NEARLY 4.000 COPIES OF THE
ENTERPRISE GOING INTO i'ti£
HOMES OF MARTIN COt)NTT
AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
THE ENTERPRISE
NEARLY 4.000 COPIES OF THE
ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE
HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY
AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
VOLUME XIVIII—NUMBER 55
Wiliiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, July 13, 1945.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Judge Calvin Smithy
Hears Five Cases In
The County's Court
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Session Monday Was Short
And Small Crowd W;as
In Attendance
Judge J. C. Smith held the Martin
County Recorder’s Court in session
about one hour and a half last Mon
day before clearing the small doc
ket. The jurist called five cases
during the short session, but none
of them attracted hardly more than
passing attention.
A very small crowd was in at
tendance and as far as it could be
learned not a single farmer was
present. Last week the court an
nounced that no cases involving far
mers or farm labor would be called
for trial during the busy tobacco
harvesting season. It is fairly cer
tain that the session last Monday did
not interrupt the harvest schedule
for any one, but unconfirmed re
ports maintain that a few farmers
and some idle workers were in and
around pool rooms or loafing on the
streets and segreated around “hang
out” places.
Proceedings:
Walter “Little Bud” Freeman, col
ored man who ran afoul of the law
some months ago and disappeared
under bond, was tried on a charge
of interfering with an officer while
the officer was performing his duty.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenc
ed to the roads for a term of six
months.
Charged with drunken driving
and operating a motor vehicle with
out a driver’s license, Thomas C.
Parker was sentenced to the roads
for ninety days. The term was sus
pended upon the guaranteed pay
ment of a $50 fine and costs. The
court ruled that if the fine and costs
were not paid within four days, the
defendant shall start serving the
road term.
Pleading not guilty in the case
charging him with non-support,
James Purvis was adjudged guilty
and the case was continued under
prayer for judgment until the first
Monday in October. The defendant
was ordered to pay $5 a week, be
ginning July 16, for the support of
his children.
Charged with non-support, James
E. Strawbridge pleaded not guilty.
He was adjudged guilty of failing
his wife and child. The case wv;
continued under prayer for judg
ment until the first Monday in Dr
cember and bond was required in
the sum of $150 During the mean
time, the defendant is to pay, be
ginning July 20, $25 every two
weeks for the support of his wife
and child. He was also directed to
pay a hospital bill.
Pleading guilty in the case in
which he was charged with speed
ing, Joseph Heath was fined $10 and
required to pay the court costs.
S 1-c Burke Parker
Crossing The Pacific
Before starting on his third Pa
cific crossing a short time ago, Sea
man 1/e Burke Parker addressed a
request to have his paper renewed.
He write', in part, as follows:
“Right now I am in San Francis
co on my last liberty in the good old
U. S. A. before leaving for an un
announced destination. This will be
my third Pacific crossing.
“I was reading in the paper last
night about all the boys who wanted
to receive The Enterprise would
have to write in and request it, so
I thought I'd better do it now. Please
keep the paper coming with all
the news possible, because it means
so much to me.”
Burke went on to say that he was
a little low on money at the time,
that he was sure Mom would look
after that part for him. And he hur
riedly concluded, explaining “I have
a little unfinished business. Please
keep the paper coming.”
Under a new postal ruling, no
newspapers may be mailed to serv
icemen unless requests are made.
The ruling does not apply to sub
scriptions already on the list, but
requests for renewals must be made
by the serviceman.
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County Young Man Home
From European Theater
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Lt. James Carlton Edmondson, son
of Mr, Edgar Edmondson of near
Gars. City, recently returned from a
long stay in the European theater
of operations. The young man, re
ported to have saved the lives o)
several officers by a daring feat
worked his way up from the ranks
The young man married in Ire
land, but was not accompanied home
by his wife.
Hear* From Soi* After
A Delay Of Five Monthi
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Mrs. Bessie Cross of Oak Citj
heard from one of her sons recently
for the first time in about fiv<
months or more. A victim of som<
stomach trouble, the young man, Sgt
John Cross, arrived in San Francis
eo a short time ago from the Pacifii
theater.
