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NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY
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NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY
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VOLUME XLVirt—NUMBER 17 __
WiUiamaton. Marlin County North Corwina, Tuesday, fohni.ary 27,
ESTABLISHES A829.
Rhine River Sector
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Russians Said To Have Start*
ed Great Offensive in
The Guben Area
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Launching an offensive non-stop
toward final victory ,the American
First and Ninth Armies have made
marked progress since last Friday
morning when they drove across
the Roer River in the sector east
of Aachen to take the lead in the
fight along the Western Front. Gen
eral Courtney Hodges’ First Army
men were reported today to be with
in eight miles of Cologne, and that
General Simpson’s Ninth Army for
ces were pushing in the general di
rection of Dusseldorf to the north
east. The First Army men are
nearing the Erft River today and the
enemy, offering only moderate re
sistance in the recent phases of the
Cologne plain drive, is expected to
.make a delaying stand there. Dur
ing the meantime, however, several
important centers in the Ruhr area
are almost under American artillery
fire, and it is believed that Hitler’s
industrial areas supporting the war
soon will be reduced to two regions,
one in Austria and the other in Bo
hemia.
Believing that spearheads of the
two American Armies had cleared
the Siegfried Line, some observers
believe that the offensive launched
last Friday will resemble the drive
started back in France last June 6.
Reports from both the First and
Ninth Army fronts told of rapid de
terioration of the German positions,
and a Ninth Army officer declared,
“There is no organized line in front
of us, and it appears we have a
breakthrough.”
The front now is about fifty miles
wide beyond the Roer and more than
forty German towns and villages
have fallen duryig the past two days.
Tanks and troops, moving over
trenches and fortifications, are now
within two miles of the Erft River.
Sixty miles to the south, the Unit
ed States Third Army broke loose on
a seven-mile front and is driving
before German forces so bewildered
that it was difficult to say where the
enemy would or could make a stand.
The Canadian First Army on the
north end of the front jumped off
in a new offensive that gained three
and one-half miles behind a creep
ing artillery barrage of great inten- j
sity. It may be designed to pin down )
ten seasoned enemy divisions and j
keep them from joining in the'
mighty struggle swirling over the
Cologne plain.
Thus the Allied offensive to wipe
out the German army west of the
Rhine developed into a four-arm
drive on a 200-mile front. The Ger
mans had four days to stiffen re
sistance, but it remained shaky on
the Cologne plan and was weakening
on the north as well.
On the Eastern Front, Berlin re
ported yesterday that Red Army
troops had stormed across the Neisse
River barrier and driven into Ber
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Over Hundred Tires
Allotted In County
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More than one hundred tires—96
for passenger cars, seven for light
trucks and one for a large truck — j
were allotted in this county last Fri
day night by the War Price and Ra
tioning Board.
Certificates for the purchase of
Grade I tires were issued to the fol
lowing:
Annie Hassell, Johnnie E. Mob
ley, J. D. Wynne, D. O. Bowen, J. S.
Crandall, Claude Parker, Edward
Rawls, Kader Lilley, M. C. Council,j
Joe Cowin, Augustus Riddick, Hen
ry Bell, John Mannnig, Ranson
Lloyd, E. C. Jones, D. C. McLawhorn,
Eloise M. Bennett, Frank Weathers
bee, Fannie Swinson, W. Clyde Man
ning, C. B. Brown, C. T. Flanagan,:
H. G. Godard, W. I. Skinner Co.,
Henry S. Griffin, Mary B. Hodges,
Jasper James, P. L. Lee, C. X. James,
Roy Harrison, J. E. Copeland, George
Thomas, H. H. Corey, Brasco Knox,
George Keel, D. L. Harrell, Booker
T. McNeil, Mary Henry Kirkman, T.
W. Ange, W. M. Bowen, A. B. Fagan,
J. L. Beach, J. A. Warren, M. E. Rog
ers, J. A. Davenport, H. L. Davis, E.
