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'M f fl flje ['Hot (Covers S prunsvvick County ^ no! tjpToSn Mayers 1 Ij Sale.* Of Fifth War Bonds Monday and Kgesckv^ But Quota Still BlLL fEi.I.OWS MUST MOST contributing ^B.<; Back The Boys Of Wjrunsw'ck Who Are OvFi silting Our War ^ ^ugh the Waccamaw bank of the workers reported ^tt-ales ef ?th War Loan Bonds IB y. Chair|V. r. F Plaxco of the bond is finding it hard optimistic. He says that H.i ;i the larger buyers in the four drives will not be this time. This leaves -alter of whether or not the iu.'l buy its quota squareto the small purchasers are able to and should buy foOO.OO or 1.000.00 bonds. Brunswick county people are sou 1 with the sons, brosod friciTds who are now . in the life and death ^B... they can best show that I.j by investing their idle v in 5th W ar Loan bonds. >rv family in Brunswick that njfiting by war industries i put some of tiiat money in Bonds. If men in the service >ady to give so much, surely eople here at home will not te to give their aid through : war bonds. That is really very little. The buyer of is simply making a wise Dient of his money, one that ring him good returns. Is the small fellows, the famothers, brothers, sisters 'riends back home," saic lan Plaxco. "who must put iota across this time, if it icross." ?? ? riefNews Flashes IX HOSPITAL Earl I. Brown entered the Memorial Hospital on Satnight for treatment. He cently been a patient at Ibis hospital and Jame-' in Wilmington. V(. BROTHER Trott. prominent citizen ol lie. is spending this weeli rith his brother, Chas L le plans to put in part ol le fishing. D U/vv/vn t-rv m "v'ni.iv nu.^vivCiU I Wilbur Dosher. native of SouthBr-*. m] outstanding citizen ol Bwimington. where he is post taster was elected president ol 1-4 North Carolina Postmaster'! Biaociation at their meeting last liNNOrXCE BIRTH Vr and Mrs. Clevie Hewett, ci B*umington, formerly of Suppl; B enounce the birth of a daughtei I ' Tuesday at James Walkei BXimorial Hospital, Wilmington. Bmdf. chairman I W:th Frederick Willets, of Wit oogton as District Chairman, J B^ Carr of the Southport Build -"I and Loan Association, hf J men made County Chairman tj '* Building and Loan Association B!-r the purpose of assisting will I 'J* handling of the 5th War Bore B h m this county. i ?>NFRy (SCHOOL graduax e 9 *-P- Leamon Lehue, son of Mr I 61 Mrs. L. D. Lehue. of Shalot I* .".as recently graduated from I ? Gunnery School of the U. 3 I air forces, at Harbingf 1 611 He received his win.p 1 1 -? with his diploma. He enlii-t I 'cthe army on October 1, 1942 B and Mrs. Lehue also haw son. Wilbur . Lehue, S ? h U s Navy- He has beei I ti, ''n ttle South Pacific lo ' P^t two years. THI 8 tail Bond { 0 Do Part k -? ?Is Promoted To Rank Of Captain Word has been received here that Earl I. Brawn has been promoted to the rank of Captain ip the U. S. Army. Captain Brown and his wife, the former Miss Anna Taylor, are making their home [in Lawton, Okla. with their small son, Ralph Edward. Capt Brown | 1 is stationed at Fort Sill, where I he is an instructor in Field Artillery. Admiral James Guest At Base Commander Of This Naval District And His Family! Made A Social Call At < Naval Section Base Here Last Week Rear Admiral Jules James, Commandant at the Sixth Naval District, of which the Section Base at Southport is a part, paid an (unofficial visit to the base here ! la of \iroo Ir T-Tf? ws?a orfomnanipfl by Mrs. James and their three ! daughters. The party was on its :way to Wilmington, where Admiral James represented tht Navy at the launching of The U. S. ' S. Torrance. At this ceremony one of the daughters. Miss Eleanor James, was an attendant to the sponsor. On arrival at the Section Base the party was met by Lt. Commander J. M. Johnston and other officers. They were conducted to the Base Officer's Quarters, where dinner was served. In addition to the officers present at this dinntr the wives of quite a number c were also in attendance. Follow- * ing the dinner the Admiral and 1 his party were taken on a quick 1 inspection of the buildings and iv grounds of the Base. Afterward fl they attended the USO show c which was playing at the theatre o 'at the base that night. Officers at the base are very f gratified at having had Admiral s James and his family as guests. I This pleasure is heightened by re- e ports that the Admiral was very s much pleased with the appear- I ance of the Base. i Twenty Men Go \ For Examination ! t Small Group Of White Men J Being Sent For Preinduc- ^ tion Examination June c Twenty First i I Twenty young Brunswick white s ? man a ro fn CO trt F*Ort BraCC 1 I ? . from the Local Selective Service i f System on June 21 for their pre- 1 i induction examinations. The list : ; is as follows: j William Thurston