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KEEP ON v ? J with HUB bonds" | T f ?i rihEJ KEEP ON g- ? ? ? *1 WITH WAR BONN VOLUMN LXXV. $1.50 per year in /.dfuce LOUISBURG, N. CAROU.XA FRIDAY, J INK 10, 1044 (Eight Pages) NUMBER !? TOWN COMMIS SIONERS MEET The Board of Town Commis sioners met in regular session at 8 P. M., June 9, 1944. All mem bers were present except Mr. W. G. Lancaster. The minutes of previous meet ings were approved by the Board. The monthly reports of the Chief of Police, Tax Collector and Town Clerk were approved by the Board. The Board considered a re quest from the South Atlantic Mfg. Co., for a three phase cir cuit to it's plant. Mr. Spencer informed the Board1 that the es timated cost using new transfor mers would be around $400.00 and the cost using rebuilt trans formers would be around $300. 00. . After a discussion of this request, the Board decided that the South Atlantic Mfg. Co. would have to make the three phase in stallation a? it's own expense. Mayor Webb urged all mpm- u bers of the Board, together with ? the Tax Collector, Town Clerk, 1 and Town Attorney, to attend a * meeting of city and county tax 1 collectors, attorney#, accountants ? and other officials. This is a meeting of District No. 2, com- e prised of the counties of Frank- ? lln, Granville, Halifax. Nash, ? Vance and Warren. The meet- \ ing will be held in the Franklin $ County Court House at 3 P. M., * Tuesday, June 20th, 1944. J The Board voted to take out * a Contributing Membership in the ? Franklin County Memorial Asso- ^ elation. The Board agreed to offer Wil- j. llams & Wall a contract to audit *? the books and records of the Town of Loulsbu.rg, for the fiscal ; year closing June 30, 1944, for f the sum of $200.00. Commissioner Shearin was in- , structed to try to work out a plan ^ to enable the policemen to get a jj half day off each week. The Board received applica- u tions for the Town Tax Collec- * tors position from Messrs. Charlie J1 R. Young, I. D. Moon, A. W. " Perry, William S. Boone and 11 Mrs. Ina H. Rouse. A motion was passed to con- q sider all applications. 1 A roll call vote was taken on the applications with the result ? that Mrs. Ina H. Rouse was ap- J pointed Tax Collector. Mrs. j Rouse received the votes of F. H. 11 Allen. W. B. Barrow, R. C. Beck " and W. J. Cooper. Commission- * er W. J. Shearin voted for Mr. 1 William S. Boone. The Board * voted to pay Mrs. Rouse a salary '' of $112.50 per month. 1 The Board approved a number of invoices for payment. There being no further busi- jj ness the meeting adjourned. ? 1, t Gasoline Violations i t j t< The Enforcement Panel Hear ing of the Franklin County War Price and Rationing Board met l on Tuesday, June 6th and dlspos- 9 ed of cases as follows: Joe Wheeler, Rt. 4, Louisburg, C misuse of gasoline, required to send in A book and have 3 cou- t pons detached. William Duke, Louisburg, drunken driving. Being on the n roads, case was continued. S Margaret B. Prultt, Louisburg, b speeding, was ordered to bring b in A book to have 2 coupons de- J1 tached, and cancelled. v Stephen Mullen, driver involv ed1 in accident, case continued for a Investigation. f John W. House, reported to be f using too much gasoline in use less driving, found not guilty, case dismissed. James V. Bragg, Rt. 1, Frank llnton, speeding in New Jersey. Case referred to Granville Conn- S ty as defendant Is reported to be v living there. c MADDOX- WILDER Miss Mamie Louise Wilder of Louisburg, became the bride of Sgt. Clinton B. Maddox, of Lin colnton, Ga., on June 7th in Ai ken, S. C. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. James E. Parker. Mrs. Maddox Is the daughter of Mrs. Mamie A. Wil der and the late Melvln C. Wild er, of Louisburg. Sgt. Maddox is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Maddox, of Lin colnton, Oa. SAWJfER-SPIVEY The following invitation is Is sued to the public: "Mrs. Fenner Norman Splvey requests the honour of yonr presence at the marriage of her daughter, Frances Wheless, to Robert Jerome Sawyer, United States Navy, on Wednesday, the twenty-eighth of June, at high noon, Louisburg Methodist Church, Louisburg, North Caro Jina." No invitations will be sent In Loulaburg. A One example of tact is to make your guests feel at home when yoa wish they were. " New President The Louisburg Lions Club inanimously elected the slate of fflcers recommended by the dominating Committe (or the' 944-45 year at a Barbecue at ..ion Willie Lee Lumpkin's cablu t Mitchiner's Pond last Wednes ay. The following officers were lected and will begin their term f office July 1, 1944: Rev. 