Yol. 22, No. 4
Brings $7,500
In Paper Bag
For War Bonds
-Miss Thrift Informs Mr. Went
worth that the Money Is for
10 Bonds of SI,OOO Each
Miss Ava Thrift, captain of one
of the teams canvassing for the
sale of War Bonds at the National
Munitions Corporation plant in
Carrboro, and incidentally around
the rest of the town, entered the
plant Tuesday afternoon with a
paper bag gripped tightly in her
right hand.
When she came into the pres
ence of H. W. Wentworth, the offi
cial in general command of War
Bond sales, she said:
“This is from Ivey’s Case. It
is for ten bonds of SI,OOO each.”
Whereupon she opened the
bag, turned it upside down, .vnd
emptied out $7,500 in cash—bills
in several denominations.
Mr. Wentworth knew that
Ivey’s Case was a flourishing es
tablishment, but he was not pre
pared for any such display as
this. It amazed him. Five of the
ten bonds were made out to Mr.
Ivey, the other five to his wife.
Theo Blackwood brought in a
lard bucket containing 2,520 one
cent pieces. These were the
penny-savings of members of his
lamily over a |>eriod of two years.
This $25.20 was too much for one
$25 liond (cash price, $18.75) and
not enough for two. Mr. Black
wood added $12..‘10 out of his
pocket, making $87.50, enough
for two $25 bonds.
The sales of bonds-TrCthe muni
t week have
''amounted to $12,000. This is in
addition to the regular deduc
tions, for War Bonds, of 11 1 ■> jjer
cent of the total payroll.
Boone Home from the
Pacific Battlefronts
< 'apt ain William Jackson Boone
n! the Marines Hew across the
Pacific to California about two
weeks ago; Hew from California
to Columbus, Ohio, where his
wife was; and came with his wife
by t rain from ( olumbus to (’hapel
Hill.
They got here on Thursday of
last week; visited his mother,
Mrs. 11. B. Boone, for four days;
and left Monday for San Diego,
(’alifornia.
Captain Boone was on several
battlefronts in the Pacific. The
latest operation in which he took
part was the invasion of Bougain
ville.
When he got. to the island
where hi' was to start his home
ward trip on a plane he was told
he must lighten his baggage. He
didn’t want to be bothered with
the job of rearranging and re
packing his possessions, so he
said to the transport officer: “You
can keep it all here. Send it on
to me at San Diego if you can.”
All he took from his trunk w r as an
overcoat and one uniform. He
thinks he may have to buy a new
outfit.
Miss Lloyd in Operetta Cast
Mi as Whitfield Lloyd has been
chosen as understudy for Miss
Lois McCauley, in the role of
Phoebe in “The Yeomen of the
Guard,” the Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta to be given here Feb
ruary 11 and 12. They are both
Chapel Hill girls. A “Pre-’Flight
Pre-View” is to be given for the
Navy Pre-Flight School Thurs
day the 10th. Thus there will be
three performances in all. There
are some guesses that the musi
cal director, John Toms, may de
cide to have Miss Lloyd appear in
one of the three.
Come to Town Hall and lust
your taxes.
the Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Report from Navy Tells of Kessing’s
Part in Operations at Bougainville
Captain O. O. Kessing, former
commanding officer of the Pre-
Flight School here, Hgures prom
inently in a report on the Bou
gainville invasion sent out from
Navy district headquarters in
i Charleston. The report was writ
ten by Sergeant Gordon D. Mars
. ton, Marine Corps combat cor
respondent.
A unit highly important in
landing operations, but one that
not much has been written about,
is the boat pool. This is an organ
ization embracing both small
boats and large cargo craft, as
signed to provide water transpor
tation for the movement of men
and materials.
“At Bougainville the boat pool
came into its own,” writes Ser
geant Marston. “In the waning
days of November, Marine para
troopers made a raid deep be
hind the Japanese lines. After
they had performed their mis
! sion by causing considerable dam
age to a supply area, they had to
be evacuated. It fell to the lot
lof tin 1 boat pool to get the men
out when their ammunition was
nearly all gone.
