"THEY GIVE THEIR LIVES? YOU LEND YOUR MONEY" Buy Mora War Bonds Today riMEj BACK UP YOUR BOY Buy an Additional Bond Today VOLUMN I. XXIV $1.50 per year in Advance LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1043 (Eight Pages) NUMBER 11 PURCHASES WAR BONDS To Issue Re funding Bonds Tentative Administrative Budget for Welfare De partment; May Repair And Paint Top Court House; Commissioners Hold Adjourned Meeting An adjourned meeting <Jf the Board of Commissioners for the County of Franklin convened at the Court House in Louisburg, the regular place of meeting, at 10 o'clock, April 19th, 1943. All Commissioners were present ex cept H. T. Bartholomew, A formal order authorizing! $16,000 Refunding Road Bonds) for Franklinton Township, was! passed. A formal resolution authoriz ing a refunding bond issue for Louisburg township for $38,000 was passed. Mrs. Ben T. Holden presented the Blind budget to the Board. Motion by Com. Pearce, second by Com. Dean, that said budget be adopted. * Mr. J. H. Boone informed the Board of leaks in the roofs of the Court House. Also stated that, the roofs should be painted. Mr. Boone presented a bid received from Mr. E. A. Rogers, for the job of repairing and painting said roof. The matter was referred to Com. Joyner for investigation Mr. Joyner and Mr. H. T. Bar tholomew being in charge of the Courthouse and County Jail. County Attorney John F. Mat thews presented a request from -nr. T. L. Simmons asking that 25 acres of land situated l^kFrank Hn County, at the CouiB? line, herebgfore listed In Wake Coun ty be placed on the tax list of Franklin County, and that he be absolved from liability for pay ment of taxes for prior years, all taxes having been paid in full to Wake County. Passed on mo tion of Com. Joyner, second , by Com. Pearce. The above tract' of land contains 150 acres, 25 acres in the County of Franklin and the remainder in the County ?l Wake. Above land known as the Bryon land, formerly Scar borough land. Mrs. Ben T. Holden presented the Administrative budget for the Welfare Department. Upon mo-, tion of Com. Pearce, second by Com. Dean and duly carried, a tentative budget the same as last year was tentatively passed. Motion by Com. Dean, seconded by Com. Pearce, at the adjourned regular meeting of the Franklin County Board of ?Commissioners' . on Monday, 19 April 1943, and duly carried, that Whereas, the Government of the United States of America is presently engaged in a drive to sell $13,000,000,000.00 in Wrfr Bonds for the successful prosecu tion of the present war, and has requested state and local govern ments to Invest available funds in War Bonds; and Whereas, the County of Frank lin now has on hand, available for such Investment, certain sink ing funds for the retirement of . b?n<i8 issued for township road improvements, which will not be needed for *iveral years and are now earning only two per cent in terest; and Whereas, investment of said funds in United States War Sav *onds' 861-108 F- at the rate of $74fl per $1000 par or face value, will yield an annual inter* est return of 2.63 per cent Inter est and said bonds may be re deemed or liquidated when skid funds will be needed: Now, Therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commis fioners of Franklin County, that the County Accountant be, and he is hereby authorized and di rected, to purchase United States War Savings Bonds. Series F, In the total par or face value ' of Forty Thousand Dollars f$40 - 000.00), from the funds in the following township road sinking funds and in the following par or face-value amounts for each res pective fund: Dunn Township Roads Sinking Fund, $10,000.00. Harris Township Roads Sinking Fund, $10,000.00. Youngsville Township Roads Sinking Fund, $6,000.00. Sandy Creek Township Roads Sinking Fund, $5,000.00. Cedar Rock Township Roads < Sinking Fund, $5,000.00, Cypress Creek Township Roads Sinking Fund, $6,000.00. Said bpnds when purchased in the various amounts above set forth will be kept by the County Acconntut and shall be and re main the sole property of the re spective township road sinking MILLS SCHOOL FINALS The Reverend L. F. Kent, rec tor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church will preach the Baccalaureate sermon