Most of The News
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M^THIR TEEN NO. I
Wriminal j
| To Be
I Civl
Southport Lawyers'
Hpjvjde Duties Of Proscribing:
Attorney In Ab|ience
Of David Sinclair
;stz. prevatte,
prink share work
To Wind Up Work
Docket Of Unimpor^B,,;
Criminal Cases
^| Today And Begin
Civil Actions
|. ^ absence this week of'
three
taken
in prosecuting the
Brunswick
Wt Burney of Wilis
presiding, and it ap- j
H that criminal
would be completed tothe
balance of the
??k mixed term could be
^| r civil cases.
jKgiev Williams, colored resitrouble
because
ive his dog vacH.
the session's heav-1
penalty. 5 to 7 years, for |
Itt Simmons, white, pleadtv
to charges of drunk
Given 4 months on the
judgment was suspended
rment of a fine of $50.00,
f the case and suspends
driver's license for
ths. The defendant must
of good behavior for 2 ,
Cox. convicted of being |
i the highway, was given
this judgment being suupon
payment of costs,
it to be of good behavior
ars.
Delts pleaded guilty to
of reckless operation,
or judgment was contin-,
1 year upon condition
defendant pay the sum
} to the clerk of court
tution to the board of
!. He must also pay the j
he action,
terrick was convicted of;
unk on the highway, j
for judgment was con-1
ir 12 months upon good j
Costs were taxed against I
ldant.
Bryant and Rudolph I
colored, and Jesse Bel- j
site, were charged with |
and entering. All plead- j
Bellamy was given 2 j
this charge, and another j
added for perjury. Each .
grocs was given 6 mon- j
so against George Jones!
lit was settled with the (
pleading guilty and payof
the court.
Williamson was found
y of reckless operation
l trn trv nxAnarftr
IU piwpcilj.
Hter.c-r.t was withheld in the
ipiiist Clay Smith for posof
intoxicating liquor for;
Hj??e of sale.
Bfev Burney was found not j
of manslaughter,
following cases were nol'
with leave: S. B. West,
with a deadly weapon;i
*0 Poi tor. possession and j
^^Ptaturing.
following cases were conJames
Dudley, possession
B8-' B. E. Andrews, assault;
Mooney. disposing of mortproperty:
T. H. Sellers and
Sellers, disposing of mortproperty;
Edward White,
pretense; Willie Hill, posfor
sale: Corbett Smith,
driving: Willie Bland, park
without lights; Ivory Ross,
^f^?rt:r., for sale; Arnold Robtransporting;
Sidney Hew _?sault;
H. D. Jenrette, larBrs.
Evans Dies
I In Ash Section
^'tal Services For HigHI
y Respected Woman Of
a! ^re Held Friday
I "'ernoon, At Soldier's
April 7 Mrs. Rose Gore
Be' 1 of Ash. wife of L. N.
'lied Thursday afternoon
at her home after several
^E'i15 illness. Death was atV
i lo heart trouble and comK
Evans was born March 16.
* daughter of the late Isaac
nurct Hickman Gore of
^P"-w;ck county. She had lived
L-^tirc life in the Ash comarl(l
was highly regarded
who knew her. She was a
K; .-.j'1' |V?t?d mother, neighbor
1 ^"tir.ucd on page four)
Wj!
TH1
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Docket Fo
Complete
I Actions '
k ? ?
JUDGE BURNEY
Citizens Meetii
To Talk /
?? si
Citizens Discuss Plans For
Meeting Any Emergency
Which Might Arist From
Location Of Defense Program
Nearby
COMMITTEE IS
NAMED BY MAYOR
Arrangements Made To
List Facilities With
Rooms Or Houses
For Rent
As a result of a citizens' mass
meeting held in the Brunswick
county courthouse Thursday night
a committee has been appointed
to make plans for meeting any
emergency that may arise in
Southport through the location
of one of the national defense
projects in this area.