'orrest D. Hedden, President; Valter Fuller, First Vice-Presi lent; P. H. Massey, Second Vice 'resident; H. C. Taylor, Sr., 'hird Vice-President; W. O. .ambeth, Secretary and Treasur r; I. D. Moon, Lion Tamer; W. . Shearin, Tail Twister; J. P. 'imberlake, Jr., F. P. Hart. N. F. 'reeman, and Dr. A. Paul Bagby, iirectors. Very little business other than he election of officers was trans cted at this meeting of the Club, li fact the business at hand was ating barbecue which the Lions id with very little reference to ! arliamentry- procedure. Some oubt ^as expressed at the time | y several members of the Club! s to whether Lions J. P. {Timber-' ake, Jr. and Dr. S. P. Burt would ie able to be at their respective iosts of duty on Thursday after onsuming such a tremendous uantity of Ira Weldon's special y Three of the Lions tied for irst place in the race for the Hub's "Champion Fisherman." ,ion Lumpkin very graciously oaned his boat and Ashing equip aent to the three would be Izaak Valtons and pushed them out in o the Pond only to find them, rhen he returned an hour later, ishing inside the boat house in welve inches of water. It was announced that the next neeting, June 20, 1944, would ie devoted to boosting the Louis >ug Tobacco Market and various msiness men and the Tobacco ioard of Trade would be invited o attend. J. E. Perry, Jr. and . Ira Weldon were welcomed in o the Club as new members. REV. P. 0. jfftDDEN ?T. l'AU'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Services on the 2nd Sunday af er Trinity will be at 8:00 a. m., :45 a. m. and 11:00 a. m. Subject of sermon: "The !hurch's Interest in Education." Daily iirayer for men in mili ary service at 6:00 p. m. A campaign to raise a half nillion dollars for St. Mary's Ichool for girls In Raleigh will legln on June 20th. A11 mem iers of the Episcopal Church in lorth and South Carolina are in lted to contribute to this fund. All alumnae also are asked to Id In this effort to raise a fund or new buildings and equipment or St. Mary's. LOUISBURG METHODIST CHURCH Over two hundred and fifty lethodist Toung People will worship at the Methodist Church lere Sunday morning at 11:00 I'clock. The message for that lour will be "Christ Awakens rou To Life." Evening Vesper Service on the College Campus at 7:15. Special services of personal ded catlon, as the community seeks o stand1 back of the men and wo nen of this nation, will continue n the Churches and Court Housfe ?ch day. Church School convenes at 1:45 a. m., led by Prof. I. D. loon. Loyalty to the Church is one if man's first obligations. LOUISBURG BAPTIST CHURCH On Sunday at the morning hour he pastor will preach on the lubject, "Religion Without the ioly Spirit." There Is no even ng worship. Vesper Services vill be on the College Campus at ' :15 p. m. Mr. Cobey will have :harge. 9:45 a. m. ? Bible School. 11:00 a. m. ? Morning worship. Unless growers ict now to get iside and contract for sufficient food seed' for planting the 1944 imall grain crop, there will be mother shortage of seed M in int. . * SINKS 13 JAP SHIPS Damages 16, Downs 141 Planes in Driving Blow At Marianas United' States Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, June 13. ? A daring United States car rier task force, operating for three days within l.iOO miles of Tokyo, cut a wide swath in Ja pan's dwindling sea and air pow er, sinking 18 ships, damaging 16 others and destroying 141 planes with a loss of only 15 American aircraft. This action, centering in and near the Marianas Islands, was| announced today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, supreme commander of the Mid-Pacific area. It extend ed from last Saturday through Monday. The communique sup plemented previous terse reports that the Marianas again had