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THE KIDS all know where the schoolhouse is, but Just the game - the school bell rings. Many people know where your business is; ad vertising is the bell you ring. VOL. LXIV. I New Civic Group v Exchange Club , Gets Charter Here Durham Exchange Club Prais ed For Establishing A Rox horo Exchange Unit. Officially welcomed to Roxboro last night at Hotel Roxboro was the City's fourth Civic Club, the Ex change Club, which celebrated the occasion with a "Charter Night" party attended by the more than forty members and their wives, to gether with members from the spon soring Durham club and from clubs in Raleigh, Henderson, Greensboro, Burlington and Lcaksville. Also present were many special guests from Roxboro, city officials, heads of other civic clubs and busi ness leaders. Informal address of welcome at the end of the program was by Mayor S. G. Winstead, who assured President J. L. Lewis that Roxboro is deeply conscious of the good that can be accomplished by Exchange here. Similar sentiments were voiced by J. A. Long, Jr., for 1 Kiwanis and by Fred Long for Ro tary. About thirty Durham Exchange club memberg were present, eleven from Henderson and smaller numb ers from other cities. Presentation of the Charter was by President Simp son, of the Burlington club, substi tuting for Dr. E. I. Nott, of that City and club, called away on busi ness. Director of organization was Capt. A C. Barclay, of Toledo, Ohio, assistant director of national exten sion, who lias been here several weeks assisting Durham members in formation of the new club. (Continued on page 8) Cpl. C. S. Snipes Hurt Near Baal ■* *•, t' Corporal Charles S. Snipes, 25, of Rt. 1, Roxboro, a mortar gunner, wounded by enemy shrapnel while advancing into an attack near Baal, Germany, is now recovering at the United States Army 192nd general hospital in England. He has been awarded the Purple Heart. “Gpl. Snipes is making excellent progress and will complete his re covery at a convalescent hospital before returning to duty," said his ward surgeon, Captain Walter Browne of Portland, Oregon. The Roxboro soldier recalled: “I was walking along the road, car rying a 60mm mortar when Jerry opened up with mortars. We couldn't see them because the road was flanked by woods and the ground was very flat. I was hit by shrapnel from a shell that burst nearby. A jeep came down the road and I was taken to an aid station." His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Snipes live near Roxboro. They have two sons in the Navy, Eugene in California, and Edgar, who is on the cast coast after serving in the Pacific. Before entering the Army on August 7, 1941, Cpl. Snipes was a drug clerk at the Peoples Drug company, Washington, D. C. o Williamson Rites Funeral for the day-old infant son of Pvt. and Mrs. Roger S. Williamson, of Rock Grove, whose death occurred Tuesday at Watts hospital, was held Wednesday af ternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Obie Yarborough, maternal grandparents, with interment in Rock Grove cemetery. Rites were in charge of the Rev. Joe B. Cur rin. Pvt. Williamson originally was from Clarksville, Va., and Mrs. Williamson is living with her pa rents while he is on duty. —. o Sgt. Sam Umstead Reported Missing Sgt. Sam Umstead, son of Mr. and Mrs. Logan H. Umstead, of Roxboro, overseas with the United States Army Air Forces, has been repoted as missing in action over Germany as of Saturday, April 7, according to an official War Department message received here by his parents this morning. A brother, Ensign Wiley Uijurtead now on duty with the Navy in the Pacific area, was in Roxboro on leave a few weeks ago. 0 WAC HAS MEDAL Pfc. Lee O. Hamlet of Route No. 2, Roxboro, was recently awarded the Good Conduct Medal at Morris Field, Charlotte, where she is as signed to the Base hospital as a Medical Technician. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Butner's Hospital Soldiers Come To USO Program USO Service Center Plans Simular Program First Sunday In May. Week-end program being planned ! for this Saturday and Sunday at Roxboro’s USO Service Center will be on the simple scale adopted here since Camp Butner became a hos pital center rather than a military camp, according to Chairman Dr. Robert E. Long, but the Rpxboro center will be open both Saturday and Sunday nights and Sunday afternoon, with the usual Sunday | night supper and vespers. No special hospital-soldier guests are coming in a group this week end. but they will be here for the next week-end thereafter. The group program of last week, with twenty five Butner convelescents as special guests, was unusually