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j "k 7Jk fa ' MAKE EVERY PAY DAY BOND DAY 77ie Mosf Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central Carolina Coast I VOL. XXX NO. 51. BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1942 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. U till 9 Looking Backward From BEAUFORT NEWS 1922 A meeting of the BoaiJ of County Commissioners was held last Friday at the Court House. All of the members to wit: ('. T. Chadwick, .1. M. Can-away, It. II Davis, W. K. Taylor, W. M. Webb, were present. The matter of most interest perhaps was the appoint ment of County Road Supervisor. M. A. Norris, J. D. Neal, Sr., S. J. Scott, and Sol Willis were appli cants for the place. Mr. Scott re ceived the' appointment at a sal ary of $100 a month. The Beaufort High School boys basketball team ' played the St. Paul's School team Friday losing by a score of 17 to 18. Beaufort High School: Charles Hassell Forward Dor.-ey Martin Forward Claurd'e Guthrie -- Center Ben Jones Guard Crence Thomas -- Guard Substitutes Lewis, Smith St. Paul's School Charles Skarren Forv-ard Sterling Chadwick - Forward Sammy Way Center Enalis Smith Guard Clvde Owens Guard Dabney White, Gerald Hill. Les lie Rice, students at Chapel Hill and Professor M. A. Hill Jr., ai med home this week to spend the holidays. The Beaufort High School iris basketball team visited Moreuead City Monday night and play.'d the teachers of the Morehead City School at the Atlantic Hotel, win ning by the score of 18 to 215. The Beaufort line up was: Ruth Nor cum, forward; Bessie Jones, for ward; Fannie Yoffee, center; Lydia Parkin, guard; Frances W.ite, guard. Ration Registration A total of 3.346,316 persons in North Carolina received War Ra tion Book 1 (Sugar Book) during the registration last May, W. H. Hofler, State OPA Ration Officer, has announced. Carteret had a re gistration of 19,351; Craven 33, 652 and Onslow 23,511. Draft Delinquents The following names have been added to the list of Delinquents at the Selective Service Board Office These men have failed to keep the Board advised as to change in ad dress and mail has not been able to reach them. Floyd Gaskil, Sealevel, X. C, last known address was Norfolk, Va., Virgle Everett Lupton, Beau fort, N. C, RFD No. 1. William Thomas Oden, 407 Pol lock Street, Beaufort N. C. Anyone knowing the where abouts of any of the above will no tify the Selective Service B ard, Telephone 48(5, Morehead City N. C. Carteret Has Twenty-Two More Boys In The Army The folowing are last week's se lestees accepted for service in the U. S. Army: Beaufort Ivy B. Merrill, Jo seph Y. Allen, Charles Duncan Willis, Roland D. Lawrence, RFD, Lemwood E. Lewis, Alec Erkkson, Jr., Tilton Lawrence, RFD. Morehead City Abe A. Silver man, Nathaniel M. Willis, George Barfoot, Shade Smith, Chester A. Pittman. Newport Ingrume V. Lockey. Owen B. Gould, Oscar B. Arthur, Henry E. Taylor, Bert S. Taylor Jr Leonard T. Godwin. Lukens Ledrew Norman, Ray M. Pittman. Davis Paul B. Davis. Salter Path Dewitt Salter . SHOPPING . DAYS LEFT -AND WE. NEED ORNAMENTS' -TREE.' HUiSMWIMMMNSHH" m Ml Seals Willman Johnson With U. S. Navy $f 1 ; f ' "."'.ws Ayr j. William L. Johnson, of Harkers Island, ion of Mr. and Mr. C. A. Johnson, was graduated from the Harkers Island High School in 1940, where he made an excellent record. He it now serving with the U.S.N, on a ship attached to the Atlantic Fleet. Willman was a faithful member of the H. I. Meth odist Church. Recently the Ep worh League decided to send Christmas cards to all the Island boys in the service. Willman's ap preciative reply will be found else where in the paper. CHAS. DUDLEY LOST IN AFRICA Killed Nov. 12th In French Morocco Sad news of the first local casualty of the War in Afri ca has been received here. Charles Wallace Dudley, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Dudley of the Tuttle's Grove section, was killed in action on Nov ember 12th in French Mor- rocco, northwestern Africa, according to a telegram re ceived from the War Depart ment by his parents. Dudley was 2S years of age, a graduate of the Beaufort High school. He enlisted in the Navy about eight months :'.go and has been on duty on a transport ship with what is know n as the ''suicide squad." He was ashore when he was killed. Dudley is .survived by his par ents; two sisters, Mrs. Earl Cam pen and Miss Blanche Dudley; and two brothers, John and Henry Dudley, all of Beaufort RFD. Christmas Services At Baptist Church The choir of the Beaufort Bap tist Church will give a program of Christmas