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LOUISBURG YOUTH TELLS OF ATTACK Harold Kent Wounded In Wasp Sinking; Two Ral eigh Boys Were Aboard Carrier (News-Observer) Seven young Tar Heels were among the survivors of the sink ling of the United States aircraft carrier Wasp by the Japanese In the battle of the Solomons on September 15. - All seven have been at home on leave for several days now, but 110 one ? not even members of their own families in some cases ? knew of the sinking of their ship until it was announced by the Navy Department on Monday. The survivors are Harold J. Kent, 18, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Leicester F. Kent of Louis burg; J.' D. Greene, 19, of 2421 Beechrldge Road, Raleigh, James H. Davis of Raleigh; France Lee, 18, Charlotte; Arthur Hayes, Jr., 19, son of Mrs. Eudell Hayes of Whiteville; Matt M. Cox, of Lex ington, brother of Mrs. J. W. Beach of 711 Brooks Avenue, j Raleigh; and Harold Griffith of I Charlotte. Kernodle Not Aboard Another North Carolinian. Cap tain Michael Holt Kernodle of Graham, who was in command of the Wasp in its daring run to carry supplies to the besieged is land of Malta last summer, was not aboard at the time of the torpedoing. He was assigned to, shore duty a short time before the Solomons engagement. Kent, who enlisted in the Navy' on June 21, 1941, and now holds the rating of aviation machinists mate, third class, has been in three major sea battles and was wounded in the knee during the Japanese attack on The Wasp;j He was grounded while at his battle station and after the ship was sunk he stayed In oil-covered water for several hours before being rescued, he said. He is now at home on 30-day "survivor's leave" but says he wants "to get back on the job", soon. His father Is rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Lou-, lsburg. Kent doesn't talk much about the Wasp, but stated "I am al lowed to tell you that I caught a ?hell splinter In my knee during the Jap attack, and I stayed In the water awhile after the order came to 'abandon ship.' I was picked up by a destroyer and be fore mlny days was back In the United States and at home." Japs Will Pay "The Japs will pay for that ship and pay plenty," he said. Young Kent, who already wears three stars on his service stripe across his chest, has participated in battles in both the Mediterran ean and southern Pacific. He told of the feeling one gets going into battle for the first time. "I don't know exactly how to describe it. unless you could say It was a feeling of elation ? the sortj>f sensation I imagine a par son would have before their first parachute jump. Tou might even say there is an air of expectancy ? like the night before Christmas when you don^t know what's com ing but you wouldn't miss It for the world. "Before our first big battle we were told by our commander that we would engage the enemy next day. Naturally, there wasn't much sleep on the ship that night. Ear ly the next day the enemy started his show, and from then on there wasn't much time tQ<tbink, ex cept about oolng my Job as best I could." Saw Torpedo Coming Oreene. who entered the Navy on January 3, 1941, and who holds the rating of third class petty officer, carpenter's mate, said he was on the Wasp's flight * deck when he saw the first Jap ? tordepo coming for the shipj That was the only one he saw, he said. Oreene said he was In the shark-infested water for three hours. He was wearin^a life .Jacket when he went ofer, and all the men carried knives for use against the sharks* He said, however, thatjjo^one had to use' his knife. Oreene said that while he was aboard ship he did see one of the Navy fighters shgot down a four-motored Jap patrol bomber. I The Raleigh boy said he had turned down an offer for shore (Continued on page eight) 4-H Program Features Address By Governor Broughton The Annual County-wide 4-H Club Rally and Achievement Day j will be held at the Mills High j School building and in the Arm- j ory auditorium on Saturday, No vember T. The exhibits of club members consisting principally of corn, sweet potatoes, canning, baking, and articles 01 clothing will be placed in the High School gymnasium on Friday afternoon and will be open to the public Friday evening and all day Sat urday. ' Everyone is cordially in vited to see these exhibits. After assembling in the High School auditorium at 9:45 Saturday morning, a parade will be form ed in front of the High School building. The club members, led by a band, will parade to the Armory auditorium where Gov ernor Broughton will speak to them at ll:ftO o'clock. The afternoon program will - consist of a dress revue for girls, corn judging contest