THE ONSLOW COUNTY News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow County The News and Views Leads 1 Paid Circulation Local Advertising National Advertising Classified Advertlslnf Onslow County News VOL. VIII, NO. 20 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER l», 1945 member of the associated press I'RICE; 5r PER COPY $2.00 PER YEAH DOWN EAST WITH $ BILLY ARTHUR ^ Jill Henderson won't talk about his personality before the News and Views' Mrs. Marlene Burns again. We were discussing stationary the other afternoon, and I asked him if he wanted his personal stationary on pastel blue. "Well, I was thinking of some thing that would match my per sonality," Bill said. "Make it black, then," Mrs. Burns spoke up. OThe war must be over: Two Ma rine captains and two lieutenants were holding a heated gin rummy game in Johnson's Drug store Fri day morning at 10 o'clock. % Funny how a little money can make a man so darned tired. One of the citizens had a little friendly (?) poker game the other afternoon at his place of business, and the minute he got a few bucks ahead, he was so fatigued he had to go home. 0The boys in the sheriff's office thought they were missing some thing Friday morning. A fellow came in and reported a truck load of bloodhounds was parked in front of the State Prison camp and wanted to know how many prisoners escaped. Deputy Willis Johnson telephon ed for the dope. "They ain't bloodhounds." Brooks told him. "Just my fox hounds." 0 Meri Ferguson says he's going to give up the chairmanship of the Viewing Board, because for three years he's sat on the Courthouse lawn benches and when something finally did happen out there, he missed it. He was talking about the brief boxing match that took place be tween Too-Many-Words C. V. Cheney and One Punch Marion Cowell Thursday afternoon. It was pretty funny Friday morn ing to all the bench warmers: that is, the sidelights were. It seems that Mr. Ed Provost knocked over four benches getting out of the way. and was so scared that he didn't answer the roll call again until way up in the morning of Friday. Clayton Petteway. they tell me. moved faster than he ever did in all his life in search for one big tree, behind which he secured him self and called on Galloway Jones to part them. Anyway, that's what Dick Murrill says. But Clayton says that Dick was standing right behind him. behind that tree. However, Clayton sud denly remembered he was going to ♦he movie, and there's some talk t he had seen the show the day re en contends inai ^neney nau business on the courthouse lawn in the rtrst place, since he never has been voted a member of the Viewing Board. Doc Smith suggested that the next time anything like thet is about to happen, some ad.jnce notice ought to be given, and tick ets sold. He predicts we could take in apretty penny that way. £You can tell a man who doesn't get around much anymore. Started down to Willis Landing Sunday afternoon and 1 piloted the fellows down the back road via Starling's and passed up the new pavied highway to the 1)iangle Outpost. Had to inquire my way from Mrs. Lillian Ray. ^ Newt Sanders and Charile Er vin say the Marines have literally played a dirty trick on the Bear Creekers and residents along White Oak river. They declare that it can't be any thing but that DDT the Marines have been puttting out that's driv ing the mosquitoes into Bear Creek and up White Oak. Roosevelts Are Due To Get Litigated Lands In Carteret (By Bill Sharpe) 0 Salter Path, N. C.—Bulldozers are pushing over two miles (if the Bogue Banks dunes which former ly were embraced in the maritime empire of aging Alice Hoffman, of Paris and the Banks. It appears that before very long the land which has been in litisatio i — lengthily and lethaly—will be oc cupied by wealthy cottagers who never heard of Alioe Hoffman, aunt of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., nor even of their neighbors, the so-called squatters of Salter Path, whom Miss Hoffman tried in vain to remove from the prop erty she had bought. A development company has bought in 1,000 acres (two miles) of the property, which faces