is Continued
Case In Which Southport
Man Is Accused Of
Drunk Driving Will Be
Tried Monday, July 31
GASTONIA, July 17.?Case of
R. E. Sentelle, 63, of Southport,
former legislator and dry crusader,
arrested here recently on a
charge of drunken driving, was
continued again when called in
Gastonia Municipal Court today.
Sentelle was arrested here July
7 and later gave bond. In addition
to this case a case is now
pending against him in the Mecklenburg
County Superior Court at
Charlotte on a charge of violating
the liquor law as a result
of his arrest there last November.
City Solicitor O. F. Mason, Jr.,
explained the new continuance
was ordered because H. R. Prather,
Gastonia policeman who arrested
Sentelle, is at the beach
on his vacation and could not be
in court. The case was set for
hearing July 31.
Convicted of driving while
drunk in a trial in Montgomery
(Continued on page 4)
M. />. Wat kins In
Veterans Hospital
M. B. Watkins, assistant clerk
of court and prominent Brunswick
county citizen, was carried
to Columbia, S. C., Tuesday by
S. B. Frink and Chas. E. Gause
as a patient for the Veterans
Hospital.
Watkins has been a patient at
Dosher Memorial Hospital since
he suffered a slight stroke about
10 days ago. Although his condition
was said to be satisfactory,
it was thought better to remove
him to Columbia, since he must
remain in the hospital for some
time.
The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
'
I
$1.50 PER YEAR
Washington Men
Have Good Luck
At Gulf Stream
This Is About The Only
Newspaper Story Ever
Written With Frying Pan
Lightship Date Line On
U ____ 4
ARE ENTHUSIASTIC
OVER RESULTS
Member Of Party Is Having
Fish Frozen In A
Block Of Ice To Adver- [
tise Southport In
Washington
(By W. B. Keziah)
Frying Pan Lightship, July 18.
?Sun up this morning found us
out here cruising around in the
neighborhood of perhaps the most
isolated outpost on the coast of
North Carolina. We are not exactly
sure how often the men
working on Diamond Shoals lightship
further up the coast get
their mail. Out here at Frying
Pan the boys get their's only
once a month. They are 35 miles
from any land and duty requires
them to remain where they ara
day in and day out.
We left Southport at something
like 2 o'clock this morning
on board the E. M. Lewis
of Captain Hulan Watts. Just off
the bar the waters were a bit
rough. Arriving at our destination,
the Gulf Stream, we found
the reverse existing. The sea wao
aDOui as caim as a com pancaae,
a condition that does not argue
well for good fishing. Your real ^
sport fish gets active when *
things are rough.
Thing did not break so bad,
however. On the way out Julian d,
Lolly of Washington, owner of
the famous Old Harvey Restaur- <*
ant, got a strike from a good J
sized barracdda and landed him.
Before anyone else could show m
his ability as a sportsman, Friend a
Julian got another strike, and this ft
time it was an amberjack that I
ran to the neighborhood of 45pounds.
It also ran to various
other neighborhoods before it H
was gaffed^ and brought aboard. j
In successfully landing that fish,
as he finally did, Mr. Lolly did
real well for a country boy, but Uj
it looked like the efforts of that ]9
fish was going to put his captor
in the hospital from over exertion. fl
While the party's faithful colored
attendant was busy messag- M
ing Mr. Lolly and restoring his jl
health following his' conquest of |C|
the amberjack, another great rucus
was raised. This time Senator
O. A. Stanley, a former Governor
of Kentucky and now chairman jl
of the United States-Canadian
Boundary Commission, had hold I
of a whale of an amberjack. He HI
brought him to gaff in slightly
less time and his fish was only a
mite smaller than that taken a
few minutes before by Mr. Lolly. i
His sense of his own personal
qualifications as a sportsman outraged
by seeing two of his companions
exercise priorty over him f
in making catches, Colonel Bill
Chantland, also of Washington, ?
got busy at about this time and f
in quick succession he landed a j
couple of baracuda that could i
well dispute for the claim of being
the biggest such fish taken
here this year. I
For a time things looked W
gloomy for Ed C. Ostrow. He is ! ';
(Continued on page 4)
Tide Table !
Following l? the tide table
(or Soutbport during the next
week. These hours are approximately
correct and were fur*
nished The State Port Pilot !
through the courtesy of tlw
Cape Fear Pilot's Association
High Tide Low TUB i
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, July 20
10:28 a. m. 4:19 a. m.
0:42 p. m. 4:36 p. m.
Friday, July 21
11:23 a. m. 5:07 a. to.
11:36 p. m. 5:31 p. m.
Saturday, July 22 I
5:59 a. ns.
12:17 p. m. 6:31 p. m.
Sunday, July 23
0:31 a. m. 6:55 a. ra.
1:12 p. m. 7:35 p. ja.
Monday, July 24
1:28 a. m. 7:55 a. a.
2:09 p. m. 8:40 p. na>
Tuesday, July 26 ,
2:25 a. m. 8:54 a. a,
3:08 p. m. 9:38 p. m j
Wednesday, July 26
3:29 a. m. 9:50 a. i*. |
11 4:08 p. m. 10:32 p. cn j
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