Illosf of Tile News
I All The Time
^^THIRTEEN N(
Kke~At Holly
Ridge Affects
mounty Workers
^Mou?h Few Men In This
^Kunty Have Joined UnStrike
Throws Many
Hj Out Uf Work
cement is
" reached today
r-lReported That All Work
Be Resumed This
^ jlornins; Hope For
:>e ' Better Relations
made today
r'-.1 stiike at Hotly Ridge
i.iil. . off by request of
president of the
nstruction departH
American Federa:L':
ind that work had
. H :..rjraed on all projects this
- affected be500
ii-d 1000 workers
it is estimated,
H:; i> theii hope that condiimproved
and
splice cleared as the
bringing facts regardment
into the
IE is Fi iday before
I reports of unI
workers at the
ject, and local
I tacted Labor ComI.
st Shuford anil
I in what is believI
en the first effort
I >pen trouble.
umiei stood that in calling
[ . the union was deLc
and one-half for
Ljzt double pay for
pv >ik. They were also
pj- , ! : closed shop, viz:
Lc.; yment of union labor
L - all wotk at Camp Davis,
plough comparatively few
prim this county have joinlit
union, most of them were
Li: !i :ss work Monday and
Lay. So shift was permitted
p . work without their foreTor
pusher, and a check
L that most of these posi\
o filled by union men.
b was a process that had
k going on for several weeks
no the outbreak of trouble,
?t-.g to local report, and
Insulted in local men in key
iocs being fired, or laid off,
nier that union representai
rr..ght be given jobs where
icoulJ control the labor site
if and when a strike was
a before the halt was caln
work Monday, there was
an atmosphere of tension
t the camp that many men
this section hesitated to refor
duty, fearing to become
tiled in a labor row that
UUl u: lllt'll Jllrliwug
Br. which they knew so little.
allotte Man
iPasses At Home
A. Rourk, Prominent
Hbtizen of Shallotte, Died
|tt Home Wednesday AfLong
Illness
B* A. Rourk. prominent citizen
& Shallotte community and
Vi sheriff of Brunswick Connie
JW at his home in ShalWednesday
following an exV
illness. The deceased was
Blears of age.
Rourk was born in 1863.
of Peter and Catherine
Rourk. He lived in Wilfrom
1895 to 1918 and
'partner in the Stone Tow
tompany. He was also a
^Prent wholesale merchant.
B*A! a member of the Masonic
'or 50 years and last Novreceived
the 50-year emB*
from the Masonic lodge.
?gr Active member of the
By-cis'. church. Mr. Rourk is
jSPJcrl by his wife, Mrs. Sarah
Stone Rourk: two sons,
A. Rourk, Jr., and Dr.
B?-"r. Rourk. both of Myrtle
B~ s C.. two daughters, Mrs.
Swinson and Mrs. Robert
of Miami, Fla.; two broB?'
Peter, of Leland, and G.
B/Url:. of Shallotte, and two
B;-' _ Miss Mary Rourk and
B* Victoria Swinson, both of
B^'fal services were conducted
the residence at 3 o'clock
Afternoon and interment
"jade in the family cemeB[4t
Lithe River, S. C.
r pallbearers were: U. LK*
Irwm Rourk, Chandler
l-'vingston Bridges, James
L. F. Bryant, Henry
Janus Bryant, and Walter
Honorary pallbearers
A 'Hie Stone, Jim Stone,
B m ht?ne, Hubert Stone, J.
B^f Dr. F. F. Chandler,
'Htb ' Krl Taylor, J. W.
Bt: ,, "org, cieve Stone, Ru,
Wilbur Dosher, S.
" > and Henry Gerdea,
TH
D. 5
Wat
CHAMP.?Warren (Golden
[Southern Conference heavy
round knockout over North
J port and has several relati
White Ho
Crown 1
- "
BY RAY HOWE
The professional ring- future of
Clemson's Warren Wilson, once
regarded as the fond meandering
of a naive optimist, took on a
clear-cut aspect Saturday night
in Columbia as the brassy-haired
college champion proved to skep
) tics that he has both tne Drains
and punch to carry him weli
along the treacherous trail towards
a title.
His victory over Gates Kirnbal
for the conference heavyweighl
title followed precisely a plan oi
| action carefully thought out ir
j advance and was not just bej
cause of a lucky blow. He waited
for his opening, willing to lose
; points in retreat, staking his
I crown on just one blows
That opportunity knocked once
Wilson knocked once and it was
all over. That one blow, the hardest
Kimball has ever taken, would
have been enough to knock out
any professional champion. Chappie
Johnson, the 70-year-old negro
trainer at Clemson who has
I handled professional fighters foi
the last 40 years, will vouch foi
that.
