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SERVICE SUUfr THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK, NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE f CTfJ'JWW** JU, PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. Williamalon, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, March 16, 1915. ESTABLISHED I8W VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 22 Judge Calvin Smith Calls Ten Cases In The Coaiiiy's Coeri —#— Small Crowd SYesent at Rt*gii Car Session Held Last Monda yMorning -<s> ■ Judge J. Calvin Smith called ten eases last Monday in the Martin County Reoerder » Court, the session lasting about two hours. Only a small crowd attended. Proceedings: The case charging Norman Daniel with non-support was noi pressed with leave. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with drunken driving, Rob ert Bailey was fined $50 and taxed with the costs. His license to oper ate a motor vehicle was revoked for one year. In addition to the fine and costs, the defendant was directed to pay $11 to the county for a mattress and two blankets damaged by him while in jail. Entering a plea of not guilty Mel son Otto Reynolds was adjudged guilty iri the case charging him with drunken driving and he was fined $50 and taxed with the cost. His li cense was revoked for one year. The defendant gave notice of appeal to the superior court and bond in the sum of $100 was required .the court iecomrnending that his license to drive a motor vehicle be continued during the appeal period. . A continuance until April 12 was granted in the case charging W. Jackson Holliday with drunken driv ing. Charged with assaulting his wife and with disorderly conduct, Clyde Silverthorne was adjudged not guilty. Pleading not guilty in the case charging them with assaults with deadly weapons, Essie Le Clark and Rosalee Latham were found guilty of simple assaults, and judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs. Charged with violating the liquor laws, Jesse Adkins was sentenced to the roads for ninety days. The term was suspended upon the payment of a $35 fine and cost. The defend ant is to remain of good behavior and have no intoxicating liquor in his possession during the next year. Charged with selling beer without a license, Lizzie Perkins and James Arthur Perkins, her husband, plead ed guilty. Arthur was sentenced to the roads for four months and was fined $50 with costs added. The wife was sentenced to jail for thirty days, the court suspending the sentence upon the payment of a $25 fine and one-half the costs. The court or dered the defendants to close their place of business where they sold beer, and officers were directed to confiscate and destroy the ap proximately 48 quarts of beer found in the Parmele place of business. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the case charging William Daniel Scott with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Sam Godard, charged with drunk en driving, made a motion for trial by jury, and his case was transfer red to the superior court for trial next week. The court, giving way to the regu lar two-weeks term of the superior court, will not hold another session until April 2, and since a special term of the superior court will be held in April, Judge Smith and So licitor will enjoy a second “vacation” within a few weeks’ time. Parents - Teachers Plan Night Session —— The local Parent-Teacher Associa tion will have a most interesting meeting and discussion next Thurs day night at 8 o'clock in the gram mar school auditorium. This meet ing is being held at night so that ev ery father as well as mother will come together with the teachers and principal of the school to discuss vi tal needs and problems of our chil dren and ourselves. The subject and program for the meeting Thursday is as follows: "When Is an Adolescent Grown Up?” “Do Adolescent Problems have a Physical Basis?” A physician’s view point, Dr. Walker. “Understanding the Adolescent.” Principal's viewpoint—Mr. Bundy, “How Churches can help in the Guidance of Adolescents.” Minister’s viewpoint, Mr. Goff. The importance of the family council in solving to day’s problems of adolescences, which differ from those of a previous gen eration. Mother’s viewpoint, Mrs. Goff. How we settled the following prob lems: 1. Use of family car; 2. Staying out late at night. 