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VOLUMN LXXin $1.50 per year in Advance LOUISBUKG, N. CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1042 (Right Pages) M'.MBKR 3 ALLIES TO TAKE OFFENSIVE SOON <4 - Declared President Roosevelt in His World-Wide Speech Monday Night r . ? Washington, Feb. 23. ? Presi dent Roosevelti tonight said that America had been "compelled to yield ground" to its enemies, but he added that, with constantly in creasing war production, <he Al lies will take the offensive soon and drive on to victory. "We and the other United Na i tlons are committed to the des truction of the militarism of Ja pan and Germany, ?* he said. "We are daily increasing our strength. Soon, we, and not our enemies will have the offensive; we, not they, will win the final battles; and we, not t'hey, will make the final peace." Despite the long distances in volved, the President disclosed, "a large number of planes" man ned by American pilots now "are in dally contact with the enemy in the Southwest Pacific." And he said, "thousands of American troopa" are also in the area. The Chief Executive also said recent surveys had disclosed that the prodigiously high production goals established two mont-hs ago would be attained, and this, he emphasized repeatedly, was the key to victory. But, in any event, the essenMal strategy of a war with Japan, the strategy which military men had contemplated for years, has not' been changed by the events of the last two months, he said. It call ed fdr delaying battles ahd in the Philippines a retreat to Bataan Peninsula, with America mean while waging a war of attrition against the Japanese. And in this war of attrition, the. United States and her Allies have been taking a terrific toll of the enemy. Including losses at Pearl Harbor, he said, "we have destroyed considerably more Ja panese planes than they have des troyed of ours." The President was unsparing in castigation of 'rumor-mongers and poison peddlers in our midst," who. among other things, had spread reports of losses at Pearl Harbor far beyond reality. It had been said, be asserted, t<hat Japan ese gains In the Far Pacific were made possible only by the success of the Pearl Harbor attack. "I tell you that 1* not so." he added; and went on to give his denial of losses over and above t<bose previously reported and to argue that the fleet In any event could not have opposed the Japa nese advance effectively because of Japanese aerial superiority. This, among other things, he said, had prevented reinforcing General MacArUiur's army on WAR NEWS /-? Moscow, Thursday, Feb. 26. ? The Red army's strangulation of a German army trapped in the Staraya Russa area appeared to day to be the first stage of a maneuver aimed at trapping -all Nazi forces in t/he bloody north western corner of Russia. "The German-Fascist forces are suffering great losses in manpow er and equipment," the regular mid-night communique said. "During February 25 our troops continued to advance and occupi ed a number of populated places." | A Russian dispatch datelined, Staraya Russia ? Indicating Red army possession of the strategic ally-located town itself ? said the, most furious fighting was con tinuing and intimated tihat new developments were Imminent, fol | lowing the smashing of the 16th German field army and the 'slaughter of 12,000 Nazis in a | bloody trap about Lake Ilmen, some 140 miles soutto of Lening rad. Staraya Russia in peacetime is only a summer resort, but militar ily it can serve as the spring-' board for many-phased opera tions. < Allied Headquarters' in Java, Feb. 25 ? Java is encircled com pletely. and cut off from normal shipping communications wit'h Australia, an official spokesman said today as United States and Dutch planes sank three more troop-laden Japanese transports in an intensifying battle for air and naval supremacy around this beleaguered island. Japanese invasion of Ball and Timor islands east of Java com pleted the encirclement, the spokesman was quoted by the Aneta news agency, but, he said, the Japanese now are spread over such a large area t-hat "If more planes and ships are sent to Java, It will be possible to obtain local superiority and wipe out the in vasion forces. He reiterated that Allied forces were ready to make a strong stand on Java whether they got reinforcements pr not, and a Dutch communique, bearing this out, announced that two Japanese transports were blasted out of a concentration near Macassar, on the southwest coast of Celebes, and that a 'third transport was plunged to t'he sea bottom by a load of bombs from a single at tacking Allied plane at an undis closed place. Hataan. High Purposes And the Chief Executive laid' down "three high purposes" for Americans at home: "1. We shall not stop work for a single day. If any dispute arises, we shall keep on working while the dispute is solved by media tion, conciliation and arbitration ?until the war is won. "2. We shall not demand spec ial gains or special privileges or advantages for any one group or occupation. "3. We shall give up conven ances and modify the routine of our lives if our eountry asks us to do so. We will do it cheerful ly, remembering t>hat the com mon enemy seeks to destroy every home and every freedom in every part of eur land. ? For Victory: Buy Bonds ? RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ? Por Victory: Buy Bonds ? PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURO THEATRE The following is the program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, Feb. 28th: Saturday ? Don "Red" Barry in "Arisona Terrors" and William Henry in "Pardon My Stripes." Also Dlk Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. Sunday-Monday ? Douglas Pair banks, Jr., Aklm Tamiroff and Ruth Warrick in "The Corsican Brot-hers." Tuesday ? Robert Preston and Ellen Drew In "Night of January 16th. V Wednesday? Grade Allen and William Post, Jr. in "Mr.>?nd Mrs. North." Thursday-Friday ? i Madeleine Carroll and Stirling . Hayden in "Bahama Passage." m / tyyhington, Feb. 2B. ? Sharp sliODtinK United States Army fliers notched new victories In *\he Battle of the Dutch East In dies today, sinking two big Jap anese transports and blasting at least three Jap planes out of the skies wlthdpti a single loss to themselves. The triumphs were announced by the War Department, which also reported that the all-quiet on the Philippines fronti had been broken by/General Douglas Mac Arthur's indomltables. Destruction of the transports was accomplished by six Flying Fortresses which roared across the Java Sea to Macassar ? one of the enemy invasion neste on the southern tip of Celebes. Greatly outnumbered American pursuit ships challenged swarms of enemy bombers and lighter planes In two separate actions over beleaguered Java. The Japs came out second best* in both battles. In the first of these dogfights, seven American P-40's took on nine Jap bombers and 14 fighter planes and forced them to flee af ter t<he Americans bagged two (Continued on Page Four) ? For Victory: Buy Bonds ? EXPLOSIVE LICENS ING AGENT . Clerk of Court W. V. Avent has just been appointed Federal Ex plosive Licensing Agent for Franklin County by R. R. Sayers, Director of the Federal Explosive Act of December 1941, which re quires all persons using explos ives after March 2nd, 1942 to first reoelve a license to do so | from Clerk Avent. World's Busiest Man i i ? ? ? DONALD M-XELSON t Pictured n on; of his contemplative I moods, slowly puffing on relaxation, as he directs production * c vlic'es in mobilization of industry and victory. Mrs. M. C. Pleas ants Dead The death of Mrs. M. C. Pleas ants. which occurred at her honie^ on East Nash Street early Mon-l day morning following a long ill- 1 ^ ness, brought sorrow to her many friends in Louisburg. jj, Mrs. Pleasants was one of Louisburg's older and beloved cit- j izens and a staunch and devoted member of the local Methodist y Church. She was always active in Louisburg social, religious and ( civic life before her health be came impaired some time ago. ^ Before her marriage to Mr. M.. C. Pleasants, one of Louisburg's tl well known'"busines8 men, she was Miss Emma Lee Wells, of |( Wilson. Besides her husband she is survived by one brother, g D. D. Wells, of Wilson, and two J sisters. Miss Prances Wells, of j Wilson, and Mr?. W. R. MIIIb, of I Louisburg. The funeral services were con ducted from the home Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by Rev. Forrest D. Hedden, pastor of the Louisburg Methodist Church, and interment was made in Oak wood Cemetery. Quite a large number was in attendance at both services and the floral tribute was especially large and pretty, speaking a de voted affection and esteemi The pallbearers were: W. C. St^owd, W. A. Huggins. M. S. Da vis. C. M. Howard, R. C. Beck, Alex Wood, L. E. Scoggins, -R. A. Bobbitt. f. ?For Victory: Buy Bonds ? '' Recorder's Court I" Franklin Recorder's Court held regular session on Tuesday and disposed of cases as follows: Bernice Hobgood was found guilty of abandonment and non support, defendant required to pay $20 per month into Coarti for wife and child and costs of this case. , ?