The young man hopes to movi
* east soon and enter a hospital fo:
treatment.
£eeond Coi«*ty~¥ontk
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Loses Life on Okinawa
ENLARGED
Burned several weeks ago,
that section of the Williams
ton Package Manufacturing
Company where bottoms for
baskets were made, is rapidly
being rebuilt. The unit has
been doubled in size and out
put will be greatly increased.
Several new machines have al
reday been placed in the new
building and motors and other
equipment are being shipped.
Linder normal conditions, the
unit could be placed in operation
within the next two or three
weeks. “Under present condi
tions we don't know just when
we will be able to start opera
tions,” Manager Ernest Ether
idge said yesterday.
Buying basket bottoms from
other mills, the owners have
been able to maintain operations
in the main plant.
Congressman Meets
Martin County Boy
In Munich, Germany
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Dpi, Wesley Hardison Getting
Along All Right, Gooley
Writes Parents
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While on a vacation tour in Ger
many a short time ago, Congressman
Harold Cooley of Nashville met Cpl.
Wesley Hardison, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lucian J. Hardison, of near Wil
liamston. Upon his return home,
Congressman Cooley wrote to Mr.
and Mrs. Hardison, as follows:
“I recently returned from a tour
of European countries. While in
Munich, Germany, I visited the “In
famous” Beer Hall, where Hitler
started his revolution. As we ap
proached the door I was told by the
Colonel who was accompanying us
that the place was heavily guarded
and that he doubted very much if
v \ ’ ' to enter. While the
! ■ . 'thing through his
pm ‘ 1 tier which he thought
'el ' ; s. isi in gaining entrance, I
’ ! cd ever to the guard and said:
■ ini' r, w ho are you and where are
; o t from7' Much to my surprise and
dt light he said: ‘I am Corporal Wes
it y Hardison, of Williamston, North
Carolina.’ Whereupon I introduced
myself and he, too, seemed to be
pleased to meet someone from home.
I told him that I knew many Hardi
sons but was not quite sure that I
was acquainted with you. As soon
as your son knew who I was he im
mediately arranged for our entire
party to visit the bombed and blast
ed Beer Hall, which we found to be
most interesting.
“I air. delighted to report that your
son is in excellent health and splen
did spirit; however, just as every
other soldier, from G.I to General,
he is anxious to return home and to
his loved ones. Your son and all of
the rest of our men in Germany are
now well housed and well fed, but
terribly homesick. I join with Wes
ley and you and other members of
your family in the hope that he will
soon be sailing home.”
Continue Air Drive
Against Jap Targets
Following a powerful attack by
Admiral Halsey’s Third Task Force
1 earlier in the week, B-29’s took over
to continue the air offensive against
Jap targets. The Superforts dropped
a bomb load, estimated as high as
4,000 tons, early today, wrecking a
big oil center in the Tokyo bay area,
and damaging vital objectives in the
four Japanese cities of Utsonomiya,
i Ichonomiya. Tsuruga and Uwajima.
While the B-29’s were wrecking
those objectives, Marine and Navy
planes attacked a big naval air sta
tion, factories and rail lines at the
southern end of the enemy home
land.
The Japs, reporting that another
task force raid is expected soon,
havr issued an alert against inva
■ 'ion.
I'rarinr on the United NiJi'jr"
i Charter are scheduled to be com
pleted in Washington today, ob
i servers declaring that it will be ac
| cepted shortly.
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Curs Crash Near Everetts
Last Wednesday Evening
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No one 'was hurt and no great
i propel ly damage resented when two
i cars crashed on Highway 04, about
lone mile east of Everetts last ^Wed
nesday evening at p-15 c’cl ,'k. The
, vwo cars, one driven by Lucille
: Shaw and owned by John Earl Rob
1 erson ano the other by Vervan
; Rhodes Peaks, were traveling tow
ard Everetts when Peaks started to
: make a left turn and the two ma
chines tideswiped each other. Patrol
; .man W. E. Saunders, investigating
• the accident, pieced the damage tc
| both cars at about $150.
