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TAX LISTING
The Machinery Act provides that Poll and Tangible
Property tax returns shall be made to the list-taker
during the month of January under the pains and
penalties imposed by law.
OWNERS OF AUTOMOBILES SHOULD BE PRE
PARED TO GIVE TAX LISTERS FULL INFORMA
TION AS TO MODEL, YEAR OF MANUFACTURE
AND STATE LICENSE NUMBER.
Wilmington township tax listers will be on the main
floor of old court house daily 8:30 A. M., to 5.30
P. M., (Sundays excepted, beginning January 2nd,
1940.
County tax listers will meet their usual appoint
ments as advertised.
Harnett listers will meet at the court house Jan
uary 26th, 27th, 29th, 30th and 31st.
Cape Fear, Federal Point and Masonboro listers
will meet at the court house January 30th and 31st.
| J. A. ORRELL,
i County Auditor.
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FISHER REPORTS
ON CITY BUDGET
$491,111 Taken In, $491,483
Spent During First
Six Months
The City of Wilmington received
$491,111.62 and expended $491,483.93
during the first six months of the
current fiscal year ending on De
cember 31, W. Louis Fisher, com
missioner of finance, reported yes
terday.
The city has an unexpended bal
ance of $324,358.18 out of the bud
get appropriations of $814,767.76 for
operation of the various depart
ments of the city government dur
ing the remaining six months of
the fiscal year ending on June 30,
Commissioner Fisher said.
Principal items of receipts for
the six month period ending De
cember 31 included: current taxes
$120,373.63; prepayment of 1939
taxes, $104,951.82; delinquent taxes,
$95,707.20; water and sewerage,
$78,105.94; Alcohol Beverage Con
trol, $30,000; and dealer licenses,
$20,056.21.
The city’s major disbursements
for the same period were; debt
service payments, $197,658.59, of
which $80,000 was used in the re
tirement of bonds; police depart
ment, $47,163.84; fire department,
$49,017.40.
Street department, $53,242.63;
health and hospitals, $37,002.52;
water and sewerage department,
$37,935.45; administrative expenses,
$21,854.50; miscellaneous appropria
tions, $10,505.09; public buildings,
parks, and playgrounds, $5,204.87.
Debt service payments included:
coupons, general, $36,213.&1; water
and sewerage, $30,317.25; streets,
$40,733.94; retirement of bonds,
$b0,000; sinking fund. Community
hospital notes, $10,000; bond ex
pense, $182.59; and interest on bor
rowed funds, $211.
Middle Belt Tobacco
Prices Drop Slightly
RALEIGH, Jan. 20.—(iP)—Most
price averages on the Middle flue
cured tobacco belt this week were
"slightly below” last week’s, the U.
S. agricultural marketing service,
state department of agriculture and
Virginia division of markets report
ed today.
Common to fair quality leaf and
nondescript tobaccos composed the
majority of offerings.
The marketing service and the
Virginia markets division said aver
ages for Virginia flue-cured tobacco
this week were “slightly lower” than
last week on the majority of grades
of heavy leaf, though prices for thin
leaf and lugs remained about the
same.
Tobacco sold consisted chiefly of
good and fair quality heavy and
thin leaf and low to good quality
lugs, with lugs predominating.
Wrappers and choice qualities were
offered in increased quantities. Sales
were heavier.
The four markets reported gross
sales of 2,413,147 pounds for the
week at an average of $11.40 a hun
dred. Through January 18, gross
sales were reported as 11,325,580
pounds for $11.10.
Miss Johnston Visits
Farm Security Offices
Miss Mary E. Johnston, of Golds
boro, district supervisor, farm and
home management programs, rur
al rehabilitation division of the
Farm Security Administration, was
a visitor here Friday.
Miss Johnston conferred while
here with W. M. Ginn, county sup
ervisor, and Miss Mildred McDon
ald, farm and home management
supervisor, regarding the promo
tion of RR programs of the FSA
in Brunswick and New Hanover
counties during the winter months.
N. C. Job Placements
Showing Good Gain
Private and public job placements
in the state totaled 107,621 for 1939,
the Wilmington office of the
North Carolina State Employment
service reported yesterday.
