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NO. 34
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Southle
EONARD
jut the city
's leading
t, has been
nore nickels j
It ry olh i town thrice its
i l- the nation.
la: :".s all because of the vast
t;::::; industry which is caric
i uere in conjunction with
k if the better sports fishe
the average community if
t wre spotted walking uown
| greet with a bucket of nichin
h;s hand he immediately)
be gazed upon. But in
Sport its taken for granted
t ail)' people, especially the
Listers at the shrimp houses,
calk along the main stem
prifg one bucket sometimes
hot Uncle Samuel's five-cent
Ilk nickel is a very important
K of this shrimping business,
isays is the difference in a
K?. if shrimp being headed
I beheaded.
; 1 NICKEL A BUCKET
ft. see. there are hundreds of
fcs of shrimp brought into 11
I bouse here each day during j
I height of the season, whicn 1
lot'*' beginning to reach its
And those shrimp must:
p their heads removed so they
fit packed in ice and shipped
fcviaiely to the metropolitan
fct. That's where the nickels,
Is the use of them, come in.
beach shrimp house there are
bet? pickers employed. Their
for beheading a bucket
Blimp is a nickel. The pay'
ernes when the heads are re- ,
You'd be surprised at the '
B-' some of 'em earn.
Ing houses all have long |
each side of the build- j
tables are about the)
a man's waist and the
ik about six inches to
ay or hopper. Between
and the tray a chute
id the table, this chute
the water over which |
are built and therefore I
are immediate discardmost
cases are devourfish.
S BRING 'EM IX
he boats come in with
shrimp, the shrimp are
ly shoved into large
kets, about two busize.
weighed and then
mto the table for picketimes
the shrimp are
or three feet high,
he shrimp are on the
real show begins. The
usually women but in
tancos men and children,
'J negro, each have a
d water bucket, which
on the pile of shrimp,
i speed that is amazing,
kerg snatch a shrimp in
id. an inward sw ng of
us and the head of the
is snapped off to slide
ie chute and into the
i outward motion and the
shrimp goes into the
As the arms swing back
;k up a couple more
the heads are snapped
d the thumbs and the
>o into the bucket
dazzling thing and, as
Keziah. secretary of the
ek county chamber of
e. says "The whole propickirig
shrimp resembles
rations of a wash woman
of the old fashioned
except that the pickers'
upward from the
'"tvvard to the bucket and
!r'l to pick up a couple
jj?P. bringing them up"lUnuta
on page six)
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scrimp meaji a livelihood to J
dustry, which involves-severa
with its catch. The next pictu
way. Immediately below this
lower right is the payoff?a
Bill Wells, the "paymaster." i
Vane and James St. George a
Greensboro Daily News.)
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New Allotment I
Now Available
For ERA Group D
A total of $109,000 for 117
miles of REA lines in Columbus,
Brunswick, Bladen and Robeson ] tl?
counties has been allotted the I th
Bi'imwinit Electric Membership I di
Corporation at Shallottc. ! ~;
The REA in Washington an- I
nounced allotments totaling $1,-1
599,000 to 11 farm power co- f o,,
operatives at the sime time it thi
made the allotment for tnis coun- Br
ty and its neighbors.
The Brunswick Electric Membership
corporation has been opc- Sti
rating for the past 18 months, ur<
and only recently completed lines So
in Columbus, Brunswick, and th(
Bladen counties. I '
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BITTEN BY SNAKE lis
George Singletary of Leland ha
has been a patient at Dosher ofi
Memorial Hospital for the past ]
week receiving treatment for a ab
snake bite. I
Ready For Dedi
Can Get Yac
Thanks to a tip from Yachting,
popular boating magazine, B
Southport will get the longest b
lay over that will be made at H
any point in the North C'aro- d
lina coast by the boats making h
the October cruise down the c:
waterway under the auspices A1
of the American Power Boat e<
Association. b
In the course of some cor- n
respondence relative to Southport's
new yacht basin, Yacht- a
ing advised of the planned fi
cruise and suggested dedication s
ceremonies and possibly a fish- ti
ing tournament. A prompt re- d
quest from the Brunswick coun- A
ty Chamber of Commerce to b
Chester A. Bentley of the tl
Larchmont Yacht Club has re- c
suited in a program that calls toi
for the arrival of the fleet here itc
on October 31st. They wi.il re- C
main here that night, all of C
next day and will leave on the b
2nd of November for Georgetown.