3. Membership in secret societies. 4. Smoking. 5. Spend ing money. Special music will be rendered by music depar'ment under direction of Miss Mewborn. We believe this is a vital subject for all parents and v,e hope that ev eryone concern'-d will V present,— Reported. -ig Stationed in Norfolk after serv ing fourteen months in the South Pacific, James Dalmond Keer, S 1/e, spent last week at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Keel. Red Cross Drive Expected To Exceed Goal by About $1,000 j Tlic Red Cross War Fund Drive. | ■■»••••id’.V' dr.aw4*ig—te s (this chapter, has already exceeded •the origins! goal by nearly $500 and j will, in all probability, pick up an other $500 between now and next I Monday, according to chapter fund chairman, V. J. Spivey. Three townships, Bear Grass, Grif fins and Jamesville, nave completed their canvass, each exceeding their quotas by substantial sumo. In Wil liamston the high school and four canvassers are yet to report. These sources are expected to add about $300 or more to the total, and Wil liams is promising about $45 more. The colored citizens are virtually certain to add enough to the total to boost the amount in excess of the quota to $1,000. Up until late yesterday, a total of $7,120.31, a figure about $400 larger than the original quota of $0,600, had been raised and reported. According to reports submitted to Chairman Spivey, the drive in the ! fine tcu nships stands, as follows: i Jamesville Ukiiiams I GrilTins Bear Grass ; Macedonia i Wii'iamston Quota A mi Rais’d $ 638.24 105.00 578.80 525.75 10.00 4,327.42 600.00 150.00 450.00 450.00 3,050 00 $5,600.00 $6,245.21 All hut three of the colored dis tricts in the five townships have re ported. Jamesville, Smithwick's and | Corey's are expected to complete l the drive, over the week-end. The re port for colored citizens in the other districts follows: Wiiliamston Woo lard's Bear Grass Dardens Burroughs' Biggs’ Williams' $ 500.00 60.00 35.00 80.00 60.0(1 60.00 60.00 481.90 67.68 38.02 81.45 41.68 76.70 87.67 Grand Totals $1,000.00 $ 875.10 $6,600.00 $7,120.31 f WOUNDED I| \-1 Pvt. Randolph White was slightly wounded in France on February 19, his mother. Mrs. Venona Coburn White of Janies ville, was just recently notified. Pvt. White entered the serv ice last summer and visited home in October before going overseas last December. His wife, the for mer Miss Fdith Miller, and their four-year-old son live in Wash ington. The young man was employed by the Lindsley Ice Company for several years. His father, Thomas White, died in 1915. A sister, Mrs. Thelma White Jones, died here several years ago. James Revels Dies In Local Hospital After Long Illness o Funeral Services Are Rrin£ Held This Afternoon For Retired Farmer James H. Revels, well-known cit izen of Griffins Township, died in the local diospita 1 yesterday morning at 9 o'clock following a long period of declining health. His condition had been critical only a few weeks, how ever. and he had spent only the last two in bed, entering (he hospital for treatment on Tuesday of this week. Mr. Revels was a hard and earnest worker all his life or until failing health forced his retirement more than two years ago. The son of the late Eh and Mary Ann Webb Revels, he was born in Griffins Township on January 5, 1877, and lived and farmed there all his life. About !9<i9 he was married to M -■ Della Revels and she sur vives with three sons, Chester B., J Eason and Julius Lee Revels, all of tiie home community. He also leaves two brothers, Messrs. Slade and Jno, Hyman Revels, both of this county, and two sisters, Mrs. Ella Moore and Mrs, Lula Gardner, both of Williams Township. Mr. Revels was a member of the church at Macedonia for several years, and was faithful in the attend ance upon its services and in its support. He was a good neighbor and a good citizen, valuing his obli gations and playing the game fair with his fellowman. Funeral services are being con ducted at the home this afternoon at Lilley’s Hall at 2:30 o’clock Dy (Continued on page six) Soldier’s Wife Is Painfully Injured Mrs. Garland Tice, the former Miss Erla Ruth Corey, was