*B The Pilot Covers M Brunswick County B NO- fourteen I irun; Boom Registry Bet Up AT USO MFor Men In Arec rector Gibson Urges A1 Citizens Of Southpor ?\Vho Have Space Avail able To Contact Club blEPHONE no. 2531 if you have room: g^M Residents In Maneuver rea Asked To Register ^ With The USO, Stating I What They Have In Way Of Apartments Or Rooms I The local USO has set up ^Lpletc registry service fc <:artments and con c record of all spare rooms c in homes of South will be available fo reference by everyon ^K:u-:e in helping to meet thi t: of the service people. is of Southport an are requested to cc th the local USO i rooms, furnished or ur 1 . h uses or apartment; I available living spac I (Jus tea. Anyone having an |: . space which migh available for long or shot It. is r time should telephon El oi call at the club an I.. rn ation about any avail I. . ?r rent or lease. [l:. situation is critical at th | with many wives c I ng in town and appeal |. USO for help in locat t a place to lit e. PROMOTED Arvil Earl Cottrell, Jr. has bee lansierre .1 from the Great Lake Billing Station where he ha len for four months, to th rooklyn Naval Hospital, Brook a. N. V. Cottrell has bee omoted to Pharmacist's Mat( urii Class c Staff) and will b c.ected with the technical la Blories at the hospital. ation Tokens Now Being Use( an Will Simplify Worl Of Dealers And Will Ad( To Life Of Ration Book 1. Wc will begin using tokis on February 27. 2. Ration tokens are used chanee" from RED and Blue stamps in Book 4, REE t.kens as change for RED stamps, and BLUE tokens for more stamps. 3. No matter what a REE or BLUE stamp is marked (8, 5.2, or 1). each stamp is worth 10 points. 4 Tear RED and BLUE sumps from left to right, not up and down. 5. Three RED stamp 8A, SB BCi worth 30 points become valid February 27, and may be used until May 20 Three new RED stamps become ' slid March 12. and expire May 20. 6 Five BLUE stamps (8A SB SC. SD. 8El, worth 5( '"'- its. become valid February ar.d may be used until May 20. " In the future RED and BLUE stamps will each be alirj ]2 weeks and will expre together on the same date 8 RED and BLUE tokens ' "II be given as "change" frorr >Un:ps only when a purchase = made. At no time will more c 9 tokens be given in exLunge. B Tokens are good indefi Sitely. 10. Tokens may be used witl :'r without stamps when pur casing rationed goods. U Ration tokens should bi "fed. not hoarded. At no tim< ?hould it be necessary to havi ' uore than 9 tokens of eacl color. NOTE: During three-weel ' ' el lap" period February 27 " -'rh 20. BROWN stamps 1 ar'd Z in Book 3 and CREEP s?mps K, L, and M in Book < t 'i| be valid at their face value 2. and 1. RED tokens wil i ven in change for BROWP wamps, and BLUE tokens fo 'REEN stamps until March 2C '"kens will make shoppinj T and reduce the time fo ling out points. The use o kens will make ration book Ion aI'f'r?ximately 2 time thus saving mone ' ^'r- transportation and man; ""uor.s of hours in registration ill reduce by 60 per cen ^?-C cal work of retailers ii ' lr|g stamps as they will hav h,J'l 2 billion fewer stamps t 4Rult each month. TH r MO. 45 iwicK Many Feeling Prevalence ^ People In Portions Of N< Townships Beginning T 11 Over Prevalence Of t Animals; Believed Over En There has been some wishfi thinking that there were no ma foxes in Brunswick county b 'people who get about little or non I in North West or Town Cree s townships. The folks in those tw townships take a different viev a view inspired by actual know . ledge. One man has been bitte by a fox and examination of it brain revealed postively that i had rabies. A cow and a mule an a several dogs have developed ra ,r' bies and have been killed. In ac dition to this a number of pei ? | sons in the two townships hav ! seen one or more of the ma ir foxes. Some few have escaped b? e ing bitten only by beating th s animal off with sticks. "The mad foxes are very ba ,j around here, and seem to be get )\ Coroners lun I Held For 1 e . <1 Bond For Shallotte Whit' Man Charged With Fa f^llir ^k/tntinar Nptrrn WA lanJ W(IW?ll*g siw^aw