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" BILLY ARTHUR
0Carl Goerch. who edits and pub
lishes that fine magazine of North
Carolina. The State, came through
Jacksonville the other day and
proceeded to give Mrs. Jane Dean
a big story..
Mrs. Dean didn't know Carl, and
didn't know him as a practical
joker, and she was in the midst
of taking down a big story for the
News and Views that he was dictat
ing. He was telling her how he
and his companion. Bob Shepard
also of Raleigh, were going tc
drill for oil right here in Jackson
ville.
Fortunately, I walked in. That is,
fortunately for Jane because it
saved her a lot of unnecessary
work; and then too, it saved me a
few cuss words. 'Cause had I come
to the office and seen where he'd
been around here taking up the
time of my folks with some of his
jokes. I surely would have put a
cussin' on Carl.
£ The AP has a story about the
third anniversary edition of Shot
'n Shell. Camp San Luis Obispo's
post newspaper* which features a
war index in a presentation of
five-column headlines that have
appeared every week on the front
page.
Here's the war in headlines:
April. 1942: Doolittle Bombs
Japan: Message To Tokyo—"Get
The Idea?"
July. 1942: Big Yank Convoy
Hits England: Pup Tents All Over
Cliffs Of Dover!
June. 1943: Mussolini out: Ducc
In Sewer—One Fuehrer Fewer!
March, 1944: Japanese Troop
Convoy Vanishes off Wewak: Con
fidentially—They Sink!
July, 1944: Tojo Ousted as Jap
anese Army Head: Hon. Premier
Gets Hon. Discharge!
January. 1945: Nazis Smell Doom
as Russ Advance: Somet'ing Rot
ten Mit Der Oder!
February. 1945: Allied Pincer
Now Closing: Hun Theme Song—
"Don't Fence Me In!"
March. 1945: Victory Blitz
Dooms Nazidom: "Der Sad Shack"
—Berchtesgaden!
01 almost had to go to the kit
chen and wash dishes to get out
of Coleman's the other day.
While I can't blame the entire
occurrance on Mrs. Leon Gray or
Dr. H. W. Stevens, they could have
pulled me out of a deep hole. But
Mrs. Gray had declared at the out
set—before I made my tragic dis
covery—that she wasn't buying
anyone lunch, and departed forth
with.
It was then that I discovered I
didn't have a penny, and was half
way through the meal. Dr. Stevens
!d he'd take care of it, but he
ver mentioned it again until I
ad borrowed some money from
Buck Warren. Buck wanted to send
me to the kitchen to wash the
dishes, but finally condescended
to take the risk.
Then. Dr. Stevens made a loan
offer, but,I didn't take it. I cant
afford to be obligated to a public
official in the first place.
0 Staff Sgt. Joe Bynum, who's
now in the Philippines, recently
wrote that he had from a lady a
lengthy first-hand account of what
the Japs did in three years to
Manila. "It was really a pleasure
to talk to her," Joe wrote, and
then admitted that her subject was
not all in which he was interested:
"I guess the big reason was because
she was a beautiful lady and only
20 years old."
H County Auditor Joe Cole was
called from his other duties Satur
day to take a delinquent tax list
ing. and he wanted to know why
the fellow didn't list during
the regular period. The fellow said
he was out of town.
"You know," Brother Cole ob
served, "more people get the flu
and pneumonia, go to New York
or go out of town to work during
tax listing time than at any other
time of the year."
§L. E. Rudisill called out to Jack
Peck the other morning: "Listen,
Jerk."
"Who you talking to?" Marion
Cowell asked. "Billy?"
'No. that jerk over there," Rudy
replied, still leaving the inference
that I was a jerk also.
0 Sam Zahran wants me to tell
the folks that one fellow around
here has been getting some rummy
lessons lately—and they're costly.
He says he can't find that hole
in the backyard where the student
digs up all that money from.
Sgt. Island B. Brown
Of Chinquapin Now
Prisoner of War
#Sgt. Island B. Brown, 22-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
Brown of Chinquapin, who recent
ly was reported missing in action,
is a prisoner of war in Germany,
it was disclosed last week.
He wrote his parents that he was
in good health and that "so far
things have been O.K."
And, as an afterthought—may
be not that, after all—he added:
"I would enjoy one of Aunt May's
-•uddings."