for boys, free moving picture show, and the awarding of prizes. All these v events will take place at the High School building. b This year 4-H Club membere C enrolled has reached a record t; height of 997 and it is expected e that the attendance of this event g Hallowe'en Carnival Tonight Tonight Is Hallowe'en Car nival night at the Louisburg Armor)', from 7 till 11 o'clock, sponsored by the Wesleyan Guild of the Louisburg .Metho dist Church. Everyone 1* asked to come In costume and enjoy an even ing of fun. Breaks Neck Mr. Dewltt Oupton. aged about 68. fell from his wagon shelter; where he was making repairs, about 6 'o'clock Wednesday af ternoon. breaking his neck. Be-; sides his wife he is survived by two sons. Messrs. Clinton Oupton and Willis Gupton, and two dau ghters. TKrs. A. V. Joyner and Mrs. Owen Tharrington. Funeral services were held yes terday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Sandy Creek church and inter ment was made In the church cemetery. Quite a number of relatives and friends attended the ser vices. o Theatre Bond Sales Total $21,675 War Bonds saies since Sep tember 3 at the Louisburg Thea tre now total (21.675, the theatre management has announced. War Bonds may be bought at the local theatre at any time day or t^ght. Including holidays. War Stamp's are also on sale at the theatre box office at any time. Completed War Stamp books may be exchanged at the local movie for War Bonds. o PROMOTED Atlantic City, N. J? Oct. 24<? Colonel Robert P. Olassbutp, Commanding Officer of the Army Air Forces Replacement Training1 Center here, has announced the promotion of Sergeant Ricks T. Pearce to Staff Sergeant upon recommendation of his Squardon Commander. Sgt. Pearce is the husband of Mrs. Patricia Pearce, SI. Louis, Mo. GOV. J. M. BKOUGHTON fill exceed that of last year. Everyone is cordially invited o come and see what the 4-H 'lub members of Franklin Coun y are doing and to enjoy the uany features of the day's pro ram. FRANKLINTON SCHOOL CHILDREN LEAD In Scrap Drive; LouLsburg See t Khauum Tl* I ?lfl "?in i npNuin l nirn Continuing their splendid work of gathering scrap iron and rub ber for the defense of America, the Franklin County boys and girls are doing a splendid job. Frankllnton High School leads this week with a total of more than 60.000 lbs.. Louisburg Is second and Epsom third, each with more than 35.000 lbs. The standing u0 to the 28th was as follows: lbs. Frankllnton-v. . 81,7391 Louisburg 35,619 Epsom 36,200 Gold Sand 8.181 Edward Best 7,809 Pilot 6.171 Louisburg Boy Scouts... 6.430 Justice ? l.ltt Bunn 4.783 J Perry's 3,600 Hickory Rock White Level 1,713 Wood 1,600 Pearce No report Harris No report Youngsvllle 12,389 Franklin County Train ing School No report Qethsemane No report SCRAP RALLY TONIGHT Hayesvllle Township farmers, businessmen 'and their families are being urged to attend a free motion picture and other enter tainment lasting two hours at the Epsom High School, Friday night. Oct. 30th. The entertainment is being presented by the Extension Ser rice and Production Credit As sociation of Franklin and Vance counties, and the Epsom High School faculty. Bring with you all scrap you have to add to the Epsom scrap metal pile. Also go prepared to buy War Bonds to help In tl>e War effort. * Let's do oar part to bring our boys and girls back allre. CHICKEN SUPPER There will be a chicken barbe cue supper at Pilot School on Saturday, October 31, from 6 to 8 P. M. Admission 36c, pro ceeds to go for benefit of school. Subscribers ? Important With this Imup the credits have been entered on the labels' of each subscriber. We would like for you to look al your label and see If your date a (frees with the time you think you are paid to. If not tell us so we can make any adjustment necessary. We are Indeed thankful to the many who have paid up and In advance this fall and to the many new subscribers. We still have a number of subscribers who are In arrears. We would like for you to come in and bring your account up-Io-date. I'nder the present war conditions we may soon have to discontinue this courtesy to those who do not look after their subscrip tions enough to keep them up-to-date. We hope yon will give this your prompt attention, so 1 that we can continue to serve you with one of the beet f papers In the State. Yours, A. F. JOHNSON, Edlor. Tobacco Remains High LoulsburK Selling Large Quantity Of Weed . Louisburg Tobacco warehouses reports tobacco still selling high with much of the fifty odd dol lar grades being offered. Also! that some of the lower grades^ had shown a small decline. The demand for all grades remains strong and especially so for the better and more body grades. Growers