Inman, Odell > Hardee, Floyd Francis Ferguson, Nicholas W. Mintz, William Kin- 1 [ die Milligan, Aimond Hal Brown, i , Ceveland Edgar Ward, Clyde Car- 1 vies Hewett, Edwin Carl Sellers, i Harry Elwood Robinson, LeRoy < Hickman, David Randolph Wil- i liamson, James Desmond Sim- j mons, James Franklin Gardner, j . Glenn Foy Simmons, James Edgar i . Brown, Johnie Marshal Browning, J . Wilbur Kirk Lewis, Frederick Jo- 1 i seph Todd and Leon Windell Mc- < , Keithan. < t < 1 Lt. Barnett Goes To Wilmington Lt. (jg.) Arthur Huntley 1 Transferred To Baltimore While Boatswain Mate ' ' Takes Command At Oak Island j Lt. W. H. Barnett, commander of the Oak Island Coast station ^ for the past ten or twelve years r and previously at the Cape Fear station on Bald Head Island, has been transferred to the office of the captain of the Port in Wilmington. His rank will remain unchanged but it is understood he will be second to Lt. S. B. Frink, who was promoted to Lieutenant ^several months in advance of Lt. Barnett's promotion. Lt. (jg) jArthur Huntley has been transferred from Oak Island to Baltimore. He has been second in command at the station and has been here about the same length of time as Lieutenant Barnett. It is understood from an official source that a Boatswain I Mate, whose name has not yet been announced, will be In charge at Oak Island. est; A Good 4-PAGES TODAY J Back The Ai\ .-...it-: -,-. -" ' ' "fin*** Pulpwood To I Sell On Cord ( A* A_l.. L measure umy jr RALEIGH, June 14.?Effective p September 6, all pulpwood sold n North Carolina must be measired by the cord and in no other ^ ray, C. D. Baucom, superintenlent of the Weights and Measures livision of the State Department if Agriculture has announced. Baucom said the effective date'* or the change in regulations was g. iet for three months hence to i >rovide pulp companies and others c: lealing in wood sufficient time to A idapt various forms used in the w mrchase of wood to the new reg- ii ilations. o Baucom said that during the a last two years?largely because g if a farm and mill labor shortage ci ?there has been no definite h itandard of measurement for H lulpwood, pointing out that it has n ieen sold in various types of f< inits, by cord, and by weight. n The term "cord," said Baucom, w vill be construed as being "a c (uantity of wood consisting of tl iny number of sticks, bolts, or e lieces laid parallel and together c 10 as to form a rick, stack, or w Jile occupying a space four feet g vide, four feet high and eight I" 'eet long, or such other dimen- k iions that will when multiplied to- r jether equal 128 cubic feet by s volume." tl All quantities of wood, except 'irewood, which changes hands c must have a ticket in triplicate!6 jearing the following information: |<lame of purchaser; name and ad- jb iress of producer or person from 8 vhom purchase or delivery was & made; name of hauler; name of v person to receive payment; date 8 ind time of delivery or receipt; a kind of wood; dimensions; num- 8 ber of cubic feet; numer of sords, or fraction of a cord; de- " Auctions, giving cause; and any 1 sther information desired by party issping ticket. City Mayor Calls For Full Support Says Armies Have Launched Decisive Battle In Europe; Home Front Must Not Fail Mayor John Erikson, called upon all citizens of Southport this morning to lend their full support * to the Fifth War Loan drive t which got under way this morn- ? ing. t In an official proclamation s which proclaimed the opening of ? the drive in Southport, he remind- f ed all citizens of their respon- * sibility for giving full support to i the drive at this critical stage of t the war. c "Our troops have launched a s decisive offensive on the continent e of Europe," he declared, "in a 1 drive aimed at bringing uncondi- f tional surrender from Germany in t 1944, and every American on the ? home front must be just as loyal 6 a soldier as are the men who go 1 into battle." t He commended drive officials 8 (Continued on Page 2) r t LTE News paper Ii Southport, N. C., Wee :ack. Buy More I 4L &9 mt * Hi J|| % * < &frwWiM $8@5KS3*BI^^^^*figi^Bii^9l ^ ' ,. .'ja?