I The Pilot Covers Brunswick County MfoL.SO. SIXTEEN " NO. Hchocl Heads Getting Ready I For Fall Term Kjgjte Principals Meet At Superintendents Office I Friday Of This Week At I Three O'clock eacheks MEETING HEKE NEXT WEEK Hicht Shortage Of Teach (r"< In Some Of The Schools May Be ReI medied Before SeptB ember 6th Bv.it principal* at their fl.. ost of the teachers! B secured , prepara-' (U underway for the! B Brunswick county B- - September 6th. B. he white high schools, Br s ~:i!1 short one teach lj>lai is understood to have . v. At last reports . va v.is said to be short four shallotte two. and Wac It is thought that acher vacancies may (;ea:f up by September 6th. m;: this not prove to be the substitutes will take over ::y n until regular posies are tilled. Friday rtemoon of this week tfcrev clock the principals of > .. schools will meet in ( : of Miss Annie Mae Superintendent of t - This meeting will be Wednesday, Septem- J ?r r. 0:15 a. m? with a . : all white teachers and a- the Southport high t:: Representatives from the s: D-.; ument of Education ji: it present at this meeting. ! Col ; teachers and principals fc < unty are to meet the rr.e .ivrr.oon, at three o'clock, Bru- swick County TrainE Scr. 1 in Southport. [- war times the schools t Brunswick carried on admir: ce of many adverse t! is success achieved I- '.inted cooperation on f: " < teachers, patrons and t - < With this good show - f .1? . * i - < ; .1 t 1.. i V. IMSl II 19 tuilliucill.lj itev that things will stiaightc '.veil this year and all; iris will have a prosperous and tlpi'jl session. Brief News Flashes PREACHED AT TRINITY Rev R. S. Harrison of Cary leached the morning sermon at M< thodist church, where (was pislor for several years. | IS PROMOTED E'jwai Taylor, son of Mrs. i ' Ed. Taylor and the late Mr. kvior has been promoted to kcgeani. He is serving with the M' Air Forces at Okinawa. WINs PI KPLE HEART Pic David H. Sellers, of Sup y serving with the 230th Field inillery- Battalion of the 30th Intatrv, recently received the Ittple Heart for wounds received ' Germany. HOME ON LEAVE U Robert K. Godfrey, who enke'i ir. the Navy soon after tarl Harbor, is on a 20 days KlVp i. frianHc in - - a.. VlSlLlJlg * "Wiswick unci New Hanover ttimies. He has been serving in Pacific. Prior to entering the Rffice he was manager of the Srsery at Orton Plantation. REPORTS at FORT BRAGG Captain Kleanor Niernsec of the Afmy Xui Corps left Sunday to " Port at Kr.it Bragg for return ? duty W;th the Johns Hopkins Jut she s. 'ied for Australia near'-hree years ago. Following she went with her jjt to x, Guinea and later to 6 Phillipir.es. she was serving i J tee isiarri when she was given! 'f' days leave to come home und test ^ "IS MONEY thl?aJ B|'inson. negro livitlg on, - farm np-^r Shallotte. ! of his tobacco at ]je 'He one day last week, carried the check to the bank te5?SShe'1 l1, Putting the money, ??0. m his wallet, and then t-ji ,nto the stores to do some am"!8' ^king a purchase, he is t- .J? havr' left the wallet lying K V c?untcr while he went off w;*"! minutes. When he re^ 1 for it, it was gone with m?te than half a thousand ""s u it i .. . j TH 22 Will Buy A Farm When He's Released j Pvt. Thomas D. Gore, who has I been visiting his brother and sisters in New Hanover and Brunswick counties, has returned to the McCloskey General Hospital for further attention to the wounds jhe received in action in Germany. | Upon obtaining his discharge from the hospital he pians to buy and opeiate a farm near Supply. He lost his right leg and the bones in his left leg were shattered when he stepped on a mine. A brother, Frank Gore, and a sister, Mrs. O. M. Holden, live at Supply. Two other sisters, Mrs. V. L. Smith and Mrs. J." D. Pridgen, live in Wilmington, where he resided before entering the service. Both of his parents are dead. Game Wardens Are To Dress Up Will Wear Uniforms Like Other Enforcement Officials And Will Be On Full Time North Carolina Game Wankrns are hereafter to be provided with uniforms -and they are to devote full time to their work, instead of the nine months they have previously worked during each year. This course was decided upon at a meeting of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries of the