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Jt i P 1 1 THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C. Thursday December 18 y PAGE FOUR The Beaufort News Published every Thursday at 120 Craven Street Beaufort, Carteret County, N. C. Publishing Co. AYCOCK BROWN Editor and Advertising Manager WH. L. HATSELL, Business Mgr. Subscription Rates: (IN ADVANCE) North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia One Year $1.50 Eight Months .$1.00 Six Months 75 ThTee Months ' .50 ELSEWHERE $2.00 YEAR Entered as second-class matter February 5, 1912 at the postoffice at Beaufort, North Carolina, un der the Act of March 3, 1S7D. Thursday December 18 1941 RED CROSS WAR FUND DRIVE IS UNDERWAY To the citizens of Beaufort and Eastern Carteret Coun ty: The American Red Cross, through its 3700 Chapters in the United States, is today asking the American Public for $50,000,000.00 as an Emergency War Fund ! The quota asked from the Beau fort Chapter is $1500.00. The officers of the Beau fort Chapter are reluctant to make such an appeal immed iatelv following the Annual Roll Call for memberships. Especially since you have re sponded so faithfully and put our quota ot 4UU so lar over the top. However, we did not choose the hour for our Nation to be attacked. The President of United States, the Governor of North Carolina, and the of ficers of our city and county have all issued proclama tions sponsoring this War Fund Drive. The trained workers of the Red Cross with supplies of food and medicine and clothing have already arrived in the Ha waiian and Philippine Is lands and are giving assist ance to those first affected by the attacks.. They have gone in with faith the people of the United States would keep the lines open by giving Norih Carolina PRESS ASSOCIATION U (D GRADE A MARKET & GROCERY W DIAL 321-1 PROMPT DELIVERY f Turner Street Beaufort, N. C. Christmas ft FRUITCAKE 2 - We Cairy A Complete Line of Merita, Royal, N.B.C. and Betts Products eicii,,iei!e'e(e(e!cie!ei'c:,' For Christmas Give Something From Our MODERN MARKET Christmas Fowl OWE R WUR Christmas KOtVf Dial 321-1 CELERY .. 12c I CHRBTMASFRUIT i urn m M Big Line of Yuletide Candies We Have A Complete Line Of CHRISTMAS GIFTS $ 9 generously to the War Fund. At the request of Dr. F. E. Hyde, Chapter chairman, I have undertaken the chair manshiD of this campaign in this area. I hope to have the volunteer work of those who so efficiently carried on the Roll Call. And I make an ap peal to every man and wom an in the Chapter area to give to the War Fund just as liberally as possible. Sincerely yours, Edward C. McConnell, War Fund Chairman. Siren On Bridge Should Be Removed Simultaneously with the Declaration of War the Unit ed States barred from the ra dio networks of the nation any program which featured sirens. One of the best known programs was that of Texa co, which advertised Fire Chief irasoline. Sponsors of the program were glad to cooperate. Air raid warnings in Beau fort which will become more frequent as time goes on, will be seriously jeopardized if the siren on the Highway Bridge is not put out of com mission immediately. This siren has consistently confus ed local people since, at the United States Government's request, the air-raid warning system and blackouts were established. Surely the State Highway and Public Works Commission will realize the seriousness of permitting the siren to remain on the bridge any longer and replace same with some other type signal ling device. If the State Highway and Public Works Commission come back with the answer that the siren is on the bridge as a result of instructions from the U. S. Army Engineering Depart ment, then the government should see that its agency makes a change and im mediately. Air - raid warnings and blackouts will never be suc cesful in Beaufort until the bridge siren is removed. Am bulances and fire trucks should also refrain from us ing sirens, except during air raid warnings. The fire trucks could very easily sub stitute its bell which is usual ly part of the equipment, and ambulances could use horns in emergencies. We hope those in authority, inso far as the bridge is concern 8 WENS BROS. V Si? ft? DELICIOUS BAKERY SPECIALS lb.$1.50 - 5 - lb. $3. W II w Corned Hams, lb. . . . 30c Gift Picnics, lb 28c Country Ham, lb. . . .30c Fresh SAUSAGE, lb. . 