music Sunday morning at 11 o'clock under the direction of Mrs. James D. Rumley. In the evening at the regular hour, the Baptists will have their annual White Gift, Service but the offer ing1 instead of being devoted to lo cal charities will this year 30 to the China Relief Fund. Mrs. E. L. Davis and Mrs. James D. Rumley are on the committee making plans for this lovely service of thought for others. USO Civilian Volunteers Invited To Dance Friday Friday evening, December 18th, a very special dance will be held at the USO with music by the fam ous Fort Macon orchestra. The Service Men's Council will be in charge and particularly in vites all civilians who are mem bers of USO Committees or who have volunteered to serve through USO in any way be present as their guests. Husbands and wives are both invited. Officers of all the Services will also be welcomed. Christmas Service Of The Methodists Ann Street Methodist Church will -have their special Christmas service Sunday morning, Decem ber 20th, at 11 o'clock. The choir has devoted considerable time to preparation for the service and has prepared special Christmas music for the occasion. There will also be a short sermon by the pastor. NEGRO WOMAN KILLS MAN Irene Debrix Frison Held In Shooting About S:S0 Monday after noon the fire alarm sounded 45 calling officials to an a partment on Marsh stieet occupied by Irene Debrix Frison. They arrived in time to find the lifeless and badly mutilated body of J o h n Gore, 47, a Southport negro, on the porch of Irene's home where he had been dragged from the house by Montross Debrix, Irene's father, and bv Ethel Lee V.mn, next door neighbor, after having been shot to death with a single barrel breech loading shotgun in the hands of Irene. Irene fled the scene of the crime. Chief of Po lice Longest and Deputy Murray Thomas found her in the saw mill section, and she gave herself up without resistance. At the coroner's inquest on Tuesday, the jury recommended that Irene Frison and Montross Debrix be held without bond for the March term of court. Irene claimed that she shot in self de fense. The two are now it- the county jail. Ethel Lee Van claim ed her only part in it was to go over to see what was gom; on when she heard the sl ot. She help ed drag Gore out, according to her statement, to try and get him to a doctor. Unfortunately the trouble oc curred about time school was dis missed and the children tried to press around to view the harrow ing spectacle even though every effort was made to discourage it. Mary Baker Knifes Florida Negro In Morehead City Mary Baker, 17-year-old color ed girl is confined in the County jail at Beaufort following the fatal stabbing of Albert Willis, 24, of Ft. St. Joe, Florida, an employee of the Quinn Wallace Fisheries last Friday night about 10 o'clock. The affray took place in front of Dudley's Kozv Nook Cafe. Willis died an hour later. Rosetta Fulford of Bea ...fort and Henry Williams of Florida were also held in the case. Henry was an eye witness. Rosetta was present but claimed she saw noth ing. Mary and Albert had an alter cation, he slapped her, she is said to have threatened aim it lie re peated it, he did, and she went af ter him with a knife striking in the region of his heart. At the inquest on Wednesday morning, Mary Bak'r was placed under 1500 bond and Rosetta Fulford and Henry Williams sum moned for witnesses when thg case comes up in Superior Court. J. E. Rhue Passes James Edward Rhue, 51, Moore Street, died at his home Wednes day morning at 4 o'clock of apop lexy. The funeral will be held on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 from the home by the Rev. W. Stanley Potter and he will be laid to rest in Ocean View Cemetery. Mr. Rhue lived all his life in Beaufort. He is survived by his wife, the former Estele Guthrie, of Beaufort, and two children by a former wife, Mrs. Earl Salter of Bogue and Miss Marian Rhue of Beaufort. He is also survived by a sister and a brother, Mrs. Willie Snooks and Eldridge Rhue both of Beaufort and by a half brother, John Dudley of Swansboro. Rejectees Fail To Take Treatment During last Tuesday's session of the Recorders Court two draft re jectees were found guilty of fail ure to take treatment for a vener eal disease. Health Officials pointed out that when a draft rejectee fails to take treatment when notified to do so prolongs the period of his disabil ity and thereby makes it nectssary for additional individuals to be drafted. Very often this means married men. The state has adequate laws to cover this situation. Selective Ser vice Officials have