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ROBERT E. MAY, Navy, May 8, 1942 WILLIAM H. CAMP, JR., Navy, Nov., 1942 R. H. McCOMMONS, Merchant Mar., July 5, 1942 GROVER WOODRUFF, ArmV, July 10, 1943 JAMES W. WHITBY, Navy, Oct 26, 1942 WINFIELD HASTY, Army, August 19, 1943 ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1944 NUMBER 27 [WAR BOND SHOW HERE IFEB. 10TH TO BACK THE ! ATTACK WITH WAR BONDS It will take a 4th War Bond: rjfcase to see “Thousands Cheer” the Peoples Theatre nextThurs V night for you cannot buy a ket but you will get one free en you buy a War Bond. 3*ids will be sold at the tkea box-office or by calling there advance. You can also get a ket by buying a Bond from any imber of the Rotary, - Kiwanis Lions clubs. r,kE special War Bond Premiere ^Thousands Cheer” is the con tortion of Roanoke Rapids Thea s to the 4th War Bond Drive d the city banks are sponsoring ; celebration. ids which have been bought e past do not count. To get its for this show it must be a iv purchase. No passes will be nored and even the owners and inagers of the theatres must wjbonds to get a seat, "niousands Cheer” is a techni or musical starring Kathryn ayson and Gene Kelly with Jose irbi, Red Skelton, Mickey Roo /, Kay Kyser, Judy Garland, b Crosby and many other fav ies in the cast. I MILK LAW CHANGED BY CITY BOARD Aping to aid the critical milk ituation in Roanoke Rapids, the Sty Board of Commissioners at tie monthly meeting Tuesday, oted to suspend for the duration f Ahe war or until otherwise de Ig^rated that part of the City Milk Ordinance which prohibits the sale f certain types of milk. According to the ordinance, sale f milk or milk products to the ina| consumer to restaurants, soda >undations, grocery stores^ and tmilar establishments, except rrade A and B pasteurized certi led and Grade A raw milk, has een prohibited in the past. i"Oard also voted to again the new Cemetery property be used for Victory Gardens tiie provision that any pet siring a plot be required to application to the City office. business included the k_ ARMY PILOT Second Lieutenant Wilson W. Hamill, 26, Co-pilot, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe W. Hamill, Sr., Postmaster of Thelma. He at tended Benjamin Franklin Uni versity and was an accountant be fore entering the service in July, 1942. He is ndVv at the 34th Combat Crew Training School at Army Air Base, Blythe, Cal. Sgt. W. Young At English Air Base An Eighth AAF Fighter Station, England. — T/Sgt. Wendell Young of 647 Albion street, Denver, Colo., was recently adding the total years of service the family has ac cumulated and was surprised to find it reached a figure of nearly six decades. His father, Sam, and stepmoth er, Eva Browning Young of 222 Hamilton street, Roanoke Rapids, have set a precedent that will be difficult to match. Lt Herman Browning has 22 years of Army service, Lt Clifton Browning looks back upon more than 17 years with the infantry. M/Sgt. Rubin Browning recently completed his twelfth with the Air Forces and Wendell adds anoher six years to the total. Now, Sergeant Young, an intel ligence non-com at this fighter station, is wondering which branch of service his new daughter, Joan ne, is headed for. The tide began turning when the last remaining brother, T. B. Browning, changed the course and is now AM 2/CL in the Navy. -4 Two Brothers To Be Remembered At 4th Bond Drive Pfc. Benjamin F. Buckner of Greensboro, N. C., is spending his nine-day furlough with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie D. Buckner near Emporia, Va. and his sisters, Misses Lillie and Edith Buckner of this city. While on leave. Pfc. Buckner will attend the War Bond Sale at the theater at Emporia, Va., in honor of his two brothers, Charlie Buckner, Jr., who lost an arm in the Solomon Islands Dec. 7, 1942, and Pvt. Arthur Buckner who for the last 12 months has been in German pris on. Mr. and Mrs. Buckner have three sons in service. NEGRO GETS 30 YEARS IN CREEK DEATH Arthur Fleming, 20-year-old Ne gro, charged with killing Lindsay Price on Dec. 22, and throwing the body in Chockoyotte Creek, was sentenced to 30 years in pris on by Judge Walter Bone this week. Fleming has signed a confession which he later repudiated but the trial did not go to a jury when a plea of second degree murder was entered by the defense. Sam Jones, colored, who was im plicated by Fleming, was not tried at this term of court. Price’s body was found in the creek a week after he had disap peared from his home Tifrith about one hundred dollars in cash on his person. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BREAK ANOTHER QUOTA WITH $27,700 IN SALES Reports this afternoon on the 4th War Bond Drive, the one to back the attack, from Roanoke Rapids High School, shows a to tal of $27,700 in Bonds and Stamps bought and sold by the students. Junior High School students had reported a total of $17,684 and Senior High School students a to tal of $10,016. The original quota was $5 per pupil. Because there are more in Junior High than in Senior the gross total of each would be dif ferent, but ‘Senior High has be gun to cr eep up on the more num erous Juniors as today’s figures show that the Seniors now have an average per student of $32,88 while Junior’s average is $34.81. ‘ Having now broken three quotas, including the $25,000 third quota, both Junior and Senior have again set now quotas and intend to set an all-time high before the 4th War Bond drive ends this month. Meanwhile, city chairman H. E. Lee and county chairman Fletcher Gregory are ready to make a re port on what the adult workers have been doing. Purpose of this drive has been to sell more E Bonds to individuals and, In this, the High School students have been setting the pace. CHARLIE JOYNER JAPANESE PRISONER; LI. MATKINS IN ITALY; WELCH CABLES YOUNG GOB Melvin Renn, Jr., son of Cox swain M. L. Renn is following in his dad’s footsteps at the tender age of one year. Mrs. Renn is the former Miss Pauline Hux of “this city. War struck at three homes in Roanoke Rapids in the past few days with one missing in action in Italy, one a prisoner of the Japs in Burma and the third safe af ter being missing for three weeks in China. Second Lieutenant Marvin F. Matkins, son of J. H. Matkins, Sr., was reported missing in ac tion in Italy since January 7 in a War Department telegram to’ his father. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September, 1941, and completed training as a bombar died at Deming Field, New Mexi co. Three months ago, he was or dered to Africa, later transferring lu Aiaiy. ms rather is living in Richmond at the present time. Mrs. Betsy Joyner of Roanoke Rapids has received the following from Adjutant General Julio: “An official report received in the War Department states that your son, Charlie W. Joyner, is a pris oner of war of the Japanese gov ernmeent in Burma. Any further information received will be fur nished by the Provost Marshall General." From War Prisoners Camp 5 at Moulmein, Burma, a card has been received by Mrs. Joyner from her son. It is the usual printed card which prisoners are permitted to use saying his health is good but he was allowed to write one line, “Let me know about the family” There was joy in the J. F. Welch family Sunday afternoon when a cablegram was received from Lt. Allen Welch who had been missing over China for three weeks. The cable to his parents read, “All well and safe. Please do not worry. Writing." Lt. Welch had been missing since Jan. 11 and the fact had been1 re ported by the War Department. LOUISE GLOVER FUNERAL HELD HERE SUNDAY Miss Florence Louise Glover, 23, died Thursday, January 27, at 7:30 o’clock in Kinston after an illness of several days. Funeral services were held from the home by Rev. L. A. Tilley if her sister Mrs. David Camp n Jackson St. Sunday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. Burial followed hi Roanoke Rapids cemetery. Surviving are two sisters, Mr#. David Camp of this city and Mr*. Lindsay Siegfried of Baltimore, Md.; two brothers, Edward Glover of this city, and Pvt. John Glover of Fort Knox, Ky.
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