successful, ac cording to Dr. Long, who said yes terday that social activities were in j charge of Group Two Hostesses. | with Misses Peggy Whitten and Anita Kirby as co-chairmen. Leader of the Butner men was Lt. Boekin. The boys arrived Sunday after noon at two, met the girls at the Roxboro Center and then went to the Fred Long cabin at Chub Lake, where water sports and other games wore enjoyed prior to the picnic supper. Vespers were in charge of the Rev. Daniel Lane, of Person circuit, Roxboro. who was accom panies tj JJiulß Lake Vy Ms wife and son. A social hour at the Center was held for an hour or so after the soldiers and their hostesses return ed to Roxboro. Held Tuesday night at Camp Butner was a formal dance i attended by many Roxboro girls, who were accompanied by Mrs. T. T. Mitchell. o Oakley Funeral Held Tuesday Funeral for Mrs. O. H. Oakley, Sr., 63, whose death occurred Sun [day night at her home, was held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock at the home in the Rock Grqje sec tion, interment in Burchwood cemetery. Rites were in charge of Elder L. P. Martin, of Flat River Primitive Baptist church, assisted by Elder Fred Rhodes, of Durham. Active pallbearers were, Frank Oakley. James Davis, Clarence Har jris, Melgum Hicks, Dewey Daniel, Ollie Rarborough, Randall Daniel and Baxter Duncan. Flowerbearers were Misses Hazel Slaughter, Helen Latta, Ora Latta, Helen Yarborough, Nancy Whitfield, Mancy Clayton, Hilma Garrett, Mary Clayton, Clarine and Pauline Allen, Thelma Oakley, Bannie Rogers and May Fannie Davis and Mesdames A. C. Painter, T. C. Sanders, Marvin Clayton, Melgum Hicks, Frank Oak ley, Roy Oakley, Floyd Clayton, Alonzo Gravitte and John Horton. o Sgt. J. B. Dunn, Jr., At Miami Beach S-Sgt. John B. Dunn, Jr., 21, of Longhurst, has arrived at Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach, Fla., for reas signment processing after com pleting a tour of duty outside the continental United States. As a B-24 Liberator gunner,en gineer, Staff Sergeant Dunn flew three missions in the European theatre of operations. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Dunn, of Long hurst, he entered the Army in April, 1943. o Pre-School Clinic The Pre-School Clinic will be held at Hurdle Mills school Monday morning, April 30th, from 9 to 11 o'clock. All parents with children entering school next year are urged to bring their children for this clinic. o In Hospital Miami Beach, Fla.—Pvt. George D. Hester, son of Mrs. Ida Hester, Hurdle Mills has been admitted to the AAF Regional and Conval escent Hospital, Miami Beach, Fla., for treatment and observation. ®f)e Couritr=®tmeg Win* Recognition Stir ■ I 188 I y fJM It 4^t M. SGT. RAYMOND GENTRY Master Sergeant Raymond H. Gentry, 26, of Woodsdale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Haston Gentry, of Woodsdale, and brother of Pfc. Lambcrth Gentry, of Chyenne, Wyo., has received a certificate of merit from his com manding officer. Col. John L. Mc- Culloch, the U. S. Air Corps, Eng land, according to a letter received from Col. McCulloch by Sgt. Gen try’s wife, Mrs. Gwen Minor Gen try, Macon, Ga. Sgt. Gentry is with the ground crew, the Eighth Air Force, Eng land, and entered the Army six years ago. Col. McCulloch writes to Mrs. Gentry: “The certificate of merit has been awarded to your husband in recognition of the meritorious manner in which he has perform ed his assigned duties as a non commissioned officer in a unit of my command, if is devotion to and his untiring efficiency in the ser vice of our country has contribut ed materially to the success of aerial operations on the enemy. It was my pleasure recently to have signed this certificate and I realize that to you, too, it would be a real pleasure to hear of your husband's achievements." Combat Ban On Eighteen Year Olds Imposed Requires Six Months of Train ing: Enlisted Men Over 41 May Get Discharges. Washington, April 24. —The Sen ate tonight passed the Selective Ser vice Extension Act with a proviso, opposed strongly by Gen. George C. Marshall, requiring the Army and Navy to give 18-year-olds six months of training before sending them in to combat. The unanimous voice vote came after the chamber rejected, 57-11, an amendment to prohibit the in duction of men over 31 after May 31. It was introduced by Sen. Owen Brewster, R„ Me., who said that Britain had adopted such a policy. Earlier, the War Efepartment an nounced that Army enlisted men over 41 may be discharged upon ap plication. It estimated that about 50,000 are eligible. Training Amendment Adoption of the pre-combat train ing amendment was the first rebuff to the administration since Presi dent Truman took office. Mr. Tru man has asked passage of the bill without change. Marshall and Secre tary of the Navy James V. For restal had warned that the amend ment would interfere with military training programs. Administration leaders in Congress protested that it would "endanger thousands of Amer ican lives.” The House recently approved the extension after refusing to write in the combat ban. This means that differences between the two ver sions must be ironed out in con ference. Republicans tried unsuccessfully to retudn the measure to the House without asking for conference. CONFERENCE AIM, LASTING PEACE-TRUMAN San Francisco, April 25.