THE ONSLOW COUNTY The News and Vlew« Leads « News and Views The Only Newspaper in the World That Gives a Whoop About Onslow Couuty Paid Circulation Local Advertising National Advertising Classified Advertising Onslow County New« VOL. VIII, NO. 38 JACKSONVILLE, N. C., TIKSDA1 N«\ L.liRKK 20. I<)ir> member or the associated press price : 5<- PER COPY 82.00 PER YEAR DOWN EAST WITH k BILLY ARTHUR jmos Street, the author who addressed tiie Eastern North Caro lina Press Association at Wilson Friday night, pulled a good one that I can't wait to get around a Texan and pass on. He was talking about the weather out there. "The wind really blows hard," said he. " and so do the Texans." 0 Harvey Laffoon. president of the State Press Association—who sent regards te Tom Shugart. handed down a recipe for an en joyable talk: 1. A good start. 2. A good ending. 3. Put them as close together as possible. 9 For years peoplo have been casting aspersions, being very cri tical and otherwise slandering my ability to write. They have had some mighty unkind words to say about the legibility of the results of my pushing a pen or a pencil across a sheet of paper. But now. the worm has turned. When someone else in the office took the notes on the recent ion for Rev. and Mrs. A. D. Leon Gray, to me one part of ihe writ ing looked as if they Grays had been given a silver picture. So I made it a 'silver framed picture." However, it was a beautiful two quart pitcher that the Grays were presented. Anyway, some of the women were talking about the boner the other evening and one of them remarked. "It's disgusting." she said. "Regardless of how it hap pened. Was no excuse for it. Had Billy been there, like he should have been, he would have known better." 0A discussion of hunting and its attendant expenses came up for a thorough airing the other night, and one fellow speculated that every bird killed by a hunter cost about $5, if not more. It was about like my cost per fish about three years ago when I purchased a new rod and reel, line, plugs and bait and went fishing several times down in the sound, and brought back only a few fish. I figured that every fish I caught that season cost me $2.32, which is a pretty steep price for croakers and spots. I told the boys about that, and they agreed it was pretty costly but hardly as much as the stamp collecting hobby. Our local stamp collectors have a habit of going into the post of fice and buying one section of '"our stamps here-on-a-sheet. and there on-a-sheet and somewhere-else-on ' eet. »?y say a 3 cent stamp or some denomination is worth more e corner or in the center of a „et than it is somewhere else. And to be on the safe side, several buy a whole sheet of 100 stamps. One time, however. Mr. Farley came out with a nice purple affair, one of the most beautiful stamps I ever saw, selling for $1 each. Boy. that stumped 'em. The fel lows who had been buying full sheets bought sections, and the fellows who had been purchasing sections bought singletons. They're expensive hobbies, all right, almost expensive as mine, photography. PLANNED HAWAIIAN ATTACK ^Washington.—(/P) —Pearl Har bor Investigating Committee Mon day learned that Admiral Osami Naganoa chief of the lap naval general staff, testified recently in Tokyo that he alone decided on Nov. 3, 1941—to attack the Hawa iian bastion. Nagando's statement was taken during an inquiry conducted by subordinates to Gen. MacArthur at the request of the Congressional Committee. The Tokyo testimony has been placed in the record of the current hearing. WILL HONOR TURNAGE #Farmville— Thanksgiving Day will be continued into the follow ing day. Friday. Nov. 23. and ob served by descendants of the pio neer families of the Tysons and Mays, who wiM assemble from all over the State for their annual meeting, which will do honor to Maj. Gen. Allen H. Turnage. sec ond in command of the United States Marine Corps. General Turnage, a native son. will be the featured speaker of the reunion. REVOLT IN IRAN 0 Tehran. Iran— (£*) — Armed members of the separatist Demo cratic party— revolting against the Iranian government authority in the territory garrisoned by Soviet troops — were reported to be advancing down a 230-mile long railway from Mianeh to Tehran. Onslow County AAA Committeemen To Be Elected In Next Four Weeks 0 Onslow County farmers will take time out from seasonal work in the next four weeks to elect AAA community and county com mitteemen for the coming year. Three community committeemen and two alternates, as well as a delegate to the county convention, will be chosen in each of the county's 18 farming communities. The delegates will later elect the -ee-man committee which will ^ inister AAA activities within ™ county. chairman Hubert C. Riggs, of .