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_NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN READING TE - KNTEPRIS* ALL PARTS OF THE W0RL .ACH WEEK. VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 2 THE ENTERPRISE NEARLY 188S-MARTS??-C-RUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL "ARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEEr— Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, January 5, 1945. ESTABLISHED 1899 In Powerful Attaei Against ^ir-imiiRbiil .. ^..4- , _ Orrfes'Bi’M'i P5fi>»s Alt&c.t ing Formosa an*l Jap Oki nawa Island Base After being driven back more tha fifty miles, the American Firs Army under General Cuurtne Hodges, has refomed its ranks an with the aid of the British and Nint Army troops launched a powerfu offensive against the northern flan: of the Germans. The new drive, de signed to cut across the Germai bulge in Belgium, had advance! nearly four miles and narrowed th enemy corridor to about twelvi miles. During the meantime, Gen eral George Patton’s Army, striking the enemy’s southern flank, had sue cessfully turned back several fierc< enemy counterattacks and was, ac cording to latest reports, renewing its drive to meet the First Army men Snow, sleet and ice have slowed down the progress of both drives, bu the Americans are believed to have turned the tide and relieved the danger for the present, at least, lr that sectoi along the Western Front The action by Hodges’ men is en couraging in that it proves the Ger mans did not destroy the First Army, that despite the lightning enemy drive, the Americans were able to withdraw, regroup their forces and launch what appears to be a major drive, all since last December 16. The drive was made in what were de scribed as “the most appalling con ditions ever seen on the Western Front”. Every inch of ground being won by the First Army men, who jump ed off Wednesday to squeeze Field Marshal Von Rundsted’s northern flank while his wedge is being push ed from the south by the Third Army, is being won on sheer guts, and not on grand strategy. The morale of Nazi SS troops, high when Von Rundstedt made his breakthrough into Belgium and Lux embourg, is deteriorating rapidly, American officers reported as the Doughboys and tanks advanced through a snow and sleet storm which turned th*1 fighting in the mountains and forests into a white hell. South and west of Erezee (Bel gium) in the Marche area and at the western tip of the offensive penetra tion, the Germans are falling back and offering no opposition to Allied troops. Directly south they are mak ing each totwn and hill a strongpoint and exact the maximum price for its capture before falling back. The price to Americans at times has been high—quite high. Although advances up to nearly four miles have been made on the northern German flank, the main battle has not yet been joined. Ac tion so far has been preliminary to the main event which will come when Von Rundstedt's armored forces decide there can be no more retreating and pick the best ground for a last-ditch stand. It is expected that this stand will be somewhere in a rough semi-circle around Houf falize, a road junction fifteen miles southeast of Erezee. All present indications are that this battle will be the bloodiest the Western Front yet has seen. Encounterirfg about as strong an opposition over on the Eastern Front, . the Russians are said to have check ed a counterattack by the Germans driving to relieve the pressure on i the Nazi garrison in Budapest. How ever, unconfirmed reports maintain . that a big Russian-Polish force is ■ 1 (Continued on page tour) --— - <»; Survives Sinking In Sweet Water Creek Mr. Bill Keel, great hunter and fisherman, barely escaped with his life a short time ago when his cy press canoe went down with him in Sweet Water Creek just below the bridge on Highway 64. Dumped into the icy water, Mr. Keel, attired in winter clothing and boots, said he swam about fifteen feet and caught hold of a log. He steered the log toward shore and made his way to land, cranked up his old Model A Ford and drove to town in a hurry. “I came very near going down once or twice, but when my head would bob up I would blow a regular wa ter spout and paddle that much harder,” he said. Even though there was ice on the water, Mr. Keel de clared that the sinking and strug gle seemed a bit funny at the time. “I was so busy turning and twisting, blowing water and paddling for shore that my antics actually amus ed me at the time,” he said ‘‘I did not get cold until I got to my car, parked a short distance away, and then I drove the fastest i ever did.” Mr. Keel, about 70 years of age, said he suffered a bit from shock, but he did not even take cold. Mr. Keel had placed his gun be side him and the weapon accident ally fired blowing ? fairly sizable hole in the bottom of the boat. The water gushed in and the boat start ed settling rapidly or before he could paddle ashore. He later recovered hi* gun and several other articles he had with him in the boat \ v On The County