T? ? ? Fixed At Five Thousam 'I By Coroner W. E. Bell DEFENSE WAS REPRESENTEI n < Shooting Occurred Abou s! A Month Ago On Street s Of Shallotte; Three Witnesses Were Cal _ led To Testify n At an inquest held by Corone ?, W. E. Bell in the Brunswick cour e ty court house, last night, th jjury brought in a verdict recon mending that D. T. Long, Sha lote citizen, be held for the gran jury at the next term of supei lior court for the fatal shooting c I Ace Galloway. IThe verdict of the jury, in ful I is as follows: "We, the Coroner's Jury, bein summoned to view the body c It Ace Galloway, and did view th J body to determine that the sai s Galloway was dead. And afte hearing the evidence, we recon mend that D. T. Long be held i sufficient bond for his appearanc at the next term of superic court. ? Price Furpless, I ' J. Swain, John F. fo | ter, R. Will Davis, Fred Burri; Monroe Potter." i The fatal shooting occurred o , the streets of Shallotte a littl i over a month ago. Galloway r< ceived three pistol wounds, one i the breast, a second in the bac j arid the third in his nana, orougr I to the J. Arthur Dosher Memorii | hospital, he lived a little eve 1 i four weeks before complicatior (set in and brought about h | j death. At the inquest Dr. R. ( j Fergus, who attended Gallowa; testified that he died as the r< j suit of his wounds. , Dr. Fergus was preceeded o , the witness stand by three colo ed men, Wilbur Hill, Clarene I Stanley and Willie Massey. A ! were eyewitnesses and all test (Continued on page 2) ; Market Parasites Robbing Motorist Black Market Activities Ro 1 'A' Coupon Holders C About 45 Gallons Of G< i i Each, Endorse Coupon When Received 1 The spread of gasoline blae t (markets in the southeast, in whi< gas is purchased with stolen < f counterfeit coupons, has caus< I the temporary "drying up" of fi i ing stations in several areas, no . ably in North Carolina, the Offi' of Price Administration has a * nounced. Gasoline black markets, OI ^ officials admit, is one of the J, most serious problems and The f dore S. Johnson, district direct s of OPA at Raleigh said: "It s doing more than encouragii y. crime; it is actually sapping t] f strength of the whole war effc ' and is robbing honest car owne of their share of the nation's e mited supply." 0 ."It should be remembered," (Continued on Page 4) [EST; A Gooc 4-PAGES TODAY HO ; Alarm At Of Mad Foxes >rth West And Town Creek o Feel Seriously Disturbed Rabid Foxes And Other Disease Will Spread tire County ll ting worse," said L. C. McKoy, d colored farmer and country mery chant, who lives several miles bee low Phoenix. In substantiation of k his claim he pointed to Caroline o McKoy and Jim Forney, the only it, persons who happened to be in r- the store at the time. Both were n carrying good sized sticks as a s means of defense against mad it foxes, they said. A number of d dogs and some other animals in t- McKoy's community are known I- to have been bitten by the mad -- foxes and several people have had e narrow escapes from being bitten, d Lonnie Davis, colored man, who !- lives near Miss Lena Brew's store eiat Phoenix, was recently bitten by [one of the mad foxes. He killed d | the animal and sent tis head off > j (Co..tlnu?d on page 41 j Orrlprs I on a f Mm C/ 'he Grand Tury * e ; Solicitor Moore j Got Quick Service Coroner W. E. Bell went to ) Burgaw last week to confer with j Solicitor Clifton Moore about a j I case. The Solicitor and his secI retary were in the inner office, where he was dictating letters and giving instructions for the day. The Coroner took a scat in the outer office to wait until the ir] Solicitor could see him. Pretty soon the secretary came out, e; walked to her desk, picked up the telephone and said to the operad tor: "Please give me Coroner W. E. Bell at Southport." )f At this point Bell interupted to say: "You needn't try to get j me on the phone, I'm here." Looking up and recognizing the g Coroner the young lady called to the Solicitor: "Mr. Moore, Mr. e Bell is here." ^ Thinking she had Bell on the phone, and somewhat puzzieu at n the speed