The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
H,i NO. FOURTEEN N(
Kmmissioners
Order All Dogs
I Be Innoculated
Dogs In County Must
Given Anti - Rabies
Treatment Within Thirty
^p)avs Or Warrants Will
Be Issued For The Own|\l
s GOING MAD
| CAUSE OF ORDER
111 List Of Those Who
ill Do The Innoculating
^Listed Below; Many
B Mules Have Been
Bitten By Foxes
tecognizing the growing menBe
from mad foxes, through
received reports of mules
other livestock being bitten
these animals, the Board of
l-:v Commissioners at their
ting Monday ordered that all
^B$ ::i the county be innoculated
inst rabies within 3 days. FailBto
take this precaution will
jit in warrants being issued
tin person having the allies
in charge.
^B - Crapon was appointed
^ nocculatc the dogs in Smith
townships; W. H. Milliken at
M. D. Evans, Wacca
ar. i S. O. Lewis in LockFelly.
In North West town
|| where the maa toxes are
I to be the most numerous, A.
[lewis and George Long were
loir.tet! to do the inocculating,
ft r L Ganey and O. W. Perfas
helpers. The use of two
Ji in each of these cases is a
Caution against any one being
[er. by a dog that may be cievefcg
rabies.
[accinating the dogs and urgthat
foxes be killed, when
fc is possible, appeared to be
[only course of action open to
commissioners at this meetIt
was stated to a repretative
of this paper that the
pmissioners intend to see the
itination orders carried out
I that warrants will be issued
ar.v and all dog owners who
I to have their dogs given the
ventive treatment within the
it 30 days.
ew Shoe Stamp
Good May First
* Stamp 18 In First Ra:ion
Book Goes Out And
S'ew Airplane Stamp To
*ome Into Effect
aothcr ration stamp will be
ic good for one pair of shoes
inning May 1, the Raleigh Dis
UUIU VI I I III muiutwstiaHi
announced today,
^ ne previous coupon. Airplane
^Bmp I in War Ration Book
Ik, will overlap the new stamp
will contrinue to be good in^ ."itely.
However, stamp 18 in
JHi'. One will be terminated on
o announcement was hiade as
^Bduch new stamp will be used,
H rationing officials said that
|Ha will designate the valid
^bor. shortly before May 1. As^Hr.ce
that there will be a new
Hi>P on that date is being given
^ dvance so that the public and
|l "hoe trade can plan accordingftl
Continued on page two
[Ration Pointers
K?[ PROCESSED FOODS
fBGreen K, L, and M (Book
now valid, expire March
jHBiue A-8, B-8, C-8, D-8, and
i Book Four) good for ten
each until May 20.
H MEATS & FATS
Brown Y and Z (Book
H^i now valid will expire
Hied A-8, B-8, C-8, (Book
good for ten points each
H'il May 20.
f. SUGAR
SSugar stamp 30 (Book Four)
H^ for five pounds expires
MSugar stamp 40 (Book Four)
for five pounds canning
^ftar until February 28, 1645
H months.)
H SHOES
H St4mp 18 i Book One) good
H1'1 April 30. Airplane stamp
^ 'Bt^k Three) now valid.
FUEL OIL
H ''eriod 4 and 5 coupons (10
expire September 30.
GASOLINE
^|A-9 coupons, now valid for
^ gallons and will expire
H.^'OTE: Rationing rules rer.'
that every car owner im^^p'^ely
write his license
and state on all gasocoupons
in his possession.
TH
5. 46
' Brunswick M;
I Writes Prai
| In A Letter To A Friend
Rosenbaum, Of Shallot
Troops In England, W
What The Red Cr
1 Tli
In a letter to a friend in South
port Dr. Maurice Rosenbaum
formerly of Shallotte, now Captair
J with the Army Air Force some
J where in England, has much tc
j say regarding the Red Cross. H(
I started his letter by saying he
I had just received a letter froir
j Mrs. Rosenbaum, who is living at
their home at Shallotte. She mentioned
that the Red Cross drive
would begin in March. Continuing
the letter said:
"When I was in practice in
Shallotte before the war, I usually
contributed a dollar to the Red
Cross each year. This was largely
because I was solicited and it
* usually left me wondering if the
money would be put to some good
use. Since coming to England 1
have seen what happened to those
dollars, and for my money the
Red Cross is "Tops." The organization
is doing a fine job here.
