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VOLUME XLVIIU—NUMBER 21
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 13, 1945.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Divorce Cases Will Be
221000 Damage Suit
Scheduled For Trial
During Second Week
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Number of Divorce Cases Is
Largest Ever Placed on
Calendar at One Time
Scheduled to complete the trial of
criminal cases during the first day
of a two-weeks’ “mixed term,” the
Martin County Superior Court will
crank up its divorce mill next Tues
day. There are twenty-six divorce
cases on the calendar, the record of
24 established last Novemoer bowing
to the earthly inarch of progress in
family relations. Very few other
civil cases have been placed on the
calendar, and with the exception of
the $25,000 damage suit brought by
Mrs. Ruth Vivian Whitaker against j
the Cr-olina Coach Company and the i
Carolina Delivery Service Company, i
the calendar carries few matters of
public interest. The damage suit
grew out of a bus-truck wreck in
Bethel last April 16 when Mrs. Whit
aker, Williamston young woman, was
seriously and permanently injured.
On her way home from Rocky Mount
as a passenger on the defendant com
pany’s bus, she was removed to
Brown’s Community Hospital and
was a patient there for months, and
continues under the care of doctors.
Much legal talent has been called
into the case with B. A. Critcher rep
resenting the plaintiff and Thorpe
and Thorpe, Horton, Smith, Leach
and Anderson representing the de
fendants.
Twenty-four of the divorce cases
on the docket are based on two years’
separation, the plaintiffs in the oth
ers alleged adultery. Those based on
the time element follow: Maggie Da
vis against Harry Davis, Daisy
Thompson,against Phillip Thompson,
Alexander Hodges against Gladys
Hodges, Adell James against David
L. James, Burt Gorham against Mar
tha Gorham, Annie Gray Beacham
against Jim Beacham, James Ever
ett against Elnora Everett, Rosanna
Bennett against James E Bennett,
Chas. C. Ebron against Lossie Brown
Ebron, Charlie D. Brown against Se
lecter Brown, Barthonia Bennett
against Perry Lee Bennett, King
David Rogers against Hazel Lee
Rogers, Arthur Duggins against Eu
la Lee Duggins, Amanda Bess against
James Bess, Alonza T. Spruill against
Margaret Spruill, Albert J. Doucette,
of Barry, Vt., against Ethel Doucette,
Margaret Grimes against Nathaniel
Grimes, Joseph James against Ida
James, Mary Williams against Jas.
Edward Williams, Annie E Williams
against John Williams, Kader Brown
against Catherine L. Brown, John D.
Swimpson against Flossie Lanier
Swimpson, Fannie Mae Edmondson
against Lanier Edmondson, and
Clemmons against Clemmons.
The cases alleging adultery were
brought by Marshall Gray Moore, a
serviceman, against Wannie Mae
Moore ,and L. E Hyman against Ada
Hyman.
Very few of the divorces are like
ly to be contested; in fact, the de
fendants in some cases are waiting
for the plaintiffs to finance the ac
tions and free them to go their own
way. In the Joseph-Ida James case,
the defendant is contesting the ac
tion and asking the court for $75 a
month alimony and attorney’s fees.
Several cases involving boundary
lines are on the calendar, including
the following: William Little against
William Riddick, Noah Roberson
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Chas. Hough Joins
Bear Grass Faculty
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Professor Chas. Hough yesterday
entered upon his new duties as prin
cipal of the Bear Grass School. The
position had been vacant since the
school reopened following the Christ
mas holidays, all efforts to fill it
having failed. The school had oper
ated, more or less, under its own
steam, the county superintendent
spending ,as much time as possible
there.
Professor Hough, a member of the
Jamesville faculty for the past sev
eral months, is being succeeded there
by Mrs. Lily Pigford of Williamston.
Mr. Hough wras principal of the Farm
Life School for several terms, but
quit the profession for farming. He
returned to the schools to help re
lieve the acute teacher shortage.