Sunday, April 25, at 3:00 o'clock in the High School audi torium. Graduating exercises will take place Friday evening, April 30 at 8:30 o'clock. Doctor Walter Patten, president of Louisburg College, will deliver the address. Mrs. O. Y. Yarborough's music pupils will give their annual re cital Thursday evening, April 29 at 8:15 o'clock. The public is cordially Invited to attend each of these exercises. CLOSING PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED FOR EPSOM SCHOOL The Rev. J. Winston Pearce, native of Franklin County and pastor of the First Baptist Church of Durham, will preach the Bac-| calaureate" sermon to the Epsom High School graduating class in the high school auditorium on the afternoon of May 2, at three o'clock. In a brief graduation program immediately following the ser mon, those graduating will be awarded diplomas. On Mcfnday evening, April 26,! at 8:30 the Epsom School Band will present a concert in thej school auditorium under the dl-i rection of Mr. W. T. Hearn. On! Thursday afternoon, April 29 atj 2 o'clock, Mrs. Henrietta Coffin's; music pupils will be presented in theif* recital to the student body and any friends who wish to at tend. In close cooperation with the war effort, these programs will bring to a close a "stream-lln?d" commencement schedule, and end officially the school year for the" Epsom School. BUNN COMMENCE MENT EXERCISES The commencement exercises of the Bunn High School have been limited to two programs. The baccalaureate sermon will be de-J livered in the school auditorium on Sunday afternoon, April 25, at 4:00 p. rti. by the Rev. J. Win ston Pearce of the First Baptist Church, of Difrham. The gradu ation exercises will' be held on Friday, April 30, at 8:30 p. A. There will be no guest speaker for the finals program. Members of the graduating class will take charge. Their exercises will be in a pageant form, the idea of Patriotism and Democracy in the Future predominating. The pro gram will be divided into three parts. First, the informal Class Day meeting in which the stud ent speakers will be: Mary Eliza beth Pearce, Laurene Chamblee. Rosa Mae Baker, Bertha Mullen and Frances Smith/ Special mus ic will provide variation. The second .part will be- the formal graduation and awarding of di plomas. The third act will be ai reunion of the class Ave years la- 1 ter, showing the chosen profes sion of each student in operation. o? ? ? ? W. H. Furgurson Dead Mr. W. H. Furgurson, more fa miliarly known to friends as June, one of Louisburg's older citizens, 'died Tuesday afternoon following a paralytic attack on Monday. He was 76 years of age and is survived by a daugh ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Furgurson Bain, and a granddaughter, Doris F. Bain, of Greensboro, and a brotrer, Mr. E. W. furgurson, of Loulsburg. ' 'For many years the deceased was1 acti vg in tha business life of hi* home, town and in later years was a traveling salesman. He was a brother of the late Mrs. L. P. Hicks. > Funeral services were held from the chapel of the Pittman & Lancaster funeral home Wed nesday at 3 p. nl., conducted by ev. E. H. Davis and Rev Forrest . Hedden, and Interment fol lowed in Oakwood cemetery. The pall bearers were: C. M. Howard, W. D. Egerton, S. T. Wilder, John Williamson, R. A. Bobbitt and John Hodges. Many attended the services and the, floral tribute was especially pretty. LIONS TO MEET The Loulsburg Lions Club will meet at Mrs. Beasley's Lunch Room Tuesday, April 27, 1943 at 7:ft0 P. M. funds listed above, and shall not be redeemed or liquidated for any other purpose than the retire ment of the township road bonds for which said sinking funds are maintained. There being no farther busi ness tbe Board adjourned to Its next regular meeting. I I let's m FIGHT BUY WAR BANDS Procedure Outlined Here For Daylight Air Raid Tests The procedure for daylight air raid test is entirely different i from the night blackout tests! from the standpoint of activity on the part of civilian defense corps! personnel. The procedure for defense corps personnel in case of day- 1 light air raid tests, follows: Auxiliary Firemen ? They will not be called out. Fire Watchers and Messengers ? They will not be called out and they will not leave their school