-** Robert Gentry plead guilty to motor vehicle violation and was discharged upon payment of costs. Daphene House plead guilty to motor vehicle violation, prayer for Judgment continued. Nolle pros with leave was tak en in the case of Oene Wrlgh*., charged with motor vehicle vio lation. James Macon was found guilty of operating automobile intoxi cated, and was given 60 days on roads, suspended upon payment of $50 fine and costs, and not to operate a motor vehicle on N. C. Highways for 12 months. Appeal. Dewey Adams was found not guilty of unlawful possession of whiskey and transporting. Jim Radford plead guilty to unlawful possession of whiskey and drunk and disorderly, and was given 60 days on roads, sus pended upon payment of .$10 fin* and costs. ,/ The following cases were con tinued: . ? . Kenneth Steed, ccw, to pay. Cliff Crudup, adw, to pay in three cases. Elmore Dillard, operating auto mobile intoxicated, requests Jury. ? For Victory: Buy Bonds ? NEGRO GARDEN MEETING tJ. E. Tuck, Negro County Farm Agent, announces a Victory Gar den meeting for negroes to be held in the Court House in Louis burg on Friday (today) morning ?t 11 o'clock Eastern War time. A large attendance la expected. Youth of Louis burg Is Lost [n Action Mother of William H. Aycock Notified by Navy That Son is Missing Mrs. Walter H. Aycock, of ..ouisburg, Route 1, was inform ed by the Navy Department Sim lay that .it is believed her son, William H. Aycock, who has been1 n the Navy two years, has been, ost in action. j The message said he was be ieved lost while in action on February 18. Before enlisting in' the Navy Vycock was a member of the Na lonal Guard Company at Louis >urg for four years. ? For Victory: Buy Bonds ? Draftees Leave ^Fhe following draftees left 'riday for Fort Bragg to enter he Ariiisd forces of the United tates. This list of 25 colored, raftees was xtven out by the ,ocal Selective lJraft' Board : Wallace EdwardxMoore, R 3, ebulon. Rufus Albert ThoinJk^, R 2, .ouisburg, \ Kenneth Delapcy Mangum,R2, 'ranklinton. \ James Casper Keith, R 1, Lou iburg. Noel Clifford Hawkins, Jr., iOuisburg. John Theodore Winston. Jr., 'oungsville. Sidney Eulie Smith. Jr., R 1, .ouisburg. Lee Christmas, R~ 2, Franklin- J an. Qaither Watkins, R 2, Louis urg. Eddie Lee Horton, R 2. Zehu >n. James Matthew Mitchel, R 2, lebulon. William McKinley Cooke. R 1. .ouisburg._^ O. W. Evans, R2, Spring Hope. Forest Stone, R 1, Spring Hope. William James Mitchell. Hen erson. Lonnie Harris, Jr., R 1. Kit1 ell. Willie Kearney, Jr., R' 2. ranklinton. Raymond Neal. Loulsburg. Namon Edward Durham. R 2, ouisburg. John Thomas Dickerson, R 2, ouisburg. Francis Lemuel Otulaw. Frank nton. j ' Burnett Tabron, Youngsville. Robert Lee Davis, R 4, Louis urg. Vernell Gaile, R 2, Franklin >n. Edward Nicholson, R 2,. Frank nbon. ? Kor Victory: Buy Bond* ? C. B. Keller, of Oxford, Route j , is planting 115,000 pine seed-| lugs on eroded fields and on old tands of pines thati have heen 1 lean-cut for lumber. Church Floor Collapses During Funeral Service Three Caskets Fall Into Basement; Church Set Afire as Stove is Wrecked Henderson, Feb. 25. ? The fun eral of three negro victims of a wreck was interrupted this af ternoon when the church floor re fused to hold up under the mass of humanity packed into the small building and crashed through to 'the ground some six feet below, carrying the three - caskets, the hot blast stove of the church and part of the altar into t>he resulting hole. The stove door opened, settiiig fire to the parts of floring about. tt and en dangered the caskets. No injuries were reported. About 2,000 persons, bothl ! negro and white, were attending 1 the funeral and the attendant t commotion was of a high pitch. |t The funeral services were for I Peter Davis, 75, Tom Davis, 20, s his nephew, and a niece, Jessie! 1 Davis, all of whom were killed! a Monday night when the car In i which they attempted to cross thej t Seaboard tracks within the city of Henderson was crushed by a troop, train. Investigation of the accident showed that Tom Davis drove the car onto the tracks in tW? face of blinking red lights and Hhe shouts of the Seaboard ^atchman in his tower. The triple funeral today waste being held at Dickies Grovel Methodist Church near Hender-! 