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PAGE SHt THE PERQUIMANS ' WEEKLY, HERTFORD N. G, FRIDAY, - SEPTEMBER 29, 1944 Ki"J:2sSli3vDogs; Contest Last Friday Hertford's USO Club observed Na tional Dog Week last Friday by staging a Dog Contest for kiddies and a party for service men at tne Club, following the awarding of the prizes in the contest. The contest was held on the Court House Green, and dog contest ants were entered by Robert Jordan, Horace Layden, Bobby Veitz, Willie i. ... lis Pierce, Carol Jean Edwards, liarbara Ann Edwards, Tommy Sum ner and Guy Cannon. Bobby Jordan was awarded a prise for owning the dog doing the best tricks, while Hor- Hertford Soldier ace Layden's entry was adjudged the aa-Jj- With Arflllprv West dog. Bobby Vietz won the lueaiC Willi AITHieiJ' Ration Board Urges Public To Use Mail i The Perquimans Ration Board,: to day, issued" an appeal to patrons of the office to save' time, trouble and gasoline by doing as much business with the local office by mail as possible. Mrs. Helen Davenport, clerk of tlie board, stated that the office is now mailing out all certificates and cou pons necessary for purchasing of ra tioned commodities, and that con sumers need not come to the office to receive these items. She also sug gested that most people, especially those living in rural areas, can get application blanks by writing the Board and thus would save them selves a trip to the office by simply dropping the Board a card or letter. t mm prize lor having tne nest Kepi aog, and Willie Curtis Pierce carried off honors for owning the smallest dog entered in the contest. Carol Jean Edwards won the prize as being the smallest child entering a dog in the contest. The show drew a large number of spectators anil all the antics of the kiddies and their dogs were enjoyed. J'he ISO s.onso.ed a block dance on Tuesday night, which was well attended by both" Service personnel and civilians. Music was furnished by the Naval Hand from the Weeks-, ville Air Station. 1 Miss Margaret Pearson, staff as sistant at the L'SO, announced that a Scavenger Hunt will le conducted by the Club tomorrow night This promises to provide plenty of fun and entertainment for all service men who join in the party. An attempt is being made, Miss ' 'i said, to obtain a number of . -hows to be staged here by 1 1 O, but at present all dates are ; '. ,.iie. As soon as the shows are i; ed here the dates will be . Kiiinced. With the Fifth Army, Italy. Pri vate First Class James W. Eure, Route 3. Hertford, , medic with the 8Xth Infantry Division artillery, has not had but one man injured in his outfit and is grateful for it. mi n J- t - miT !ir J-i.in i Jimmy Lydon and Charles Smith shown iii a scene from the latest pic ture, "Henry Aidricii's Little Secret, " which comes to' the State Theatre Sunday. mEANTWiQJAM R. CHAPPELL GIVES ACCOUNT OF INVASION OF NORMANDY Master Sergeant William R. Chap- In the push for Rome through the pell, an infantryman in the 29th Divi sion, participated in the invasion oi Normandy, and in a recent letter preterits a graphic account of the af fair. Sgt. Chappell is the son of Mrs. Riddick Chappell of Hertford and his letter follows: Gustav and Hitler Lines and over the mountains, Eure's outfit was hardly ever separated from frontline units. There was no regular front,' according to the medic, and it was iniintiilous that none of his men were seriously injured. "The medics in the infantry have my sympathy, but I'm glad the ar tillerymen know how to take care of themselves when they are shelled by, the Germans " - 1 ILL IN HOSPITAL heat, burning landing craft, and the remains of what used to be summer homes. Our battleships constantly fired point blank into the cliffs and nearby woods to silence the Boche, but theyi were persistent devils and were more ( than well dug in and having connect I ing tunnels and pill boxes all over you couldn't tell whether -you'-d b hogs and vegetable gardens ever; -killed the next minute or not. To , where. v People may be starving i . tell you the truth, I was actually the cities, but it isn't true in t'.-a mora afraid of our own fire than I . country. - In fact, the livestock looV -was of, -the. ;enemy. j Everyone ww' much .nicer than the - livestock - la "trigger .nappy? and practically-every i England. S The French farmers I fir time a. jrnsn moved someone thought; have their horse -s it was fa aniper. .Once when J start ed lor ur truck our noysi started shooting , from three, directions and you've never seen anyone: fall down and crawl between a dead soldier, and cow so fast in your life.. Rest as sured when I got back to the stable I didiit go back to the truck again until" we left next day. , (That night the Jerrys flew over the beach again and for awhile it was bedlam. . It was pretty to watch the tracers going up but you dont have to remind" ,me again to stay under shelter the next time I watch an air raid. What goes up must come .down and it didnt take me long to find this out. '. The FrenchT people I noticed .were quite indifferent as to what was go ing on around them, and I thought It quite strange that they should be go ing about their, daily chores with shells dropping all around them. Af- ter reading so much in the papers in the past about people starving over here, I was amazed to see beautiful cattle, horses, chickens, geese, .ducks, -stable, -vchii-' house and their living Quarters aj ; the same building, and I'm afraid r as clean as we are. . , ; , This about brings me up. to 4u.U arnt