both ocean and sound, and is proceed ing rapidly with a beach project which is planned as the most pre tentious along the coast. When the smoke of court bat tles had subsided in the twenties, Alice Hoffman, who formerly div ided her time between Paris and the Bogue Banks; was left with on ly life rights in her sandy estate. When she dies it will revert to Theodore Roosevelt 3rd, Camelia Van Schack Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, and Grace Roosevelt iMillan, or their heirs. Quentin idfe levelt was killed in World War ^7 fiss Hoffman is now in her ,iities. The two miles now under devel opment were lopped off by court order and sold to pay taxes on the remainder of the estate last fall. (Continued on page six) Cut U.S. Forces In Japan; 27 War Criminals Held £ Tokyo—(JP)—U. S. Eighth Army headquarters today reported 27 of >6 war-crimes suspects wanted by Gen. MacArthur were in custody. Seventeen remained at libcrly: two were dead by their own hands. MacArthur announced that the 31st. 37th, 38th American divisions would go home soon from Manila. The supreme commander dis closed he had protested strongly over Russia's mistaken destruction of a B-29 over Korea. Gen. Mac Arthur instituted a thorough Am erican information program, utiliz ing the Jap press, radio and schools. Meantime. Admiral Hasley's na val forces speeded Tap l'-sarament by smashing 25 big coastal de fense guns and scuttling 51 midget submarines. 103 suicide boats, and 103 man-guided torpedoes. Reduce Garrisons % Tokyo—(/I5)—The Allied garri son force in Japan probably will number not n but lotherwise apparently healthy. He told the evacuation party that he had been treated well i.i comparison with treatment reported given prisoners in othei camps. More Building Planned; Mangum Buys Price Lot 176 Onslowans Received Discharges From U. S. Armed Services Recently # One hundred and seventy-six Onslowans have been discharged from the nation's armed forces in recent months. In the past I wo \\ eeks. in ;.ddi tion 1o those already reporl'-d in tile News and Views columns, i he following veterans have been awarded honorable discharge Pfc. Deames B. Sandlin of Rich lands. route one. who had been in the Arrm since November 5. 194!, and Overseas from Februcrv 11. 1®. lo July *M. 104.",; vcte'-an of campaigns in Normandy. Norlhern France. Rhineland. \ndrennes and Central Europe; wears European Campaign with ;'ive Bronze American Defense and Good Con duct medals. Sgt. Roland Marsh burn.. Rich lands, route one. who had been in the Army since November 27. 1940. and fought in Tunisia. Sicily, Napies, Foggia, Rome. Southern France and the Rhineland while overseas from August 17. 1942. to August 3. 1945: wears American Defense, European, African. Med cterranean Theatre (EAMETt with seven Bronze stars and Good Con duct medals. EARL MORTON Pvt. Earl W. Morton. Jackson ville. route one, who had been in the Army since August. 14. I'M'), and who wears the Asiatic Pacific Theatre with three Bronze stars. Good Conduct. American Defense and Phillippines Liberation med als and w ho was overseas from Oc tober 17. 1,940. to Aimust 16'. 1945. Seaman Fi/st Class .Marvin Glenn Hatsell, United Stales Coast Gaui"! Swansboro, who served at Bogue Inlet from December of 1042 through August 28. 1945. Pic. John L. Davis, Maysville, route one. who had been in service since November. 1943. who was wounded in Germany November 21. 1944. and who wears the Good Conduct, ft A MET with two Bronze Stars and Purple Heart medals. He was abroad from July 1, 1944. until May 5, 1945. T-Sgt. Thomas C. Bur bee, Rich lands. route two. who was overseas from January 9. 1944. through Oc tober 26. 1944. with the Army Air Corps, who wears EAMET .vith five Bronze Stars, the Distinguish ed Flying Cross with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the American De fense and Good Conduct medals for participating in the air offen sive over Europe. Rome, Anno. Normandy. Northern France and the Rhineland. LF.ROY MATTHEWS M-Sgt. Leroy Matthews of llu bert, member of an Army Air Forces Base Unit who entered ser vice September 12. 