—President Truman opened a conference of j statesmen of 46 United Nations to day and solemnly dedicated them to the task of forging a permanent peace, to becoming "the architects of a better world.” In a single, succinct sentence the j President brought sharply into focus J the challenging opportunity con.! fronting them: "We still have a choice between. . . . the continuation of interna tional chaos —or the establishment j of a world organization for the en- | l'orcement of peace." I ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA How Geraldine Got New Home Mr. and Mrs. G. E. McCorkle, of Lamar street, have a new daughter, Geraldine, who will be thirteen months old tomorrow and will cel ebrate her advancing age just one week after her arrival at the Mc- Corkle home. Connected with Ger aldine’s story is a sort of neighbor hood party given Monday night in her honor by Laint-r street neigh- , bors and friends. Maybe., that party ought to be on the society page, but the whole narrative is so different that rules go by the board in this instance. Geraldine's father, who lives about eighty miles from Roxboro, was Mrs. McCorkle's neighborhood friend and childhood playmate in Gran ville county. Last December Gerald ine's mother died suddenly, leaving the father with four young children, all under five, Geraldine, the young est. About two months tago the har rassed father met Mrs. McCorkle on the street in Roxboro. The conver sation turned to the children and Mrs. McCorkle remarked that she would like to adopt Geraldine. The friends parted and she thought little more about, the matter. Last week, on Friday, Geraldine's father appeared in the A and P store here, where Mr. McCorkle is man ager. Mrs. McCorkle was there, too, and noticed that the father had ‘Geraldine in his arms. He handed Names Wanted For Gold Star List Fred Bishop, teacher in Roxboro high school, a . graduate of Wake Forest college and an ordained Bap tist minister has been recommend ed as a full-time teacher of Bible in Roxboro high school by the Person Ministerial association, following ac tion taktn Monday' afternoon at a meeting of the Association at Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church. It is understood that the recom mendation will be accepted and that Mr. Bishop, beginning with the Fall term, will transfer from regular teaching to Bible instruction. Ac tion of the Person ministers was taken after previous recommenda tions in favor of Mr. Bishop a» Bible teacher had been made to the Asso ciation by Supervising Principal Jer ry L. Hester and by Person Super intendent R. B. Griffin. The ministers also heard an ap peal from Legion Commander Ned Dillard for cooperation in securing Hester To Start Third Year As District Head Jerry L. Hester, at a call meet ing of the Roxboro District School board, has been unanimously re elected as supervising principal of Roxboro District schools, it was announced today by Person Super intendent R. B. Griffin, who points out that the Board was high in its praise for the way in which Mr Hester has served. With the op ening of the new term he will be gin his third year as District ad ministrator, longest tenure in office held here within recent years by a District head. It is expected that Mr. Hester will soon announce results of fac ulty elections in schools ir. his dis trict. Complete re-elections of faculties at Bushy Fork and at Bethel Hill have been reported by superin tendent Griffin, althougn there will be a vacancy at Bushy Fork in the principalship because of the resig nation of C. H. Mason, who leaves his position as of June 1, to be come Postmaster at Timberlake. Second vacancy in school adttiinis | Into an impressive stone building, whose flag at half staff in honor) lof the late President Roosevelt, the j voice of his successor was brought I from Washington to launch one of history's great international meet-) ings. j The first conference session, be j ginning with a minute of "silent, | I solemn meditation," lasted 31 min- 1 ' utes. j Hie sole objective at San Fran cisco, the President said, is to con struct the delicate machinery “which I will .make future peace, not only | possible, but certain." I “We represent the overwhelming HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE the child to Mrs. McCorkle. He was too full for words. Could not even tell the baby’s name. He rushed out of the door. Mrs. McCorkle took the baby home. Pretty soon, the father followed in a taxi. He was ready to talk, said the child’s name was Ger aldine and that he wanted the Mc- Corkle? to adopt her. And they have, i legal papers and ail, which is one j good reason why Geraldine Mc , jCorkle s Lamar street neighbors gave ; j her a party Monday night and : ! brought gifts suitable for a small i young lady with blond hair. The . j McCcrkles, incidentally, have one ;: son, Elmo, who is quite pleased that 1 ■he has a sister. Host and hostess for the "surprise" party were Dr. Robert E. Long and ; j Mrs. Felix Fleig, which ends the , nicest and most heart-warming story Roxboro has had in many months. i i Oh, yes, Geraldine was aiseep ■ j while the party was going on, but 1 these were the other guests: ■ | Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Millican, ! ' Mrs. Hart, Helen Stoop and Zephia : Woods. Mrs. Huck Sansbury, Doris Faucette, Mary and Felix Fleig. Mrs. >; Victor Satterfield, Mrs. H. W. : Newell. Mrs. Clyde Wade. Mrs. Felix • j Fleig. Possum and Terry Stoop. Dr. , I Robert Long and family, Tom Shaw, I ! Fidelis Class of the First Baptist II church, and Dorothy Strickland. by next Monday a complete list of | Person men and women killed in ac tion in World War 11. Dillard ex plained that the ministers are ex pected to be in better position to know the names of those reported killed. Persons having such inform ation a«ie requested to give it to their respective ministers at once, as the local Legion Post will have to have the names by Monday to prepare Gold Star certificates for a Memorial Day program May 30, when mothers of those killed will !be honored. Speaker at the Minister's Associa tion was the Rev. J. F. Funderburk, whose subject was concerned with "Not .being afraid of God or Death, but ourselves”. Motion that Mr. Bishop be selected as Bible teacher was made by the Rev. J. Boyce 1 Brooks, present part-time Bible in structor. The motion was seconded by the Rev. J. N. Bowman. Delayed Open House Open house at Roxboro Cen tral Grammar school postponed Wednesday because of rain, will he held Friday afternoon, begin ning at 1:15, according to Miss lnda Collins, principal, who urges parents, friends and patrons to come on time. Regular planned program will be observed. Rotary District Head Here Today John A. Holmes, of Edenton. district governor of Rotary Inter national 189th District, will be in R. xboro this afternoon and tonight for conferences with Roxboro Ro tary club officials and for his of ficial visit with the club. Mr. Holmes will meet with the Board of directors this afternoon at 5:30 in Roxboro Chamber of Commerce of fice, where other Rotary leaders will also gather to meet him. tration will be at Olive Hill, where Mrs. R. B. Dawes, principal, has announced that she will resign. Only other known faculty vacancy by resignation will be at Mount Tir zah where Mrs. Pamela Reade, teacher, will resign. Principal at Bethel Hill is James A. Stanley, who came to the school for the first Mme last Fall. majority of all mankind," he said. ! "We speak for people, who have endured the most savage and de j vastating war ever inflicted upon innocent men, women and children. "We hold a powerful mandate from our people. They believe we will fulfill this obligation. We must i prevent, if human mind, heart and hope can prevent it, the repetition | of the disaster from which the en tire world will suffer for years to come.” Under the massive valut of the opera house, beneath a silvery chan delier that hung like a splash of still molten metal, delegates listened Hag Bronze Star TEC'. STH GRADE R. S. BREWER Technician Fifth Grade Robert S. Brewer, of Roxboro. now in the European Theatre of War and son of the late Mr. and Mrs John M. Brewer, has received the Bronze Star Award “for meritor ious service in actual combat” by order of Maj. Gen. John W. O'Daniel, his commanding officer, the United States Army. The Citation reads as follows: Infantry, Headquarters Com pany, 30th Infantry Regiment. For meritorious service in actual combat. Throughout the period 15 August to 10 November 1944, Technician Fifth Grade Brewer and 5 other soldiers, members of an Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon squad, worked tirelessly and