Pvt. Reginald Rawls
Makes The Supreme
Sacrifice On May 27
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Relatives Officially Notified
By War Department
Just a Few Days Ago
Pvt. Reginald Fleming Rawls,
Martin County young man, was kill
ed in action on Okinawa last May
27, relatives in the county were no
tified just a few days ago. No details
were offered in the terse message
addressed to his wife, but a confirm
ation letter was promised.
He was the second young man
from this county to make the su
preme sacrifice in the costly and
Lie >dy fight for the Japanese island
Leaving the county last September
28 with about ninety olht: young
men, Pvt. Rawls was one of six in
the group known to have participat
ed in the Okinawa fight. Four of
them, Kenneth Roberson of near
Robersonville, Bruce Lambert Peel,
Simon Perry, Jr., and Vernon Roe
buck, all of near Williamston, were
wounded, some of them badly. Dav
id Wilson Hardison, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Hardison, RFD 1, William
ston, and a member of the group of
six, died of wounds on Okinawa on
May 28, relatives were advised about
two weeks ago. The Okinawa cam
paign was a costly one and especial
ly for Martin Couny youths.
Pvt. Rawls was born near Rober
sonville on March 6, 1928, the son of
Mrs. Dora C. Rawls and her late
husband, J. D. Rawls. He attended
the Robersonville Schools and was
graduated there in 1945. He is re
membered by his school mates as a
friendly and promising youth. School
authorities found him very depend
able and held him in high esteem,
and he was well regarded by the
general public.
After completing his basic train
ing, he returned home last February
and was married on the tenth of
that month to Miss Ruth Bailey,
daughter of Mrs. Lula Whitehurst
Bailey and the late Jesse Bailey of
this county. His wife attended the
Williamston-High School when her
family was living in the Roberson
Chapel Community. Following her
marriage she moved to Beaufort
County to live with her mother and
grandmother, Mrs. Maggie White
hurst. Pvt. Rawls left the county on
February 11 and soon thereafter
sailed for the Pacific theater.
Prior to entering the service he
figured prominently in the opera
tion of his mother’s farm.
His last letter to his mother was
written on Mother’s Day, and in it
he said that he attended church that
day and that every man there had a
rifle nearby or on his lap as a pre
cautionary measure against any sur
prise move by'the Japs.
Pvt. Rawls is the fifty-first Mar
tin County man known to have made
the supreme sacrifice for our coun
try in all theaters of war to date.
Besides his mother and widow he
is survived by three sisters, Miss
Louise Rawls of Baltimore, Mrs. W.
G. Matthews of Norfolk, and Miss
Dora Elizabeth Rawls of the home;
and four brothers, Dennis and Ben
Rawls of Bethel, Herman Rawls of
the U. S. Air Corps stationed some
where in the European theater, and
Wilmer Rawls of the home.
Tobacco Barns Burn
On Farm Near Here
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Believed to have started from a
defective oil burner, fire destroyed
two tobacco barns on the farm of
John G. Corey near here on the Bear
Grass-Williamston dirt road about
1 o’clock Wednesday morning. The
i barns, joining one another, were be
! ing used for the first time this sea
’ son. One curing was ready to be
taken from the barn and the other
was barned last Monday.
Mr. Corey was quoted as saying
that one of the oil burners was not
functioning properly, and that pos
sibly it went out of control and fired
the barns.
No estimate on the loss could be
had, but possibl” ii -vill run between
t vo and three thousar i dollars. One
report stated that possibly a small
amount of insurance was carried on
the property.
Two servicemen, traveling the
road, saw the fire and called Mr.
Corey.
As far as it could be learned the
barns were the first to be lost by
fire in the county this season.
World W'nr II Veteran
Visits Here This Week
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With an accumulation of 12f
points, Bennie E. Daniel, son of Wii
jliamston’s late chief of police, W
Barcil Daniel, was recently dis
charged from the Army. He was ir
the service nearly five years and
'spent almost three of that time ir
North Africa, Sicily and Itaiv.