Two Cara Figure In Minor
Accident Near Oak City
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Very little damage" v.ai done and
no one was hurt w'hen two cars, one
owned by R. T. Chance and driver
by Gus Hopkins, colored of Oak
City, and the other owned and driver
by Solomon Hyman, colored of Oat
City, sideswiped each other neai
Oak City last Saturday night at 10:3(
o’clock. Damage to each car was es
timated at $75 by Cpl. W. S. Hunt o:
the Highway Patrol.
TRIBUTE
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A fitting and beautiful tribute
was paid to the memory of Jim
mie Watts, local youth who made
the supreme sacrifice for his
county over Italy the 7th of last
month, by the film and theater
men of North and South Carolina
when they met in Charlotte re
cently. Meeting there to plan the
Red Cross drive in every thea
ter in the two states, the film
industry representatives “dedi
cated their March 15-21 Red
Cross drive to the memory of
James Wiggins Watts, Jr., son
of J. W. Watts, Sr., exhibitor at
Williamston, N. C'.,” according to
a story appearing in the current
issue of "Boxoffice," national
film weekly.
Wreck Victims Able
To Leave Hospital
The last of the victims of the bus
wreck on the river bridge here last
Tuesday afternoon were discharged
by the local hospital Sunday after
noon. While several of them will
nurse broken limbs for some weeks,
all of the approximately thirty per
sons in the accident are apparently
getting along all right now.
Hardly before the wreck victims
were discharged others were enter
ing the institution. Mr. Willie Gur
ganus of Bear Grass and Mr. Dawse
Coitrain of Williamston entered the
hospital Sunday for treatment. Mr.
Coitrain was reported quite ill late
yesterday afternoon.
Wayne Pate, 9 years old, under
went an operation for appendicitis
last Saturday night and is getting
along all right.
Mrs. Emma Thompson continues
in the hospital, and Mrs. Dorcas Wil
liams, 89 years old of Jamesville, is
showing some improvement. She has
been in the hospital about two
months.
J. J. Paynter who broke his ankle
a week ago last Sunday, was able to
leave the hospital yesterday.
Jesse Beach, young white man who
suffered a fracture of the knee in
February, returned to his home in
Cross Roads yesterday.
Mrs. John Gurganus entered the
hospital Friday for treatment.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Roberson, of Roberson
ville, in the hospital March 5.
Mrs. Ben Hopkins was able to leave
the hospital over the week-end after
recovering from an attack of influ
enza.
Goose Nest Is Over
Its Red Cross Coal
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The annual Red Cross War Fund
call was liberally answered by
Goose Nest Township school pupils,
Principal H. M Ainsley stating that
the young people, i' luding those
In both the white and colored
schools, had contribi ed a total of
$200.25, an amount 2- cents in ex
cess of the quota allotted the entire
district.
One grade, the ninth, taught by
Mrs. Doiiy Millinder, raised $2156
to lead the list in the Oak City white
school, the Oak City Ruritan Club
boosting the total with a $26.50 do
nation.
Contributions were listed as fol
lows: Oak City white school: First
grade, $9.72; second, $6; third, $5.65;
fourth, $2.35; fifth, $6; sixth, $5.27;
seventh, $4 31; eighth, $13; ninth,
$21.56; tenth, $7 30; (eleventh, not
listed); twelfth, $10; commercial de
partment, $5; Miss Idalia Oglesby,
ex-senior, $2.50, and H. M. Ainsley,
$3.20.
The Oak City colored school rais
< d $40.50, T. K. Slade, principal, an
nounced, and Whichard-James rais
ed $31.39.
Local Youth Killed
In Parachute Jump
From Falling Plane
Body of Jimmie alls Lies et
Rest in Md£^; 4
Cha^Sn W rites
Jimmie Watts, young son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Watts, Sr., of Wil
hamston, was killed in a parachute
jump from a falling plane over Aus
tria on last February 7th, according
to information offered in a personal
letter just received from William
McNeil, Chaplain, United States
Army. The letter followed a tele
graphic message received from the
War Department on February 22nd.
announcing the young man's death.
