A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
SERVING WESTERN
ROBESON—AND TOWNS
OF MAXTON-RED
SPRINGS
, PARKTON—ROWLAND
S’lii' Scottish Cittern
THE SCOTTISH CHIEF
FOUNDED 1887
RED SPRINGS CITIZEN
FOUNDED 1896
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS
CONSOLIDATED 1944
IN UNIFORM Accept Many For
RED SPRINGS AND MAXTON, N. c.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944
Another Oak Leaf
Ai r S^ C^praan
■-Now Missing
Military Service
From Board Two
Collitis Fatal To
Three Children
Twin children of William
negro, Martha and Matthew
and a grandchild, John Henry
Jr,, were victims of attacks
Smith,
Smith,
Smith,
of
So'uth Pacific 31 di3JJatci{ from
„° n ® r Und ‘n d colored men were
nre ind. ? '1^ 0n June 3th for
bv P hysical examination
Of Board No. 2 at Maxton.
that many the following were
ac c e p te d for Military service.
ou For ! he . arm ^ Doug Smith.
S 1 n an r e h Sn i} th ' Eddie Boyd Wilker-
3 ’ ^Henry Baker, Amos Law-
lence Mudd, John Wesley McCallum,
Harrison Carmichael, Eddie South-
hI'-h;,^ 0 ^ ^ eU Haye3 ’ Venson
Pits M ^^’ George William
Patfeison, Wilbert Stafford, Tuck
. . Leach. Bernice Bethea. Willie
p e .U- S - Army Forces"^ the’south 1 H am E 7 ns ’ Jarvis Everett Johnson.
a S V’ Cha Pman, the son of Eee McCallum, Lonnie Mc-
Mrs. Lida Law Chapman of Red 1 ^ " .," ; "..
springs, has been with the 13th AAF
as an aerial radio operator for about
two years.
the
o " received last week bv
was madeof t 9 ltlzen ’ announcement
h . , a f the awarding of an ad-
13 To h ak . c eaf Clust ® r ° n May
man T f O r ^ Sergeant Robert Chap-
t m ‘u e Period from January
31 to March 19. ■
from »„ C . h , P 1133 been missing
m i l J ^ 0n ln that area since the
iddle of May. He was awarded the
that^™ earIy , las ‘ fall and since
. 2 number of clusters have
been awarded by Lt. General Millard
Hermon, commanding officer of
the South I
Young “Wat” McNeill
Is Mustang Pilot
Navy: Jam es Covington,
M illie Baxter Barnes. James Arthur
Lee Harvey Ford, Luther Leach
Joshua Brown, Evans Mack Ji-
Lee Fairley.
Jr.,
Joe
litis last Thursday, Friday and
urday. Funeral services were
Sunday for the three children.
Mining! tis
Hubert Oliver, negro, of near
col-
Sat-
held
Red
Springs, died of an unidentified
type of miningitis. last week. This
is the first case of this disease to be
reported here in a number of months,
according to records of the State vital
statistics.
Coleman High
Man In Carolina
Junior Selection
Mrs. Chandler New
Robeson Home Dem
Agent July 1
Da J s .M er of Mr. and Mrs. R. T.
Gaitley Of Red Springs Will
Succeed Mrs. Malcolm Cal.
noun.
VOLUME LVI NO. 22
UC^-nk^' (Bond Drive Off T
eGood Start In
son,
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Roy McNeill Cited
For Gallantry
Will Pitch Game At Charlotte
Against Sandlappers June 23;
Wins Two For Whiteville.
An Eighth AAF Fighter Staffion
England i^ecialj—Fip^
er in a Mustang fitter tor the U. S.
bombers striking deep within Ger-
marfy is an almost daily assignment
for Lt. John- W. McNeill, Jr., 23-
year-ol-i son of Mr. and Mrs. John
W. McNeill, of Red Springs, N. C.
Graduate of Red Springs High
School, Lt. McNeill entered the AAF
„. R °y ^Ne'll, Electrician’s Mate
C ^ S ^. son ° f Mrs - K ate McNeill
of Floral College, has been cited for
conspicious gallantry in saving the
lite of a wounded shipmate during
the invasion of the Marshall Islands
Prior to entering the Naval service a nr:i - ,>
he was employed by the New Jefsev !
Power & Light Co. i n Sussex, N J June 22nd ’
xvhere his wife now resides
„ T ' le , ““ation. signed by Major Gen.
