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PAGE TWO THE STATE PORT PILOT ^ Southport, N. C. PUBUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JAMES M. HARPER, JR., Editor ante rod m second-class matter April 20, 1028, at the Poat Office at Southport N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. * i. .. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR *1.60 MX MONTHS 1.00 | (THREE MONTHS .78 NATIONAL EDITORIALf|4[ ^ASSOCIATION Wednesday, July 30, 1941 When you are sixteen there are few heart-breaks that can't be welded tog-ether again by a new flame. 1 >1 1 ????????????????? Responsibility either makes a man break up or buck up. One argument a man never loses is his 1 twice-told tale of a verbal battle. ( I The greatest fear that some people ' have when they tell a secret is that it ; ' really will be kept. ' i Our Place'hi The War < According to most commentators, it is ' the belief of the President that this coun- J i.? mQiiv a bellicerent step i II > 1(111 t<HW ItlMllJ ? o-without formally becoming a participant in the war. Judging by recent German statements, that belief seems to be well- t grounded. Hitler's spokesmen denounce a the United States and its foreign policy, f but they still say that Germany will not r be forced into declaring war on us, by c "overt acts." In short. Hitler's legions are u busy enough now without taking 011 a t new foe. ii If Hitler had wished, he could obvious- t ly have construed the U. S. Military oc- a cupation of Iceland as an act of war. Iceland is less than a thousand miles from Germany, and could be developed into a 0 major air base for use against the Reich. Whether or not Iceland is actually a part of the Western Hemisphere is a highly p debatable question. The little island lies f across the 20th meridian, which is generally considered the dividing lines of the two hemispheres. Two-thirds of the coun- y try is east of that line. However, the one- s third which is west of the line includes Reykjavik, the only large Icelandic city and port. ii The reasons for occupying Iceland are t clear enough. First, the American occu- .r*ntinn lmc vnlonsprl numbers of Enmire I troops for service elsewhere?the bulk of I them will probably be sent to Africa, where Britain has just won a decisive victory over France, and where there are 1 rumors of German action to pull Vichy's well-burnt chestnuts out of the fire. Second, the American occupation of Iceland makes it possible for us to patrol and dominate the greater part of the Atlantic ocean. Thus, British men-of-war need only to protect the convoys from Iceland to English ports, which involves a distance of about 700 miles. Third, the American occupation of Iceland has made it clear to the world that; i.. as the President said, we will recognize no fixed geographical boundaries in car i rying out our policy of protecting this hemisphere from aggressors. It is the government's position that the airplane . has made all previous ideas of hemisph. ovoir? rlofoneo wnro rvv locc r?Ker\lofd on VI V1V MViVllOV IIIWIV VI IVCW VUOVlVVVf CA11VI that our military outposts must be farflung indeed. Fourth, the American occupation of -Iceland may have been designed as a move to pave the way for future occupation of other foreign possessions in our i part of the world, notably Dakar, in French Africa, and the strategic Cape mm Verde Islands. Theoretically, our Navy is not convoy ing British shipping. It is simply patrol- ] ling the Atlantic. In actuality, many au- \ thorities believe, there is little difference between a convoy and a patrol. It has been announced that an American destroyer dropped depth charges over a German submarine. And American fighting ships are at sea now, warning the British whenever they come on a Nazi raider. The American Navy, in other ! words, is pretty much in the war. / ' . Furthermore, American aid, though many still feel that it is not great enough, ; is becoming a real factor in the conflict. , ' Some of the great bombers which have been blasting at German-occupied areas on the Continent, are of American make. ' British dreams of air equality and eventual air superiority have not yet been realized, but they are coming closer to >" ' actuality. And at this time, with a large 4dlH ? ' I " part of the German strength mobilized! ? in the Eastern front, British power, relatively speaking, is undoubtedly greater by far than in the past. The recent statement by a British general to the effect that American manpower will be eventually necessary to lick Hitler, caused much speculation in this country. The British position, as stated by Mr. Churchill, has