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Ihrimp are luscious seafoo<
lundreds. The pictures shoi
I operations from the catcl
re shows a fleet of shrimp
picture the peelers deftly r<
nickel for peeling a bucket
U lower left is a pile of th<
re weighing and then packi
'olitical Camp,
A.
Be Launch
emocratic Rally At Shallotl
7:30 O'clock To Open
- frl rakn , hppn ;
1 II UdC VVllU im>v
)ing to crowd out all news
cs this year need worry no
ie Democrats hold a rally
irpose of launching their fa
Not to be out done at all by*:ir
brethern in office, the Re
blicans today are announcing
extensive speaking schedule
it will enable them to carry
sir program into all parts of
unswick.
rhe RepubUcans begin on
ursday, October 3, at Willetts
ore, near Leland, and on Satiay,
October 5, will come to
uthport for a party rally in
s courthouse.
rime for the Friday night meetf
of Democrats at Shallotte
7:30 o'clock and party leaders
ve planned a rousing sendingLittle
has been heard so far
out the presidential campaign,
(Continued on page 6)
cation If
:ht Basin Dug'
In a letter this week, Mr.
entley did not say how many
oats were making the cruise,
owever, The N. Y. Times ten 1
ays ago, stated that over 50
ad signed up. Most of the
raft, according to a lettedfrom
ir. Bentley, are privately ownd.
That means that a numer
of prominent people are d
taking the cruise. d
At the moment local plans ii
re only tentative, pending d
irther information and in- a
traction. The one certain feaure
to be staged here is the I
edication of the yacht basin.
l fishing tournament is also I
eing strongly considered. In t
tie event weather and other c
onditions makes the fishing a
ornament unadvisable, the vis- J
irs will be taken on trips to I
Irton, Bald Head Island, Fort I
laswell and other points of in- I
erest in Brunswick. 1
The determination is to have r
n interesting program.
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Southport, N. C., Wed
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i, and down at Southport tl
vn here give you an idea of
I to the payoff. At top left i
boats and at the extreme ri
jmove the head and thin she
;ful; note the bucket of nick
! choice product, and just al
ng the shrimp in ice for si
aign Will
ed This Week
te School Friday Night At
Campaign Warfare p
vondering if the war was
and excitement about polimore,
for on Friday night
at Shallotte school for the n
II campaign.
First Mullet
Run Of Season
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The September mullet runs ^
are on.
Yesterday afternon (Tuesday) v
the fishery at Long Beach took v
over four thousand pounds of a
large mullets at one haul. No y
roes were included in the haul, c
but the fish were all large ones, f
weighing from one and one half
to one and three quarter
pounds. f
No reports are available from f
other fisheries along the coast j;
but it is understood that several
have made good catches f
and that all are anticipating a a
good week. t
Mrs. Watson Is
Laid To Rest 1
:uneral Services Held Here
This Afternoon For Prominent
Lady Who Died f
Monday Evening
Mrs. Bessie Drew Watson, 53,
lied suddenly at the home of her
laughter, Mrs. Clarence Danford,
n Charleston, S. C., early Monlay
night. Death was caused by v
i heart attack. c
Her husband, the late I. E. v
Vatson, died in 1931. t
Surviving is one son, D. I. i
Vatson of Southport, one daugher,
Mrs. Danford, of Charleston, 1
me grandchild and two brothers I
ind four sisters. The sisters are i
ilrs. Annie Peacock of Baltimore, s
drs. Alva Bun U cf Mulberry, I
"la., Mrs. Willie Guthrie and 1
diss Clara Drew of Southport. r
Phe brothers are Byron and John- J
ly Drew, both of Southport. I
(Continued on page 6)
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n A Good Cor
nesday, September 1
B i
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BWWBr i
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ae folks tell you that
the,sjze of the shrimp ina
shrimp boat is coming in
ght the unloading is under
11 from the shrimp. At the
els on the box in front of
aove this picture Buck Deaipment.