"There was only one order from
Captain O. (). Kessing, who com
manded the pool: ‘Get those men
out!’ Captain Kessing prepared
Stockholders (Jet ReportjwrUow the War
Has Affected -Hdilding & Loan Operations
The sGjjdvhTTTdtTs of t ho Orange
JJemTffy Building and Loan Asso
ciation, at their annual meeting
Monday night, learned from the
report of President I). D. Carroll
that the earnings on the associa
tion’s stock in 1943 were at the
rate of 5* ■> per cent.
“This is most satisfactory in
these days of low yields on in
vestments," he said. “In this last
year we had the largest maturity
of stock in our history, $106,000
having been paid to investors in
our stock or in reducing mort
gages on homes.”
Reviewing the experience of
the association in the last twelve
years and analyzing its present
situation, Mr. Carroll said:
“It will make for a clearer un
derstanding if it is borne in mind
that we are still at war and that
the war was preceded by the most
severe depression in history. The
creeping economic paralysis ol
the early 1930’s was attended by
a general collapse of our credit
and financial structure. This
emergency, with its alarming un
employment and persistent high
rates of interest, led the Govern
ment, as a recovery measure to
enter upon a policy of inducing a
rapidly expanded home-building
program.
“The generosity of the policy
was dictated by the' necessity of
5 Officers Leave, 2 Arrive
Five officers were detached
from the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight
School in the last week, and two
others reported here for duty.
Those detached and their new
destinations are: Lt. Francis H.
Kimbrough, head football coach
to Naval Flight Preparatory
School, Williams College; Lt.
Lyal W. Clark, assistant football
coach, and Lt. Milton Singer, drill
master, to Naval Air Station,
Lakehurst, N. J.; Ensign H. E.
Thompson, platoon officer, to Na
val Air Technical Training Com
mand, Memphis, Term.; and En
sign A. H. Drewes, platoon officer,
to Naval Air Station, Memphis,
Tenn.
The new arrivals are Lt. Fred
erick B. Lukins and Lt. (jg) John
L. Hickey, both dental officers
from the Naval Training Station,
Newport, R. I.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY. JANUARY 28, 1944
for the participation of destroy
ers, gunboats, and PT boats, and
Lieutenant Frank H. Nolander
took over under his direction.
“Thirty-one craft were assem
bled. At the appointed place for
the removal of troops, the for
mation swung inward in four
waves.
“Japanese artillery had the
maneuver spotted- and brought
: artillery and mortars to bear.
Then Captain Kessing’s counter
operation went into action. Gun
boats and destroyers moved into
position and poured shell after
shell into the area, just over the
the forward line of our forces.
“As darkness fell, the boat pool
men made a run for the beach,
t heir little buzzing motors drown
ed in the cannonading. Higgins’
boats and other craft ground
their keels into the soft sands.”
The combat correspondent goes
on to give the details of the evac
i nation—how casualties were tak
en into the boats first, the work
of the Navy doctors and corps
men, the laying down of a pro
tective barrage by destroyers
and gunboats, and the bringing
in of 75-mm. half-tracs on ramp
lighters, “just in case the Japsj
wanted to mix things unmeThe
beach.”
providing jobs for desperate peo
j pie rather than sound and vau
lt ious business considerations. It
took the form of lower interest
| rates, longer term loans, more
liberal appraisals, and higher
loan ratios. This forced a re
adjustment of the busines oper
ations of building and loan asso
ciations strongly in favor of the
borrowers as against the in
vestors.
“The consequence was not only
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Application for Aid for Nursery School for
Community’s Negro Children Is Sent to Govt.
I! II Mrs. Ilun u IF. MeGtdluird
After many months of pre
paratory work by a committee of
citizens, an application for finan
cial aid for a nursery school for
the negro children of Chapel Hill
and Carrboro has been sent to
the Federal Works Agency in
Richmond, Va.
The need for the nursery is
urgent. The plea for it is based
on the fact that this is a com
munity where the training of
men for the armed services and
the manufacture of munitions
are being carried on. A nursery
school for children will free
mothers to do work which aids
the war effort.
Mrs. Clarence I leer, chairman
of the Child Care Committee of
the Civilian Service Corps of the
Office of Civilian Defense, has
been responsible for the work of
making the required surveys and
preparing the application. A
committee of around 35 persons
have aided her. Students in the
University, members of the In
ter-Racial Commission of the Y.
M. C.A.and the Y. W. C. A. have
taken part in the work.
Mrs. Frances Hargraves and
Hubert Roberson, two negroes
prominent in civic affairs, made
a block-by-block survey among
the negro families to find out how
many mothers wanted to use the
nursery school for their children.