«ie county AAA committee, said today that dates, hours, and places for holding the annual election are now being determined. An nouncement will be made within the next few days. In Onslow County, Riggs said, approximately 2,000 farmers are eligible to vote for committeemen this year. "Eligible" farmers are those who participate in the 1945 agricultural conservation or crop insurance program. The county AAA chairman, in reminding Onslow County farmers of the forthcoming ballot, appeal ed for full participation. "Solution of the postwar prob lems ahead of us is the vital con cern of every farmer. Consequent ly. it is to his own best interest to vote in the coming elections—to make sure the men administering AAA programs in the county are the ones he wants to represent him." "7HU( "Tftonij S^ctc/tcJ JAMES F. BYRNES SECRETARY OF STATE m 1 AP Newsfeatures 0 Having sketched Secretary o; State James F. Byrnes a coupU >i years ago in his White House of fice when he was Assistant Presi dent. I didn't try to get him to sit for another personal sketch. ... I sketched him at his press confer ence in the State Department building. He came into the room and sat at the head of a long table and was completely surrounded by per haps a hundred press and radio people. There is a softness to his speech as he talks to the group in his South Carolinian voice. ... He removes his glasses once or twice. As he finishes his statement of live late developments in the State De partment. :,c again removes his glasses and smiles as he awaits the barrage of questions from the gathering. He answers or sometimes parries a question with a good natured jest. At the end of the conference he got a rousing "Thank you. Mr. Secretary" from the correspond ents as they started moving in a body for the door and to the tele phones. Bucking that moving throng to reach Mr. Byrnes to get him to autograph the* sketch was an impossibility! . . . After the thundering herd moved out the door a helpful secretary came io the rescue and Mr. Byrnes signed the drawing. Barden To Make Radio Dedication Talk Monday £ Rep. Graham A. Barden of New Bern will make the dedicatory ad dress on the initial broadcast of YVJNC. Jacksonville's radio station, next Monday night, it was an nounced yesterday by Louis N. Howard, owner. Originating from Tallman Street USO. the broadcast will be aired over the Tobacco Network of ra dio stations in Eastern North Caro lina and will be open to the pub lic. Seating accommodations will be arranged for approximately 300 persons. Howard said. Others on the program will be prominent civilian and military leaders of this section, including Maj. Gen. John Marston, com manding general of Camp Lejeune. In addition. MBS and Tobacco Network officials will be present. Festivities will begin shortly be fore 8 with a parade by the New Bern High School band, which will also appear on the program. At 8 p. m. sharp the station will go on the air with an appropriate dedi catory program, incomplete yes Union Thanksgiving Service At 10 A.M. At Baptist Church ®The Union Thanksgiving serv ices of the Baptist. Methodist and Presbyterian churches will take place Thanksgiving Day at 10 a.m. at the Baptist church. Rev. Carl Craig will be the speaker. All con gregations are invited to attend. terday. hut being arranged by Paul Parker. New Bern, program direc tor of the Coastal Broadcasting company. Music and talks will be featured. Others who wil bo heard during the evening include Harry LeBrun, New York of the station relations department of MBS; Lester Gould. WJNC manager; owner Howard; and Billy Arthur, who will be mas ter of ceremonies. In the afternoon prior to open ing of the station, officials of the Tobacco Network will hold a spec ial meeting here to discuss plans for promoting Jacksonville and the network. Those who will attend the meeting in addition to Howard, who is president, are Billy Hodges of Greenville, vice-president; Har ry Bright of Goldsboro, secretary; Allen Wannamaker. Wilson, treas urer: Phi! 11. Whitte, Raleigh gen eral sales manager; Fred Fletcher, Raleigh, and Paul Moyle, Fayettc ville. both past presidents. Following the first broadcast, op en house will be observed at the studios on N. C. 24. 