C. Edmondson, Eli Rodgers, C. M.
James, Paul C. Edmondson, J. D.
Holliday, Hassell Warren, Joe Moore,
Harvey L. Winberry, Vernon H. Da
vis, B. W. Taylor, G. T. Adams, Na
than Thompson, J. W. Perkins, Mar
vin Oscar Farmer, Leroy Robeisoii,
Jasper Cowin, Garland Cowin, Jas.
Taylor, Joe Ward, W. E. Pilgreen,
O. L. Whichard, Gus Lynch, Matthew
Cotten, K. D. Smithwick, Judson M.
Whitfield, Jesse Rogers. Bailey’s
Garage, A. B Ores, R. T. Taylo-.
Truck tires were allotted the fol
lowing:
G. D. Grimes, Jr., Williamston
Lumber Co., Robersonville Ice and
Coal Co., V. L. Roberson. One large
truck tire was issued to D. M. Rob
erson.
And Other Amusement Places
In accordance with general orders
issued by the War Production Board,
the midnight curfew for clubs,
amusement centers and other places
of entertainment will be enforced
in this county by members of the
North Carolina State Highway Pa
trol. The patrolmen have been in
structed by department headquar
ters in Raleigh '.ot to operate under
the general orders within incorpor
ated towns and villages. No direct
orders have been received by local
police, and Chief Chas. Mobley said
yesterday afternoon that he or mem
bers of his department would not
take any action against violators un
til definite instructions are receiv
ed. According to reports from oth
er cities and towns, law enforcement
officers plan to help enforce the or
der.
The War Production Board, con
tras y to the belief held by many and
despite, more or less, general oppo
sition, has put biting teeth into its
order. Violators will be reported to
the board by patrolmen, state or
municipal, and orders will be issued
denying them fuel "nd food rations,
and lights and power service con
nections will be cut off for the dura
tion. The order states that the amuse
ment centers or places of entertain
ment shall be closed and lights out
at 12 o'clock, meaning that an op
erator may not lock his door and
continue to serve those patrons al
ready in his establishment.
There are not many such estab
lishments in this county, and it is
not expected that any trouble will
follow in enforcing the order which
went into effect this week. However,
some of the big boys in the large
cities are balking, und have declar
ed that the speakeasy will come back
into its own.
WOUNDED
Pfc. William C. Bunch, Jr., lo
cal young man, was slightly
wounded in action on the Ital
ian front on February 7, his par
ents were notified here last
week-end. In a personal letter,
Pvt. Bunch explained that he
suffered a broken leg and was
getting along all right in an
Army hospital somewhere in
Italy.
He was a member of a tank
destroyer company, and had re
turned to actual combat duty
just a few days before he was
wounded following a few days’
rest. The young man entered the
service in February of last year
and had been overseas since last
September.
A brother, John Bunch, is in
the service and stationed at pres
ent in Greensboro.
Report County Boy
Missing In Action
Since February 6th
William Jennings Etheridge
Had Been in Service
Hardly Five Months
Pvt. William Jennings Etheridge,
young Martin County man of the
Hassell Community, has been miss
ing in action on the Western Front
since February 6th, his father, Mr.
Dave Etheridge, was notified last
week-end. The young man, not
quite 21 years of age, was in Pat
ton's Third Army and it is presumed
he was in the Prum area in Germany
a short distance across the Belgium
border. In a letter dated February j
5, Pvt. Etheridge told his father that
he was in Belgium and getting along |
all right. The letter was the second
received from the young soldier
since he went overseas a few weeks
ago.
Entering the service on August 22,
1944, Pvt. Etheridge trained at Camp
Croft, South Carolina, and returned j
home on Christmas Eve for a six-day
furlough. Leaving for Fort Meade,
Md., on December 30, he is believed
to have been sent overseas almost
immediately.