"If Wilson had followed up
that right to the jaw with a
Says More Foi
People
Dr. J. V. Davis returned to
his home at Concord Sunday,
| taking with him his pack of
j nine fox hounds with which he
had been hunting here all during
the month of February.
During the month he was joined
by several other piedmont
North Carolina fox hunters and
their hounds. Nobody kept tab
on just how many foxes were
killed during the month, but
there were plenty of them, so
many that John R. Boger,
judge at the national fox hunters
meet in Florence, Ala., took
occasion to remark that there
were more foxes than folks in
Brunswick county.
Another thing that especially
impressed Dr. Davis was the
weather. To Southport people
Februaiy looked bad. The weather
really was bad, judged by
other Februarys, but Dr. Davis
appears to have found it delightful.
He said that when he
left home to come to Southport
it was snowing and sleeting,
j Several times during his stay
E STj
A Goo
4-I'AGES TODAY
ren Wilson Keeps
-:
A&sF *
. Boy) Wilson, of Clemson
weight title over the vveek-ei
Carolinas Kates Kimball. Wil
ves here.?(Charlotte News P
pe for Hec
<s Well Kn
*
ilcft to the solar plexus, he .
could have knocked out any
February Brought
Winter Weather
.
' February was another month
' during which winter weather
; was very much in evidence lo- I
I rally.
On two occasions during the j
month. February 4. and again
I on February 23, the mercury j
dropped to the 24-degrce mark; j
I; and on 13 days during the j
;' month the thermometer regis- j
i tered a tem;>crature below |
freezing.
High reading of 65-degrees
i 1 was registered on February 17.
During the month there were j
IJ 13 clear days, 9 cloudy liays
and 6 partly cloudy days. Total
precipitation for the month
( was 2.90-inehes. There was fog
i! on February 14, and also a 1
j thunderstorm. Sleet fell here
I on February 3, and traces of
j snow on the following day.
j Prevailing wind was southwest.
ies Than
In This County
here he had messages from j
home, telling him of the cold j
and wintry weather.
He observed that here the I
surf shone for at least a part ,
! of each day during the month, j
Although his health is not so ,
good, he was able to be outdoors
a good part of each day.
The doctor stated that he had
spent scores of winters in Western
North Carolina and several j
in Florida. He was surprised I
to find that here the sun shone
in the winter for an average !
of just as much as it shone in !
Florida.
Before leaving Dr. Davis I
stated that he doubted if he !
would ever go to Florida again [
to spend a winter. He sees no j
need of it, not while there is j
a winter climate almost as good j
and conditions that are far |
more ideal right here down on j
the coast of his own state.
Incidently, he plans to come '
back this summer, and next* |
fall he expects to be her? much j
of the time with his hounds.
4
ME
d News paper
Southport, N. C., W
Title
m
I
m '' in
reer nas occn mappeu uui im
him by a contingent of sportsmen
led by B. K. Gatins of Atlanta.
They plan to give him
every chance to shoot at Joe
Louis in about three years. And,
if by any chance Louis isn't still
there in three years, they'll match
Wilson against any other boy.
The Atlantan isn't doing any
loud talking about his cadet, figuring
that his money is chattering
loudly enough.
Because he was turned
down by the ROTC at Clemson
as being too fat for his
build, Wilson will not have to
report to the Army with the
rest of the Clemson seniors
immediately after graduation.
That refusal is something to
laugh about now.
But Wilson is just a little awed
by the whole thing.
"I didn't win that fight by
myself", he murmured after the
crowds and back-slappers had
left. "God was in my corner. I
prayed for that blow the night
before the fight, and between
(Continued on page 4)
Southport Lady
Death's Victim
Mrs. Amelia Fullwood Died
In Dosher Memorial Hospital
Sunday Following
Illness
Mrs. Amelia Fullwood, elderly
Southport resident, died Sunday
evening- at Dosher Memorial Hospital
following several days serious
illness. She was 83-years-ofagc.
Mrs. Fullwood is survived by
three daughters. Mrs. Blanche
Larscn, Mrs. Rebecca Rees, and
Mrs. Cassie Jorgensen. of Southport;
one son, W. T. Fullwood,
of Southport; and one brother, T.
