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II “HJ Vernon Edgar Whitley, Marvin William Scott, William H. Camp, Jr, Robert E .May, R. HL McCommons. James W. Whitby, ■'ll * J Grover Woodruff, Winfield Hasty, Daniel E. Faison, Robert Lee Moore, Curtis E. West, Edgar H. King, Robert Ingram, “ * Thomas A. Cooper, Marvin F. Matkins, James G. Whitby, Thos H. Cook, Jr, Elmer E. Chambliss, tUmun White, Robert L ,_ Harris, Joseph A. Crouch, Davie L. Harper, Brutas W. Rook, Robb R. Northingtn, Eugene Basil Glover, William C Moody Frank W. Harris, Wayne C. Green, Rufus Finch, Lawrence W. Myrick, Walter G. Cooley, Charlie L. Whitby. Melbourne Barry Jones, Robert A. Rogers, Rufus J. T. Wood ruff, Clinton P. Deberry, Herbert S. Edwards, H. Charles Leatherwood, Jr, John Wayne Thomas, Alex Bullock, Jr, Frank P. Hunter. THE ROANOKE RAPIDS VOLUME XXXI _ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4th,/ 1945 NUMBER 5 FREIGHT CARS ARE PILED UP * IN BAD WRECK Second Accident Within Month On Seaboard Track; A northbound Seaboard freight train was wrecked here last Tues -, day morning about 4:30 o’clock, ^ caused, it is believed, by the break ing of a “journal” on the trucks underneath a coal car. The acci dent happened just after the train had passed the station in Roanoke Rapids. No one was injured. Nine box cars and coal cars, heavily loaded, were piled up in a mass of twisted steel and wood in the “cut” just below the sta tion. Many of them were complete ly demolished. Three of the cars ♦ loaded with gravel were thrown across the track and a box car following immediately behind and loaded with merchandise of vari ous kinds, was caught in the full impact and smashed almost to pieces. The track was torn up for about 400 yards. An Atlantic Coast Line wrecker from Rocky Mount reached the scene about 9:30 o’cock and a few minutes later a j/t Seaboard wrecker arrived. Section crews had been at work early after the wreck clearing away the debris and relaying the track. The wreckers went to work immedi ately and the wreckage was clear ed up late Tuesday night. Traffic was detoured via the Virginian railway from Alberta to Jarrett and the Atlantic Coast Line from Jarrett to Weldon. Nor mal traffic was resumed Wednes £ day. This was the second wreck to occur on the Norlina-Portsmouth line within a month. The other being a head-on collision between north and southbound passenger trains at Margarettsville on Sep tember 20. In Hospital — Pictured above is Pfc. Frank ' C. Borrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Borrell of this city. Frank has returned to Ashford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., after a 60-day leave here with his parents. Pfc. Borrell served 38 months in the Southwest Pacific and was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in battle on Mindanoa Island in the Philip pines. Other than the Purple Heart he wears the American. theatre medal, Asiatic-Pacific medal with two bronze stars, American defense ribbon, com bat infantry badge, good conduct medal and the Philippine libera tion ribbon with one bronze star. His friends may write to him in care of the hospital. City-Wide Revival Services i Are Creating Much Interest i.uc wtjf-wiuc icrivai oci viuca which ~e being held this week in all > churches of Roanoke Rapid^ -re creating much interest according to a survey made today by The Herald. The meetings, which got under way last Monday night will continue through Mon day, October 8. The survey shows: * At the First Methodist Church, where Dr. F. W. Paschall, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Wil mington, is doing the preaching, the attendance is good. At Rosemary Baptist Church, Rev. Harry D. Wood, Jr., pastor very good. Rev. J. J. Langston, pastor of the Christian Church, is doing his own preaching to the membership Good attendance there is also re ported. Rosemary Methodist Church, Rev. W. R. Stevens, pastor, is preaching and is being assisted by Rev. W. C. Wilson of Goldsboro as song director. At this church much interest is being manifested and the attendance is increasing. At the First Baptist Church, Rev. Joseph Johnson, of Bassett, Va., 1 Of A^gier Baptist Church, is the is the guest minister and the ser < guest preacher. The attendance Va (Continued on page 8—Serf. A.) I ] Larry Meade Out @1 Army Pfc. Larry T. Meade, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Meade, 834 Roa noke Avenue, Roanoke Rapids, was recently honorably discharged from the United States Army after serving 27 months in the Euro pean Theatre. Pfc. Meade was with the 45th Infantry Division and saw action in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Southern France and Germany. He wears :he European-African-Middle East ern theatre ribbon with six bronze service stars and one bronze ser vice arrowhead, the good conduct medal, and has been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge. Matthews Is Out of Army Jeff Matthews, formerly of the U. S. Army, has received his dis charge from the army and is now making his home here at 1011 Cedar Street. Jeff has been in service since the National Guard originated and left Roanoke Rap ids with them in 1940. He recently returned to the states after serv ing overseas. DischH00',er J6 do, ter servijip- *h Se from ^ ^ * «» Europe^8 his wife nowr at an 'Var f°re en'5rs- Sarah witI‘ «»».r 4"”1 !he «”"VCRR' l>«Uo„to ret"» to S former ter eif' ^ary j „ **“ 0«" «5„ ®* 'SS,**"9" 5K*»v *» •.