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VOL. XIX . NO. 11
SYLVA, N. C., WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 1944
$1.50 A Year In Jackson And Swain Counties ? 5c Copy
FUNERAL RITES FOR
WILLIAM C. HYATT
HELD THURSDAY
Funeral services for William C.
Hyatt who died of a heart attack at
his home in Haywood County last
Monday afternoon were, held Thurs
day "attemoon at the Iotla Baptist
Church near Franklin, with Rev. W.
Jackson Hunneycutt, Rev. Ellis Ar
rington and Rev. Ed Cochran, of
ficiating.
Mr. Hyatt was a native of Haywood
County, but spent fourteen years as
a resident of Jackson before return
ing to Haywood where he was em
ployed by the Unagusta- Furniture Co.
He was a brother of Rev. John
Hyatt of Whittier and Mrs. L. B.
Cowan of Webster. Besides these
he is survived by#his wife, one daugh
ter, Mrs. Lewis Enloe of Tarpon
Springs, Florida, two granfl children,
two other brothers, Dewey and Rufus
Hyatt of Waynesville and five other
sisters, Mrs. L. Walker of Clyde, Mrs.
George McClure of High Point, Mrs.
James Siver, Charlotte, Mrs. Robert
Rhinehart, Waynesville, and Miss
Alma Hyatt, Waynesville.
PVT. KEEVER WITH
COMBAT ENGINEERS
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Keever
have received a letter from their son
Pvt. Harry J. Keever, stating that he
is now with the combat engineers in
France. Pvt. Keever entered the ser
vice in May 1943 and received his
basic training at Fort George G.
Meade, Md. He was sent overseas in
September of the same year and was
stationed in England up to the time of
the invasion.
Mr. and Mrs. Keever have two oth
e ? sons in the armed forces. Sgt. J.
Jcck Keever who has served in the
army for the past nine years is now
stationed in Northern Ireland. Sgt.
Keever was one of the first boys of
this locality to receive overseas duty.
He was 9ent to Iceland in 1Q42 and
served there until 1943. He was then
sent to the British Isles where he is
serving with an Infantry Unit.
Cpl. W. M. Marshall Keever is now
with the 5t^i Army in Italy. He enter
ed the army in 1941, receiving his
basic training at Fort Bragg, N. C.
and Camp Blanding, Fla. He was sent
overseas in August 1942. Cpl. Keever
participated in the invasion of North
Africa, Sicily and the Italian Cam
paign where he is now serving with a
F. A. Unit.
SOSSAMON TO OPEN
FURNITURE STORE
HERE THIS MONTH
Mr. Leroy Sossamon, owner of
Sossamon Furniture Company, Inc.,
in Statesville, and Swain Furniture
Company in Bryson City, has an
nounced the opening sometime during
August of the Sossamon Furniture
Store in Svlva. The new business will
occupy the building on Main Street
formerly occupied by the Colonial
Mica Corporation. Workmen are en
gaged now in remodeling, painting
end making other arrangements for
the opening which will be announced
, soon.
Mr. Boyd Sossamon, brother of the
owner and formerly with the States
ville store, will be in charge of the
Sylva store.
Sgt. George Enroute
To Home In Cherokee
Sgt.' Sherman George, a Cherokee
Indian, known to his buddies as
"Chief", has arrived in Atlanta after
service on Guadalcanal, New Guinea,
and the invasion of Cape Gloucester,
New Britain. He is on his way to
his home in Cherokee.
He wears the diamond-shaped blue
shoulder patch with the letters
"Gaudalcanal" in white and the fig
ure "8" in red. There are five white
stars of the Southern Cross, under
wM<5h tUe tattles in which he partici
pated were fought. He has been over
seas for more than two years.
Earl Norton Returns
To Station In New York
Earl Norton P. O. 3-c has returned
to his station in New York after
spending a short leave with his par- j
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Norton.
Mr. Norton has recently been pro
moted to his present rating.
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WHERE YANKS MAKE NEW LANDINGS
EXPANDING OUR FOOTHOiO in the Inner defense islands protecting
Japan, American assault troops ? believed to number 45,000 men ? have
seized beachheads on Guam, first American island to fall to the Nip
ponese in the Pacific war* Hundreds of carrier-based planes and huge
battleship guns, coupled with fire from cruisers and destroyers, paved
the way for the invasion with an almost nonstop bombardment that bat*
tered installations on the island for seventeen days. American forces are
reported to be still pouring ashore against "moderate ground opposi
tion" by surviving members of the Jap garrison. ( International )
LT. WILLIAM JACKSON
REPORTED PRISONER .