efficiently maintaining con tact with the enemy in southern and central France. By D-plus 33, these men had participated in a total of 30 motorized patrols, an average of nearly one a day. Traveling 659 miles under inter mittent artillery, mortar, ma chine gun and small arms fire, during this initial period, the squad averaged more than one pa trol nightly, among their assign ments being to establish contact with the 36th Division a 1500 yard gap in the VI Corps lines near * , France. In addition to extensive patrolling the squad manned the regimental observa tion post regularly and fired num erous artillery missions on enemy targets, particularly in the * * * sector. J. Henry Briggs' Rites To Be Held This Afternoon Ceffo Farmer Dies Wednes day After Heart Attack At His Home. Funeral for Jim Henry Briggs, 62, Person native and farmer, of near Ceffo. whose death occured yester day morning at 2:45 o'clock at his home from a heart attack, will be held this afternoon at four o'clock at Theresa Baptist church, of which lie was 3 member, by. the Rev. B. B. Knight, of Roxboro. with interment in the church cemetery. Mr. Briggs first suffered a heart attack Tues day night about ten o'clock at his home. Survivors include, his wife, the former Miss Nannie Harris, of the home, six daughters, two sons, thirty grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Daughters are Mesdames Ed Bowes, Fletcher Shotwell, Maggie Howes, Raymond Davis, and Guy Lewis, all of Ceffo. and Mrs. Wad dell Conner, of Halifax County, .Va. Sons are. Dolph and Rainey Briggs, of near Ceffo, Also surviving are a brother, John Briggs, and a sister, Mrs. Ollie Solomon, both of Person County. Active pallbearers will be H. S. and Hester Long, Bennie Williams, Henry Lewis, Walter Wilson and Bennie Blanks. . —o —— The Tower of London once housed a menagerie. in silent awareness of the enormous duty resting upon them. They listened, too, to a brief I address by Secretary of State Stet j tinius, their temporary chairman. I and welcoming words from Gov -1 ernor Earl Warren of California and Mayor Roger Lapham of San ■ Francisco. | “No one of the large nations, no j one of the small nations," Stettinius Jsaid, “can afford anything less than | success in this endeavor. Each of I them knows too well what the ' consequence of failure would be." Murder Fades To Manslaughter For Person Negro Man Mrs. Whitt Has Air Medal For Sgt. Clyde Whitt l»vt. Sue Barrett Whitt Now At Mountain Home. Idaho. Receives Award. Pvt. Sue Barrett Whitt, of Rox boro. now stationed at Mountain Home Army Air Field, Idaho, has received for her late husband, St. Sgt. Clyde G. Whitt, also of Rox boro. the Air Medal and an Oak Leaf cluster, according to announce ment received today from Mountain Home. Presentation was made to Pvt Whitt by Col. John V. Hart, com manding officer of the 320th Bom bardment Wing <H>, Sacramento, Calif., at the Fourth Air Force's Army Air Field at Mountain Home. Pvt. Whitt, who joined the WACS soon after receiving reports that her husband had been killed, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Barrett, of Roxboro. Her husband, son of P. T. Whitt. Sr., also of Rox boro, was reported killed last year over France. In the Air Corps, he was over seas for several months and took part in many engagements. In civilian life he was connected with Woody's Funeral home here and was especially active in the Person Scout District, being acting Scoutmaster of Troop 63, Brooks dale Methodist church. Mitchell’s Chapel Services Begin This Sunday Revival services will begin on Sunday. April 29th at 11 o'clock, at Mitchells Chapel with Rev. R. W. Hovis, pastor of several churches in Person County as preacher. T- C. Sanders, gospel singer, will have charge of the music. Miss Sophia McFarland will be the accompanist at the piano. Rev. B. B. Knight, pastor of the church will deliver the opening mes sage on Sunday morning. At 8 p. nr. beginning Sunday night the Rev. Mr. Hovis will prreach. Comfortable seats, which were given to the church by Olive Branch Church, have been installed. The public is extended a cordial invitation to attend. Sunday, April 29th, Sunday School at Theresa will be held at 7 P. M. There will be no worship service at Theresa on account of the revival services at Mitchell's chapel. All members and friends of Theresa Church are extended a warm wel come to worship with the congre gation at Mitchell's Chapel. o Martin Speaker At Kiwanis Club "Margins of Profit" were discuss ed Monday at Roxboro Kiwanis club at Hotel Roxboro by the Rev, W. C. Martin, who had charge of the program. The Rev. Mr. Mar tin. who delivered this same ad dress a few weeks