M Sergeant Brown was a ball tur
W at gurnner on a B-17 Flying
fortress of the 398th heavy bomb
ardment group with the 8th Air
Force. He received his training at
Las Vegas, Nev.. and Avon Park,
Fla. He was employed in Charlotte
before entering the service.
Allied Junction Near;
Sixth Of Berlin Falls
0 Paris—(TP)—Lt. Gen. George
Patton's Third Army veered sharp
ly southeastward for 28-mile gains
in a new full-grown offensive Mon
day, shearing most of the routes
between the Pilsen-Prague muni
tions area and Adolf Hitler's na
tional redoubt in the Bavarian
Alps.
The Luxembourg radio asserted
that the First Army had joined
the Russians near Torgau, M miles
northeast of Leipzig, finally split
ting the Germans' redoubt from
the mountain fastness in the south.
Supreme headquarters had no
confirmation of the meeting and
said that the junction would be
announced by Washington. London
and Moscow.
At last reports, the Allies and
Russians were 15 to 20 miles apart.
British opened final assault on Bre
men and besieged Hamburg.
Russians in Berlin
0 London—(TP)—Red Army shock
troops were reported ripping at
the very heart of doomed Berlin
Monday.
To the south other Russian
forces were within 20 miles or
less of a junction with their Amer
ican Allies.
Berlin was being transformed
into a ghastly monument io sense
less Nazi resistance as Soviet shells
and bombs tumbled buildings into
the streets, heaping new ruin on
that accomplished by past Allied
aerial blows.
Bv an official Moscow account,
21 of Berlin's districts, or one
sixth of its total area were already
in Russian hands.
Mrs. Roosevelt Leaves
White House; To Live
At Hyde Park Home
0 Washington —CAP)— Mrs. Elea
nor Roosevelt and her family bade
goodbye to the White House late
Friday after 12 years' residence.
The former First Lady motored
to Union Station, where she took
the 6 p.m. train for New York. Ac
companying her in two black li
mousines were Lt. Col. James
Roosevelt and his wife, Brig. Gen
Elliott Roosevelt and his wife, Anna
Roosevelt Boettiger. Mrs. John
Roosevelt and Miss Melvina
Thompson, secretary to the late
President's widow.
A station wagon filled with lug
gage and paper briefcases followed
the procession.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her children
shook hands with Howell Crim,
head usher, and assisting ushers,
and waved goodbye to members of
the press and White House police.
President Truman. Mrs. Truman
and their daughter. Mary Margaret,
are not expected to move into the
executive mansion for several days
because there will have to be some
redecorating of the family apart
ments on the second floor.
This morning 20 Army trucks
loaded with personal belongings of
the Roosevelt family rolled out of
the gates. As a White House guard
put it, "there wasn't enough room
left in any of them for even a
teaspoon."
KIWANIANS ARE GUESTS
0 Members of the Jacksonville
Kiwanis club attended First Pres
byterian church in a body Sunday,
as a part of the club's support of
the churches in their spiritual
aims.
SGT. FOUNTAIN TRANSFERRED
0 Staff Sgt. Billy Fountain, son
of Mrs. Annie Fountain of near
Richlands, has been transferred
from Burma to Kumning, China.
Give Clothing
0 Get out those old clothes
and shoes, and have them ready
to be picked up by house-to
house canvassers tomorrow.
They will be sent to war de
vastated areas of the world—
to people less fortunate than
ynu. They can use them: see if
can't part with them. And, if
you can't wait for the can
vasser, take them to the Ons
low County hospital or the
City Hall.
Hope He Rots There!
0 London—(/P)—Adolf Hitler
is in Berlin and has decided
to remain there, the Hamburg
radio said Monday in a broad
cast directed at Berlin residents
in an attempt to convince them
that the invaded capital would
not fall.
Both the tone and wording
of the announcement made it
clear that rumors were sweep
ing the Reich that the fuehrer
was in flight. Propaganda min
ister Coebbels is also in the
capital, the broadcast said.