One of the first duties of this
group will be to maintain a register
of rooms and houses for rent
ir. town, and this service will begin
immediately. Persons who desire
to have their facilities listed
for the information of visitors
in the community may do so
by phoning the city nan arm
leaving a description of their
room, rooms, apartment or house.
Among those who participated
in the discussion Thursday night
was R. I. Mintz, chairman of I
the Brunswick defense council, I
and he was very frank to state I
that there is no definite assur- <
ance of any government project.
He stated, however, that there
was very good reason to hope j
that some phase of the expanding
defense program would be I
located here or nearby, and he I
thought the meeting of Thursday
night was practical in that
it might save the citizens the
embarassment of being caught
completely unawares. '
The meeting was presided over
by Mayor John D .Eriksen, and
others who spoke briefly were J.
Berg, Price Furpless, H. H.
Thomas and C. Ed. Taylor.
The following men were named
on a committee to work out
plans for meeting contingencies
which may develope from some
development here: Price Furpless,
(Continued on page 4)
Solemnity Of C
Impressed
The late session of the North
Carolina General Assembly abolished
the custom of having
court witnesses kiss the Bible
when being sworn in, but removal
of this ritual has done
nothing to decrease the solemnity
of this ceremony, as those
who heard Judge John J. Burney
charge the grand jury Monday
morning can well testify.
"One thing I want to mention,"
the Wilmington- jurist
declared, "is the growing disregard
our people have for
their oath. I remember a time
when a man who had sworn
to a lie was a person to be
shunned by all decent people,
a man never to be trusted
again. He became a repulsive
and disgusting creature.
"I want to help break up
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r Court
d Today;
To Follow
Judge Burney
Talks Straight
To Grand Jury
In his charge Monday morning
to members of the Brunswick
county grand jury, which will
serve for the next 12 months,
Judge John J. Burney contrasted
the cost of education in the United
States with the cost of crime.
Members of the grand jury
are: S. T. Russ, foreman, J. Berg,
J. E. Piner, A. M. Woodard, J. W.
Lancaster, J. J. Henry, B. R.
Page, D. S. Russ, G. S. Hollis,
J. G. Hickman, W. C. Gore, D. L.
Mercer, G. H. Caison, T. H. Wolfe,
W. F. Millien, H. C. Brady, J. H.
Milliken and S. R. Phelps.
"We hear a lot about the high ]
cost of our educational program,"
said Judge Burney, "and we do
spend a tremendous sum on our
boys and girls, around three bil(Continued
on page four)
ig Held
dxiut Defense
t
Cripple Seal
Sales Begin
Mrs. S. B. Frink has been
named county rhairman of the
Easter Seals sales committee
and plans to make a drive for
funds for crippled children during
this week end
The county chairman has
divided the town into zones,
with each division assigned to
one of ten young helpers She
has asked to assist with the
program.
When citizens understand
that these funds are to help
defray expenses of rehabilitation
for crippled children from
families of moderate means,
they will be glad to join in
the support of a worthy cause,
says Mrs. Frink.
Funeral Held
For Mr. Ruark
Wade Ruark, Aged Southport
Resident, Died Sunday
Evening At Home
Fnllnwlnp Illness'
Wade Ruark, 87-year-old resident
of Southport, died at his
home here Sunday evening following
a lengthy illness.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Sarah Ruark. and by four
sons, E. C. Ruark, Edison D.
Ruark, A. D. Ruark and F. W.
Ruark, all of Wilmington; and
two daughters, Mrs. A. J. Mills
of Leland and Mrs. William Gay
of Southport.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock
from Trinity Methodist church
with final rites iif charge of Rev.
R. S. Harrison. Rev. A. L. Brown
and Rev. James Mohn of Richlands.
The body was laid to rest in
the family plot in Southport cemetery,
with grandsons of the deceased
serving as pallbearers.