Court Docket j Kesumiin^^; work as county court :rj''3<diiBH^';vno(i of service in Array, Paul LV Roberson, ap pointed to the position only this week w ill face a large task when he pros ecutes a crowded ducket in the rec ] order’s court, next Monday. Up until late yesterday more tiian forty cases J had already been placed on the dock et for trial next Monday. The session, j the first scheduled since December 17. will handle about the largest c docket ever prepared for the court. There is some doubt if Judge J. C ' Smith will be able to clear the cal j endar in a single day, and if he does ? the court will have to work until! ? mighty near night. It is likely that ; a few cases will be continued, but • one is scheduled to go before the jury and the trial is almost certain to require considerable time. No sensational cases are on the docket, but the court session will at tract an unusual’^Ja^ge crowd even if no one attends <5?,v>r' thonJJjj^fc Un&unts, witnesses and ov.lfMM cials. Five defendants, Warren McLaw horn, Jack Stokes. Cefil Hemby, Wil lie C. and Hubert Corbitt, are charg ed with buying and selling scrap to bacco without license. They are un der bonds ranging up to $500. Twelve alleged drunken drivers are facing the court. Eight persons are sched uled to appear before Judge Smith for assaulting others with deadly weapons. Three are booked on lar ceny and receiving counts. Three others are charged with operating motor vehicles without drivers’ li censes, and one is indicted for allow ing an unlicensed operator to drive i motor vehicle. Other alleged of fenses include, assaults on females, 2; illegal possession of liquor, 2; non iupport, 2; drunk and disorderly, J; sdultery, 1; bastardy, 1. TAX LISTING Tax listing, getting underway in several of the county town ships the early part of this week, is progressing unusually rapidly in most of them. Tax Supervisor M. L. Peel said yesterday. While the work has not been in a rush, several of the list takers have been quite busy. The listing work is to be com plete by January 31. and last minute listing is certain to run into long waits and delays. No extension of time has been allow ed and it is likely that no extra days will be allowed this year for listing properties and polls j for taxation. Adopt New Plan Foi Notifying Relatives Of Army Casualties -$ Personal Message To Be Sen Air-Mail by Coniinuncling Officer of Victim Atlanta, Ga.—The War Depart mont has adopted a new policy ir notifying the next of kin (or emerg ency addresses) of Army casualties overseas whereby detailed informa tion may be received in the shortest possible time, Major General Fred erick E. Uhl, Commanding General Fourth Service Command announc ed a short time ago. General Uhl stated, “In addition to the original casualty notification telegram and letter of condolence sent the emergency addressee from the War Department in Washington, i letter will be air-mailed directly from the Commanding Officer of the Chaplain of the organization to which the soldier is attached. This letter will be sent within a short while after the casualty occurs and will he specific in detail relative to :ho circumstances of death, funeral wrangemenls and overseas burial. “When men are seriously wound 'd, the information will be forward 'd direct from the hospital to the •mergency addressees. “Relatives and friends of Army personnel casualties should keep in nind that from the time of receiving he original notification from the Adjutant Genera] until the supple nental information arrives from the iverseas theater, no further word vill he available at the War Depart nent. “Prior to this new procedure, the inly information in the War Depart nent was obtained through the nitial casualty report sent by code ndieating that the soldier had been isted as a casualty on a specific late. This made it impossible for (Continued on page four) -4s, uneral ror County Wan’s Brother Held —».— Funeral services were conducted t the home in Pender County last Saturday for William M. Eubanks, irother of John W. Eubanks of Has ell. Interment, following the last ites conducted by Rev. J. Carroll, tas in the Scotts Hill Cemetery, Pen er County. A son of the late John H. and Nell Vhitehurst Eubanks, he was born a Pitt County 66 years ago, but had lade his home in Pender County or many years where he was prom nently connected with the oil busi ess and where he served as a mem er of the county board of education, le was a steward of the Methodist Ihurch. Surviving are his wife, the former osephine Hewitt; four daughters, Irs. Lemuel R. Harris, of Warren on; Mrs. James Ivie, of Leaksville; Irs. Milton A. Smith, of Swan Quar ■r; M/s. George B. Randall, of Bal imore; one son, William M. Eu anks, Jr., of Wilmington; a sister, Irs. W. R. Bowers, of Bethel; three rothers, John W. Eubanks, of Has- j ell, Melvin Eubanks, of Wilmington nd Gurtie Eubanks, of Richmond. 