1 son. The elder Davis was a highly r respected negro and had worked j r on the farm of B. H. Perry, local | attorney. He had for, .years been J I active in church affairs of his u race and the services today were r attended by many of his whitejs friends as well as a great throng t of negroes. _ If The fire truck from Hendersoii j went out on call to the church, a but the bodies had already beentr rescued from the hole into which , e they had crashed and most of the flj-e had also been put out. Fire! Chief Cooper Ellis said that that; t was the second callthe city flrsjfc department had answered in con nection with the death of the trio. Tha first was when the fire truck went to open up the car in which the three victims came to their deaths, it being In such a condi tion that the doors could not open In 6he usual manner. ? Kor Victory: Buy Bonds ? AT HONOLULU His many friends will be gladlr to learn that Ensign Itichard F.jtl Yarborough arrived at Honolulu,' about February 13th. It is. not ? known when or at what port he will next arrive. ? Kor Victory: Buy Bonds ? Getting the baby to sleep isjK hardest when it? about 18 years, Did. / |W Enemy Submarine Shells T California Coastal Area O si Refinery Near Santa Barbara Apparently Target Of U-boat Presumed to Be Japanese; First Attack Made Upon United States Mainland f i Santa Barbara, Calif., Feb. j 28. ? An enemy submarine, pre sumably Japanese, shelled s coastaj area eight miles north of Santa Barbara tonight in the first hostile attack against the United States mainland of World War II. No material damage, fires or . casualties resulted from the shelling. , , Santa Barbara police estima ted that the submarine fired about 25 shells in the direction of a refinery near Goleta, a Cal ifornia coastal town, but there was no report of damage. In Twilight The submarine surfaced about' lalf a mile off shore In the twi Ight at 7:18 p. m. P. W. T., eye rltnesses reported, and blasted way several minutes with its leek gun. One of the shells landed in a anyon, another on a beach. Whether by coincidence or not, he shelling was in the general acation of the Banklin oil refln rles and oil derricks. The entire Santa Babara area mmedlately was blacked out. Morris Wheeler, who owns a oadslde lunch stand one mile lorth of Ooleta, told tihe United Press by telephone that It was " still light when the shelling be gan and that he saw atr least one f submarine and Its gun flashes.. "I counted 12 explosion*," Wheeler said. "As the firing be gan, I ran out towards the beach. ' I could see the outline of a sub- J marine. Its guns were going. ! A "A shell whizzed right over my o head and apparent>ly exploded In s; a canyon back of me ? about one ii mile from the shoreline. Another tl shell hit tlje beach one half mile " away. It threw large geysers of e: sand into the air ? just like the movies. "My wife, who was with me, was almost* scared to death." Wheeler said he was condident that neither the big refinery nor adjacent oil well derricks was hit. But, he said, there was no doubt but thati the refinery was Uie target. No effort was made to shell the adjacent tracks of the Southern Pacific Railway, so far as he could tell. So far as known, the submarine was the first sighted off the Cali fornia coast since December when a number of Japanese submarines were active, after frhe attack on Pearl Harbor. During that period , a number of ships, including the Atmaroka, were attacked. FRANKLIN CODNTY BASKET BALL TOURNAMENT BEGINS schedule; for fiuday (TODAY) 4:30 P. M. Dunn Girls v? Mills Girls. 7:00 P. M. Fmnklinton Boys vs Kdward Best Boys. 8:00 P. M. Gold Sand Girls vs Kdward Best Girls. 9:00 P. M. Bunn Boys vs YounRsvillp Boys. 168 NAVY MEN SAVED St. Johns, Newfoundland, Feb. !5. ? Unparalleled heroism saved 168 men from the destroyer Trux on and the auxiliary Pollux when he two United States Navy ships iroke up on the rockB of this itorm-'swept coast with a loss of 89 Jjves, the worst marine dis ister in t'his area in 50 years, it vas learned on reliable authority oday. (The official Navy announce nent of the wreck of the Truxton ind Pollux said that 189 men yere lost and did not estimate he number of survivors or list he total crews. Lleutenant-Com-; nandrr Ralph Hickox, Washingt on, captain of the Truxton, six >ther officers and 90 men were ost aboard the destroyer and the 'ollux lost one officer and 91 nen, according to the Navy an louncement In Washington.) The survivors, who owed their ives to their own cool courage i nd that of hundreds of shore esidents who rushed to the cene, were reported making good ?ecovery today from assorted de trees of shock, exhaustion, ex >o8ure and cold. One hundred ind 18 bodies of those lost are i irderstood to hav^ been' recover d. Heroic Rescues The survivors were not allowed o give Interviews immediately, nit from Newfoundland men who hared in' the rescue' came a gra ihlc description of how scores rere saved from the two doomed essels despite the handicaps of n easterly gale, thick snow and ng which limited visibility to 00 yards. It was established that t-he 'ruxton, an over-age destroyer, an onto the rocks in Chambers love at 4:30 a. m. February 18 nd that the new cargo auxiliary 'ollux struck at almost the same Ime on Laron Head. In the heavy sea and thick! reather It was reported that look uts on both ships saw the reefs nly just before Miey struck, and here was no