-ourt Oath
By The Judge
this business of perjury, of going
on the witness stand and
swearing to a lie. There has
been developed an idea that it
is smart to beat the law, but
if I catch anybody going on
that stand this week and swearing
to a deliberate lie, I'm going
to ask the solicitor to swear
out a bill of indictment to be
presented to you. If you find
it a true bill, that man is coming
before me. I want to try
him myself.
"The most dangerous man in
the world", declared Judge Burney.
"is the one who will swear
to a lie, because a man may
spend his whole life building
up a 'good character and have
some scoundrel ruin him in one
minute."
ME
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Southport, N. C., We
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fe.i
MANSION?Gentle rai
Orton Gardens to the heigh
toric grounds during the ne
Records Show
Drunk Driving
Is On Increase
However, Only Five Revocations
Resulted From
This Trouble In Brunswick
During First Three
Months
SERIOUS FACTOR IN
ACCIDENT TOLL
State Authorities Anxious
To Do All In Their Power
To Curtail Tendency
In Drivers
Drunken drivers are on the
n<.MAl!nn nnrl
rampage in norur uuumia auu
constitute one of the factors contributing
to the current serious
increase in traffic deaths on the
streets and highways of this state,
the Highway Safety Division reported
this week.
Basis for this report was a
record number of revocations for
drunken driving and a considerable
increase in traffic deaths
caused by drunken drivers.
There wfere "b revocations i-Jr
Brunswick county during the
first three months.
Revocations for the state during
January, February and March
totaled 1,809, the highest threemonths
total on record. Since enforcement
of the law relating to
drunken driving is more or less
constant, an increase 'in revocations
points to an increase in the
prevalence of drunken driving, officials
said.
Drunken drivers killed 120 persons
in North Carolina last year,
this being 12 per cent of the total
of 990 traffic fatalities. Seventeen
of the 87 traffic deaths in
the State in February of this year
and 10 of the 70 verified March
fatalities to date were caused by
drinking drivers, according to records
of the safety division. Thus,
27 out of# the 157 fatalities for
the two-months period, or 17 per
cent of the total, resulted from
drinking and driving. This was
five per cent above the 1940 average.
"Twenty-seven people were killed
in this state in February and
March by drivers who were foolish
enough to think that they
could drive safely after taking a
few drinks," declared Ronald
Hocutt, director of the Highway
Safety Division. "Of all types of
traffic accidents, I know of none
for which there is as little justification
or excuse as those involving
drinking drivers.
"To the end that accidents of
this type may be eliminated as
a factor in our accident problem,
I appeal to all North Carolina
drivers to refrain from mixing
their drinking and driving, and I
urge all enforcement officers in
the state to be unrelenting and
extremely vigilant in apprehending
and bringing to justice this
ruthless killer?the drunken driver".
Boxing Bouts
Friday Night
High School Lads To Be
Matched In Series Of
Bouts In Interesting Boxing
Program
There is considerable local interest
in the program of boxing
bouts that will be staged in the
high school gymnasium on Friday
night beginning at 7:30 o'clock.
Johnnie Simmons, veteran golden
glover of Southport, is staging
the boxing show for the benefit
of the junior class of Southport
high school. Proceeds will go
toward defraying the expenses of
the Junior-Senior banquet.
Robert Thompson has agreed
to referee the bouts; while Captain
I. B. Bussels, Paul Fodalc
and James Harper will serve as
judges.
I
P0R1
In A Good Coi
dnesday, April 9th, 19-1
ORTON ATTRACTS
ns and warm weather durin
it of their beauty for Easter,
ixt 10 days.
Local Con
At Educ
Two-Day Respite
For Fishermen
Inland waters will be open
for fishermen on Easter Sunday
and Monday, according to
a ruling of the state board of
conservation and development
designed to give anglers an opportunity
to engage in their
favorite sport over the holiday
week-end After Monday,
though, the season will remain
closed until May 10.