requested that all Health Departments supervise the enforcement of these laws to make sure continuous treatment is received by rejectees. Tuesday" trial was in accoj with this policy Briefs From The Rationing Board Stamp No. 10 iKgood for three pounds until January 31. COFPEE Stamp No. 27 frfcm Ration Rook is good for one pound until Jan. uary 3 for consumers 15 years of age or older. GASOLINE No 3. coupon in A Books good for 3 gallons of gas. Customers should fill in the li cense number and state of regis tration on the back of all coupons This must be done, and it saves time for both customers and sta tion operators tj .do it before pur chasing. TIRES The local board will take appli cations for needed recaps or re placement of tires. Passenger car tire inspection has begun. It is illegal for motorists to drive if they have not registered tires and received tire inspection records. KEROSENE & FUEL OIL The Board Office is working day and night on this. Hundreds of cards are being mailed out daily in response to applications. Con sumers should present cards to the Board for coupons before 2 p. m. each day. "ALL PURPOSE BOOKS" Holders of Book 1 (Sugar Books) will be eligible to receive the big No. 2 "ail purpose" ration book, which wift be distributed soon after the first of the year. Persons who do" (not have Book 1 should make application to the Board for one it once. Swansboro USO Burns Sunday 0 Last Sunday' evening between midnight and one o'clock, the USO building at Swansboro, erected at a cost of an elimated $25,000.00, was burned totthe ground. The watchml'i had just made his rounds and wjs in the kitchen making coffeAvhen he heard the crackling of thb blaze which pre sumably startS, if4. theboiler room. By tlje mme neip couui oe summoned, thMuilding was doom ed. When Eugene Eddy, USO di rector arrived from his home half block away, there was practically nothing that could be saved. Two rifles and some clothing that could be reached through a window was rescued but nothing else more valuable than some soft drink bot tles. Fourteen men sleeping in the building were lucky to get away alive with their clothes. Director Eddy could not he in terviewed, but it is said that the Y.M.C.A. carried insurance on the equipment and the U. S. Govern ment on the building. ROSE STORES HAVE PARTY Tomorrow evening the Main of fice of the Rose chain of 5 and 10 cent stores will give a Christmas dinner tmd party for the employees of the stores in Morehead City and Beaufort and their husbands and friends at the Morehead Villa. Be cause of limitations on travel neith er Supt. Neal nor Gen Supt. But cher, of Henderson wil be able to attend and Mr. John Haynes, Mana ger of the Beaufort Store and Mr. Bowman, Manager of the More head City store will represent the main office as well as their local organizations. Mayor and Mrs. Graydon Paul are to be guests of he organization. special A turkey dinner will be served banquet style to the 115 invited guests in the big dining room at the Villa. Busses have been charter ed to take the guests from Beau fort and Morehead City. The Pro gram Committee from the staff of Rose's stores has arranged: Welcome by John Haynes. Responite. Grace by Mr. Bowman. White Christmas and I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day, trio Annie D. Foreman, Mae Merrill, Edith Stevens with Carol Bessent at the piano. "Silent Night," and "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition", group singing led by Mayor Paul. This is the first Christmas that employees of the store have been feted and the first get together of the employees of the two stores. Everything possible is being plan ned to. make it an historic occa sion. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Draft boards across the nation had a new Selective Service classifica tion 4-H in which to place reg istrants from 38 to 45 years of age today. Name of the new group was announced during the weekend by the Office of War Information. GOLDEN KEY TO CHAS. HASSELL J.C. Citizenship Award For 1942 Announced Mon. Each year the Junior Chamber of Commerce pre sents a golden key to a citi zen of Beaufort for outstand ing civic service. The recip ient last year was James rotter III, and although it 1 does not necessarily go to a member of the organization, the nominating committee, com posed of Rufus Sewell, Dr. W. L. Woodard, and Halsey Paul, at the meeting on Monday of this .veek presented the name of Charles Hassel, Jaycee, Scout M?ster, Member of Local Air Port Com mission, Chairman of the Scrap Drive, Instructor Red Cross First Aid