ago at Roxboro Rotary club, placed emphasis on service to humanity and discussed particularly what Kiwanians and others can do in the way of being helpful to returning soldiers. State Alumni To Meet Monday The Person County club of State College Alumni will meet Monday night, April 30, at 6:30 in the Ho tel Roxboro, where Prof. R. H. Ruff ner and H. W. Taylor alumni sec retary will be speakers. All persons who have attended State College are invited to be i present, according to C. C. Jack son, secretary of the Person chap ter. — o From Overseas Cpl. Riley Winstead, 29, Roxboro Negro soldier, who has seen ser vice in the China-India-Burma theatre and who was in Iran for a good part of the time he was overseas, is spending his furlough here. He worked at Roxboro Drug company and with Economy Auto supply. o A herpetolr {lst is one who studies reptiles. 0 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY DRIVE CAREFULLY! NUMBER 42 Ed Thorpe Receives Seven To Twelve Years In Har ris Case. Ed Thorpe, Person Negro, charg ed with the murder of one of his neighbors, a Negro woman, Ber that Tapp Harris, last Christmas even at her home, received the only extended sentence in the criminal division of superior court here this week, before Judge W. C. Harris, of Raleigh, when sentence of from seven to twelve years was imposed for manslaughter after the plea had been changed to second degree mur der. Court lasted only two days. Charge by Judge Harris was very brief. Foreman of the Grand Jury was A. D. Newton, of Moriah, and only sensational items in it refer to conditions of school buildings at Olive Hill Negro school, at Bethel Hill and High Plains, and to num bers of school busses being with out lights. Explanation of the lat ter has been made by Supt. R. B. Griffin, who says lights are being secured as quickly as possible, that they were not part of standard equipment until recently when con ditions were changed by driving un der daylight saving time. (Continued on page H.t o Person Boys Aid At Baby's Birth Vannoy Day and Robert M. (Tiny) Long, Jr., both of Roxboro, who are with the 27th Evacuation hospital of the United States Army in Ger many report that their commanding general has issued a commendation expressing his- pleasure at the co operation and services rendered by the 27th Hospital unit,, especially in the Colmar campaign. Pfc, Long, writing to his parents, also says lie is sending them a copy of the Stars and stripes, probably one of the first editions to be print ed on German soil. Likewise, he says that his hospital unit recently had as a patient a wounded German civilian, a woman, who gave birth to a baby in the hospital and that the hospital staff members have been much attracted to the baby, a girl, born soon after the opera tion. The citation from the 27th Hos pital unit's commanding general reads as follows; 1. I wish to take this occasion to express my appreciation for the splendid cooperation and efficient service rendered by yvis Evacuation Hospital during its support of the XXI Corps in the recent Colmar Campaign. 2. It is understood that this unit processed a considerable number of casualties of the XXI Corps during the reduction of the Colmar Pocket. Reports have reached me of the careful and efficient attention to duty of the enlisted and commis sioned staff of the Evacuation Hos pital and of the splendid pro fessional attainments of the person nel charged with the direct medical and surgical care of the sick and wounded. Realization that this type of medical support was backing the Corps during the Campaign is a splendid and enduring morale factor and the undersigned is deeply ap preciative of the important part played by this Hospital during the period indicated. 3. It is requested that this ex pression of my appreciation be con veyed to the Commanding Officer of the 27th Evacuation Hospital. o Slightly Wounded S. Sgt. James J. Hargis, of Rox boro, has been reported as having received a slight wound in his right arm. March 20. at Mindano, ac cording to a message sent to his sister. Mrs. Joe Edwards, of Route I. Milton, who subsequently, on April 3, received a letter from him. | Sgt. Hargis, a son of late Mr. and ; Mrs. E. A. Hargis, has been in the Army since December 1941, and ov erseas for three years. o In England Cpl. Jesse S. Martin, of Christie, Va., and Audmore, Penna., son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse F. Martin, of Christie, has arrived at a U. S. Strategic Air Force Station, Eng land, where he will be assigned to a permanent station. Prior to en tering the Army Air Force* he was with the Autocar Truck company, Audmore, Penna., as a group leader.