always been that the Empire needed only materials of war, not men. Whether that position will be changed, remains to be seen. Right now, there would be small chance of Congress authorizing another A. E. F. Taking Unfair Advantage In Time Of Crisis Many persons in the United States at this time seem to think that Senator Wheeler, Charles A. Lindbergh and the other rabid isolationists who seek to placate the fears of the U. S. public with fairy tales of Nazi altruism, have warred upon the Administration's foreign policy for purely personal and political reasons. They detect in the widespread campaign which the so-called America-First Committee has been wont to wage against ;he U. S. administration's plan for aid to Britain, -and protecting our own shores, is the beginning of a daring bid for eadership in the nation by this partisan rroup. The ambitions of Col. Lindbergh and senator Wheeler are both pretty wellcnown to the general public already, some will agree that these two have a ollowing, and that their eyes are already urned toward the 1944 campaign. m- i r ii ? IO try cuiuuat: cue pcu^ic ui una *i?ion, to divide and misinform them, in in emergency such as the United States aces today, is something which the aveage American citizen will find# it inreasingly difficult to forget. To seize pon such a vital issue at this time, when he world faces the gravest crisis perhaps ii its history, shows up both these genlemen for the statesmen which they ren't. Simile: He is as shiftless as the gears n a 1901 automobile in zero weather. It generally happens that a two-faced ierson is twice as nosey as the ordinary ellow. If you want people to look up to you, ou'd best climb the nearest church teeple. You're hard hearted if you think lenent is a word used only to describe a ower down Pisa way. Shears And Paste "OBACCO TAX UP AGAIN ((The Lumberton Robesonian.) The House of Congress ways and means committee began Saturday final consideration of the huge defense tax bill, and the danger hnhs nn aeain of nossihlp revival of the treaa ury's plan to increase taxes on tobacco. The committee has been shown time and again that tobacco already is carrying more than its share of the tax load, for more than other luxuries, but apparently it will be necessary to present the facts over again. And it will be necessary for the farmers themselves to prove to the committee that increasing the taxes on tobacco will seriously affect farmers and all other interests in the tobacco sections. Tobacco tax increases tentatively were eliminated from the bill a short while ago, but the proposal to require joint income tax returns by married couples has aroused strong opposition with the threat of loss of some $300,000,000 in revenue, and, as usual, when one source of revenue seems about to be lost, longing eyes are cast toward tobacco, regardless of the fact that tobacco taxes have been increased oftener and more heavily than taxes on any other luxury. DON'T FORGET TO LOOK UNDER YOUR BED TONIGHT (Roanoke Beacon) Congressman Hamilton Fish, of New York, who is doing a brief tour of duty at Fort Bragg as a Reserve Corps colonel in the Army, in a recent speech at Fayetteville, says that if he believed the editorial pages of the North Carolina newspapers he reads, he would "look under the bed every night . . for Hitler." North Carolina folks as a whole, however, are quite different from Ham Fish. They have no fear of finding Hitler under their beds; but there is a well-founded fear that they may find in their very midst defeatist-isolationists of the ilk represented by Fish and Senator Wheeler; and if the Congressman will pardon us, while he is looking under his bed for Hitler, we'll be looking under our beds for Fishes. And we'll come a dang sight nearer finding what we're looking for than he will. I THE STATE PORT PI Among FISHERMEN , Bl' BII.T. KEZIAH President J. Hammond Brown of the Outdoor Writers Association of America has written us confirming the fact that the officers and directors of the association will meet here again in the fall. The gathering of these key men here last November was a great event for the town and county. It resulted in barrels of stuff being written about this section. * * * I Gee whiz, Bob Wilson, writer of "Up The Stream" column in The Washington Times-Herald which sends out a huge predated Sunday edition for all over the United States, wrote us Sunday he was coming in Friday of this week. Boh has just had his vacation, spent it at Ocean City, Md., j and now he is coining to Southport where he can really catch a fish. X* f 4 A lot of up-state sportsmen seem to find this column