Answer To Tokyo Rose— Librarian Has Colorful Career ux/ixvn o m/iJCi; we lUKe particular pride in our illus tration for the interesting story that Eugene Fallon has written for this week’s fea ture. It is a pen drawing of Mrs. Philip King, done by the famous artist and maga zine illustrator, McClelland Barclay. It shows her in the uniform of the American Red Closs, an outfit with which she served during the days of World War II in the South west Pacific. If Mrs. Philip King, the local librarian, seems to possess a keen knowledge and intelligent interest in books about faraway places, that is understandable. The fact is that she has been there and has seen many of them in person. Born at Newton, Alabama, the daughter of Professor and Flor ence Tate, Martha Susan Tate attended the Baptist Collegiate Institute at Newton. Her father was founder and president of that institution, which, says the libra rian, "was somewhat on the classical side; four years of Latin, for example”. Following her grad uation, Sue taught in her home town for a year, before switching to the federal land-bank program V at New Orleans, La. Next stop was Washington, D. C., where she joined other mem bers of her family and worked for a law firm. This last position lasted five years, part of which time Susan spent attending law school at night. “In the spring of 1941,” recalled Sue, “I began working with the American Red Cross on a volun teer basis. Then came December and Pearl Harbor. Since my three brothers had been frozen to their jobs in D. C.,” continued Sue, "I felt that some Tate should ac tively participate in the war, so I signed up with the Red Cross for overseas service.” That organization placed Sue in a Social Service unit and as signed her to the 171st Station nuspuai, located at uamp " " s*./.dsdwti..A.i.M ..LtUu. &W&& MRS. PHILLIP KING seemed a river of Nipponese. Sue’s unit served as an evacua tion hospital. It was equipped to take care of 200 patients. Often 600 bloody and battered casual ties crowded beneath the huge canvas with the great scarlet cross on top. It was a tent hos pital. Mrs. King remembers those days well—days when as many as 100 Jap bombers roared over and dropped a rain of death and destruction; nights as black as hades, when to show a light was to invite death. “We were under constant bom bardment,” she recalls with a wry smile, “from the rains. They never ceased.” But nightmares must end, and, since the Army had an inflexible rule which stated that female personnel could not remain longer than six months in New Guinea, Susan Tale herself was evacuated to the beautiful city of Sydney, ^ Australia, and a nurses’ rest home ^ there. All during the time of her New • Guinea stay a slant-eyed charmer ■ with a dulcet voice and a com mand of the English language, j Tokyo Rose, did her best, via the , air waves, to undermine Allied ■ morale. Following the playing of , something modern from America, , a record say, by the Ink Spots, , she would whisper suggestively: . “The Yankee capitalists are this hour sipping bourbon in cozy, . i stateside nightclubs. Everyone ; back home is getting rich. The ; Brooklyn Dodgers have not miss ed a game. Fortunate 4-F's are ' holding down good jobs. Wives and sweethearts are lonely. What ! is your wife doing tonight, Bud dy . . .?” And the Australian and ' New Zealand troops, too, were bombarded with the like. Tokyo Rose would spin a disc which re lated of Roses blooming in Picar dy; another of that long, long way to Tipperary, ending up with reports of women rioting on the streets of Melbourne, Auckland, Adelaide and Wellington, Christ Church and Darwin over, insin uated the oriental flower of mis information, American and French Colonial troops . . . Something had to be done. The lonely fighters in the jungles and mountains hung on every false word uttered by the soft-voiced girl from the slums of Tokyo. The brass went into extraordinary session. This time they came out of it with something good. Some thing named Martha Susan Tate. And why her? The hardest thing for an Orien tal to master, said the brass, was a bonafide Southern accent. It had to be a Southern girl, and so they tapped the Alabama-bred Red Cross worker on the shoul der and said; “You are it—the U. S. Army’s answer to Tokyo Rose.” Susan went on the air at Syd ney. Her voice was shortwaved everywhere in the Pacific, wher ever there was war. And war covered those lattitudes like flies cover a pot of opened jam in August. Sue spoke with a straight ton gue to hundreds of thousands of young men, setting the score straight; reiterating the golden promises of Democracy. Tokyo Rose often picked up something Sue had said and gave it the old slant-eyed twist. But now the battle was more even. Two wom en slugged it out voice-to-voice. It was the way all wars should be fought. No bloodletting at all. Eighteen months it lasted. Says Mrs. King: “I received piles of fan mail. I hadn’t sus pected I could talk so well. To wards the end I wrote my own scripts. I was on lendlease from the Red Cross to the U. S. Army. I felt quite proud.” But there remained the final bloody struggles—waged closer and closer