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The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News ******* A home newspaper dedicated I to the service of Washington ! County and its 12,00* people. VOLUME LII—NUMBER 52 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, For Thursday, December 25, 1941 ESTABLISHED 1889 Town opiics Corporal H. W. Stillman, at home from Port Benning, Ga.. to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Still man, said today that after war was declared orders were issued to sen tries to order persons entering the military reservation there to “halt" one time and then fire if the person failed to stop. Before that time sen tries were required to repeat the chal lenge three times before shooting. Th Branch Banking & Trust Company will be open Christmas Eve, Wednesday night, for one hour, from 8 to 9, to give patrons last-minute service before clos ing two days for the Christmas holidays, Thursday and Friday. N. C. Vail, who is on a submarine with the U. S. Fleet in the Pacific, wrote his mother from Honolulu on December 12, and although the let ter was censored, he got the message over to his mother, Mrs. Jane Vail, that she “could bet her last nickel that everything there was under con trol.” Postmaster John W. Darden said today that post office employees were much gratified that patrons were wrapping packages more securely this year than usual. This is a great con venience for the workers, Mr. Dar den said, especially during the Christ mas rush. The Boy Scouts of Plymouth will meet at the courthouse base ment Friday evening at 7:30, as usual. It Is urged that every Scout be present. Special mat ters will be discussed, and a pro gram has been arranged. Elective office for Perseverance Lodge, No. 59, A. F. & A. M., for the coming year are as follows: J. Lin wood Knowles, master; Tom B. Brown, senior warden; W. J. High smith, junior warden; B. G. Camp bell, treasurer; and John W. Darden, secretary. Appointive officers will be announced later. -<g, Corporation Formed Recently Will Take Over Country Club ■ Group of 20 Men of This Section Organize To Buy Property -s A new corporation, composed of 20 stockholders in Plymouth, Wil liamston, Washington, a.,J Columbia, was recently formed under the name of the Country Cltb of Plymouth, Inc., to purchase the $80,000 club house and golf course here, and will take over the^operation of the prop erty January 1, 1942. At a meeting of the stockholders last Thursday night, the following of ficers were elected: Eugene P. Still, president; Z. V. Norman, first vice president; H. M. Kieckhefer, second vice president; L. J. Meunier, jr., sec retary; and E. A. Harrison, treasurer. Directors, in addition to the above named officers are follows: E. L. Walker, J. R. Manning and Ellis Maples, of Plymouth; C. G. Crockett and Frank J. Margolis, of William ston; and Mack G. Waters, of Wash ington. There are, at the present time, about 80 members of the club, and plans are being made by the officers and directors to begin a drive after the first of the year to secure an ad ditional 80 members. The scale of membership dues will remain about the same as at the present time, it is understood. It is presumed tnat tne ciud wui be operated substantially in the same manner as heretofore. However, plans are underway for the opera tion of a restaurant with moderate prices in the club dining room, and efforts will als be made to have the clubhouse become the center of lo cal social affairs, as well as golfing activities. Under the new ownership the club will be locally owned and operated. Announcement is made that those who wish to become members of the club should see E. A. Harrison, L. J. Meunier, jr., Ellis Maples, J. R. Man ning, or any other director or officer of the new organization. It was announced that new mem bers of the club who join now or dur ing the early part of the first quar ter of 1942 will be relieved of the pay ment of the $10 initiation usually re quired. -$ Building Highway To New Settlement Complying with a request from the Washington County Commissioners, the State Highway and Public Works Commission employees in this sec tion have already surveyed and made arrangements for construction of a 22-feet road from Highway No. 64 to the “Little Rich wood” village west of Plymouth. The road leading from the highway to the village Is about a half mile long. There are now 52 houses in the development and it is expected that there will soon be more. The inhabi tants of the village are employed at the North Carolina Pulp Company. The state road crew wiU also con struct three streets in the village. It was said the State force would build the streets if the villagers remove stumps from them, and all of the stumps have now been removed. Nearly $200Raised in Last-Minute Drive for Christmas Cheer Fund Business Houses Extend Greetings As an expression of their ap preciation for the friedship and patronage accorded them in the past, the Plymouth merchants and other business men pause at this Christmas time to extend their sincere greetings to all the people of this section through the columns of this paper today. A new hope and a greater un derstanding are created at this Christmas time, and to enhance the value of these, the business forces of the town express, in a most sincere way, their wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Tear to all. Read the little