30c ALWAYS IN STOCK Fine Western And Local Meats, Fowl and Dairy Products mey: i I ORANGES, APPLES, Tangerines, Raisins W f make a Other change immecuaiei wise the matter will be taken mi with the proper civilian defense officials in Washing ton, according to warning of ficials here. Communities Should Organize Scouts Featured elsewhere in The Beaufort News today is a story about the Carteret Dis trict of Scouting which is or ganized and ready to help organize troops in any or all communities of the county. This is an opportunity which the citizens of every com munitv should grasp. Before it has been rather difficult to organize Boy Scout troops in the smaller communities, primarily because there was no one to help carry through with the idea. Now there is a committee, several commit ters of very interested citi zens who are ready to help. All that is needed is the in terest from the communities. Persons like Capt. Jim .Mor ris, Rev. Lo.uis Hayman, and Clavton Fulcher and others of Atlantic; Earl Davis of Harkers Island : E. L. Gaskill of the Smvrna School am the Tavlors and Gaskills of Sea Level and other well known leaders and citizens of the various communities should get together now, help the youngsters get the propei interest and organize Scout troops. The boys of all our communities today are the men of tomorrow and nothing will make them bet ter men of tomorrow than the training they can or would receive in Scouting. TRANSFERS of Real Estate NEWPORT TOWNSHIP K. L. Garner ot ux to B. J. Mann, consideration $300.00, 3.7 acres. MOREHEAD TOWNSHIP Ely J. Terry et ux et al to Leon ard Lewis, consideration ?8,750., lots 5, 3, 54, block 20. Benjamin F. Harrison to J. L. Henderson, consideration $1.00, 1 acre. W. W. Bryan et ux to G. Nor man Hutton et ux, con. $100.00, 150 acres. Llewellyn Phillips et us to Morehead Development Corp., con. $500., lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, block 41. Kilby Guthrie to N. F. Eure. con. $1.00, 1-2 lot 15, square 63. W. Kellum et ux to W. O. Mc Gibbony, Tr., con. $1,800.00, 58 acres. J. B. Dickinson to Home Own ers Loan Corp., con. $426.00, 1 tract. B. H. Braddy et ux to S. A. Chalk, Trustee, con. $1.00, lots 9, 10, block 18. Grace V. Hinton, Com., to Joe L. Turnage et ux, con. $2,500.00, lot 15, square 21. Annie T. McWilliams to J. S. McWilliams, con. $10.00, lot 3, blk. 34. BEAUFORT TOWNSHIP Edmund Jones et ux to Wallace j Bean, con. $10.00, lot 203, Old Town. Harold Knudson to Roy Keller et ux, con. $25.00, 1 acre, Bettie. ATLANTIC TOWNSHIP A. M. Fulcher et ux tc Ciayton Fulcher. con. $10.00. 1 tr;.'t. Geraldine Mason -t vir to Clay ton Fulcher, con. $.VKi.0O, 1 tract. Red Cross Aided Bomb Victims In Hawaiian Islands WASHINGTON. Dev. 18 The Hawaii lU-d Cross chapter has giv en substantial relief to the victim of last vvek's Japanese bombings snd ii "operation with the gov ci iimeniala authorities has carried ut extensive evacuation of civil ii.ns from danger zones, shrdlu ians from danger areas, national headquarters announced. In a telephone conversation with the K'!d Cros in Washington, Alfred L. Castle, chapter chairman in Honolulu, said the Red Cross there, ith the assistance of rep resentatives from national head quarters row in Hawaii, has been active since the bombings began in provid'r.g relief fcr civilians af fected by the attacks. He said Red Cross workers were still removing civilians from dan ger points and giving relief to the wounded tnd homeless. Prior to the beginning of hostilities the American Red Cross established 10 emergency mescal stations on the islands and made other plans i.oi emergency operations. OYSTER SHELLS What are little oyster shells made of? This: Aluminum, cal cium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, silica, zinc, water, chlorine, carbon dioxide, and ni trogen mainly. ed at anv rate, will 1 A 1 . . FIRST HERO OF OFF HATTERAS Found Survivors Of SinkingTzenny Chandris SCRAP LADEN SHIP SAILED FROM M. CITY Captain Colin P. Kelly, list ed as one of the first air he roes in the present war, aft er he had dived his plane in to the sputtering gun fire of the Japanese battleship Har una, scoring three hits which sank the vessel, was once a hero off Cape H:itteias. In his heroic sinking of the hattk'sliir. Haruna. the intrepid aviator lost his