£? years. r7*7 for th(f ^he Uniterf 16 Months oi Can,er°n Jff * tilree an honorahi rseas- has ZZ° Spent Present vZh discllarge gu” ffive* p- L“«. “»* « Dav:s Awaits j Discharge Staff Sergeant Edward B. Davis son of Mrs. E. B. Davis, is at Fort Bragg waiting for his dis ;harge fro mthe service. Davis las had four years’ duty and spent 33 months overseas. He vears four oak leaf clusters and he ETO ribbon. His wife, the ormer Miss Mary Norwood, is onnected with Roanoke Rapids iospital. Lieut. Cannon Home From C. i. I. Area First Lieutenant Carlton Cannon, son of Mrs. John C. Smith, who entered the service in June, 1942, and went overseas July 27, 1943, where he served as supply officer in the Tenth Air Force in the CBI theatre of operations, is at home for a short visit. For the first four months Can non was with the 5303rd combat troops as supply officer for com bat troops in the forward area in Burma. There he handled all types of supplies dropped from the air by parachutes for Chinese troops. The rest of the time he was sup ply officer, in. India packing sup plies for delivery to troops in the Burma fighting. At the beginning of the cam paign in October, 1943, peut. Can non required 14 days to walk to the forward area in Burma from Ledo. Unadministered Naga head hunters were used as laborers in clearing air fields for delivery of supplies by C-47’s. After his leave expires Lieut. Cannon will report to Greensboro where he expects to receive his honorable discharge at an early date. Johnson Reports To Newport, R. I. Thomas W. Johnson, coxswain second class, left last week for Newport, R. I., after spending a 30-day furlough here with his mother, Mrs. Margie Johnson, 126 Madison street. Johnson served 26 months in the Pacific theatre of operations. Robert Lane On His Way Home Mrs. W. E. Lane received word this week that her son, Robert Lane, has arrived in the states from overseas duty and is expect ed to arrive home within a few days. ' First Reported As Wounded; Later Missing in Action Second Lieutenant Ceci! P. Co burn, 24-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Coburn, 521 Roanoke Avenue, is believed to have lost his life in action in Germany, by General George S. Patton, ’ Jr., commanding the Third United States Army. Late in March of this year Mr. and Mrs. Coburn received a War Department message saying their son had been slightly wounded. After records and hospitals were checked this report was changed to "missing in action." Since then nothing has been heard from the War Department or from Lieut. Coburn. Every effort has been made to get definite information concern ing young Coburn, the latest be ing a letter sent to General Pat ton. Replying to this letter Gen eral Patton wrote Mr. and Mrs. Coburn as follows: lung aeiay in answering your letter of 15 June concerning your son, 2nd Lt. Cecil P. Cobum, 0-550658, is due to the fact that I have been to the United States and back and also because re deployment of personnel has made it difficult to obtain information. "I very much regret to inform your that your son was killed in action on 2 March, 1945. The cir cumstances were as follows- He was with the 2nd Platoon of Com pany "F”, 301st Infantry which was attempting to capture a pill box in the vicinity of Serrig, Ger many. He was wounded in the right arm but changed his carbine to his left hand and continued to advance with his platoon under heavy fire. During this courageous advance he was hit and instantly killed by machine gun fire. As the attack was not successful and our soldiers were obliged to retreat, your gallant son’s body w..-> not recovered and it must be presum ed that he was buried by the Ger mans who, to the best of m knowledge, always accorded tary honors and religious cere monies to those of our dead wh^m they buried. “I deeply regret being the mean* of transmitting this sad informa tion to you. Please accept my most (Continued on page 8—Sect. A.) Sgt. Easters Ordered to Fort Benning To Get Discharge “'^s<- junmiy u. masters, son of Mrs. Margaret Lawson, 201 Monroe Street, Roanoke Rapids, was ordered to report Monday to the separation center, Fort Ban ning, Ga., to be discharged with a score of 105 points. Sgt. Easters embarked for over seas duty in August, 1943. He landed at Oran, North Africa, and was assigned to the 509th para chute infantry battalion upon ar rival there. He participated in the battles of southern Italy and the Anzio beachhead operation, also participated in the air-borne ope "ation of D-Day ip Southern France and fought northward through Belgium to Berginstien, Germany. Sgt. Easters is a veteran of flee major battles, two being parachute missions and has been wounded three times by enemy action. During his tour of duty Sgt Easters was awarded the Soldiers Medal for risking his own life to rescue that of another soldier whose vehicle had collided with 4 power line suspension, knocking down high voltage wires, with which he was entangled and un able to move. He was also award ed the Bronze Star Medal for leading a successful patrol near (Continued on page 8—Sect A >
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