le Home Sphere
Edited by
I MISS FLORENCE COX
|ome Demonstration Agent
*jjss Estelle M. Edwards
jtaiit Home Dem. Agent
Landing \Vork
Si.iiiig Hill Home Demon
on C Inb has done an out
piece of work for the
i ,during February. The
l a i.nly 11 active members
I three associate members and
■thev made and turned in the
leva . garments and articles;
hided scarfs, 3 pair of hos
hcdroam mules, 15 kit bags,
wives for placing in the
lias and 2(! hospital bed pun
I,.. In addition to the work
|nll Miner of the club is acting
tha :■ nan of the Red Cross
ell 1 VC
now under way for
Hill sect1 n. Mrs. .1.
r +*."«
• b. an
pring n.,1 club.
I. i,. liarnhill is president,
W. r. Locke is vice-president,
M Fleming, Secretary
|M. K. E. Edmonds is Treas
|] , lubs doing excellent
f the Red Cross are Daw
au i Roseneath. The Dawson
Ip .corks under two chapters,
Enfield and Scotland Neck,
have made 24 kit bags and
(busewives for one chapter and
|f each for the other. Mrs.
Hands is chairman for the
lelH Chapter and Mrs. L. J.
lhill for the Scotland Neck
jiti r Officers are Mrs. C. N.
Ell. President; Mrs. O. C.
Jk . Viee-prtesident and Mrs.
Barnhill. Secretary and
R ,,-eneath Club turned in
bags, G bed pan covers, l
d, for wheel chair patients
S2.hu as donation to the Red
s Fund drive. In addition
distributed material for
ing other Red Cross articles
are busy raising Red Cross
s in the community. Mrs.
. Lovegrove is looking alter
work. Officers are President
J. i. Pittman; Vice-president
T I!. Whitehead; Secretary
Treas, Mrs. J. E. Condrey.
pr-Hath Canners:
e War Production Board
the water bath canners will
(n.ule available for home can
this year They will be on
market beginning probably
[pril These canners are to be
in canning tomatoes, fruits
other acid foods They will
standard size, holding seven
[t jars
jr Prospects
S' U. i. Department of A gri
pe says sugar prospects are
not for the regular ration
■!> le sugar, but sugar for otii
purposes will be limited. There
those who expect to can
s this year should start now
icon rve and plan ahead. A
mgar saved here and a lit
[there will add up to a stock
for use in canning and pre
hir. The sugar that the fam
p e.- irom the regular allow
th. family is sure of hav
j and besides it may be used
[pro erves, jelly or pickles as
a- for canning.
Ig Lasting Cloth —
pent tests made by the Bu
of Home Economics show
for work clothes gabardine,
Ringbone twill or Whipcord
longer lasting qualities. The
le yarns used per square inch
Is more wear, and there should
pbout the same number runn
ln>th ways.
lit Now --
Pant in your vegetable gard
during March the following
gs. Asaparagus crowns for
year, snap beans, beets, cab
le plants, carrots, chard, Sweet
corn, kale, kolil-rabi, leek,
lettuce, mustard, onion seeds
son, parsley, parsnips, gard
|]>eas, irish potatoes, radish,
.-alsify, new Zealand spin
spinach and turnips. For
J>> of these second and third
ptu.f ■ should lie made
GIVE TO THE
|l||p
RED CROSS
NOTICE
!l a Bed Cross War Fund
J^'citor lias not called on you
■use be sure your contri
iut*°n gets in to the local
hapter.
‘CHINERY
Repairing farm machinery and
it in good running con
ln immediately will save much
e ar>d labor when it is vitally
ded in sowing spiring crops,
Extension specialists at State
lege.
THE ROANOKE NEWS
ESTABLISHED IN 186fi — SERVING HALIFAX AND NORTN AMPTON COUNTIES
KEEP ON
with WAR BONDS
Seventy-Sixth Year
i '
Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina
THURSDAY, MARCH 9th, 1941
Drive Started To Get
Musical Instruments
Instruments May Be Left At Any Place
That Handles Bottled Coca-Cola.
Wanted - musical instillments
for our fighting men: In respon
j se to a request from the Army, a
!fv wide campaign to round up
e banjos, saxaphones, and
other musical instruments that
are lying forogtten in closets and
attics will begin here on March
13th. It will run for two weeks
The Variety of instruments
wanted is unlmited, except that
pianos and bull fiddles are ex
cluded because of their size, and
phonographs because of a lack of
facilities for keeping them in re
pair at the front.