Sixty children were found who
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Chapel Hill Chaff
When I called on Mr. and Mrs.
James Lee Love in Burlington
Sunday, Mr. Love talked to me
j about Chapel Hill as he knew it
first as a student and then as an
instructor. He entered the Uni
versity in December 1880 and
was graduated in 1884. The
reason he came in December was
that his father wanted him to
take charge of a cotton gin for
three months and offered him the
earnings from the gin to use to
! ward the cost of his college edu
cation. He was at Johns Hopkins
for a year after his graduation;
was assistant professor of mathe
matics here for four years; and
went to the Harvard faculty in
1889.
Mr. Love built the first house
that went up in Chapel Hill after
the civil war—the one in which
Mrs. Cummins Mebane now lives,
next to the President’s House. It
was named Seven Gables. The
second post-Civil War house,
built by Joseph A. Holmes, pro
fessor of geology, is now Miss
Nellie Roberson’s. My own mem
ory goes back to the time when
this was the last house in town
|on the right siile-of the street as
you wentHJiward Durham. The
Tasfone on the other side was the
George T. Winston house, later
bought by Horace Williams and
bequeathed by him to the Univer
sity. In the 1860’s it was the
home of “Old Tige” Smith, pro
fessor of modern languages,
whose son, Hoke Smith, became
Secretary of the Interior under
Grover Cleveland and then Gov
ernor of Georgia.
In my childhood the thick
woods began at the Ikuhl by the
-Winstons’. It was here that
Franklin street liecame the Dur
ham road. The present Lawson
house was put up about 1895 by
F. K. Ball, the substitute profes
sor of Greek when Eben Alex
ander was the American Minister
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needed such care so that their
mothers could work. A block-by
block survey among the white
people of ( hapel 11 ill showed that
there were not enough, who
wanted a nursery school for their
children, to justify an application
for government money. Letters
confirming the need for the nur
sery school were obtained by the
committee from President Gra
ham, Dean House, 11. W. Odum,
and J. A. Williams.
The government will furnish
all the money for the nursery
school if it approves the applica
tion. Mrs. Isabelle K. Carter
was chairman of the Child Care
Clinic when the movement for a
nursery was started. When she
resigned, Mrs. Heer assumed the
chairmanship. The first applica
tion was stopped when it was re
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Religious Emphasis Program
The Religious Emphasis Pro
gram at the University will open
day after tomorrow (Sunday)
and continue through Tuesday.
It is sponsored by the Y.M.C.A.
and Y.W.C.A. Harry F. Comer
will direct it. The main speaker
will be Rev. Richard Raines of
Minneapolis.
Bond Sales So Far, $161,600
The sales of War Bonds in Or
ange county, in the Fourth War
Loan campaign, stood yesterday,
at the end of the first nine days,
at $161,600. Os this amount, SBB,-
000 was from the sale of “E”
Bonds. The county’s quota for
“E” Bonds is $425,000, for all
Bonds (including “E”), $540,000.
State Planning Board to
Have Headquarters Here;
Chairman Cobb Hopes to
Open Offices Next Week
Pre-Flight Ball for
Anti-Paralysis Fnml
The Navy Pre-Flight School
will give a President’s Birthday
Ball tomorrow (Saturday) even
ing, from 9 o’clock to midnight,
in the Woollen gymnasium for
the benefit of the fund for the
fight on infantile paralysis.
The ball is a contribution by
the Pre-Flight School to the
: Chapel Hill campaign. The
school is providing the music,
with its own band, and is paying
all the expenses. The ball is for
the whole community—for every
body in the community who
wants to come either as spectator
or participant.
The admission fee is $1 per
person, and tickets are on sale at
the Ledbetter-Pickard store, the
Carolina Inn, and the Y. M. (’. A.
The campaign to raise a fund
to combat infantile paralysis,
through research and treatment,
was begun several years ago in
celebration of President Roose
velt's birthday (January 30) and
has continued year after year.
“E” Awarded Again to
Munitions Plant Here
The Army-Navy “E,” mean
ing Excellence, has been award
ed for the third time to the Na
tional Munitions Corporation
plant at Carrboro.
The pennant for the original
award was presented at cere
monies in Memorial hall a year
ago. Every six months the per
formance of a plant is re-exam
ined, and if the award is renewed
it means the addition of a white
star to the pennant.