State Department of Conservation and Development, at Elizabethtown, last week. Game protectors and wardens from the various counties were in attendance at this meeting and received their instructions as to their future work. Two Brunswick men will wear the new uniforms under the ruling which requires full time. These men are County Game Warden H. T. Bowmer, of South jjvi t, anu cnaiit's owppci', ui Leland. Send? Home Some German Trophies Cpl. Harold Aldridge Sends His Parents Big Box Full Of Souvenirs Of Germany Cpl. Harold Aldridge, son of city electrician and Mrs. Harry; Aldridge, who has been in Ger-1 many since D-Day and in active combat for 11 days after the in-, vasion, has sent his parents a big box full of souvenirs of Ger-; many, where he is stifl stationed. A graduate of Southport high1 school and a student at Wake Forest College at the time he j entered service, Cpl. Aldridge has earned the Good Conduct medal' and was also awarded the Purple I Heart for wounds received fol-j lowing the invasion. He is understood to haye completely recovered from these wounds and is now j back in service. Among the things sent to his parents in Southport were an officer's ,cap, and an officer's helmet; knives and daggers; a camera; various emblems and insignia; pieces of German cloth; and paper and metal money from I Germany. France, Italy, and J Japan. "He did not say how the j Japanese money came to be found j there in Germany. He also sent] a picture of a German soldier] who was serving as a sniper behind a hedge, from where he had | wounded several American men J before they found his place of niding and finished him off. . * ! Offender Gets A Heavy Fine $125.00 Is Assessed One Offender In Recorder's Court Here On Monday; Other Cases Small For a number of offenses against the traffic laws one defendant drew down a fine of $125.00 and the costs in the Recorder's court Monday morning. Outside of this Judge John B. Ward and Solicitor J. W. Ruark had little of importance to attend to. The minute docket shows the following cases handled: Alec Porter, possessing material for manufacturing whiskey, continued, Steve Johnson, possession and transporting, judgmen suspended on payment of a fine of $25 00 and costs. Sam B. West, robbery, no probable cause found. Jimmie Edwards, assault, nol pros. c Elijiah Carr, speeding, no operator's permit, no registration : card on his person and transI (Continued on page 2) E STi A Good 8-PAGES TODAY Tobacco Sales Exceed Greater ; Than 10 Million ! r?ok IT?? %/noii k mu i u 4 ai iiici o More Than Million And Half Greater Than During Same Period Last Year Gross sales on the Whiteville tobacco market through the first 13 days of sales amounted to i 10,550,651, pounds at an average 1 price of "well above ceiling." The j cash paid to farmers for this amount was in excess of last year's cash to farmers during the same period by $1,638,796.20. M. B. Kibler, Jr., sales supervisor of the Whiteville market, 'who announced these figures, dejclared that during the first 13 n days of last season, the pound- C age sold on the Whiteville mar- 1 ket was 3,531,791, fewer pounds than has been sold during the > first 13 days of this season. He; f estimated that at the close of! today's sales, more than 11% | million pounds will have been jsold on the six Whiteville ware' houses. Sales for last week totalled " better than 4% million pounds atj an average price of $44.74 per hundred. Very noticeable last' !week were the high prices being' paid for inferior tobacco. m Trawler Burns; Crew Injured? sc Gasoline In Bilge of Shrimp 1 Trawler Explodes When'R Crew Starts To Light |c( Stove To Cook Breakfast'jn re The 39-foot shrimp trawler; Buffalo, owned by Pomphretta g; Swain and operated by Captain 0f J. J. Pigott and Joe Suggs, was1 r? completely destroyed by fire Fri- j | day morning while en route to the' th trawling grounds. Captain Pigott S( and Suggs both received serious: ct | burns and Captain Pigott is still fa in the rospital receiving treat- iy | inent. j th The boat twas opposite Fort j Caswell at the time and Captain * Pigott is understood to have been | in the cabin, preparing to cook breakfast. Gas from the engine had accummulated on top of the I bilge water and when he