Class, organizer and Chairman of the Red Cross Rescue Squad. This announcement was but a part of a very interesting meeting with James Potter III and J. Y. Lassiter hosts. James Davis Pot ter, County Auditor, very grac iously turned his oyster house over to the group and first of all they enjoyed an especially fine oyster roast. Afterwards they adjourned to the home of James Potter III for other affairs. In addition to discussion of the key award, W. A. Mace, Chairman of a committee to stimulate inter est in an eating place here gave his report and it was discussed. Aft erwards J. Y. Lassiter showed two excellent films from the War De partment in technicolor w i t h sound that proved both "interesting and informative. They were Tanks Are Coming and Safeguarding Military Information. Christmas Tree For Soldiers At The Legion Hut Mrs. Vera Hil Stubbs, Supervi sor of the Defense Recreational Program for the County, announ-j ces that there will be a Christmas Tree at the Legion Hut for sol diers unable to get home for the holidays. Those in charge hope to have on the tree a gift for all the boys visiting the Hut from Christ mas Eve through Sunday. To this end, Mrs. Stubbs is asking every one in Beaufort and throughout the County wishing for the opportunity to do something to atid to a Service boy's Christmas to send in a suitable package for the tree. It should have no name on the outside but inside the name of the giver should be written and should be at the Hut by Christmas Eve. She says the gift need not be elaborate cigarettes, toothpaste shaving cream, cookies, candy, fruitcake, handkerchiefs and so on See CHRISTMAS TREE Back P. 1 Methodists Honor Men In The Service Ann Street Methodists Sunday had special services dedicated to i ho boys of the church who are serving with the armed forces. The i ramed honor roll inscribed on a specially designed poster was plac ed within the chancel rail. Mem bers of the Baptist Church, with- out a minister for the morning I serv ice, very graciously joined with the Methodists in the service. The American Legion attended t'ne service in a body. The exercises opened with the dedication of the honor roll in which responses were given by the congregation. Mayor Paul spoke fittingly for the town, Raymond Ball brought a mes.sage from the Legion, and a short sermon by the pastor followed. The cnoir gave an appropriate anthem which add ed to the beauty of the servi'v. The service was characterized by affection for the boys who are away, prayers for their safe re turn, and for guidance in a war that seems necessary if we are to have a better world. ROTARY PARTY Next Tuesday at 7 p. m. Rotar ians and Rotary Anns will make merry at a Christmas party and din ner at the Inlet Inn. The ladies are in charge of plans which are suposed to be a surprise to the Ro tarians accustomed to have to agi tate themselves over the weekly programs. The idea is to put away heavy matters for one evening and have a good time together. Clarence Guthrie Receives Promotion Clarence H. Guthrie, of Guthrie Jones Drug Co., has recently been promoted from Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class to Pharmacist's Mate 1st Class. Guthrie entered the U. S. N. R. last February and was sent to the Naval Hospital at Ports mouth. In April he was transfer red to Parris Island, S. C, where he is stationed at present. He it the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Guthrie, of 910 Ann street. A & P STORE ROBBED LAST SAT. NIGHT Considerable Sum Of Money Stolen Presumably early Sunday morning between one and daylight, someone broke in the local A & P Store on the south side of Front Street and robbed it of a very con siderable sum of money m cash and checks. Manager James Cannady says he stopped in the store on Sunday, but did not go out back so noticed nothing amiss. On Monday morn ing, however, when he went to work, he stepped in the rear to hansr u) his overcoat and saw the j back door broken in. His first 1 thought was of the money that he ! had carried in the store over the I week-end. He investigated and : found it cleaned out. Chief of Po j lice Longest has been notified and 1 working on the case but there has ),,,,, ,, solution to date, Yptf rdav a check was made to Yesterday determine the amount taken. Man- See A AND P Back Page Davis Boy Writes Of Experiences Theodore R. Willis, B.M. 1st Class, of Davis, has written in the following story of his recent trip to North Africa: My ship, a Navy Transport, left port in the world's largest convoy bound for North Africa. We land ed safely after IT days' journey