life. Off Cape Hatteras back in 11)37, his was another missinn. That time he was on a mercy trip. It was Captain Kelly aboard a plane who discovered the survivors of the ill-fated Greek vessel Tzen ny Chandris which had broken to pieces and sank off Wimble Shoals on - - .1, . ( niomrtrwl j i .o miles il()i uiuasi w I Lithtship. The Jzenny tnannris I had taken on a cargo of scrap iron at Morehead City and was ooiinu for Rotterdam, 40 hours out of the local port when the disaster occurred. Captain Kelly and other aviators were dispatched to the scene to , search for survivors. He spotted several of the survivors, flounder- j ing around in the shark infested waters, and notified the Coast Guard which rescued 16. Seven! had previously been picked up by the tanker Swiftsure. Seven lives were lost, but the casualty list would have probably been much greater if the survivors in their life jackets had not been discover ed. The Tzenny Chandris was one of several ships which brought temporary prosperity to the More head City Port Terminal, as a re sult of scrap iron shipments to Rotterdam, Japan and the United Kinpdom. The Beaufort News in those days predicted that event ually much of the scrap metal would come back to us in the form of bullets, and we have seen the prediction come true. Tzenny Chandris, incidentally was not an old ship. She was built in Kobe, Japan, in 1020, later pur chased by the United StiU Ship ping Board and then sold to Greek interests. Like much of the cheap junk which Japan has unloaded on America for years, this ship prov ed that it was of poor construction or it would have weathered the seas off Cape Hatteras and not broken to pieces. MORE FOOD FITS INTO F.S.A. PLAN Farmers Of County Redouble Efforts For Freedom "When a family keeps a record book and carries on farming like business men carry on their business, then it isn i cnnicuit to increase isn t dilncult production," according to J. Y. Lassiter, chairman of the Carteret County Agricultur al Defense Board. ''Approximately 100 farm fam ilies in Carteret county will op erate their farms during the next crop year in accordance with def initely planned farm and home prac'tiies," he said. "These are the families who are borrowers in the Farm Security Administration Programa. Joseph Y. Allen, Sup (tvisor for FSA in Carteret Coun ty, reports they all are increasing their production of foods in the Food-For-Freedom program. "Those who have taken part in the rehabilitation program under the U. S. Department of Agricul ture long enough to have worked out plans in previous years, now have their farm record books to help them plan for future opera tions," he said. He pointed out that farm families in the Farm Se curity rahibilitation program make careful plans first, and that the loans are made then to put the plans into actual operations. FSA, in making the loans, stresses the importance of farm and home rec ord books. Many of the families are now meeting to develop plans, and many are making the plans in their own homes. The services of the county supervisor and the home management supervisor, Mr. Jos eph Y. Allen, and Mrs. Jean D. Morrison, are available to aid in the formulating the plans. According to most farm plans now being worked out, farm pro duction next season will lean to ward more milk, milk products, better home gardens, eggs, and meat for home butchering, in line with the Food for Freedom pro gram, Mr. Allen said. This sort of production has been encourag ed by athe FSA for some years, and most borrowers now are re f Original Battle J ! Of Legaspi Bay On Monday Ue New. and Ob terver front paged a picture of Lega.pi, a village in the Ph.l.p- l ,K. Iaianee were re pines, wiicis ..