5 Onslowans Get Honorable Discharges From Armed Forces # Five Onslow County men have recently been awarded honorable discharges from the armed forces. They include: Cpl. Rex M. Kennedy, native of Duplin County and now of Jack sonville, who entered service Sep tember 13. 1944. and served as a military policeman until his dis charge November 1. Shipfitter First Class David James Humphrey of Onslow Coun ty who was discharged November 8th. Carpenters Mate Second Class William Lee Howard of Onslow County who was discharged No vember 5. Pfc. Atticus II. Pittman of Hu bert, who entered the service Feb ruary 25. 1942, was a searchlight operator at Rome-Arno. Northern Appenines and Po Valley, who wears the American Defense and Victory medals, and who was dis charged November 6. T-4 William R. Humphrey of Maysville, route one, who entered service July 16, 1942. was a rigger at Sicily, Xaplcs-Foggia, Rome Arno. Southern France. Northern Appenines and Po Valley, who wears the Good Conduct and EAMET with six BS medals and who was discharged November 4, Miss Eleanor Craig Has Poem Accepted For Annual Anthology £ The 7»atior tl Poetry Asso ciation his accepted a poem written by Miss IJeanor ( raiff of Jacksonville for the forth coming: edition of the Annual College Anthology. The poem of Miss Craig selected by the association is entitled "Education." Miss Craig is the talented daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Carl B. Craig. She is a junior at the University of North Caro lina where she i:i majoring in journalism. No Decision Reached On Removinq Marines From North China # Tsingtao, China—f/H—The American public generally "is not aware of the serious situa tion in China and the possibi lity of involvement of United States forces," Undersecretary of the Navy Artemus Gates said yesterday at a press con ference. He said no decision had been made on possible future withdrawal <>f the Marines from North China. Gates declined to comment on questions concerning the Marines and China's civil strife, but said he expected to make a detailed report to Sec retary of the Navy Forrestal. Last week shots were fired on a train bearing U.S. Marine Majoi General Dewitt Peck, commander of the First Marine Division. Onslowans Arriving Af New York From European Theatre Scheduled to arrive at Newport News aboard the SS West Point were: Pfc. Harris L. Grav of Jackson ville. ARC Eleanor Brooks of Trenton. Scheduled to arrive at New York aboard the SS Chanute Vic lory was: Pvt. Maryland Jones of Jack sonville. Scheduled tn arrive in New York aboard the S S. Argentina was: First Lieut. Martha Sabiston, Army Nurse Corps, of Jackson ville. Scheduled to arrive in New York aboard the USS Kingston Victory were: Pfc. Lonnie 'Tall of Chinquapin. Pfc. Lester B. Wells of Swans boro. THANK SGI V i \G SERVICES # T h a n ksgivi n u D a y. '1' h u rs d a v. \"ov. 22nd. will be observed in m. Anne's Episcopal church, at 10 a.m., with a celebration of the tluly Communion ur.hoat Piiiiay. were or dered arrested Monday. Simul taneously. the r. S. Head quarters announced that 57 more accused Jap war crimi nal.1-- most minor characters charged w i 1 h brutalities against war prisoners—were in custod y. 4,600 Dutch Marines leaving Camp Davis For The East Indies • Approximately 4.600 Roy AI Nether1 nlds Marines. musl of whom have trained at Camn Davis, will le ic the United States dur ing the ensuing week, embarking at Nor! oik V'a.. for the Nether land Indies. The C.iVi contingent. numbering 1.940 i: «>ps. sailed from Norfolk over l!i" week end. and the balance is sche'.! d to board ship within a matte;- of days. The Mien are sailing in Dutch mercha : men and are scheduled for occupation dut\ in lava. Suma tra and .d her islands of the Neth erlands Indies where, currently, bitter tedding is in progress be tween British and native forces. To Presen! Operetta At December Meeting Of Jacksonville PTA ^ An operetta in keeping with the Christmas season will ho presented at the December meeting of the Jackso: \ ille Parent-Teacher asso ciation on December 20. it was an nouneed at the November session last Thursday. The operetta wil be under the direction of Mrs. W. R. T.ingle and will include students from the ele mentary school, \ccording