H. Schmidt of the U. S. Marine
Corps, reads as follows:
"For conspicious gallantry and
^'Tt' 11 ^ while serv ing with the
Mana °'Y lsion on Rio-Namur
Island. Kwajalein Atol, Marshall
Islands, on the 12th day of Febru-
n^J 944 ’ durin g the bombing of
Rio-Namur Island, Electrician’s Mate
Neil Leroy McNeill and a shipmate
declining to seek safty for them
selves, risked their lives to remove
beneath a truck a shipmate who
i d been ,severely wounded in both
the wounilerflhlaft ^ffough ’lerri'fi
barrage of flame and billowing
Hamp Coleman, the lanky young
ster who pitched some sensational
ball this spring for the Red Springs
High School team, was high man
among those endorsed for the North
Carolina team which will be pitted
against the South Carolina Juniors
in a special game to be played on
June 23rd
at Charlotte.
Coleman will go to Charlotte for
session on the night of
when Jack Coombs will
coach his squad of 14 men.
Feb. 2, 1942; earned his
November 3, 1943.
wings
He is now a com-
bat pilot with Col. Avelin P. Tacon’s
Mustang fighter group flying deep
penetration support and escort
U. S. bombers.
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with
Killed In Action
Word has been received from
the
War Department that Sgt. George
Harvey, who was formerly stationed
st the Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base,
was killed in action over New Guinea
on May 22nd. He was 32 years of
age and the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Harvey of Erie, Pa. His en
gagement to Miss Anna McCall of
Maxton was announced last Christ
mas. The marriage was to have
taken place when he returned
October.
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Lt. R. M. Bitting
Killed In Action
Mrs. Robert M. Bitting, the former
Miss Marion Watson, received a wire
from the War Department Monday,
stating that her husband, Lt. Robert
M. Bitting, had been killed in action
in Italy, May 23. No other informa
tion has yet been received as the
telegram said a letter would follow
later.
Lt. Bitting was the son of Mr, and
Mrs. E P. Bitting of Reading, Pa.
He and Miss Watson were
December 18 at her father's
Gretna.
Lt. Bitting was a pilot
fighter plane, “Southern
married
home in
of the
Belle,”
which he named for his southern
wife, who is the daughter of Walter
Watson, and the niece of Misses Lula
and Virginia Watson of Maxton.
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Curtiz O’Briant, Seaman Second
Class, who has just completed boot
training at Camp Perry, Va., has
returned to camp after spend 10
days at home.
Lieut. W. A. Webb, former Agri
culture teacher in the Maxton school,
who is stationed at Camp Mackall,
has been promoted to the rank of
Captain.
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Edwin L. Key, American Red Cross
Field Director, and his wife, Lieut.
Wilma Key, of the Wac recruiting
division, who are stationed at Colum
bia, S. C., visited friends in Maxton
Saturday.
1 Mrs. Anne Gaitley Chandler, for
the past year home economics teach
er at Philadelphus, was elected home
demonstration agent for Robeson
county at a meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners last Monday.
Mrs. Chandler will succeed Mrs.
Malcolm P. Calhoun, the former Miss
Margaret Cromartie, on July 1. ac-
cording to County Manager E. K.
Butler, who made the announce
ment when the election had been
confirmed by the State College Ex
tension Service.
Mrs. Chandler is a native of Robe
son county, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. T. Gaitley of Red Springs.
Sue was a 4-H club member during
her high school years, and as a Jane
|S. McKinnon Loan Fuqd Student at
| Flora Macdonald College she was the
youngest member of her ciafe which
was graduated in 1941. For two
years she taught home economics
at Barium Springs Presbyterian or
phanage, and last year at Philadel
phus.
Her husband, Pvt. Wallace S.
Chandler, is now with our forces
in the European area.
evening they meet a similar group! Chester Evans_HaS
of youngsters from South Carolina. . - — -
From tins group one player will be
selected for the
First Cotton Bloom
team which will
Junior team for
All-East Junior
meet an All-West
The first cotton, bloom of the
sea-
a series of games
to be played in New York later in
the summer. Connie McGillicudy
of the A's will be the brains on the
bench for the East team at New York.
Coleman has* already pitched the
Whiteville* team of American Legion
Juniors to one national competition,
and bids fair to repeat that perform
ance. He w
^ain^ New
Ih^ 3 few
^Knd a Wipli
ple 1
ta nance
lay the
smoke to the safety of LST. Mc
Neill’s undaunted courage was re
sponsible for helping save the life
of a shipmate who otherwise might
have perished and was in keeping
with the high traditions of the U.
Naval Service.”
