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In them eotsmne wiM fa fami » fair presentation H food ond comity nows of tmonl interest. JC. ' . ...... zzzz Volume XII. —Number 7. ~ ~ “ V" '| *nc~ °% Up Time for Nazis ' iSflßi : j|p' .j v sfc nin ’ MPf m #- ■? . j%s| 'Jr- I’’”'’ 1 ’’”'’ fHft# '•t'Jf';’ : «*s4mmwis' %> 'V' ■ : ‘ "* -MB* 1 oScitl V. S. Signal Carpa Plata American soldiers "clean op” a French town, after It has been overrun by mobile detachments. Some of the Osr> man soldiers sealed off In various buildings are being rounded up. Keep our boys going with your payroll savings I for War Bonds. Pnm O. g. Ttaaaorp Town Os Edenton Presented Trophy Won By Marines Presentation Made By Capt. Melvin Griffin At Lions Meeting BASEBALL AWARD ___________ Accepted on Behalf of Town By Mayor L. H. Haskett Captain Melvin Griffin, at Monday ght’s meeting of the Lions Club, •seated the Town of Edenton the •bemarle Service League’s trophy, which was won last summer by the 1.1. S t Marine Corps Air Station bas nall team. The trophy was presented to Mayor Leroy Haskett, a member <>f the Lions Club, and it will be de cided by Town Council where the trophy should be kept. All of the Marines will soon be gone from the local base and because the outfit will, be widely separated, Captain Griffin; stated that the Marines thought it appropriate that the beautiful trophy remain in Edenton where it was won. i Mayor Haskett accepted the trophy dm In half of the town and said he felt sure it will be appreciated and will long serve as a reminder to the peo- ! pie i f Edenton of the pleasant rela-j lions existing between the Marines j while they were stationed here and. the T v n as a whole. The principal speaker of the pw»- : ihg was li. C. Hplaiid, who spoke on Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday was celebrated Monday. Mr. Holland said Lincoln was a great man and that he was misjudged by runny old Southerners. This feeling is grad ually disappearing, saiu Mr. Holland, and both North and South agree that he stood for the right things and is one of America’s greatest men. A. S. Hollowed became a new member of the club, being installed by Dr. W. S. Griffin. Edenton • Hertford USO Clubs Plan Joint Course In Training A USO training course for volun teer workers, with special emphasis on GSO work, will be conducted jointly by the Hertford and Edenton USO Clubs, beginning Wednesday night, February 21 and will continue for four consecutive Wednesday nights. The first two meetings will be joint affairs of the workers of the two clubs and the second and third meetings will be held separately, ac cording to USO officials. The first meeting, which will be ‘.old in the Sunday School auditorium ■v. ' the Hertford Methodist Church, II be under the direction of Mrs. .ildred Gleichauf, associate program director from the New York office of the USO. Mrs. Gleichauf has worked imUSO clubs prior to working in the main office, and as a result has a great deal of first hand information which should be of help to local USO workers. THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Public Presentation Bronze Star Medal Posthumous Award Willi Be Made to Willis E. Nixon Public presentation of the Bronze Star Medal, which was awarded post -1 humously to Willis E. Nixon, will jbe made in the Court House Satur ! day morning at 11 o’clock, when his I mother, Mrs. E. T. Nixon, will be j given the medal by Brig.-Gen. John !T. Kennedy. The presentation is j sponsored by Ed Bond Post of the ; American Legion, therefore, J. L. Chestnutt, commander of the Post, ! urges every Legionnaire to be pres -1 ent and extends a cordial invitation ’! to the public to attend. Mr. Chestnutt will preside over the , meeting, which will be opened with a prayer by Chaplain George Wheeler. Brig.-Gen. Kennedy will be intro duced by John A. Holmes, past com mander of the Post. During the meeting “The Star Spangled Banner” ! and “America” will be sung by the audience, led hy C. W. Overman. The Rev. D. C. Crawford, Jr., will pro | nounce the benediction. I , Willis Nixon, son of Mr, and Mrs. ! E. T. Nixon, of the Rocky Hock sec | tion, was killed in action while fight ing in France during August of last i year. He was 24 years old and was I a driver of a tank. He has two other brothers in the service, Ray Nixon being overseas, and Russell Nixon being a member of the Mer- i j i-nant Marine. ; J Sfc t. James B. Stillman j Member of B-25 Group Cited By War Dept. From headquarters of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy comes word that the B-25 Mitchell bombardment group to which Sgt. James B. Still man of Edenton is serving as a ground radio operator, has been cited aeain by the War Department as a Listing! : shed Unit, this time r or the t hiking of the Italian cruiser laranto in La Spe..iu harbor September 23. j Carried out without loss of aircraft i j and with no casualties despite a for- . midable concentration of anti-aircraft i guns, the brilliant attack frustrated I German attempts to move the Taran-1 to into position to block the entrance of this vital harbor. The group was previously cited as a Distinguished Unit for outstanding close support missions flown in Tunisia and Sicily in favor of the British Eighth and 1 Amercan Fifth and Seventh armies. 