continue to receive high averages and are well satisfied with tlie results. There Is still a quantity of to bacco in the country and all are invited to bring it on to Louis burg ? the Friendly Market, and Join the many who have helped to swell the total market sales to way above the annual average. o Recorder's Court Franklin Recorder's- Court held regular session on Tuesday and disposed of cases as follows: Buddy Williams was found guilty of carrying concealed wea pons and was taxed with the costs. Buck Perry, operating auto mobile intoxicated, requested a jury trial. Herman Journegan, bastardy, requested a jury trial. Jordan Yarboro was found guilty of larceny and receiving, and given 6 months on roads. State took a nolle pros in the case of Johnnie Perry receiving stolen goods. Willie Strickland was found not guilty of carrying concealed ] weapons. The State took a nolle pros In / the case of James Yarborough. . unlawful possession of whiskey. Tht? Mtmr entry -was made in the case of carrying concealed weap ons. BUI Woodllef, reckless driving, hit and run. requests jury trial , ? O. B. Bell. Jr.. plead guilty to; no drivers license. Judgment sus- ( pended upon payment of cost*. J W. Smith was found guilty' of operating automobile Intoxlca- . ted and reckless driving and glv-H en 90 days on roads, suspended Upon paymeot--of $50 - fine costs to Include doctor's bill. J. T. Smith plead guilty to public drunkenness. defendant taxed with costs. E. R. Burgess was found gull ty of public drunkenness, and was taxed with the costs. J. H. Holmes plead gllty to no drivers license, bad lights. Judg ment suspended upon payment of costs. Joe Green plead guilty to no drivers license, bad lights, judg ment suspended upon payment of costs. Lonnie Moore was found guil ty of larceny and receiving, and was fined $10 and costs. Worth Weaver plead guilty to larceny and receiving and was given 6 months In Jail, to be placed on probation for 2 years, not to violate any laws of N. C. and to pay -$26 fine and costs. The following cases were con tinued: Zollle Parrlsh, forcible tres pass. to pay. Buddy Conyers, adw, to pay. J. R. Brooks, oal, to pay. Joe Cooley. adw, to pay. Q. A. Gardner, unlawful pos session of whiskey. Percy Williams, reckless driv ing., no drivers license. C. P. Shearin, operating auto mobile Intoxicated, unlawful pos session of whiskey. Ollle Jeffreys, no drivers li cense. Maryland Dick, larceny and receiving.! HOME NURSING CLASS Mrs. Frank Culpepper announ ces that the first meeting of the Home Nursing Class will be at Louisburg College next Monday evening (Oct. 2) at 7:30 o'clock. Those who wish to take this class are asked to be on time, starting with the first meeting. EXECUTIVE0 OFFICER Sioux Falls. S. D., Oct. 25.- ? Sgt. Luther R. Taff, of Louisburg, N. C., assigned to the Sioux Falls Army Air Forces Tecnlcal School", has been appointed executive of ficer of the student organization in the 605th Squadron. o Were sportsmen, "skeet shoot ers and other marksmen to turn in all their discharged shells and cartridges, they would add more than 2,000 tons of war metals to the national scrap pile. To the Voters of Franklin County :: "Now is the time for all good men (and women) ; ; tdfeome to the aid of the party." ; ; As chairman of the Democratic Executive Com- ! mittee of Franklin County, I earnestly beg every ! ; loyal Democrat in Franklin County to go to the ; ; polls on Tuesday. November 3f and vote for the ; nominees of the Democratic Party. ; ; On account of the gas and rubber shortage there ; ; has been no campaign in Franklin County. ; ; I am ?fgently requesting every member of the ! ! County and Precinct Executive Committees to do I ! his or her best to get out the biggest vote possible. I ; E. H. MALONE, Chairman ; ; Democratic Executive Com. for Franklin Co. ************************** I HI ???'>???????????? Carlton - Yarborough In a ceremony marked by dig-j nity and beauty Miss Tempe Gee Ifarborough became the bride of Lieutenant Joseph Lee Carlton, U. S. Naval Reserves, late Satur day afternoon at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church. The officiating clergyman was ihe Reverend Leicester F. Kent, rector of the church. The chan :el was banked with greenery, In terspersed with tall baskets if white chrysanthemums. Cathedral candles burned in branch candel lbra. Prior to the entrance of the bridal party a program of nuptial music was rendered by Mies Rose Malone, soprano, accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Harrell J. Lewis. The bridal Chorus from Wagner's "Lohengrin" was used is a processional, and the reces sional was the Wedding March from Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Sight's