A graduate of the Oak City High
School with the class of 1943, he is
one of two brothers now in the serv
ice. In the Marines, Thomas is sta
tioned at Parris Island, S. C., and
; another brother, Clinton, was hon
orably discharged in December, 1942,
after serving thirteen months in the
Navy. A brother-in-law, Ira Wool
ard, is in the Marines and stationed
at Camp Lejeune. He also has a
young brother, Dave, and three sis
ters, Mrs. Lloyd McLawhorn, RFD 1,
Bethel; Mrs. Ira Woolard of Hassell
and Wilson, and Miss Hazel Ether
idge of the home. His mother, the
former Miss Lucy Rawls, died some
years ago.
Bear Grass School Patrons
Plan School Lunch Room
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Holding their monthly session last
week, about thirty members of the
Bear Grass Parent-Teacher Associa
tion discussed plans for opening a
lunch room in the school there next
term. Several suggestions were of
fered, and the school patrons will
work to raise money to finance the
project. They plan to give a supper
i shortly.
The association, headed by Mrs.
i Pete Mendenhall, president, and
Mrs. Johnny Knox, secretary, will
I hold its next meeting on March 19.
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Roberson’s Chapel Ladies’
Auxiliary Meets On Friday
I Holding a regular meeting Friday
afternoon of this week at 3 o’clock,
the Roberson Chapel Ladies’ Aux
iliary will elect new officers for the
jcoming year. All members are ask
led to be present.
County Young Man
Anxiously Awaits
Letters from Home
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Melhuni Hardison, on South
Sea Island, Rather Get
Mai! Than Money
Although lonely and without any
word from home in two months, G.
Melburn Hardison, of RFD 1, Wil
liamston, is still carrying on on a
South Sea island. In a letter dated
February 11, he said:
“I wish I was writing to let you
know I had received The Enterprise.
No such luck. I haven’t had any mail
that was dated since the 19th of
December. I used to get mad if the
mail was a few days late. 1 guess I’m
just human. A guy never knows
when he is well off. 1 haven’t been
paid *n two months and I’m flat
broke, but still I rather have mail.
“Can’t say where I am. Can’t say
where I’m going. Can’t say where
I’ve been or when I left. I guess I
can say that it’s not so bad here. We
are on a South Sea island with co
coanut trees, nice beaches, cool
breezes, but no South Sea natives
like you see in the movies. There
use to be a jot of monkeys here. That
was before Uncle Sam decided he’d
move in. Of course they were saw
ed-off screech-eyed monkeys.
“I was in the Navy almost two
years before I slopped out. I was
called a sailor during that time but
I didn’t know what it meant hard
ly. 1 have a pretty good idea now. I
didn’t know what seasickness was,
but I do now. I was so sick for about
a week I couldn’t eat, sleep or do
much of anything but lean over the
rail and let nature take its course.
“There isn’t any news that I can
tell. We get n<-ws reports over the
radio and hear other programs that
are short-waved to us. We have
shows and games of all kinds and
other amusement on board ship. The
chow could be better most of the
time, but tonight we are having tur
key. It’s Sunday, so it’s a little spec
ial for today. There are church serv
ices of all faiths each Sunday and
prayer meetings during the week.
“Well, that’s about all for now.
I’m really looking forward to receiv
ing mail from home. Hoping several
copies of The Enterprise are in the
bag. This leaves me feeling tops, but
sorta lonesome. Today is Sunday,
and finds me with nothing to do and
plenty of time to do it in. It could
be worse.”
County Well Represented
4t Basketball Tournament
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Several towns in this section were!
well represented at the annual bas
ketball conference in Raleigh last
week-end. Among those attending
were: Geo. Harrison, Jr., N. R. Man
ning, J. H. Edwards, Homer Barn
hill, J. C. Manning, V. J. Spivey,
Toodlie Holding, C. B. Roebuck, N.