Instruments collected in this
nation wide drive will enable the
soldiers in all parts of the world
to form orchestras to entertain
themselves and their camp bud
dies. It will also enable them to
engage in less formal musical
recreation like gathering around
in the evening and singing to the
accompaniment of a banjo, har
monica, or other instrument. j
Because of their distribution1
facilities, the Army has asked the'
“Coca-Cola” Bottlers all over the
country to act as collecting a. j
gents for this drive. Any person
who has any idle musical instru
ments is asked to take them to
any grocery store, filling station,
drug store, or other place that
sells bottled “Coca-Cola”. The
Bottling Company’s trucks will
pick them up there and ship them
immediately to the Army for dis
tribution at Army camps all over
the world.
“There are hundreds, if not
thousands of these instruments
hidden away and forgotten in the
closets and attics of homes in this
city” said Mr. D. W. Seifert, Man
ager of the Weldon Coca-Cola
Bottling Works, Inc., Tli£ jkuieri-!
can soldier loves his music, but
he particularly likes to make his
own. Through this campaign, we
shall be able to help his life in
camp and at the fronts a happier
one.”
RECORDERS
COURTJEWS
Allison Allsbrook, charged with
being drunk and disorderly nol
pros with leave.
Donald Stanley Douvall, white
of Laurel Md., charged with
speeding nol pros with leave.
Exum Wade, colored of Enfield
was found guilty of illegal pos
session of liquor and was given
six months on the roads, suspend
ed on payment of the costs and
on condition he appear the first
Tuesday of each month for two
years and show good behavior.
William Thomas Brown, white
of Oak City charged with reckless
driving was found not guilty.
Carlton Gregory, charged with
speeding nol pros with leave.
Joseph C. Tant, white of En
field was found guilty of speed
ing and prayer for judgment con
tinoed on payment of the costs
and on condition he does not vio
late any motor vehicle law for two
years.
John Smith, white of Roanoke
Rapids, plead guilty to assault
and was given five months on the
roads, suspended on payment of
the costs and on condition he re
mains of good behavior for two
years during which time he is not
to visit (the home of William
Thompson and on further condi
tion he does not use any alcoholic
beverage.
Quincy Fox, colored of Enfield
was found guilty of assault with
a deadly weapon and was given
three months on the roads.
William Bryant, colored of En
field wag found gjlilljy of feck
less driving and hit and run and
the prayer for judgment contin
ued on payment of the costs and
on condition he does not violate
any criminal or motor vehicle law
for two years.
Frank Cole Writes His
Mother From India
*
To: Mrs. Frank Cole,
Weldon, N. C.
U. S. A.
From: S Sgt. F. A. Cole, Jr.,
13032639
436th Bomber Sqdn (H) U. S.
Army
A.P.O. No. 886, Cr. Postmaster
New York City.
India
Feb. 17th., 1944.
Dearest Mom:
Though, I really haven’t any
news of interest about which to
write, I'm writing as this is the
first opportunity I have had to
do so in several days. I realize
you are primarily interested in
my welfare and not in what I have
to say.
You will note in my address,
I’m in another unit, and although
I haven’t been in it long enough
to pass judgment, I think I’ll get
along just swell. I am sure of
one thing about it, the food ;s
100 per cent better and to help
things we do not use mess kits
but eat family style, Perhaps you
can’t appreciate that ditference,
but let me assure you that it is
quite a favorable change.
I shall be happy to get out of
the army, but I shall not be able
to deny that it has taught mo
much that should benefit me
greatly. I have seen things, done
tnings and gone places that
would have been impossible other
wise. MoS'o important, it has
taught me that I’m proud and
happy to be an American.
In my last letter I wrote you
that 1 had just spent a pleasant
day with a Canadian family, but
1 dont think I gave you any par
ticulars,
Their names are Mr. and Mrs.
Q. J. M'altby and they are in their
middle fifties. They are excel
ingly nice and hospitable and ap
parently enjoyed having us almost
as much as we enjoyed visiting
them. They are from Mountroal
and have been in India since 1938.
I was invited to come back and
certainly intend taking them up
I
on it, if, and when the opportu
nity presents itself.
