The Pilot Covers
I Brunswick County
|BoL. NO. FOURTEEN NO,
econd Survivor
m)t Helena Came
Home On Friday
^Hpatsu ain Mate Frank Pot^B<
R? ,,ches Home And Is
^B Reunited With Family
I And Other Brother He
Had Not Seen Since Hel
ena Was Torpedoed
Hp[ \ SEVEN DAYS ON
vPANESE HELD ISLAND
? Water Three Days With^K,ut
Being Attacked By
Passing Japanese Plan?
I es, No Food Except
Cocoanuts While
On Island
Boatswain Mate Frank Potter
home Friday night and
Hs welcomed by his parents, bro
- s and sisters, including Boat
Mate Bryant Potter, whose
ivs leave from the navy was
Bryant left early the next
^Borw'c after a few hours reunion
the brother whom he had
^B: seen since the Cruiser Helena
j^Bas torpedoed and sunk by the
^B. , . st Both young men, sons
H Mi ami Mrs. J. F. Potter, were
- on the Helena from the
she was commissioned until
Hie sank that early morning in
^Kte July.
'Hi. boat in which Bryant, the
^Lingest of the brothers, left the
^ r-kirs cruiser was picked up
after the Helena went
^Bv.vn, A destroyer making the
H, int was uninjured and
^Krev or four weeks after the
^Lttlc he was allowed to come
.Home on 30 days leave. Prior
(Hi Frank's arrival Friday night,
^Bryant had not seen him since a
H, hours before the battle in
^Bhich the Helena went down. She
not go down, however, withHut
taking with her the credit of
Hinking two Japanese cruisers and
BU destroyers in her last engageHier.t.
In all, from the time she
Hras commissioned until the night
Hhe sank, the Helena received of^Ecial
credit for the sinking of 12
Hapanese warships, during 13 batHks.
The two 1 .iter boys were in
H 1 these battles, which includ^Bd
the treacherous attack from
H Japanese at Pearl Harbor. The
Hlelena was badly damaged in that
^B'.'.Ack.
' I Seen by Pilot's representative
Hh:s week, Frank related how all
Boats left the sinking warships at
Hbout the same time, after a
H * destroyer had delivered
Hour torpedoes broadside on. At
^Uie time when she fell a victim
Ho the torj)edoes the Helena was
Hteaming at full speed and with
H" hcr ?uns going for a Japanese
^Bruiser, dead ahead. The Japanese
^Bestrover was lurking in the darkHivss
off to one side and let go
^B:th her tin fish as the Helena
^Bassc-J. Despite being mortally
^Bounded, the Helena turned her
^Buns on the destroyer and literH'<y
blew hcr out of the water.
^Bhe then finished off the cruiser
^Bhead before the orders came to
luaiiuvu fillip.
Frank in one of six lifeboats
hat held a total of 160 men from
he Helena, got off on the star?ard
side, while the other boats
hat were picked up soon afterwards
were launched from the
wrtside. While the six boats kept
together they were lost in the
iarkness and were not picked up.
To make things worse, all the
food was lost. For three days and
lights the six boats with the 160
lungry men, made their way
towards one of the Japanese held
slands. During this three days
"ic six boats were seen repeatedly
by Japanese planes.
(Continued on page 4)
Ration Pointers
GASOLINE ? "A" book coupons
Xo. 6 good for three gallons
each and must last till November
22 in North Carolina.
FUEL OIL ? Period 5 coupons
in old rations remain good through
September 30. Period 1 coupons
in new rations are good through
December.
( SUGAR ? Stamp No. 14 good
for 5 pounds through October.
Stamps Nos. 15 and 16 good for
5 pounds each for home canning
through October 31.
SHOES ? Stamp No. 18 good
for 1 pair through October 31.
STOVES ? Consumer purchase
of rationed stoves must be
mad. with certificates obtained
a" a! War Price and Ftationing
Boards.