C. Green, Rupert Cowan, C, C. Mar
tin, Onward Gaylord, C. B. Martin,
U. S. Hassell, Leslie Haidison, Geor
gia Martin, Thomas Earl Martin,
Joe Holliday, Andrew Holliday, Jr.,
Clifford Corey, Tom Brown Man
ning, C. A. Askew, Wendell Hamil
ton, Oliver Hamilton, Herbert Sex
ton, Hugh Horton, Jr., Kenneth
Lindsley, Jr., Tom Brandon, Jr., Bil
ly Myers, Dan Bowen, Fred Hardi
son, Chas. Siceloff.
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Pittman Alters And Enlarges
j Clothing Store Here Recently
Pittman’s Clothing Store here has
been altered and renovated which
will enable this firm to better serve
the people of this tnstten The in
side partition has been moved prac
tically to the rear of the building and
new fixture* and shelving have been
installed.
“We have been too crowded for
a long time and in making these im
provements we can better display
our stock,” Mr. Pittman said.
Four persons were arrested
and jailed here owr the week
end, most of them falling into
the hands of the law while spree
ing around late Saturday night.
Two were booked for drunken
driving and two were detain
ed tor public drunkenness. Two
of the group were white, and the
ages ranged from 29 to 75 years.
Mrs. Van R. Taylor
Dies Here Monday
After Long; Illness
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Funeral This Afternoon At
Church in Hamilton For
Well-Known Citizen
Mrs. Hattie Lawrence Taylor, well
known citu.cn ol' Poplar Point Town
ship, died in the local hospital yes
terday afternoon at 3:40 o'clock fol
lowing years of declining health.
Suffering with rheumatism, she had
during the past ton years or more,
undergone treatment in various hos
pitals without much success. Dur
ing the past two years she had been
an invalid and entered the hospital
here last April. Her condition re
mained about the same there until
just a short time ago, a marked
change being noted just a few days
before her death.
The daughter of the late Thad
Lawrence, Sr., and wife, Lou Sals
bury, Mrs. Taylor was born in Ham
ilton 72 years ago, spending most
of her early life there or until her
marriage to the late Van R. Taylor.
With the exception of one year spent
in Hamilton, she had made her
home in Poplar Point until she en
tered the local hospital about ten
months ago. No children survive her,
but she was a mother to her step
children, one of whom, Mr. V. G.
Taylor, of Everetts, survives. Mrs.
Taylor was a member of the Hamil
ton Baptist Church for possibly more
than half a century and was faith
ful in its support und in attendance
upon its service for many years.
During her long illness, she com
plained little and bore her suffer
ing with fortitude and great patience.
Besides her stepson she is survived
by one brother, Thad Lawrence, of
Sanford.
The body is being moved from the
Biggs Funeral Home here this after
noon to the Hamilton Baptist Church
where her pastor, Rev. E. C. Wilkie
of Robersonville, will conduct the
funeral service at 3:30 o’clock. In
terment will follow in the family
plot in the Hamilton Cemetery.
Funeral Wednesday
For Charles Raynor
Funeral services were conducted
last Wednesday afternoon at the
home for Charlie Raynor who died
at his home near Hamilton late Mon
day night. Rev. J. M. Perry, Rober
sonville minister, conducted the last
rites, and interment was in the Ham
ilton Cemetery.
Mr. Raynor, 47 years old and a far
I mer, was cutting wood near Roanoke
River Monday afternoon and suffer
ed a heart attack about 5:30 o’clock.
He was removed to Oak City and la
ter carried to his home where death
followed a few hours later.
He leaves his wife, a Miss Pitt be
'fore her marriage; a son, Spencer
Raynor who is now serving in the
Army overseas, and a brother, Ken
neth Raynor, of Whitakers.
Detained For Alleged Theft
Of A Government (.heck
Mrs. Lucy Mae Haynes, formerly
I of this county, was detained by fed
eral authorities a few days ago for
I the alleged theft of a government
check from a relative in South Car
olina.