& I f^: t-c Day By Day T1 Dnward In Lib - " avorable News Coming In | From All Fronts Since I D-DAY LAST TUESDAY' RESIDENT FORSEES DOOM OF NIPPONESE illied Forces Strengtheni n g Established Beachheads and Press On To New Successes The war situation for the week ncc D-Day could well be desribed as an uninterrupted line of .Hied success. In Normandy, 'here the invasion forces landed, 1 Italy and in Finland, where ur Russian allies are beginning great offensive, all has been oing well, "Better than either ivilians or military officials could ave expected or hoped for." tonday the German press and adio sought to advance excuses >r the Allied landings in Norlandy. They asserted that bad reather prevented them from conentrating on Allied shipping in he English channel. They appar-| ntly overlooked the fact that this ap to the Allies. Recognizing the reather was also a serious handieneral trend toward defeat, Adolf litler's own newspaper, the Voelischer Deobachter, warned its eaders on Monday that Allied uccess now would probably mean he end for Germany. On Monday 1,400 heavy Amerian bombers with the RAF bombd and blasted at vital targets in lermany. Included in the points' ombed by the Americans were ixteen Nazi airfields and six ridges. Fifty three German planes ( / ere destroyed in these raids, inj ddition to other tremendous dam? _ . . _ i ge. ine Ames lost i oomDers,1 nd 31 fighter planes. This was a' (Continued on page 2) W. B. KEZIAH Brunswick tobacco growers are iow beginning to sucker their tolacco and each year many new growers, as well as old ones, ask heir selves how often this work hould be done. In this connectionj itate College at Raleigh gives the! ollowing timely suggestions: j During we? weather it may be lecessary to sucker tobacco j wice a week. Under average con-| litions, about once a week is ufficient but plants should be j ilosely watched. Many growers j ose a large portion of their pro-j its each year by not' keeping! heir tobacco suckered as closely j is it should be." The specialists; ixplain that when suckers are slowed to remain on the stalks' hey consume the plant food that hould go into the leaves. As a esult the crop shows less weight' - ' \ P0R1 i A Good Coir Inesday, June 14, 1944 Than Before t % * irLrSfT ' MTHIiJi :lPi"4 *^Kx??Jfc ' ' ij* : ;, HtelPi?' v ie Allies Press eration March Register Says It's A Small World Returning; from a ousiness trip to New York, a few days ago, Register of Deeds W. S. Wells, reported that he was more than ever convinced that this is a small world. He was walking down Broadway when he ran into Robert Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Butler, of Southport. The young man is in the .'Merchant Marine and hap|>cned to be in New York. A little further down the same street the Brunswick Register of Deeds bumped into Alderman and Mrs. Pearcc Cranmer and Mrs. Mary Cranmer of Southport. Parker Leaves Henry Bacon Resigns as Master Of Engineer Dredge Effective July First; Bellamy Returns as Master After twenty years of service in various capacities aboard the U. S. E. dredge Henry Bacon, the last year as Master of the vessel, Captain Morton Parker, of Shallotte, has resigned, to take effect the first of July. It is understood that he will devote himself to his farming interests when he resignation takes effect.. Captain W. E. Bellamy, of Supply, and Shallotte, will return to the Bacon as Master. He was in command of the vessel until about (Continued on page 2) WING Reporter and is of poorer quality. ! ! ! County Agent Dodson says that unless the farmers of Brunswick act now to set aside sufficient good seed for planting the 1944 small grain crop, in the fall, there will be another acute shortage of seed, as in 1943. It appears to be highly important that Brunswick farmers save seed of all sorts this year. , ! ? ; "Captain John," Mayor D. Eriksen, has gone back to his first and only love, so far as occupation is concerned. He is again in charge of one of the boats of the Brunswick Navigation company after being more or less .out of the fishing game for two years. Captain John has spent practical(Cox-Unuwd on page 4) r pil imunity PUBLiSf Brunswick Cou Becoming Ver _ End Of Dimout Period And t Removal Of Some Other W a r t i m e Restrictions Having Effect On Brunswick Coast Line ^ a BEACH PROPERTY T SHOULD BECOME v MORE VALUABLE c li Minds Of Many Will Turn ll To Coastal Section And ? Beaches With Ending v Of War; Brunswick Has Fine Stretch g Of Coast v The beaches along the many milets of Brunswick coast line are I presenting quite a change from the deserted appearance of the past three summers. All houses that are available for use are already filled and from various reports it appears that there is a ' great demand for more. Long Beach, near Southport, in addition to its large pavillion and up-to-date lunch room, is now sporting the first real estate office that the place has had. Re- o ports are that all are doing a o good business and the inaugura- s tion of bus service this week e should result in twice as many c people using this beach as in f previous years. An insufficiency of permanent homes and difficulty t of getting building material constitutes the greatest drawback to t growth at the present time. s Holden's Beach, below Supply, 5 is also said to be thriving with all available houses in use or soon r to be in use by families owning or who have rented them. As at c Long Beach, Holden's Beach is