at which the call was :e put through, Solicitor Moore walk,r ed in, picked up the receiver, exclaiming as he did so: "How did L" you get hint so quick? Was he s- sitting on the wire somewhere?" ?Recruiter Will I Be At Office it ?1 To Be At Southport Post r Office Each Monday To is Give Information And is Receive Applications jr. Potential applicants for the Na? vy from Southport and Brunswick County may secure full inm formation every Monday from the r- Navy Recruiter when he visits the >e postoffice here, says Jesse Helms, .11 Petty Officer in charge of the i- Navy Recruiting office in Wilmington. Information and enlistmenl papers also may be obtained from the recruiter on the WAVES. A drive is now on to contact as many eligible women as possible S ?which would include eveiy woman between the ages of 0 and 5C , with two years' high school, anc ^ without children under 18. ' Two ratings are offered 17lS (Continued on Page Four) Three Of Four :k Robbers Taken :h 3r Three of the four negroes who :d robbed the Leland post office sevII eral weeks ago are now being t- held by Federal authorities. The ce fourth is still at large. All three n- of those under arrest are said tc have confessed to the crime. The 3A rounding up of the gang began tir with the arrest of John Johnson o- last week. The two others, whose or names have not been made pubis lie, were taken immediately thererig after. lie Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Rourk, ir irt whose store the post office ha: rs quarters, lost four hundred dolli lars in cash in the robbery. A large sum in stamps, bonds anc he cash, belonging to the govern ment, was also lost. * S \TE ] I News paper Ir Southport, N. C., We :ross Convention Set | For Republicans On March 9th Republicans Of Brunswick Will Hold Their Convention At Supply Thursday Of Next Week Chairman Announces F. L. LEWIS, CHAIRMAN, CHAS. M. TROTT, SE'CY. ! Meeting: Called To Elect Delegates To The State Convention To Meet In Charlotte On March The 16th The Republicans of Brunswick will inaugurate their 1944 cam| paign with a convention at Supply 1011 Thursday, March ninth, according to Chairman F. L. Lewis. While the immediate purpose of i the meeting is to elect delegates to the State Convention, which is j to be he ld at Charlotte on March 116th, it is understood that plans !for the 1944 campaign by the party ir Brunswick, will also be I discussed. This is an off political year in Brunswick. There will be no races for any oifices except that of Representative and Register . of Deeds. It may be regarded as . sure that both republicans and ! democrats win nave canaiciai.es . for these two offices, despite the fact that it may be hard to instill any great amount of interest in the voters with only two offices being sought. USO Entertains Many Army Men I Maneuvers In This Area Brings Sudden Rush Of Added Duties To Local i Service Organization On short notice a special informal dance for more than 600 men from five batteries of the in the area of Southport was held at the USO Club from 8:00 until 11.30 p. m. last Monday evening. The girls of Southport and vicinity are to be complimented for their cooperation in helping to entertain the service men in what was the most strenuous series of tag dances held at the cluo. Although the girls were I very much outnumbered by the , large number of soldiers an exceptionally enjoyable dance was held with an unusual rusn of the, onlhusiastic croun to vet a few| dancing steps with the girls before their buddies would tag them. . The conduct of the soldiers from Colonel Chandler's Battalion was very commendable. At the intermission of the dance refreshments of soda and doughnuts were served followed by a group sing which included songs of World War 1 and World < War 2 i Lt. Waters, Special .Services 1 Officer, made arrangements for the special dance. Lt. John L. I Ferguson, Athletic Officer for l the Eiattalion, was Master of! ' Ceremonies and promoted a jitter- ' ! bug contest with representatives from each of the five Battalions i ' participating. Lt. Morgan S. > (continued