Taken into custody, she was given
a preliminary hearing by a - U. S.
Commissioner in Washington last
week-end and placed under bond in
the sum of $500.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
After stalling along at a low
figure, figures in the Martin
County highway accident record
started climbing during the past
two weeks, passing the 1944
j count in one column and ap
proaching the figures in the oth
ers.
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
♦rend: first, by corresponding
iveeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present fime.
8th Week Comparison
Accidents Inj’d Killed Darn’ge
1945 l 3 0 $ 725
1944 3 2 0 450
Comparison To Date
1945 10 5 0 $1655
1944 11 3 1 2226
Its Personal Property Values
Its listing work just recently com
pleted, Poplar Point Township shows
a fairly healthy gain in its 1945 per
sonal property values over those list
ed last year, County Tax Supervisor
M. Luther Peel, announces. The dis
trict listed its personal property val
ues this year at $124,979. Its real
property listings were placed at
$271,393, boosting the total assessed
property valuation to $396,371, as
compared with about $384,000 for
1944. There was little or no change
in the real property listings.
No other townships have complet
ed their tax scrolls, but preliminary
reports point to a fair gain in values
for the county, as a whole.
One of the largest single personal
property items listed in Poplar Point
was work stock. The 238 mules were
•valued at $32,410, or about $136 per
head. The 14 horses in the town
ship had a combined assessed value
of $1,050. A lone fioat in the district
was listed at $1, and 112 milch cows
were valued at $8,955, an average
value of about $80 per head. The 101
other cattle were valued at $3,745.
Approximately 2,000 hogs were val
ued at $8,791, an average value of
about $4.50 each. Chickens were val
ued at $1,962.
A few types of personal property
showed slight losses in value and ac
counted for hardly more than half
of the valuation claimed in the town
ship. The combined value of live
stock was approximately $57,000.
Tax Supervisor Peel believed most
of the tax records will be made ready
for the accountant’s office by the
middle or latter part of March, that
the work is well advanced at this
time.
County Citizens Urged
To Support Red Cross
Annual Campaign to
Get Under wav Here
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Thursday, March 1st
(lliapter Chairman Hopes To
liaise $6,600 Ouola In
Less Than 2 Weeks
Meeting in the courthouse here
this morning with local canvassers,
Chairmen J. C. Manning and Bill
Spivey completed plans for launch
ing the annual Red Cross War Fund
Drive in this chapter on Thursday of
this week. Announcing the plans
complete for the drive, Chairman
Spivey expressed the hope that the
$0,600 quota would be raised with
in the next two weeks.
The more than 100 canvassers in
the chapter have pledged their best
efforts to meet the challenge, and
the general public is humbly asked
to respond liberally and be consid
erate of the solicitors who are work
ing without remuneration other than
the knowledge that some service
man, quite probably a Martin Coun
ty boy, will be benefited. Canvassers
have been asked not to delay in start- j
ing their work, and those who do not :
find it convenient to respond to the
call when the canvasser calls are
urged to he considerate and deliver
their contributions direct to the can
vasser, making a second call unnec
essary.
It is estimated that the current
Red Cross program will cost about
$7 a second. At that rate, the sub- j
scription in this chapter will last
943 seconds. Surely, the citizens of
this county will stick in there and
willingly carry the ball for that
length of time.