They have a little colony com
posed mostly of English families
and each of them feels slighted un
less we drop by to speak to them
regardless of whose invitation we
have accepted for the day. Each
call entails a cup of tea and bis
cuits. A biscuit to them is a cake
to me.
Although the English don’t
have heavy meals they certainly
eat often enough. Their schedule
runs something like this: Break
fast, tiffin (tea in the morning
about ten) dinner at eight, and
linally coffee. Possibly the coffee
is for our benefit since they don’t
seem to enjoy it too much, and
frankly neither do I, as it is a far
cry from American coflee.
Usually I go with two other
G. I’s. One of whom was a Penn
sylvanian coal miner in civilian
life, and to put it mildly, he ia
quite forthright. The Maltbys get
a great kick out of him and so
do 1. They sfcryed pudding for
dessert the other day and he was
eating his with the soup spoon.
He remarked it was just as good
eaten with a spoon as with a fork
and Mr. Maltby got a big laugh
out of that. The other boy is a
U of Arizona alumnus and form
er Arizona state golf champion.
I played with him and thoroughly
enjoyed it,
A few days ago I rap into a
boy from Garysburg, Wthom you
probably don’t know personally,
but very likely know of, lie is
Bill Collier and was owner of The
Sinclair pltajtion across from
Bounds Motor Company. He did
not know any home news, but I
was very happy to see him and to
talk about old friends and mutual
acquiantances who naturally were
many, |
I am quite well and send my
love and best wishes to all of
you,
Your- devoted son,
FRANK.
Red Cross Field Men Tackle
Yanks’ Problems Overseas
One of the very important functions of the American Red Cross Is the
direct communication it affords between the fighting man and his people
back home. Here Red Cross Field Director John L. Barnes (left), of |
White Plains, N. Y., gives a message to Sgt. William J. McDonald, Jr„
of Mamaroneck, N. Y. Picture was made In Sicily outside a straw Italian
hutch with the rear headquarters of the 1st Division near Mt. Etna.
On Masera Island, up In the Per
sian Gulf, where there Is not a
single tree standing and the wind
blows across the Island ceaselessly.
Red Cross field men brought fishing
tackle, books and writing paper to
service men. Most welcome gift
from the Red Cross was clippers
for hair cutting—the boys had been
without a barber for months.
In Persia, a Red Cross Field Di
rector w-as able to locate a soldier’s
mother whom he hadn't seen for
25 years.
jn "— field men
<■ :h-hiked In
supply i.— ; Jeeps over
bombed convoy iJL. s. through
blinding sand storms and glaring
sun to help men with personal
problems and emergency commu
nications, and to deliver magazines
and books, cigarettes and chocolate
to isolated posts and bjgses.
In Italy, Red Cross j(eld men ac
companied Cue uoo^t? .n on the in
vasion barges.
In India, a sergeant was sen
tenced to tlie guard house for dis
orderly conduct. His officer couldn’t
understand the boy’s behaviour. He
was a nice kid—he’d never gone to
pieces before.
The officer asked the Red Cross
Field Director to see him. The Red
Cross man discovered a very wor
ried boy. His wife had not been re
ceiving his allotments, she wasn’t
well and needed an operation. She
thought the soldier must have can
celled his allotments and a misun
derstanding had arisen between
them so that she was no longer
writing him.
The field man got in touch with
the Red Cross chapter in the boy’s
home town Immediately. It took
care of her. financed her operation |
and saw that she had adequate
funds to provide for herself until the
allotment again came through.
When the Red Cross man ex
plained what had happened to the
soldier’s Commanding Officer, the
latter promptly released the boy
from the guard house. From then
on the boy was all right. His wor
ries were over, and the Army had
gained a good fighting man.
All over the world, In every the
atre of war and active battle front
go the American Red Cross field
men—helping soldiers with major
and minor personal problems, bring
ing them recreational items such as
magazines, books, comfort articles,
athletic equipment and re-establish
ing their contact with home. These
men share the conditions and haz
ards under which the soldiers fight.
They also share their lives. They
are on call day and night whenever
they are needed.
G.l.’s overseas have many prob
lems. Often home seems very, very
far away. With the Red Cross there
at hand wherever he may be, the
soldier knows he can always get In |
touch with home — that he need j
never feel alone with problems he
doesn’t know how to solve himself.