interesting. Anyhow, when we took a long vacation they wrote both us and the paper every week or so and cussed us out. Attorney and Mrs. T. K. Carlton of Salisbury even stopped taking the paper and coming to Southport. They came in Sunday, asked when we were going to start to writing the Just Among the Fishermen again. Finding we ?ire already doing it, Mr. Carlton insisted on paying for the paper two years in auvance. ? ? ? Shrimp have been coming in at a very encouraging; rale and buyers have been delivering all around for the past two weeks. Saturday W. S. Wells sent the first truck load to the Fulton Fish Market in New York. The boats have been getting 100 to 450 pounds of headed shrimp per day. .Mr. Wells stated this week he was greatly encouraged by I the outlook for a good season ' this year. For most of last week the boatmen were getting 15-eents per pound for the headed product. # * * This year's top catch of barracu'da, both size and number considered, was made Sunday when a Raleigh party brought in "14 large one. The party also made a good catch of dolphine, amberjack. etc. There were 11 in the party, about twice the number that will permit of good fishing The day before a Wilmington party, headed by Fred Ashburn. brought in 9 barracuda and a five foot 10-inch sail fish. * * * Twelve hundred pounds of large blue fish were brought in Friday by Captain Roy Brown of Morehead City, who is now operating his commercial boat and nets here. The fish averaged two pounds and bore out lower North Carolina coast fishing claims of blues being good sized this year. They are both large and plentiful." ? * ? Two or three full-limit catches were made on Orton pond last week. One party of four men are reported to have gotten 152 fish of various sorts. They are supposed to all have gotten their days limit of some sorts. Slim Kendall, associate editor of the Greensboro Daily News, tried the pond twice last week and made a splendid catch both times. ? ? ? At their meeting in Western North Carolina last fall the Board of Conservation and Development voted to hold their regular meeting at .Morehead this year and after one day they would come to South port and finish the meeting here. Since the Western N. C., meeting some of the old members of the board have been fired. The new organization appears to be pretty well under control. Anyhow, at the meeting at Morehead last week no mention was made of the old board's plans to meet at Southport. # ? ? One big handicap that Southport has" always had to contend with is that the town is located near the lower end of the coast. A good many people, including some who are supposed to know better, are firmly of the belief that the sun rises and sets in the center, and above there, of the North Carolina coast line. There are too few North Carolina citizens who understand that more than two-thirds of the citizens of North Carolina live nearer to the cost at Southport than to the center of the coast line. ? * With the new moon coming on now all sorts of fishing will improve through next week. A good many trout, pig fish, croakers, sheephead, whttey's, etc., should appear in the river, in addition to being more numerous LOT. SOUTHPORT. N. C. | This Week In ... . ] DEFENSE Acting Secretary of Sta' I Welles said present Japane: activities directed toward Indi China endanger "peaceful use t peaceful nations of the Pacific Jeopardize the procurement t the United States of essenti; materials such as tin and ru! I ber . . . necessary for . . . 01 ! defense program ..." He sa | the safety of other areas', inclui j ing the Philippine Islands, ah I is endangered. The. President issued a stab ! ment that the United States hi been letting oil go to Japa "with the hope?and it has worl ed for two years?of keeping ti war out of the South Pacific f< our own good, for the defen! of Great Britain and the freedoi j of the seas . . ." Mr. Roosevelt told his pre! j conference events in the Fs i East are bringing to the Ame j ican public a greater awarene: j of the danger of the whole worl i situation. But as yet, he sat ! the public is not sufficient] i cognizant of the perils of tl J situation, any more than it rea izes the dangers of war in tl West. ARMY | Secretary of War Stimson sai production of vital items ha | been increased with the coopers ; tion of American industry dui ! ing the past "100 crucial days j as follows: light tanks, 475 pel cent: Medium tanks, 467 percenl smokeless powder, 127 percenl machine guns, 93 percent; TNI 92 percent; training planes, 55, percent; bombers, 17.8 perecent. The War Department sai Army expansion has progresse faster in the past year