been < raided. Stealing into the southern Ma rianas. the powerful force loosed its carrier planes In a devastating ; attack Saturday on Guam. Saipan and Tinlan Islands. The assault i stirred up a hornet's nest of re sistance as the enemy sent scores i of fighter planes aloft to contest the strike. I Sky Battles Navy Hellcat fighters tied into i the enemy all over the sky as i other planes bombed and strafed i ground objectives. A total of 124 j Japanese planes were destroyed i that day, mostly in aerial combat. ] Eleven Hellcat fighters and eight < pilots were lost. ? ( After nightfall, a handful of < enemy planes approached the 1 task force, readying its guns and I planes for the second day of the i assault. The enemy failed to press home an attack, however, 1 and one was shot down by ship's i anti-aircraft fire. I Aircraft of the carrier force l struck again Sunday at the same islands, and extended the attack; to Rota Island. Sixteen more Nip ponese planes were destroyed. Two small cargo ships were sunk at Saipan, largest enemy harbor in the Marianas Islands. Tax Officials To Meet Here Tax collectors, county account ants, and other county and city officials interested in collection of taxes will meet in Loulsburg in the Commissioners' room in the court house on Tuesday, June 20, at 3 P. M., it was announced to day by John F. Matthews, Frank lin County Attorney. The meeting will be attended by county and city tax officials from Vance, Granville, Halifax, Warren, Nash and Franklin Coun- ( ties, and1 will be held under the ( auspices of the Institute of Gov ernment. Problems arising in the collec- , tion of real and personal proper ty taxes and tax foreclosure suits ; will be discussed by the officials. School Shop The Edward1 Best School Shop 'will be open all day each Friday, and each Friday night til 11 o'clock for the farmers of the community. Mr. I. C?. May, lo cal blacksmith and shop man will be with us each Friday night. The farmers do their own work, with the aid of Mr. May and the Teacher of Agriculture. Although every one is busy and i farming hours are long, it is a good practice to set* aside Bome part of the week for repair and construction work, rather than wait until some;, Item breaks down In t|ie field and ruins a day's work. After plowing and hoeing In the fields for days, a little bit of shop work is refresh ing as well as useful. The farm women of the com munity are meeting each Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock for 3 hours of shop instruction. Our ladles' shop class last year was very suq cessful and we are expecting an even better one this year. The Edward Best Shop has grown to be one of the largest and best equipped school shops in Eastern North Carolina. From 320 sq. ft. of shop space we have grown to 2850 sq. ft. with 2000 sq. (t. ofstorage. In 1939 we ! had )25.00 worth of tools, while I today tools and equipment are i valued in excess of $3,000.00. RICHARDSON INFANT Mr. and Mrs. Ed1 Richardson, i Jr., of Loulsburg, announce the birth and death of a son at Park View Hospital In Rocky Mount. Graveside services for the Infant > were conducted In Lonisburg i Cemetery Thursday afteraoon of last week by the Rev Forrest D. Hedden. County agricultural advisory , committees are making plans to jUd,rmrnlng veterans who wUh to ke?Ome established la termini 5th War Loan Drive Now On The 5th| War Loan Drive officially began on Monday. To date Frank fin County has hail Hales on^ouJtiiiK to $25,000.00 It i? hoped trthat every citizen will do his *r Uer part in buy ing bonds, Jo that the quota for our Coanty may soon lie reached. Our dolli^i are needed to provide negpssary equipment for the boyf in France. lx>t's all "BACK fa'HK ATTACK.' Methodist As sembly Meets at Louisbirg College Methodist youth and leaders numbering 280 are ending a four-day session at Louisburg College. The assembly theme is "Vision and Strength for Chris tian Tomorrows." Highlight in terests so far have centered around discussions of the part youth can play in working toward that goal. For each day there is a sched ule of worship, lecture, forum, workshop, and recreational per iods. Richard Suzuki, American citi zen born In Hawaii and a minis terial student* at Garrett Semi nary. Evanston. 