MEATS, FATS ? Red stamps
Y and Z good through October
2 Brown stamps A and B good
though October 2. Brown stamp
becomes good September 26 and
remains good through October 30.
PROCESSED FOODS ? Blue
stamps LT, V, and W expire October
20.
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J?IM^V' hL j|?& US
The 3rd War Loan Dr
which to buy the tanks, the
fight their way to ultimate
. ;y has a quota of $1,194,000
i should make.an effort to bi
County Has Quota
Of 25,003 Cords
Of Pulpwood Now
'War Industries Must Have
An Extra Three Million
Cords Of Pulpwood Before
January 1st
BLANCHARD GIVES
SOME SUGGESTIONS
j Ceiling Prices Will Be Paid
For All Pine Pulpwood;
Says Every Farm Should
Produce One
Carload
The War Industries must have
an extra 3,000,000 cords of pulpwood
between now and January
1. Brunswick County's share in
nmdimfinn is 25.000 COrdS.
llUO j;ivuuv?>v? ?
"If every farm in this county will
produce at least one carload of
pulpwood during the next three
months, we can more than meet
our share of the need." H. E.
Blanchard, County Forester said
today.
SPECIFICATIONS FOB
PULPWOOD
"Pulpwood cut to the following
specifications", Blanchard said,
"will be acceptable to any of the
pulpwood companies operating in
this county":
"I. Sticks must be cut with saw
5 feet long.
"2. Minimum diameter?1 inches.
"3. Sticks must be reasonably
straight.
"4. Branches and knots to be
cut flush with the body of the
stick.
"5. No burned wood will be
acceptable, (does not include
burned bark).
"6. Wood cut for roadside pur(continued
on page four)
A Day Of Court
For Divorces Only
Judge Burney Returned On
Monday To Hear Eight
Divorce Cases, All Of
Which Were Granted;
Most Of Plaintiff's Were
Women
The September term of superior
court, usually scheduled to run
two weeks with the criminal cases
occupying the time of the first
week and the citil docket beginning
Monday of the second week,
had some unusual features.
By consent many small civil
matters were handled during the
: criminal court week. This left
nothing for the civil term, which
(Continued On Page Four)
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A Good
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BUY IN THE WORL
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SSsfil ' Billiiii ' '
WwM%W$$
ive, designed to raise $15,000,
planes, the guns necessary fo
victory, is noiv past the halfv
i in this drive. Every man an
ly at lease one $100 war bond
Bond Buying SI
Citizens~Not B
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War Fund Workers
To Meet The 30th
Mrs. S. B. Frink, Chairman of ^
| the United War Fund Workers,
jhas announced that there will be
j a meeting of all workers at the [ *
Shallotte high school, Thursday j
evening, Sept. 30th. The public,
along with all workers, is urged
to attend.
Commissioners In
Routine Session:
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Board Authorized Immedi-h1
ate Repairs To County J0
Jail; Seeks To Get High- r
way Commission To Re- ^
pair Road a
??o
At their middle of the month
meeting, Monday, the board of f
county commissioners found them- a
_-i e?itrifVi fho iislial a
SdVCS WlUiVlllCU mui
run of tax matters, necessitating a
slight adjustments in some cases. ?
Orders for foreclosures to collect
taxes were given in other instan- f
ces.
On motion of commissioner O. ^
P. Bellamy, chairman of the
board, the county auditor was r
authorized to immediately make
the necessary repairs to the county
jail.
The board ordered that contact
be made with the State Highway
Commission with a view of hav- j
ing needed repairs done on the j
road leading from Highway 130
through the Gore and Milligan
settlement, on through Freeland,
Kingtown and out to Old Dock.
Spotters To Be
Recognized Tues.
Wing Insignia To Be Presented
to 173 Plane Spotters
In Appreciation Of
Their Efficient Work
On Tuesday, September 28th, at
8 o'clock in the evening, one hundred
and seventy three plane spotters
will receive their wing insignia.
The meeting will take
place at the Shallotte high school,
according to Jim Finch, District
Civil Director of the Air Warning
Service.