Tne young man plans to visit his
brother in Snow Hill for a while and
then possibly enter school.
Capt. Hugh Iordan
Recently Awarded
j
Citation and D.F.C.
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Foi Outstanding Achieve
ment as Leader of Fighter
Group Based in Italy
For extraordinary achievement
during a low-level attack near Ar
genta, Italy, while closely supporting
the final operations of the British
Eighth Army, Capt. Hugh F. Jor
dan, former Martin County boy, has
been awarded the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Jordan, and husband of
Mrs. Evelyn Jordan, of Plymouth.
He flies with the Italy-based 88th
Squadron, 79th Fighter Group, 12th
Air Force.
“Captain Jordan," the citation
states, "led a seven-plane formation
of 12th Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts
in an attack on enemy troop and gun
positions. Skillfully maneuvering
through adverse weather, he dove
to a minimum altitude and in face
i of intense and accurately aimed an
ti-aircraft fire ho guided his P-47’s
on a perfect run over the objective.
Many direct hits in the target area
destroyed eight fortified buildings
and inflicted casualties on enemy
personnel. Reforming his flight,
Captain Jordan returned to the tar
get and in repeated strafing and
rocket attacks inflicted further de
struction upon the enemy before re
turning hia formation safely to
base.”
Captain Jordan graduated from
the United States Military Academy
at West Point in 1943 and he arrived
overseas in August, 1944. He has
flown more than 75 fighter-bomber,
strafing and rocket combat missions
against targets in France, Italy, Aus
tria, Yugoslavia and Germany and
has been awarded the Air Medal
with four clusters and wears four
bronze battle stars and the Distin
guished Unit Badge.
Relatives recently received a let
ter from Brig. Gen. Charles T. My
ers, office of the commanding gen
eral of the Twelfth Air Force, in
Italy, excerpts from which are as
follows:
“The Distinguished Flying Cross
recently won by Captain Hugh F.
Jordan, is more than just an ack
nowledgement for extraordinary
achievement while participating in
aerial flight. It is a symbol of grati
tude from a grateful world.”
| General Myers then quoted part
of the official citation above and
concluded: “The pride I know you
feel at this time is shared by all of
us here. The defeat of the enemy
forces in the Mediterranean Theatre
of Operations was effected through
the unselfish devotion to duty of
such men as your husband.”
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Bruce Whitley Gets
Good Conduct Medal
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In recogntion of his fidelity, effi
ciency and exemplary behavior, Pfc.
Franklin Bruce Whitley, former En
terprise employe, was recently
awarded the Good Conduct Medal
over in Germany.
Recently given the mail clerk’s job
for his company, Pvt. Whitley ex
plained that he got the assignment
just about the time the mail stop
ped coming. A bit disappointed,
Whitley went on to say, “Just be
cause the war has ended here, we
are not leaving yet.” He insisted that
there is still a great need for mail
from home.
Speaking about medals and ri >
' bons, he says he has quite a num
Iber, including four battle stars.
I He recently met a Red Cross
worker, the first American girl he
had seen in some time. She had trav
eled through Williamston and they
.talked quite a bit about the State.
Justice Hassell Has
Four Cases In Court
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Justice J. L. Hassell heard four
cases in his court during the past
few days in addition to a hearing
held for J. T. Briley, colored rnan
charged with obtaining money un
der false pretense.
Charged with being drunk and
disorderly, Spruill Johnson, Wm.
iHenry Langston and George Hooker
were each fined $2.50 and taxed with
$8.50 costs. Virginia Lloyd, disorder
ly conduct, was taxed with $5.50
costs, and Jno. Henry White, drunk
and disorderly, was sentenced to the
roads for thirty days.
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Local Young Officer On
Way Home From Fiji fit
Lt. (jg) Bernard Hurley, *!r , af
ter spending sixteen months in the
Pacific, is on his way home on leave;
according hi a message received
this week by his parents, Rev. and
Mrs. B. T. Hurley. The young local
officer was in San Francisco last
Tuesday and stated that he hoped tc
be home soon.