messages, with out which Christmas would be little more than Just any other day in the year, and know that these firms are interested in your happiness at all tiimes, and es pecially at this glad season. Funeral Tuesday For J. B.Baleman Former Resident Died Monday Morning at Home of His Daughter In Rocky Mount Funeral services were held at the Plymouth Christian church here Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock for Johnson Beauregard Bateman, 80 years of age, who died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. E. S. Bulluck, in Rocky Mount early Monday morning, following an illness of six months. The Rev. Eugene B. Taylor, of Plym outh, and the Rev. Lonnie Scarbor ough, of Rocky Mount, officiated. In terment took p'-’C" in the Windley cemetery near herer Bom in Washington County, the son of the late John and Mrs. Nancy Bateman, Mr. Bateman lived here for about 55 years before moving to Pet ersburg, Va. He was a retired rail way employee and a member of the Primitive Baptist church. Mr. Bateman was first married to Miss Caroline Arnold in 1882. After her death in 1901 he was married to Miss Mamie Francis in 1903. His sec ond wife died in 1938. Following his death Monday morn ing the body was brought to the Homer Funeral Home here and re mained there until the funeral at the Christian Church Tuesday afternoon Mr. Bateman is survived by two sons, S. C. Bateman, of Williamsburg, Va., and B. J. Bateman, of Newport News, Va.; and five daughters: Mrs. O. W. Bowen, of Plymouth; Mrs. C. B. Mashbum, of Farmville; Mrs. Joe Holder, of Asheville; Mrs. J. M. Day, of Portsmouth, Va.; and Mrs. E. S. Bulluck, of Rocky Mount. He is also survived by two sisters: Mrs. Amelia Stillman and Mrs. E. G. Harrison, of Plymouth; two brothers: B. F. Bate man, of Jamesville, and T. W. Bate man, of Plymouth. The pall-bearers were Earl Bowen, Merle Bowen, Erwin Bowen, C. B. Mashbum, jr„ A. B. Gregory, and R. B. Barnes. New Year’s Party at Local Country Club Is Planned -® A New Year’s Eve party Is planned for the Country Club of Plymouth, with members and prospective mem bers being invited, according to J. R. Manning, a director, who urged those interested to make plans for enjoy ing the event. He said it was planned to make this the largest and best of the annual New Year parties ever held here. Committee Headed By P. W. Brown Is In Charge of Work -<$> Lions Club Decided at Meet Last Thursday To Spon sor Movement -s> Cash contributions totaling $178.50 had been received up to Monday night by the Christmas Joy Fund, which is being sponsored this season by the Lions Club, with Chief of Po lice P. W. Brown heading a commit tee from the club \yhich included James W. Norman and R. B. Trot man. No sponsor for the movement was secured until last Thursday night, when the Lions Club under took the task of raising the money and preparing the baskets No clothing, fruits, groceries, nuts or anything except cash was receiv ed by the sponsoring organization this year. The members of the Plym outh Volunteer Fire Department have repaired and repainted about 80 toys. Chief Brown said today that there would be about 30 complete baskets prepared for the needy families and about 100 packages of confection ery would be prepared for the chil dren. The family baskets will contain the following items: 3 pounds of bacon, 6 pounds of meal, 2 pounds of sugar, 2 pounds of butter beans, 2 pounds of black-eye peas, 2 pounds of lard, 12 pounds of flour, J/2 pound of cheese 2 pounds of dried peaches, 2 pounds of rice, 2 pounds of navy beans, 1 can dried beef, 1 pound coffee, 1 can of milk, 1 can of tomatoes, 1 box of oat meal. Children in these families and other needy children will receive packages containing nuts, apples, oranges, candy and raisins. Most of the requests for baskets have been received directly from those who need them, and some have been investigated by R. B. Trotman, principal of the school. Those who are to receive the baskets will be no tified to call for them. So far as known now, there will be no delivery of baskets, although some who have friends on the list will probably help in seeing that the baskets get to the right persons: Following is the list of contributors: $40, Plymouth Merchants Associa tion; $25, North Carolina Pulp Com pany, Plymouth Box and Panel Com pany, and Lions Club; $15, Senior Woman’s Club, American Legion, Lo cal Union No. 356; $5, Junior Wom an’s Club, Roanoke Beacon, Eastern Star; $2.50, Thursday Afternoon Lit erary Club; $1, P. B. Bateman. -<t> Lions Club Hears Rev. Hj^Taylor "Is Christmas a Holy Day or a holiday?” the Rev. Eugene B. Tay lor, pastor of the Christian Church here, asked the members of the Lions Club in a speech to that group last Thursday night on ‘‘The Significance of Christmas.” The beginning of Christmas is in a manner the beginning of time be cause time dates to the birth of Christ, said he speaker, in pointing out that the years are reckoned on the basis of before Christ and after Christ. Some thing that it is a period for carousal and revelry but it really should be a season of worship, be cause the birth of Christ has meant so much to the nations of the world, said the speaker, in pointing out that there is more to Christmas than the mere exchanging of gifts. F. E. Nobles presented the new minister. James W. Norman pre sented C. J. Norman, who sang two songs, and Shep Brinkley, who as companied Mr. Noman on the