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♦ The Roanoke Beacon * + + * * * 4 and Washington County News ******* VOLUME LV—NUMBER 24 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 15, 1944 ESTABLISHED 1889 This Is IT!—Invasion and 5th Wot Loan—They're Doing Their Part—How About You? Town OP1CS Their many friends throughout the county will be glad to learn that Mr. and Mrs. W. R. White returned home Sunday after spending about four months in Atlanta, Ga., where they underwent medical treatment. Both are reported to be considerably im proved. While in Atlanta, they were under the care of their son, Dr. James Ryland White. Milyler Warren was in Greensboro yesterday on a buying trip for the Western Auto Associate store here. He left Tuesday night and expected to be back by this morning. The local draft board has only one delinquent on its list at this time. He is Leroy Woods, colored, of Plym outh, whose last known address was in Norfolk, and who has been delin quent since last December. His name has been reported to Federal au thorities and the FBI is now looking for him. Although the Fifth War Loan campaign officially did not be gin until June 12th and ends July 8, all the bonds sold in the county during the months of June and July will be credited to the county’s quota, it was stat ed this week by II. E. Beam, chairman of the county finance committee. Up to the middle of this week, the bank here had sold about 811,000 worth of “E” bonds. Pfc. Carl L. Bailey, jr., of the Army Air Forces, is spending about a week here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Bailey. Young Carl is a gunnery instructor and has been stationed at a field in Fort Myers, Fla., for some time. Ensign J. Brinson Cox, U. S. Navy, is spending a few days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cox. Ensign Cox recently completed his operational training as a Naval dive bomber and expects to be assigned to active duty on a carrier after he returns to duty. It’s probably an exaggeration, but the story is being told locally about one of the Plymouth mosquitoes that was blown off its course and landed on the runway at the Marine Air Station over in Edenton one day last week. One of those efficient ground crews took charge and had 65 gal lons of 100-octane g rs aboard be fore the bewildered skeeter could take off again. It couldn’t have been a Plymouth mosquito, though, be cause those Marine .pound crews know they haven’t got any business messing around anything as big as super-Flying Fortress jobs. Back From Facific After 21 Months -® Sgt. Pearly Craddock Home After Being Injured in Accident -® Sergeant Pearly Cra< dock, son of Asa Craddock, of the Long Acre sec tion. returned to a gov ?rnment hos pital at Swannanona /esterday af ter spending a couple of weeks at home. Sergeant Cradcock, who has been with a field artillery outfit in the Pacific war zone for 21 months, suffered a fractured bene in his back in an accident in the New Hebrides several months ago and was returned to the State for hospital treatment. Entering the service on February 24, 1941, Sergeant Craddock went overseas nearly two years ago and saw considerable action on Bougan ville Island. He had three and a half months duty in the combat zone while he was in the Pacific. He wears four service bars: American De fense (Pre-Pearl Harbor); Asiatic Pacific Theater; American Theater of Operations; and Army good conduct. Before he entered the service he was employed here at Kelly’s Water Street Service Station. Sergeant Craddock was rather re ticent about his experiences, simply stating that conditions overseas were • rugged" and that it was no picnic at any of the points he was stationed. He has two brothers in the serv ice, Corporal David Craddock, who is with a cavalry outfit at Fort Story, Va., who has been in the serv ice about two years; and Private Les lie Craddock, of the Infantry, who only recently arrived in England af ter entering the service in Novem ber of last year. | Dr. McGowan Elected Acting Health i Officer at Board Meeting Thursday Dr. Claudius McGowan was elected acting health officer at a special meeting of the county board of health held here last Thursday night. Dr. McGowan will serve until a full-time health officer can be secured by the State Board of Health for the district health department. E. G. Arps, chairman of the county commissioners and board of health, said yesterday that so far state officials had not been able to secure a physician to serve as district health officer, but that they had promised a sanitaran for the department here in the very near future. The work of the district de partment is being carried on un der the direction of Mrs. R. H. Windley, public health nurse, with the assistance of local phy sicians in various parts of the county. A series of typhoid clinics are now being held at various points in the county. Gold Star Fathers and Mothers To Be Guests Of Legion at Banquet NOW IN ENGLAND Sergeant Leland Barber, son of VV. B. Barber, of the Skinncrs ville section, is now serving with the Eighth Army Air Force in England. His wife, Mrs. Johnnie Barber, lives in Robert, La. Sergeant Barber entered the service in September, 1941, and has been overseas for about six months. M. H. Holton Final Rites Held Friday -- Former Resident of County Died Last Week at Home Of Son in Raleigh Creswell.