More than 3,000,000 service men ,
passed through Red Cross field
men’s otiices last year.
On the mud clogged roads of
Italy, through the tar jungles of
New Guinea, on lonely desert posts,
Red Cross field men take your place
beside your boy. In order to con
tinue this service, the Red Cross
urgently needs contributions from
the American people to its $200.
000,000 War Fund drive this month
Weeks Will Run
For House Seat
Blind Judge of Tarboro Enters
Democratic Race; Post Held
fcy Kep. Kerr
Cameron C. Weeks of Tarboro,
(Edgecombe County judge and
former State legislator has an
nounced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for U
nited States representative for
the Second Congressional Dis
trict.
In an interview on January 22,
Weeks stated that he probably,
would be a candidate in the May
primary. Blind since the age of
20. he is a graduate of the Uni-1
versify of North Carolina Law
School and has practiced law in
Edgecombe County for several
years.
Weeks served in the General
Assembly in 1941 and was noted
for his efforts in bringing about
the passage of a number of bills
beneficial to agriculture in that
session.
Weeks’ Statement
Mr, Weeks formally announced
his candidacy with this statement:
“For many months I have ser
iously considered the question of
becoming a candidate for U. S.
representative in the second con
gressional district. After serious
thought, encouragement from a j
reasonable amount of forces andj
because I personally want to be:
a United States representative, I1
have decided to become a candi
date for the Democratic nomina
tion for United States represen
tative in the second district.
"From now until the primary,
May 27, I will do everything hon
Don Ward Trains
At Florida Base
Miami Beach, Fla.,—Donald C.
Ward, son of Mrs. W. J. Ward of
Weldon, N. C., has begun studies
at Army Air Forces Officer Can
didate School here, which, when
success.'ully lomplrted, will qua
lify him for commission as a sec
ond lieutenant in the Air Fore
Ga.
He came to Miami Bench from
Tinker Field, Oklahoma , itv,
Okl., where he held the rank of ^
Staff Sergeant.
Before entering the army, he
attended University of North Ca
rolina in Chapel Hill, N. C.
Officers trained here direct vi-'
tal administrative and supply op
erations of the AAF.
oruble that I can to win the elec
tion.
"If elected, I will to the best of
my ability help win the war and
restore to our country and dis
trict the kind of life to whch we
are entitled. Living in the great
est agricultural district, certainly
in the United States, if not in the
world, every farmer expects me
to be his friend, and actively so,
I will to the best of my ability
represent all fairly, honestly and
without fear whatsoever. The lit
tle man, the wage earner, the un
organized public—they are the
people who make up our district
and I will represent them and
their views.
/“As for (the serviS^man and
his family, they can put me down
as forever being indebted to them,
remembering that while I cannot
fight with them, there is nothing
that can prevent nay fighting for
them.”
Two Soldiers Killed In
Collision Car-Motorcycle
) -
i
iTarboro Man Bein^ Held
1 For Manslaughter
The Chaplain’s Corps
BY RUTH TAYLOR
H. I. Phillips, that typical A
merican columnist, who can turn
a quip with the best of them, and
make you laugh with his home
style humor, can with equal skill
touch your heartstrings with his
sincere devotion to the ideals that
are American. I
,Recently Mr. Phillips wrote a
fine tribute to the Chaplains
Corps - that unselfish, whole
souled body of men, who, owning
allegiance to the spirit of the
Working democracy that is the
United States, own a still higher,
allegiance to that God in our na
tion trusts. They may be Catho
lic, Protestant or Jew - they may
differ in creed - but they are a
like in their devoton, and in their
faith that to God all things are
possible. Theirs is a fine tradi
tion, to which they are adding1
greater laurls on battle fronts all ^
over the w'orld.
“The priest who puts the water
on dry lips,
The rector leading tired men in
prayer -
The rabbi with the word of Abra
ham,
Each doing quietly his holy share., j
These are the men who ease the
weary path, e
Who touch the heart and heal the
harassed soul.
Who kep the vision of the boy
hood day, i
Preserving things learned at a 1
mothers knee.”
Anyone with a man at the front
- and what family today hasn’t
a man there ? - feels better be- j
cause of these men. They are the
unarmed soldiers, going without
weapons into the battle. They
face, unafraid because of their
laith, the same dangers that con
1 front the wen who turn to them
1 for comfort. Never faltering in
their duty, they are, at all times,
ministers unto men, teachers of
the truth, preachers of the way,
consolers of the dying.