wilt close this epistle sntfl an other day. .A builds fhm versatile faumgtr Car - If UsW Tioetar 'Tis 2:30 A. M.. raining, cold and i the beach. Our planes were also black as pitch outside the tent, and quite active and you could 8ee squad I'm more than thankful that you're ' ron after squadron going over to Little Miss Mary Jane Caddy, of New Hope, is ill in General Hospital,. Norfolk, Va. I thousands of miles away safely sleep ing in a peaceful couitry. There is continual gun fire in Ul directions in this vicinity and in the distance I hear an air raid going full blast down the beach. How anyone can sleep is beyond me, but I guess you get used to anything in time. blast away at the enemy's communi cation lines. Our ship made three attempts to get in to shore the first day, but things were too hot for safety, so back out to sea we went for the night. Around midnight the Jerrys i came over to drop bombs and for a W. M. HUMPHRIES BUY WAR BONDS! Uervous. Restless 01 "CERTAIN DAYS" Of Thi Ktith? If functional periodic disturbances make you feel nervous, tired, restless, "dragged out" at such timet try mow Lydla I. Ptnkham's Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms. helpj nature Ptnkham's Compound Is also a grand stomachic tonic. Follow label direction. Worth trying 1 LYDIA . PIKKHAM'S gSSK Since leaving; Entrlaml I've seen j while all hell-broke loose. A bomb some pretty horrible sights and now j landed quite close to us but nothing know from experience how deatruc- was hit, thank goodness. It does tive and terrible man made war can give you a queer feeling when you really be. You've no doubt read a near an enemy plane screaming great deal about the invasion as a down on you and there's no place you VV. M. Humphries, age 76, died last whole and I'll try to give you a de- can go or nothing you can do. How Friday morning at 10 o'clock at his scription of our part in same. . t night I'll never know, but home in New Hope, after a short ill-' t To begin with, great praise should ; I hd. ... ness. He was a life-long resident of , be given to the men who spent count- j The next morning I learned that ,.,., rlm( h. i survived1 les8 hours working out the details they had brought wounded on board Perquimans County. He is survivM and timing for such a gigantic un-1 during the night and tales were uy one aun, a..u ". " dertakine. Everything was nlanned J. B. HumDhries of Woodville. Funeral services were conducted at the graveside in New Hope Sunday afternoon at four o'clock. Too Late To Classify FOR SALElbT"AIRFURNACE. Has central heating register. In good condition. ' Call Phone 2106, Hertford, N, C. ' sept.29pd. BE PREPARED FOR ACCIDENTS We have a complete stock of First Aid Remedies and Patented Medicines in our new store. Stock up your medicine chest and be prepared for accidents. SEE OUR COMPLETE LINE OF GIFTS AND JEWELRY FOR SERVICE MEN We Serve Southern Dairies Ice Cream ILILi A' PHONE 22 oi HERTFORD, N. C- c ) ' '' ' NOW IS THE TIME For Harvesting Supplies Items you need for digging and picking peanuts and housing other Fall crops. We can supply your needs, but advise you not to wait until the last minute to-do your buying . . . come in NOW and get the items. It will save you time and, maybe, trouble in locating what you need. Our Stock Includes AH Items Needed Peanut Points Pitch Forks Hole Diggers Fork Handles Hole Digger Blades Peanut Bags Sewing Twine Spades Hammers Hay Wire Nails Hertford Hardware & Supply Co. "TRADE HERE AND BANK THE DIFFERENCE" HERTFORD, N. C, ' , down to the most minute detail and when the time rolled around, thou sands upon thousands of men and their equipment moved into dispersed areas near British seaports. There we were briefed as to what part every man would play in this war and what was expected of us. At the appoint ed hour one night we were told to be ready to leave in a short time. Cam ouflage was thrown off vehicles, mo tors were warmed up and men mount ed up to start the journey we hal been expecting for many months. Every road leading to a seaport was .filled with army vehicles slowly mov ing down to the docks to be loaded on landing craft of every description. Early , morning found our group down at the docks, which was alive with ! seabees and sailors, checking our ve- nicies as they were loaded on. We were lined np and mached aboard as our name was called off. These boats weren't alien to us by any means, as we had been on am phibious exercises several times be fore and were almost as familiar with them as were the sailors. Once loaded, we set sail, for our "hideout." awaiting completion of the loading of all craft Living on the boat even though we were frightfully crowded wasn't too bad and everyone settled down to playing cards, sunning, reading or listening to American swing over the radio. The means weren't bad, in fact we had all the steaks we could eat one night with delicious "pastry. Remind me to join the Navy during the next war, because they do eat better than soldiers and they do have plenty of water to keep clean. ; During the night we weighed an chor and started for the rendesvous point and when dawn broke you could see ships of all sizes- in every direction. It was a magnificent .sight to see ships-from PT boats to the largest battleships of England, Am erica ana some from France nail paat us ip gei ui oattie formation. Mere woras cannot express the thrill lsi seetag am a mighty armada, and I don't believe man will ever sea such an assemblage again. Overhead planes were weaving in and out but