covering" 3700 miles. The trans port area lay Lj2 miles from the beach, here the fleet divided mak ing ready to land at different points. We encountered quite a battle before taking the point. Our battle wagons, heavy and light cruisers, and destroyers, with sev eral aircraft carriers, opened fire. The combat started in early morn ing and lasted until late afternoon. When firing finally subsided our convoy moved in to the beach and began unloading. My mind was on the landing boats, watching as each left the ship with troops. I had the sad experience of seeing planes riddle men and boats, even shooting cox swains from the boats, seeing them crawl back, and shot from the boats a second time. On one occa sion one wave of four boats land ing early one morning mistook an enemy ship for ours and we-.it n long side to get directions for landing. This proved fatal for them for the ship was an enemy destroyer and mowed the men and boats down except one yhich re turned to our ship for orders. While unloading the second day about sunset, we got the signal that an enemy submarine had got ten inside our screen and was a bout to attack. Before our de stroyers could approach, she had torpedoed three ships and sunk one. All boats go to the rescue oi a torpedoed ship and we succeed ed in larding all troops from these ships with few if any casualties. Next afternoon the same operation See DAVIS BOY Back Page BEAUFORT BOYS In The Service Lt. -William S. Wilkins, son of Mrs. Eva Jurney Wilkins of Beau fort and Mt. Olive, is with the Ar my Air Corps Fixed Gunnery Field, Eglin Fla. Lt. Eric Wilson Hill, son of Rev. E. L. Hill of the Methodist Confer ence, formerly of Beaufort, is with the Army Air Corps, Bowling Field, Washington. He is a naviga tor in Bomber Service. Denard McDonald, Pft, son of Mrs. Harry Gillikin, Beaufort RED has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He is stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss. Harry, second son of the Gillikin's is Electrician's Mate 1st Class, U. S. N. R. stationed at the Section Base, Morehead City. Odell Merril, son of Mr. and Mrs. David F. Merrill, Beaufort'R. F. D., recently inducted into the Army at Ft. Bragg has been, sent to Ft. Slocum, N. Y., Casual De tachment, for basic training. Roy Eubanks, also inducted at Fort Bragg, is with the Signal Corps at Atlantic City. Mrs.-Eu-banks will continue to make her home in Beaufort and carry on-the work of Mr. Eubank's Photograph Studio. 0 Braxton Harvey, U. S. N., back from Africa on furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Har vey, Tuttle's Grove, leaves tomor row for Norfolk to take up hLj du ties again. 0 George Bailey, Aviation Metal smith, 3rd Class. U. S. N. Air For f i r . n ce, has been transierrea irom w co Fla., to Corpus Christi Texas. -o Lt. Com. W. S. Chadwick is sta tioned at Camp Allen, Va., as sur geon for the Naval Construction Training Center. He and Mrs. Chadwick are at the Powers Cot tage, Virginia Beach, and Miss Miiry Stte Ruddi s spending soma time with them. Donald Williams and George Bridgers have been promoted to Sea 1st CI. Donald is in Brooklyn at the Naval Armed Guard Center. He is studying to be a machine gunner. Lucian R. Whitmore, just com missioned 1st Lt. Army Air Corps, Kelly Field, is a boy in whom wo feel we have some stakes. He is the son of W. L. Whitmore, for four years manager of Rose's 5 & 10 cent store here preceding Jos eoh Hines. While here Mr. Whit See SERVICE Back PaSe NOTICE TO OUR READERS Due to transportation difficul ties our feature pages did not ar rive in time for this week's issue. If it had arrived we would have had 12 pages instead we are only running 8. The four pages whioJt would have been the second sec tion had to be inserted in the first section. s TIDE TABLE '! Information as to the tide at Beaufort is given h this Y column. The figures ate ap- proximately correct and are , . .j iLi.. : .1 1 1... r . oasea on lauies luiuiaueu oy t the U. S. Geodetic Survey. X So meallowances must Ni T made for variations in the X wind and also with respec T to the locality, that is whett er near the inlet or at th" Y, head of the estuaries. HIGH LOW Friday Dec. IS fi-AT, AM. 6:33 PM. 12:33 Saturday, Dc. 19 7:02 AM. 12:31 7:17 PM. 1:21 Sunday, Dec. 20 7:43 AM. 1:16 PM. AM. -M. AM. 7:58 PM. 2:05 PM. Monday, Dec. 21 8:22 AM. 1:57 8:37 PM. 2:45 Tuesday, Dec. 22 8:58 AM. 2:37 9:16 PM. 3:22 Wednesday, Dec. 23 9:34 AM. 3:13 9:5r PM. .3:57 Thursday, Dee. 24 AM. PM. AM. PM. AM. PM. 10:10 AM. 10:33 PM. 3:49 AM. 4:31PM.
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