danger ously injured Tuesday afternoon when she was struck in the eye by a tobacco stalk. It could not be learn ed just how badly she was hurt, but one report from a Durham hospital stated that she hardly had a fifty fifty chance of keeping her sight in that eye. It was stated that she was to undergo an operation, but no re port has been received since that time. Trying to carry on in the absence of her husband who just recently sailed for overseas service in the Army, Mrs. Tice was driving a stalk cutter when a stalk flew up and al most tore the eye from its socket. -<fc Funeral Held Wednesday For Rogerson Infant Son -$ Funeral services were conducted at the home in Bear Grass Town ship Wednesday afternoon for Wil liam Hildreth, two-months-old son of Hilt-red. and Meloa House Roger son ,who cued in the local hospital Wednesday morning at 1:00 o’clock. Rev. D. W. Davis conducted the last rites. The child had been in poor health since its birth on last January 10. Griffins Township Exceeds Red Cross Allotment By $128 Farm Life School Children Raise $83.53 To Roost To tal to $578.00 -<s>—— Griffins Township, the second dis trict in the Martin County Chapter to complete its canvass for the 1945 Red Cross War Fund, exceeded its quota by $128.80, Mrs. J. Eason L.il ley, chairman of the drive there, re porting a total of $578.80. Given a $450. quota, the township was materially aided by the chil dren in the Farm Life School who gave a total of $83.53. Contributions by grades were reported as follows: first and second, $17.86; third, $10.32; sixth, $12.50; seventh and ( ighth, $23.80; ninth and tenth, $8.55; twelfth, $10.50. Names of contributors in the town ship and the amounts donated fol low: Mrs. N. E. and P. T. Roberson, can vassers: Richard Corey, $1; Sherrod Corey, $2; Levi Edmondson, $1; Ver no Manning, $1; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jones, $5; Mr. and Mrs. Labon Lilley, $2; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Manning, $5; Leonard Coltrain, $2; W. R. Hai l ing ton, $5; Kenneth Harrington, $1; Jim Peele, $5; Sampson Hodges, $2; S. E. Corey, $1, Julius Manning, $1; B. It. Manning, $3; Piney Grove Sunday School, $5, Mu*. Garland Tice, $1; William S. Peele, $1; M. M. U.. Piney Grove Church, $5; John Smithwick, $5; J. G. Peele, $5; Oscar Peele, $2; Oscar Roberson, $3, Mrs. Henry Rob erson, $2; Ralph Peele, $1; Jake Hardison, $2; Isadella Hardison, $1; Mrs. W. B. Harrington, $1; Edwin Corey, $1; W. D. Manning, $1; Jim Manning, $2; S. E. Manning, $5; Dal mer Grey Manning, $1; Ben Ira Hardison, $1; Dempsey Roberson, 25c, Evan Perry, $1; Eugene Rober son, $2; Pei lie Roberson, $2, Harmon Roberson and family, $2.50; Mr. and Mrs. Plenny Peele, $2; Mrs. Thomas Tice, $1; Susie Williams, $1; N. T. Tice, $2; Arthur Corey, $1.50.—Total, $97.25. Mrs. Elmo Lilley and Mrs. Albert Gurkin, canvassers: Mrs. T. B Spain, jr., $1; Mrs. Evelyn Waters, I $3: Mrs. Henry Griffin, 50c, Jesse! G. Lilley, 25c; Mr .and Mrs. Tobe Rogers, $1, Mis. Francis Lilley, 25c; Vida Harris, 50c; Mamie Harris, 50c; Mrs. Ben Dail, 50c; Mr. and Mrs. Roland Lilley, $5; Mi. and Mrs. El mo Lilley, $5; Mrs. Sarah Lilley, $5; S. B Lilley, $10; Ralph Giay Lilley,! $5; Mrs. Betty Gurkin, $1; Eason Revels, $1; Maurice Peele, $5, Mrs. Annie Peel, $5; Elbert Griffin, $1; Mrs. Melinda Peel, $1; Mr. and Mrs. George Grimes, $1; Opheus Revels, $1; Mrs. Elsie Griffin, $1; Ed Taylor, $1; Sallie Stone, $1; Elbert Rober son, $2; Mr. and Mrs. Coy Griffin, $3; Clarence Gurkin, $1; Mr. and Mrs. F.. II. Manning, $5; Mr. and Mrs. Al bert Gurkin, $5; Mr. and Mrs. Ral eigh Lilley, $2; Selma Griffin, $1.50; Sam J. LUley, $2; Mrs. Rhoda Lilley, $1; Georgia Lilley, $1; Lawrence Lil ley, $1; Miles Lilley, $2, John Lilley, (Continued on page six) CHECKS ^ The total amount of soil con servation payments received by Martin County farmers to date is reaching a right respectable figure. Mostly, the payments are considered little more than chicken feed, so many farmers have so much money, or did have before they paid their in come taxes. Just recently farmers in the county received 523 checks rep resenting 279 applications and amounting to $8,933.41 from the Triple A. So far they have re ceived under their 1944 contracts a total of 1,487 