buildings. Utilities ? They will not leave work to mobilize but will follow instructions from their chiefs of i service. Drivers' Corps- ? It will not mo bilize at its assigned posts. Heads of Divisions-^-They will mobilize. The procedure in daylight drills for pedestrians, traffic, in dustries, schools and colleges and business establishments follows: Pedestrians ? They must seek shelter inside a building, if pos sible, during the "RED" signal, when the siren blows the short i blasts. Traffic ? All Traffic must stop on the "RED" signal (short blasts) except Are trucks, ambu lances and civilian defense emer gency cars. Industries ? They shall contin ue in operation during the entire period. Civilian defense work ers employed in industriesi, will not be expected to leave their jobs. Schools and Colleges ? They will continue their classroom work. Drills may be called by school officials. All children in schools and aTl students at col leges must seek inside shelter during the "RED." Business establishments and other firms, such as groceries, restaurants. hotels, theatres, churches and etc. ? They must keep their customers and patrons inside their buildings during the "RED" signal and permit pedes trians on the outside to go in and seek shelter. Although Louisburg as yet has had no daylight air raid drill, the War Department recently infor med officials that a surprise drill, either day or night, will be called within the near future. Civil Court In. Session With Judge John J. Bur ney Presiding; Several Divorces Granted; Other Cases Slow Judge John J. Barney, of Wil-i' mington, opened the April term' of Franklin Civil Superior Court, Monday morning and has han dled the proceedings with espec- ' ial care and dispatch. It ^being ' a civil term only a small number 1 was in attendance and the pro ceedure was necessarily slow. Up to time for closing our forms the following cases had ' been disposed of: C. T. Privett was granted ai: divorce from Mary Jane Privett. j Jetnella Williamson was grant- | ed a divorce from Plummer Wil- 1 liamson. r Evan Denton (Perry) was gran ted a verdict against Jessie L., Rayborn. This was a case invol ving the property line between two pieces of property. O. E. Moore was granted a dl-|' vorce from Doris Moore. o Mr. Strowd Resigns Mr. W. C.. Strowd, Supervising Principal of the Mills High School ln: Louisburg tendered his resig nation to the School Committee the past week, according to infor mation given the FRANKLIN TIMES. Mr. Strowd has served as Principal pf this school since 1935 when Supt. W. R. Mills ac-i cepted the County Superintend ency and has given full and ac tive service since. H$ has given generously of his time and abili ty to the advancement of the school which has held well under the past years of hardship. Dur ing his stay in Louisburg he has been very active in all civil and church work and he and his good wife have made many friends who will regret to learn of his decision to separate himself from the school work in pur midst. Mr. Strowd informed the TIMES ,he has not decided on any future plans. * o MUSIC RECITAL The members of Mrs. Yarbor- ' ough's piano class mill present I their annual spring recital in the auditorium of Mills High School on Thursday evening, April 29th, at 8 : If. They will be assisted. < by the High School Band. The ??ulilic to invited. I Slate Is Fixed For State Race Cherry, McDonald And Warlick Out Raleigh, April 20. ? The list of candidates for governor in the 1944 Democratic primary was re garded as virtually/ completed to day, more than a year before the primary will be held. R. Gregg Cherry, Qastonia at torney and former speaker of the State House of Representatives, jhnounced officially that "I defi nitely will be in the race" at his home in Gastonia last night. Cherry had been considered an unofficial sandidate for governor almost since the time he became speaker in January, 1937. The two other announced can didates are Dr. Ralph McDonald, associate extension director at the University of North Carolina, who lost an extremely close pri mary race to Clyde R. Hoey in 1936, and Judge Wilson Warlick, of Newton. Political observers considered It highly unlikely there would be iny additional gubernatorial can didates on the