OF GERMAN ARMY
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jackson of
East La Porte have been notified that
their son, Lt. William Garnett Jack
son who was previously reported
missing is a prisoner of the Germans.
Ho had been wounded sometime prior
to being taken prisoner.
Services At The Sylva
Methodist Church For.
Sunday, August 6
The Rev. L. P. Jackson, of El Paso,
Texas, a student at Duke Divinity
School, will be guest minister at the
11 o'clock hour of worship.
The Rev. C. M. Warren, pastor of
the Sylva Baptist church, will be
?uest minister at the seven o'clock
outdoor sunset service on the Com
munity House lawn. Mr. Herbert Gib
son will be in charge of the service.
The minister, Rev. R. G. Tuttle,
will be guest minister at Grace Meth
odist church, New York City, during
Che month o? August.
SEAMAN FIRST CLASS
Emory Olin Ensley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hayes Ensley, has recently been
visiting relatives and friends in Syl
va.
He entered the service in December
1943 and took his basic training at
Eainbridge, Md. From there he went
to Little Creek, Va., where he has
been assigned to an Amphibious
Training Unit.
He has been promoted to S 1/c
recently. His wife who has been at
Little Creek accompanied him home.
Before going into the service Ensley
was employed ? witn Mead Corpora -
tion.
Churches Having Union
Services At Com. House
The Sylva Methodist Church and
the Presbyterian Church are having
evening services every Sunday even
ing at 11:30 on the lawn of the Sylva
Community House. Everyone is in
vited to join them in worship at this
hour.
Stationed In Oklahoma
Sgt. Lyman H. Jones, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Columbus Jones of Gay,
was* inducted at Fort Jackson, S. C.,
December 1943. He received his basic
training at Camp Shelby, Miss., and
later took Baker's School at Camp
FQrest, Tenn., and received his diplo
ma as first cook. He is now stationed
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Goins Returns To Post
Sgt. James D. Goins has returned
to his post at Pueblo, Colo., after
spending a 17 day furlough with his
wife and daughter Brenda Pearl. Sgt.
Goins has been serving with the army
two years.
SYLVA PASTOR TO
PRFACH IN NFW YOPK
DURING AUGUST
fl. G. Tuttle And Family To
Auay for Month, Visiting
Ministers To Suppiy Here
Rev. R. G. Tuttle and family left
Monday for New York City where ne
will fir the pulpit at Grace Methodist
church during the month of August,
where :ne pastor. Rev. John B. Everts,
is away on his vacation. The Tuttles
svill be in the Averts home and will
v sit them in their Long Island home.
Rev. Tuttle will officiate at a, wed
ding for Dr. Ralph W. Sockman at
Christ church on Park avenue on
August 12.
Pulpit of the local church will be
filled by visiting preachers at both
the morning and evening services
each Sunday. ,
JUDGE ADVOCATE
EXPLAINS LOSS OF
CITIZENSHIP
ATLANTA, Ga., July 25. ? "Does a
soldier lose 'his citizenship if he is dis
missed from the Army by court mar
tial for desertion?" is a question re
peatedly asked by the general public
To clairify the loss of ctiizenship
question, Colonel John J. Jones, Judge
Advocate's office, Headquarters,
Fourth Service Command has issued
the following statement:
"The statute relating to loss of citi
zenship as a- result of conviction by
court martial of desertion in time of
war was amended January 20, 1944,
by Public law 221, 78th Congress. Un
der the present law a person convic
ted by court-martial of desertion in
time of war does not lose his citizen
ship rights unless he is actually dis
missed or dishonorably discharged
from the service as a result of such
conviction.
"The amendment further provides
tha? citizenship lost present,
act or previous acts by reason of de
sertion in time of war is immediately
restored if the deserter is restored to
active duty in time of war or if he re
inlists or is reinducted in time of war
with permission of competent milita
ry or naval authority."
Col. Jones continued that the only
ether offense penalized by loss of cit- J
izenship is that of treason and rarely
has that taken place in the United j
States.