to the Jap home is lands. “They (the Japs) jammed our broadcasts whenever we got closer . . . finally I was trans ferred back to my original out fit.” It was a weary way to go: Hollandia, Moratai, the Philip pines, and finally surrender and Tokyo itself. And suddenly it was all over. Martha Susan Tate found herself back in San Fran cisco in March, 1946. But while in Tokyo she had met a young Lt. Colonel, U. S. A. His name was Philip King and he was a native of Washington, D. C. The Red Cross sent Sue to that very city. Her path crossed King’s again and they were married in | the chapel of Walter Reed hos- jj pital on March 13, 1948. Members of the Tate family had been vacationing at South port for some 30 years. Sue went along on a visit. She liked what she saw and Phil liked it, too. Both were tired of large cities, Phil loved to fish, so, in 1950, the Kings moved to Southport, fol lowing Mrs. King’s resignation from the Red Cross. How did this vital and vari talented person wind up behind a librarian’s desk? Mrs. King says it was quite simple. She had been named to the Library Board at Southport and the board was having diffi culty getting a professional libra rian. Sue was again tapped—and, as usual, went gladly. To fulfill requirements, she has already attended two full sessions of summer school at the Univer sity of North Carolina. Three more classes remain for full cer tification. Southport is the winner and everybody’s happy. The Kings have three children, Philip III, a junior at U. N. C., Susan, now attending Congres sional School at Washington, and Jenny, 8, a student at Southport school. Garden Time The official opening of the Sec ond Southeastern Flower and Garden Show will be a gala event at the State Fair Arena, Raleigh, on Feb. 23. The First Lady of North Caro lina, Mrs. Terry Sanford, will be Honorary Hostess. She will cut a “ribbon” of North Carolina-grown orchids to officially start the fes tivities. Of particular interest will be an enlarged display by the North Carolina State Florists Associa tion which will be placed near the main entrance. The N. C. Com mercial Flower Growers, the N. C. Orchid Society, the N. C. Federa tion of Garden Clubs and the N. C. Association of Nurserymen are the other participating groups. Richard C. Bell, well-known Raleigh landscape architect, has planned 15 gardens offering a wide choice of themes. The aver age homeowner will find many new ideas which can be used in home garden planning. There will also be educational displays stag ed by N. C. State College, and also by commercial flower grow ers of this area. A new feature this year will be public demonstrations of flower arranging by the florists. A daily Waterfront x> For a long’, long time there was so much waterfront property in Brunswick county, counting the i ocean, rivers and creeks, that lit- i tie or no thought had been given to the idea of developing more of it. However, the sudden emer gence of boating as a favorite American sport has brought about a change, so much so that vaca tion property with access on a navigable stream now sells at a premium. The result has been to make good use of draglines and shallow draft dredges to open up narrow channels and to create new ones, often using the spoil to improve and to raise the level of the land. Perhaps the most spectacular work along this line has been car ried out at Sunset Beach, where Developer Mannon Gore not only used his homemade dredge to build a causeway across the marsh from the mainland to his beach, but did a considerable amount of dredging and filling to create Twin Lakes, one of the most desirable sections of his residential development. Much work along this line also has been carried out at Ocean Isle Beach, where Developer Odell Williamson has dug a series of canals from the inland waterway into the marsh area extending to fashion show will be staged by the merchants of Cameron Village of Raleigh. This presentation last year was one of the daily high lights of the show. ward the beach. Here the spoil was used to form high and dry ots, each fronting on water deep :nough to accommodate small jleasure craft. Over in the Tranquil Harbour section of Long Beach the deep ening of Davis Creek and the dig ging of a canal has created wa terfront lots which affort good and safe elevation for lots shaded by big live oaks. These latter features are attractive, but the magic appeal—and the thing which places this property in the ligher-priced category—is the possibility of being able to tie up a boat on your own private prop erty. One other result of some of these operations, and one which takes on more and more signifi cance as time goes by, is the fact that the proper use of fill and the improvement of drainage in marsh areas is helping tremendously to help control the mosquito prob lem. That is a matter of practical importance in a county where the big emphasis is upon residential development. Although spraying has proved to be a great help in mosquito control, in the long run drainage is the only thing which will help to bring about satis factory, lasting relief. 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