checks amount ing to $29,842.08 and represent ing 960 applications. About 490 applications are pending and ap proximately 50 others await the farmers’ signatures. Supervisor Speaks To Farm Group on | Soil Conservation in (lourlliouftc flrrr Last Tuesday Aiylit Addressing a srraa group of farm ers in the county courthouse here last Tuesday evening, W. W. Eagles, chairman of the board of supervisors for the Coastal Plain Soil Conserva tion District, urged the adoption of the best soil improvement programs. His plea, reflecting a genuine in terest in the betterment of his fel low man, was well received by the few farmers present. "To have good homes, good fam ilies and enjoy the most in life, we must have good soil,” Mr. Eagles de dared. “What is more disheartening than to see a ragged farmer plowing a poor mule on poor land?” he ask ed. • Then the speaker touched- -on a subject that should be receiving sci ious consideration by every Martin County farmer as well as every other one in the entire nation. He declared that farmers with good soil can come nearer riding out a depression than those trying to get along on margin al lands. “And wo only have to turn to history and learn that a depres sion is coming some time in the fu ture. Depressions have followed from way back in 1066 in the Norman per iod and another one is coming,” he declared, urging every farmer in this county to prepare for it by improv ing his soils. "It takes nature 800 years to build one inch of top soil, arid anything we can do to keep the soil God gave us we should willingly do it,” he point ed out. Continuing, Mr Eagles said, “We must become more soil conscious and more forest fire conscious.” The speaker, talking after an informal but earnest fashion, cited some of tin' work being done by the Coastal Plain Soil Conservation service. The drainage problem was^ pointed out, and lie added that efforts were being made tn gel special equipment for laying drain tile and machines for controlling forest fires. "We have a program and it is all right, and we urge the farmers of Martin County to make greater use of it,” Mr. Eagles said, pointing out that tlu service costs nothing, that it carries no obligation, but offers a great return to the farmer who works it. ‘‘Let’s get every farmer interested (Continued on page six) Former Ball Player Is Reported Killed —<$,— According to reliable but unoffi cial information received here a short time ago, An Villepique, for mer player on the Williamston base ball team, was killed in action in the Pacific theater a few months ago. lie is remembered here as a reliable young man and made many friends among the people of this section dur ing the several seasons lie played outfield for the Martins. Another player for the Martins, S/Sgt. William .Jeff Grant was ser iously wounded on February 14th somewhere along the Western Front. The young man lost his rigid foot, the limb having been amputated a few inches above the ankle. "My ball playing days are over,” Sgt. Jeff wrote friends here this week. He doesn’t know how long it will lie be fore he catches a boat home, hut at the present time the young man is in an Army Hospital oveisias. His address is, S/Sgt Wm. J. Grant, De tachment of Patients, Hospital Plant No. 4404, APO 772, care Postmaster, New York, N. Y., and he will appre ciate a letter from his friends here. Tire Damage* S/iruill llomt• On Wilson Street -- Fire starting near the chimney did considerable damage to Hezekiah Spruill’s home on Wilson Street here yesterday morning at 11 o’clock. A large hole was burned in the side of the house and the ceiling was scorched. Damage to the house was estimated at about $250 by Chief G. 1’. Hall and the furniture loss will approximate $150. While en route to the Wilson Street fire, the firemen almost stopped at the main street Esso station when they thought the spray from a paint gun was smoke rolling around the arches from the ceiling. They soon sized up the situation there and con tinued to the Spruill fire without losing more than a luV seconds. Spruill, local barber, stated he was going home for breakfast and found everything cooking Justice Hassell Hears Two Cases In His Court Here --- Justice J. L». Hassell heard only two cases in his court here