? (Cut Courtesy
iVhiteville Is 1
Over Fifteen
Million Mark
darket To Keep Three Sets
Of Buyers; Quality Of I
Tobacco Lowers Season!
Aoopaoa ^liorKflv
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TOBACCO BRINGS
$2,316,547 FOR SEASON
-ast Weeks Sales 3,053,612
Pounds On This Clumbus
County Tobacco
Market
Whiteville's tobacco market
ales Wed. afternoon reached
5,000,000 pounds for the season,
rith a sale of 3,053,612 for the
reek just past. The seasons price
iverage now stands at $17.26 per
lundred pounds. Total cash in:ome
on the crop for the year so
ar is $2,316,547.41.
A run of common tobaccos has
Dwered the market's average
rom that established week beore
last, and volume of sales
las fallen off somewhat.
The market is still selling suficient
poundage to keep three
lets of buyers in Whiteville and
here has been no official notice
is to when the number of buyirs
will be reduced.
Here Is List Of
Local Firemen
Members Of Volunteer Fire
Department Met Recently
To Re-Organize Their
Group; Have Special
Powers
A meeting of the Southport
'Olunteer firemen was held at the
:ity hall last Tuesday night at
vhich time the organization of
he local company was brought
ip to date.
H. B. Aldridge is chief, G. E.
iubbard assistant chief, A. J.
dcNeill captain and W. C. Reece
s secretary-treasurer. Nozzlemen
ire Robert Marlowe, Arthur
Jrown, Otto Hickman, J. A. McNeill
and Ed Marlowe. Other
nembers of the department are
John Lancaster, Lenden Spencer,
1. W. Hood, P. O. Leggett, B.
(Continued on page 6)
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nmunity
?71940
W. M. U. Meets
Tuesday With
Bolivia Church
Mrs. J. C. Powell, Missionary
To Africa, Will Be
Present And Will Take
Part On The Program
P. M. MEETING FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE
Interesting All - Day Program
Has Been Mapped
Out And Should Draw
Large Crowd
The Baptist Woman's Missioniry
Union of Brunswick Association
will hold its annual meeting
ruesday, September 24, with Bolivia
Baptist Church.
The following program will be
rendered:
10:00?Hymn, "How Firrft A
Foundation; Devotional?Col. 2:
5-7, Mrs. Carl S. Ward; welcome,
Mrs. J. D. Johnson; response,
Mrs. W. C. Biggs.
10:20?"Supported by His
Word"; Mission study, Col. 3: 16,
Miss Ruth Ludlum; Literature?
1st Tim. 4: 13?Mrs. A. L.
Brown; Stewardship? 1st Tim. 6:
17-19, Mrs. J. E. Gilbert; Cooperative
program 1st Cor. 16: 2,
Mrs. Z. G. Ray; personal service.
Matt. 25: 40, Mrs. Thompson McRackan;
Woman's Missionary
Union Training school and Marp-aret
Fund?2nd Tim. 2: 15?
Mrs. M. L.' Mintz.
10:50 Talk?"A Good Investment
Miss Macy Cox.
11:20 Roll call of societies; report
Of superintendent, Mrs. Carl
S. Ward (acting); report of
treasurer, Mrs. W. E. Lewis; announcements,
appointment of committees.
12:00 Address by Mrs. W. D,
Briggs (Evecutive secretary of
W. M. U. of North Carolina).
Lunch 12:30 to 1:30.
1:30 Conference for association
and Women Missionary societies,
officers and chairman.
Theme "Building Today and Tomorrow
for Christ";
2:00 Hymn "My Hope is Built",
Devotional?Titus, 1: 9?Ethel
Johnson.
2:15 "Building in 1939" Mrs
Dennis Hewett; Our Missionarj
Tool Chest?Mrs. A. L. Brown;
message, "Our Youth Steadfast
for Christ", Mrs. J. C. Powell,
Missionary to Africa.
3:45?Report of committees.
4:00?Adjourn.