1 1 J Three Of Five Men Called for Service Accepted Recently -® Seven Colored Men Called to Report for Pre-Induetion In County Thursday Three of the five Martin County white men called for pre-induction last month were accepted, according to an official audit just returned to the draft board. At least one of the group had made a previous trip to the service center. He is one of the few men in this county to have had ■ his classification changed from 4-F to 1-A and to find his way into the • service. The names of those accepted last , December 19 are, Luther William > James for limited service, William Alfred Roberson and Anphus Llew | ellyn Knox. William Hux and Den nis Mobley made the trip to the cen ter but were apparently rejected, f On Thursday of this week, seven colored men were called for pre-in duction. Their names, registration and last-known addresses: Randolph Hudge Ormond, Wil liamston. Heber Lanier, RFD 1, Oak City. James Henry Mayo, Hassell and RFD 1, Oak City. Clifton Edward Daniel, Jamesvilk* i and Norfolk. James Henry Roberson, William ston and Washington, D. C. Alonza Teel, Robersonville. Garland Moore, RFD 1, Williams ton and Lansing, Mich. Daniel was transferred to Norfolk and did not leave with the contin gent reporting from this county. Only two of the seven men call ed were farmers, and only one of j them was married. As far as it could i be learned none of the group was below 25 years of age .Two were 28 I years old. A few colored men are to answer a final induction call next Tuesday, j and less than a dozen white men are to answer a final induction call about the middle of this month. A fair-siz ed group of white men will be call ed for pre-induction examinations the latter part of this month. No instructions relative to draft- ( ing all 4-F’s have been received by the draft board in this county, but (Continued on page four) i i I t 8 S I \ e a t f; V i( P h h ai rr ir m ci ir f«i g> st pi tii Admits Another In Series of Robberies bi sh fa ar Faced with further incriminating evidence, Henry “Pinky” Bonds, 25 year-old colored man arrested here week before last for the robbery of the local laundry, Harrison Oil Com pany offices and Chas. H. Jenkins, last Wednesday admitted another in a series of robberies reported in the county during recent weeks. The fourth in the series of robberies was admitted only after officers had gathered evidence virtually connect ing Bonds with the alleged crime. While he maintains that Harry Land crawled through a window, Bonds admits he was present when the filling station of Lucian Peel was robbed in Bear Grass Township on December 14. Bonds denies was present when Brown’s service station was robbed in Bear Grass the same night. Three cars were stolen in the county that night and the fol lowing morning, and it is believed that Bonds was a party to the thefts. -«, Firemen Called To Oil Transport Truck Thursday Local volunteer firemen were call ed to a burning oil transport truck about six miles out on the Windsor Highway yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Owned by the B and T. Transit Company of Smithfield, the truck caught fire when the brakes ran hot and locked on the rear wheels. It was thought for a short! time that the fire would spread to the oil cargo, but the driver, using an extinguisher, brought it under control before much damage was done. ar O: pi gc pi fa ar sti bi cil pr se ba ba bi W ba of r i t i i i i Of School Property lion. Property Is in Fair ly Good Condition Following an extensive survey the Martin County Grand Jury re cently filed a detailed report on th< condition of school properties. Con sidering present iLlTculties, includ ing shortages, the property can b< said to be in good condition, as ? whole. The report, filed by Fore man V. L. Roberson, follows: White Schools Jamesville: Building, water and sewer facilities in good condition. Farm Life: Building and water and sewer facilities in good condition, but repairs to basement door recom mended. Bear Grass: Building, water and sewer facilities in good condition. Everetts: Building in good condi tion, but additional drinking foun tains and window shades for prin cipal's office recommended. Williamston High School: Condi tion of building fair. Repairs to plastering, light fixtures in Room No. 10, 5 window panes, repairs to porch doors and repairs to gym roof ri'commended. Water and sewer fa cilities in fair condition. Williamston Grammar School: Re pairs to smoke stack, new spigot in boys' toilet, 5 window panes and re pairs to plastering recommended. Condition of building and water and lower facilities fair. Roberson ville High School: Con lion of building and water and sew ’r facilities good. Repairs to cracked section of furnace recommended. __ Roberson ville Grammar School: ’onditlon of building, fair. Periodic nspection of cracked brick wall, re dace twelve window panes, im provements of accoustics in the au iitorium recommended. Water and lower facilities fair. Recommend hat bursted pipes on two drinking ountains and steam gauge and pop ifT valve on heating plant be repair final: condition of building air. Repairs to front door frame, eplacement of two window panes nd painting