—Funeral services were held at the Mount Tabor Free Will Baptist church last Friday afternoon for M. H. Holton, former resident of Washington County, who died Wednesday evening of last week at the home of his son, R. Frank Hol ton, in Raleigh. The Rev. T. P. Davenport, pastor of the church, of ficiated, and interment was made in the Mount Tabor cemetery. Mr. Holton, who was 76 years of age, lived in the Scuppemong com munity all of his life until about two years ago, when he went to Raleigh to live with his son. For many years he was a member of the Mount Tabor church. He is survived by three sons, R. Frank Holton, of Raleigh; S. D. Hol ton, of Reno, Nev.: and Herbert R. Holton, of Creswell. He also leaves 10 grandchildren and several neph ews and nieces. Services Announced for Sunday by Methodists -®—— Rev. T. R. Jenkins, Minister The following services are an nounced for the local Methodist church for Sunday, June 18, by the Rev. T. R. Jenkins, minister: Church school. 10 a.m.; Morning worship, ^11 a.m.; sermon topic, “Yahweh— j Jehovah—Father”: Youth fellowship, , 7 p.m.; There will be no evening service. i Men Inducted Into Service No Longer I j Given Choice Between Army and Navy j Announcement was made this week by the Selective Service system that, effective July 1, there would be no more separate calls for selectees for the Army and Navy. This means that in the future men will be as signed to the different branches of the service at the time they report for induction. The new ruling also means that selectees will no longer be given their choice as to the branch of service they prefer to enter. Heretofore, when selee tees were given their pre-induc tion examinations, they were al lowed to choose either the Army or Navy, and they were ac cordingly classified for that branch. Now they will be ac cepted for general service or re jected altogether. Men who are not called into service within 90 days of the time they received their pre-inductibn examination will be required to undergo a new examination. No limited service men have been accepted for the Army since May 31. Will Be Held Here' Friday, June 23rd -® Dr. W. R. Burrell, Veteran And Gold Star Father of Last War, Speaker —« Gold Star fathers and mothers of Washington County will be special guests of honor at a banquet to be given by the James E. Jethro Post. No. 164. of the American Legion, to be held here on Friday night, June 23. it was announced this week by officials of the post. Officers recently elected will be installed also at this meeting. P. Bruce Bateman, past command er and chairman of the committee on arrangements for the banquet, said yesterday that the post considered itself fortunate in securing Dr. Wil liam R. Burrell, of Williamston, as the chief speaker of the occasion. Dr. Burrell, pastor of the Williains ston Memorial Baptist church, not only served in the first World War himself but also lost one of his sons in that struggle. Dr. Burrell was a captain in the British Army, serving extensively in the Near East cam paigns, including Mesopotamia. Pal estine and Turkey, and he is an ex cellent speaker. Roy McMillian, of Raleigh, past commander of the State Department of the Legion, and present national vice commander, has also been in vited and may be able to attend. In addition to all the Gold Star mothers and fathers, invitations are being sent to discharged service men of World War II as well as to mem bers of the post. More than 100 per sons are expected to be present for the banquet meeting, which will be held in the Legion Hall, beginning at 8 p.m. The local post now has between 95 and 100 members, about 20 of them being veterans of the second World War. Officers elected at a recent meeting of the Legion and who will be in "Tsee LEGION BANQUET, Page 4) -- 500 Pounds Paper Collected by Scouts -(ft ■■■ - Troop Earns Little Over $5 For First Week’s Work; Cooperation Urged Members of the Plymouth Boy Scout troop collected a little over 500 pounds of waste paper last week. While the amount is not as large as that collected in other towns of simi lar size, it marks a start. With con tinued cooperation of the townspeo ple and the adult leadership of the troop, it is believed collections will show a steady iucrease. The troop earned something over $5 for its first week's work. Pew people are propertly preparing the paper, which is causing the scouts considerable difficulty in sorting and bundling it. Different kinds of pa per should be kept in separate lots; old newspapers in one pile, old