111., is guest routh leader. Other outstanding leaders are Rev. R. W. Bradshaw, jastor of Jarvis Memorial Church, 3reenville; Rev. J. G. Phillips, executive secretary of the Board >f Education of the North Caro-I Ina Conference of the Methodist*1 ,'hurch; and Rev. M. W. Law ?ence, dean of the assembly. Youth Fellowship groups from Burlington to the banks at Man ;eo and from the Virginia to the South Carolina borders are rep resented in the delegations. A second youth assembly of like nature is scheduled to meet at the college Jqhe 16 to 20. Recorder's Court Franklin Recorder's Court held regular session on Tuesday and disposed of cases as follows: Joe Hale, unlawful possession of whiskey, paid in full aud dis charged. Robert Haley, no driver's li cense, continued. John Ervin Baker, non-support, allowance to wife and children increased to $30 every two weeks. Joel Gobel Lee was found guil ty of speeding aud fined <10 and costs. M. G. Mitchell, operating au tomobile intoxicated, continued. Thomas Green was found guil ty of operating car under permit without operator in car, to be discharged upon payment of costs. James Hayes, assault with deadly weapon, continued under former order. Pauline Richardson was found guilty of assault with deadly weapon and given 30 days in jail to be suspended upon payment of costs. Z. K. Martin, unlawful posses sion of whiskey, jury requested and continued. Gets Big Food Supply Base Rome, June 14. ? American forces driving up the Tyrrhenean coast of Italy have captured1 Ob betelio, center of German resist ance to the Fifth Army's offen sive! and gained control' of the enemy's immense food supply dumps on the nearby Orbetello Peninsula (Mt. Argentario)' field dispatches disclosed tonight. Sid Feder, Associated Press correspondent with the Fifth Army, said in a story filed from Orbetello that the whole moun tainous peninsula with tremend ous hidden stores of food had come under Allied control. His dispatch followed an announce ment by Allied headquarters that the junction of highways one and 74, a short distance north of Or betello along the coast of the main land, also had been cap tured. Pressing Forward The Americans were pressing forward and engaging a strong force of Nazis In the hills north of the road junction, Feder said. The food discovered in bunkers an various parts ot the mountain ous peninsula, which Is joined (.0 the mainland by three causeways, contained nearly 300 tons of flour, hundreds of cases of ham, rations and biscuits, said Major John Paul Powhida, 46, of Phila delphia, representing the Allied military government. "Its obviously one ot the en emy's main food stores," the ma jor said. Along with the huge supplies of food, the Allies seised a gar rison ot 26 enemy soldiers. ? On Pay Day, Buy War Bonds ? The S. S. MANGALORE, newest and fastest ship of the Red Cross fleet which carried food, medicine and clothing to American prisoners of war in Europe, docks at Philadelphia (abOTe). Below, American Red Cross volunteer* check a portion of the record cargo which waa later delivered to Geneva for distribution through the International Committee of the Red Cross. Warehause Asso ciation Meets Next Annual Meeting To Be Held in Louisburg Henderson^ June 7.? The an nual meeting of the Middle Belt Warehouse Association was lield here today with tile following markets represented, Durham, Oxford, Louisburg and Hender son. Mr. F. S. Royster, of Hender son, was elected President for the coming year and Mr. Walker Stone, of Durham was elected Vice-President. A rising vote of appreciation for his good' work was given Mr. John S. Watkins, the retiring president. The meeting went on record as favoring a selling speed of 400 baskets per hour with a maximum weight per basket of 400 pounds instead of the proposed plan of 360 baskets per hour and a max imum weight of 250 pounds per basket. The meeting also went on re cord to Join hands with the Farm Bureau Association in bolstering prices and improving selling con ditions. A motion by Mr. Charlie Ford, of Louisburg, that the next an nual meeting of the Middle Belt Warehouse Association be