to pre sent plans, it will be staged at an evening meeting of the association, to begin next lime at 7:30 o'clock. Improvements of the Hrst aid and teachers ''ccms were announc ed by Mis Conrad Stowe. first-aid chairman. Curtains have been in stalled. and two additional cols have i'een secured by Mrs. L. R. Turner. Mrs. J: s. Childress ha> donated a si.:gie bed for the :'irst aid r.'om soon to be opened at the high school building. Ii is reoorU fi also that approx imately (iOO students are being fed daily at the lunchroom, and that the needs of it : r • meat. Mi - Lois Piercy's 11th grade room won the attendance prize. Children of the eighth grade refer - of Mrs. M.ibel Kennedy and Miss Mattie Ipock presented the program, one o the features of vvhic'i was a Thanksgiving playet. INFERS Tilllil) WKEK 'Washington. <'/P> The Labor Managfinc it Confert nee entered it., third week sti'l facuig what one business delegate called "trulv" monumontal disagreements but reportedly ready to accept volun tary arbitration as one remedy for industrial strike. News and Views Editorial Draws Chamber Reply 0Thc Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce yesterday replied 1o an editorial appearing in Friday's edition of the News and Views which was critical :if -Jacksonville's participation in I he ■ ecent 170th anniversary of the U. S. Marine Corps. Accompanied a copy of a con gratulatory- telegram sent from Jacksonville to Ma.j. . Gen. John Marston. the statement in the 'orm of a lette- to the News and Views editor follows: "We read with no little concern, your editorial of November l(ith. in which you belabor the business men of Jacksonville to "stay awake at the switch", and they, of course, are the Chamber of Commerce. "Perhaps Jacksonville's obser vation of the Marine Corps' birth day was not as you would have had it—and actually it was not what other Jacksonville business men would have planned, if they had not been, on Saturday, so busy serving the Marines who make their homes here with us. "We felt no more, nor no less, welcome at Camp Lejeune on that day than anyone else to whom the cordial general invitation was is sued to the "open house" there, but we did not feel justified in trying to arrange for special con sideration there on that busy day. The Chamber of Commerce sent a warm congratulatory message to the Commanding General, and re ceived a kindly reply. We do not have a record of the Jacksonville people who called out at Camp that day, but in the writer's own party were: "Mr. P. V. Capps, president, P. V. t'apps and Sons; "Mr. Sam I.eder, manager, Leder Bros. Dept Store: "Mr. Dean Sullivan, owner. Dean Sullivan Tire Co. "Mr. Z. E. Murrell. owner. Coastal Motor company. "We made a comple.e tour of the Camp and enjoyed it immen sely. but the men with me worked at iheir respective business houses, serving Iheir Marine customers right up to the time of departure, and when they returned to town, they rolled up their sleeves and got back 1<> work doing the same. Jacksonville's service to the Ma rine Corps is not just an annual special event. "You must consider, though, that Wilmington has had a Chamber of Commerce—according to an old copy of a Wilmington paper, kept in the Jacksonville Record's files for well over a hundred years. They have had a full time, well paid secretary, whose job it has been to keep up with all dates and functions that concern the Cham ber as the coordinator of a com munities' speech and actions. The Jacksonville Chamber of Com merce will be only two years old the first of the year, and during that time it has been served, but well, by volunteers, except for the part time services of our present secretary since July. "Beginning December 1st. the Chamber will employ its secretary full time, and if motorcades and fanfare are what our citizens want, they can count on getting it. We might even go down and bring Fort: Fisher up here—if you really want it, Billy!" Eastern Newspapermen To Meet Here In Spring Thanksgiving Observance Here Will Be Complete # The observance of Thanksgiving Day here Thursday will be com plclc with almost everything cx :•('!