Announcement also nas Deen
received that Saturday of this
week will be the last open day
for taking shad and herring in
inland waters.
Attend District
Society Meeting
Woman's Society Of Christian
Service Of North
Carolina Conference Attended
By Brunswick
Ladies
The Methodist Woman's Society
; of Christian Service of the North
I Carolina Conference met in Rocky
| Mount March 25-27.
The N. C. Conference comj
prises 464 societies with a memI
bership of 17,000. There were
i 313 members registered at the
j conference in addition to several
hundred visitors.
The national organization is
! the largest group of organized
womanhood in the history of prot!
estanism and has 1,500.000 mem1
bcrs. They support 700 missionaries
on twenty-one mission fields.
I Mrs. F. V. DeVinny, sec. orfg'anizatlon
and promotion, Wornian's
Division, from New York
jmade two inspiring addresses to
| the conference.
Miss Lorena Kelly, of Mooresville,
Missionary to Africa; Miss
Euline Smith of Hamlet, and Miss
Ida Hankins, of Wilmington, Missionaries
to Korea; and Rev.
Charles Clay, Missionary to Brazil,
were guests of the conferlence
and brought wonderful messages
from the foreign fields.
The Home Field was represented
by Miss Priscilla Stegar, in(Continued
on page 4)
Bible Students
Come To County
Team Of Young People
From Columbia Bible
College Will Be At Calabash
April 18-21
St Andrew's Episcopal Church,
Calabash is to have the privilege
of having a team of young people
from Columbia Bible College, Columbia,
S. C., for the week end
of April 18-21. The group from
the Bible College will conduct a
conference specifically for young
people of junior, intermediate and
senior age. The programs which
will be led by young people, and
conducted for young people, will
be vital and challenging, dealing
with the everyday problems confronting
modern youth.
The Young Peoples' Service
League of Calabash is sponsoring
this conference and the league
extends a hearty welcome to all
groups of young people throughout
the county to attend the
meeting.
The conference will begin Friday
night, April IS, at 7:30
o'clock in the church at Calabash.
Saturday the first meeting will
' (continued on page four)
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[nmunity
PUB L1S(
EASTER VISITORS
|
Ift lil f . H fjEJM
g the pasi few days have con;
Thousands of visitors are e
(lmitteemei
:ation Boar
Owner Of Caswell1
Fatally Injured (
S. O. Chase, Head Of Chase j,
Investment Co., Died "
Last Week In Florida
Following Auto Accident
?
Friends in Southport were
shocked last week to learn of
j the death of S. O. Shase, owner
of Fort Caswell, at his home in
IsanTnrri Kla Mr. Chase was 80
years of age and his death resulted
from injuries received in an
automobile accident on March
22nd.
Despite his advanced years, Mr.
Chase was very active and usually
drove his own car. At the
time of the accident he was driving
with his daughter-in-law, returning
from one of the numerous
orange groves which Mr.
Chas owned. A car on the highway
stopped suddenly in front
of the Chase machine and Mr.
Chase was forced to apply the
brakes and swerve his car in an
effort to avoid striking the one
in front.
His automobile skidded and
overturned. He sustained what
was at first thought to be slight
injuries, but within a few days
I he became seriously ill.
| . Mr. Chase was reputed the
largest grower and shipper of
citrus fruits in the world. In addition
to his citrus industries he
was also connected with scores of
other industries. He spent much
time at Asheville in this state
and often visited his Fort Cas-1
well property here. During his j
visits here he met many local
HAnntn fln.l flnniIirnrl nvinir trarm I '
anu avijuiivu utimj ?
personal friends.
Unless the government takes .
over Fort Caswell, it is assumed
that his estate will continue the <
operation of Fort Caswell, as it
has been operated the past few
years. This week, W. B. Keziah
had a letter from Randall Chase
III, giving details of his fathers (
accident and death. No mention <
was made of Fort Caswell. i
Survivors include two brothers, ,
Charles F. Chase, of Jackson (
Heights, N. Y., and Joshua C.