struck a match this gas ignited, setting1 tj fire to other gas and oil about the engine. The two men managed to maneuver the boat to a i nearby shoal and both waded off into shallower water, where they were picked up. I St' Winnie Willis js Is Discharged Jh > fr Was First To Leave Service at From Andrews Field, D. br C. After Fall Of Japan he |wl The first member of the Worn-1 be en's Army Corps to leave thejw! service from Andrews Field, D. | C., after capitulation of Japan, Ai Cpl. Winnie Willis was honorably Ki discharged at Foi t Bragg on (H August 19. j th She was graduated from South- |Wi poit High school in 1917, from | ve Motts Business college in Wil-1 mington in 1919 and from Dur-| ham Business college in i? \ ' . ? Pictured above is Prt lakes his report to the n nee and warns the Japs 'hey gave up. .emmissioners In Regular Meetinj lostly Routine Matters A Mondays Session C Board, Reports Read An Are Approved At their regular mid-monl leeting on Monday of this wei :ry little business came up b ire the board of county cor lissioners, except tax matter laking provisions for the aid t iveral blind and indigent pe ins, and receiving various pa es on equally varied matters. The report of County Auditi . C. St. George, covering r ipts and disbursements for tl lonth cf July, was approved i lad. The report of Clerk of Cou rm T. Bennett, for the monl ' July, was likewise approved i ad. The next regular meeting i ic board takes place on Monda rpteni ber 3rd. This meetir linciding with the opening of tl 11 term of criminal court usua results in much more wor ian usual for the commissioner 7ox Hunters Had Good Lucl Ip-State Men With Fin Dogs Tailed Five Foxe In Hunt At Tar Landin Near Shallotte Without waiting for frost, uj ate fox hunters are already tx nning to invade Brunswic unty and are finding the foxe most too plentiful. Instead e e dogs getting on the trail < fox and being able to run it t finish, the packs are said I equently get after half a doze one time. This leads to til eaking up of the packs < lunds and the crossing of trail Ith the hunters frequently ne :ing able to reach the seer lien the dogs make a kill. Last week Frank Steel, t sheboro; C. A. Garner and Jc earns, of Farmer; and C. I inson, of Franklinville, brougl eir dogs to Tar Landing an pre guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hai y Gray for part of the wcel (Continued on i'age 3) W. B. KEZ1A1T Forty five years ago E. 1 vans of Town Creek townshi ive up iarnung, moveu lu i>uri 'est township and built a stoi :ar the Brunswick River Bridg le orginal store building h? :en moved back to form tt ar end of the present establisl ent, but Mr. Evans is still doin Iginess in that store. It is unliki that any other merchant i runswick county is now carr; g on his business in the sarr hiding where he started as muc i 45 years ago. Rattlesnakes and other snaki iem to be starting out early : arch of winter quarters. Sa -day a large rattler was ki(led i le end of the dock leading to tl r. S. Wells fish house. It had pr ibly journeyed there from son hnt half a mile or more awa re have no recollection of su< lakes having been previous illed here in town. P0R1 In A Good Coi , Wednesday, August^22i 0/arns Japs | \ ?- v- m :sident Harry Truman as he ation on the Potsdam conferto give up or be destroyed. . Receives Honorable j Army Discbarge ^ Bringing to a close his army career, 51 months of which weie Lj spent overseas In the Panama ., i Canal and European Theater of * j Operations, Pvt. Blake Carlisle, ? son of Mis. J. D. Andrews ofi Ash, was honorably discharged j from the service at the Hospital | Center, Camp Burner. He has 123 j ; discharge points e"j A lifieman and machine gunn*! ner with the 99th Infantry .Oi- j s' vision, he was removed from j active duty Dev. 14, 1944, lor ' {hospitalization. His decorations { incluuc the i urplo Heart, Anvi-j jean r.'fense Pdnbpn, European 3r I Theatre of Operations Ribbon,' e" and the Combat Infantry Badge. ,e Before entering the service, the 1S soldier w.