this week as compared with about a doz en a week ago. Eli Raynor, charged wilh being drunk and down, was required to pay $9.50 costs, and Wilbur Jones, charged with being drunk and disor derly, was fined $1.50 and required to pay $8.50 costs. Short Criminal Docket | In The Superior Court iuiliir l>nr»\\\ n \\ Hi Preside Over Mixe d Term Here Monday Court SrhoHiilrd to Complete Trial of Criminal Cases Thr First Dav Judge W H Sumner Burgwyn of Woodland will open a two weeks’ term of the Martin County Superior Court here next Monday for the trial of criminal and civil cases. The crim inal docket carries comparatively few cases—thirteen, to be exact - and their trial is scheduled for the first day of the term. It isn't likely that the criminal docket will be cleared the first day, however. The court will draw nine new members for the grand jury to replace the nine who are completing a year’s service on the body. The first-day sessions will attract a fair-sized crowd, to be sure, but if real farming weather prevails, there’ll be mighty few idle specta tors around the old hall of justice. Fur the most part, the docket cur i ies very few cases that are likely to attract any great attention. There are no first degree charges lodged against any of the defendants, and several of them could just as well have been handled in the inferior courts. Scheduled to start the trial of civil cases next Tuesday, the court will find no great number of actions there other than a record turnout of pleas for divorces. At no previous time in tin' history of the county’s court rec ords have 2(1 divorces been found pending on a single calendar. The old and the young, the white and the colored are out to tear asunder the bonds of matrimony. Criminal cases appearing on the docket include the following: Melson Otto Reynolds and Joe Barnhill of Pitt County, charged willi drunken driving, appealed from county court judgments. The case charging Sam Godard with drunken driving was transfer red from the county court when the defendant asked for a jury trial. Prince White, charged with dispos ing of mortgaged property, was bounded over to the "big” court by Judge J. C. Smith. The case charging N. S. Godard with assault and battery was sent to the higher court after the defendant called for a jury trial The case was the first to be automatically trails ferred to the superior court under the now law ruling out trials by jury in the county court. Cortez Hopkins is charged with stealing $80 and gasoline coupons from Mrs. Louise Barber on Decern her IB. He was bound over by the county recorder. Walter (Bud) Freeman, young col mod man who 's in trouble about as often as he is out, is facing trial for breaking into Buck's Place on Wash nigh a) Street hire last February II) Bound over by Justice J L. Hassell the defendant is at liberty under a $500 bond. The case charging Berry Wynne with cruelty to animals was bound over by Recorder Smith. Ausbon Rogers, charged with breaking and entering and larceny, is at liberty under bond in the sum of $700. He is alleged to have visited the home of Clias Rate in Williams Township and stole several articles on Sunday, January 21, and carried away several shot in various parts of his anatomy. Henry Dave Bonds with Harry Land tried to “hog” the docket Bonds stands charged in four eases and Land in three, their crime rec ord going back to last October 7 when they entered Mannings’ laun dry and stole a pair of pants and a quart of liquor. On December 8 the two entered Chas. Jenkins' garage, failed in then attempt to crack the safe, but succeeded in stealing a 1040 Oldsmobile automobile. About two weeks later the two men are alleg ed to have entered Harrison Oil (Continued on page six) SERIOUSLY WOUNDED 3 Pfc. Ernest Clifton Hollis, 20 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdie (Dock) Hollis, RFD 3, Williumston, was seriously wounded in Germany on Febru ary 28, according to a message received from the War Depart ment Tuesday afternoon. The young man is now in an Army hospital. Entering the service the latter part of last August, he returned home about Christmas for a brief stay with his parents. He went overseas on or about last Janu ary 1, stopping briefly in Eng land and France and joining