(Continued on page 2)
Red Cross Wa
Off To Good i
Drive Began In County On
Wednesday and in Southport
Monday Night With
Rally
CHAIRMAN EXPRESSES
HOrLS bUK
Send-Off Program At Shallotte
School On Wednesd
a y Began Drive In
That Area
The Red Cross War Fund Drive
got underway last Wednesday
with all parts of the county
actively engaged in raising their
quota. Mrs. Jasper Russ, of Shallotte,
county chairman for the
drive, this morning expressed confidence
that the county would
raise this quota.
Mrs. Russ says that on Wednesday
morning a very successful
send-off program was held at
the Shallotte school which shows
the enthusiastic response of citizens
in that area to the appeal
for funds to cariy on the Red
Cross' greatly expanded activities
| txith at home and abroad.
The Southport section started
I its main effort with a rally at the
i U. S. O. on Monday night at
I which Goody Gaskins, Red Cross
i Field Director from Camp Davis,
j was the principal speaker. Mr.
(continued or page four)
Emergency Check
On All Retailers
..
i Nation - Wide Emergency
Check Of All Retail Food
Merchants To Be Started
Next Monday
.
The Local Price Rationing
Board is advising all retail food
merchants of an emergency price
check to be conducted on a nation-wide
scale, beginning the
week of March 13. The Board
says:
"This emergency price check
will cover certain items which
have been flat-priced at the retail
level and will include household
soaps and cleaners, meats, and
items from the Community Price
Order. This emergency price
check is being conducted to help
you in checking your prices to be
certain that you are not offering
for sale any item above the legal
ceiling price.
"We suggest that, between now
and March 13th, you recheck your
(Continued on Page Four}
Wreck Results In
Death Of Negro
Lewis J. Smith, Marsh
Branch Negro,, Sustained
Broken Neck When He
Lost Control Of His Ctr
On Supply Road
Lewis J. Smith, 30 year old negro
of the Marsh Branch community,
was apparently instantly
killed in a wreck three and a
half miles out of town, on the
Supply road, Monday night.
He is understood to have lost
control of his car, a 1939 DeSotta
coupe. The machine turned
over several times. Smith's neck
was found to have been broken
He was driving the machine and
had as a companion Jake Kelly
another Marsh Branch colored
(Continued on page 2)
I Sli
A Good
4-PAGES TODAY
in At Front
ising Red Cross
At Southport, Dr. Maurice
:te, Now Stationed With
'rites In High Praise Of
oss Is Doing Among
le Soldiers
.
? MOTORISTS MUST
ENDORSE COUPONS
)
! Dist. OPA Director Theodore
S. Johnson, of Raleigh, today
i [ urged all motorists to endorse
J their gasoline ration coupons i
-1 with their auto license num;
ber. OPA has launched a drive
to break up black market opei
rations in gasoline. Mr.
Johnson also announced a
5J-county drive to check raI
tion books of motorists starting
today, March 6th. OPA investigators
will check gasoline !
ration books of persons driving
into filling stations and Mr. I
Johnson warned, "any Eastern j
North Carolina motorist wno )
fails to have his cou|>ons en- 1
dorsed faces revocation of his j
gasoline ration."
I ????????~??
r Fund Drive
>tart In County
J
*
Father And Son
Bitten By A Fox
F. L. Medlin, of North West
township, and his young son,
whose name has not been learned, j
were bitten by a mad fox, Friday.
Both are understood to have sustained
several wounds before the
rabid animal was killed.
Mr. Medlin was in Southport
Monday for the purpose of obtaining'
emergency gas rations in or- f
der that he and the boy could '
! make daily trips to a doctor for t
j the anti-rabies treatments. s
Guitar Not A ||
Deadly Weapon}
__ i s
Defendant Who Crowned A j t
Neighbor On The Head s
i With Musical Instrument j
Acquitted Of Assault t
Charges On Monday ' t
i' i(
In Recorder's Court, Monday,;
Judge John B. Ward held Daniel j c
Joy as being not guilty of assault j j.