ma gazines in another and waste car tons in still another. If they are tied in bundles about 12 inches in height, it greatly simplifies handling, since the boys have only their bi cycles and a few small "Wagons in which to do the hauling. The salvaged paper is urgently needed for making paper needed in the war effort, and local people are urged to cooperate and encourage the Scouts in their work. As an example of what can be ac complished, it was learned that one youngster, Teddy Earl,-, who lives in the village, collected 582 pounds by himself in the past two weeks. He is too young to be a Scout, and hence is not encroaching on the town ter ritory which is covered by them. However, he covers the village thor oughly and regularly, and earned about $6 for his efforts in the past two weeks. 1 ) KILLED IN ACTION Technical Sergeant Raymond Theodore Davenport, husband of Mrs. Rosamond Phelps Daven port, of Creswell, was killed in action May 12 on the Italian battiefront. He is the fourteenth Washington County man to lose his life in line of duty during World War II. Local Merchants Already at Work Selling War Bonds Each Store Assigned Quota Of $300 Per Clerk; Sev eral Offer Prizes Whole-hearted support for the Fifth War Loan campaign in Wash ington County was unanimously voted by members of the Plymouth Mer chants Association at their regular June meeting held Monday night in the municipal building here. Plans were worked out for every local mer chant to accept a quota of $300 worth of bonds per employee and attempt to sell that amount between now and July 8, when the|jj^ end*. In addition to selling bonds, local business houses are also sponsoring Fifth War Loan advertising in vari ous ways. Every establishment is dis playing posters, a series of page ad vertisements in this newspaper is be ing paid for by the merchants, and those who carry regular advertising space are devoting part of their ads to promotion of war bond sales. Order blanks have been given to clerks in local stores, and a number of merchants are offering prizes to the employee who sells the most bonds. Individual stores quotas are based on $300 for each employee, and quite a unmber of bonds have al ready been sold by clerks. W. F. Winslow’s store here, with a total quota of $900, was already more than half-way toward its goal yes terday at noon, with $487.50 worth of bonds sold at that time. Mr. Winslow is offering two prizes to his employees, $2.50 to the clerk who sells the greatest number of bonds and $2.50 to the clerk who sells the largest gross amount. Owners of the three local drug stores got together and decided to give a $25 War Bond to the clerk in their stores who sells the largest amount of bonds. All three stores are members of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association, which has for its aim during the Fifth War Loan Drive the sale of sufficient bonds throughout state drug stores to pay for five ambulance airplanes. - a> To Advertise Real Estate On Which Taxes Not Paid -® Town Tax Collector P. W. Brown announced yesterday that real pro perty on which taxes had not been paid for 1943 and prior years would be advertised beginning July 1. Own ers of real estate are urged to be sure their last year’s taxes have been paid in order to save the additional costs. Siren Will Signal Start Bond Drive Local residents are warned not to be alarmed next Tuesday when he fire siren is sounded at in tervals throughout the day. It is planned to sound the siren for two minutes every hour, begin ning at 10 a.m. and continuing through 4 p.m., as a reminder to people here of the Fifth War Loan canvass. The siren will be sounded first at 10 o'clock, heralding the start of the canvass; and it is hoped that factory whistles and church bells will join in to make sure that no one misses the start of the drive. Then at in tervals of one hour throughout the day, the fire siren will sound a two-minute blast to remind folks to buy their share of bonds. War Bond Campaign Begins In County Tuesday Morning Quota. Is $268,000; Outline Plans for Complete Canvass Local Workers To Meet at Agriculture Building Friday Night County and township leaders have been secured, and a complete organ ization is rapidly taking shape to conduct the Fifth War Loan Cam paign in Washington County, which has a quota of $268,000 worth of bonds to sell between now and July 8, when the drive officially comes to a close. Plans are being made for a complete canvass of the county, be ginning next Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, when the volunteer workers will start out. T. W. Earle, of Plymouth, Tuesday night agreed to accept chairman ship of the county campaign: and tow'nship chairmen have been named as follows: W. Frith Winslow, Plymouth; L. E. Hassell, sr., and J. C. Tarkenton, Lees Mill; Walter W White, Skinnersville; and Mrs. Sid ney Smithson, Scuppernong. A meeting of all workers and can vassers will be held here Friday