not in any great number at first. On our way over Colonel Warfield held church services and of all people, asked me to lead the singingf I had to laugh afterwards because I sang everything from bass to coloratura soprano before it was aveR s , In the distance we started hearing gun fire and through the fog ' we eouUTsee a haiy outline of the iZ I m m 5 w8n until i saw two bodies floating by that I fully realized tht we were really in battli w.w, ,w gnmness. As we got Closer to shore I could see through with i 88-mm shells even after tha bombing our Air Force had given tteri early that toorning . Enough praise xan-t beVgivan the Infantry h4 stormed v the beach earlier that morning , prior to -our eomlnr in, What hell -those boy. went through I 4ont believe will ac tually ever be known, because Vm n those that lived will want to erase that nightmare forever from their memory.. (-.,,-. , , .- Getting still closer to the Wh,' I could sea much activity of boats un loading . t under - shellflra with the Beach v ssanlt Engineers working frantically to dear a road for the ve hicles to get off the beach. It really takes men with iron nerve to work ander : constant shelling and believe ma-most men bad what it takes. It isnt a pretty sight to look at an in vasion beach ,with burning vehicles, spreading like wildfire as to what was going On ashore. Some of the stories were true and some were terribly ex aggerated. This was quite normal because everyone was a little keyed up at that stage of the game. We had to pass the wounded go ing up to breakfast and there was no doubt that they really caught hell. Those that could talk told tall tales of the cunning and beastliness of the Germans. Wearing the red cross band that our nrtdics wear seemed to mean nothing to the Boche and they tried to kill everyone they could, par ticularly the stretcher hearers. All that day and night we lay off shore waiting to go in and also part of the nexl. The Jerrys came over again that night and strafed us but no damage was done. All during that time the wounded were being brought aboard and I-can tell you I saw some horribly wounded soldiers. A Ger man wounded kid of 18 was brought right along with a GI that he had shot and believe it or not was put on a stretcher almost next to the GI. My reactions were auite different from what I had expected in seeing mutilated humans and I forced my self to watch the doctors operate, give blood transfusions, . and dress the wounded. At this stage the dead didn't bother me so much, and we sat all around them eating.. You'd be surprised what you can get used to. While waitinsr to sro in we learned that the first wave of our infantry was mowed down like flies. The Germans wouid let one group get in and then the next o-roun wnniri .nt)i it The artillerymen that came In to support them lost all of their guns out one eitner by direct hits from 88-mm gnus or were- capsized in rough sea, so they, too, had to storm the beach just like the infantry. As they passed through the little village near the beach th ftermano AmaaA in cjvilian clothes would let one group through and then shoot down the others in the back. Snipers icnlud ing some women were everywhere, so you can imagine what, it Believe it or not, we captured some Tf1,Bwno ' wePe ovw here to teach vne uermans tne art of sniping, iitou wo nnaiiy got asnore, the beach had been cleared somewhat of mines,; nut there was still masses of twisted and wrecked vehicles, boats and other equipment strewn over the entire beach. In the mad scramble to get off the beach you might know that . our command car . would get stucfc After having heard so much about mines, I fully expected on of the damn things to explode in my face every time I picked up a rock to put jinder the wheels. 7 v 1 4 loved to have had a picture taken - when we landed r because everyone in our car must have looked like a manjrom Mars. ; This is what It? nn71 on me: Impregnated clothing plus; long drawers, .field jacket, Web equipment complete, field glasses, assault gas mask, life belt, map case, dispatch case, and last but not.Jeast my steel helmet : Packed on the back seat between Lieut Clift au M?52 "- aP Ml field orders that wera h r...j with our life. ? What a sight we must have beenfiv;: ivhAti After gmnryatlmUtat waJ TiirT nu.mDw w mined fields that still had - signs on - them which the Germans, hadnt had time to remove. Destruction wa seen everywhere and on either side of the road lay the dead Just v as they had fallen. Wa passed an aid station where the dead were literally .piled on top of the ather, something I had read about but hadn't believed, i ' ' ' " Our flrrtf Command Post was in' the stable, of a farm house about a couple of. miles from the benh. and I can tell yon I was more tn de 0 '0n KEEP YOUR CAR FIT Your car has much service ahead . . . don't neglect it. Take care of minor repairs yourself, if you can. We will take care of the bigger jobs. Between us we will keep it in smooth running order. Plymouths - Chevrolets We can furnish you with, a new motor for your car, if itfc a Plymouth- or Chevrolet . Wc have a large number of complete motors for 1941 Plyinouths and complete block assemblies for 1940, 1941 and 1942 Chevrolets. : Towe Motor Co. SALES AND SERVJE Phone 2461 r Hertford, X. C. twisted into odd shapes from theMghtedta be on dry land even, t.iough GET READY FOR Cold Weather? Right;now, while you can get them, better come in and let us show you our line of . . . 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