Chase of Winter Park: a sister, (
Mrs. C. B. Adamson of Philadcl- f
phia, Pa., three sons, Randall (
Chase, Frank W. Chase, and S. i
O. Chase, Jr.; and three grand
children, Sydney O. Chase, III, of 1
Sanford, Franklin Whitner Chase, 1
Jr., of Windemere, and Lucia ;
Duval Chase of Windemere. (
A one Of Deadl
Brunswick (
Checkup Reveals That There
In Local Dr
There are not now, nor have
there been, any of the sulfathiazole
tablets which had
been contaminated with phenobarbital
In Brunswick drug
stores, a check of the county's
pharmaceutical establishments
during the week end revealed.
Diuggists of the three stores in
I the county themselves hastened
to check up on their stocks
to make sure that there were
none of the contaminated pills
in this ar^a.
Recent Associated Press Dispatches
from Washington have
referred to 410,000 tablets of
the type indicated?contaminated?as
having been distributi
cd by Winthrop Chemical Co. of
j New York. Subsequently five
deaths and a number of cases
| of injuries were reported,
j Since that time, the company j
has recalled as many of the J
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?pired to bring the famous 1
xpected to visit these his- ,
i Name
d Meeting
Miss Annie May Woodside
Is Re-Elected County Superintendent
Of Schools
At Monday Night Meeting
SOME CHANGES IN
LOCAL COMMITTEES
^(o Change Occurs In Local
School Board; Complete
Change Made in Board
For Leland; Changes
For Waccamaw
At a meeting of the Brunswick i
:ounty board of education held
lere Monday night, Miss Annie
Way Woodside was reelected
:ourrty superintendent. She is now
beginning her seventh year as
lead of the Brunswick school
system. Her new appointment is
"or two years.
At the same time members of
ocal school boards for the consolidate
schools of the county
vere named.
At Southport the old board
.vas reelected. The members are:
Vfrs. E. H. Cranmer, Capt. I. B.
Sussels, and Dr. R. C. Daniel.
No changes were made in the
Shallotte committee, the board refining
the following personnel:
sV. H. Varnum, Floyd Kirby,
Peter Todd, Roland Mintz, and
3. P. Bellamy.
Two changes were made at
A'accmaw. Dave Bennett and Bur iss
Russ were reappointed. New
Ticmbers are: Geo. Ward, L. C.
3rown* and Jesse Purvis.
At Bolivia no changes were
nade, the board being as follows:
2rnest Gilbert, E. M. Danford,
ind A. P. Henry, Sr.
There was a complete board
:hangc at Leland. The school com nittee
now includes the followng
men: Willie Lennon, Bruce
A'illiams and M. Eugene Bullard.
Taken Part In
College Plays
Miss Annie Lidc Gilbert reurned
to Meredith College, Ralligh,
Sunday p. m. after spendng
the spring holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Earnest
Gilbert of route 1, Bolivia.
She has been appointed to help
>n the staging committee of the
ipring production of the little
heatre, the play to be given beng,
"Pride arid Prejudice".
On March 21st she went to
Dunn and helped present a B. T.
J. play given by the Meredith
jirls and some boys from State
College.
V Pills In
7heck Reveals
Are None Of Deadly Pills
ug Stores
shipment as possible, but many
of them appear to have been
beyond recall, and inspectors
of the Federal Food and Drug
administration have been busily
engaged in efforts to check
and remove from the channels
of trade any such tablets.
Sulfathiozilc, a new drug, is
used in the treatment of pneumonia
and certain infections.
Ailments for which it is prescribed
include venereal diseases
infections. Although the contamination
of the tablets mentioned
was regarded as caused
through an error of some kind,
detailed information as to how
that serious complication developed
has not been learned.
Lot numbers of the drug for
which Federal Inspectors arc
looking are MP029, MP118, and
MP169.