1 CONTRIBUTIONS IN INFANTILE PARALYSIS DRIVE GOES $173.24 OYER QUOTA OF sl|37 With practically all reports made in the Infantile Paralysis drive in Chowan County, J. Edwin Bufflap, county chairman, reports that contri butions amounted to $1,810.24, which is $173.24 above the county’s quota of $1,637. Os course, included in this amount is $466 taken in at the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station through the March of Dimes and the proceeds of a dance held at the Offi cers’ Club, and contributions of $292.26 taken at the Taylor Theatre The chairman has not yet learned if half of the amount raised at the base will be sent back to the county chapter, for it was ordered to be sent Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 15, 1945. lOYear-Old Colored Boy Fatally Shoots Colored Girl Aged 6 | Lula Mae Satterfield ! Dies Friday In Tay loe Hospital BOY PROBLEM Youngster Sentenced to Morrison Reform i School • Lula Mae Satterfield, six-year-old colored girl, died Friday in Tayloe , Hospital, Washington, N. C., where t she was taken after being shot by Yu nice Lloyd Harris, 10-year-old col ' | ored boy. The shooting took place |in the Satterfield home, 313 West ,! Church Street. The boy, according ! !! to police, had been ordered to stay i , away from the Satterfield home. | i Thursday of last week the boy went ’j to the home, where the girl was j alone. As he threw himself across a 1 1 bed, the little girl told him to leave the house when, police say, the boy J said, “I’m tired of being ordered around, I’ll take that shot gun and blast you.” Police say the boy reached for the gun and as he was putting in a shell j the little girl ran toward the door, j j but that sne fell to the floor when ! sh.ot in the hip. She was not found j until about an hour later by some | neighbors, and she was rushed to the i hospital. The boy, after the shooting, ran away and was not found until about noon Friday. Be was taken into cus tody and given a hearing before Ju venile Judge E. W. Spires, who sen tenced him to the Morrison Training School. He was before Judge Spires last month on minor charges of be ing out of school, running away from home and sleeping in fish houses. He was given a susj,ended sentence at that time, upon condition that he | ..how good behavior and remain at i home nights. The boy has caused no little trouble to local police for a | year or more. i COUNTY OFFICES CLOSED ALL j DAY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 County offices will be closed all day next Thursday in observance of Washington’s birthday, a legal holi | day. Any important business, there ! fore, should be transacted accord -1 ingly. to the Fifth Naval District. Os course, the theatre contribution was sent to the moving picture industry’s headquarters and half of the amount will be sent back to this county. The chairman is delighted with the success of the campaign and desires to give due credit to Miss Emily Smithwick, chairman of the Women’s Division, who selected the canvassers. And to the canvassers no small amount of credit is due for they did a fine job of contacting those in their respective areas. Finally, the great er portion of the credit goes to the contributors, who were generous and, I Contir ued on Page FTve) 1150 Boy Scouts And Scouters Present At Boys’ Night Affair Delightful Meeting Held i In Mess Hall at Ma- | rine Air Station I j j BARBECUE SER\ El) Boys Send Up Rising Cheer For Uei:t. *JoI. H. C. Lane j in the neighbt ilv od in. 130 Boy [ i .Scouts, StiiutiTs .'ami a IVa invited guests attended the. Buys' s ight cele- j iiration held Thursday night by the | Edenton Rotary Club, which took I place in one of the mess halls at the j | 1 . S. Marine Corps Air Station. The affair was splendidly canied out and I apparently delighted all who were S present, including Scouts and Scout- i | ers from Edenton, Hertford and Sun j bury. Special guests included Com-: I mander F. C. Morris, Lieut. Jack , Stever and Lieut. Stillings, Eagle Scouts who are stationed at the base, and J, Clajgpce Leary, Jr., local Eagle Scout, who was also recognized. H. A. Campen, president of the Rotary Club, presided over the meet ing, during which a Court of Honor was held. During this part of the program, six boys of Troop 156, spon sored by the Rotary Club, were ad vanced to second class Scouts and included John Phillips, John Gurley, Ernest White, John Bembry and John