time to reverse en ines. Seas swept over the decks of i he stranded vessels, taking every nflxed object and every member f the watch overside. Lifeboats 'ere swept away and only rafts 'ere left. Bridge officers of the ruxton and Pollux directed, lunching of the rafts, but only ne reached shore and three men J Mil clung to It. The others 'ere washed away. ? For Victory: Buy Bonds ? Nfavy Using Did Shells favy Chief Declares 'Mere Age is No Criterion of Its Effectiveness' I Washington, Feb. 24. ? Rear Ldmiral W. H. P. Blandy, chief f the Navy's bureau of ordance, aid today that the Navy was us ig some ammunition made more fian a decade ago, but added that mere age is no criterion of its < ffectiveness." He appeared before the House aval committee at an inquiry or ered as a result of a radio report' uoting an unidentified naval eutenant as saying that anti Ircraft ammunition aboard his1 hip In the Pacific was made In 930 and was only 30 per cent ef scMve. Blandy said that both he and ecretary of the ?Navy Knox were very seriously concerned" over! he report and added, "I am not' oing to stop until I get full in srmatiion. ? For Victory: Buy Bonds ? Richmond County demonstra lon poultry flocks Jed t>he State urlng December with 20.48 eggs er bird aa compared with the tate average of 12.89. Semi-Finals To Be , Played Today i " Bunn, Mills and Edward Best Girls, Franklinton Youngs ville and Edward Best Boys are Winners of First Round of Play; Gold Sand Girls and Bunn Boys Drew a Bye The 14th Annual Franklin County Basketball TournamenO got under way Wednesday after noon In the Loulsburg Armory. The features of the opening round of play was the shutout admin istered to t>he Youngsville girls by the larger Bunn girls by a score of 32 to 0, and the hard fought game waged between the boys teams of MiHs High and Youngsville, which was won by Youngsville after an overtime play by t>he score of 28-26. There were no games played on Thursday but the tournament will be resumed Friday when the semi-finals will be run off. A good sized bunch of fans and sup porters of each team witnessed the games played on Wednesday afternoon and night and t-he of ficials are looking for a much larger crowd when play resumes Friday afternoon when the Mills High girls start the ball to roll ing against Bunn girls Friday af ternoon at 4:30. Gold Sand girls and Bunn boys drew a bye in t-he opening round. The following are the results of games played Wednesday: Edward Best girls defeated Epsom girls by a scqre of 18-9. Moore for Edward Best was high scorer with 9 points, while Wil son topped Epsom with 7. ? Bunt* girls ? triumphed ? ovei Youngsville girls by a one-sided high for Bunn with 12 points. Franklinton boys defeated Gold Sand boys to the tune of 18-15 in a close game. Watkins with 5 points was high scorer for Gold Sand and Thompson topped Franklinton with 5. Youngsville boys triumphed over Mills boys in an exditing game which went overtime. Both teams ended the regulation game with a 24-24 score. Youngsville won in the three-minute over time play by the score of 28-26. Lancaster with 9 points was high for Mills, and C. V. Hill lead for Youngsville with 9. Mills High girls won over Franklinton to the tune of 24-^2. Hall was high scorer with ,16 points while Lumpkin topped Franklinton with 5. In the final game of the even ing Edward Best won over Ep som in a hard fought game by the score of 17 to 14. Williams was high scorer with 7 points for Edward Best and McCauley top ped Epsom with 6. ? For Victory: Buy Bond* ? Lions Hold Meeting The regular meeting of the Lions Club was held Monday night, Feb. 24, at 7 o'clock with the following members present: Bland Pruitt, Dr. R. L. Eagles, L. M. Word, W. B. Barrow, Dr. H. G. Perry, Dr. A. Paul Bagby, W. B. Tucker, C. R. Sykes, T. K. Stockard. S.' C. Mattox, C. H. Yarborough and fi. N. William son, Jr. The club was delighted to have present the following new mem bers: R. P. Barnes, W. C. Strowd, W. J. Shearin, G. M. Beam. E. D. Barnes and Edward Stovall. The present membership of the club is now twenty-eight. ? For Victory: Buy Bonds ? FIRE The flre^ Friday about '* one o'clock was in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. K. T. White, in the Egerton's apartments on West Nash Street and was caused by the explosion of an oil stove. The fire department soon had control of the situation and confined the damage mostly to smoke and heat. Mr. White estimated his . damage at $200 and that to the building was slight and consists largely of discolored and black ened walls. ? For Victory: Buy Bonds ? Navy submarines could travel from New Tork to Yokohama and back without atoppUif.
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