Pat ton's Third Army in early Feb ruary. A promising and well-man nered youth, he was graduated from the Robersonville High School where he had many friends. f\\ <t ( V C \( f > Pfc. Poster I,. Harrell, Jr,, was badly but not seriously wound ed on Inn .lima on Sunday, Feb ruary 25. according to informa tion received d'rect from the 2(> year-old Marine this week by his parents near Oak City. A target for a Jap hand grenade, the young man was literally sideswiped on the left, the iron fragments tearing into his left shoulder, left forearm, left side of his head and left leg. Pfc. Harrell, the first Martin County man reported wounded in the hitter fight for lwo Island was removed a short time later to a base hospital at an undis closed location. In a letter to iiis parents, he declared he was get ting along all right, and even though he was sore he was en joying a good bed and splendid treatment. J3is. wife, the former Miss Kliz abeth Moye of Oak City, and their 1!) months-old son, Jerry Lester, are making their home in Lewiston. Driver Is Critically Hurt \\ lien Trucks Crash On Highway Jeremiah Brown in Hospital; Henry I’anl ('liargnl with Reekless Driving Jeremiah Brown, middle-aged col ored man, was dangerously hurt when the big Dodge truck loaded with logs for the Williamston Bum her Company, and a furniture truck owned by the VanDyke Company of Greenville and driven by Henry Paul, young white man of the Pitt capital, crashed on U. S. Highway about one half mile east of Everetts last Wednesday afternoon at 2:45 o’clock. Brown, his pelvis bone brok en and suffering possible internal injuries, was removed to the local hospital. Paul, lus lace lacerated, was treated in the Ward Clinic at Ruber sonville and continued to his home in Greenville a short time later. A later report stated that Brown suffered a back injury and that his bladder was torn. Two light VanDyke trucks wen traveling toward Everetts at a re ported fast speed when the lead truck slowed down to pass several slate highway trucks parked on the right shoulder. Paul turned to the left to pass the lead truck and drove light into the path of the big log truck (ravelling toward Williamston Paul tried to drive on off the high way to the left, but the log truck plowed into his light machine, cans ing it to buckle and to throw Paul clear ol the wreckage. A wheel off the light truck was knocked a con adorable di dance down the highway while the two vehicles, smashed to gether, stopped across the ditch. The load of logs lunged forward, ripping off the cab and steering wheel and landing in the highway. Brown was unable to explain how he escaped without being crushed. Apparently he was throw'll to the foot of the cab and rode nut the accident while the logs continued down the highway af ter ripping away the cat). Patrolman W. E. Saunders and J Cpl. W. S. Hunt worked almost tllrei hours clearing the wreck which they (Continued on page six) Fire Damages Home Here Last Tuesday —— Its origin not definitely known, fire did considerable damage to tin apartment house of Mrs K L. Luugli inghouse on the corner of Sycamore and Main Streets here last Tuesday evening about 7 o’clock. Starting in an upstairs room, the fire damaged tiie furniture and furnishings of Wal ter Bailey who recently moved there from Bear Grass, and burned into the lathing on one wall and scorch ing the celling. Damage to the room was estimated at $500 hy Fire Cliiel G. P. Hall and the loss on the furni ture will approrxirriate $200. Tllfc building was insured but none was carried ori the furniture by Mr Bai ley. Miss Annie Mae Bailey lost all her clothes except the ones she was Wear ing, and other members of the fam ily lost several items. The home was just recently sold by John W. Green. Officers Wreck Tno Lii/uor flan Is In Free Union Area Raiding in the Free Union section of Jamesville Township last Tues day, Officers J. H. Roebuck and Roy Peel wrecked two poorly equip ped liquor plants. Both were equip ped with gas drums and each plant had about fifty gallons of honey beer on hand. Air Attack On Nazi \rn ( V \rmy Joins First I'nr Fxpeete*! Drive From Thi' terrific pounding of the Ger I man military .staff headquarters 20 miles south of Berlin yesterday was taken to mean that