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Robert F. McGill Is
Killed In Action
Mr. and Mrs~Archie McGill
S.
of
Route 1, Maxton, have been notified
by the War Department that their
youngest son, Second Lieutenant
Robert Francis McGill, was killed in
action over England on May 20th, A
letter was later received from his
chaplain, stating that he was buried
with religious ceremony in an Amer-
can military cemetery in England.
Lieutenant McGill volunteered for
service in the air corps a year ago.
He received his training as pilot at
Drew Field, Fla., and was sent over
seas soon after being commissioned
He had been in England only about
a month. He was 27 years of age, a
native of Vass, Hoke County. He is
survived by his parents, and two
brothers, Alex McGill of Maxton and
Archibald McGill, of Drew Field.
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Sgt. Angus Medlin
Has Operation
T'Sgt. Angus Medlin, son of Mrs. J.
D. Medlin, Sr., and former Maxton
attorney, underwent a major opera
tion for the removal of a stone from
his pancreas last Friday morning
at the Richmond Army Hospital, and
according to reports brought from
there by his brother, J. D. Medlin,
who visited him this past week-end,
he is getting along fine as could be
expected. His brother, Gilbert Med
lin. left Friday morning to be with
him over the week-end.
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Lt. Emma Brown Grantham of
Spartanburg is at home on leave.
Petty Officer and Mrs. Glenn Han
na of Norfolk spent the past week
end here with Mrs. Hanna's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Love. Mr.
Hanna expects to be shipped out with
in the next month and Mrs. Hanna
Whiteville team’s pitcher got hJmself
in a hole against New Bern, and
Coleman was sent in as relief. There
were three runners on, with nobody
dowri. Coleman did an excellent job,
holding all the Craven county lads
to their bases while he carefully
fanned out the next three batters.
The Whiteville schedule includes
the following games: June 16 at
Sanford: June 28 Rocky Mount at
Wilson; June 30 Kky. Mt. at White
ville: July 5 at Laurinburg; July 7,
Laurinburg at Whiteville; July 10
at Dunn and July 12, Dunn at White
ville.
U. N. C. Diamond
Stars Join Robins
Replacement Center Team Com
ing Saturday Evening For
Dance, And Sunday For Game
The strong 2nd Regiment team of
the Replacement Center of Fort
Bragg will be the opposition for the
Red Robins at Robbins Park Sun
day afternoon. This team is made
up of former professionals and has
a generous sprinkling of major league
talent. They will meet a strengthen
ed Robin team, too. Claude Crouch
er and Ken Black of the University
of North Carolina’s team sprouted
red feathers this week to give the
Robins considerable strength in spots
that have been weak so far this sea
son. Both have excellent fielding
and batting records.
Lefty, Bledsoe, veteran, who hurls
from the offside will be on the
mound for the locals while Black
burn, former Texas league star, is
slated to start on the mound for the
2nd Regiment.
Dance Saturday
The visitors will be here Saturday
evening and will be entertained at
a dance at the Service Club. It
is expected there will' be a sizeable
group in their convoy, which will
plans
Lt.
ing a
Mrs.
to return to her home here.
and Mrs, Ed Abrams are spend-
leave with her parents, Mr. and
Fairley B. Thrower.
include the Regimental dance
which will play for the dance.
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Mass To Be Held
In USO Club
band,
son was brought to The Scottish
Citizen office Monday by the wife
of Chester Evans, Maxton colored
man, who owns and operates a farm
just beyond the site of the Veneer
plant. According to the time honor
ed custom, Chester will .receive a
free subscription to The Scottish
Citizen.
For several years Chester ha
the ra
E5
pl a
ri
' been
ig* in
r-up
Former Minister Of
Local Church Dies
In Virginia
The Rev. R. W. Jopling, D. D. Of
Lancaster, S. C., Buried At
Radford, Va
It was learned here this week
that the Rev. R. W. Jopling, D. D.,
for many years pastor of the Red
Springs Presbyterian Church and for
the past 25 years pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Lancaster, S. C.,
died last Friday, June 9, at the home
of his wife’s family in Radford, Va.
Funeral and burial services were
held in Radford.
Mr. Jopling had been in ill health
for the past several years and three
years ago retired from the ministry.
He and his wife were visiting at her
former home at the time of his
death, while they were enroute to
Norfolk where they planned to make
their home with their daughter and
only child, Miss Sue Tyler Jopling.