of walls and ceiling in wo rooms recommended. Water and ewer facilities in good condition. Hamilton: Building and water and ewer facilities in good condition. Oak City: Building and water and ewer facilities in good condition, rubbish should be removed from oiler room to eliminate fire hazard, 'he grand jury was reliably inform d that school busses have been used t this point for purposes other than le transportation of school children. Hassell: Condition of building lir. Recommend repairs to roof, fa ter and sewer facilities good. Colored Schools Williamston: Condition of building id water and sewer facilities fair, epairs to urnal in boys’ toilet, re sirs to radiators in rooms Nos. 9, i and 17 recommended. The venti tors in room No. 1 cause leaks and iditional drinking fountains recom ended. Roberso/iville: Condition of build g good. Two small leaks in roof ‘<d repair. Water and sewer fa lities fair. Cinder path from buiid g to toilet recommended. Gold Point: Condition of building ir. New pipe for one stove, new ates .bowls and pipes for two Jves recommended along with a imp valve, water arid sewer lacili :s fair. White Oak Springs: Condition of hiding fair. Two leaks in roof ould be repaired. Water and sewer eilities good. Poplar Point.: Building and water d sewer facilities in fair condition. Hamilton: Condition of building d water and sewer facilities fair. 1 te stove and two grates and re-j irs to pump recommended. Oak City: Condition of building is ji od. One leak in roof should be re ired. Water and sewer facilities ir. Pump pitcher needed. Salsbury: Condition of building d water facilities good. Front ■ps need repairs. Whichard-James: Condition of ilding, good. Water and sewer fa ities fair. No di inking water on emises. Jones: Building and water and wer facilities in good condition. Bowers: Condition of building is d. Structure is old and in very d condition and location poor. New ilding on better site recommended, iter and sewer facilities bad. Dardens: Condition of building is d. Removal of partition, addition new rooms, repairs to underpin (Continued on page four) INCOME TAX j Quite a few persons are real zing the sting of the income tax n the county as they hasten to ret their returns filed before lanuary 15. Farmers, quite a few »f whom are said to he filing re urns for the first time, are talk lig about the high cost of war. Income tax "experts” and vol mteers are quite busy preparing eturns for others, but the rush s certain to develop between tow and the 15th. h r< s< h o’ d I U it! f Being Packed in County This Season . Aiany iv/an Lounty 2«rmcis an k filing hops nn< • j (Wkii'g aray ttieix nuk.vTffjipiy fir the next twelve months. The hog killings are being reported in unus ually large numbers, and in sovera sections all other activities have beer ’ pushed aside to make way for the an nual task. “We have hardly had time ■ to feed and water our stock at home since the hog-killing season opened in a big way a few days ago,” sever al farmers said, explaining that they had not missed the first one in their communities so far. Possibly in no other undertaking is the cooperative effort further advanced than in kill ing hogs and packing meat. Preliminary reports declare that the county will kill and pack a lim ited supply of meat this year. In most cases the supply is hardly more than sufficient to care for home needs, meaning that country hams will be a scarce item on those tables where nat ■- depend on delivery » tbp mxixiiifKmQ c i tty i'T’-fjTT: ; smri, br-til-ina-Township' 'trii* wt\-k slated Dial the supply while not as large as usual there, is possibly large enough to extend to other ta bles. Cholera or sortie other disease has swept herds in several parts of the county, centering mainly in James vi 1 It- and Bear Grass Townships. Some say the disease is cholera, but in years past it seldom struck with such force. Some farmers are of the opinion that fever is causing their hogs to die in numbers. One farm er in Jamesville Township was said to have lost hogs valued at $1,500, and herds in other areas have been all but wiped out in recent weeks. After raising hogs on a compara tively large scale in recent years, it is fairly apparent that many Martin County farmers are planning to limit their production to home needs. Cites Need For Bi" D Polio Fund in the County This Season Martin Citimma Are Asked To liaise Approximately $2, OOO For the Fund Pointing out that the 1944 epidem ic of infantile paralysis was the sec ond worst outbreak of the disease in its history in the United States, L Bruce Wynne, chairman of the 1945 polio cumpaign in this county, issued a statement today in which he em phasized the “need to reinforce our lines of defense against this insidious enemy of childhood.” The annual fund appeal is being conducted this year from January 14-31 in celebration of the Presi dent’s birthday, and, as in the past, most of the funds will be used to combat polio in this State. Although North Carolina had one of its worse epidemics of infantile paralysis