night, when definite plans for the canvass will be annuounced. Every person who can and will help is earnestly urged to attend, in order that the campaign may be launched and com pleted in as short a time as possible. Sounding of the fire siren here next Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock will herald the beginning of the can vass throughout the county. Com mittees are being organized to cover every community, road, and neigh borhood. Here in Plymouth, there will be committees for every block. It is hoped that not a single home will be missed, and that not a single per son will refuse to buy at least one extra bond during the campaign. The fire siren will be sounded for two minutes every hour between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. here next Tuesday, to remind local people of the drive. It is also hoped that church bells and factory whistles will join in heralding the start of the canvass. Members of families are requested to decide on the amount of bonds they can buy beforehand, and to remain at home until the canvasser calls, so that it will not be necessary for the volunteer workers to return again and again. Admittedly, this is not the best time of the year to conduct a bond drive in this section. However, there can be no question about the 'See BOND QUOTA, Page~4) -<S> Funeral Held for Slewarf Woodley One of Leading Farmers in Cherry Section; Died Last Saturday Creswell.—Stewart Woodley, prom inent farmer of the Cherry section of Washington County, died in Co lumbia hospital last Saturday morn ing at 2 o’clock, after a lingering illness. Mr. Woodley, 55 years old, was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Woodley, of Washington County. Mr. Woodley was a prosperous farmer and stockholder and manager of the Peoples Milling Company at Cherry. He took an active interest in civic affairs and was a leader in all undertakings for the betterment of his community. He was a life long member of the Philippi Christian church and very active in religious affairs, serving for many years as deacon and member of the choir. Funeral services were held from the Philippi church Sunday after noon at 3:30, a large gathering of friends and relatives attesting the esteem in which he was held in the community. The Rev. Perry Bald win was in charge of the final rites, and interment was made in the church cemetery. Several of his favorite hymns were sung during the services, and the floral offering was very profuse and beautiful. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eva Davis Woodley: four daughters. Mrs. P. J. Cerre, of Suffolk, Va.: Mi's. Guy Markley, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Russel Chesson. of Roper; and Miss Mildred Davis, of the home; two sons, Pfc. Harold Stewart Woodley, of the U. S. Army, stationed in Ha waii; and Larry Woodley, of the home; and four grand-children. He also leaves six sisters, Mrs. S. D. Burgess, of Creswell; Mrs. H. M. Ainsley, of Oak City; Mrs. Mary Beroset, of Toledo, Ohio; Mrs. H. L. Sitterson, Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. J. B. Chaplin, of Rocky Mount; Mrs. W. D. Bennett, of Philadelphia; and one brother, Sam R. Woodley, of Martin, Oregon. HEADS BOND DRIVE T. W. Earle, of Plymouth, is Washington County Chairman of the Fifth War Loan Campaign, which opens here next Tuesday, with a quota of $268,000 to be raised between then and July 8, when the drive ends. Mr. Earle also was elected president of the Plymouth Lions Club last week. County Court Has Another Big Day 11 Defendants Given Road Sentences or Fines; All Plead Guilty The rush continues in county re corder's court every Tuesday, last week's record session being followed | Tuesday by another big session. Judge ! Gaylord called eight cases, none of ! which was contested, and all of the 111 defendants were given fines or road sentences. One defendant noted an appeal from the court’s judgment, and another case was continued. The docket was cleared in short order, and the court adjourned in time for a late lunch. Proceeding were as follows: George Blount, colored, of Plym outh, admitted attempting to break in Levi Johnson's Cafe sometime last Saturday night, but noted an appeal when he was sentenced to 12 months on the roads. Appeal bond was set at $500 and Blount was re manded to jail to await trial in su perior court when he was unable to raise the bond. William James, colored, of James ville, was fined $100 and costs, and his license to drive was revoked for one year after he plead guilty to ope rating a truck while under the in fluence of intoxicants and leaving the scene of an accident in which property damage was done. James, driver of a log truck for Kirkman & Gaines, of Jamesville, was arrested here Saturday night after he had crashed into and almost completely demolished the car belonging to Lt. fSee"cOUNTY~COUKT7Pag? -® Nephew of Ted Blount Wounded Invasion Day Ensign Edward Hyman, son of