The insignia will be presented
to them from the U. S. govern(Continued
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MAKING INVESTMENT ?
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Chairman Plaxco, Of War ai
Bond Drive Writes Letter w
Concerning Rumors Of v
Bond Values Circu- P
lated By U. S. A
Enemies
At a check up meeting Sat- I
rday, Brunswick county war bond
ales have reached only two thouand
dollars over half the amount
hat the citizens of this county
,-ere assigned to buy. On the face
f the returns at that time it ap- L
eared that Brunswick county
itizens were not very patriotic,
'hey were not backing up the
ttacks of the soldiers and sailors
verseas.
Since Saturday through the eforts
of Chairman R. F. Plaxco, p;
ided by Postmaster L. T. Yaskell 0
nd Cashier Prince O'Brien, a few i tl
dditional thousand dollars worth z<
f the bonds have been sold. A b
triking and very regretable fact, v
lowever, is that two business a
irms have purchased four fifths e:
f all the bonds that have been it
ought. it
These two firms, who prefer
lot to be identified, are fully e:
.ware of the fact that the bonds ti
re worth more than any kind of a
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Russian Counte
Mother 0
During the summer Lt.
Churchill Bragaw, then stationed
in North Africa, wrote his
mother, Mrs. Helen G. Bragaw,
of a very fine elderly Russian
family living in a town near
where he was stationed. He inclosed
pictures of the couple
and spoke glowingly of their
kindness and hospitality. The
lady in the case was a Russian
Countess, Madame Mary Gazarine.
This week Mrs. Bragaw
had a very cordial letter from
the lady and with her permission
it is being printed below.
It should be of interest to the
numerous friends of Lieutenant
Bragaw:
"Dear Madam:
I take the liberty of writing
to you without the please to
know you.
It is about your son, Churchill,
that I want to write to you.
P0R1
i A Good Com
nesday, September 22
dust Maintain ]
Timber Output
For War Effort i
utput Of Forest Products
Must Be Maintained At
High Level To Aid In
Prosecution Of War ,
ELECTIVE SERVICE
ASKED TO COOPERATE ?
ireat Number Of Items In
Military And Naval
Equipment Can Use
Lumber
Increased production now of
imber and timber products is .
ital to North Carolina's success in <
irrying her share of the war ef- J
)rt, according to H. B. Bos- J
'orth, Area Forester for North
arolina of the Timber Production j
far Project. s
Due to the allout efforts of our J
.gricultural workers in harvest- (
ig and marketing farm crops, the (
reduction of lumber and pulp- j
ood has declined steadily during {
le past two months. North Carena
has always depended on part ^
me farm labor to produce over
alf of its total timber products
nd lumber. The present seasonal |
ecline is therefore about normal, I
ut the demand for the kinds of
imber and pulp that North Ca^ona
can produce is far afitve
ormal.
President Roosevelt says, "I am '
i agreement tnat unusuai acuon
i needed to maintain the output
f forest products at a high level
s an essential aid in the projcution
of the war." Under Sectary
of War Patterson says, t
We are not getting enough lum- c
er to fill all the needs of the c
rmed forces. Our requirements c
re going up; our production is j
oing down. Lumber comes close
> the heart of our whole war ,
rogram. There are 1,200 differ- ,
it items of military and naval ,
juipment that can use lumber," ^
id Chairman Davis of the War j
abor Board states, "A logger or v
imber worker can serve his coun y
best by staying on the job and .
y giving it the best he has in I
im." . - - J
There can be no doubt, therefore,
E the need to increase lumber and
ulp production as soon as crops
re in, nor that such work
lakes the woods and mill worker I
vital part of the whole war
Efort. Major General Lewis B.
tershey, Director, Selective Serice
says, "Many men must be
ilected to remain at home prodce
ships tanks planes and guns
id to produce the -raw materials v
id manufcture the products from c
rhich those war tools are made. c
Without the lumber and lumber E
roducts which you produce, j
.merica's great Army cannot be t
(Continued on Page Fourj j
:ine Compliance !