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The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
$1.50 PER YEA8
P
Orton Gardens
Are Ready For
Easter Visitors
;amous Brunswick County
Beauty-Spot Should Be
More Lovely Than Ever
Before During Month Of
April
VZALEAS ARE NOW
IN FULL BLOOM
lardens Are Added To
And Improved Each Year
With Plants From Nursery
On Place
BY W. B. KEZIAH
Nature has come stepping up
luring the past few days. Under
;he Impulse generated by warm *
rains and warm winds from the
south, pear, plum and cherry
trees have burst into full bloom
and many trees are already well
bedecked in new leaves. Grass,
farm and garden crops have taken
on a vigerous healthy growth.
Out at Orton Plantatioin where
operated with energetic and capable
management for the past
three years, nature and the ingenuity
of man have combined
to produce what is now the loveliest
spot in all North Carolina.
The far-famed Orton camellias are
fading now, but to supplant them
thousands and thousands of the
beautiful azaleas have burst into
full bloom. The azaleas are closely
flanked by a bewildering assortment
of other beautiful blooming
flowers and plants.
"The azaleas will be at their
peak about the last of next week;
meanwhile we will have an
abundance of beautiful Easter
flower finery", said Churchill
Bragaw, the Orton horticulturist
and manager, Monday. "In fact,"
he continued, "the whole of the I
month of April will see a world 1
of beautiful blooming flowers at fl
Orton. I am tickled to death at I
the flowering prospects for this I
month." I
It is not hard to believe that I
April will give flower lovers the I
opportunity to see the greatest fl
wealth of bloom that has ever I
pr?ny' ?t??lf st the famed
Orton plantation. This past year
and for the past several years fl
countless thousands of new plants fl
of all sorts have been set out and fl
old beds have been improved. Re; fl
gardlcss of how good things have I
been, there has been a constant I
effort for improvement of the fl
Orton flowers.
The Orton Gardens for the past fl
two or three years at least, have fl
been a nation-wide subject for fl
writers of the outdoors, especially fl
of flowers. Newspapers from fl
Maine to California .have carHed fl
wonderful stories of tile famed fl
Brunswick county plantation and
its wonderful gardens. Stories in fl
books and periodicals have also fl
been glowing. The fame of tho fl
Orton Gardens has spread from I
coast to coast. fl
And, while various sources ha,ve fl
been singing the praise of the fl
gardens, very few people have fl
known the source of the wealth I
of loveliness. Most of the plant I
replacements and most of the new fl
UCU3 UL 11UWCIB nave UOCIl glUTin
right there in Orton's own nursery,
a nursery that is just as
lovely as the garden which it
supplies with new beauty. Not
only does the Orton nursery regenerate
the whole garden; it
grows plants and ships them to
other gardens in practically every
state in the Union, and often to
foreign countries.
Monday morning while we were
(Continued on page 4)
Tide Table
Following is the tide table
(or Southport during the next
week. These hours are appro: 1
ximately correct and were furnished
The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot's Association.
High Tide Low Tide
TIDE TABLE
Thursday, April 10
6:15 a. in. 0:09 a, in.
6:44 p. m. 12:33 p. m.
Friday, April 14
7:03 a. m. 1:02 a. m.
7:29 p. ni. 1:23 p. m.
Saturday, April 12
7:50 a. m. 1:54 a. m.
8:16 p. m. 2:12 p. n>.
Sunday, April 13
8:39 a. m. 2:44 a. m.
9:04 p. m. 3:00 p. m.
Monday, April 14
9:31 a. m. 3:34 a. in.
9:56 p. m. 3:47 p. m.
Tuesday, April 15
10:26 a. m. 4:24 a. m.
10:51 p. m. 4:86 p. OV
Wednesday, April 16
11:23 a. m. 5:16 a. in.
11:48 p. in. 5:31 p. ui.