Chaplain McNeil, a Methodist min
ister, said in his letter to Mr. and
Mrs. Watts:
“Jim was flying as an engineer
gunner on a Liberator. The plane
was hit by anti-aircraft fire over the
target. Engine No. 3 was partially
disabled, forcing the plane to leave
the formation. It began to lose alti
tude rapidly. The order was given
to bail out, but at the time Jim
jumped there was no longer time
to complete a successful parachute
jump. He was pronounced dead upon
arriving at a nearby station hospital.
"I accompanied the body to our
beautiful well-cared for military
cemetery in Southern Italy. I had a
service, giving your son full military
honors. While we stood at attention
beside the flag-covered casket, taps
were blown and we said a prayer for
our departed comrade and for those
he loved. Each grave is marked by
a Cross or a Star of David."
Chaplain McNeil continued, ", . .
Being a Methodist, I was well ac
quainted with your son. He was of
ten at church and I always shook
hands with him at the door, follow
ing the services. It is with deep con
cern I write this letter about his
death on February 7, 1945, over Aus
tria.
“It is beyond human understand
ing to express sympathy to one who
has lost a loved one. We understand
a little of the grief, if we have ex
perienced a like loss. The Good Book
savs that when all others forsake us,
yet will not the Lord. This spiritual
assurance is our only support at
these times of grief. Your son gave
his life; let us pray that it was not
given in vain, but will buy for this
world the much-needed Peace and
Justice. You have my deepest sym
pathy and the respect of the whole
organization . .
Seriously Wounded,
Local Youth Returns
—$—
Seriously wounded in the invasion
of Leyte in the Philippines last Oc
tober 28, Pvt. James E. Moore was
recently returned to this country and
is undergoing further treatment in
an Army hospital. In a letter to his
mother, Mrs. H. L. Gardner, the
young man stated that he hoped to
be able to come home for a leave
real soon.
The 32-year-old soldier, brother of
Miss Helen Moore of Williamston,
was so badly hurt that he was un
able to write for some time, and a
message from his chaplain was not
very encouraging at one time. He
had been overseas about two arid
one-half years.
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Freight Train Strikes
Horse Sunday Afternoon
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Breaking out of the lot on the
Wheeler Martin farm, a pretty 4
year-old horse valued at $250 was
struck and badly crippled by a
freight train near the railroad tres
tle on West Main Street here last
Sunday afternoon. The animal, its
back legs broken, was knocked into
the highway right under the trestle,
and was later killed.
A mule, breaking out of the pas
ture with the horse, was running
down the track ahead of the train,
but he chose to jump and roll down
the track embankment rather than
be trapped on the trestle where the
horse was overtaken and struck.
Former Loca l Boy Is Credited
With Sinking Jap Battleship
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Charles Hall Dickey, former Wil
liamston boy, has been credited with
sinking a big Japanese battleship in
the battle for the Philippines, ac
cording to unofficial information re
ceived here last week-end. No par
ticulars of the daring and powerful
blow could be learned here immed
iately. The young man, just recently
back from the Pacific Theater, wears
among his many medals, the Navy
Cross, and his fellow servicemen say
: it was awarded him for sinking the*
jbig enemy sEip. The reserved youth
| is said to have admitted the great ac
complishment, but that is ail he has
said about it. In Morristown, Tenn.,
where the Dickeys have made their
home most of the time since leaving
JVilliamston, a civic club entertain
ed the young aviator, but the mem
bers learned little about what had
happened in the war as far as he
was concerned, one report reaching
here stated.
The son of Mrs. C. H. Dickey and
the late Hev. Mr. Dickey, he came
here when a little fellow, spent his
boyhood here and attended the lo
cal schools. On account of failing
health, his father resigned as pastor
of the Baptist Church and the fam
ily moved to Raleigh, and following
Mr. Dickey’s death they moved to
Morristown, Tenn.
It could not be (earred when .ie en
tered the service., but he has been
on two long missions in the Pacific,
returning from ms second by plane
early this month after a stay of
two years over there. He is a bit
nervous and though his face shows
he has gone through more than one
can imagine, he is getting along very
well, according to information re
ceived by friends here last week-end.