extensive devel opments on the fighting fronts will follow shortly. More than 600 Amer ican bombers attacked the compara tively smalt town, leveling the place and dumping super bombs for ex terminating the rats deep down in air raid shelters. Similar attacks have preceded other large-scale drives, and observers saw in the ac tion yesterday signs of big events to come. During the meantime, the Ameri can First, joined I >v the new Ameri can Fifth Army, is making contin ued progress in the Remagen bridge h( ad at ea Late report:; state That Hodges men have cut the six-lane superhighway from Frankfurt to Cologne, and the Germans declare that there are more Americans east, of the Rhine now than the;-* were iu Nornv.e'dy immediately following the D Day invasion last June While the First and Fifteenth are extending their positions east of the Rhine, P: tch and Patton are mop ping up the last Germans on the western side of the barrier. General Patton’s men. reported to have made gains up to twelve miles in the last 24 hour . had already sealed off the Rhine transit city of Coblenz, was nearing the Rhine south of the city, was pinching off the enemy's “Little Ruhr’’ the Saar basin—and was challenging the Nazis’ last 150-mile grip on the Rhine’s west bank. The Third Army was by far the deepest into Germany of any Allied army in the West. As it closed on Boppanl, an ancient Rhine center six mill ; south of Coble*, it was 80 milos north of the Saar border, and nearly 70 miles west of the enemy frontier. Enemy accounts said the United States Ninth Army had tried to storm across the Rhine into the Ruhr at Duisburg, but was thrown back in hand-to-hand combat This report might he a propaganda attempt to capitalize on small raiding party for ays designed to obtain information of thu man defenses The Russians are still occupied in clearing .its flanks and setting the stage for the drive in the direction of Berlin and Dresden. Moscow has said little since the fall of kustrin, the main fortress in the path lead mg directly to Berlin. It was an nouneed, however, that powerful forces were forming there and that the Russians in that sector had crossed the Adei in strength. It is believed by some that the Russians will start their drive about the time Montgomery throws his Second British Army into high gear for a ci os: ing of the Rhine The Pacific war is making prog n ss too. Tin Iwo Jiina fight is well undei control after 4,000 American Marini s gave their lives to extermi nate 20,000 Jap rat Japanese efforts to land on the outtu rn tip of Luzon wen frustrated, and American air men pounded Formosa again, sink ing eight .lap : hips while handling their other work. Tokyo says that thousands of Japs were burned to death in the fins set there and at Nagoya and O aka in recent days. Talk of German peace offers were reported to ha\i been dismissed Without consideration when Hitler and his gang proposed that they be allowed to continue in power County Urn Report For Final Induction Knur Martin County nun reported In l Wednesday fm final induction pm sumably into tin Army al Fort Bragg with our • d ptimi. The |>rnup was the smallest to leave the county 111 oinn turn . the i/o ol the rail be ing consideriihly smalli r than had been geni i ally expected. Three ol It. nmn answering the call came from non-farm jobs, the other one having first been ruled an issential farmer and then declared unessential. Ills call came after he hud appealed to the district board in Windsor One of the group, nearing 38 years of age, was understood to have quit a vital job and subjected himself to call One of tin four men, James Phil lip Keel, include d in the call, was transferred to Dunn, but his place was filled Wednesday when Dallas Hassell Godard was transferred from Norfolk to report for induction from this county. The names of the other men called, their registration and last-given ad dresses, follow: Hoke Smith Roberson, Williams ton and Robersonville. Haywood John Brown, RFD i, Oak City. Frederick Leon Hardison. RFD 1, Williamston. Hardison volunteered for the Navy a short time ago, but he entered through the usual chan nels. Rubin Bailey, Jr., 3/c Q. M USN, is spending a thirty-day leave with his parents after serving fifteen months overseas.