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PLAN TO A'l TEND CAMP
Many members of 4-H clubs i.i
this county are planning to attend
a camp at Hoffman the week of Julj
23-28, Miss Margarette Ricks, as
sistant home agent, announced this
week.
-To Ffee- Httl Spray
For Controls1-Malaria
Control Program To
Be Extended To 360
Homes In The Town
Spray Will Be Applied With
out Charge by Special
Crew Starting July 17
By DR. J. W. WILLIAMS
Martin County Health Officer
Residents of Williamston are for
tunate in being included in the
D.D.T. spraying program conducted
in the malarious regions of the State
of North Carolina. The Martin Coun
ty Health Department is doing this
work in cooperation with the State
Board of Health and the Malaria
Control Division of the United States
Public Health Service
A survey has been conducted in
Williamston for some years and it
[has been found that the city and the
immediate surrounding territory is
quite malarious. The supply of the
new wonderful spray called D.D.T.,
is limited, and the number of houses
in Williamston is large, so it was
decided to spray a ring of houses
around the city thus building a wall
preventing the mosquitoes, breeding
in the swamps, ditches, pools, and
river, from reaching the heavily
populated parts of the city.
The actual spraying work will be
gin on July 17, and will he done, free
of charge to the householder, by an
experienced crew trained for the
work. Only those houses numbered
by the Health Department on the
recent survey will be sprayed. To
prepare a house for spraying, move
the furniture into the center of the
room, remove pictures, mirrors and
other objects from the walls. Store
the food and kitchen utensils away,
and put out any fire. Half an hour
after the crew has finished the
spraying, which at the most takes
fifteen minutes, the house may be
put in order and people may move
in. All odor will disappear in half
an hour and the D.D.T. on the walls
and ceiling is invisible.
The D.D.T. will remain for about
four months unless it is removed by
washing or wiping. During that time
it will kill any mosquito or fly com
ing in contact with it. Bugs and
most roaches will meet a similar fate.
The D.D.T. is not harmful to chil
dren or pets because it is used in a
very small amount.
The spraying crew is expected to
reach about 360 homes in Williams
; ton and in order to complete this
work rapidly the crew has been or
dered not to spray any house not
properly prepared, unless a good
reason can be given. Nor will the
crew spray any house without a
number, or any house refusing this
service when the crew calls. There
will be no return of the crew to do
j spraying at the “convenience” of
the householder. It is suggested that
people working in mills and other
■ places make arrangements to have
their houses open and ready for the
! crew and ask some friend to be
around.
The purpose of this spraying is to
prevent mosquitoes that have bitten
people having the malaria parasite
in their blood from leaving the house
alive. Thus it is possible to prevent
other people from getting malaria.
I This work is also going to prevent
the spread of new strains of malaria
. being brought back by soldiers and
sailors returning from overseas serv
ice. It is well known that numerous
servicemen returning from the Pa
cific War Zones have had malaria
there.
Numbers have already been as
signed to those houses to be spray
ed.
Returns From Tour
Duty In the Atlantie
l.t. (jg) Emi) A. Berger, husband
,of the former Miss Edna E. Rawls
of Williamston, recently returned
from a tour of duty in the Atlantic
where he served as pilot of one of
ithe Navy’s land-based Liberator
search planes on eleven combat pa
trols with Patrol Bombing Squadron
I 107.
The airman's group comprised one
| of the five squadrons operating as
front-line units of Fleet Air Wing
Seven. The five groups sank four
teen Nazi U-boats, probably destroy
ed two others and damaged sixteen.
Squadron 107 was credited with
sinking nine of the fourteen subs to
gain high-scoring honors of the At
lantic quintet. The patrols were of
material assistance in curbing the
i menace cf Germany's undersea raid
jers.
The lieutenant is a native of 202
jWest Stimmel Avenue, West Chi
les jo
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I horn The European
Them! r For United. Stalet
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Major Oscar Anderson, stationec
in England for neatly ihiity months
is expo't«1 to reach iiome shortly
He wo »c; ,.rfed to have sailed yes
terday.
f FOUNDATION ”1
\,s
Starting work last Friday,
workmen are completing the
foundation for the first unit in
the Dixie Peanut Company’s
$100,000 plant building program
here. The builders are exper
iencing some delay in getting
material and labor, but the sup
pliers are gradually increasing
deliveries of brick and lumber
and more workers are expect
ed to report the early part of
next week.