during the past year, the death rate from the dread disease was the lowest ever recorded, solely because the funds to provide the best possible medical aid and equipment were immediately available, Chair man Wynne pointed out. “This record proves again that quick hospitalization of victims is imperative and the campaign this year will be pointed towards funds to support adequate hospital facili ties to serve the growing number of persons stricken each year, the chair man said. “Since no one knows where, or how lard, polio may strike in 1945, we must again be ready to meet the st ack wherever it may come,” Chair man Wynne said. Through November 21 of this past o ar, 848 cases of infantile paralysis iad been reported to the State Board if Health since before the epidemic ast. summer. Of this number 818 pa ients have received treatment at the lickory Polio Emergency Hospital, he Gastonia Orthopaedic Hospital nd the Charlotte Memorial Hospi ul. Four hundred and thirty-five /ere treated at Hickory. Only 13 deaths were reported at :iese three hospitals, making the /west death rate ever recorded for n infantile paralysis epidemic. Eighty-three per cent of the hos italized cases reported will return > normal or near-normal health, as (Continued on page four) JirLstmas Gifts Are! )istributed by Lions 1 -- The local Lions Club carried out 1 s annual Christmas Cheer program 1 the county during the recent holi- * ay season. Approximately forty ve homes were gladdened by the roject, which was handled and paid ir by the club. During the evening of Christmas | ve, members of the club assembled id made up the gifts, which were | rge bags containing fruits, nuts, oceries and other items. On Christ as morning the Lions distributed icse bags to indigent blind, crip-! led, needy and aged persons or fam- j ies living in this and other com ! ' unities in the county. Members of the club who helped ‘ ith the distribution of these gifts b •port that it was quite an inspire- * on, to witness the apparent appre- r ation of the recipients. r -<$—- a ire Destroys Tenant House on Farm Near Here -®—— j Believed to have started from a c •ater, fire destroyed the small five- f 10m tenant house on D. M Rober in’s farm, about two miles from u .re on the Everetts Road at 1:30 c dock Tuesday afternoon. No one t as at home and when the fire was; t scovered it had gained so much; 1 .•adway that neighbors arid others j n ishirig there were only able to save t e contents from the rear part of e house. j i. Local firemen were called and : h ey responded but nothing could! ■ done to save the house. m o LAND PRICES i I J Land prices are believed to have reached an all-time high peak in this county this week when the Andcrson-Pippcn farm, about two miles west of here on Highway 64 sold for $26,500. The Strawhridge farm on the old Williamston-Everrtts Road, sold for $9,000, observers expressing the opinion that this sale was possibly higher than the other one. Roy Rowers bought the first farm and it was rumor ed the hid might be raised. The second farm was sold hi Albert Perry. The price averaged well over $140 an acre, including woodsland. Prices were equally as high for tlie personal property sold at auction Wednesday. Gradual Decline In Number Weddings Reported in County Marriages Drop from 226 hr for the War to 190 Las! Year in This County -<$>-— | Even though there has been a ' gradual decline in the number of marriage licenses issued in this coun- , ty in each succeeding year following tile outbreak of war in December, 1041, Cupid has struggled to keep up the work. And, considering the ob stacles, a bang-up job has been ac complished. It is Indeed apparent that his field of operations has been materially limited by tin* withdraw al of eligibles for the war, but in some months last year when it look ed as if not a single license would Ik* issued in the county, a match would he consumated by drawing in a re turned serviceman or one home on leave. Marriages among older cou ples have possibly been more popu lar during the past year or two than before. In the year 1041, 220 licenses were ssued by the marriage bureau in liis county. The decline was grad ual in the following two years, and ast year the number dropped to 00, or thirteen below the total for 943. Last month there were 23 licenses ssued in the county, eight to white md fifteen to colored couples. Prior o the war as many as 03 licenses vere issued in December in this ounty. Licenses were issued to the follow ng last month: White Dowell Guy Forbes and Magnolia Idmondson, both of Robersonville. William Melton Ayers and Chris ine Ayers, both of Robersonville. Dr. R. G. Hicks and Ethel Eliza l ( t c t I c I: t t 1; f< v. q fi ei 'g B t( v: Pi P< pi at T m ta A w (Continued on page four) bounty Boy Earns Coveted Air Award Previously cited for distinguished ervice, S/Sgt. Latham N. Leggett, oung Martin County man and son f Mr and Mrs. Henry W Leggett, ir., of Robersonville, was recently warded the Distinguished Flying Iross. The award, about the second r third made