Americans Set Back
Slightly on Okinawa;
Honshu Raided Again
0 Guam — <7P) — Japanese troops
Monday morning recaptured the
Kakazu town on Western Okinawa,
but Admiral Nimitiz reported no
substantial changes had been made
in the lines.
lis also reported a Marine in
vasion of two small islets off Okin
awa. Another heavy Japanese air
raid against American ground posi
tions and shipping at Okinawa in
which "one light unit" of the U. S.
fleet was sunk, an effective Iwo
Jima-based Mustang sweep of the
enemy's ma i land island of Hon
shu and a carrier-plane attack on
he Northern Ryukyus.
Softening Up Borneo
0 Manila —(/P)— Twenty-Fourth
Division Yanks have captured
Pikil, 32 miles inland from the
Mindanao Island beachhead.
This put them 42 miles from the
city of Davao, a major port of the
Philippines.
Softening up of Borneo for a
possible invasion continued with
130 tons of bombs being dropped
by heavy, medium and fighter
bombers.
Lions at Richlands
Observe Anniversary,
Dr. Crossfield Speaks
0The Richlands Lions club, char
tered three years ago under aus
pices of the Kinston club. Tuesday
night celebrated its third anniver
sary with a banoMet at the com
munity building, which was fea
tured by talks by District Gover
nor J A. Jones and Dr. R. II.
Crossfield, interim pastor of the
Gordon Church of Christ, botii of
Kinston.
Large delegations of guests at
tended from Kinston and Jackson
ville. J. E. Steed, president, presi
ded and welcomed the group. W.
Roy Poole of Kinston responded.
Kinston President J. D. Paschall
and Jacksonville President "Ike"
Johnson spoke briefly and intro
duced their delegations.
Governor Jones said Lionism's
rapid growth can be traced to its
firm foundation on unselfish serv
ice. and predicted it would become
a strong influence for peace in
aiding the development of a family
of peace-loving nations.
Dr. Crossfield, world traveler
and evangelist, spoke on "Stalin's
Russian." He traced the history of
Russia from the time of the Czars,
dwelt at length on the war against
religion under Stalin and expressed
the hope that free worship would
return to Russia after the war. He
described Stalin as' "the world's
most powerful man."
Capt. George Sexton
Completes Course in
Quartermaster School
0 Marine Captain George E. Sex
ton, whose wife. Mrs. G. E. Sexton,
lives at 116 Circle Drive, has grad
uated from the Quartermaster
School at Camp Lejcune.
The eight weeks school of inten
sive study (included courses on
supplies and service, public prop
erty, transportation, subsistence
transport loading, table of allow
ances and duties of a supply sec
tion officer.
Expect 125 Persons to Attend
Lions Charter Night Here Thursday
# The recently organized- Jack
sonville Lions club will have its
Charter Night program at the Fed
eral USO here Thursday night
with approximately 125 persons in
attendance.
Representatives from Lions clubs
in Kinston, Richlands, Wilming
ton, Wrightsville Beach and other
surrounding communities will send
delegates to the meeting at which
Rev. John R. Poe, Methodist min
ister of Trenton, will make the
principal address.
District Governor Jesse Jones of
Kinston will present the charter to
the Jacksonville club, and it will
be received by President H. C.
Johnson.
B. B. C. Kesler will act as toast
master and present the speakers,
and Mayor Clyde Sabiston, a mem
ber of the club, will give the wel
coming address. President Johnson
will introduce the visitors. The in
vocation and benediction will be
pronounced by Rev. A. D. Leon
Gray and R. F. Brendle res
pectively.
The Midway Park Woman's club
will be in charge of the dinner.
Pre. Cyrus Swinson,
Recently Liberated,
Home on Furlough
4) Pfc. Cyrus Swinson, son of
Montic Swinson of Richlands,
route one. has arrived home
011 a furlough after having
been liberated I'rnm a German
prison by fast advancing: Allied
forces in the Rtich.
Young Swinson was report
ed last September to he miss
ing in action. Then, a later re
port said he was a prisoner of
war. Now. he's coming home
on a rotation furlough, ac
cording to word from Camp
Mackall. N. C. where he will
be stationed temporarily.
Mrs. Clayton Taylor,
Native of Onslow,
Passes at Rhem
0Rhcm—Mrs. Irene Freeman Tay
lor, 44. wife of Clayton S. Taylor,
died early Sunday morning at her
home. The funeral was held at 3
o'clock Monday afternoon from
the Rhem Methodist church by the
Rev. W. A. Tew, followed by in
terment in the church cemetery.