held in Louisburg was seconded by Mr. Gaither Knott, of Henderson, and carried unanimous. Upon the conclusion of busi ness the meeting was served a barbecue dinner at the Hender son Country Club. i , , ROBERT L. JOHNSON Funeral services for Robert Lee Johnson, 70, of Route 1, Spring Hope, who died in a Rocky Mount Hospital Saturday morning following a brief illness, were conducted Sunday after noon at 4 o'clock from -the Pitt man-Lancaster Chapel by Dr. A. Paul Bagby, pastor of Loulsburg Baptist Church, and' the Rev. Mark Osborn of Bailey. Burial was in the Bailey Cemetery. Mr, Johnson, whose home was at Stanhope in Nash County, was a retired merchant and farmer. His wife died 16 years ago. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. L. W. Bobbltt of Castalia, and Mrs. W. G. Lancaster, of Loulsburg; two sons, W. A. John son of Route 1, Spring Hope, and D. L. Johnson of Bailey, and elgh grandchildren. J. BURT STRICKLAND Durham. ? J. Burt Strickland, 67, well-known in Eastern North Carolina as a tobacco buyer, died early Sunday morning at his res idence in Lexington, Ky. He had been in declining health for sev eral years. A native of North Carolina, he was born near Loulsburg in Franklin County. For many years Mr. Strickland was a buyer for the J. P. Taylor Tobacco Co. He Is survived by his wife, the former?Martha Hubbard, of Rich mond. Ky.; two brothers, W. Seba Strickland' of Loulsburg, and Ellis E. Strickland of Nor folk, Va.; three slaters. Miss Mollle Strickland of Richmond, Va., Mrs. A. C. Brantley of Dur ham, and Mrs. In* Newberry of Loulsburg. Burns Are Fatal To Bus Mechanic i Funeral Services Held in Raleigh For William Thomas Shore of Wilmington Wilmington, June 11. ? Wil liam Thomas Shore, 19-year-old mechanic at the Queen City bus line garage, died in James Walk er Memorial Hospital yesterday (morning at 11 o'clock as the re sult of burns suffered in a fire at the garage Tuesday afternoon. He was burned when his cloth es caught tire after he failed in an attempt to throw a pan of gasoline from a burning bus! The engine of the vehicle had become ignited while Shore was working on the distributor, and the gasoline had been sitting near [the engine. The youth ran to a nearby water pit to extinguish the i fire on his clothes. Immediately i afterwards he was taken to the I hospital with serious burns. The interior of the bus was damaged by the flames. * He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Shore of Riv erside Apartments; ? two sisters, JVlrs. Evelyn S. Lane and Mrs. Elizabeth S. Oren, both of Ral eigh; and two brothers, Martin L. Shore, Jr., of the Army, and L. D. Shore of Wilmington. The body was taken to Raleigh for funeral services. Mr. and Mrs. Shore were for mer residents of Louisburg, Mrs. Shore being a daughter of the late W. O. Thomas, a well-known druggist to our older citizens. They have many friends and rel atives in Franklin who extend sympathy. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL. The Vacation Bible School of the Baptist Church will begin Monday, June 19, and continue two weeks. Prospects for a large and fine school are bright. A very excellent faculty has been engaged. The School will open at 9, o'clock Monday morning. Let every one interested be pres ent then. Plans for the school have been fully made. The best way to get real enjoy ment out of the garden is to put on a wide straw hat, dress in thin, loose-fitting unstarched clothes, hold a little trowel in one hand and a cool drink in the other, and1 tell the man where to dl& PROGRAM AT TUB LOUISBURO THEATRE The following Is the program at the Lovlsburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, June 17: Saturday ? Bib Livingston and Smiley Burnette in 'Beneath Wes tern Skies' and Ruth Terry and Bob Livingston In 'Pistol Pack ing Mama', also Tiger Woman. Snnday-Monday ? Cary Orant and Janet Clark in 'Once Upon A Time.' Tuesday ?