No agency in the world can meet
every individual emergency, but
reports from prisoner of war camps,
from the fox holes, from lonely out
posts, from the hattlefronts and from
camps and families of servicemen at
home state that the Red Cross has
done a noble work. Right here in
this chapter, approximately 60 cases
are handled each month by the home
service director, Mrs. K. H. Grimes,
at her office over the old Farmers
and Merchants Bank. Emergency
messages have been sent, addresses
have been checked, allowances and
allotments have been arranged and
many other services have been will
ingly rendered. Thousands of surgi
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Letter Follows Return
Address To The Addressee
A local young athlete, writing
' while on a short visit to Raleigh re-;
cently to his girl bark home, ad- j
| dressed the letter to the young lady
at Bear Grass, N. C. Possibly Post
master Insroe of Raleigh, the office
I where the letter was mailed, knew
where to send the letter even though
there is no official post office jn
the neighboring town. Or the letter
may have followed the return ad
dress to Williamston where postal
workers, acquainted with both par
ties and the case, hastened the epis
tle to the addressee. It just goes to
prove among other things that the
postal service is great.
Minnioii Study Class Wilt
Meet In Church Tomorrow
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A mission study class of the Wo
man’s Council of the Christian
i Church will be held Wednesday
! night, February 28th, at 7 30, at the
I church.
| The Kev. J. i.. Unit Will speaK on
the hook, “The Church and the New
World Mind.” This will be the first
session on the book which will run
for three successive Wednesday
nights.
I KOZI N
v
All farm labor in this county
was virtually frozen in its tracks
last Friday when the Martin
County War Hoard ruled that
no more farm workers would be
given permanent or temporary
releases to engage in industrial
or other activities. It is |tossihle
that extreme cases will be con
sidered, but the board pointed
out that it is about time for farm
workers to get busy if they are
to prepare for and produce a
crop this year.
Applications submitted by
Russell Wynne Mobley, Kveretts,
and Sam C'ongleton, Uoberson
ville, for releases were denied
by the board last Friday.
Pic. Alton E. Allcox
Is Killed In Action In
France February 3rd
Kntered Service from I'itl
County hut Lived in IVIar
tiu Severed Yeurn
Pfc. Alton Earl Allcox, Martin
County youth, was killed in action
on February it on the Western Front
presumably in France, his wile, the
former Miss F.ffie V. Harrison of
near Hubei sonville, was advised a
few days ago. No details of his un
timely death were revealed in the
brief message received from the
War Department.
In a letter dated February 1 and
apparently the last one written by
him, tlie young man told his wife
that he was in France and that he
hud 41! hours off before returning to
action. It is thought that he made
the supreme sacrifice shortly after
he returned to the front apparently
in the southern sector.
Although he lived in this county
he entered the service from Pitt
County on December 3, 11142, and
went overseas four months ago.
In August, 11142, he was married
to Miss K If it V Harrison, daughter
of Mrs. Lillie Harrison of near Gold
Point, and the late Alonza Harrison
of this county. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alton Allcox who moved
from this county to Grimesland not
so long ago. Besides his parents and
wife, lie leaves a daughter, Alice,
eighteen months old.
The young man farmed part of
the time in this county, and was em
ployed by the Robe rsonvi lie Ice
and Coal Company a short time be
fore he entered the service.
Ex land Invitation To Itoys
I rani County To V isit Home
Certain that a few Martin County
boys are located in camps around
Baltimore, Mr. and Mis. W. H. Dan
iel are extending a general invita
tion to the servicemen to visit them
at their home, 2002 Windsor Place,
Woodlawn 7, Maryland. "We extend
our welcome to any of the boys to
visit us at any time they are privi
leged to leave camp,” Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel said. Relatives who have boys
in the camps in that area may send
the Daniel’s address, and Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel will be glad to meet them
at any designated place in Balti
more.
Minor Wreck Near Oak
City Early Sunday Morning
No one was hurt and very little
i damage was caused wii^n Kicharu
Davis, colored, ran his old Model A
Ford into a ditch between Oak City
' and Hamilton about 1 o’clock Sun
jday morning. He was accompanied
I by several persons.
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For Locating Enemy
Guns By Observers
Janiesville Y«t;mg Alan Mem*
her of Field Artillery Ob
servation Battalion
Sixth Army Group, France— In
fantrymen, crawling on their bellies
through the brush and mud at ad
vanced outposts of the front some
times wonder who the stranger is in
their midst. Besides a doughboy’s
equipment, he has a little electrical
gadget.