Routine Session
Of County Court
Usual Run Of Cases Disposed
Of Here Before
Judge Walter M. Stana
land On Monday
In Recorder's court here Monday
Johnie Wilkes, colored, pleaded
guilty to charges of public
drunkenness. Judgment was suspended
upon payment of costs.
Mrs. Mildred Hanes, white,
pleaded guilty to charges of driving
without an operator's license,
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of costs.
Wilson H. Roach, white, was
found guilty of failure to stop
before entering the highway. He
was taxed with one-half the costs
of the case.
Harry H. Pelham, colored,
pleaded guilty of driving with
improper license. He was fined
$5.00 and taxed with costs.
Archie Rhodes, white, pleaded
guilty to charges of reckless
operation. He was required to pay
a fine of $25.00 and costs.
(Continued on page six)
The Hunters
Are Hoping
Last week while Hitler waited
anxiously for high tides so
he could invade the British Isle,
hunters in Southport waited
just as impatiently for tides to
rise sufficiently for hunting
marsh hens.
And if the tides in the channel
disappointed Hitler as
much as the ones here disappointed
the would-be marsh
hen hunters, then England has
nothing to fear from invasion
until the next full moon?and
that goes double for marsh
hens.
On Thursday afternoon last
week, four full days before the
full moon, there was the biggest
tide of the series. It slipped
up on hunters so much
that only one or two took advantage
of it. Gus McNeill
and Charlie Dosher were one
pair who saw it coming and
were over in the marsh while
the hens were hiding in the tall
grass. They missed their limit,
,0T
SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Negro Being I
$10,000 Bo
Accident
i
Bulletin
I
The U. S. E. Dredge Henry
Bacon arrived here at 3 o'clock
this afternoon to begin dredging
operations on the Southport
Yacht Basin, a project
that had been the subject of
much agitation and speculation
tor several months.
It is understood that the
dredge will work night and day
and that the local basin will
be completely dug within a period
of 10 days. As soon as this
part of the operations is completed
work will begin at once
J on bulkhead and docking facilities,
and every possible effort
will be exerted to have the j
basin ready to accommodate
the power boat visitors when
they come here the last of
next month.
State Publicity
Man Is Visitor
Bob Thompson, Director Of i
State Advertising Pro- [
i gram, Spent Week-End
At Southport Taking Pictures
Bob Thompson, formerly priv!
ate secretary to Governor Hoey
and now director of publicity for
North Carolina, spent from Saturday
through Monday at Southport
gathering material and pictures
for use in the work of his
department.
Rough weather Sunday was
about all that saved the barracuda
on Frying Pan shoal from
playing a leading part in pictorial
scenes. As the guest of Captain
1 H. T. Watts aboard the Sea Girl,
' Bob set out for the gulf at
shortly after midnight Sunday
morning. By sunrise the Marine
had landed back at port and was
reporting the situation decidedly
rough. (Bob is a former member
1 of the U. S. Marine corps.)
Despite a change of program,
Sunday was not marked off for
a loss. W. B. Keziah and a bunch
of frying-size girls accompanied
Bob to Orton and some interesting
pictures of tame squirrels
and girls were made there. Miss
1 Emma Lou Harrelson was shown
' in various poses with half grown
(Continued on page 6;
Famous Writers
Are Coming Here
?;
Outdoor Writer* Association
Of America Planning
To Hold Meeting
I Here In October
! The Outdoor Writers Associa|
tion of America interrogated Bob
Thompson in Raleigh and W. B.
i Keziah at Southport last week
i about the possibility of holding a
' meeting of the officers and direci
tors of the association at Southport
late in October.
Some ten or twelve men are
l prospective guests. All are wide[
ly known outdoor and sports
writers, representing some of the
I largest papers in the United
i States.
Realizing the value of such
contacts, both Thompson and
(Continued From Page 6)
Lnd The Huns
For High Tides
but had some nice shooting.
On Friday afternoon several
parties were out, but only Robert
Thompson of the hunters
reported had much luck. He
had 13 birds, bringing his season's
total to 52, best for any
local nimrod.