or> page four) I W. B. KEZIAH 1 The nearest we have ever come i to being a war correspondent, or! ' in the army, happened Friday | 1 when Colonel Chandler, Captain : > Mansfield and other officers, who, 1 had their men on maneuvers1 along the Bell Swamp Highway,: i invited us up to spend the day.! As an extra inducement, Colonel! i Chandler had advised us that the men would be receiving lessons! in the use of explosives. He sur mised that there would be a1 i noise, which even we could hear.! i SCo it proved, especially when a hundred pounds of very potential l stuff was set off at one time; the I result being that a half track, ten - ton ti-uck, had a fox hole ready built for it in about three min P0R1 i A Good Com dnesday, March 1, 194 DRIVE "You Can't Buck The -wJLp?|U-aJ5k, W&&* Inquest Thurst For Jackie a Late News Flash c Three negroes, Ida .May Gibbs and her two sons, aged 8 and (i, were burned to death last night when a fire destroyed their home back of Chapel . Road School near the Brunswick River Bridge. Rmma Gibbs, mother of Ida ? Mae, was seriously burned. Queenie White, another oc- j cupant of the home escaped uninjured. Coroner W. K. Bell empauneled a jury this morning and | investigated the oecurance. No ] decision was reached as to 11 I Vi whether an inquest is necessary. Members of the jury were: * Georgq Ganey, D. E. Long, E, * V. Evans, M. E. Smilh, J. F. v Coleman and L. E. Brock. 1 Winnabow Girl J F.ilfps Navv Life, - ? J ??Vliss Elizabeth Martin Who Recently Graduated From WAVES Training College Is Completely Sold On The Navy Miss Elizabeth Overheul Martin, >f Winnabow, lias recently graduated from the Waves training :lass at Hunter college in New fork. She is completely sold on the Navy and has been urging her friends to join up. "The Waves are wonderful," she writes. "There are 21 different types of jobs that the Navy has set aside to be done by women as plans were laid for the coming (Continued on Page Fouri ) VING Reporter i utes elasped time. Some time was, of course, spent by the offi- j j cer in charge, explaining the handling of the explosive and afterwards in the whole company observing the results. The same thing was gone i through with in the placing of ] torpedoes and mines, the demoli- j tion Qf huge 3tumps, and the cut- 1 ting down of trees. Each of these 1 problems require two minutes or < less in actual warfare. More time | Was required in these training | demonstrations as the matter had ] to be explained to the men. In ; times past we have seen interest- ;i ed groups of school boys and J girls, but we doubt if we ever : (Continued on page 2) |' ' PIL munity 4 PUBLiSI TO] -4 Axis With A Buck" ' mm ^ . .. .1^ ^lul* NT 4 nr U+ Aciy L iigm :s Creek Dead )oroner W. E. Bell Has Announced That Inquest 1 Will Be Held At Court House To Fix Responsibility for Wreck in Which Three Died - IEGRO DRIVER OF CAR BEING HELD IN JAIL )river Of The Civilian Car Which Ran Wild When Approaching Convoy Is Held On Charges Of Driving Drunk And Speeding , Coroner W. E. Bell has anounced that an inquest will be leld here Thursday night at 7:30 o endeavor to fix responsibility or the Jackies Creek wreck, in i vhich three negroes died Friday light. In 'the same accident 25 vhite soldiers, all of Bluethenthal lirport in New Hanover county vere injured, some of them perlaps fatally. ' The soldiers were in a convoy,' jound for a point some distance r ibovc Southport, where they plan-| :ed to search for a P-17 Fighter liane. nilot bv Second Lt. Arthur V. Seppanen, of Trenton, Mich- j gan. Lt. Seppanen and his plane j vere lost in a fog Friday and, vere supposed to have crashed, t At the convoy neared Jackies Sreek, coming westward, at 11:45, Friday night, a car driven by J aider Pee, a Wilmington negro, I ind occupied by three other ne-, jroes, crashed into one of the ;rucks, wrecking it and forcing it ind forcing it into a ditch. It was n this truck that most of the; soldiers sustained their injuries.! After striking this truck Pee's machine cut wildly, struck anither truck that was following lie first and was