than th manufacture of modern weapon: but since it is more importar to know how to employ a weapo tactically rather than to kno' how to fire it, "little trainin value is lost by the substitutio of a stove pipe for a mottar c an oak bough for a machine gun' If a company has fewer gun i than men, the guns are rotate J so each man has a chance t learn how to handle them. The War Department said i is giving four types of tests t discover a trainees ability an to help find his "right" place i the Army. Selective Service Heat quarters announced that 752,57 twenty-one-year-olds registered o July 1. HIGHWAYS Congress passed a S320.000.00 defense highway bill for construe tion of roads and experiments airplane landing strips, and to pa states for defense from Army an Navy maneuvers. AID TO BRITAIN Federal Loan Administrate Jones announced the RFC ha authorized a loan of S425.000.00 to the United Kingdom of Grea Britain and Northern Ireland t pay for war supplies Great Bril ain ordered before the Lent Lease Ast was passed. Mr. Jone said Great Britain has put u collateral which includes secur ties of U. S. corporations, car ital stock of 41 British owne U. S. insurance companies wort $500,000,000, and the earnings c U. S. branches of 41 British ir su ranee companies which hav | net assets of approximatel $200,000,000. The loan matures i 15 years and bears interest a 3 percent per year. POWER OPM Director General Knudse named J. A. Krug, OPM Powe Consultant, head of a spcci; power unit to assure an unintei j rupted supply of electrical energ by reducing consumption in nor defense industries, and, if necei sary, by rationing power wher shortages are threatened. Mr. Krug said vast "powe pools" will be created to insur adequately supply of electricit for aluminum and mage3iur plants now under constructioi He said one has already bee formed for aluminum plants i I Tennessee and others are bein j considered for Arkansas, Okie ; homa, Texas, Louisiana, th southern sections of Kansas an Missouri, and for the Northeast em section including the Ne\ England States, New York, easl ern Pennsylvania and New Jei sey. OIL Defense Petroleum Coordinate Ickes requested a voluntary cc of 33 1-3 percent in motor fu< consumption in the Atlantic Coas States to avoid rationing. Cor gress passed a bill authorizin federal aid to private firms i construction interstate pipeline; and Mr. Ickes recommended tha the petroleum industry construe a $70,000,000 pipeline from eas Texas to the Atlantic coast wit a daily capacity of 250,000 bat on the outside. The Septembe and October full moon period should bring about the best fish ing of the year, both in the rive and outside. Last year the Gul Stream fishing was fine right u to Christmas. It would probabl have been good after the weathe had settled. r :| -NOTEXflC This old Southern sun feels mighty good to j a Southern son after a brief sojourn in the Frozen ~ I North (North meaning the place socialites are a te i dime-a-dozen and dozens haven't the dime, and se frozen meaning just that?had to wear a sweater the entire time.) . . . Taking the editor's hint of last week we went over to see the pups of Dick ,y Brendle's Happy. All are perfect beauties. And al for dog fanciers Readers Digest has an article on dog training. It's interesting reading and sounds id 1,0Sical ' j. j The Dan Gregory outfit turned out to be one so j of the most danceable bands on the circuit. He j was swell all the way through. Little Virginia 0I Dare could sing, too, but was done dirt by an amin 1 plifier that wouldn't work. Joe Leighton's first <-' trumpet man, Herby, joined the Gregory gang a le' few days before their arrival here . . . The new)r I Je j comers will draw big at a return engagement . . . m Wiley Wells and Vicky, his wife, have for sometime owned a cute little Spitz named Peppy. Re^ cently they acquired a cat, and in keeping with r_ the character from "Algiers" named her LeMoko. js Now the Carr's nephew, Tommy Carr, is quite a 'j-' saxophone player we've heard. He's been playing y at Carolina Beach this summer. Being only fif[e teen years old he stands a wonderful chance of 1- j going places . . . The baseball followers are wondering about the unusual antics of the leaders. Dodger fans are quite worried, while rooters for d | to construct 40 to 50 large, high- 1,000,000 workers ls | speed oil tankers in addition to by the aircraft i 1 iso now on order. 