The company partners, .Messrs.
Johnny (lurkin, Carlyle I*ang
ley, VV. C. Windley, John A.
Manning and Bob Edmondson,
are making every effort possi
ble to have the plant ready for
operation early this coming fall.
County Marriages
Hold To A Normal
Figure Last Month
Sixteen License* Are Issued
by Register of Deeds Dur
ing the Period
Marriages in Martin County last
month hold to about a normal fig
ure, J. Sam Getsinger, register of
deeds, issuing sixteen licenses dur
ing the period. The issuance, while
holding to about normal over a ten
year period, was among the largest
reported since 1941 when twenty li
censes were sold in the county dur
ing the month of June.
Licenses were issued in the coun
ty last month, nine to white and sev
en to colored couples, as follows:
White
Henry Goff and Mildred Steven
son, both of Williamston
Ernest Bryant Whiehard and Cleo
Doris James, both of Uobersonville
Kent S. Veach, of Cherry Point,
N. C., and Washington, Kansas, and
Clarice Murl Ellis, of Jamesville.
Richard C. Frink, of Williamston
and Norwich, N. Y., and Hazel Marie
Perry, of Williamston.
Rady C. Kirkland, of Williamston
and Tampa, Fla., and tJessie Mayo
Tripp Hart, of Williamston.
Pfc Delmus W Clark, RFD 3,
Williamston, and Lola K Inglass, of
RFD 5, Greenville.
Noah Davis Nicholson and Mar
garet Mai- Roberson, both of RFD 3,
Williamston.
Perry E. Odom and Courtney Co
burn Jenkins, both of Williamston.
Leslie K. Straub, of Whiteville and
Michigan, and Annie Irene Peel, of
Williamston
Colored
Shirley Richards and Essie Wals
Ion, both of Williamston
Ernest Staton and Naomi Brown,
both of Oak City.
Cortez Hassell, of Williamston, and
Mary Mizelle, of Robersonville
Joe Walter Williams and Lucy
Gray Brown, both of Williamston.
Fred W Cooper and Valentine
Speller, both of Windsor
William H. Everett and Martha
Clemmons, both of Williamston
Frank Laughinghouse, of Wil
liamston, and Martha Lee, of Rob
11 son villa.
Lt. /. Hardy Rost*
Home from Europo
After spending quite a while in
1 lie European Theater of War where
he served as a navigator in the U.
Fi. Army Air Force, Lt. Z. Hardy
Hose returned to the States a few
days ago and is spending a short
Finie here with friends. Lt. Rose, it
will be recalled, had a very narrow
e scape when his plane was shot out
I of the air and he and other members
pf the crew had to bail out at a low
level.
A bit thin, the local young man
explained that he hud not been get
ting but two meals a day. It was
learned that he had been sleeping
through tire first one, enjoying a
well-earned rest.
John II. Illunil Is Home
(In I.euve From Europe
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John H. Bland, Aviation Radio
man Second Class, U.S.N.R., RFD 3,
Box 196, Williamston, N. C., in 36
months of overseas service, flew
34 anti-submarine missions as first
radioman aboard a big Navy patrol
plane that operated from bases in
the United Kingdom.
, Now returned ... Ravi, V;^ 24
year-old aircrewman flew in a four
motored Liberator attached to Pa
! trol Bombing Squadron 110. Flytng
! long daylight searches for enemy U
i boa lsTTic and las squadron mates
| contributed greatly in helping to
keep the sea lanes clear so that
! troops and supplies could be moved
saRly across to the European thea
ter.
Bland, die son of John W. Bland
of the Williamston address, enlisted
in the Navy in November, 1941.
CountyJ Qk&adLMaa.