piano. Holidays Shortened For Many Workers In Section by War -® Productive Departments of N. C. Pulp Co. Will Con tinue Operation -® The war is having ifc effect on the Christmas holiday period of many workmen in the industrial plants and business establishments in and around Plymouth this year. Last year the period of rest from work ranged from two to five days, where as, this season the holidays will be only one or two days. Plymouth Box & Panel Company workers will have a two-day holiday, closing down Tuesday night, having Wednesday and Thursday off. and re turning to work Friday morning at the usual time. Employees of the local unit of the American Fork & Hoe Company will stop their work Wednesday at noon and will return to their work Friday morning at the usual hour, having a day and a half for rest and recrea tion. At the North Carolina Pulp Com pany, E. L. Walker, general manager, issued the following statement: “In conformity with our duty, and the conditions existing in this country at war, all productive departments of the plant will operate on Christmas Day. The cooperation of every em ployee is needed to increase as much as possible the tonnage produced. The pulp and paper demand is gerater now than all the combined mill ca pacities of the United States at the present time. In view of the Christ mas season, refreshments will be served by the management in each department.” Employees of the courthouse here will observe the same holidays as that granted state employees. It is be lieved the offices will be closed prob ably Wednesday at noon and re main closed until Monday, giving Thursday, Friday and Saturday off. The county agent’s office will close Wednesday at noon and return to work Saturday morning. All of the local stores and business houses, with the possible exception of drug stores and filling stations, will be closed Thursday and Friday, re opening at the usual time Saturday morning. The Branch-.. Banking & Trust Company will be closed Thurs day and Friday, but will be open for an hour between 8 and 9 Christmas Eve night for the convenience of its patrons. The two county ABC stores will be closed Thursday and Friday, reopening Saturday morning. -$ New Series oi Building & Loan Stock Now on Sale -$ Installment stock in the 17th series of the Plymouth Building and Loan Association, dated January 1, 1942, is now being offered for sale, and preparations are underway by offi cers, directors and stockholders to sell as much as possible. Stock in the association makes splenditf Christ mas gifts, prospective purchasers are being reminded by officials. Holiday Schedule For Mail Outlined The post office will continue to provide a large measure of serv ices throughout the holidays, it was announced today by Post master John W. Darden, although it means that employees will have but little time off for themselves. There will be no rural free de livery or carrier service Christmas Day, he stated, but all special delivery packages and parcels containing perishable products will be delivered. The mail will be dispatched as usual Thursday, and it will also be put up for the patrons of lock boxes. The parcel post window will be open for 30 minutes after each incoming mail Is received and distributed. ff PEACE ON EARTH” By The Right Reverend HENRY HOBSON, D. D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio and National Chairman of the Fight for Freedom Committee To many who read and hear the Christmas story this year “Peace on Earth” will be words without meaning. There is no peace on earth. There was no peace when these words were first sung by the Angels on the night that the Child of Bethlehem was bora. The crowds which jammed its inn, and filled each ouse in the Tillage, until only a stable manger offered refuge for a new-born babe, were evidence of the oppressive tyr rany which robbed a people out of their peace. A decree from the dictator had gone out. There has been no peace on earth since that first Christ mas, for always through the yean that same hand of op pression has rested heavily upon countless millions of men made by God to be free. s The Angels proclaimed not a fact but a hope—a hope to lie realised on earth only as all men everywhere are able to live not aa slaves but as children of God. For Christ’s peace is not just for the United States, or for people of white skins, or for those with education in their minds, food in their stomachs, or money in their pockets. It is for all men on earth, and he who would find peace for himself must be striving to insure it for others. Thoae who seek to live in a peace of isolationism, while others are in turmoil of body and soul, will never share in realising the hope of peaee on earth. God doesn’t answer the prayer “Peace for me.’’ Peace is that state in which man, no matter what his race or nation or color, can freely live with an equal oppor tunity to use M« talents and abilities as a child of God. When this right is denied to men anywhere there can be no peace on earth. As Christians we are called today to face the fact that the forces of oppression are robbing man of his right to peace. The people of England can have no peace as long as shel ters most be their refuge from destructive bombs, and while their coasts are threatened by invasion. The people of France can have no peace as long as the Hitler-appointed appeasers force a hated collaboration with the conquerors who have made them slaves. The peoples of Holland and Belgium—violated, impoverished—can have no peace while they suffer under the tyrant’s heel. The people of Poland— the tragic country of broken homes and divided families, de prived of leaders by mass slaughter—can have no peace While systematic ravishing destroys life and land. The peo ple of Norway—betrayed by men who as children they nur tured—can have no peace while they shiver through bitter cold nights robbed of their blankets and hungry for want of food stripped from their land. The millions of China—wan dering, starving, history’s supreme sufferers—can have no peace while fall like rain to wrack their bodies and blast their homes. The people of Greece—where courage never faltered and vision was never dimmed by appease ment—will never know peace while forced labor makes slaves of their bodies and while the invader defiles the beauties of their land. The people of Germany—the older people dis distraught and in terror, the younger ones poisoned from in fanthood by falsehood—can never have peace while the con centration camp closes its brutal jaws on every free spirit, end Hitlerism protitutes truth and justice to make right ap pear wrong and wrong appear right. People ask me how I can give allegiance to the Prince of Peace and at the same time urge that our country take up arms against the aggressors of our day. My answer is that there can be no peace on earth in a Hitler-dominated world, and that we face a moment in history when the use of force is the only effective means of halting the rush of those evil powers which, because they despise true peace, are seek ing to enslave mankind under a brutal war system for cen turies to come. There are times—and this Christmas, 1941, is one such time—when our desire for peace is determined hot by our willingness to sacrifice and suffer as we courage ously fight against the enemy who seeks to destroy all peace. By action, not evasion, we have our chance to share in the fulfillment of that hope which the Angels have held before all mankind—Peace on Earth. County Goes Well Over Top In Campaign for Red Cross Just a simple Christmas Greeting, but it conveys a he art-felt appreciation for the many kindnesses ex tended us during the past year. May this Christmas be your merriest and happi est one. Roanoke Beacon ‘Force' 11-Months-Old Baby Accidenlly Drowns At Home Near Here Funeral Held Sunday After noon for Little Shelbert Jean Simpson Shelbert Jean Simpson, 11-months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy A. Simpson, who reside on the farm of W. H. Gaylord, near Plymouth, was drowned in a bucket of swill in the kitchen of her home last Friday afternoon. The mother, who was attending to her household duties, said that the child was playing around on the floor of the living room only a few min utes before she was missed. A small brother, Leroy A. Simpson, jr., opened the kitchen door for the baby to go into the kitchen. When her mother began the search for her the little girl was found with her head in the bottom of the swill bucket, her feet sticking out over the top. The bucket was only partially filled. Mr. Simpson stated that the child had not been out of the sight of her mother more than five minutes before her lifeless body was found. The funeral services were held at the home Sunday afternoon. The Rev. J. M. Johnson, pastor of the Baptist church, conducted the last rites and burial took place in the Windley cemetery. Surviving the child is her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy A. Simpson, and one brother, Leroy A. Simpson, jr. -<5> Farmer Near Roper Loses Cow, Mule by Poisoning W. S. Spruill, a farmer near Roper, said Saturday that he had lost a Guernsey cow, valued at $100, and a mule, valued about the same figure, within the last few days. A veteri inarlan advised Mr. Spruill that the two animals had been poisoned. The farmer said he believed the animals had possibly gotten the pois on from around peanut stacks. The mule was cut open and examined in an effort to determine the kind of poison which had caused its death. Christmas Service Held At Mackeys Last Sunday Mackeys—A Christmas service was held at the Mackeys Methodist Church last Sunday evening. The theme was “Tidings of Great Joy.’’ An offering amounting to $3.54 was taken and turned over to the Red Cross. It was announced that the church would be kept heated all day Christ mas for the benefit of any who might want to worship, and that a service would be held Christmas evening at 6 o’clock. Beacon Office To Be Closed 4 Days The office of the Roanoke Bea con will be closed Tuesday at noon until next Monday mom in*, in order to give members of the “force” their annual Christ mas vacation. This is one of the few holiday occasions observed by this newspaper during the year, hence the reason for being closed several days. Everybody will be back on the job and ready for “business as usual” next Monday morning; and, in the meantime, every member of the crew hopes every reader of the Beacon has the best,, merriest and happiest Christmas ever. Civilian Defense for County Will Be Set Up at Meeting Soon Plans To Be Made for Early Registration of Volun teers for Service -* A meeting of the Civilian Defense Council of Washington County will be held immediately after the Christ mas holidays, when plans will be made for registration of citizens in the county who wish to volunteer for aiding the