L. Goodwin, Jr. From Troop 170, sponsored by the Lions Club, two boys were advanced to Second Class Scouts, these being Thomas Morris and Douglas Allen. Calvin Mills, Ben Twiddy and Oscar Griffin, members of Troop 156, were advanced to first class Scouts and Bobby Byrum was promoted to Life Scout. | Merit badges were awarded to W, J. Taylor, Je., Calvin Mills, Jimmy j j Earnhardt and Philip McMullan, Jr. I Travis Thompson, Forrest Ross j and Eugene Graves, all members of j the Tidewater Council, were on hand j for the meeting, and each spoke j briefly, the latter making the princi- j pal address, which had to do with the progress and advantages of Scouting. Guests were furnished a barbecue | dinner, which was prepared by. Ray | mond Williams and served by a | group of Rotary Amies. There was i | plenty of barbecue and trimmings j and the Boy Scouts especially made j inroads on the supply set before j them. Near the close of the meeting, Lieut.-Col. H. C. Lane, commanding i officer of the base, who granted per- | mission to use the mess hall for the ! occasion, entered the hall, at which ! | the boys immediately arose to their I. feet and round after round of ap- ; plause continued until Col. Lane went i to the front of the hall and made a few remarks. He said he was de ; lighted to have the young Americans as guests of the base and so long as he is here, offered to cooperate in j any way so far as there is no in-! terference with the work at the base. ! Sgt W. N. McClees Loses Life In Luzon Killed January 17 While In Action With In fantry Outfit Friends in Edenton learned with refret Monday that Sergeant W. N. (Nip) McCleese, former Edenton in surance agent and prominent member of the local Fire Department, had been killed in action January 17 on the island of Luzon in the Southwest • Pacific. He was a member of the 161st Division. The information came byway of a telegram to Tom Goodman from Mr. McCleese’s father. Young McCleese was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson McCleese of Colum bia, and had been in the service for about three years. He lived in Eden ton several years before entering the Army and had won a host of friends here. MASONS WILL CONFER DEGREE AT MEETING HELD TONIGHT A regular communication of Unan imity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., will he held tonight at 8 o’clock, in the Court House. One of the degrees will he conferred and T. B. Williford, master of the lodge, urges all mem bers to be present. A special invi tation is also extended to visiting 1 Masons to attend the meeting. Interest Increasing For Electrification In Rural Sections of Chowan County White Man Faces j Charge Os Raping Young Daughter James Freeland Chap pell Held Without Bail For Superior Court Facing four counts growing out of a charge of raping his 18-year-old daughter, James Freeland Chappell, ! White man of the Rylami section, was > held without bail for the April term ' of Superior Court by Judge Marvin 1 Wilson, in Recorder’s Court Tuesday ! morning. Chappell has four counts ! lodged" against him, being charged j with raping by force and against the will of his daughter, having carnal knowledge of his daughter who is under 16, assaulting with intent to commit rape and having carnal inter course. Chappell was arrested and placed in jail late last week, following a sordid story told to Sheriff J. A. Bunch by Chappell’s wife. In Re corder’s Court Tuesday Sheriff Bunch testified that when questioned Chap- j pell at first admitted to the crime, but later in the day denied it. 1 The victim testified that the first] time she was attacked by her father was on October 3, and that the last time was February 4, six times dur ing that period, the attacks occuring either at home or in the woods. The girl said at first she was bruised and I hurt and though she cried, she was j warned that if she told he would j “beat the hell out of her.” The last- I time, according to testimony, they j father was drinking, but on the other i occasions the girl said she coa-IR . iw>f j smell liquor. i Dr. L. p. Williams testified th-o f I he found no bruisesf or - laceration', .but i 'at there could I v,e been inf V course. USO Club Now Open Temporarily In Hotel Joseph Hewes Rooms Greater Portion of Fur-! niture Has Been Sal vaged Since Fire Following the disastrous fire two weeks ago, Harry Cartier, manager I of the USO traveling repair unit and i four assistants were able to salvage j j w'hat had appeared to be a fifty per j i cent loss to the furniture to some- | thing like only 10 per cent. Damage to program equipment and office, equipment, however, is less encour- 1 aging for items completely ruined in- j dude typewriter, adding machine, I cash register, letter files, public ad- j dress system, speakers’ radio, juke j box, phonograph and records, piano, j music, ping pong table, books