E. Spencer, of Bladenboro.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
at Southport Baptist church by
Rev. R. S. Harrison. Interment followed
in Southport cemetery.
i
College, who retained his
id, with a sensational thirdson
formerly lived in Southhoto.)
ivy weight
own H
mail alive", Chappie said solemnly
after the fight as he
hovered over his boy. "And
Louis has never thrown a
blow any hader. I've worked
with Joey Brown, Ralph
DeJones and Henry Armstrong
and know something
about what I'm saying."
Wilson's professional ring ca
P0R1
In A Good Con
ednesday, March 5th, 1
Jury List For
April Term Of
Court Is Drawn
Forty-Eight Names Are j
Drawn From Which To
Select Grand Jury And
Petit Jury For Court
Term
JUDGE BURNEY
WILL PRESIDE
Judge Parker Scheduled To
Hold Term, but Exchange
Of Court Assignments
Has Been Made
A one-week's mixed term of i
Brunswick county Superior court j
will convene here on Monday j
April 7, with Judge John J. Bur- J
ney of Wilmington presiding.
Judge R. Hunt Parker was originally
slated to hold this term,
but he and Judge Burney arranged
a trade which will permit the
latter to come here.
Following is the jury list, which
is longer than usual due to the
fact that a grand jury as well as
a petit jury must be drawn:
B. R. Page, Bolivia, S. T. Russ,
Shallotte, G. H, Caison, Shallotte,
W. H. Varnum, Supply, J. Berg,
Southport, D. S. Russ, Shallotte,
T. H. Wolfe, Leland, J. E. Pinner,
Southport, J. W. Thompson,
Southport, Dorsey Cox, Freeland,
G. S. Hollis, Leland, W. F. Milliken,
Shallotte, C. R. Gray, Supply,
S. F. Mintz, Leland, G. F.
Goley, Shallotte, A. N. Woodard,
Shallotte, D. W. McKeithan, Longwood,
J. G. Hickman, Bolivia, H.
C. Brady. Freeland, R, N. Leonard,
Shallotte, R. D. Woodard,
l Shallotte, A. L. McKeithan, Long- j
wood, J. A. Pinner, Southport,
W. B. Varnum, Southport, C. A.
Stanley, Shallotte, J. N. Arnold,
Southport, J. B. Bellamy, Shallotte,
C. M. Reid, Winnabow, VV.
B. Simmons. Freeland, A. Z. Milliken,
Shallotte. B. L. Smith, Ash,
J. L. Lancaster, Bolivia, R. L.
Calloway, Supply, H. D. Fulford,
Supply, James Garner, Bolivia,
R. E. Bellamy, Shallotte, Allard
Clemmons, Bolivia, B. I. Bennett,
, Ash, John L. Babson, Ash, Dan
[ Mintz, Leland, W. Claude Gore,
Shallotte, Jolm H. Todd, Shallotte,
R. W. Sellers, Shallotte, J. S.
j Hickman, Ash, J. H. Milliken,
I Shallotte, J. J. Henry, Winnabow,
D. L. Mercer, Bolivia, S. R.
| Phelps, Shallotte.
Four Cases Are
Heard In Court
; Light Session Of County
Court Held Here Monday
Before Judge Walter M.
Stanaland
j
Four defendants were tried
Monday before Judge Walter M.
Stanaland in Brunswick County
Recorder's Court.
Jonah Bowman, white, pleaded
guilty to charges of being drunk
[and disorderly and was given 4
months on the roads. Judgment
in this case was suspended upon
payment of cost9 and a fine of
j 525.00.
Ben Lambert, white, pleaded
guilty to charges of being drunk
and disorderly and resisting an
officer. Given 8 months on the
roads, judgment was suspended
(upon payment of a fine of $50. |
jand cost? or tne case.
Fred C. Thomas, white, pleadjed
guilty to charges of drunk
driving and was given 4 months
Jon the roads. Judgment was suspended
upon payment of a fine
of S50.00, costs of the case and
upon suspension of his license for
12 months.
Mildred Suggs, colored, was
tried for possession for purpose
of sale, but judgment in this
case was held open.
Funeral Held
For Mr. Hewett
Charles S. HeWett Died
Saturday Afternoon At
His Home Here And Was
Buried Monday After- [
noon
Charles S. Hewett, 77-year-old
I Southport resident, died at his
j home Saturday afternoon follow1
ing a"n extended illness.