Dream." First to enter were the ushers: Messrs. R. F. Yarborough, Maur ice Clifton Joyner. Hill Yarbor i)ugh. W. H. Yarborough, Jr., of RaleTgE. Lt. Kemp P. Yarbor ough and Lt. Edward F. Yarbor ough. of Fort Bragg. The Junior Bridesmaid Was Miss Jane Boatrigbt Yarborough, of Raleigh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Yarborough, Jr., and niece of the brtdg. ghe wore? ?i princess dress of white taffeta with green ribbon. In her hair ihe wore a coronet of tiny white" rosebuds, and she carried a nose gay of white roses and white pom-pom chrysanthemums. The brlde'sSnald of honor was Miss Helen Reynolds Allen who was attired In a gown of dusty rose satin and tulle, with fitted bodice and sweetheart neckline, tfer shoulder length Neil was 'aught with a looped satin bow if dusty-rose and dawn blue. She carried an arm bouqet of beauty! "oses and ble snapdragons tied with a wide blue ribbon. The matron-of-honor, Mrs. Charles Hill Yarborough, of Lou sburg, wore an identical gown if dawn blue with matching veil ?aught with loops of dusty-rose ind dawn blue satin. Her arm louquet of beauty roses and blue tnapdragon was bound with dus y-rose ribbon. Charles Hill Yarborogh, Jr., lephew of the bride, carried the -lng upon a white satin pillow. The bride entered the church vith her father, Will H. Yarbor >ugh. of Loulsburg. Her gown >f white satin was fashioned on >rinces8 lines, the full folds of he skirt falling into a graceful rain. The sweetheart neckline >f the bodice was outlined in eed pearls, and her sleeves tap ped to points upon her wrists, ler veil of matching tulle, Juliet ityle. was caught at the back of ler head with a wreath of orange iloss'oms. worn by her paternal ;randmother on the occasion of ter marriage. She carried a vhlte satin prayer book with sat n streamers showered with white >rchid8. The bride was met at the| hancel steps by the groom who! mtered the church from the ves ry room with his best man, Dr. i'elda H. Hightower, of Winston ialem, N. -C. During the cere nony the organist played softly. Immediately following the ser rice the bridal party and out-of own guests were entertained In-, ormally at the home of Mi|ses| tfary and Edith Yarborough, lunts of the bride. The mother of the bride wore i gown of amethyst crepe with ace bodice shot through with illvec threads, and a hat of mat ting amethyst shade. Her cor >age was of purple lipped orchids. (Contined on Page Five) Truck Dead Line Raleigh, Oct. 27. ? Potnting out that November 15 is the dead line for owners of trucks and other . commercial vehicles to ob tain certificates of war necessity, State ODT officials urged today that- operators file their applica tions Immediately. An operator cannot wait until November U to flip his applica tion and then expect to receive I his certificate the next day, offic ials pointed out. Applications must be mailed to tEe Detroit office where several days are re quired for processing, they point ed out. Mailing of applications has been completed for all of North , Carolina. If an owner of a com mercial motor vehicle has not yet received his application blank i or If he has lost it. he should ap ply at once to his nearest dis trict ODT office. North Carolina , offices are at Ashevllle. Charlotte, Wilmington. Winston-Salem and 1 Raleigh. ; "Commercial motor vehicles" , mean (rucks, buses and taxicabs, 1 whether operated as public car riers or privately. In fact, most of them are operated privately ? > more than 1,006,000 of them by 2knMts^_ ? - :,y H If a farmer has any difficulty in filling out his application blank, said ODT officials, he should contact his local USDA War board at once. Unless the owner of a commer cial motor vehicle has a certifi cate of war necessity after No vember 15, he will be unable to buy tires, gasoline or parts. Operators were urged to make full use of the Instruction' book lets which were mailed with the application blanks. 1 A self-ad dressed envelope was included with each application blank mail ed. GETS LOTS OF SCRAP The following item has been received by the FRANKLIN TIM ES, which we gladly publish: "Over an intensified period of ten days, the students of Frank-1 linton School, Franklinton, N. C? added 51,673 pounds of scrap iron to Uncle Sam's war effort. "Feverishly working to this climax, the students worked seven days In the most adverse weather conditions. "Although the campaign ended October 21, the students of this school "continued to do their bit by adding several thousand morei pounds to the initial collection." | o Seventy farmers of Swain County have seeded 2,500 pounds of crimson clover during the month of September. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURO THEATRE The following is the program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, Oct. 31st: Saturday ? Tim Holt in 'Pirates of The Prairie' and Penny Single ton and Arthur Lake in 'Blondie For Victory.' Saturday Night ? Hallowe'en Late Show, Claude Rains, Belai Lugosi' and Lon Chaney in 'The Wolf Man.' Sunday-Monday ? Don Ameche and Joan Bennett In 'Girl Trouble' Tuesday ? On Stage, The To bacco Tags. On screen, Faye Em erson and Craig Stevens in 'Secret Enemies." Wednesday ? Richard Carlson and Jane Randolph in 'Highways By Night.' Thursday - Friday ? Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne in 'My Sister Eileen.' WAR NEWS With United States Army Air Force in Egypt, Oct. 28. ? Ameri can airmen have downed lg Axis ? planes and damaged many others 'pince the start of the Allied land 'offensive in Egypt and our pilots only fear is that the "Huns may run out of planes." Yesterday the Americana got ieven of the day'< total of 18 eniy planes destroyed. The hero .of the day .was Lieutenant Lyman. L. Middleditch. of Union, N. J., who destroyed three Messer schmitts. A member of the Black. Scorpion Squadron, he had down ed one Messerschmitt Sunday. The seven enemy planes were downed in a battle over the Axis held port of Fuqa when Ameri can fighter-bombers, accompanied by fighters, pounced on a big formation of 20 German Stuka dive-bombers protected by 20 Italian CR-42 pursuit planes and 20 Messerschmitts. . Middleditch immediately shot down oue Messerschmitt and then found three others on his tall. Shaking them off, he . turned around and with his own guns blazing, shot down two more, the la^t over the sea. Other American pilots shot down tour of the Italian pursuit planes. Washington, Oct. 28. ? Embat tled American forces on Guadal canal have Inflicted "very heavy" losses upon Japanese troops and 'equipment during the past five {days and have repulsed several more small-scale thrusts, the ?>*avy announeed today. By comparison. Navy officials said. American losses have been j light in the raging battle for control of vital Henderson air field. I A communique said no report of any action in the Solomons area has been received since Is suance of lust night's communi que, which reported Army troops had thrown back a Japanese I break-through on the southern flank of the air field. j Officials explained that today's communique did not mean no re ports had been received from -the Solomons since Tuesday night, but rather that the reports do not mention any action other than the repulse of the small-scale en emy ^thrusts on the night of Octo ber 26-27. For the first time since the Ja panese pulled the trigger on their gigantic land, air and sea offen sive Sunday, there was no men tion of air or sea action. This, however, did not preclude the likelihood that air and sea bat tles still raged in areas where communications on the progress of fighting would be slowed by actual combat. Moscow, Thursday. Oct. 29. ? German troops have scored a 200 yard advance in one sector of the north Stalingrad factory area, but they have been slaughtered to the last man in another sec tor; and their losses for one day inside the city totaled more than 12 companies of infantry ? 2,400 men ? the high command announ ced today. The midnight communique re vealed that fightisg had shifted to a new theatre of operations, inthe area of Nalchik, 60 miles northwest of the oil city of Ord zhonlkidse in , the Caucasus foot hills, where the Germans were believed trying a flank drive af ter falling to advance past Mos dok toward Grozny farther east. Nalchik is 52 miles south of Ger man-held Pyatigorsk and 110 miles west of Grozny. The Germans have "passed to the offensive" in the Nalchik area, the communique said; and in one sector, operating with tank ?, and infantry forces, they succeed ed in "somewhat pressing our detachments." Cairo. Oct. 28. ? The advance tank force of Britain's Eighth Army has won the first round with Field Marshal Rommel's armor in battles' through the Alamein minefield gaps, and dis patches ffom tl\e desert front to day said that thfe British on slaught steadily was widening the way for the major test of rival steel and gunpower. Over the shell-pocked battle- ? ground"and the bomb-pitted ports of Rommel's supply lines the Al lied air force kept German and Italian planes on the defensive. 'United States fighters reported their biggest day of the campaign, downing seven planes out of yes terday's Allied bag of 19. Threa of them were shot down by Lieu tenant Lyman Middleditch, High lands, N. J., fighter pilot In th* (Continued on Page Bight)
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