> ? Roy Rogers and Mary Lee in 'Cowboy And The Senorlta'. also the Phantom. Wednsday ? Rosemary Lane and Johnny Down in 'Trocadero', also Little Abner cartoon. Thursday-Friday ? John Gar field, Paul Henreld and Eleanor Parker la 'Between Two Worlds.' WAR NEWS RomK June 13. ? Remnants of I the German 14th Army fleeing | northwestward from Rome have dug in before the road junction town of Bplsena, on the northeas tern tip of the? lake of that name, and for the past 48 hours hava been offering stiff resistance to the Allied Fifth Army, a front dispatch said tonight. Bolsena, 60 miles from Rome and eight miles from the impor tant center of Orvieta, is cradled In the half moon of commanding hills, and the Nazis have been poring anti-tank and niachingun lire at the American tanks and infantry since Sunday. The enemy's position com mands the only approach to Bol sena by highway. "Until we ran into this fire," reported Associated Press corres pondent Sid Feder, "we had traveled 17 miles from Vietrbo in slightly more than 24 hours along the road littered with Ger man transport and the bodies of hordes. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, June 13.? Carefully-studied reports reach ing here tonight from the conti nent indicate that some weak nesses have begun to appear in Hitler's war machine under the impact of the first week of Allied invasion. One indication of this is a new quarrel reported reliably to have broken out between Marshall Er win Rommel, immediate comman der of the defending forces, and his superior. Marshal Karl Von itundstedt, although reports that Hommc-l had been removed from his command were received here with skepticism. Marshal Rommel, who is des cribed as always eager to commit himself early in battle, was re ported by underground sources to have insisted that Van Rundstedt, the over-all German commander in the west, throw his strategic reserves to break the Allied beachhead. London, Wednesday, June 14. ? The spearhead of the Red Ar my's northward drive into Fin land plunged to within 30 miles of the important port of Vilpurl during fierce fighting Tuesday, Moscow reported early today, and1 | enemy broadcasts said Russia's whole ijorthern front from the Arctic to the White Sea and Gulf of Finland was blazing into ac tion. Finnish and German radio re ports said the Russians were at tacking in the Lisa sector between Murmansk and Petsamo and that there was strong reconnaissance activity in the Kandalaksha and Loukhi sectors some 250 miles southward. Berlin also asserted that the Russians were striking southwest of Narva. Kandalaksha Is on the shore of the White Sea and Loukhi is far ther south on the railway from Archangel across Finland to the Gult of Bothnia. Washington, June 13. ? Presi dent Roosevelt said today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, su preme Allied commander in Eu rope, has reported to him that "other" openings will be made in Hitler's European Fortress and that "the Nazis will be forced to fight throughout the perimeter of their stronghold." The Eisenhower report also de scribed the progress of the fight ing in France as "satisfactory" to date, but said that in magnitude the battle "is but a mere begin ning to the tremendous struggles that must follow before final vic tory is achieved." Mr. Roosevelt read the report at a news conference at which he also noted that Soviet Premier Josef Stalin has said of the Al lied landings in France that "the history of war never has witness ed such a grandiose operation ? an operation Napoleon himself never had even attempted." A British Port, June 11. ? (De layed) ? A French woman declar ed to have been shot while serv ing as a sniper for the Nazis ia the Cherbourg Peninsula sector was brought into this port today on a United1 States hospital ship carrying 279 other wounded, mostly American soldiers, but In cluding 38 injured Germans. Her name was Auderte Chraud and although her ropy hair was greying, slje said she was 31. 1 found an interpreter ? Pvt. Rus sell Champagne of Duson, La, ? and in the presence of an officer, T tried to reach behind the heavy face. She denied that she had aided the Germans and asserted she had not fired on American troops, but her status as a hired German sniper was accepted without ques tion by the commanding officer on the ship. Maj. Edward Wage naar, a native of Constantino. Mich., whose wife lives bow at Indianapolis, Ind.
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