With Blackout j
t
iolonel William S. Pritch- c
ard Very Much Pleased c
With The Cooperation c
And Compliance With v
Blackout Regulations I
Seen by a representative of this
aper last week, following his
vernight stay and inspection of
le manner in which local citiuns
were complying with the
lackout regulations, Colonel
/illiam S. Pritchard of the U. S.
.rmy, Field Artillery corps, was
ictremely pleased at the manner
1 which local citizens were carrylg
out blackout orders.
"Everything," he said, "was in
xcellent accord with the regulaions.
The local blackout officials
nd the SoutSiport public cannot
(Continued Un Page Pour)
ss Writes To j
f Overseas Lt.
He met my husband at the ex- '
perimental garden of our town,
where my husband is working.
Your son came to see us very
often and we got very fond of
him. I think he told me that he
wrote you about our family?
Lieutenant Bragaw was always
very kind to us, the chil- ]
dren liked him so much. He was \
always gay and full of life, <
running over with energy and s
kindness. We very much enjoy- <
ed his company. i
He told us about you, his ]
dear country, his work there.
We made plans to meet some I
day in the States. 1
We do hope the happy day i
will come soon when you will i
see him again. So kind and '
charming, we miss not having i
seen him lately. ]
I should be glad to have
(Continued on Page Two)
' PIL
munity
!, 1943 PUBUSI
Mission Planne
Catholic C
#.
7ather John Renehan, A|
Native Of New York
City, Will Be The Spiritual
Director At The Retreat
SERVICES SCHEDULED
SEPTEMBER 28 - 30
Services Will Open With
Holy Mass At 9:00 A. M.
On Tuesday, And Will
Close Thursday After
noon
The Sacred Heart Catholic
ihurch of Southport will have a
1-day mission beginning Tuesday,
5ept. 28th and closing Thursday,
Sept. 30th. The mission will be
:onducted by an outstanding mislioner,
Fr. John Renehan of The
tedemptorist Fathers. He has
ipent the last 12 years in giving
nissions and retreats in the eastirn
United States. At a mission
:onducted by him at Fort Bragg
ast year, over 5,000 people at- 1
ended each night The crowds :
to overflowed the Chapel that the j
lervices had to be held out in the
Ceiling Price E
Blow To Shi
JfPPBKHelena
Survivor To
Address Meeting
Adjutant Crawford Rourk, of
he American Legion, has announ:ed
that there will be a meeting
>f the Legion at the U. S. O. Club
in Thursday, September 3th, 8:00
). m.
Of outstanding interest in conlection
with this meeting is that
i survivor of the crew of the
:ruiser, Helena, which went to a
jlorious death while battling the
apanese, will be present and
vill make an address.
Hit-Run Driver
Kills Mr. Hardee
Prominent Citizen Of Hickman's
Cross Roads Community
Met Death While
Returning From Work on
Airport At Myrtle Beach
i
Burris Hardee, 54, years old and veil
known and respected citizen j
if the Hickman's Cross Roads i
lommunity, was killed by a hit (
ind run driver at Myrtle Beach |
Friday night. His body was found
>eside the highway some time (
ater. I
Mr. Hardee is understood to (
lave been walking from his work ]
a his boarding house in or near j
dyrtle Beach. He had been em- |
iloyed for some time on the air- ]
lort work near Myrtle Beach. So ;
ar as is known, there were no ,
yewitnesses, except the occupant ;
ir occupants of the car. Mr. Har- :
lee was dead when found. 1
A South Carolina Coroner's jury ,
iHM hnlrl an inouest at Myrtle')
3each Thursday of this week. (
The remains were brought to
he home at Hickman's Cross
loads and interred there Sunday '
ifternoon in the Bennett ceme- ]
.ery. His wife, who was a daugh- ;
er of" Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hick- ;
nan, prominent residents of that
immunity, died in 1937. I
Surviving the deceased are four
ions and three daughters, Burris
lardee of Loris, S. C.; Elton Harlee
of Elizabethtown, Shelton and 1
)dell Hardee, of Shallotte; Mrs.
vlillard Blanton, Mrs. Jerome Jen ette
and Mrs. Luther Rogers, all
>f Shallotte.