Activities were summarized as
follows: placements, private, 63,
429; public, 44,192; registrations,
130,546; renewals 212,459; total ap
plication inflow, 343,005.
Cancellations, 304,215; total out
! flow, 411 836; decrease in the ac
tive file, 68,831; and active file as
of December 31, 87,973.
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Camp No. 6
Regular meeting at 8 P.M.
Hall Third and Princess Sts.
: Monday. All Woodmen in
vited to attend.
W. E. DAVIS, Fin. Sec.,
Veteran Stone Cutter, One-Time
German Sailor, Likes U» S. Best
Paul Otto Schmidt is a German
in the best of lager and liver
wurst tradition, but at the age of
60 and after a life of vigorous
adventure in all parts of the world,
he is content to spend the remain
der of his life as a resident of
Wilmington and as a draftsman in
granite.
He was first drawn here in
1906, when he worked at the first
of the city’s shipyards—the Skinner
boat works, and since that time
he has been carving monuments
for the Carolina Cutstone com
pany here.
Preferring the sea to the Berlin
of 1893 he joined the German mer
chant marine at the age of 15. Vis
iting the United States during his
first year afloat aboard the Ger
man sailing ship Gutenburg, he
took an instant liking to this coun
try, leaving the Gutenburg and
sailing on the American merchant
marine. From this time until about
1898 the seven seas of the world
were his stamping grounds.
Then, after serving six addition
al years in the German imperial
navy, Schmidt came to the United
States to stay.
After several years of doing var
ious kinds of work in all parts of
this country, he became in 1908 a
lifeguard at Wrightsville Beach. He
tells stories of how several railroad
excursion trains arrived at the re
sort every day—each bringing thou
sands of pleasure seekers. Im
mense crowds became so common
place, he says, it was considered
a dull day when a bather could
swim in the surf without kicking
someone in the face.
After several years in the Unit
ed States, Schmidt took out his
citizenship papers and is now as
American as tne -atar apangiea
Banner.”
Leaving his position as life
guard for a more sober pursuit,
he became a stonecutter and is
still employed by the same estab
lishment.
Of Schmidt, J. H. Niggel, his
employer, says: “He has been an
exc. dent workman; he has been
loyal to the country of his adop
tion as well as to his employers.”
PAUL OTTO SCHMIDT
RALEIGH
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Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
By HENRY AVERILL
RALEIGH, Jan. 20.—Wonders will
never cease! State Senator Emmett
Bellamy of New Hanover says he
saw three candidates for governor
while visiting in Raleigh Thursday
“and only one of them said any
thing about politics.”
Here’s a mixed sort of compliment
for former State Senator L. A. Mar
tin of Davidson, now a candidate
for lieutenant governor.
“I may not think he’s right even
fifty per cent of the times he takes
a stand,” said Lynn Nisbet, acute
newsman and political observer, “but
I know he sincerely believes he’s
right every time he docs.”
Like the umpire, he calls ’em as
he sees ’em.
There were six candidates for con
gress from the Sixth district, and
eight from the Eighth in 1938; which
would make the seat of Lindsay War
ren the only one safe from oppo
sition if that equality of district
number and candidates were uniform
all the way from first to eleventh;
but consider the number of candi
dates each district would have if
there were one for each county in
each district.
The setup would be like this: First,
14 candidates; Second, 8; Third, 9;
Fourth, 7; Fifth, 7; Sixth, 4; Sev
enth, 7; Eighth, 12; Ninth, 9; Tenth,
10; and Eleventh, 13.
The Sixth district is already in
that fix—it has four counties, four
candidates and there is talk of a
lot more.
Now that Bob Doughton has de
cided to quit at last there is likely
to be one of the maddest, most wide
open scrambles up that way; but
even so it is doubtful if there will
be a candidate to the county, on an
average.
From the Eleventh, where Zeb
Weaver has reigned for mhny years,
with a brief inter-regnum when he
was unseated by George Prichard
(when it was the old Tenth in 1928)
comes word that threats of oppo
sition to the incumbent veteran seem
to have subsided to a point where
there is little prospect of a fight.
There has been some talk that
Senator Bellamy, mentioned in the
first item of this column, planned
to run against Fayetteville's J. Ba- j
yard Clark, but if he still has any
such intentions he said nothing of
them in conversation w'ith your re
porter Thursday.