then wrecked.! A.11 three of the negroes with Pee were killed. Pee was arrested by State Highway Patrolman M. S. Parvin, who booked him under charges >f speeding, reckless driving and Jriving under the influence of intoxicants. He is beir.g held in jail intil the coroner's inquest when, t is likely, more serious charges will be presented. Traffic at the scene of the wreck was held up for approximately two hours, waiting the irrival of ambulances to carry the injured soldiers to Camp Davis. (Continued on page 2) One Of The Five At Home On Leave Glenwood McDowell, one of the :ive sons of Mr. and Mrs. Charles j 3. McDowell, of Bolivia, who are n the Army and Navy, is now at j lome on a thirty days leave. He j las been overseas in various parts | if the active theatres of war fort he past year and a half. Four of: the five sons of Mr. and Mrs. Mc-| Dowell are in the Navy and the! ith choose the Army. Lloyd Cox, son o'f Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Cox, of Bolivia, and also in the Navy, is it home for a few days from service on the upper Atlantic coast. OT f! ^ED EVERY WEDNESDAY EONT $8,800 Goal Se Is Highest E Work Begins This Morning Volunteer Workers At The County; Mrs. J. A. Ru For Di * March 1 Marks S 62nd Red Cross j Anniversary? v< nternational League Mem- u bershrp Of U. S. Dates Back To 1882 March 1 marks the sixty-second inniversary of the United States' ;ntry into the "humanitarian eague of nations" known as the Red Cross, coincident with the jpening of the $200,000,000 1944 American Red Cross War Fund ^ lampaign. g. Despite the sixty-two-year lapse . since President Chester A. Arthur ^ signed the document that made g this country a member, the pur- o poses and responsibilities of the u Red Cross remain in 1944 the 1 same as then?the alleviation of p human suffering and conservation I c of life. The Red Cross was born in g Switzerland in 1864 when thirty- e - ?- ik one nations agreed to certain war-1 >j time conditions. They covenanted ] r among themselves that the wound- C ed of all armies, prisoners of war, ] p and those engaged in medical and a surgical work on the battlefieldsj f should be respected. j c Miss Emma Rourk \ Died Thursday j' Member Of One Of Brunsv ick' Most Prominent g Families Passes At Home n In Shallotte After Brief a Illness o Following a brief illness, Miss a Mary Emma Rourk, 82, died at p her home in Shallotte Thursday n morning. By only a few weeks li her death f ollowed that of her brother, Judge Peter Rourk. In her g passing the only immedaite sur- n vivor of one of the pioneer fam- J ilies of Brunswick is a brother, George T. Rourk, with whom she J made her home at the old Rourk F homestead An Shallotte. A num- * ber of nicices and nephews also o v SU1V1VC. Miss Emma was widely known " and generally esteemed. Her pass- J ing was a source of regret to J| rwanir Tit rr?itcrh nut" Vtr?r lifptimfi * ? ? - v she was an active member of the Methodist church and took an ac- ? tive interest in all civic matters effecting her community and county. Funeral services were held from the residence with Rev. W. G. , Lowe, assisted by Rev. C. N. Phillips, officiating. Burial was in the Rourk family cemetery. Active pallbearers were close ^ relatives; Chandler Rourk, Dr. W. A. Rourk, U. L. Rourk, LeRoy ^ Mintz, Fred Mintz and Leon Gal- ^ loway. Honorary pallbearers were, E. H. Krt by, Dr. "J. H. Hayes, H.i* C. Stone, R. D. White, C. Ed Tay-ljj lor. Prince O'Brien, Bert Bennett, c E. D. B shop, Floyd Kirby and J. J. Hawes. r Drunken driving J Case Not Heard ] g Cases Against Elder Pee J Who Drove The Death1 r Car At Jackie's Creek ^ Continued Until The 13th 1 With expectations that cases, charging Elder Pee, Wilmington! negro, with speeding, drunken I and reckless driving would be 1 heard, a fairly large crowd, mostly colored people, was present at the Monday morning session of Recorder's court. Pee was the driver of the car which crashed into an Army convoy truck at Jackie's Creek, Friday night. He was not tried Mon-i. day. the cases being continued until March 13th. Meanwhile, Coroner