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BeasTey’s Farm and Home Weekly,. Charlotifce, N. C., (Dctobfjr 16, 1941.
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AIR BATTLES TO
BEGIN NEXT WEEK
Heavens WiU Be Filled With
Bombers and the Civilian
Spotters Will Be Busy
Beginning aiext Monday morning
the civilian air raid spotters who are
to be on the watch for hostile planes,
will start looking to the clouds. The
air battles will last from Monday till
Saturday.
Hostile bombers will be coming in
to the North Carolina area from Ra
leigh, Charlotte and Wilmington; to
South Carolina from Columbia and
Charleston and from Savannah for
that part of Georgia included in the
maneuver. These bombers will repre
sent an attack by some foreign pow
er, and it will be up to the spotters
to report their every movement and
to the defending planes to turn them
back.
General Frank, commanding the
Third Interceptor Command of the
Air Combat unit, will have his head
quarters at the Charlotte air base,
where several hundred men and eight
interceptor planes are already sta
tioned.
The Civilian Aircraft Warning Ser
vice, with which thousands of men
and women are co-operating, will be
supported by the U. S. Coast Guard,
said an announcement by General
Prank, received from his headquar
ters’ at Drew Field, Tampa.
Let Them Try It
“We are employing every means
available to assure the coastal cities
in the ■ maneuver area of sufficient
wai*riin:^'of the approach of ‘enemy’
bSnilbers,” said General Frank. “Since
sdiMe of the bomber missions will ap-
pi^o^t^ii' irom the sea, these Coast
GjjH^'d^stations will play an import
ant TWe in the Aircraft Warning Ser
vice net. We have laid our defense
plans around the maneuver territory,
and now let the ‘enemy’ try to get
through without interception.”
Coast Guard stations which will
co-operate with the AWS include six
land stations and one lightship off the
South Carolina coast, and the Savan
nah lightship, off the Georgia coast.
Information concerning hostile
fighter planes will be communicated
by the Coast Guard units, like that
from the civilian AWS posts thickly
scattered over these states, to the
nearest of the several filter centers,
which then will warn the proper in
terceptor squadrons.
At 6 p. m. Oct. 20 a switch will
be thrown and this vast network of
communications will begin to buzz
with activity. From that hour until
the close of the air warfare ■ on Oct.
25, reports from the observation posts
will be coming constantly, day and
night, to guide the activities of the
3d Interceptor Command. Thirteen
information and filter centers have
been established, including one at
Charlotte.
This most extensive network of
communications ever established over
the Southeast by the Air Force Com
bat Command will include 121 tele
phone circuits, six teletype circuits
and scores of radio channels.
Eight Killed So Far
In Maneuver Area
The death of Lieut. Michael F.
Duggan of Buffalo, N. Y., Catholic
chaplain in the 44th division, Monday
brought to eight the total number of
accidental deaths recorded at public
relations headquarters since the First
army began concentrating in the Car-
olinas for fall maneuvers.
Lieut. Duggan was killed and three
other Buffalo men injured when a
command car overturned near Glen-
don, north of Candor.
Four of the eight fatalities occur
red before actual start of the maneu
vers. Two of them were Second Lieut.
. Paul Z. Friend of the 110th Infan
try’s antitank company, and Pvt.
; Ediriurid, J. Mighori of the 109th field
“artilleyjr, who lost their lives in an
■ a^tomboile accident near Lilesville.
i others w^re Pvt. James Christ-
; ii)^s df the^^ killed by
it hit-run driver near Marston, N. C.,
and'tVt. Maurice W. Hanscom, 57th
sighal battalion, of Milo, Me.,' who
died of injuries suffered when he dove
into shallow water near Candor.
Fatalities reported since the start
of field exercises, in addition to Chap
lain Duggan, were:
Pvt. 1st Class William L. Shelson,
95th engineers, of Richmond, Va.,
killed in a truck accident near Eller-
be.
Pvt. Joseph L. Phillips, Philadel
phia, killed when horse cavalry van in
which he was riding asleep suddenly
stopped and threw his head against
an object, fracturing his skull.
Pvt. Elmer F. Briggs, 108th field
artillery, Johnstown, Pa., was fatally
injured when a prime mover drawing
a 155 millimeter gun crashed through
a bridge on a country road near Mt.
Croghan.
Pvt. William^ F. Norton, 182nd in
fantry, Brookline, Mass., was found
dead beside a road between Ellerbe
and Maness, N. C., but medical offi
cers decided death was. from natural
causes.
rejections in the future, since the
upper age limit for selected men now
is 28 years.