-#r farming. Currently he I is undecided as to what he will rt do when he returns home. J | l Hanson To Move ? To Brunswick ie i , ,k Spiritine Chemical Coltish pany Owner Planning Rebuilding And Will >< T. IU U move, 10 new numc Several years ago Louis Han-' son, Wilmington man, established V the Spiritine Chemical company , on the Brunswick River, just above the Brunswick River Bridge. With an excellent quali-' 18 ty of products, the business' S thrived and was becoming nationally known when the war . ! broke out and the plant was con-} | verted to war work. I '! About two years ago much of i the plant was destroyed by fire.I Mr. Hanson, then an officer with 1 >f jf the Cousl due,i~u, could not dc;o vote himself to rebuilding at n I the time. The plant has been n | idle since the fire. lcj With the war .over and Mr.1' )f Hanson now out of the service, j' Si it is understood that plans arcj' ,1 for rebuilding and operating the , lc plant oh a much larger scale. In , addition to the work on the >f 'plant Mr. Hanson has already be- ] ie gun construction of a new home! 3. on Route 17, near the plant. Hc[( it will move from Wilmington and ) d become a citizen of Brunswick ,1 r- county. In addition to rebuild-' < s. 'ing the plant it is understood j (Continued on Page 6) i i I r ! OVING I j Reporter ! 5.' New homes are constantly going! p up in and around Lcland and the! h Brunswick River Bridge section of j re North West township. For several! e. years that part of the county has is shown the most rapid growth in ie population and development. At: l- the present rate of growth it will ig not be long beSre the folks r.ear e- the bridge begin to hanker for a in town charter and the whole four ,1 f- miles between there and Leland |' ic will be filled up with homes and( :h business places. I The top production of shrimp j =s last week went to the big Diesel in powered boat Ottis, with Charles | t- Wells as Captain. The report is it that he and his two men received ie over $1,100. Saturday evening for, o- j their week's catch. From this sum i ie boat expenses would naturally; y. have to be deducted, but even :h with that the three men made big ly earnings. Quite a number of other. (Continued on Page 2) 0 r pil nmunity nd, 1945 " MacArthi Surren Has Big Boats ' In Louisiana 't Big Craft Of Colonial h Shrimp Company Fleet * Named "Southport;" Another Is "Tar Heel" |J 1 Two of the several big trawlers' that will comprise the shrimp fleet of Lewis J. Hardie in Morgan City, Louisiana, hav'e been j 0 completed, outfitted, and are starting shrimping this week. In i addition to being owned by a L Southport man, of especial interest locally in that one of them' F is named "Southport," and it is commanded by a Brunswick county man, Captain Eunice Varnum, ? of Supply. The other Hardie boat beginning operations this week is the North Sea. It is I also captained by a Brunswick ' county man. Captain Clarence, j Varnum, of Supply. Another big Brunswick county! owned boat just completed and j now starting operations in Louis- j I iana is the "Tar Heel," owned I and operated bv Captain Ashley I Galloway, of Supply. The "Tarj Heel," is 62 feet in length and 18 feet wide. She is powered by a! 170 horse power Superior Diesel J e engine. J p Mr. Hardie, who owns the s Colonial Shrimp Company at a Morgan City, is co-owner with: n Dallas Pigott in the firm of the g same name at Southport. Here j t they have four large trawlers, all' of them nearly new boats and t well powered. During the warjr they were used as offshore patrol! 1 boats by the Navy. c Carolina Tobacco Deliveries Heavy >< Third Week Of Sales Char- f acterized As Extremely tl Heavy Deliveries To All d Points 11 FLORENCE, S. C., Aug. 18? c The third week of sales on South; Carolina and border North Caro- ^ lina tobacco markets was characterized by extremely heavy deliveries to all points. According to the United States and North Carolina Departments of Agriculture, 43,376,810 pounds were sold ^ at an average of $44.91. This was an increase of 4,379,107 pounds over the volume marketed last week. Heavy deliveries during the entire week caused blocked sales on all markets, some si were reporting enough tobacco j y on hand for two or three days' t; sales of next week. Considerable i ej amount of damaged tobacco ap-. peared on floors due to blocked conditions and excess rains. j . Average prices for most med-ld| ium and better quality grades this week were steady to S1.00 lower than last week's high levels. However, most lower quali-' 01 ties wer# $1.00 to $5.00 higher.'" Greater advances occurred InM' green and nondescript. This decrease in better qualities and increase in lower has narrowed e< price range until all tobacco is B selling between $36.00 and $46.00. " However, the bulk of offerings " is selling between $44.00 and $46 00 with $46. practically top. The ef general average for season w through Friday was $44.80, an increase of 15 cents per hundred | M aver last week's average of j B 544.65. This increase in general!