with deadly weapon, with intent j
I to kill. The weapon in question'
H c
'was a musical instrument, to wit: j ^
a guitar. With this instrument j
Joy was alleged to have crowned,
JLoftin Clemmons over the head. *
iln return Joy also had a warrant *
issued, charging a like assault f
iwith the weapon being a knife. J
| Probable cause was found against '
1; Clemmons and he was bound over ^
j to superior court. His bond was *
; fixed at $200.00. 1
I Other cases heard Monday
I were as follows: a
Edgar W. Dudley, larcency; t
'probable cause found and defend- o
jant bound over to superior court I
junder $400.00 bond. t
| Richard McKoy, operating auto- I
j mobile while intoxicated; four t
| months on roads or fine of $100.- c
j OOand costs. 5
Richard Ward, drunken driving;
190 days on roads, judgment sus- "
pended on payment of fine of 1
1 $25.00 and costs. It was shown
j that he was not guilty of actual|
ly operating car.
I Lorenzo Williams, drunk and
resisting officer; 30 days in jail,
(Continued on Page Four)
Three Day Session
Of Commissioners
Meet 13th, 15th And 17th
As Board Of Equalization
And Review To Hear
Taxpayers Regarding Er- f
rors 1
| a
The board of commissioners of v
Brunswick county will be in ses- t
sion for three days next week, i
sitting as a Board of Equalization c
and Review for the purpose of
' hearing taxpayers as to errors in 1
the 1944 listing of taxes. t
W. P. Jorgensen, Brunswick 1
County Tax Supervisor, is anxious a
. that all owning or having control v
of property, have the opportunity i
of pointing out errors in listing, a
. at these meetings. t
On each of the three days the s
; board will hear taxpayers from a
. two different townships. Monday, r
I March 13, they will hear the pro;
perty owners of North West and 5
Town Creek township: Wednes
I day, the 15th, will be devoted to 1
Smithville and Lockwoods Folly: a
I Friday they will hear complaints c
from Shallotte and Waccamaw. I
HE 1
News paper In
Southport, N. C., We<
19 44 W AI
1--2*. ....
| Thin year, with service flags in *
Red Cross will mean so much more t<
reproduction of a 1944 Red Cross V
also trill display the sy:"W of parti
nd Humanity?the Red C<vss.
I ^
Army Dentists
Give Soldiers
Excellent Carei;
i <
)urini' 1943 Close To Four '
Million Dental Treat-1 '
ments Given Soldiers At ]
Posls In Seven States
ATLANTA, Ga? March 6.?As 1
>roof of the Army's contention 1
hat American soldiers receive the J
rery best dental treatment and i J
lervices the dental profession has' *
o offer, is a report by Colonel R. j '
3. Tobias, chief, dentai section,! |
Surgeon's office, Fourth Service! |
Command, showing that during ! |
1943 a total of close to four mil-1 t
ion dental treatments were given
loldiers at posts, camps and sta- j *
ions in the seven southeastern ?
; tales.
This is an average of more
han 11,000 soldiers receiving atention
everyday in Army dental
ilinics of this command. L
Summarized these treatments
:onsistfd of the following: Filings,
(permanent) 2,880,539;
iridges. 4,840; artificial dentures
ir plates, 180,111; extractions,
172,254.
Civilians may delay a visit to B
he dentist until his teeth really w
lurt. But in the Army it is dif- w
crent and that is where the d
trmy Dental Corps, with 860 B
rained officers and 1,244 enlisted
lental assistants at clinics in the
fourth Service Command have en- Ll
ered the picture.
The Central Dental Laboratory cc
it Fort McPherson, Ga., during m
he year 1943 expanded from 32 oi
ifficers, enlisted men and civilian di
lersonnel, to 90 officers, enlisted ta
nen and civilian personnel and j to
(reduction of dentures at that laloratory
increased from 2,000 ci
>/\rYiniofprl in Janurv. 1943 to 7,- le.