defense of the country against any enemy, according to Wil bur M. Darden, chairman of the Tri County Defense Council. Appoint ments will be made at the meeting to assist in taking care of any emer gency which may arise as a result of the war. It was explained by Mr. Darden that volunteers will be needed to as sist in Are and police protection, as air-raid wardens, nurses and other workers for emergency medical serv ice, and a crew of workmen to en gage in emergency utilities and pub lic works repair. It will be the duty of the fire protection group to control and ex tinguish fires, maintain emergency equipment, prevent fires, and rescue persons from demolished or burning buildings. Police protection will be afforded by persons assisting the police in con trol of traffic, patrolling streets, guarding defense points, enforcing blackouts, controlling panics, and re moving duds and time bombs. Air-raid wardens will be divided into three groups: district and local air-raid wardens, Are watchers and emergency food and housing crew. These men are to train civilians in behavior during air raids, control movements, clear streets, asstelt wounded, maintain constant fire (See DEFENSE, Page Four) More Than $1,200 Is Raised in Plymoulh; County Goal $1,500 Creswell Report Not Yet Received, but More Than Quota Is Assured -$ With reports in from all sections except Creswell. the Washington County Chapter of the American Red Cross has raised $1,441.39 of the $1. 500 quota assigned to this county in the nation-wide drive for the $50, 000,000 war relief fund, according to a report by John W. Darden, county chairman. Tuesday morning. It' is known that the Creswell unit has raised more than enough to complete the difference, and it is expected that the county quota will be exceeded by one to two hundred dollars. Of the amount reported to date, $1,217.02 was raised in the Plymouth section. Roper raised $167.39 and Wenona, which had a quota of $50, raised an even $57. Mr. Darden has been assured by the Creswell work ers that they will raise their entire quota of $350. Last week, a report was carried in this newspaper that they had raised $68 of their quota. Mr. Darden said that a Gheck for $1,275 would be sent to the national headquarters of the Red Cross today. This represents the full quota of the county, since 15 per cent or the amount raised in the campaign was to be retained by the treasury of the county chapter for local work. Any funds in excess of the $1,500 total will also be retained as a reserve for • future calls from the naitonal Red Cross. It was announced that when the Creswell quota arrives, 15 per cent will be returned to the treasury of that branch. The county chairman said that special recognition is due the follow ing persons for their work in making the campaign a success: Mesdames E. G. Arps, T. W. Earle, A. Iioyd Owens, and Mrs. Ellis Maples, of Plymouth: H. H. McLean, for the work done in the schools; Mrs. W. A. Blount and D. E. Poole, of Roper; Mrs. J. L. Rea and Mrs. Bryan Har ris, Wenona; Mrs. W. B. Gaither. Mrs. Joe B. Davenport, and others, Creswell; and W. H. Berry and other colored workers all over the county. The response from the colored peo ple was especially noteworthy, the chairman said. Mr. Darden requested that every person who worked and each person who contributed be given the thanks of the county officers. Mr. Darden said that Mrs. Frances M. Darden was to be thanked for her work in the an nual roll rail campaign. A complete report will be made next week. Outstanding contributions were made in the Plymouth area by the employees of the Industrial plants here, 100 per cent of the employees of the Plymouth Box and Panel Com pany and the American Fork and Hoe Company being reported. Employees of the North Carolina Pulp Company contributed $271.93 in cash and $138 in pledges; $222 was raised at the Plymouth Box and Panel Company and $26 at the American Fork & Hoe Company. Collections along Water Street here totaled $168.35. -♦ Defense Bond Sales Show Big Increase Purchases of defense bonds and stamps have nearly doubled since the United States declared war on Ger many, Italy and Japan, according to reports from the Plymouth post office and the Branch Banking and Trust Company. Postmaster John W. Darden said that during December he had sold $5,400 worth of bonds and about $300 in defense stamps. The purchases have greatly increased since Decem ber 7, when Japanese air and naval units began the war on this country. H. E. Beam, cashier of the local unit of the Branch Banking and Trust Company, said that he had sold $7,000 worth of defense bonds in December, about double the amount sold in all of November. - Program of Services at Local Episcopal Church -$ Services will be held at Grace Epis copal church on Christmas Eve at 11:30, with the Holy Communion commemorated by the Rev. Sidney E. Matthews as celebrant. Services next^ Sunday will be as follows: Sunday school at 10 a. m.; worship services at 11 o’clock; and Young People’s Service League at 7:30 p. m. Publicity Ban Placed on Draft Quota Information -g A ban has been imposed by na tional selective service headquarters on the publication of quotas assigned to local draft boards units, according to Clerk S. A. Ward, who said today that neither the names nor the nunil ber of men leaving for service would be made public in the future.
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