A native of Onslow County. Mrs.
Taylor was a d."lighter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. William N. Kellum
of that county.
She is survived by her husband;
one daughter, Mrs. Elinor Grace
Higgins: two sisters. Mrs. M. E.
Smith and Mrs. L. E. Sanders of
Newport: and three brothers,
Willard Kellum of Newport, J. R.
Kellum of Trenton and B. F.
Kellum of Grifton.
Vet's Administration
Reported Swamped
By Work Now
(S-econd of two articles on the
Veterans' Administration*
0 Washington — (/P) — About a 11
Confess could do at the moment
to help straighten out the confu
sion entangling many discharges
veterans (and in which thousands
more will flounder after V-F, Day'
would be to reorganize the \etei
ans' Administration.
VA always has been more or
less a Congressional favorite. The
reasons aren't hard to dig out
Among the more powerful lobbies
in Washington since World War 1
have been the national veterans
organizations. These lobbies weie
backed by votes at home—and
votes at home always carry mcne
weight than any other factor, i or
a good many years, the veterans
of "the first World War have been
pretty well satisfied with VA.
Then what happened? The veter
ans of World War II began to
pour out of the armed forces in
numbers that no one could have
dreamed of. New laws were passed,
with scores of interpretations i'or
every clause. These laws and these
veterans were dump, d into the lap
of an agencv which had been rocK
in" peacefully along. Nothing was
done to expand and improve VA to
the point where it could cope with
the new situation though its work
increased more than three-fold in
two years while its personnel ex
pansion was about 15 per cent.
In a little more than two years,
VA has adjudicated three-quarter
of a million claims. Soon half a
million veterans of this war will
be receiving pensions.
No life insurance company in
the world enn compare its activi
ties to those under direction of
VA. Approvals of leans to individ
uals arc increasing at. such a J ato
that VA soon may dwarf the chain
individual loan agencies.
So many charges of inefficiency
at VA hospitals have poured in
that VA Chief Brig. Gen. Frank-T.
Fines appealed to the American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign War*
and Disabled American Veterans
to make a thorough investigation.
No public report has come out
yet. but already some members of
Congress are complaining that
veterans of this war were not ade
quately represented in the investi
gation.
A House resolution calling for a
"top-to-bottom" investigation of
VA was passed and referred to
Rep. John E. Rankin's World War
A similar resolution in the Senate
may land the investigation in Sen.
Walter F. George's Postwar Policy
Committee or at least in the Mili
tary Affairs Committee.
In.any event, the result is almost
bound to be proposals for legisla
tion to cut the red tape between
discharged veterans and the opera
tion of the "GI Bill of Rights" and
similar laws.
Ward-Darst Plaza
Will Be Surfaced
By West Company
0 Ward-Darst Plaza in front
of St. Anne's Episcopal church
will be paved this week by the
West Construction company. Grad
ing has been done by the town.
The surfacing of the street from
Court to the end of the church
property line is being financed by
contributions by various personnel
of Camp Lejeune and members oi
the church, donations that have
been made in the past two years.
Now Overseas
RALPH G. HUFFMAN.
Pf:j. Raiph G. Huffman cf Rich
lancLs is with Army in Italy. Ho
entered service in April of last
year and has been ove.-ras since
January. Private Huffman is the
son of Mrs. A. ,J. Huffman of Ricn
lands. His wife, the former Julia
Grace Cox. and their two children
live in Richlands.
Cpi. Alan Gawthrop,
Wounded in Europe,
is Back In States
©Cpl. Alan Gawthrop, hus
band of Mrs. Grace Gawthrop,
executive secretary of the Ons
low County Chapter, American
Ret? Cross, has been returned
to the United fStates after hav
ing been wounded in Europe
on January 23rd. !Ic returned
to Onslow County 011 April
13ih and will spend a twenty
one day furlough with Mrs.
Gawthrop at their home is*
Midway Park before returning
to the Woodrow Wilson Hos
pital in Staunton. Va. for fur
ther treatment. Cpl. Gawthrop
has been awarded the Purple
Heart for his wounds.