Commissioner of Game and Inland
Fisheries John D. Chalk talked for
more than two and a half hours be
fore the board of conservation and
development in defending his posi
tion in the controversy between his
division and the Federal forest ser
vice over control of deer on National
Forest lands.
He said he would appeal the ad
verse decision of the Federal Dis
trict court to the circuit court and,
if necessary, all the way to the U. S.
supreme court.
When he was through, the board
voted there will be no appeal unless
Director R- Bruce Etheridge and the
attorney general's office approve af
ter a conference on the subject.
Cold Snap Provides
Ice For Mobile Lads
MOBILE, Ala.. Jan. 20.—(^>)—
Record-shattering: cold weather
brought a new sport—ice skating—
to Mobile bay today.
Fourteen - degree temperatures
froze the bay for a distance of
about 2,090 feet from its western
bank, and about 400 feet from the
eastern shore.
It was the hardest freeze here
since 1899.
Roy McDonald Forms
New Newspaper Firm
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 20.—W
—A state charter was granted the
Chattanooga News-Free Press com
pany today to "own, publish and
operate a daily and Sunday news
paper.”
Incorporators were listed as Roy
McDonald, Everett Alien and Silas
Williams of Chattanooga.
The charter authorized the issu
ance of 1,500 shares of Class A pre
ferred stock at $100 per share; 3,500
shares of Class B preferred stock
at $100 per share; and 5,000 shares
of common stock at $1 a share, but
with no par value.
MeDonald is publisher of the Chat
tanooga Free Press, an afternoon
iaily and rival newspaper to the
Chattanooga News, which discontin
red publication recently after a bond
foreclosure.
George Fort Milton, president of
:he defunct publishing company, who
charged in the paper’s final edition
that ‘'certain interests took advan
tage of the firm's financial condi
tion and "for personal reasons” fore
closed, now is heading a company
raising funds for the publication of
a paper to be known as the Chat
tanooga Tribune, which he plans to
start next month as an afternoon
daily.
The "Yeomen of the Guard” at
the Tower of London, wear Tudor
dress.
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January 22
Representatives of the U. S. ma
rine corps recruiting service will
again established a temporary office
in the Wilmington postoffice from
January 22 through 25 for the pur
pose of interviewing, examining, and
accepting applicants. .. . ,
To be eligible for enlistment, a
young man must be between the
ages of 18 and 31, 64 to 74 inches n
height, in sound physical condition,
of good moral character, white,
single, without any dependents, and
have an eighth grade education < r
above.
“Due to the increased strength of
the marine corps, there will be an
unlimited number of vacancies dur
ing the next few weeks, which means
there will be no delay between ac
ceptance and enlistment, and a vast
ly better chance for advancement
after enlistment,’’ Captain John M.
Greer, Raleigh recruiting officer,
says.
: Thousands of technical jobs arc
now open in the marine corps, tech
nical training in many Occupations
being given to hundreds of young
men who would, in civilian life, find
it difficult or impossible to obtain a
comparable specialized training, he
says.
"This training will prove to be of
equal value after return to civilian
life on discharge from the marine
corps.
“In addition to the specialized
training, the marine corps has for
many years made it possible for . 11
marines to improve their education
through the free facilities of the
marine corps institute, which offeis
a course on almost any subject de
sired,” according to Captain Greer.
Knitting Yarn Given
For Relief Of Finns
The receipt of several donations
of knitting yarn for the making of
mittens and socks for Finland’s
refugee children were acknowledged
yesterday by Mrs. Ida B. Speiden,
executive secretary, Wilmington
chapter of the American Red Cross.
Mrs. Speiden said contributions to
date included; Mrs. William V. Ochs,
Mrs. E. W. Mange, Mrs. William
Peck, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell, Miss
Julia Yopp and Mrs. A. H. Elliot.
The chapter will accept ready
made mittens and wool gloves and
knitting yarn, of any color and
amount, for use in making mittens
and socks for Finnish children,
Mrs. Speiden said.
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Association will be held at the office of the Secre
tary, 201 Princess Street, Tuesday, January 23, 1940,
at 3:30 P. M., for the purpose of considering the an
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