1942, as compare CIVILIAN SUPPLY j 000 employed tod ' Price Administrator Henderson 600 will be need , announced a tentative program in the shipbuildin .' to cut production in the automo- 373,000 are now j,' tive, domestic mechanical refri- j NA J. gerator and mechanical house-: Navy Secretarj j hold laundry equipment indus-Ja special Naval < j tries to make more materials 14 companies wi ! available for defense. He said production schedu ^ i the cut will be offset by defense tracts. He said e work these industries would un- "all out" for def( S' dertake. OPM Director General mitted to fly thi Knudsen said the proposed shift' employees will 11 : should coincide with increased de- j wear in their v j fense orders to the industry to the traditional N, S j avoid unemployment. j cellence. The mi n LABOR sion saicl the en President Roosevelt established program is nea s a committee on fair employment ahead of schedu 1 d practice in the Office of Produc- PRIi o tion Management to prevent dis-1 Price Administ crimination against defense work-1 asked the baking ers or Government employees be-! duce operating i l( cause of race, creed or national; of "raising bread 0 j origin. The six members reprer' sent the CIO, AFL, the newsn i papers and radio, and include two I _ j Negroes. I r " ! OPM Associate Director Gen- I "ifiral Hillman announced that 800.- j Coasts 000 AFL building trade union I . members have reached a stabili- CnKW? , zation agreement with the Gov- ' (] ernment calling for no strikes ?3.50 to on defense projects for the dura- Furnished Ho. tion of the emergency and no ' stoppage of work because of jur- Deepsea and isdictional disputes "or any other Bathing. I cause". >r lS LABOR SUPPLY i0 Mr. Hillman told railroad of- Water. Ligh Lt ficials and labor executives in o Chicago that the 100,000 unemploy- GASV ed. skilled railroad workers could l_ be shifted to defense work under TELEPHONIC ,a a "voluntary labor priority" plan. 3 p Mr. Hillman said an estimated ) 1 d h )f iTAX IN n : pay vnup icmh i n i iv/un i*nv [ FRIDAY, A1 ; AND SAVE COSTS' NO TAKE-OUTS Af n ng Advertisement of de payment of delinquent issue of WEDNESDAY now and save embarra I costs. !l Chas. E * BRUNSWICI n Tax Co R P r J mmm??^?tmmmc? ' WEDNESDAY n?rB TLY NEWS the Cards feel that it is before the Birds spread eagle the "BS gest disappointment so fat .... Joe DiMaggio missed 3 - , H| with the Heinz people by f.,ii?;, 1 ''.'/sHs consecutive game. S Mr. Crapon is having his Mdio 1 present and the gang is missing u MOVIES: Spencer Track ami Muk , Pj 1 in "Men Of Boys Town," hen- at t!. , H Monday. | When C. Ed Taylor. Southport atta* I : to attend the annual homecoming d , > jj New Hope Sunday before list n,e i ; around that he must be mighty Sl ]! '1 wouldn't miss an event over which |. HI sided as master of ceremonies at m .1 : session for several years. He stuy. ,,r serve as an honorary pallbeater :,t ;c? ,B : a boyhood friend, but he'll have a 1 j ing to do to other boyhood friend. y 1 ' .... The coast guardsmen . H Bald Head Island have a lonely n:> when they do have company > .Jj more genial hosts. Dave . HS who is leader of the clan says that r I thews recently spoiled half of tin- J having by putting a stop to stealing .J Mathews told them they wore v .-i, , .1 want-and they haven't tasted the ... J 1 will be needed t ingredient ndustry by July, cent a loaf Bitu:: ..I d with the 200.- Counsel Hair I ay. He said 555,- mum prices at 10 p.: jl pH hv npvt .Tulv tht* nrpsi'iit g industry where) AGMttLTTK I employed. , OPM Associate ? I VTf ' eral Hillman said ag: Knox presented ! be represent) * rrdinance flag to , cently created OPM i.-gfl to are ahead of Sections conceit../ fl les of Navy con- modules produ I firms who are or necessary I ;nse wifl be per- agriculture." I t flag and their ALUMIM M (iil.ui]fl be allowed to OCD Directoi :... lapels an "E", nounced that or July i ivy mark of ex- aluminum . I aritime Commis-, Wjn send materials S tire shipbuilding the voluntary H irly sixty days centration points tt I ' cities of the 4S State -fl ?ES [the Treasury Depart H rator Henderson procurement offie? . industry to re-; fer the scrap t. , H expenses instead j defense contracts c, H prices. He said prices. El ORT GAS WELL I il. Carolina's Vacationlanil I 7/ Lodge . . . American Plam * B $5.00 per day . . $33.50 to $33.30 per wte K mes, Trailer Park. Yacht Basin. Fishing Gulf Stream Fishing. Surf and Mineral f* 'rivate Dance Pavilion. Tennis. W t< - H OCEAN-FRONT HOME SITES E its, Paving. Sensibly Restricted?$330 ti ^ELL-CAROLINA CORP CONNECTIONS P. O. SOI TI1P0RT. 5 fOTICE TAXES BEFORE fTOITOT 1 . UUUdI 1st, I OF ADVERTISING I 'TER THAT DATE. I property for sale for I taxes will begin in the I r, AUGUST 6th. Pay I ssment and additional I . Gause I V COUNTY I Hector I
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