He was a prominent citizen of
j this community and had made his
| residence here for more than twoj
score years. During most of that
time he was the traveling rc'
presentativc of a leading northern
fish broker.
Funeral services were conducti
ed Monday afternoon at St. Phillips
Episcopal church by Rev. J.
Leon Malone, assisted by Rev.
R. S. Harrison.
The deceased was a member of
Pythagoras Masonic Lodge and
Masons served as pallbearers. His
remains were laid to rest in
Southport cemetery.
r pii
nmunity
941 PUBLIJ
Play In Bi
Begins T
Shallot
Radio Beacon
As Aid
New Apparatus Placed In (
Visit Of Light
The Bald Head Island Radio
beacon, installation of which
has been underway for the past
month or more, was officially
placed on the air last week as
an aid to navigation. It is understood
that its official signals
will be published in aids
to navigation during the present
month.
The spark is atop the famous
old Bald Head lighthouse
on the Southport side of the
island. Officially, Bald Head
Island is Smith's Island but the
Bald Head lighthouse has always
stood out so prominently
as a part of the island that the
latter has gradually taken the
name of the lighthouse. Today
Bald Head island is known
from coast to coast and when
people hear of Smith Island
they usually have to hunt it
up on the maps.
The machinery, batteries and
engines for the beacon, are also
housed in the lighthouse structure.
Although the building is
some 127 years old, maintenance
will not run to more
than a few dollars per year
for the replacement of broken
windows. The structure itself
seems good for two or three
centuries longer.
Three or four years ago, at
a suggestion from Captain M.
H Barnett at Oak Island, the
Southport Civic Club began
working for such a beacon in
the above discontinued lighthouse.
The efforts were made
through the lighthouse department,
which was in charge of
Southport Bo
Good Luck
. j,
Englishman Here
To See Mr. Arnold
This past week Captain J.
A. Arnold had a visit from a
friend, an Englishman whom
he had not seen or heard from
since 1922. It is very probable
that much water has run between
them since last they met
since the Englishman, P. Bert
Williams, is an engineer in the
British navy. During Hitler's
present misunderstanding of
the fact that there will always
be an England, Williams had
his ship torpedoed from under
him. He was taken prisoner,
escaped and went right back
to the navy.
Just now he is over in the
United States with a eontigent
of English sailors. It will be
a couple of weeks or so before
pofitni Avdillnir himself
of this fart, Williams got leave
for a couple of days and traveled
several hundred miles to
see Southport and Captain Jim.
He doesn't have any doubts
that there would always be an
England, and England will be
free.
Appearance 0
Locally Held
Commercial fishermen and
others who frequent the waterfront
say that there has never
before been so many small fish
in the local waters. In fact, the
waters seem to be literally
swarming with small trout,
mullets, spots, yellow tails,
drum, etc.
While no one has advanced
a plausable explanation of the
presence of these small fish in
such numbers, everybody seems
united in agreeing that their
being here indicates a good
sport fishing season. Trout,
blues and mackerel all frequent
places where they can find the
best supper table laid out The
presence of the small fish in unheard
of numbers is bound to
draw the big ones, according to
Maxie Cooker, who with his
father, spends all of his time
in fishing for the market.
In addition to waterfront residents
being well acquainted
with the presence of so many
small fish, the sea gulls are
also aware of the fact. At this
,0T
>HED EVERY WEDNESDA
zsketball
hursdayE
te High
Installed
[ To Navigation
Operation Last Week Durinf
-Tender Orchid
T H
\:i ?p8?
Ifefe ill
all aids to navigation. When
the lighthouse department was
discontinued and the chamber
of commerce was formed at
about the same time, efforts
j were continued through the
(continued on page four)
atmen Have
With Whiting
k
Boats Operating From Her
Last Week Had Might;
Good Luck Fishing Fo
Whiting; Good Price
Prevail
SEVERAL BOATS
NOW OPERATIN(
Notable Thing About Fish
ing Is That Very Few
Shrimp Have Been
Taken, Though Trawls
Are Used
Nearly a dozen boats oper
ated continuously last week, us
! ing trawl nets and getting larg
' catches of Virginia mullets an
J other fish. The fish are said t
j have never before been found s
i numerously at this season of th
! year.
One boat, the Maude and Mabl<
i is reported to have taken abou
I three tons during the week, de
j spite having had bad luck wit
I its nets one day. The net is ur
J derstood to have become overload
ed with a huge catch of fisl
' to have torn and spilled its cor
j tents back into the sea.