Sgt. Bishop Is Spending
Week With Wife And Baby
Sgt. Thomas E. Bishop of Kirkland
Field, Albuquerque, N. M., *is spend
ing a week with his wife, the former
Miss Kate M. Ammons, and baby at
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Ammons, at Cullowhee.
Sgt. Bishop has served with the
/\rmy Air Corps for three years and
has spent two and one-half years of
this time at Kirkland Field.
Trains Begin Run
ning Over New Line
Passenger Train No. 18 Made
First Run Sunday Morning;
Freights Ran for Week Before
The Southern Railway's passenger
Train -To. 18 from Murphy to Ashe
ville made its maiden run over the
new section of the Murphy branch
between Wesser and Bryson Sunday
morning thus beginning the regular
schedule on the new road bed. Freight
trains had been running over this sec
tion of new road for a week or more.
The nuew line between Bryson and
Wesser was built by the Tennessee
Authority and is to take the place of
the old line which will be flooded
when Fontana Dam is completed.
This shortens the distance from -Bryr
son to Wesser about eight and a half
miles. The old road to Wesser is 24
miles and the new is only 15.5 miles.
The JChttriuln for Train Nrw 43 going
East will be stepped up half an hour
from Wesser to Asheville, as this is
the time saved over the new run.
Train 17 going west will get to Bry
son at the same time but arrive at
Murphy hall hour earlier.
TVA began work on this section
of road November, 1942, and trains
started operating July 30. The ap
proximate cost was $5,000,000.
Cpl. Abe H. Brooks Has
Landed In England
Word has been received from Cpl.
Abe H. Brooks that he has landed
somewhere in England.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dil
lard Brooks of Whittier. He entered
the service in May, 1943, took his
basic training at Fort George G.
Meade, Maryland, then was sent
to Tennessee, from there to Camp
Rucker, Ala., back to Tennessee, then
Camp Rucker again. Then was sent
overseas.
He has three other brothers in the
service of their country. Sgt. Carl
Brooks in England and Lon H. Brooks
^2-c in Florida and Pvt. Walter Brooks
Alabama.
PeartHarbdr Survivor .
Now In Philadelphia
Chief Machinist Mate William
Hoyle, son of G. W. Hoyle.of Balsam
is now stationed in Philacrelphia, Pa.
He entered service sixteen years
ago and wag^one of the survivors of
the Pafiay. He was stationed in Pearl
Harbor when the Japs attacked that
base.
Funeral Rites For Drown
ed Victim Held Wed.
Sgt Bill P. Elders
Reported Missing In
: - ,T\. r'
i Vt ?i ~ :> ^ wti'^ t
; ?. ; \ (/. .*.?> r Elders re-'
? *?.'' a message July JJnd, dialing
fiat their jfon, Sgt. Bill P. Elders has
been reported mi>.-ing since June
l^th. He was stationed in India as
a member of the 490 ti 1 Bumb Squad
ion and served as 3rd gunner on a
bomber.
Mr. and Mrs. Elders have another
son in service, Cpl. Dallas H. Elders,
stationed at Camp Carson, Col., with
ar engineer battalion.
Hitler Plotter
BEKIIN RADIO has announced that
Col. Geo. Ludwig Beck, named as
one of the conspirators linked with
the plot to kill Hitler, is "no long
er among living persons." Beck
was chief of the German general
staff until 1938, when he retired at
his own request. ( International )
FUNERAL RITES HELD
FOR JESS FISHER '
Jess Fisher, age 64, died at his home"
in Willets Monday evening at 7:00
o'clock following a brief illness. He
is survived by his wife, two sons, Is
aac of the Army Air Corps some
where in England, and Bill of Willets.
five daughters, Mrs. John Parris and
Mrs. David Parris of Addie, Mrs. M.
C. Patterson of Waynesville, Mrs. De
les Cogdill of Nantahala, and Miss
Ann Fisher of Willets, and five grand
children.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at the Mount
Pleasant Baptist Church, Willets, of
which he was a lifetime member.
Pvt. James P. Revis Visits
Parents At Whittier
Pvt. James P. Revis left Saturday
to return to Fort Custer, Mich., after
spending a week with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Revis of Whittier.
After serving one year in the army,
Pvt. Revis was released to do essen
tial work, but was recalled last June
and i? now serving with a M P. unit
at Fort Custer.