Another reason for a larger per
centage of rejections under the pres
ent system is found in higher physi
cal standings and improved diag
nosis. Eyesight requirements are more'
stringent today than they were 24
years ago, and draft boards are be
lieved to be turning down more men
for bad teeth. Improved methods of
diagnosis also reveal almost all cases
of tuberculosis and venereal disease
that are present.
Doctors point out, however,, that
whether the national health has im
proved or deteriorated sirjce the
World War, the fact remains that
draft records reveal a condition ^ that
cries for correction.
PARKWOOD BRIEFS
The “Mouseface” Dorgahs are not
speaking again. Mrs. Dorgan contends
that Mouseface hit her, but her hus
band says she was bent over weed
ing the garden and he mistook her
for a feataher tick and shied a potato
at her. The potato hit the mark, so
Mouseface is sleeping in the barn for
the time being.
The firemen sped to Tim Murphy’s
home late Saturday night only to find
that Tim had been treed by his wife’s
new dog when he came home from
lodge. Tim will have to get a new
pair of red pants for his office of
Grand High Sachem.
Joe, the pet skunk belonging to Abe
Carruthers’ boy, got loose during the
band concert Saturday night. Con
stable Barney Hicks heroically re
turned Joe to the boy after a tussle.
Mr. Hicks slept in the corn crib that
night and didn’t attend church the
next morning.
Deacon White and J. Albert Brew
ster assert that the two young light
haired women they bought the dinner
for at the Firemen’s, Convention last
week were distant cousins of both the
Brewster and the White families.
They met them as they were standing
on the corner watching the parade.
Mrs. White and Mrs. Brewster are in
vestigating.
Judge Philander P. Hart performed
the ceremony that made Cecil Moore
and Amanda Coon man and wife. The
happy couple met at Buffalo during
the Bull Moose convention when Ted
dy Roosevelt was nominated and have
been buying furniture ever since. Last
fall they sold some of it for antiques
and will start over again.
Lem Hotaling took a few lodge
brothers home with him Tuesday
night to see his new furnace. Con
stable Barney Hicks was called to
quell the music, but as he used to
sing bass in the Elks quartet he was
asked to join in, which he did after
a little persuasion and a quart jar of
cider.
Marmaduke Angell attended the
Clambake last Sunday as a guest of
his nephew. Marmaduke didn’t know
he could eat all he wanted to iintil
almost six o’clock, so he remained
until after ten in the evening.
Lonnie Phelps was going to an
nounce his engagement to Caleb
Gates’ oldest girl this week, only the
girl said no.
Seth Cobb, editor of the Echo, and
Mrs. Cobb are on vacation so Seth
can get some sleep. Last week his life
was threatened four times and this
week a man was going to punch him
in the nose for putting his name in
the paper. The week before he told
Mrs. Wellington-Smythe to go to Hell
over the telephone before he thought,
and lost seven subscriptions, the en
tire Ladies’ Aid. The rest will do him
good.
HALF SELECTEES UNFIT TO
SERVE
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
some bearing on the fact that defects
occur in almost half the cases exam
ined, contrasted with the World War’s
31 per cent.
This opinion is strengthened by a
special New York City study, which
shows that 58.64 per cent of men
between 18 and 25 were accepted,
while only 35.91 per cent of the men
between the ages of 21 and 35 were
found to be fit for full military duty.
The fact that younger groups are
healthier is likely to result in fewer
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By Land Owners
In a report to the commanding gen
eral, First Army, last week, Major
A. R. Wellwood, executive officer of
the Fourth Corps Area Rents Board,
stationed in ‘Monroe, disclosed that
landowners in the 16 Carolina coun
ties in which army maneuvers are
now being held had co-operated 100
per cent with the army in granting
trespass rights for use of their prop
erties.
On July 15th only 42 landowners
controlling 7,166 acres out of 35,019
landowners representing 5,440,000
acres in the Carolina maneuver area,
had not granted trespass rights. Since
July 15 continuous efforts on the part
of members of the Fourth Corps Area
Rents Board have resulted in obtain
ing maneuver rights from all of the
42 unsigned landowners.
In accomplishing the task of se
curing maneuver rights, members of
the Rents Board praised the complete
co-operation nad assistance given
them by .patriotic landownres, the
civilian agencies set up to assist them
by the Governors of the Carolinas,
and the public generally.
NEW MANAGER
Mr. R. W. Flack, new city man
ager, took over the duties of the office
Wednesday and the Council allowed
Mr. Ledbetter $600 for his two
months service as manager in addi
tion to his regular salary in other de
partments. Mr. Flack, who comes
from six years service at San Diego,
Cal., said that the business of city
manager was very much alike every
where, 3ind he guesssed he would get
along here.
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