Not the least gratifying angl
[ to the good catches is the fac
(continued on page four)
if Small Fish
Unaccountable
I time last year these birds could
not find food. It was a hard
winter for them. Hundreds of
them were fed by Southport
citizens and they grew to be
even tamer than chickens. They
would literally feed from thq
hand, and were glad to get
whatever they could.
This year it is different.
There are twice as many gulls
here, but none of them appear
to have ever been disturbed by
hunger. They are fat and sleek,
getting an abundance of food
in the shape of small fish, from
their natural element, and they
are not disposed to go begging
as they did last year. Well
fed, they keep a respectful distance.
Propellers of boats and ship
are a great source of food supply
for the gulls this year.
The little fish are so thick that
the churning blades kill them
by the thousands and the gulls
gather in the wake of such
craft and hold a banquet.
, ..... .
The
Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
Y $1.50 PER YEAR
Tourney
Evening In
ymnaisum
[ Chief Interest Is Centered
In First Round Game On
Thursday Night Between
Bolivia And Leland Boys
TOURNEY FINALS
l SATURDAY NIGHT
Bolivia Boys, Undefeated In
County, And Waccamaw
Girls, Favored To Win
In Respective Dii
visions
There is sure to be a capacity
crowd on hand Friday night for
the opening program of the 1941
Brunswick County Basketball
tournament, for there is a strong
feeling that the first-round game
between Leland and Bolivia boys
may decide the championship in
this division.
Bolivia, by virtue of two earlier
victories over Leland has been
installed as favorite both in this
contest and in the entire tournament.
Upsets can happen, though,
and that is the end toward which
the Leland lads are directing all
of their attention.
with hnvs ehnmnionshin
apparently a matter to be decided
between these two teams, the
girls' division finds Waccamaw
installed as favorite upon the
basis of having the liest record
i in pre-tournamcnt play. Either
Bolivia, defending champions, or
the Leland girls appear to be
j capable of pulling an upset.
Although these teams have been
named favorites in their respective
divisions, this certainly does
| not count out a single one of
the other entries. In a short
elimination series with the heat
on anything can happen. Last
year Shallotte boys, darkest of
dark horses, came from nowhere
to take the county title, and
! every outfit that plays In this
i week's tournament hopes to do i
" | the very same this season.
it!:A cs ?ntt be i1
ed Thursday night and Friday |
afternoon, the semi-finals Saturday
night.
j The tournament will open
y Thursday night with the Bolivia
and Southport girls meeting at 8
o'clock and the Bolivia and Lee
land boys clashing at 9 o'clock.
y Games Friday afternoon will ,.
r include: Girls division, Shallotte
s vs. Winner of Bolivia-Southport
game at 4 o'clock, and in boys
division, first round game, Waccamaw
vs. Shallotte, at 5 o'clock.
1 The tourney slate Friday night
follows: in girls division, Leland
at 8 o'clock; and in boys division,
Southport vs. winner of
Bolivia-Leland game, at 9 o'clock.
Saturday night the girls finals
will be played at 8 o'clock and
the boys finals at 9 o'clock.
Southport Boys
And Girls Win
o
o ???
e Burgaw Cagers Go Down
In Double Defeat Before (
Local Players Monday
Night
h " -it a. -
SOUUiporL WOI1 iX mm \ ixjwi y
over the Burgaw cagers on the
latter's home court Monday night
' as the local teams began to
l" round out their training program
for the Brunswick county bas(Continued
On Page 4)
Tide Table
Following Is the tide table
for Southport during the next
J week. These hours are approximately
correct and were furnished
The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy o( tho
Cape Fear Pilot's Association
High Tide Low Tl?r
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, March <i
0:45 a. m. 7:32 a. m.
1:23 p. m. 7:33 p. m.
Friday, .March 7
1:43 a. m. 8:42 a. m.
2:28 p. m. 8:48 p. in.
Saturday, .March 8
2:50 a. m. 9:41 a. m.
3:38 p. ni. 9:50 p. m.
Sunday, March 9
5:00 a. in. 11:20 a. in.
5:35 p. in. 11:39 p. in.
Monday, March 10
5:38 a. m. 10:35 a. ns.
4:40 p. m. 10:45 p. in.
Tuesday, .March 11
5:52 a. m. _
6:23 p. in. 12:16 p. m.
Wednesday, March 12
6:40 a. in. 0:31 a. m.
7:08 p. in. 1:04 p. nfc
,1 t ?
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