to a Martin County ran, was given “For extraordinary chievement on many bombardment lissions over enemy occupied con inental Europe.” The citation further reads, “Sgt. ■eggett’s actions reflect the highest redit upon himself and the armed arces of the United States.” The young man, at the time the ward was made, had flown thirty ombat missions, participating in st icks on Hamm, Adnheim, Saar rucken, Kiel, Stuttgart, Hamburg, iremen, Brunswick, Munich, and lilitary installations in support of te Allied ground forces. Sgt. Leggett has been in the serv •e almost two years. He received is wings at Harlingen, Texas, and impleted his combat training at iggs Field, Texas. S b' at 3 rn te. fiy ; Adds To Its Great ! Record m’Gwwiiiy* | VetjN^u - v,f •■Wii' lU?ki>ty-A Division Reviewed by Young County Man (The Thirtieth Division, including quite a few Martin County boys, fig urged prominently in the great fight on the Western Front since the ac count below was written. The “Old Hickory" boys helped stop Von Rundstedt’s drive.—Ed.) Another entry in the bright rec ord of the Old ttickory Division wa3 recently reported by Pfc. Paul Van Dandingham, Martin County young man. The Division includes quite a number of North Carolinians and several from this county. Writing from Germany under date of Decem ber 2, 19-44, Pfc. VanLandingham said: For some time I have been hop ing I could tell you back home about this outfit of ours and the swell rec ord it has made in World War II from the time it hit the Normandy beach and began fighting on June 15. Censorship has kept our Old Hick ory Division s engagements pretty much ‘under wrans’ but we have made a record we’ll stack up aganist any other division’s and the Public Relations stafT has made it easier for us to get the information back to you by sumarizmg the highlights of the JOths great campaigns and getting this material cleared through the press censorship. "This is some of the information we can tell: "When the 30th Infantry Division troops charged through the greatest concentration <>f artillery and mortar tire they had met in the Western ( ampaign to storm the bunkers of the German Siegfried Line and es tablish a bridgehead in the Father land, they reached an objective for which, in three months of bitter fighting, they had been paving the way since the battle near the beach. “Smashing the Siegfried Line, the sector north of Aachen where it was heavily manned and then aiding in losing the gap that forced Aachen's •ill constituted one of the toughest iihs assigned any division in the Battle of Europe. Hut the 30th Infantry Division •ecoived its baptism of fire on a ough assignment June 15 and its )iogress to the German frontier was narked by battles that have been dtal in the master strategy of World Vai II. "The all-important breakthrough °uth of pulverized St. Lo on July 5 ,a date already historically sig lificant, was spearheaded by the >ld Hickory men. A real fighting cam, the troops of the 30th had ualified for that assignment which altered open a passage through the edgerow country allowing Ameri nn armor to fan out over France— y •' series of successful offensives gainst the Germans. At the outset ie 30th drove the Germans across le Vice River. Then in a spectacu n dawn attack the Old Hickorymen need a crossing of the Vire River ad opened the drive on St. Lo. Ihcse battles in the hedgerow ■ctoi were real slugging matches, /cry foot of advance being skillful ’ and stubbornly contested and they ere complicated by rough and fre •lent counterattacks. However, some of the heaviest ghting remained to be accomplish I by tlie 30t.li after it had given the reen light’ to the armored drive. "That occurred in the Mortain-St. arthelmy sector when the 30th ok over the area of the First Di sion at a time when four German inzer divisions struck in the most iwerful blitz effort of the cam dgn, to drive through to Avranches si separate the American First and )ird Armies. “It was there that infantry rifle en with bazookas, artillery and nk destroyers, tanks, engineers, !\A units, cooks and messengers, ith the help of U. S. planes and \F rocket-firing Typhoons finally rew back file German tanks in a ittle that see sawed for three days fore the Germans concluded that ey were no match for one Ameri n division. (Continued on page four) mall Child Dies At Parents’ Home -— James Marvin Coburn, 15-months :i son of Mr. Marvin Coburn and ife, Mrs. Minnie Lee Wheeler Co irn, died at the home of his par ts here on Pine Street Wednesday ternoon at 4 o’clock following an ness of only a few hours. Ap rently in his usual health, and he d not been sick a oay in his life, e little fellow played until bed ne Tuesday night, fcariy the next armng he woke up with a high ver, and double pneumonia de loped, resulting in death that aft noon. Besfdes his parents, he is survived a sister, Anue, Funeral services were conducted the home yesterday afternoon at a’clock by Rev. H. M. Pope, inter mit following in the Whitley Ceme y near the Whitaker farm about e miles from Wiliiamston.