^ average is attributed to higher j prices paid for lower qualities.' a Those grades make up the greater yi per cent of marketings: \\ Men Are Taken b: With Large Stilly James Sam Brown And Bill Munsey Arrested Last Week At Still Near Howell's Point g' tc Rural Policeman O. W. Perry bi Df Nort> West township and Al- ' ol coholic Tax Unit officers Gray P and Smithwick made a good haul v in the Midway section between si Southport and Supply and near ci Howell's Point last week. They! b; captured a 150 gallon submarine n type whiskey still in full opera- ll tion. With the still they took b eight barrels of mash and twenty w gallons of nontax paid whiskey, p which was destroyed. |d At the still at the time were I James Sam Brown and Bill Mun-Jl( sey, both white men. They were c arrested and carried before U. S. ti (Continued on Page Four) t ,0T [ #1.50 PER YEA> i'UBLISH ir Expects der Withii _ Change Place For ii Union Service I Owing to repairs being made at he Presbyterian church the Aug-1 ist 26, union service, originally.' cheduled to be held with the! 'resbyterian church next Sun- j lay, will be held at Trinity, \ .fethodist church at eight p. m. 'his service will be conducted by 3, M. McEache^n. Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian nd Episcopalian churches in iouthport all forgo their usual j vening services when such union c ervices are being held. Rev. J. r t. Potts conducted the services j t Tiinity Methodist on the 5th; (. lev. A. L. Brown was in charge1 v t St. Phillips on August 12th;1 e nd Rev. O. I. Hinson was at the j, lnr?Hct ^htirrh nn Aiicriifif 10th. I v"? o?- If Much Tobacco Not Yet Sold i Jig Percentage Of This'a Years Crop Seems To Be g Still In Hands Of Grow- g ers; Prices Pleasing 'p |tl Inquiries of many tobacco grow- v rs seem to indicate that a largo ^ lercentage of this year's crop till remains to be sold. Rains v nd the shortage of labor kept ii nany from getting their crop ti raded and ready for market at g he usual speed. j The leports also indicate thatl he poundage per acre was cut u ather heavily by the continued q ains which set in just before1 p ?/V HntA Tniu U,l4A rPSlllt. ! . It'Jjpillg IUIIC. *1110 M?w . ^ d in much damaged tobacco. L However, both the short crop nd storm damage seems to have n een partly offset by the unusual- ? f good prices. Almost without xception the grown." en- ? ireiy satisfied with the returns rom this year's crop. Some of ? hem, who suffered very little a tinge irom the rains and also.? ad an abundant supply of la nor, ?' eem in?l? than please! with ihe ' rop. jd William Stone j; Serves On Texas * p ! O! foung Bolivia Man Serves p On One Of Most Disiin-jA guished Of American n Men-O'-War iN ,N A press release from the battle-)w lip Texas, now somewhere in I re the amphibious forces land- i p J and then for 43 days helped'ro round troops thin out enemy tl nes with their big guns. Three mes Japanese suicide planes ied attacks on the Texas and ich time she discouraged such ith her antiaircraft fire. Ci Young Stone is the son of ir. and Mrs. J. I. Stone, of jlt elivia. A Southport man, A. D. j P1 arrelson, also served on the j01 exas until a little over two:hi lonths ago when he was given! n honorable discharge. The 31-! i ear old ship, skippered by Cap-1 tin Charles A. Baker, USN, of G Washington, D. C., is credited hi ith being the only American, d' ittleship to have dealt with the 'r tiemy in waters off three con-1H nents: Africa, Europe, and Asia.1 II tulers Set For D Air Shipments 81 RALEIGH?Various regulations overning fresh fruits and vegeibles shipped by airplane have sen given the State Department f Agriculture by the Office of | rice