A letter from Admiral Bloch
of the Navy Board for Produc
tion Awards to President Wig
more of the National Munitions
Corporation conveysv nsgh com
pliments to the men, and/vomen
at the Carrboro plant.
“There is being forwarded to
you a new pennant with two stars
attached,” writes the Admiral.
“The additional white star is the
symbol of appreciation from our
armed forces for your continued
and determined effort and sup
port so necessary for victory.”
Lt.-( 'ol. Patterson Italy
In a letter from Italy to his
sister, Mrs. Sam Fisher, Lt.-Col.
Howard Patterson of the Roose
velt Hospital Unit of the IJ. S.
Medical Corps tells of being com
fortably quartered in a stove
heated tent. An old Italian brings
him firewood on a "mud sled”
drawn by two white oxen. All the
Americans roundabout were as
tonished when the old man re
fused, with finality, to accept any
payment for the wood. A phobr
graph enclosed in the letter,
taken by one of his patients,
shows Lt.-Col. Patterson wearing
a tin hat at a rakish angle.
Blodgett Has Had Adventures
A Chapel Hillian on a visit in
the North happened to meet re
cently Doc Blodgett, who used to
play the carillon here, took cours
es under Phillips Russell, and
came to be a popular character
on the campus and in the village.
Blodgett told of having lieen in
Spain, on the Alcan Highway, and
with the U. S. Army overseas. He
ended the report on his adven
tures thus: “I was discharged
from the Army when I got be
yond the draft age and now I’ve
come home to my wife and four
children.”
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Aim Is to Prepare Blue Prints
So that Post-War Work Can
Be launched Promptly
Governor Broughton appoint
ed Collier Cobb, Jr., chairman of
the State Planning Board a few
days ago, and at its meeting in
Raleigh day before yesterday the
Board decided to establish head
quarters in Mr. Cobb’s home
town,.Chapel Hill, so that he
could give as much time and at
tention as possible to the im
portant work of getting North
Carolina ready to face its post
war difficulties.
The Board’s offices are to be
on the second floor of the Insti
tute of Government building, and
Mr. Cobb hopes to open them next
week. The executive secretary
has not yet been selected.
The proposal to set up head
quarters here was made by the
Governor and was unanimously
approved by the members of the
Board.
An advantage of Chapel Hill as
a state planning center, in addi
tion to its being the home of the
chairman, is the availability of
University experts in various
fields and of Albert Coates, di
rector of the Institute of Govern
ment, and his staff.
The members of the board be
sides Mr. Cobb are Bruce Ether
idge, director of the state depart
ment of conservation and devel
opment, secretary; I). Hiden
Ramsey, newspaper editor of
Asheville; Howard W. Odum of
the University faculty; Robert
M. Hanes, banker of Winston-
Salem; Harry B. Caldwell of
Greensboro, head of the State
Grange; William F. Carr, mayor
of Durham; George W. Kane,
contractor of Roxboro; and
Capua Waynick, director of a
federal-state project with head
quarters in Raleigh.
“Our immediate job,” said Mr.
Cobb yesterday, “is to work out
a plan by which there will be
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Army Men Here Will
Graduate Tomorrow
Formal graduation exercises
will be held at 9 o’clock tomor
row (Saturday) morning, on the
parade ground near Memorial
hall and the Y. M. (’. A., for about
twenty men who have completed
a nine-months course in the Army
Specialized Training Program.
The rest of the A. S. T. P. will
pass in review to the music of
the Navy Pre-Flight School
Band. In connection with the
presentation of diplomas, short
addresses will be made by Major
| George Matthews, Jr., new com
manding officer of the A. S. T. P.
here, and Charles B. Robson, di
rector of instruction. The public
is invited.
The men graduating tomor
row, who are in the language di
vision, took part of their nine
months course before coming to
Chapel Hill. They are to be as
signed to Army forces overseas
to serve as interpreters and in
other positions in which their
knowledge of languages will be
valuable.
U.D.C. Meeting Tuesday
The United Daughters of the
Confederacy will meet at 8 o’clock
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs. C. W. Shields with Mrs. O.
E. Michie as co-hostess. Mrs.
Hope S. Chamberlain will be the
speaker.
—For Victory Buy War Bonds—