1940. and who wears tlie American Theatre of Op erations. American Defense with one Bronze Star and Good Conduct medals, and who was twice over seas. the' first time from October 10. 1940. to June 19. 1942 an i the second time from Angus: 31, 1942, to Deember 20, 1943. Torpedoman's Mate fhi.\t Class George Anthony Rhodes. Coast Guard, who was in service from October 2. 1943, through A "gust 27. 194. T-Sgt. George W. Hancock. Pol locksville, route one, who had been in service since April !7. 1941 and overseas from June 16. 1942. un til April 23. 194.^, and who wears the American Defense, Good Con duct, and Asiatic Pacific wth one Bronze Star medals. Pvt. Eltheridge Barnes, Molly Ridge, who entered the Army June 14, 1940, and who wears the (Continued on page live) 3,304 High School Students Enrolled In Onslow County 0 A total of 3.304 white students are enrolled in Onslow County high schools, according to records in the office of Supt. A. II. Ilatsell. Although reports have not come in from the outlying white ele mentary schools and colored schools, one of the latter. George town. reports enrollment of 438 pupils: and it was estimated that mrc than 5.000. white and colored students are enrolled for the ] 945-46 term. The more represen tative reports will be turned in at the close of the first school month. According to the superintend ent's records, the enrollment at the five white high schools fol lows: Jacksonville. 999: Richlands. 984: Dixon. 530: White Oak, 344: and Swansboro, 447. Thomas H. Pritchard, Swansboro, Passes, Funeral Held Friday 6 Funeral services for Thomas H. Pritchard. 64. well-known Swans boro business man who succumbed to an extended illness Wednesday, were held from Swansboro Meth odist church Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Rev. Charles E. Mercer, pastor, assisted by Rev. A. L. Ben ton. pastor of Swansboro Baptht church officiated, and burial with Masonic rites was in Swansboro cemetery. Mr. Pritchard had been living at Swansboro since 1905 when he went there to become associated with the Swansboro Land and Lumber company. He was a native nf I Iamill nn X C In recent years following the dissolution of the lumber company, he had been managing the affairs of the family estate. Mr. Pritchard had been in ill health for the past three years, and confined for the past five weeks. During his residence at Swans boro. he took an active part in Seaside Lodge A. F. & A. M.. and was its secretary for a number of years. He also was a life-long member of the Methodist church. Mr. Pritchard is sur\ ived by his widow. Mrs. Mary Ward Moore Pritchard of Swansboro; two daughters. Mrs. H. A. Jarman of Jacksonville and Mrs. A. E. Smith of Swansboro; three sons. D. F. Ward of Swansboro. George W. Ward of Boston and C. W. Ward of Lake Charles. La.; one sisters. Miss Lalla Pritchard of Greens boro: and two brothers. Dr. George Pritchard of Black Mountain and Lt. Col. Frank Pritchard of St. Petersburg. Fla.: and one grand daughter. Miss Geneva Ward. SC2CW. A. Marshburn, Richlands, Route 1, Was In Tokyo Bay 0 Aboard The Transport Grimes in Tokyo Bay—< Delayed)—W. A. Marshburn. ship's cook, second class. t'SNR. Route 1. Richlands, N C.. sailed into Tokyo Bay aboard this ship and landed the first oc cupation forces on the conquered soil o'' Japan. A few hours before General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur's triumphant arrival at Atsugi. the Grimes landed a contingent of Ma rines on the beach at Futtsu Saki. on the eastern shore of Tokyo Bay, after moving past the silenced Jap batteries of 16-inch guns. The Grimes, flagship for Trans port Division 60. previously had participated in some of the major Pacific operations, including lc Shima and Okinawa. On her first important mission, she braved shore gunfire to evacuate troops from I wo Jima. Adrian Smith, 20, Dies At Hospital Of Wound In Abdomen 0 Adrian Smith, about 20. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Smith of North east. died at the Onslow Countv Hospital Friday of what Coroner G. W. Jones said was a self-in flicted bullet wound. Young Smith was admitted to the hospital Thursday with a .22 calibre bullet wound in his abdo men. which he told parents was accidental. Funeral services were held from the home Saturday. Young Smith is survived by his parents, one brother, Thurman Smith, of the Army, and a sister, who lives at home. % Real estate and building appar ently are on the boom in Jackson ville. The largest transaction here in quite some time took place when Mrs. Anne M. Price sold approxi mately 9.000 square feet fronting on Cour4 street, opposite the bus station, to W. M. Mangum and wife with L. P. Matthews acting as agent. Revenue stamps indicated the purchase price to have been approximately $11.000. At the same time, Raymond and C. W. Hartsfield, owners of Harts field Jewelry company, announc ed that they had purchased a lot 14G x 200 on New Bridge street, across from Paul Swinson Grocery, for the purpose of erectting a mod ern jewelry and department store. Deed of the property from G. P. Johnson to the Hartsfield brothers had not been filed Friday. Excavations were started last week for two more buildings on New Bridge street, and an an nouncement by the Jacksonville Record of purchase of property op posite Swinson store was reported impending. Excavations started on the 50 x 135 foot lot adjacent to Sanders Sales and Service company are being done by J. L. Goodman, contractor, preparatory to erecting two buildings for Ellis Gates, own er of the property. Gates said yesterday he would erect one building 25x85 feet for a sporting goods shop he proposes to put in, and another structure 25x70 for rent. Architects' draw ings of the buildings, to be two stories, were expected to be re ceived yesterday. Meantime, building permits were issued by Inspector Herbert East wood for a residence being erected by Eddie Humphrey on South Court street and an addition to Paul Swinson's grocery store on New Bridge street. Jury List Drawn For October Term Of Superior Court ®The jury list for the October term of Superior Court which be gins October 8 is as follows: W. L. Lockamy. W. H. Ennett, J. D. Kellum. J. C. Brown, James W. Luncy, A. S. Ervin, John W. Mills, Lindsey H. Humphrey, R. S. Pinkston, II. H. Wiliams, Fred J. Parker. A. B. Lanier, M. F. Bar ber. J. V. Gurganus. J. D. Baggett, L. A. Riggs. L. W. Pierce, C. W. Hartsfield, W. C. Baysden. W. L. Gould. P. J. Parker, C. A. Jones. John W. Barnhill, B. F. Robinson. W. J. Bryan, George W. Lewis, .lr., A. F. Ketchum, Wilbur Justice, Hatch Bryan. R. E. Mer cer, E. L. Henderson, P. M. Mat tocks, Marvin Brown. Clarence Jones, T. N. Cook, M. F. Duff, George L. Sandlin. U. W. Greer, A. D. Ennett and G. K. Eubanks. White Registrants Go To Fort Bragg For Pre-lnduction Exams 6 Seventeen white registrants will leave for preinduetion physical ex amination at Fort Bragg, Septem ber 20. They are: James Alfred Wetherington, Jr., Swansboro: George Dewey Mead ows, Jr., Maysvilie: Herbert Ivon Foy, Richlands: Virgil Houston Thompson. Richlands; .John Guil ford Walton. Jacksonville; Andrew Duvon Ennett. Jr.. Holly Ridge; James Franklin Sanders, Folks lone: Earl Lewis Wetherington, Silverdale: William Jasper Powell, Jr., Richlands: Cecil Victor Davis, Holly Ridge: Leo McClellan Wes ton. Richlands; Morris Jasper Da vis. Richlands; Percy Edward Gib ble, Jacksonville; Harold Wesley Llovd, Jacksonville: Melvin McCoy Taylor. Richlands; Edward M. Par ker. Jr.. Jacksonville: and Kirby Lee Walton, Richlands. Schoolmasters Club Votes To Affiliate With State Association #The Onslow County Schoolmas ters club Friday night voted to af filiate with the North Carolina Ed ucation association. In its first meeting of the year at Richlands, the Schoolmasters club discussed county-wide teach ers meetings with respect to in structional service, and general school administration problems Officers of the club are C. Bruce Hunter, Dixon, president; D. W. Maddox. Swansboro, vice-presi dent; and A. G. Patrick, White Oak, secretary-treasurer. 16.000 WAR AMPUTEES # Washington,—(#*)—'The war left approximately 16,000 amputees in the armed forces, Army and Navy officials said today Of the men los ing an arm or leg. 14,000 were in the Army and 2,000 in the Navy.