WOUNDED
Pvt. Winford Mobley was
slightly wounded in Germany
on February 23, his wife, the
former Miss Catherine Wynne,
RFD 3, Williamston, was noti
fied last week. In a letter to his
wife, Pvt. Mobley stated he was
hit in the right shoulder and suf
fered a broken collarbone, that
his shoulder was in a east. He is
getting along all right in a hos
pital in England, and added that
he considered himself very lucky
to get by with only a shoulder
wound.
Hodges’ Men Break
Out of Bridgehead
For Drive on Ruhr
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Russians Clour Lasl Barrier
In Direel Muroli On
Cerinaii Capital
Breaking out of their bridgehead
istablished on the east bank of the
Rhine in a daring move less than a
veek ago, General*Courtney Hodges'
rirst Armymen are now driving in
strength toward Germany’s great
ndustrial Ruhr. Late reports state
hat the First Army started another
najor drive this morning about one
lour before day, that it was making
jood progress despite stiffening re
sistance. It is estimated that be
:ween 65,000 and 75,000 Americans
ire across the Rhine in the Remagen
irea and that tanks and big guns
lave been moved over the stream in
large numbers.
In addition to the use of the Lu
Jendorlf bridge at Remagen, the
Americans have hull t pontoon
aridges across the Rhine a few miles
lorth of the town and men and
equipment are moving across the
stream in volume.
Berlin said that the American as
sault threatened the great Cologne
?*rankfurt military highway, trans
mit keystone of the enemy’s entire
Remagen defenses, which lay only
four miles beyond advanced Ameri
can spearheads.
The massed American artillery,
orought into the bridgehead for the
first time to support Hodges’ as
sault upon German hill positions
dominating the bridgehead, already
may be shelling the road.
The attack from the bridgehead
carried more than a mile and a
half through Ginsterhahn and Har
garten and rolled on to Noll in a
swift plunge that extended the
American foothold to more than five
miles in depth and more than twelve
miles along the bank of the Rhine.
While Hodges’ men are advancing
toward the Ruhr, General Patton’s
Third Army is mopping up enemy
remnants on the west bank of the
stream. No late reports have come
from other Allied armies along the
Western Front, but they can be ex
pected to strike if Hitler shifts his
men in strength in an attempt to
block the American First.
In the East, the Russians have
captured Kustrin, the strongly for
tified center in the path of the Rus
sian advance on Berlin. The Red
Armies have crossed the Oder at
several points in that area, and the
march to the German capital is
momentarily awaited while the Rus
sians continue to mop up pockets
of resistance along the Bailie coast.
Over in the Pacific, Tokyo and
Nagyoa are still smouldering An
area fifteen miles square was burn
ed out in Tokyo following a raid by
300 Superforts Sunday, and Nagoya,
Japan’s fourth largest city, was
burned and scorched even worse.
The Marines are nearing final vic
tory in their bitter and heoric fight
for Iwo Jima. and the Japs are mov
(Continued on page six)
f littleround-up
V
After rounding up almost a
dozen a week before, local and
county officers bad a fairly quiet
period last week-end when they
arrested and detained in the
county jail three alleged viola
tors of law and order.
Two of them were bctiked for
public drunkenness and one for
being drunk and disorderly. Two
of them were white. One or two
arrests were made, but the de
fendants arranged bond before
the jail doors were banged shut.
Hamilton Business
District Swept Bv
Costly Fire. Sunday
Two Stores. WarHiouses ami
Sales Stables Burn; l„oss
$*laoo<l al $50,000
Two stores, two warehouses, sales
stables and other buildings were
burned and other property was
threatened by fire that swept
through a portion of Hamilton’s bus
iness district early last Sunday
morning. It was only by the deter
mined effort on the part of the town
population and the Robersonville
Fire Department that the fire was
confined to a small area. At one time
it looked as if the fire would spread
to several homes in the same block
and spread across the street to oth
er business property. One or two oth
er buildings were fired but the fire
was extinguished in those places be
fore much damage resulted.