- - - ' ported to have landed a t s.ll.J thi small small town iorce. ijc..... which normally served a. an ex portation point for hemp used .n Manila rope, rises Mount Mayon, 8000-foot slightly active volcano. The picture brought back memor ies to Lawrence W. Hassel, Clerk of Superior Court here. Clerk Hassel and Earl Dickinson of Wilmington were the only two North Carolinians in the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, an In fantry outfit of the U. S. Army, which captured this town from the Insurgents back in January 1900 on a Sabbath morning. Sailing from Manila, the newspapers of j that c;ty predicted that the troop Er,; transporting the Forty Sev- entj, lo Legaspi would be greeted with brass bands and a big cele bration. Instead, the Forty Seventh was greeted with gunfire from the In surgents who had torn down the piers (which were hown in the Observer picture )and greased the pilings to frustrate a landing. During the battle, a large number of Insurgents were killed. And during the occupancy of Legaspi by the Forty Seventh, Mount Mayon, the slightly active volcano today, erupted and Clerk Hassel recalls the lava streams, and the denseness of the ashes from the eruption which made it necessary to carry lighted lanterns during the day time to find their way a round. FISH STORY Eggs of crawfish laid 1.000 years ago and found 15 feet deep in Siberia's region of eternal frost have been hatched out by Soviet scientists. At least ten genera tions of normal rrawfish have al ready been obtained. This lends forre to the theory that frozen seeds of life do not die but merely remain in a state resembling "sus pended animation." placing one cash crop farming with diversification, he said. In 1940 the average standard FSA borrower in North Carolina produced $425 worth of goods fos home use, but in the year prior to drawing their first farm plans in connection with FSA loans those same families averaged only $309 worth of such production. Virtually without exception, Mr. Allen believes FSA borrowers can be counted upon to plan their work to increase the output of items called for in national defense. It ,vill continue to be the policy to produce for home use first; and this will tend to leave commercial production, on borrowers' farms as well as others, free to go into channels which eventually will lead to feeding our armed forces as well as those of our allies. Tbe Quickest, Surest Way YOU Can Help Win This War... cl. Buy Defense BONDS STAMPS Now! X..- Wii. V55li. Ti.. tau. IStii TBI TSu. See the Gifts We A SMALL DEPOSIT WILL LAY AWAY ANY GIFT YOU SE LECT AT OUR STORE UNTIL CHRISTMAS ''iiPlfi, lot Former Service Men Volunteer To Guard Plant At Ocraccke When men were asked to volun teer to guard the Ocracoke Island power plant, which is an REA pro ject recently former service men signed up to do the work as their share in the defense ' f their country. The volunteers included M. P. Guthrie, L. D. Willinms, R. F. O' Neal, J. H. Williams and H. H. Howard, retired Coast Guardsmen and J. Lum Gaskill and Dan Gar rish, ex-Navy men. A Word To The Christmas Shoppers 3 Select Your GIFTS hi Due To National Defense Activi ties It Will Be Impossible To Re place Many Gifts Now On Display. , :W Take Advantage Of Our LAY-A-WAY PLAN k I DRUG ALWAYS AT DAY PHONE 323-1 913-1 KM BELL'S Tl'zzzzzr " i BEAUFORT THEATRE Dial B-483-1 "Always The Best In Theatre Entertainment" Today and Friday Due to Our Annual Christmas Party P'or All Em ployes of Stewart-Everett Theatres, Inc., Our Last Show Will Start Tonight at 8 :00 "SUNDOWN" GENE TIERNEY - BRUCE CABOT Also News Cartoon Saturday DOUBLE FEATURE THE LONE RIDER RIDES ON" GEORGE "GAY FALCON GEORGE Another Chaptera "Green Hornet Strikes Again" Sunday - Monday - Tuesday "NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH" BOB HOPE - PAULETTE GODDARD Also Latest News of U. S. A. War Jack "MAN AT LARGE" with MARGIE WEAVER Also Selected Short Subjects j iStetka tsu. tssij, is.. m ., id MORE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS vassft. m lilt W Have For Every Member JOE HOUSE Day Phones 333-1 or 910-1 Beaufort SHARK STORY A few years ago, so many hun dreds of thousands of sharks in" fested waters of the Timer Sea northwest of Australia, that an ex tensive war to the death on them was organized. British, Dutch and Portuguese gunboats, using seaplanes and marine and air tor pedoes took part in the battle to drive the sea tigers permanentl, from their breeding grounds Forty-six rajahs of Timor Island joined in the hunt. help th! Red Cicss to niobilj2 resource for our natioan's de fenst. Give to the Red Cross War lieiiel Campaign tct sy. Wise.. It Early i I! Evening In Paris Sets - $1.25 & up Christmas Gifts By Y A R D L E Y Set -$1.50 up KAY WOODIE Pipes - $3.50 up PENS AND PEN SETS $2.75 UP STORE YOUR SERVICE NIGHT PHONE 397-1 HUSTON SANDERS of the Family DRUG STORE Night Phone 346-1 North Carolina Wednesday Pot $SdD I. .ft