W. E. Bell and a jury will hold an inquest for the three dead negro companions of Pee on Thursday night of this week. The minutes show the following . business handled by the court this week: Davie Goodman, non support; two years in jail, judgment suspended on payment of $2.50 per week for the support of her child. (Continued on Page 4) ~ " - ^ . T/. ' vlost Of The News All The Time $1.50 PER YEAR ODAY t For County iver Assigned With Splendid Force Of i Task In All Parts Of ss County Chairman ive , With the need and the quota neater than ever before, S8.800.) being the goal for Brunswick junty, the 1944 Red Cross War und Drive gets underway today Wednesday) with exceptionally ne workers in all communities, trs. J. A. Russ of Shallote, chairlan of the drive, stated she was try much pleased at the volun:er workers who have been selred. To insure that all funds contriuted by citizens of the county e properly credited to the counts quota, Mrs. Russ is urging lat all shipyard and other dernse workers who are employed jtside the county, make their intributions through the county riannels. If this is not done reidents of the county may actualr contribute more than the alitted quota without the county etting credit for having gone ver the top. Therefore, she rges, be sure and make your 944 Red Cross contribution to ersons representing your horns ounty. At Southport today the opening un of the campaign is to be fird this afternoon with a parade y a Battalion of Anti-Aaircraft oen commanded by Colonel ."handler and Major Malone. This arade of service men is to be ugumented by the usual two ted Cross men marching with ach company. Local Red Cross lurgical Dressings workers and urse's aides are to ride in trucks rovide for them. Although this arade at Southport marks the eginning of the work in Smithille township, it has been stated hat actual canvassing at Southort is not to begin until Monday. Irs H W. Hood, chairman of the ^ iru^.or>"on'.'yliep. has called a > -j leeting of workers at her noma t 8 o'clock Thursday night. For today's paper only the lists f workers representing Southport nd Waccamaw were available fop ublication. Workers in other commnities have already been pubshed. That part of the county oranization, as announced this lorning and available through Irs. Russ, was as follows: Southport, Ward One: Mrs. ames Carr, Chairman, Mrs. E. J. revatte, Mrs. Dallas Pigott, Mrs. Tarry Aldridge, Mrs. Bertha ArnId; Ward Two: Mrs. Ida Potter Watson, Chairman, Mrs. Roy Danil, Mrs. Eva Wolfe, Mrs. S. B. 'rink, Mrs. Matilda Barnett, Irs. Prince O'Brien, Mrs. J. G. !hristian, Mrs. John Fulwood; yard Three: Mrs. Frank Niernee, Chairman, Mrs. Annie K. Vitu, Mrs. G. E. Hubbard, Mrs. G. >. Robinson, Mrs. Edward Mar>we; Hospital, Mrs. Plato Hicklan; School, Miss Margaret Rateree. Business Section, R. C. St. ieorge. Waccamaw Township: Mrs. kJna Bennett, Chairman, Mrs. ayon Stanley and Mrs. J. W. Mcamb; Mrs. L. C. Brown, Chairlan, Mrs. Marvin Euss and Mrs. lerman Long; Mrs. Jesse Purvis, lhairman, Mrs. Muriel Bennett, | Irs. Katie McKeithan, Miss Daisy Irwin, Mrs. Gladys McL. Cumbee, liss "Willie Kephart, Miss Ethel itephenson, Francis Deese, Lilian Watts, Mrs. Louise Formy iuval, Mrs. E. S. Dodson, Mrs. L. Muckle, Mrs. Bertha Evans, Irs. M. L> Galloway, Carrie Lee Vard, Mrs. L. K. Walton, Louise idwards, Mrs. R. C. Phelps; Mrs. '. E. Dodson, Chairman, Mrs. .oftin Mintz, Bertha Gill, Vance iimmons, Mrs. Lester Babson, Irs. J. V. Simmons; J. T. Benling, of Ash, Principal of the Vaccamaw school, is Chairman of he Waccamaw District. jj Ration Pointers PROCESSED FOODS Green K, L, and M (Book Four) now valid, expire Marck 20. Blue A-8 B-8, C-8, D-8, and E-8, (Book Four) good for .ten points each until May 20. MEATS & FATS Brown Y and Z (Book Three (now valid will expire March 20. Red A-8, B-8, C-8, (Book Four) good for ten points each. .until May 20. SHOES Stamp 18 (Book One) valid indefinitely. Airplane stamp 1 (Book Three) now valid. v j GASOLINE A-9 coupons, now valid and will expire May 8. J

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