>I service and entertaining estab lishments taking a holiday. AM stores and public offices will 00 closed the entire day. but will remain open Wednesday afternoon instead of taking the usual hall' holiday. There vvili be no mail service that day. The Methodic. Baptist and Presbyterian churches will hold a union service at First Baptist luirch at 10 a.m.. when Rev. Carl 15. Craig. Presljv*terian minister, will speak. St. Anne's Episcopal church service for celebration of Holy Communion will begin at 10 a.m. Schools will observe both Thursday and Friday as holidays. Motion picture theatres and restaurants will be open as usual. New APO Regulations Give Added Weight, Length To Packages F.fToctive immediately post offices will accept for overseas shipment through Army Post Offices larger parcels than heretofore. Acting Postmaster Frank Smith announced yester day. T'ruler the latest postal reg ulations. parcels not exceeding 11 pounds, not more than 42 inches long, or not more than 71 inches in length and girth combined, and containing ar ticles requested by the service men overseas can now be ac cepted for mailing. Make This A Real Thanksgiving-Buy More Bonds In Victory Loan Drive ©Onslow County's purchases in I he Victory Loan drive so far have amounted tn $85,818.75. it was an nounced yesterday by Chairman J. C. Thompson. Of that amount. >22.818.7f> were in Series K bonds. Although the figure is rising slowly, il is still a long way from I he $377,000 goal, but Thompson was confident that Onslovvans were so thankful that the war is over- and peace restored that they would eventually close the gap be tween the present figure and the goal. "We have true Thanksgiving this year." he said yesterday '"Last yea r we observed Thanksgiving Day. 11 was an observance, not a celebration. Our armies were mov ing slowly through the German :.'oid winter toward Berlin In the Pacific we were massing for what was later to bo the bloody Iwo lima and Okinawa campaigns. Ac tually wo didn't have much to celebrate. There was always that irospect of tragedy. "It's much different this year, file war's over. Many of our boys rave been spared. Some are al •eady home, others are on the ,vay. This is the first Thanksgiving n year-- we can truly • olobratc. Frankly. I know of no better way )f showing sincere appreciation Or them, or paying tribute, than ,o respond to our nation's call. This time, the call is to:' bond our chases to bring home the bows, .o complete the wa.--financing. It's i .different call than that which our aoys answered. Bui it's a genuine Dne—and one that must be met. Let us here not shirk our duty." Education Exhibits At Schools Drawing Favorable Comment 0 Exhibits in conjunction with Na tional Education Week are still on display in local schools, and the pubic was issued an invitation yes terday to view them. Already they have drawn con siderable favorable comment from visitors. At the elementary school of the 17 classrooms furnished a hall exhibit, and at the high school there are room displays. The ex hibitions include childrens books from the libraries, shell collections from Hurst beach, modes, art and clay work and posters. They are being left up so that Miss Julia Wetherington. stale el ementary school supervisor who will be here tomorrow, may view fcbem. Enander Thompson, Richlands, Served On Seaplane Tender 0 Enander Thompson, steward, third class. USN, Route 1. Rich lands, N. C.. and other crewmen of the seaplane tender L'SS Hamlin played an important role in the far-reaching. extensive damage dealt Japan by the famed Fleet Air Wing One during the closing 100 days of the Pacific war. Moving into combat waters dur ing the campaign for Okinawa and later in operations around the Japanese homeland, the Hamlin backed up planes of the air wing that sank more than 155.000 tons of enemy shipping, damaged an other 138.000 tons and shot down 40 enemy planes during the 100 day period. At the same time, the Hamlin also was taking part in the fighting as gunners and other crew mem bers went to General Quarters to help repel air attacks as many as 88 times in a single month. Chinese Nationalists Continue Advances Into Manchuria # Cluinsking—(VP- - Chinese Na lionist troop.ss have plunged 12 miles into Manchuria beyond the fallen Communist citadel of Shan nhikwan and have faiined out 30 miles to the west. a communist spoke-man declared. Simultaneous ly. the spokesman asserted that popular" troops were going 10 lake :)\er Manchuria's capital of Chang chun. 440 miles northeast of Shan hiakwan. the minute the Russian occupation forces withdrew Dec. 1. He said that while communist roops had been thrown back at Manchuria's border1, they would