“The Catholic, the Protestant, the
Jew -
As one they give the all sustain
ing grace
To those who die to keep our
way of life
Without regard to color, faith or
race:
Their’s is the symbol ol a nation
strong,
The force that makes a country's
shield so bright;
The Chaplain’s Corps of gallant
Godlike men,
Who blaze the way with the Eter
nal Light.”
All honor unto 'the chaplains
of our armed forces! They, too,
are heroes, of whom the whole na
tion is proud and to whom we
each owe a debt of gratitude.
Money spent for War Bonds goes
to the front. Sometimes it provides
spectacular equipment like planes,
oft times it buys a runty donkey
like this American soldier Is taking
ashore in Italy. The quicker your
dollars go into action, the sooner it
will be over. Buy More War Bonds.
V. S. Treasury Department
Two soldiers were reported
killed in a mo.or ve i -le accident
about eight miles i >rth of Kn
field on route 301 M nd . ...
at 8:45.
Richard Stefano of Camp Rit
chie, Md., and Wilmington was
killed instantly, highway patrol
men reported, when the motorcy
cle on which he was riding was
hit by a car driven by Garland
Tuck of Tarbo>'0. Tuck, going
south on route 301 was going *
make a le t turn into route. 12o
when he collided with the motor
cycle, going north on route SOI,
highway patrolmen said.
Tuck left the scene of the ac
cident but was apprehended at
his home in Tarboro, patrolmen
reported. Tuck’s sister, Bessie
Tusk of Tarboro and a friend,
James Wade of Conway, were rid
ing with Tuck at the time of the
accident and remained there, pa
trolmen said. No one in the Tuck
car was injured. J
Pvt. Charles L. Parker of
Washington, N. C., riding with
Stefano on the motorcycle, died
in a Rocky Mount hospital at 7
o’clock Tuesday morning. Parker
was admitted to the hospital at
10:10 Monday night suffering
from a broken neck and compound
comminuted fracture of both legs,
hospital authorities slated. Park
er, unconscious at time of his ad
mittance, failed to regain con-,
sciousness, it was disclosed.
Damage to the Tuck car w-as
estimated at $350. The motorcy
cle was burned when it collided
with the Tuck auto, it was report
ed.
Tuck Is Held - -
For Manslaughter
Halifax—Garland Tuck of Tar
boro is being' held here under $8,
000 bond on the pharge of man
slaughter for trial Iday 1 in the
Halifax county Superior court.
The bond and the charge were
fixed at a coroner’s inquest in
Enfield Tuesday afternoon. Tuck
was charged with driving the au
tomobile which hit and killed
Richard Stefano of Camp Ritchie,
Md„ and Wilmington and p”*\
Charles L. Parker of Washing
ton, N. C.
The accident in which the two
soldiers were killed occurred on
Monday night at 8:45 on route
301 about eight miles north of
Enfield, according to the report.
The two soldiers were on a mo
torcycle going north on route 301
when they were hit by the Tuck
car going south on the highway
and attempting to make a left
turn into route 125, it was stag
ed.
Tuck left the scene of the acci
dent but was apprehended in his
home in Tarboro, highway patrol
men reported. Stefano was killed
instantly, patrolmen disclosed.
Parker died in a Rocky Mount
hospital Tuesday morning from a
broken neck and compound com
minuted fracture of both lego
su'.fered in the accident, hospital
authorities stated.
Waves Enlist 30
Women For State
Raleigh, March 7—The two weeks
intensive drive for WAVES has
been completed with considerable
success, Lt. Lodwick Hartley, of
ficer in charge of naval officer
procurement for North Carolina
announced today.
Thirty North Carolina young
women have enlisted and scores
more have indicated their inten
tions of serving in Navy blue in
response to the urgent call for
j all available womanpower.
! According to the figures releas
! ed by the Office of Naval Officer
| Procurement today, the thirty
' enlistments are in themselves no
j indication of the widespread in
terest that the campaign has pro
voked. One hundred and forty
five applications have been re
ceived from the Recruiting Ser
1 vice and its substations scattered
I throughout the State. Many of
these girls were unable to get to
Raleigh during the two weeks of
the campaign, but will be enlisted
in the ensuing week.