Broad Post-War
Fish, Game Program
Now Being Mapped
^HRrrieigh — $4,424,400 post-war
program of game and fish con
servation and propagation is being
mapped by the N. C. Game and
Inland Fisheries Division of the
Department ol' Conservation and
Development, with many of the
plans blueprinted and ready 1"oi*
execution, it was announced today
by Commissioner Hinton James.
James pointed out that execution
of all or parts of the program is
contingent upon many factors, in
cluding availability of state funds,
financial participation by the fed
eral government through the Pitt
man-Robertson act, and develop
ments in post war unemployment.
The program envisions the estab
lishment of seven large new game
mnaagement areas, expansion and
improvement of another, establish
ment of two new fish hatcheries
and expansion oi two existing ones,
the founding of a research center,
and other projects, including
stream polution studies and a
state-wide game survey.
Funds for one hatchery have al
ready been approprialed and con
struction await- available man
power and materials. It is also
proposed to start the state-wide
game survey this year.
When completed the program
added to the facilities already
existing, will make Xortn Carol in i
one of the leading states in game
areas and management facilities.
"All of us are thinking of the
time when youna men now in ser
vice will find relaxation in out
door sports," Jan es said. " If the
prophets are not almost 100 per
cent wrong, there is going to be a
great strain put upon our wildlife
resources by the increased demand
for hunting areas. The program
we are preparing, therefore, should
be put into operation just as fast
as it is possible to do so. Antici
pating the day when we can em
ploy manpower for such projects,
we are busy now blue-printing—
often down to the details—these
projects."
James said the program would
require nearly a million man days,
and pointed out that it would be
an ideal work-program to help
stabilize post-war employment.
While it is impossible to pre
dict which projects can be realized,
or in what order, James pointed
out that some parts of the program
are more urgent than others, and
that the order in which they would
be pushed would depend upon
many factors, including availabiilty
of land and federal approval and
co-operatiou.
KIWANIANS IN KINSTON
©Jacksonville Kiwanians attended
the Charter Night celebration of
the Kinston club at the Hotel
Kinston Friday night. Among those
present were Mr. and Mrs. J. C.«
Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Gautier
Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sulli
van, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Conkling,
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Maultsby,
Maurice Margolis, L. E. Rudisiil,
Sam Leder, George Buchanan, Rev.
and Mrs. Carl B. Craig, Jack
Koonce and Harvey Boney.
ABC SALES REPORT
©The Onslow County ABC store
reported gross sales amounting to
$02,614.55 during March.
First Baptists Vote
To Build New Church
Day of Prayer for Divine Guidance
At San Francisco Meeting Called
H Mayor Clyde T.. Sabislon yester
day proclaimed Wednesday, April
25, as a Day of Prayer in "our
homes and churches" for Divine
guidane ol' our leaders at the San
Francisco convention for world
peace and security, opening to
morrow.
A union prayer service will bo
held tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock at First Baptist church with
all protestant churches of the com
munity participating. The public
is invited. Special music by a choir
from all the local churches is
under the direction of Mrs. Carl
Craig, Mrs. Ramon Askew and Mrs.
George Phillips.
All churches will be open
throughout the day for meditation
and prayer.
Rev. L. Grady Burgiss is pastor
of the host church but all the
ministers of the community will
take part.
Mayor Sabiston\s proclamation
follows:
"Whereas: April 25. 1945 is the
opening day of the San Francisco
Convention which may effect the
whole world for centuries, and
"Whereas: cur leaders, civil and
religious, have called on all peo
ples to pray for Divine guidance
of our leaders for the peace and
security of the world, therefore I.
Clyde Sabiston, Mayor of the
Town of Jacksonville, do call upon
all our citizens, white and colored,
to observe Wednesday, April 25.
1945 as a day o£ prayer in our
homes and churches for this pur
pose."
New Water Tank
Probably to Get
!ri Use This Week
©Water will be turned into the
Town of Jacksonville's new 100.000
gallon water tank this week. Erec
tion of the tank and painting of
it were completed last week. Tests
will be taken on it before it is put
in use, but that probably will bo
this week, too.
Sugar Registration
To Be Three Days
Each Week Here
tgi Applications for canning sugar
will be taken at the Onslow County
ration board here on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday of each
week, it was announced yesterday
by Mrs. Ivy O'Quinn. in charge
of the office.
Registration will also be held at
Dixon school on Wednesday, and
at Richlands school on Thursday.