? ? >93
cases completed during the in
(Continued on Page 4) ich
Our
W. B. KEZIAH
A great many stories of madrm
oxes are now going the rounds in th
Srunswick. Some of them may bej
i bit exaggerated but on the ar
vhole they are indicative of a ra-jfo
her alarming situation with pros-! ly
>ects of it becoming really j oc
langerous, especially to livestock. | ar
Brunswick has a' great wood- [ th
and aiea with a good portion of'sv
hat being bays and some swamps, gi
rhis gives ideal cover for foxes
ind since the anti-trapping laws ' ns
vent into effect the animals have a[
ncreased enormously. They are or
ill over Brunswick and the out- nc
ireak of rabies among them in pi
;everal sections of the county is' d?
ilmost certain to result in a good m
lumber, going mad. |m
With the disease certain to j is
ipread among the foxes, it is like-1 w
y that many dogs, cats, cows, i y<
nules and hogs will also be bitten st
ind develop the disease. Cats and to
logs nay contribute greatly to m
;he spread of the disease and it
POR'
i A Good Coi
Jnesday, March 8, 1
R FUND
-
dndows of nearly every home,
> Americans. As depicted in this
'ar Fund poster, many windows
cipation In the cause of Mercy
EARLY BIRDS
According to Douglas Jones
Southport boy who keeps thi
S'orth Carolina Bird Club post
Ml as to local events, it was dis
covered on .March I that somi
>0 American tigrets had alrcad'
trrived at their rookery on Bat
ery Island.
Accordion" to the records o
Ihc bird club, the earliest ar
ival of these birds in Nortl
Carolina has been on April 7
This record was broken las
rear by the birds being report
-d here about the middle o!
March. Considering their nuin
H-r, it is very likely that th(
jirds arrived here in February
his year and escaped notice un
il the Ith of .March.
:our Are Hurt
In Bolivia Wrecl
eft Turn Said To Hav
Resulted In More Or Lei
Serious Injuries To Foe
Persons Friday
U.S.O. PROGRAM
Four persons were injured <
olivia Wednesday at Boliv
redncsday, shortly after noo
hen a car driven by Prival
aniel M. Dannenberry, of Can
landing, Fla, crashed into
134 model Ford, driven by O. '
ewis, of Bolivia.
Private Dannenberry was ai
impanied by his wife and hi
other. All three received ser
is injuries, as did Mr. Lewi
iver of the Ford. All four wei
ken to a hospital in Wilmin;
n.
The accident is said to have 01
irred when Mr. Lewis made
ft turn in front of the oncon
g Dennenberry car. Both m<
lines were badly damaged.
VING
Reporter
ay be four or five years befoi
e disease can been stamped ou
Five or six years ago there: wa
l outbreak of rabies among th
xes in Bladen county, especia
at Kelly. Mad animals are sti
casionally being reported thei
id it is hardly to be doubted tha
e present outbreak in Brum
rick and Columbus counties or
nated in Bladen.
Naturally possessed of a timi
tture, the normal fox will nc
iproach houses, human being
even farm animals, at lea;
>t in the day time. If a fox aj
oaches you or your house in tb
ty time, or if you see one whic
ay appear rather tame at tb
oment, the safest thing to c
to regard it as being afflicte
ith rabies. Kill it if you can. i
>u are unable to do this yc
lould still use evety precautic
i keep it from biting farm an
als.
(Coi.tlnuvd on page 4)
t
r PiL
mmunity
944 publis
Captain Churc
Killed In Ifc
| Young Southport Officer Re
As Having Been Killed Ii
Fighting In Defense Of 1
ager Of Orton Plan
Home
Captain Henry Churchill Bra-'
gaw, manager of Orton Plantation
and on leave from the post
for the duration of the war, was
killed in action in Italy on the
22nd of January, according to a
war department telegram received
by his mother, Mrs. Helen Bra
gaw, Friday.
Captain Braw, who never
mentioned his own experiences
in letters to his mother or
fr'ends here, is understood to
] hi ve been wounded in action earI
ly last fall. On Christmas Day he
was again wounded and sent to
i the rear for hospital treatment.
Mrs. Bragaw was notified in this
instance by the War Department.
Returning to the front, after an
absence of nine days, he was killjed
19 days later.
Leaving Orton in 1942 as a
| second lieutenant, he received a
| year of training during which his
ability won him promotion to
first lieutenant. He went overseas
early in 1943 and saw service
with his company almost immediately.