already having transient visitors and prospects of a great many more as the summer progresses. The place is across the inland waterway and is reached by a bridge operated by the State Highway Commission. No survey has been made of other attractive beach points, Calasbash, Seaside, Little Beach, Gause Beach, Shallotte Village Point, Etc. Reports, however, indicate a lot of summer Visitors ' coming in at all these places. All are very attractive to summer and fall visitors, owing to the fine fishing in addition to the fine I bathing beaches they afford. ' With publicity as an aid, some, if not all of the valuable stretches of beaches along the Brunswick coast, should become well populated centers during the next few J years. The end of the war should see the minds of many inland residents turning towards the coastal sections. Liquor And Still ; All His Own! i Officers Perry and Gray ? Got on a Trail That Got ! Warmer and Warmer, , Captured Whiskey, Still j and Man t In the Shingletree section, be- t low Shallotte, on Saturday, Rural * I Policeman O. W. Perrv and A. T. _ U. Officer Chas decided that it J might be worth while to search the home of Julius Wilson, a colored citizen of that community. The search of the home brought to light several glass jars of nontax paid liquor. Encouraged by these small, but definite, returns, the officers went to Wilson's pig pasture and a short search there uncovered a five gallon glass jug full of the same stuff. By this time officers Perry and Gray felt that they were getting warmer. They extended their search about the pig pasture and finally discovered a 100-gallon submarine type whiskey still and a hundred gallons of mash. With I (continued on page two) Brunswick Men At Great Lakes Center Two Bolivia men and one from Supply are receiving their initial naval indoctrination at the U. S.I Naval Training Center, Great j Lakes, 111. They are Raymond B. I Gilbert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jam- * es Gilbert of Bolivia, Tolman j f Lennon, son of Mrs. Lucy Lennon,.? of Bolivia, and Thomas L. Sing, I8 son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Sing, of j' Supply. Their "boot" training consists 5 of instruction in seamanship, mili- j? tary drill and general naval pro-1J dure. During this period a series;^ of aptitude tests will be taken by (' the recruits to determine whether 1 they will be assigned to a Naval Service School or to immediate i active duty at sea. Their recruit training complet- ' ed, these men will spend a period ' of leave at home. OT ? IED EVERY WEDNESDA1 uty Beaches y Active Now Vew Registrants With Local Board Five whi'.e and five colored men re among the recent registrants rith the Selective Service Board, hey are James Monroe McLamb, ^ampje, S. C., Otha Smith, Ash; Hyde Lewis Floyd, Hoffman Isind, N. Y.; Luther Eugene Carer, Wampee; Donald Jenner Merer, Bolivia. The colored men are ,oftin McCleasia Bellamy, Longrood; Jerry My Bentty, Winnaow; Bemice Leston Johnson, ,upply; Rudlolph Bernard, Boliia; John Henry Bounded, Leland. light Cases Are Heard Monday Considerable Time Consumed In Handling Relatively Small Number Of Contested Cases Eight cases were heard in Recrder'n Court here Monday, some if them being contested and the ession running well into the aftrnoon before everything was learei up. The docket shows the ollowing business handled. W. E. Bellamy, allowing stock o run at large; not guilty. Julius Wilson, possession; welve months on roads, judgment uspended on payment of fine of ,125.CO and court costs. Douglas Hewett, non support; 10I pros with leave. Lillie Wat Moore, assault with leadl.v weapon; four months on oads, suspended on condition that estitution be made in the amount if $40.00 to Marvin E. Hinson for loc tor's bill, and payment of court ?sts. Helen McMillan, assault with leadly weapon; three months on wads, assigned to work at county tome, sentence runs concurrently vith that of another case. Pat Mitchell, possession; sixty lays on roads, Judgment suspended on payment of fine of $50.0( .nd court costs. Donald M. Babson, Jr. speeding; lot guilty. Invasion Cuts Home Supplies ihortages At Home May Be Attributed To Demands Of Armed Forces Recent shortage of many civilan supplies may be attributed tc nilitary demands of the forces oi iberation. Examples are radio ubes and parts, gasoline and oil, n spite of a radio manufacturing lutput over 10 times as great as ire-war, military demands foi adio tubes and repair parts have ncreased. This explains why civllans are finding it hard to gel hese items, the War Production 3oard says. Every military plane las radio equipment, some as nuck. as $100,000 worth each Ships, tanks and other mobile iquipment also use radio equipnent. A five-month supply of 100ictane aviation