Left Here Thursday
For Final Induetion
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Sixteen of the Nineteen Vfen
<’alle«l Are Just in
Their Teens
Eighteen of nineteen Martin Coun
ty colored men called to report for
final induction into the armed forces
left here yesterday for Fort Bragg.
The nineteenth man, William Henry
Dempsey, formerly of KFD 1, Wil
liamston, was transferred to New
York.
Only one of the men is listed as
being married and all but three of
the nineteen are just in their teen
ages. Eight of the nineteen were
called from the farm. One had vis
ited the induction center and was
rejected previously.
Draft board office clerks today
stated that they had been having
trouble loading the selectees on
busses, that they had found it neces
sary to delay schedules for no good
reason. It was explained that the
selectees would report and that after
proper papers had been prepared
some of the men would wander away
and fail to return in time. “We do
not want to resort to mean tactics,
but in the future, officers will be
called, if necessary, to have the se
lectees ready for delivery to the
transportation officials,” a clerk ex
plained, adding that they were an
xious to do all they could for those
men who were being called into the
service.
The names and registration and
last-given addresses of the colored
follow:
men answering the call yesterday,
Vernon Lee Staton, Everetts and
Bethel.
Mi/.elle Bellamy, Robersonville
and Norfolk.
West Kech, Williamston and Pine
town.
Walter Anderson, Jr., Williamston.
Henry Peele, Williamston.
John Douglas Hoe.. " n.FD T Rob
ersonville.
Geo. Thomas James Jr , RFD 1,
Jamesville.
Jo.-eph Prince Wilson. Williams
ton.
James Edward Andrews, RFD 1,
Robersonville.
Wiley Theodore Williams, Oak
City.
Jami s Augusta Barm s, RFD 2,
Robersonville.
Edward Durham, RED 1, Rober
sonville.
William Earl Jones. Oak City and
j Philadelphia
Joseph Thomas Williams, RFD 2,
i Williamston.
I ouis T. Alston, RFD 1. Roberson
ville.
Henry Amos Bryant, RFD 1, Pal
myra.
Robert Raynor, RFD 1, Oak City.
William Joseph Barber, RFD 1,
Jamesville and Elizabeth City.
County Native
Dies In Winterville
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Mi J. S. Whitehurst, native of this
(•ounty and prominent retired far
jmer, died at liis home in Winterville
!at 1:30 o’clock yesterday morning
following a long period of declining
health. Suffer ing a stroke of paralys
es last Monday, he never regained
r onsciousness.
Mr. Whitehurst was born in Mar
tin County 1(7 years ago. He was
{married to Miss Hattie Roebuck of
jthis county (id years ago and speni
[•most of his life in Cross Roads Town
[ship. In 1033 he moved to Winter
iville where he had since made his
home.
Besides his widow lie is survived
by the following children: Mrs. M.
N. Moore of the home, Mrs. Jap
Stox, Claude and Vernon White
hurst all of Winterville, Mrs. John
G. Coltrain, Mrs. Reuben Bailey and
Messrs. Bob and Willie Whitehurst,
all of Williamston; forty-two grand
children and twenty-five great
grandchildren.
Mr. Whitehurst was a devoted hus
band and father, and had many
friends in his native and adopted
communities.
Funeral services are being con
ducted nr the late home this after
noon at 4 30 o’clock and interment
will follow in the family plot in the
Winterville cemetery.
Local Youth hoarded The
Com hat Infantry Badge
With the 103rd (Cactus) Division
in Austria.—Pfc. Mack Luther Peel,
Jr., 403 Park Street, Williamston, N.
C., has been awarded the Combat
Infantry Badge for outstanding per
formance of duty with the 103rd In
fantry Division in ground combat
against the enemy. He is serving
| with tile 4iotii Keg/me/it of the Cac
(ffls Division.
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Concludes Successful
Meeting At Hamilton
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The Rev. Mr. Cross no recently
completed a successful revival meet*
ing in the Methodist Church at Ham
ilton. A new member was added tp
the church roll, and the congrejrfir
t’.on is anxious for the minister to
make a fourth visit there next year,
the pastor, Rev. Thos. H. House, said.