His gallantry in the
- African, Sicilian and Italian cam?I
paigns resulted in his being
I promoted to Captain. At Salerno,
I where the first invasion of Italy
J was made, he distinguished himself
and was frequently mentioned
in the reports of war corresb
(Continued on Page 4)
5 paa a n.
r i uuu v/uuvuiv
Reviewed
\ Hoard Lists Some
t New Registrants
' Eight young white men and
five colored men have recently
' registered with the local selecf
tive service board. The white men
are Augustus Otto Jlewett, Supply;
Clarence Waco King, Freeland;
Hubert Robinson, Supply,
LeRoy Hickman, Southport; Lindsay
Warren Gore, Ash; Claude E.
| Pitman, Shallotte; Jesse Long
VT Williams, Shallotte; and Eber
Jones Bellamy, Wilmington; all
. white.
el The five colored registrants are:
is j Moses Stoppy Grissette, Shallotte;
ic Floyd Collins Gore, Supply; Floyd
! Henry Waddell, Leland; Jethro
Moore, Winnabow; and David
Willis, Wilmington.
I Postal Rates To
? Take A Big Rise
a
r. Beginning On March 26th
Additional Postage Will
j. Be Required On Prac>r
tically Everything Sent
j. Through The Mails
s,
,e Beginning with the 26th of
thicj month all mail from letters
r_ ? ?
to newspapers, packages and
money order fees will call for
"a greatly increased postage. On and
j. after that date the recipients of J
i- the mail you place in the post offices
will have to pay whatever
shortage in postage may be due.
In addition there will be delay in
delivery if you fail to attach sufficient
postage when sending.
In cities that have house to
house deliveries postage on letters,
that is letters mailed in
such towns, will advance from one
to three cents. Where there is no
city delivery and letters are now
mailed to other local residents for
one cent, the postage will advance
| to two cents on each lette .
i For instance, local letters mailI
ed at any post office in BrunsI
wick county to be delivered to a
- party at the same office, will cost
two cents after March 26th.
,e Your out-of-town letters, that
s (Continued on Page 2)
1; Urges Men To
J! Record Papers
Register Of Deeds Will Red
cord Discharge Papers
>t For Service Men Without
;s Charging Fee For The
st Work
)
ie Register of Deeds W. S. Wells
h is urging that all discharged serie
vice men have their discharge
lo papers recorded immediately aft'd
j er receiving them.' This, he says,
If'will eliminate the possibility of
>u j the papers being lost and may
n J save the holders much trouble
i-1 and annoyance should it ever bej
come necessary to produce evidl
(Continued on page 2)
OT
HED EVERY WEDNESDAY
:hill Bragaw
aly January 22
ported By War Department
i Action While Gallantly
His Country; Was Manitation
And Owned
Here
f
Killed In Action
CAIT. HENRY CIIIRCHILL
BRAGAW,?Who gave his life j
for his country in Italy on January
22. The above photograph
was made a few days after he |
received minor wounds on Christ-1
mas day and just before he returned
to his command.
T7? KJ f_
ror iviarcn
By Distributor
?
Seasonal Abundance Of
Many Food Items And j
I Scarcity Of Others Forecast
From Survey Made
jSLIGHTLY SHORTER
SUPPLY OF MEAT
| .
i Only Minor Improvement!
Expected In Butter Prospects;
Potatoes, Spinach
Plentiful
Seasonal abundance of many!
food items for civilians supply and
a continuation of others on thescarcity
list are forecast for!
March by the nation's largest
food distributor.
Featured in the combined reports
of more than 140 field buy-j
ing offices of the Great Atlantic!
and Pacific Tea Company arc
estimates indicating improvement
in fish supplies, a slightly shorter
supply of meat, sharp cuts in
poultry receipts, minor additions
to the butter supply, and plenty
of fresh vegetables.
Barring further labor difficulties,
fish hauls in the North Atlantic
area, which have been below
normal, and production in the
Cheaspeake Bay - Norfolk area
should offset the "between-season"
lull in the Gulf zone, according
to Josepn U'tsrien, Boston, neau
of the A & P fish department. In
the Great Lakes area fishing
should open on Lake Erie late in
March to bring many varieties on
the market.
Although pork will remain in
liberal supply. T. A. Connors,
head of the company's national
meat buying offices believes that
a further reduced supply of beef,
veal ami lamb is likely in March.
Smoked meats, with the exception
of ham, will be about as
(Continued on page 2)
Brunswick Co.