It doesn't take the doughboys long
to find out he's a member of the 3rd
Field Artillery Observation Batta
lion, and performing a mighty im
portant job in locating enemy guns,
adjusting our own artillery fire, and
collecting important intelligence for
tin' strategists at headquarters.
Cpl. Dallas G. Waters, son of Mr.
and M's. Edgar G. Waters, of James
viHe, N. C., is a member of this Field
Artillery Observation Battalion. He
is a graduate of Jamesville High
School and attended Duke Univer
sity. Cpl. Waters has been with this
outfit four years, going overseas in
December, 1943.
When an enemy artillery piece
fires, the American forward observ
er presses a button on his electrical
gadget. With that snap of a button,
a series of concealed microphones
strung out in a line a couple of miles
back are turned on.
Since the mikes are at varying dis
tances from the enemy gun, they
pick up the sound at varying time
intervals of as little as one-thous
andth of a second. From each mi
crophone are wire lines leading to
another, more complicated instru
ment at a central recording point.
Here the variations in time-inter
vals are almost instantaneously pho
tographed as jagged lines, half a
dozen lines for half a dozen micro
phones. Transcribed to a plotting
board, these time-intervals become
intersecting lines on a map, with the
point of intersection revealing the
location of the enemy gun.
Fully 50 per cent or more of the
men have a knowledge of geometry,
trigonometry and other advanced
mathematics. That knowledge is
needed in computing temperature,
wind and other corrections to the da
ta picked up by the microphones. A
meteorological section of the bat
talion informs the computers of
these corrections, and also furnishes
data to all artillery units in the XV
Corps, with which the 3rd Field Ar
tillcry Observation Battalion is now
serving.
The battalion uses another system
of locating enemy guns- through ob
servation, also by advanced look
outs, of flash or smoke. Using an in
strument like a telescope on a grad
uate base, these flash observers re
port by phone to a Flash Central,
where again mathematicians and
plotters determine the enemy posi
tion through triangulalion.
In France, these flash and sound
observers have served with the First,
Third and Seventh Armies. They
have captured prisoners, taken a
few towns themselves, and contrib
uted directly to smashing the buck
of the Nazi forces.
Successful Term Is
Under tin1 leadership of Mrs. Eve
lyn Manning, th- Williamston chap
ter of the Bela Club has successful
ly completed five months of bene
ficial and educational work in the
local high school.
Undertaking for their projects this
year the cleaning up of the school,
and the sponsoring of a weekly col
umn in the newspaper, the club has
done exceedingly well in both of
these fields as shown by the follow
ing: The clean-up program resulted
in giving the school a fresh new ap
pearance and the newspaper column
gives the public a general idea of
what takes place during a school
week. A prize is given for the most
interesting article during the month.
Largely through magazine sales
the Beta Club raised $200, some of
which was spent in the decoration of
our club room. Members receive the
privilege of using this room for study
during their vacant periods.
Plans are being made to take in
I new candidates at the next meeting.
To be inducted into the Beta Club,
| the candidate must have a 90 or
| above average and be in good moral
landing, have shmgfthis or her abil
ity to be a leader, wfit Have promised
iij abide by the Beta Club oath for
I the period during which he or she
' is h member.
The following is a list of the mem
bers: Dan Bowen, Dorothy Leggett,
Dick Levin. Hugh Horton, Charles
: Siceidfi, Elizabeth Manning, Eliza
; belli Parker, Louise Hines, Gloria
Huyman, J. C. Coltrain, Lucy An
drews, Gladys Peeie, Joseph Wynne,
Pearl Mewbern, Earl Moore, Fran
ces Griffin, Louise Griffin and Eliza
beth Taylor. Our president is Peari
Mewbern and secretary, Frances
Griffin.—Reported.