ticket when the voters go to the polls in the Dem ocratic primary on the last Satur day in May, 1944. Purchases Dry ^ Cleaning Business Mr. Mickey Bailey, of Hobgood and Nashville, N. C., has purchas ed the dry cleaning and pressing business of Edgar Fuller, (form erly Hight) on East Nash Street, and isv conducting the business in the name of White Swan Dry Cleaners. Mr. Bailey informs the TIMES he is repairing the old machinery and will place more in the plant, making it entirely up to-date and capable of handling the business of this section. Read his advertisement in an other column. To Observe Easter Business generally will be sus pended in Louisburg on next Monday, Easter Monday ? to ob serve the holidays, according to request made to the RANKLIN riMES. Therefore the stores, banks and other places of busi nesses generally will be closed. Also we are requested to state the Citizens Bank & Trust Co., of Henderson, will be cboaed on Easter Monday In observance of the holiday. , .)? Court of Honor National Certificate o f Award Presented to Mar ion Grainger, Jr.; Others Receive Honor Awards Louisburg Troop 20 of the Oc coneechee Council of the Boy Scouts of America held a Court of Honor Sunday afternoon in the Court House. The new fteld scout executive, C. W. Webb, of Henderson, presented the Na tional Certificate of Award to Scout Marion Grainger, Jr., who rescued a person from drowning last year. Acting as honor I guards were Howard Baggett and < Julian Lewis. The Court announced that a i similar award was merited by W. 1 L. Beasley, Jr.,. who rescued a | man from drowning thirteen years ago. Belated recognition was ac- ? corded Mr. Beasley, who now is < in the armed forces. His moth- < er, Mrs. W. L. Beasley. acted as his proxy. The new Scout Commissioner, ! W. G. Lancaster, the Troop 1 Scoutmaster. W. J. Shearin, W. < B. Barrow. C. M. Watkins, Fath- i er King and B. C. Wells, of Hen- s derson, assisted in presenting awards to local scouts. Scouts 1 and scouters from Henderson! were present, and participated in i | the ritual. Earle Murphy, Jr. and Billy 1 | Watkins were advanced to Sec-' |ond Class Scouts. Hayden Bell < wa$ advanced to First Class Scout. < Merit Badges were received by : Joe Barrow for Handicraft; by Carl Watkins for Civics, Pathflnd ing and Cooking; John Perry for i j Civics. John Perry received a iService Bar for 50 hours; andj I Carl Watkins for 75 hours. During the services the local! high school band played nUmer-j ous selections. The call to colors, was rendered by Carl Watkins . land taps sounded by nick Wells, of Henderson. Joe Barrow and Jack Cooper were color bearers. Scoutmaster W. J. Shearin pre sented to the Reverend L. F. Kent, in behalf "of Troop 20. a gift as a token of appreciation of the valuable servtce he has ren dered the Scouts. Mr. Kent leaves next week for his new rec torate in Kinsport. Tenn. - Resigns Chairman Ire^T. Inscoe, of thej Franklin CACA and County Agent! ! W. C. Boyce announce the i-esig nation of T. W. Harris as Chiefj Clerk. Secretary and Treasurer j to the Franklin County AAA' Committee was accepted by the AAA Committe at a meeting Mon day, April 12, 1943. Mrs. Ada Lou Perry resigned as Secretary to the Extension Service, effective April 15. 1943. After these res ignations were accepted by the County Committe and the Exten sion j Agents, respectively, the County Committee eleqted Miss L. Elizabeth Best, Chief Clerk and Secretary to the AAA Com mittee to succeed T. W. Harris and Mrs. Ada Lou Perry, Treas-j urer. The AAA Committe and Exten sion Service highly commended their retiring workers for the fine services they have rendered. Miss Emllie Rose Bissette has been employed as Secretary to the Extension workers to succeed Mrs. Perry. O? ? Navy Recruiting Officers Here "i ? H. D. Sanford, In charge of a Navy Recruiting Service arrived Tuesday and set up quarters in the U. S. PostofTice lobby. Mr. Sandford says the Navy is badly in need of men and women for this. service. Young men up to 18 years may now enlist and be sent to School tot special train ing in a specified field, when training is completed will be giv en Petty officers rank. Men 38 to 50 may also enlist in the Navy as Seabees. Women 20 to 50. needed for office work to release