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Auto Use Stamps
Now On Sale
The Federal “use” stamps, which
costs $5, and which are
be stuck on each motor
ing the public highways,
sale at all postoffices.
required to
vehicle us-
are now on
The stamps must be affixed to the
car before July 1st. It is recom
mended that they be stuck upon the
windshield by wetting the wind-
shield where it is to be placed rath
er than applying the water to the
glue on the stamp directly. Each
car owner should record the motor
number, license number make, year
and model on the back of the stamp
before wetting it, which helps
keep down the theft of the stamps.
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Phelps Is New
Gin Specialist
Succeeds Johnson
S|t. Djougald McNeill and Sgt.
Sam Snead of Fort Jackson spent
the week end in Red Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Robeson have
received word that their son, Bar
tram, Jr., Staff Sergeant In the Air
Forces, that he is now In western
China, where the scenery and climate
remind him a great deal of Western
North Carolina.
At 12:15 Sunday, June 18th, the
Mass for the Third Sunday after
Pentecost will be offenedjby the Rev.
Charles J. O’Connor in the Social
room of the USO Club, Maxton.
Father O’Connor will hear Confes
sions before Mass and will deliver
the sermon, “War-Goo'..’ Instrument.”
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SMALL GRAINS
Unless growers act now to set aside
and contract for sufficient good seed
for planting the 1944 small grain
crop, there will be another shortage
of seed aa in 1943.
Raleigh, June 14.—A. R. Phelps,
Lumberton cotton ginner and gin
repairman, has been appointed gin
specialist with the State. Depart
ment of Agriculture, according to A.'
B. Fairley, Warehouse division head.
Phelps succeeds Fred Johnson, for
merly of Raeford, who resigned as
specialist last October to go with the
Federal Department of Agriculture.
“This is a free service provided
exclusively for the cotton fanner.
If he feels at any time that he has
not received proper ginning, he
should notify the State Department
of Agriculture”, said Fairley.
Mrs, J. .
first letter ,
Johnny McCu
in Italy. He st.
voyage on a B. % hospital ship
find- was s ettin 8 fine and
finding his work fc. iteresUng.
He and Sgt. Stan Mitche,, who was
formerly stationed at the M-I Air
Base had had a re-union in Italy
Johnny had not as yet received any
mail from home, but as so many
haye asked for his address we are
giving it below:
’ullum received
’ek from her
since his arrival
^ had a pleasant
Robeson County
Early Morning Rally In Red
Springs Well Attended. Max-
ton Canvass Making Progress
John B. McCullum, Jr.
A- D ' American Red Cross,
APO 782, Care Postmaster,
New York.
We have also been requested
publish the following addresses:
A C W. W. McKenzie-34665384
Flgt. 2-Sqdn. E. Grp. Fid
Class 45-AAF-PFS Pilot
Maxwell Field, Ala.
to
Cpl. Geo. M. McIntyre
Dept; 9-Box 281
Licentro, Calif.
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Mrs. A. L. Campbell
Is Re-Elected
Bible Teacher
The Maxton Bible Committee at
its last meeting re-elected Mrs. A.
L. Campbell as Bible teacher in the
local schools for the next school year.
Mrs. Campbell has signified her ac
ceptance of the work.
The Bible Commencement pro
grams which wetfe held at both
the negro and white schools last
month showed the excellent and
thorough work which was done this
past year. There was a healthy
increase in enrollment in the Bible
classes.
Instruction at the Robeson County
Training School was given three
hundred fifty two boys and girls
during the dayan^a half teaching
IUIUJ-a,™ Is supported in if. en-
]tire4 by them. "
firing the day and a half teach-
ingfperiod at the white schools each
week, Mrs. Campbell taught two
hundred sixty boys and girls. The
teaching of the Bible in the white
schools is made possible by the
combined support of the Maxton
Junior Woman’s Club, the Mormax
Club, and by donations of indivi
dual citizens who realize the im
portance of this work .
Mrs. Campbell has just returned
from a Bible Workshop Conference
at Queens College, Charlotte. In
attendance were Bible teachers from
all over North Carolina. Together
these teachers are working
standard Bible curriculum to
ed in those communities
Biblical instruction is offered
public schools.
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out a
be us-
where
in the
House Passes “GI
Aid Bill Already
Senate - Approved
Out-Of-Work Benefits. Loan Fea
tures and Educational Aid In
cluded In Act.
Washington, June 13.—Overwhel
ming house passage sent to the White
House today the compromise version
of the “G I.” bill of rights,” a general
veterans’ benefits measure.
The senate passed the bill yester
day accepting a conference compro
mise to adjust differences between
the senate and house.
As finally approved, the bill con
tains these major provisions:
Unemployment compensation: $20
weekly for a maximum of 52 weeks
for veterans out of jobs in the first
two years after their discharge, with
creation of a job placement bureau
within the United States
ment service.