and so | on USO officials had a word of appre ciation for the Edenton Laundry, j The rug was’picked up, water-soaked, ] Tuesday afternoon and delivered ! cleaned and dried, on Wednesday af ternoon. Mrs. Charlotte B. Collieott, USO Regional Property Custodian, from Richmond, Va., was here last week and expressed her thanks to all who have responded so willingly to the aid ! of the USO Club in the emergency caused by the fire. Since the fire, the USO has moved back to its original quarters in the Hotel Joseph Hewes building, wheie temporary arrangements have been made so that service people can spend leisure time during the day. The club room remains open only until 6 o’clock at night now, but just as soon as possible activities will go on as usual until the quarters on North j Broad Street are again ready for oc cupancy. Director Abe Martin, who has been • spending some time with his family at White Plains, N. Y., is expected to return early next week, and hopes to be able soon to be in full operation. HOME ON LEAVE George C. Ward, U. S. N., New London, Conn., arrived Wednesday to spend a few days leave with his parents, Mr. and .Mrs. Julian Ward. This newspaper it circs*- - lated in the territory where Advertisers will realise good results. $1.50 Per Year Group of Workers Ap pointed to Secure Applications 200 SIGNED UP First to Sign Have Ad vantage of Being First Served A complete report of the number | of fanners Who have signed appliea j lions for membership in; the Albe marle Rural Electrification Member ship Corporation cannot be given at I this time, but it is estimated that ! between 175. and 200 have paid the re j qtlired fee of $5.00. | Every farm family that does not i have electricity in the home is urg ed to investigate the plan and sign up if they are interested in having this service when materials are made available. If electric service is not made available to the applicant in two years from the date an applica tion is signed, the membership fee will be refunded. When a sufficient number of ap plications have been obtained to aver ] age two customers per mile (this j does not mean that each mile must have two customers) the engineers 1 will make a survey of the county, ! showing the location of each member, and make plans for building lines in I the four counties, Chowan, Per quimans, Pasquotank and Camden. The corporation will buy curre it wholesale from a nearby power com pany and expects to charge each cus tomer a minimum of $2.00 per month. There will be a manager and ■j a crew of men for servicing the lines and an office force for keeping records. B'<’i o of the advantages of signing , ;P in. the beginning are that the orig ! ’nul members will be served first and ?n- r.irpo-r.fmn expects to get the fi;if to these holnes, even if they are nirt near the road. Those who wait I until the line is built, will not only | have tu wait longer for electric ser | vice, but will be required to pay part j of the expense for getting the wire to their houses. Officers of the corporation plan to have everything ready to start build ! ing lines, as soon as materials are available which will be probably after the war ends, Anyone interested is urged to see the person in the township who has i application blanks and receipt books, j or he may go to the offices of County Agent C. W. Overman or Home Demonstration Agent Miss Rebecca Colwell to sign up or secure any in formation about the plan. ; Some of the workers are as fol . lows: Yeopim Township—-George C. Wood i and L. E. Overton. First Township—Mr. and Mrs. L. ;E. Francis, Mr. ami Mrs. W. M. j Chesson, H. T. Hobbs and C. P. Harrell. Second Township—~J. A. Wiggins, ,1 | G. Perry, W. T. Bunch, W. L. Miller, Mrs. J. T. White, Mrs Eddie Nixon i and Earl Bunch. i Third Township—Drew Welch and | McCoy Phthisic. Colored chairman—J. B. Small, | county agent. | Others will, no doubt, be added j to the list to secure signers. Lloyd C. Burton Sells Lunch Room j Lloyd C. Burton, 'late last week, sold out his lunch room and leased his building on the southeast corner of Church and Broad Streets to George Orant and Chris Charles, the new owners taking over the lunch room Monday morning of this week. Ihe new owners come from Elizabeth City, where they were connected with the Central Case. Both are exper ienced restaurant men and plan to operate the lunch room in first-class ! style. | Mr. Burton has been in business at the same site for 21 years, beginning nrst as a service station and later expanding so that he could serve meals. He has done a thriving busi ness, especially since the U. S. Ma rine Corps Air Station located near Edenton. The same site was used by Mr. Burton’s father and grand father who operated grocery stores, ough considerable improvements have been made to the property in recent years.
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