Monday morning, the time
scheduled for the highest tide,
was a dismal disappointment to
hunters who were over in the
marsh before they learned that
the water wasn't going to come
up very high. This was the day
that Bob Thompson, director of
the State advertising department,
chose to make a picture
story of this sport, so he probably
got the idea that marsh
hen hunting is pretty much
akin to snipe hunting?only its
done in boats.
Nothing daunted, local gunmen
are waiting now for the
new moon period in hopes that
tides will be unseasonably high
at that time.
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The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
$1.50 PER YEAR
deld Under
nd In Fatal
In Southport
Coroner's Jury In Session
Here Last Night' Ordered
Joe Suggs Held For Part
In Death Of Two Southport
Men
FATAL ACCIDENT
SATURDAY NIGHT
Albert Rogers And Bertram
Marlowe Were Killed
Instantly When Car
Collided With
Suggs' Auto
A coroner's jury meeting here
in the courthouse last night
found that Albert Rogers and
Bertram Marlowe, two Southport
men, came to tneir death Saturday
night when their automobile
was in collision with a machine
driven by Joe Suggs, Southport
negro. They recommended that
the defendant be held in sufficient
bail for the grand jury.
Coroner John G. Caison ordered
uAu ttAhnn k/xna
IIC1U UIIUCI cpiu.uw UUIIU,
$5,000 for each of the men killed.
Members of the jury were H.
M, Shannon, Capt. John D. Erikson,
M. M. Piggott, George Fisher,
G. D. Robinson and John
McRoy. Witnesses who testified
to events surrounding the fatal
accident were Vance Russ, B. A.
Ellis, Charles Hickman, Lind3ey
Robbins, Chief of Police Herbert
Rogers and Mrs. Otto Hickman.
The two men were instantly
killed early Saturday night when
their car, headed toward the Sawdust
Trail, was struck by Sugg's
machine in a head-on collision.
I Witnesses testified that the neg'
roe's car was traveling at a rapid
rate just prior to the accident,
and the cars showed that they
had met with terrific empact.
When the first persons reached
the scene they found Marlowe
1 dead and Rogers in a dying condition.
He was pulled from the i
wreckage ar. l placed upon the it .f
ground, but he soon passed away.
Both men were respected citizens
of this community and both
were unmarried. Marlowe was
quartermaster on the menhaden
fishboat W. P. Anderson while
Rogers was engineer on the boat
John M. Morehead.
Marlowe was 28 years of age,
and in addition to his mother, is
survived by four brothers, Martin,
Edward and Robert Mariowe
of Southport and Irvin Marlowe
of Morgan City, La.
Rogers was 40 years of age
and is survived by one brother
here, Roscoe Rogers.
Joint funeral services were held
for the two men yesterday afternoon
at Southport Presbyterian
(Continued on page 6)
n T* _ Af
mange time ui
Church Service |
Beginning This Week Evening
-Services At Presby- m
terian Church Begin At
7:30 O'clock
Rev. J. R. Potts has announc- jl
ed that beginning this week evening
services at the Presbyterian
church will be held at 7:30
o'clock.
There will be preaching at this
church Sunday evening.
(Continued on page six)
Tide Table 1
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the next j
week. These hours are .tppm
ximately correct and wen) furnished
The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association
High Tide Low Tl* At
TIDE TABLE ,
Thursday, September 19 I
j 8:57 a. m. 3:04 a. m. i j
9:17 p. m. 3:31 p. m. I I
Friday, September 20 ! '
9:32 a. m. 3:34 a. m. j !
9:58 p. m. 4:04 p. m. 1
Saturday, September 21 '
10:08 a. m. 4:02 a. m.
10:82 p. m. 4:39 p. m. i
Sunday, September 22
10:50 a. m. 4:34 a. ra. _
11:19 p. m. 5:20 p. m.
Monday, September 23 j
11:38 a. m. 5:11 a. m. a
6:16 p. m. ' a
Tuesday, September 24 ')
0:13 a. m. 6:08 a. m. j
12:34 p. m. 7:28 p. m.
Wednesday, September 25 ; I
1:16 a. m. 7:29 a. m.
j 1:36 p. in. 8:37 p. m B