Exceeded Quota
Fell Short of Reaching Goal
With Series E Bonds But
Went Well Over The Top
With All Bonds
Brunswick county exceeded its
quota in the 4th War Loan drive
by $34,819.00. However, of the
Series E. Bonds the quota $40,000.
and only $36,750. worth of
these bor.ds were bought. The total
quota of all kinds of bonds
was $90,000.00 and the total purchases
amounted to $124,819.00.
These figures were made public
Monday by Chairman R. F.
Plaxco, who obtained them from
the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond.
He figured are available as to
the good work done by committees
in various sections of the
county. It is, however, understood
that all worked hard. In several
cases the workers did# extremely
well and Chairman Plaxco states
that he is very much gratified at
the good showing made by the
| county. ^
,
|
Most Of The New?
All The Time
=====
>1.50 PER YEAR
Death Car Driver
Is Held For Court
By Coroners Jury
Driver Of Vehicle In Which
Three Negroes Were Killed
When It Collided
With Army Convoy Car
, Is Held For -Trial
TWENTY FIVE SOLDIERS
ALSO WERE INJURED
Unnamed Lieutenant Sustained
Broken Spinal
Cord And Will Never
Walk Again; Four
Others Have Broken
Backs
With three of his negro companions
dead, four soldiers having
broken backs and a fifth with
a broken spinal cord that will
leave him paralyzed for life, Elder
Pee, Wilmington negro, is
awaiting the next term of criminal
count and can only gain his
temporary liberty through the
putting up of a five thousand dollar
bond. Thus far he has been
unable to give it and remains in
jail.
Pee was the driver of the
car which crashed into the army
convoy trucks on the night of
February 25th. All three of his
negro companions were killed in
the crash, one man and two women.
In addition to the soldiers,
mentioned above, some 2 others
in the two trucks were injured, all
of them having to have hospital
treatment. 1
The soldiers were enroute into
this county to search for a plane
and pilot which was supposed to
have crashed during a heavy fog
earlier in the day. Pec was enroute
to Wilmington when he
crashed into the convoy at Jacnies
Creek, just above Lanvale.
With some of the injured soldiers
recovered enough to come
here and testify, COroner W. E.
Bell held an inquest Thursday
night. State Highway Patrolman
M. S. Parvin and one of the army
truck drivers were the only
witnesses examined. Following
their testimony Pee took the
stand and testified in his own defense
and thereafter, in short order,
the ju *? u he. fallowing
verdict:
"We, the Coroner's Jury, after
hearing the evidence in the case
of Elder Pee, in which he is
charged with driving under the influence
of intoxicating liquor on
the State Highway, and striking
two government trucks, killing
three people and injuring several
others, recommend that he be held
under sufficient bond to insure hix
appearance at the next term of
Brunswick county criminal court?
Price Furpless, Fred Burriss, R.
W. Davis. John D. Erikscn, R. C.
Swain and Roy Swain.
BriefNews
Flashes
r\
ON LST DUTY
Charlie Williamson, Seaman,
second class, is now an integral
member of the Amphibious Forces
of the United States Navy. At
the comDletion of his preliminary
LST training at the Amphibious \
Training Base, Camp Bradford,
near Norfolk, Virginia. He has i
been assigned to the crew of an
LST for active duty.
|
IN PACIFIC
Staff Sergeant Willie H. Lewis,
of Shallotte, is stationed at Cape
Gloucester, New Britain, as Mess
Sergeant in charge of the galley
for an engineering unit
FINISHING TRAINING
Private first class William J.
(Bill) Shannon, son of Mrs. H.
M. Shannon, has completed training
and has been graduated from
the Chanute Field, 111., Army Air
Forces Training Command school.
He received instruction in the
electrical specialist course and in
various technical operations vital
to the maintenance of U. S. fighting
planes.
ATTENDS SCHOOL
Carl S. Ward, Jr., of Bolivia,
is attending the San Antonio,
Texas, Aviation Cadet Center's
nine-week pre-flight course. He is
one of 21 North Carolina boys
there.
STATIONED AT HOME
Coastguardsman Schuyler Stanaland,
BMC, is now stationed in
Wilmington. He has just returned
from 14 months service in the
Pacific. He has served in the
Coast Guard 16 years and while
he was here Monday he remarked
that he had seen more service
during the 14 months than
had seen in all his previous life.
He is a son of Mr. D. E. Stanaland
of Ash.
' i