Friday and Saturday.
Applications will also be taken
by Mrs. Ed Whale.v and Mrs. A. W.
Bell, Richlands section residents,
whose names were added to the
list announced last week for other
sections of the county. Applications
may be made at anytime with
persons whose names were con
tained on the list.
B. A. Morris, White
Oak Resident, Shows
Steers at Kinston
9 Two of the best pens of adult
steers ever exhibited at the Kin
ston Fat Stock Show last week
were those of B. A. Morris of
White Oak, Farm Agent Charles C.
Cox, Jr.. disclosed yesterday.
They would have captured all
honors had they been exhibited by
a 4-H club member, Clark added.
He said Morris sold the two pens
of three steers each for the top
price of $18.60 per hundred, the
ceiling for prime grade steers.
The steers were Aberdeen Angus,
and market officials said they were
six of the finest steer ever exhibit
ed in the show.
G. W. Harriet Choice
Of School Committee
For Principal Post
0G. W. Harriet, principal at
Penderlea school in Pender
County, is the choice of the
local committee lor principal
of Jacksonville schools, it was
learned yesterday.
Harriett is expected t:> notify
the committee today of his de
ision.
When the school committee
met during the week end to
consider applications, one of
the leading applicants for the
job. Pat Harmon of Warsaw,
withdrew his request.
Harriet was teacher and
principal at Atkinson school
for seven years prior to going
to Penderlea where he has
been for the 1944-45 year. He
began his teaching career at
Elizabeth City, and is highly
recommended as a capable
school man.
Sheriff's Officers
Destroy Big Still;
Negro Is Arrested
0 A 100-gaIlon copper still and 23
barrels of mash were destroyed by
sheriff's officers in the Half Mcon
section of Onslow County Satur
day afternoon.
Taking part in the raid were
Sheriff B. F. Morton and Deputies
fames Likens and Willis Johnson,
rhe still was thought to have been
in operation the night before. One
gallon of whiskey also was de
stroyed.
Sunday afternoon Sheriff Mor
ton and Deputy Johnson arrested
Ernest Ennett, Sneads Ferry Ne
gro, dispensing drinks in bushes
close to his home. He gave bond
for appearance in county court
here today.
Edwin Steed, III, Is
Rated "Excellent"
In Piano Contest
® Edwin Steed. III. son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Steed. Jr., of Richlands.
rated "excellent" in piano at Vir
ginia state-wide contests held in
Richmond recently under the aus
pices of the National Federation of
Music clubs. He is a student at
Front Royal. Va.
Young Steed is the second Rich
lands person to achieve the high
rating within a week, the other
being Miss Alice Green Sylvester,
daVghter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
Sylvester, who was awarded a
scholarship as result of her rating
in the North Carolina contest at
Winston-Salem.
SSgt. Harry Venters
Is Awarded Fifth
Oak Leaf Cluster
^ New Bern—Veteran "if more
than 30 of the Eighth Air Force's
large scale bombing attacks on
vital military and industrial tar
gets in Nazi Germany, SSgt.
Christopher Harry Venters, 18. of
New Bern, tail gunner on a B-17
Flying Fortress, has been awarded
the fifth Oak Leaf Cluster to the
Air Medal for meritorious achieve
ment.
The New Bernian. grandson of
Mrs. Lucy T. Cox of New Bern,
resided here with her before join
ing the AAF in June, 1043.
ATTENDED CELEBRATION
0 Dr. and Mrs. H. \V. Stevens at
tended the 25th Anniversary and
Ladies night of the Wilmington
Kiwanis club there last Wednesday
night.
Local Colored Girl Is Drowned;
While Marine Rescues 3 Others
0 Daisy Green, 15-year-old Jack
sonville colored girl was drowned
in New River here Sunday after
noon while a heroic unidentified
white marine was rescuing three
other colored girls whose boat had
overturned in lb* feet of water.
About 5 p.m. the four youths
were in a boat about 30 yards off
shore, and, according to Sheriff B.
Frank Morton, the craft overturned
while they were playing or walk
ing around in it.
The marine whose name was not
learned by officers leaped into the
water and brought ashore three of
the girls, and it was not until all
were ashore that it was discovered
the Green girl was missing.
Officers dragged and probed in
the river for 2Vi hours before
finding her body.