Believed to have started in or near
the office in the Johnson-Matthews
store, the fire was burning rapidly
when it was discovered by a colored
man named Purvis about 4 30 o’clock.
He gave the alarm and by the time
Mr. Ilcnry Johnson, Sr , could reach
the store, the fire was burning
through the windows and there was
so much smoke he went only a few
feet inside before he was forced out.
A few articles were saved from the
show windows, but just about all of
the $25,000 stock of goods was lost.
Several pieces of machinery around
the building were moved ahead of
the fire which spread rapidly to an
empty store building nearby, sales
stables, two warehouses and a shed
storage, burning out just before
reaching the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Johnson, Jr.
The loss was unofficially but re
liably estimated at $50,000, Mr. Mat
thews, owner of the store along with
his son and D. G. Mtathews, stating
that about one-third of the property
was covered by insurance.
Light and power service was in
terrupted for several hours, and tel
ephone lines were damaged.
In addition to the one at Rober
sonville, fire departments here and
in Scotland Neck received calls.
Fire Chief G P Hall of the local de
partment stated yesterday that Mr.
Matthews called him and explained
that one store had just about burn
ed. The chief was quoted as saying
that the local company would be glad
to go if it could render any aid. Mr.
Matthews was reported to lusvi# said
that they were looking for the truck
(Continued on page six)
Soil Conservation
Meeting in the county courthouse
here this evening ;it (i o’clock, Mar
tin County farmers and agrirulttir
al workers will discuss a general soil
conservation program and especial
ly swamp drainage, County Conser
vationist II. F McKnight, announc
ed.
W W. Eagles, chairman of the
board of supervisors for the Coastal
Plain Soil Conservation District, and
S. I-. Daughtridge, district conserva
tionist, will address the meeting. The
general public is invited to attend
and all farmers interested in improv
ing their soils and farms are asked
to be present.
Fallirr Of Mrs. W. E. Ihinn
Divs At 11 oni4‘ In Wilson
Mr. Roscoe B. BurntI»0 yoata of
age, died at his home in Wilson last
Wednesday afternoon following a
heart attack. While he had been in
declining health for some time, the
end came suddenly and unexpected
ly.
A descendant of one of Wilson
County’s oldest families, Mr. Barnes
was a retired farmer, lie married
Miss Eliza Overman who is now
making her home here with her
daughter, Mrs W. E. Dunn, lie ulsr
leaves two sons, ID. A Barnes ol
Wilson, and J. W. Barnes of Flor
ence, Alabama.
Funeral services were conductor:
at a Wilson funeral home last Timer
day morning, and interment follow
ed m Maplewood Cemetery there.
Local Girl To Christen Ship
Honoring Her Late Brother
Charleston, S. C., March 9— Mrs
W. J. Roth, Jr., wife of the Assist
arit Supervisor of Shipbuilding, USN,
Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry
dock Company, will christen the new
fleet tug USS I.uiseno (AFT 156) on
Saturday morning, March 17th, at
the building ways of the shipbuild
ing company.
In chriK’eriing the fleet tug. which
will tow battle-damaged and dis
abled vessels of the Navy, Mrs. Roth
will only brother, F.nsign
William E. Ballard, of the Naval Air
Corps, who was killed in a crash
when he was instructing a student
aviator at Corpus Christi, Texas, on
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The ship’s sponsor, the former
Miss Edna Ballard, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. p, A Ballard of 312 Church
St., Williamston, N. C., was a Navy
Nurse before her marriage to Lieut.
Comdr W J. Roth, Jr. She has been
stationed at the Naval Hospital in
Charleston and at the Office of Nav
al Officer Procurement, Knoxville,
Tenn.
Captain I B McDaniel, Supervisor
of Shipbuilding, Sixth Naval Dis
trict, v. .oake toe principal ad
dress at the ceremony, lit will come
tc Charleston from his Savannah,
Ga., office for the launching.
Lieut. Comdr. Roth will be e
guest at the ceremony. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Roth, Sr., of
5110 Fort Washington Ave., New York
City ,and lived in Newark, N. J., be
fore entering the Navy.