Mrs. Stella Blount Hyman, of Scotland Nack. and nephew of Edward S. (Tedt Blount, of Plymouth, was wrounded in action on invasion day while serv ing with an amphibious landing unit, it was learned this week. It is presumed that he was injured in the j landing operation on the French; coast. Tire family was not informed as to the details or the extent of his injuries. Ensign Hyman graduated in 1943 from the University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill and received his naval training at Northwestern Uni versity in Chicago. His great- grand father was the first, Washington County man to graduate from the University and he was the next mem ber of the Blount family to complete the course there. He has a brother in the Caribbean area. Organization Set Up In Each Community; Earle Heads Drive Names of Volunteer Chair men and Workers Are Announced -* Organization of community com mittees to conduct the Fifth War Loan Campaign in Washington Coun ty was announced last night as very nearly complete by T. W. Earle, coun ty chairman. Mr. Earle was appoint ed to head up the work Tuesday night, and he spent all day yesterday in various sections, assisted by co workers John W. Darden and J. Shep Brinkley, lining up the local groups that will make the actual canvass. The chairman said last night that he had not had time to complete the list of colored chairman and co-work ers. but that it would be ready for publication next week. It is also an nounced that some additional co workers may be added from time to time by the local leaders as the cam paign progresses. In the main, how ever. the organization is ready to start out next Tuesday morning with the fixed intention of calling on ev ery person in the county to insist on the purchase of bonds during the drive, which will continue through July 8. The county committee requests all ministers in the county to announce at their services Sunday that the campaign will get underway through out the county Tuesday. The coun ty has an overall quota of $238,000, with an "E” bond goal of $130,000, and it must be met before the drive ends. This county is more than a week late in starting, which means that extra effort will be required of all workers. Town of Plymouth W. F. Winslow is chairman of the ! committee for the town of Plym jouth, with R. B. Trotman and P. B. I Bateman as assistants. 1 A meeting of j all local workers will be held in the agricultural building here at 8 o'clock Friday night, when the block committees will receive their as signments and other plans explained. All workers are urged to attend the meeting, which will be as brief as possible, Mr. Winslow said. Follow 1 See COMMITTEES, Page 4) Dry Spell Broken by Showers Yesterday »—t Some Crops Said Damaged By Drouth; Rain General Throughout County The dought that has prevailed in this section for the past three weeks was broken yesterday by fairly gene ral rains throughout the county, it is reported. Crops in general were reported parching, and the rain was worth a lot of money to fanners of the county. The Plymouth section had a com paratively light shower, but even that did a lot of good, while a considerably heavier rain was reported in the sec tion between Roper and Creswell. Plymouth also had a good shower last nighi. County Agent W. V. Hays said yesterday morning before the rain that some crops were already damaged considerably by the dry spell. Pasture land and hay crops were said to be hardest hit at that time. While the rain was fairly general over the county there were a few isolated spots reported that didn't receive any. Spring oats also suffered some damage, the county agent stated. Winter grains, including wheat, oats and barley, have mostly been har vested. and good yields are reported. Tobacco and corn crops were suf fering before the showers yesterday; and while some of them may have been damaged, it is believed that most will revive. Cotton, for the most part, was thriving on the dry hot weather prevailing. Couniy Soldier at Texas Camp Resents German Prisoners Wearing Swastikas Pfc. Thurman O. Mobley, for merly of Washington County, but stationed at C'ainp Howze, Texas, is one man who doesn’t like to I see German prisoners of war con- : tinue to sport their Nazi party emblems on their arm bands while they are in this country. In a recent letter to The Bea con, Private Mobley writes: ‘I recently observed a German prisoner of war at work digging a, ditch here at Camp Howze, Texas. He was wearing a Nazi swastika arm band. When I saw this, it made by blood boil. Isn’t there any limitation as to the things they may wear? After all. that's what we are fighting against. 1 just can't see a prison er of war advertising Naziism.'' Possibly a great many people feel as does Private Mobley, but there doesn't seem to be anything they can do about it, as it is a matter for the prison camp com mander to determine.
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