While they did not get the name
of the marine, officers were high
in their praise of him. He was
wearing the only clothes he had
in town with him at the time, and
had to retire while military police
went to Camp Lejeune for a
change.
The Green girl is the daughter
of Daisy Green of Jacksonville.
0 The congregation of the First
Baptist church voted Sunday to
erect a new church auditorium and
named the important building and
finance committees.
Following an explanation by
Rev. L. Grady Burgiss, pastor, of
the need of additional accommo
dations due to increased member
ship and attendance, a motion to
bui]d was made by O. M. Hyder,
seconded by K. A. JIaney. The mo
tion carried without an opposing
vote.
The congregation then named A.
II. Hatsell, O. L. Russ and Manly
Morton on the building commit
tee. and A. G. Walton, Sr., B. J.
Holleman and Rufus Gaddy on the
finance committee.
Those two groups will make a
thorough investigation of specifica
tions, costs and means of financing
and report back at a later date,
when their study is complete.
Reverend Burgiss said.
The church already owns adja
cent property, and it has been
thought that a new auditorium
could be erected with Sunday
school rooms in tne basement, and
be attached to the present struc
ture. The present building, which
was erected in 1930, would be used
for a Sunday school and educa
tional building, it was stated.
The need of increased space was
evident Sunday when seven new
members were taken into the
church, making a total of 70 since
January 1. and when 193 persons
were present at Sunday School—
the second largest attendance in
history of the church school. It
was exceeded only on April 1,
Easter.
Ice House Burned
By Early Morning
Fire in Swansboro
0 Fire destroyed the ice plant and
an adjacent building belonging to
S. F. Mil stead and J. F. Foster
at Swansboro early Sunday. The
loss was thought to have been in
the vicinity of $15,000.
A shifting wind kept the ex
tremely hot blaze confined to the
two structures, although for awhile
ii was feared that the blaze might
sweep down the waterfront of that
fishing and summer resort village.
Origin of the blaze had not been
definitely determined yesterday,
according to reports from that
community but it was said that
the motor driving the ice plant
exploded.
Firemen and trucks from Camp
Lejeune and Jacksonville answered
the request of Swansboro town of
ficials for assistance, but there was
lit lie that tehy could do except
prevent spread of the blaze.
The ice plant is the only one in
Swansboro, and is important to
that community because of its fish
ing industry. Milstead may re
build if he is able to secure neces
sary priorities, it is said.
The Foster building adjacent to
the ice plant was used only for
a storage place. Estimate of the
loss to goods and structure was
not available yesterday here.
The Town of Swansboro, through
Mayor M. N. Lisk and Fire Chief
John L. Bell, yesterday expressed
their appreciation to the Jackson
ville ar.d Camp Lejeune fire de
partments for the "prompt res
ponse" to the call.
The statement said that the fire
threatened to be disastrous, and
"everyone was highly impressed
with the cooperative response and
the mutual assistance evidenced."
Pvt. Macon M. Canady
Now at Convalescent
Hospital in Colorado
0Camp Carson, Colo.—Pvt. Ma
con M. Canady, husband of Mrs.
Macon Canady. Richlands, N. C.,
is now at the U. S. Army General
and Convalescent Hospital. Camp
Carson. Ke fought with a Combat
Engineer Battalion. He wears an
European Theater ribbon.
The Convalescent hospital is sit
uated in an ideal spot for outdoor
recreation activities. Sightseeing
trips to the various scenic places
in and near Colorado Springs are
arranged for patients.
Emphasis is placed on pre-oc
cupational training so that conva
lescents can find what skills they
have and thus discover what type
of occupational training they may
want in the veterans' administra
tion program after returning to
civilian life. Practical arts are some
of the most popular subjects
taught.
Pvt. Canady has three brothers,
Sgt. J. H. Canady and Cpl. Louis
E. Canady, in the Army, and
Wayne B. Canady in the Navy.
PROMOTION RECOMMENDED
# Brig. Gen. William P. T. Hill,
USMC, now quartermaster of the
Marine Corps in Washington, who
was the first Marine officer to be
on duty at Camp Lejeune, has
been nominated for promotion to
the rank of major general, effective
April 1. The nomination has been
approved by the Senate Commit
tee on Naval Affairs.