Chapter Nearing Goal
In Red Cross Canvass
I'H'/I/I IU.S
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Mrs. Eva Grimes, home service
director for the Martin County
chapter of the American Red
Cross, is planning a Red Cross
window display of the organiza
tion's War Prisoner aid program
in a local store within the next
few days. The display will brfef
ly review what the organization
is doing and trying to do in be
half of American boys in prison
er of war camps.
The home service director is
anxious to borrow pictures of
Martin County young men who
have been in and those who are
still being held prisoners of war.
Relatives are ashed to send the
pictures to Mrs. Eva Grimes,
Home Service Director, William
ston, N. C. They will be kept a
few days and returned.
(Quantity Of Li(|uor
round Buried In Pit
Working in the Free Union section
of Jamesville Township a few days
ago, Officer J II Roebuck found an
empty pit deep in the woods. The
owner had carefully ring the hole
in the ground, throwing (he dirt at
the roots of an over-turned tree and
covered the pit with a lid and leaves.
The officer noticed some of the dirt
around the uprooted tree was fresh
and started looking for a hole and
found the pit Dealers in the illicit
business learned a long time ago that
it was costly business to keep liquor
m or near their homes, that too much
liquor either disappeared or was
found in stump holes. Since the pit
was empty, the officer withdrew and
planned another visit last Saturday
afternoon. Accompanied by Deputy
Roy Peel, he found about thirteen
gallons of white “lightning” in the
pit. While on their way to the hid
ing place, the officers saw Jesse Ad
kins carrying a package in his ov
i rail bosom. He was temporarily do
tained and appearing in court Mon
day he v\ as fined $115 and taxed with
the cost for possessing illegal liquor.
Saturday night the two officers,
accompanied by Sheriff C. 13. Roe
buck and Cpl. Bill Hunt, raided Per
kins' beer joint at Parmele where
they seized 43 quarts of beer. Arthur
Perkins and his wife, Lizzie, were
selling beer without a license. In the
county court, the two were fined
$100, and taxed with the cost.
Another raid was made in the
Robeisonville Parmele section, but
the details of the raid could not be
learned immediately.
Tires Are Allotted
l>v Ration Board
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Approximately (i5 tires were allot
ted in this county last Friday night:
Grade 1 tires were issued to the
following:
Polly Williams, W. A. Brown, T.
11. Slade, Arthur Johnson, .1 W. Per
kins, Lt. Marvin T Roberson, A. P.
Hyman, Kelly Rawls, J. A. James, J. ■
11. Smith, J .1 Williams, James Rob- I
ert Wynne, Annie C, Glasgow, Al
phonza Kittle, Krnesl I). Edmondson,
John E. Mobley, W H. Britton, Nar
len Yarrell, Jesse Clark, M. S. Cow
an, W !!. Gurganus, Edward Bul
lock, G. R. Taylor, S J. Lilley, Guil
lord Brown, Julius Daniel, Hugh B.
Ward, Corti z Green, Mamie G. Grif
fin, C. O. Pi ice, Charlie Lloyd, Ther
mal! Griffin, Benjamin E Griffin,
R. O. Purvis, Claude Simmons,
Thomas (). Clay, J. Frank Margolis,
Russo I i Knox, Norman Bowen, Adele
I! Tetterton, George A. Harris, J
S. Crandell, Garland Whitley, Her
bert T. Taylor, Johnnie Bland, Itob
e11 Jones, Annie I., Roberson, Dew
ey George Adams, Mack Cherry, Mrs.
Ella Taylor, D. Andrew Griffin, C.
O. Edwards, Arthur Brown, John A.
Gi iffin.
Trial tires were released:
Russell Williamson, H. T High
smith, J. C Norris, W G. Peele, V.
L Roberson.
Total of $f).T)K 06 Is
Raised and Reported
Up Until Last Night
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Chairman Believes Drive Can
Be Completed Latter Part
Of Current Week
With $5,555.06 already raised and
reported, the annual Red Cross War
Fund drive is on its last lap and will
likely reach and pass the $6,600.00
quota in this, the Martin County
Chapter before the end of this week.