men for sea duty. Wo men will be sent to college for six months and trained for the particular type of work they choose, before assigned to duty. All this work is in the U. S. A. and pay starts at $125.00 per month. Colored men up to 18 may en list now for Seamen and steward mates. o CHANGES DRIVER Mr. J. W. Cobb, driver for the Colonial Bus Lines was taken to a hospital In Rocky Mount on Monday, April llti. for some head trouble, according to infor mation glven-J&u. TIMES. At the time of thW^nformatlon it was said he was Inia serious con ditloh. He has been succeeded as driver on this line by Mr. Harold Griffin, of Rocky Mount, who Is recommended as a most expert and careful driver. * Japan Executes D. S. Flyers President Roosevelt, An nouncing ' Barbarous ' Treatment of Captured Airmen, Vows Grimly That Responsible Japa nese Officials Will Be Punished For Criminal Ac s ? Washington, April 21.? Japan nas put to death some of the sight American fliers captured af-j ter the bombing of Tokyo and] treating the others as criminals, is denying them the right to which prisoners of war are entitled. This new horror by the enemy ? in viloation of covenants con cerning military prisoners ? was iisclosed today by President Roosevelt. He made known, too, that the American government solemnly has warfied Tokyo that; tor this and any future "acts ofj criminal barbarity" Just punish ment will be visited upon the re-; sponsible Japanese officials. "This recourse by our enemies to frightfulness is barbarous,"; Mr. Roosevelt said in a state ment to the American people. ; 'The effort of the Japanese war; lords to intimidate us will fall , utterly". It will make the Ameri-| can people more determined than ever to blot out the shameless militarism of Japan." Disclosures The President's statement, Is sued at the White House, was supplemented by the State De partment. Together, the state ments' disclosed that: - t The American government inl-i tiated inquiries through the Swiss government immediately after Tokyo's radio broadcast, last October lit, that military trials were planned for the eight Ameri cans. It was not until February IT, however, that the Japanese gov ernment replied, acknowledging that the Americans, had been tried sentenced to death, and that, as the State Department phrased It, "following commufation of the sentence for the larger_number of them, the sentence of death was applied to certain of the accused." The Japanese accusation was that the fliers had bombed non military targets and shot civilians and they told the Swiss minister in Tokyo that these acts were admitted. They declined, however-, to say which men had been executed or what disposition had been made of their bodies. Thus, the Ameri can government was left with no details; and not knowing which of the following eight men. miss^ Ing after the Tokyo raid and pre sumed prisoners, were the vic tims of this Japanese terrorism. Missing Men First Lieutenants William Glo-i ver Farrow of Washington, Rob ert L. Hite of Earth. Tex.. Robert J. Mender of Lakewood, O., Chase J.- Nielson of Hyruni, Utah, and Dean E. Hallmark ?f Dallas. Second Lieutenant George Barr of Madison, Wis. Sergtant Harold A. Spatz of Lebo, Kas. Corporal Jacob D. DeShazeij of Madras, Ore. ? COLLEGE PLAYERS WILL PRESENT PLAY The Louisburg CollegePlayers, directed by Miss Virginia Peyatt, instructor in dramatic art, will present sceneg from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in the college auditorium, Tuesday evening, April 27 th. The performance is regarded by the cast as a particularly chal lenging one in view of the su preme plate accorded Shakespear ean drama. The students playing the roles are. the following: J. E. Norria, Jr., Columbia, as Sir Toby Belch; Richard Byrd, Warsaw, as Sir Andrew Arguecheek; McNeil Ipock, New Bern, as Malviollo; Eaton Holden, Louisburg, . as Feste, the fool: Lois Abell. Bel-i videre, as Olivia: and Evelyn Smithwick, Louisburg,. as Maria. The summary of parts not acted will be given by Charlotte Boone, 1 Castalia. Proceeds will go for the pur-j chase of a stage curtain. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following is the program at the Louisburg Theati-e. begin ning Saturday. April 24th: Saturday ? Don 'Red' Barry in 'Carson City Cyclone' and Con stance Bennett in 'Madame Spy.' Sunday-Monday ? Ann Sothern and Red SkeltOn in 'Panama Hat tie.' rf^ Tuesday ? James Ellison and Lois Andrews in 'Dixie Dugan.' Wednesday ? Constance Bennett in 'Law of The Tropics.' V Thursday. - Friday ? Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn la 'Keeper of The Flame.' ' NEW BUSES ORDERED FOR COLONIAL BUS LINES To Institute Regular Trips To Oxford by Way of Wilton; Increase Trips to Threfi a Day; To Add Ex tra Bus Mr. D. T. Ramsey, proprietor of the Colonial Bus Lines was in Louisburg Friday and informed the FRANKLIN TIMES that he expected to institute regular bus service to Oxford this week. This service will go by Franklinton, Wilton and then to Oxford. He also stated that he will establish a schedule over this route and to Creednioor that will provide three complete trips daily. This sched ule will be worked out and be made public later. Mr. Ramsey stated he was hav ing a small bus reconditioned and expected to have it in operation on this line in a few days. This will be in addition to the one now in use. He said he had already placed an order for two regular new buses and had all priority provided and expected delivery in the near future. The exact time will depend upon the market con ditions for the essential mater ials. With this equipment this line should be In first class shape and give the best of service. . ? n WAR NEWS Washington, April 21. ? The Truman Senate committee, re porting that sinkings of Allied shipping in IS 4 2 approximated 12,000,000 tons, said tonight that what this country needs to whip the German submarine is a pro duct of American ingenuity equal to the U. S.. S. Monitor of the Civil War. It said that the monthly aver age last year was 1,000,000 tons and that losses in the early months > of 1943 were at "a much greater rate" than in the last months of 1942, when some reduction had occurred. In a progress report on United States shipbuilding, the commit tee, which is investigating the war program, challenged the Navy to draw on this country's inventive genius to overcame the submarine menace, asserting that the length ol the war is directly dependent upon its success. "Inventive genius should be en couraged." the report said. "The committee recommends that the Navy be less conventional and conservative in its thinking. We need another 'goap box on a raft' like the Monitor." Corpus Christi. Tex., April 21. ? The Presidtnts of the United States and Mexico said farewells today to their precedent-breaking conferences after President Avila Camacho had been welcomed at the vast naval train tag center here and President Roosevelt had called the occasion one of the great American historical meet ings. | The President of Mexico and Mr. Roosevelt inspected the mul Ititudinous activities at the busy ; training station, and saw a bril liant aerial, display by a forma tion of Catalina patrol boats and a squadron of divebombers. Fin-r ally, they rode back to the rail road siding and said their fare ;wells in Mr. Roosevelt's private | car. President Avila Camacho was (repaying promptly a visit to Mon terrey, Mexico, yesterday by the I American Chief Executive, which Mr. Roosevelt described as one of the highlights in my life. They ate with 250 cadet of ficars. and Mr. RooBevelt spoke briefly and informally after the meal through a public address system that carried to all parts of the station. I am glad" that the cadets are hearing what I have to say, he as serted, because I want to tell you I regard this as one of the great est American historical meetings. I think you will remember it just as long as you live, for we are receiving on American soil the president of one of our sister re publics. o HOLY WEEK PAGEANT TO BE GIVEN The Triumphal Entry of Good will be presented by students of the college at the . Methodist Church. Saturday. April 24. at 8 p. m. The public is Invited to come to experience thirty or forty minutes of vivid portrayal, through setting, music, and cos tume, from Biblical events. BAND CONCERT An Easter band Concert by the Loulsburg Band will be given at Mills High School on Monday I night, April 26 th. at 8 o'clock. ? js

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