gasoline is requirid for each of the 11,000 planes racking up Allied liberation for:es, the Petroleum Administration or war reports. Heavy and im>erative demands for oil by Genjral Eisenhower as early as last vinter almost made New York Joston and Philadelphia the firsl ndirect invasion casualties. InTeased production by East Coast efineries, the "Big Inch" and 'Little Big Inch" pipelines, and emergency deliveries helped averl uvilian shortages of oil and gat n the East. Company Starts Service To Beach Buses Now Running Daily And Sunday Between Southport And Long Beach The W. B. & S. Bus Lines, Inc las secured a passenger and reight franchise to Long Beach ind the Section Base. A temporiry passenger service was put ino use between Southport and the >eaoh Sunday. The service foi Sundays, according to present ichedule3, is for buses to leave he station in Southport at 1:30 !:0(l and 6:00 P. M. Returning Jiey leave the beach at 3:40, 5.4( ind 9:30 P. M. For week days the buses leave Southport at 7:30 and 10:00 A 2:00, 6:00 and 9:30, P. M. Re .urning, they leave the beach ai 5:00 and 10:00 A. M. 5.30, 6:4( (Continued on Page 2) / Most Of The News All The Time r" $1.50 PER YEAfl 3 Fishermen Told 1 Of Dander Of | Strange Objects if Sub-Chief Of Naval Operations Explains Procedure j When Unrecognized Containers Are found IF YOU'RE NOT SURE DUMP IT BACK IN Government Issues Instruc tions On Handling Unusual Catches In view of possible deliberate Jj efforts of the enemy, in addition to storms and drift of tides, it is altogether possible that contain- 9 ers of explosives may come within the field of operations of commercial fishing boats in this area. Recognizing such dangers, W. S. M Farber, Sub-Chief of Naval Operations of this District, has is- I sued the following warning through the Coast Guard: "Hydrographic Bulletin No. 2803 I of 9 June, 1943, which was based jj on instructions received from a ft naval district, warns commercial M fishermen that any unrecognized J| container recovered from*the sen bottom may contain explosives 3 and instructs the fishermen to I bring such containers to the nearest Coast Gtiard or Naval Station for dispositfbn. It is believed that this I instruction may result in the deposit of these objects at points contiguous to heavily populated I arpas or at Doints adiaccnt to I vital material or installations Since this would create an unacceptable hazard the instruction given in this bulletin will be cancelled. i "The most desirable method for ; handling objects which migbt ; contain explosives is to dump ' them back into the sea as soon 1 after their recovery as possible. At the time of the dumping the ves1 sel should be underway at maxli mum speed and the personnel ' aboard, insofar as practicable, ' should be under cover since the explosive may be set off as a re' suit of the dumping. The dump- fll ' ing, if practicable, should be done ' in water shallower than at the-'"If plaoo ,>f recovery. This is advUI able since some hydrostatically operated underwater weapons may detonate if dropped into water deeper than at the spot where recovered. "Wherever there is reason to believe that a ne\V underwater II weapon is involved, it will be desirable to have unrecognized con. tainers buoyed at the point where may later be recovered by personthey are dumped so that they may later be recovered by personnel qualified to handle underwater , explosives. Products Bring Higher Price Increase Shown In Prices Paid For Various Farm ' Products RALEIGH, June 12. ? Farm products sold in mid-May showed an increase in prices for com, WUCat, UtCl CUIL1C, SWWfc pU 1*1 toes, soybeans, and cowpeas, but slight decreases or no fluctuations i for other commodities, as com pared with the mid-April pric*sv i according to the Statistics division of the State Department of Agriculture. Corn sold for $1.57 per bushel against $1.52 on April 15, and $1.37 a year ago; wheat, $1.77 as tor May, 1943; oats, May $1.17 (Continued on Page Four.) i I : Ration Pointer!? J CANNING SUGAR Sugar stamp No. 40 good for five pounds of canning i I sugar until February 28, 1945, Apply to local boards for supplemental rations. GASOLINE 1 A-10 coupons now valid and will expire August- 8. MEATS AND FATS Red A-8 through W-8 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points eacla I for use with tokens. Goo4 > indefinitely. PROCESSED FOODS Blue A-8 through V-S ! (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each, fo r use with : tokens. All are good Indeft* i nitely. SHOES Airplane Stamp No. 1 at 10 ) No. 2 (Book 3) valid IndetV nitely. : SUGAR Sugar Stamps No. 30 ant ; No. 31 (Book 4) good for fin 1 t pounds indefinitely.. Stamp J No. 32 becomes valid ltt five pounds on June 10. ^ f
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