Pay The Taxes
Or Lose Your Dog
Police Will Begin Impounding
All Dogs On Which
Taxes Have Not Been
Paid By The First Of
October, To Eliminats
Strays
Beginning October 1st Chief of
Police Otto Hickman will round
rp all dogs in Southport. If own:rs
have not paid taxes on the
inimals, or if the name of the
jwners cannot be discovered, they
vill be impounded and after a brief
period of detention will be killed.
This, says the chief, will apply
to all dogs. If taxes have not
Seen paid no exception will be
made in the case of any dog own r.
His or her dog will be taken
to the pound and disposed of in
short order if the owner does not
pay up.
This roundup and disposal of
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ed^very^ednesdjvt
d At Local
hurch In Sept.
Mr
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H . AM.; H
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FATHER JOHN RENEHAN
i>pen air. A spiritual treat awaits 1
those a tending.
The exercises will begin each "
night at 7:30. At the close of the!;
mission the Papal Blessing will be ,
given. The public is cordially invited.
)eals Heavy
rimp Industry
Price On Shrimp Is As Of
September, 1942, And;
With Increased tost Ut
Producing ,Boatmen And
Buyers Cannot Deliver
BOATMEN ARE LOOKING
ELSEWHERE FOR LIVING
Many Of The Craft Have
Already Returned To
Home Ports, Balance
Tied Up; Buyers In
Worse Fix Than
Boatmen
In a general release to the
press yesterday the Office of Price
Administration advised housewives
that beginning yesterday, when
the ceiling price went into effect,
they would be able to buy shrimp
10 to 50 per cent cheaper than
they have been getting them,
Southport shrimpers and Southport
seafood buyers said last
night that they felt that there
was some error in the above statement.
If the housewives get
3hrimp at half the price they have
been paying, they will have to
take them out of the ocean and
jo the cleaning and shipping
themselves.
The producers and shippers absolutely
disclaim any intention to
strike. They contend that they
:annot supply shrimp at anything
like half the price they have been
getting. Since the' ceiling is below
the cost of producing and handling,
and as they are not philanthropists,
they are quitting the job
Df producing and handling. In
short, they feel they have to
make a living, and as there is no
living to be made in shrimp producing
and handling, under the ceiling
price , they are turning to
something else.
The celling allows for the same
price for shrimp as in September,
1942. The boat owners are now
having to pay around three times
as much for helpers as they paid
in 1942, other operating expenses
and their own personal expenses
have increased vastly.
Turning from the boatmen to
the shrimp buyers, it is revealed
that they are paying nearly three
times as much for labor as they
paid in 1942. In 1941 the price per
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In The Wind Up
Of Criminal Court
Criminal Docket Was Finished
Thursday With Noticeably
Small Number Of
Cases Being Continued
For Different Causes
All criminal cases on the docket
for the two week term of
mixed criminal and civii court
were disposed of by Thursday
night of last week. A very noticable
feature to be found in a review
of the minutes is that only
three cases were continued to
some future term. Judge Burney
and Solicitor Moore made a pretty
clean sweep of all the criminal
cases that were waiting for disposal.
In two of the three cases
continued the defendants had not
been taken and it was, naturally,
impossible to try the charges.
Adding to cases reported in last
weeks paper, the following criminal
matters were disposed of before
adjournment Thursday night:
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Most Of The New? I
All The Time I
$1.50 PER YEA! I
?