Administration. Fruits and P egetables shipped by air must be' lipped in units or packages that a an be sold without repackaging n y the retailer. Each package pist be marked to show its min- v num net weight; each unit must e labeled or marked to show it v as shipped by air. A11 labeling, ackaging, and marking must be V one before shipment. Higher retail ceilings are al- 3 >wed for airborne products to P are for the increased transportalon expense as compared with 1 ruck or rail. g Most of The News All The Time j ED EVERY WEDNESDAY Formal I n 10 Days I Surrender Conference Ends I In Less Than Day After I It Begins; Tokyo Dele- I gates Back To Capital I GENERAL IGNORES I NIPPON DELEGATES I Vainwright Freed By Para- I chutists; Jap General I Protests Liberation; I Quisling Trial I Begins I MANILA ? Genl. MacArthur I stimated today that formal aur- I ender papers would be signed in I apan within ten days. MacAr hur's, prediction was issued as a /hirlwind surrender conference I nded, less than a day after it ad begun. Grim-faced Jap sur- I ender delegates flew back to I 'okyo today. MacArthur, de- I berat^ly ingoring Tokyo's emis- I arics, said ho would follow soon D dth accompanying ground sea {fl "d n' fnrn/iu fn oion fhn formal "fl urrcnder. "I shall proceed to Japan witb ccompanying forces composed of round, naval, and air elements, lubj&ct to weather that will ermit landings, it is anticipated he formal surrender document rill be signed within ten days,"' lacArthur said. He said he ,-ould accept the surrender i the name of the United Staes, the Chinese republic, the lovict Union, and the United kingdom. CHUNGKING?Lt. Gen. Jona- 4 han M. Wainwright, tall hero of loiregidor who was rescued from rison camp by humanitarian jam of American parachutists, ! due in Chungking shortly, ana m iay witness the formal surrender I f forces which held him moie I tian three years. The dropping H f the humanitarian teams iought .?,4>r?v,-?t ?toci the Jap H en era I staff. The Japanese in urmed Gen. MacAithur that the H ction endangered the smooth ces- H ition hostilities, and asked him fl j sec that no more such "lnci- H ents" occurred. fl OSLO- The testimony of Her- H rnnn Goering, Joachim Von Rib- B entrop other high-ranking Nazis rill be introduced against Vldum Quisling, the prosecution B isclosed as the former pupper B remier of Norway went on trial f charges of treason today. State H rosecutor Schodt announced B .Hied and Norwegian officials B ow are taking testimony of fazi witnesses in Germany, where B azi leaders will soon be tried ;H| ith war criminals. WASHINGTON ? Strong Con- B ressional backing lined up be- B ind the house naval committee's !commendation for formal Unit- B 1 States control of Pacific bases B irough a "gentlemen's agree- B icnts." This country, the com- B dttec said, should at least have working agreement for the use B f bases on islands held by our B wn allies as well as by Japan. CHUNGKINK?Chinese govern- B tent troops striking swiftly into B orth China are advancing on aoton in the inner Mongolian B rovidence of Suiyuan, 100 miles B arthwest of the Shansi border, B te high command announced. B EASTERN BELT OPENS B TUESDAY RALEIGH?Fifteen markeU in B istern North Carolina tobacco B sit will Tuesday prepared ' > sell ti cigarette leaf crop exected to total 388,300,000 pounds, le of the largest in the state's B istory. E. SELLERS ON FURLOUGH H E. Sellers, GM 3[c U. S. Coast B uard,,is spending a furlough at Is home here. Serving aboard a B sstroyer escort, Sellers has been i the service since August 16, 344. He has eleven round t.rip3 B i Europe to Ins credit. On Apiil B 3, 1944, his escort sank a Qerlan submarine and captured 12 lembers of its crew after the lib had torpedoer a tanker. Ration Pointers I lATION CALENDAR B MEATS AND FATS: (Red B tamps)?Q2, R2. S2. T2, U2 . . . B ow valid . . . expire August 31. V2, W2, X2, Y2. Z2 . . . now B alld . . . expire September 30. ,B Al, Bl, CI, Dl, El . . . now H alid . . . expire October 31. H Fl, Gl. HI. Jl. K1 . . . now S alid . . expire November 30. SUGAR: Sugar Stamp ... no. 6 good for five pounds ... ex- H ires August 31. H SHOES: .vrplane Stamps, No. , No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, now H ood. y H