SERVING OVERSEAS
FVL_ Lester_L^_Woodard^^V of- the
TTTS7 Army Ordnance Co. L M, en
tered the service in September 1943. '
He was inducted at Camp Croft, S. C.
where he stayed for about a month
before being sent to Aberdeen, Md.,
where he took training for about five
months, then sent to California and
then overseas.
His wife,, the former Miss Villa
Ridley of Gay, N. C., resides with her
mother. _ _
Funeral rites for ' Walter
v lenient, 17, who was drowned in
the Ocona Luity river Sunday July
23rd was held at the Shoal CiWfc
Uaptist cfi u reft Wednesday July
26th.
At tiie time he met his dr. uh
v. as with his sister. Hazel Clement
two friends, Oleta Howell and Letter
Owen of the Qualla Community^
swimming in Oeona Lufty river
above Cherokee.
At the time of his death he was em
ployed by Slayden Fakes Co., Brv^on
City, N. C.
Officiating were the Rev. John Hy
att, pastoi of the Shoal Creek church
where young Clement attended Sun
day School and church regularly, the
Rev. W. A. Andrews of the Stxval
Creek Methodist church and Rev. J,
J. Johnson of the Cherokee Mission
Hi ptist Church.
Young Clement is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Flora Clement, one sis
ter, Hazel Clement, five brothers, ot
whom three are serving in the U. Ss
Army. Fred, who is overseas, Robert
of Fort Benning, Ga., Clarence of Ab
erdeen, Md., Carl and Bruce of Whit
tier, N. C., and his grandparents, Mr,
and Mrs. J. M. Parker.
Active pallbearers were: Lester
Owen, Gene Gibson, Kellie Cooper?
Jimmie Clement, Claude Parker and
Habert Bumgarner.
Honorary pallbearers were: Dr. C,
J. Candler, Howard Crawford,. John
Corbin, Crawford Shelton, Frank
Ki ll, Janie Reagon Jiles, Ruth Brad
Icy, Jimmie Cooper, Mary Bob Clem
ent, Dorothy Clement, Alice Lambert,
Nellie Sue Hipps, Pauline Cooper, and
Nora Maggie Worley.
SERVICE MEN TO GET
GALLON OF GAS PER DAY
ATLANTA, GA. July 31. ? N-o
longer will the serviceman on leav*
or iurlo^h b^ allotted a $*t five 4*1
lorrfe of g&soline. He attoWed
more ? or less ? according to the
length of time he is on leave, anhoun^"
ccd Lt. Col. Ralph A. Gould, ration
officer of the Fourth Service Com
mand.
Col. Gould said, "A member of the
armed forces can get a gallon of gas
oline for each day of his furlough or
leave up to a maximum of 30 gallons
for 30 days, according to a new policy
ruling of the Office of Price Admin
istration, which became effective July
25.
"It should be clearly undersUxjd
that this gasoline is available only to
those men on leave or furlough and
will not be granted to soldiers on one,
two, or three-day passes.
"We feel that thi$ |s a good move
and fairer than the previous ruling,
since it entitles men who are home
from overseas for the first time to
their pro-rata share of gasoline, while
under the old regulation many of the
men who have remained in the United
States have been able to have ad
vantage on the overseas soldiers.
VESUVIUS ASHES
SENT TO MUSEUM
Raleigh, July 31. ? Two' vials con
taining varicolored ashes from tho
recent eruption of Mt. Vesuvius will
next week be placed on display in
the State Museum, Harry Davis, di
rector, announced.
Davis said the ashes were sent to
the Museum by Lt. Madison M. Riley,
of Raleigh, who is now with the Mili
tary Engineers. In Civilian lifp, Lt.
R'ley was a forester.
Denver T. Bryson Is Reported
Recovering From Wounds
Sustained In Combat in Italy
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bryson re
ceived word last Friday that their
son, Denver T. Bryson, had been
seriously wounded in Italy. His
wife, the former Miss Pauline Press
ley of Speedwell, but now of Dur*
hany received a letter fmmr
ten by a Red? Cross worker saying
he had been wounded . . . pieces of
shrapnel were imbedded in his ami
and leg. He added a cheerful note
that the injuries were not too bid ?
and that he was receiving the best Of
care.
Mr. Bryson was a graduate of
Western Carolina Teacher's College
and was employed by the Mftd#
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