The canvass is recognized as com
plete in two townships, Bear Gras
and Griffins, and is almost complete
in Williamston. According to the
latest report coming from Jamesville
the drive is nearing its goal there,
but only $300 has been reported to
date. No report has been received
fron' Williams, but it is understood
that* H„»„,ii'i' ugn progressing
there, one or two communities in
tin' district having already exceeded
their assigned quotas. Only one re
port has been submitted by the
leaders handling the canvass among
the colored citizens. Woolard’s
School, with a quota of $60, yester
day reported $66.68. A few colored
citizens made their donations to
white canvassers, boosting the to
tal to $75.03 for credit o nthe $1,000
quota accepted by the colored cit
izens in the chapter’s five town
ships.
Reports from the local school are
not complete, but advance informa
tion indicates that the grammar
grade pupils will establish an all
time record with their response to
the current call. Up until yesterday,
the grammar school had raised and
reported approximately $382.00, one
grade, Miss Elliott’s fourth, account
ing for more than $60 of the amount.
According to Chairman V. J
Spivey, the drive stands as follows:
District
Jamesville
Williams
Griffins
Macedonia
Bear Grass
Williamston
Woolards School
Others
(junta Amt Raised
$ 600.00 $ 300.00
150 mi
450.00
450.00
3,950.00
60.00
940.00
$
578.80
10.00
535.75
4,055.48
60.68
8.35
$6,600.00 $5,555.06
From the above figures it is seen
that Griffins exceeded its quota by
$128.80, Bear Grass by $85.75, Wil
liamston by $105 48 with five can
vassers, including the high school,
yet to report, and Woolard’s by $6.68.
The names below are those of con
| tributors in Bear Grass Township,
the first district in the chapter to
j submit a complete report Other con
tributions will be acknowledged just
as soon as they can be put in type.
Part of the Beat Grass list was pub
, lished last week.
| Mrs. Bill Harrison, Mrs. Henry
i White, Jr, and Sam 11. Mobley,
| canvassers: Bill Leary, $1; Alonza
| Revels, $1 ; Jay Price, $2; J. R.
j Cherry, $2, W. M. Harrison, $5; S.
II Mobley, $5, Mr. and Mrs. Edmond
| Harris, $4, Haney Taylor, $1; Lewis
j Taylor, $1, W L. Mobley, $1; E. B.
Peele, $1; J. S Price, $1; Mr. and
Mrs. Henry White, Jr., $2; A. L.
Hardy, $5, Mrs. Mack Leggett, $2;
Chesley Jones, $2; Eli Bowen, $1;
Sidney Beaeham, $5; Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Rawls, $5; Mrs. Edna Rawls
(Continued on page six)
Says He Is Happy
To Go To School
—$—
Writing from .somewhere in Hol
land a short time ago, Bruce Whit
ley stated that he certainly did re
gret leaving Belgium where he had
a fairly good home “as homes go in
the Army.”
“When we arrived in Holland
there just wasn’t any place to be
found large enough for us to move
ih We had to stay in tents with snow
for a floor in nearly zero weather.
And was that rough. I had a sleep
ing bag and six blankets and then I
was cold, not enough to freeze, but
enough to be miserable. I just could
not get my feet warm except when
1 got up and walked around Now,
we are in a building. It is a school
house and pretty nice at that. I was
never so glad to go to school before
in my life. It looked like a palace to
me, and last night I slept like a king,
compared to the two nights before."
The censor got hold of the letter
at that point and ripped it almost to
pieces.
Calf Killed On Highway
Near Jamesville Friday
A small ralf owned by Wm. Hop
kins, Jamesville Township farmer,
! was killed last Frid.'ty teen in g about
a o’clock when he strayed into the
path of Ronald Nichols’ car about
three miles below JamesviUe on
Route t>4. No one was hurt and dam
age to the ear was estimated at
about $100 by Patrolman W. E. Saun
deis who investigated the accident.