Education:
ment-financed
ly established
One year of
education in
employ-
govern-
regular-
schools, including vo-
cational training institutions, with
the government paying a maximum
of $500 for tuition and other fees and
subsistence allowances of $50 month
ly for a veteran with no dependents
and $75 for those with dependents
In the case of a veteran who entered
the service before he was 25, a com
plete four-year college education
would be available provided the ve
teran qualified and made proper pro-
grass.
Fhn^il assistance: Guarantee
by the Government of 50 per cent of
private loans up to $4,000 to help
veterans establish themselves in bu
siness or purchase homes or farms.
Interest would not exceed 4 per cent.
Any cash benefits received by a
veteran under provisions of the leg
islation has been estimated from
$3.000,0000,000 to $8,000,000,000.
The Fifth War Loan Drive was
launched in Red Springs Monday
morning with an early morning
meeting at the Red Springs Thea- /
tre, while with meetings of workers
already out of the way at Maxton
the volunteer salesmen and women
began their canvass of their com
munity without a formal rally.
Ringing church bells and the fire
siren called volunteers out of bed
at 7:30 a. m. to the Red Springs
meeting which began at 8 o’clock.
A large crowd attended the Rally in
Red Springs, with practically every
employee of all the local business
houses present. The meeting was
(opened with an invocation by the
I Rev. Edwin Purcell, D. D., and short
Italics were made by Chairman James
A. Graham, D. M. McMillan, George
Calvert and George T. Ashford.
Mr. Graham explained that each
member of the personnel of every
business house in town had been as
signed a quota of $300 to be sold dur
ing the drive. The employees East
side of Main Street was made a team
under the direction of W. N. Weaver,
those on the West side are under
Warren C. McNeill. They are to check
sales made at the store daily and to
stimulate bond sales interest among
the stores’ employees.
The other speakers brought out
jintormation on various points of
the drive which would help in the
sales campaign.
At the close of business Wednes
day afternoon Chairman Graham,
stated that sales for the first three
days of the drive had been very
satisfactory, with over $35,000 worth
of bonds sold. Several stores have
already passed their assigned quotas, g
he said, with tha Q M, McMillanJ
pass its goal was Graham’s depart
ment store, and Home furniture cl
was third, and the group of enw
ployees of War Price and Rationirl
Board No. 2 was fourth. Several
others were fast approaching their
quotas when the report was made up
early this morning, Mr. Graham
said.
Maxton Workers Make
Much Progress
In Maxton the results of the first
three days had not been tallied but
satisfactory reports were being re
ceived by Chairman John H. Mc
Kinnon from campaign workers.
Mr. McKinnon stated that the goal
of $200,000 was much greater than
any quota ever assigned to the com
munity and that it was going to
require a tremenduous effort on the
part of everyone to make the drive
a success there. He stated that the
Fifth War Loan Drive is probably
the most important financial effort
of the entire war to date, and its
success is critically needed. “What
the invasion is to our fighting men,”
he said, “this Fifth War Loan might
truthfully be compared with our ef
fort here at home. Our soldiers ex
pect to hear that we are buying
double, that we are making some ef
fort to match their great sacrifices
in the only way we can aid in the
gigantic effort to win the war. Our
Committee can only ask that you see,
personally, that you do all that you
can, as they are counting on us des-
parately as we are counting on them.’
Bond Premieres
With each bond being sold in Max-
ton and Red Springs, the selling a-
gency is authorized to give a ticket
to the local movie houses. In Maxton
a Bond Premiere will be held on
Tuesday evening. June 20, at 8:30 at
the Maxton Theatre. The new "Two
Girls and a Sailor", with Van John
son and Gloria DeHaven, a picture
that has been described as an answer
to the public’s demand for a gay.
heart-warming entertainment. It is
being presented through the courtesy
of Manager E. B. Bowman and the
Motion Picture Producers.
The tickets given out at Red
Springs will be good for any picture
during a week to be designated by
Manager Carl Mcllwaine of the Red
Springs Theatre.
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CORRECTION
Last week the Scottish Citizen
stated that Miss Dalia Stanton had
been elected president of the Ameri
can Legion auxiliary of the Charlie
Hall Post. Miss Edna Stanton,
sister of the above, was the one elect
ed to this office. We regret this
error.
In the same story is was stated
that the Girl’s State wouldn’t be held.
The statement should have explained
that Miss Mildred Nye would not be
able to attend the State because of
the limit place upon registrations
for the affair by Womans College
officials, where the State is in pro
gress this week,