He Army Gives 1 I
Complete Rules I
For This Area I
Restricted Zones Defined I
For Information Of Pee- I
pie Living In This Area I
ARMY AUTHORIZED I
TO ENFORCE LAW. I
Corporate Limits Of South- I
port Not Excluded; Other I
Rules Given I
Public Proclamation No. 2 dat- I
Jd Sept. 7, 1942, Public Proclama- H
tion No. 3 dated December 21, I
L942, and Public Proclamation No. I
i dated August 9, 1943, issued by H
Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, H
Commanding General of the Bast- H
:rn Defense Command and First I
Army, under authority of Execu- I
tive Order of the President of the fl
United States, No. 9066, dated I
February 19, 1942, created cer- I
tain Restricted and Prohibited fl
Zones along the Atlantic Sea- H
board. H
In accordance with Public Pro- B
clamation No. 2 above, and Mem- I
orandum No. 5 Headquarters B
Fourth Service Comand in con- fl
nection therewith, the Command- fl
ing General, Southern Sector, I
Eastern Defense Command is au- fl
thorized to enforce the restriction! I
applicable to Prohibited and Re- fl
stricted Zones lying within the fl
Southern Sector. ^ fl
Colonel Lloyd W. Goeppert, B
Commanding Oficer, Carolina Sub- fl
Sector, has requested that all B
people residing in or near the N. fl
C.-S. C. Coastal area acquaint fl
themselves with the boundaries I
and re atrictions of Restricted B
Zone B-60 and B-61, listed in ths B
above mentioned Public Proclama- fl
tinna onH herein described. fl
The Restricted Zones are aa fob fl
lows: fl
Zone B-60: Location: The area I
consists of all the Islands, Banks I
and Dunes along the eastern coast fl
of North Carolina, bounded on the fl
north by the Virginia-North Caro- fl
lina border; on the east by the H
Atlantic Ocean; on the south by
the North Carolina-South Carolina fl
boundary, an?Lon the west by the I
Inland Waterway, Bogue Sound, I
Core Sound, Pamlico Sound, fl
Roanoke Sound and Currituck' 'fl
Sound, successively. H
This area includes but is not H
limited to the following. fl
(a) Virginia - North Carolina I
peninsula: That area bounded on B
the north by the Virginia-North B
Carolina boundary, and on the I
south by Oregon Inlet which is fl
variously known as Wash Flats, fl
Currituck Beach, and Bodie Is* fl
land. fl
(b) Cape Hatteras Island, bound* fl
ed on the north by Oregon Inlet;. H
on the southwest by Hatteras In- fl
(c) Ocracoke Island, bounded on H
the northeast by Hateras Inlet, H
on the southwest by Ocracoke In* H
(d) Portsmouth Island and H
Portsmouth Bank, bounded on the H
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NEWS I
BRIEFS , I
GOT VA. MULLETS
J. L. Bowers of the Bowers H
Construction company, reported 4 fl
catch of 34 large Whiteys or Vir- H
ginia mullets in the surf at Long H
Reach, one day the past week. _
The same afternoon O. L. Owen
of the State Highway Engineers, B
got two large black drum in the
surf at the same point. I
SQUIRREL SEASON OCT. 1
The hunting season for squlrrelf B
in North Carolina opens on Octo- B
ber 1st. Inasmuch as there are I
many fox squirrels in this area I
and many new hunters among ser- B
vice men who may not be I
acquainted with the game laws, 9
it may be timely to state that I
there is no open season on fox fl
squirrels.
RECEIVES PROMOTION I
Mrs. Bradie Lewis has recently I
been advised that her son, Lt I
Teddy Lewis, has been promoted B
from second to first lieutenant in ' fl
| the air corps. A story in this B
paper last week related how: B
Lieutenant Lewis had been de- fl
corated with the Air Medal for fl
meritorious service in Tunlsa and I
Sicily. He is the pilot of a bomb- fl
GOES OVERSEAS I
er in the Avenger Squadron. fl
Victor Bartels of the amphibian H
forces, a twin brother of Miss B
Margaret Bartels of the State H
Port Pilot office, is now with the H
overseas forces, according ta fl
word received by relative*! B