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V . I i . ; R Y C'xr Vol. 11 Negro Woman Cremated Home Burns In Warsaw Head, Arms Legs, Burned Off Delia Durant, As Burning Home Falls In. Delia Durant 58 year old Ne- - gro woman of Warsaw was burned beyond 'recognition Monday after noon when her house burned down . Coroner Ralph Jones said that when the body was found both arms, both feet and legs and her head were burned off Nothing left but the torso. It was learned from neighbors that Delia was treating her beds for bed bugs.. She had prepared a mixture of sulphur and kerosene, set fire to it and placed it un der the bed in an-effort to smot- : her the bugs with the fumes. It was first thought that possibly she was overcome - by the fumes and was unconscious when the house " caught. A later reort, however, .. stated that she was at her uncle's house a short distance away and when she saw her house on five she ran inside just as it fell in. Two nearby houses caught but quick work on the part of the War saw volunteer fire deartment saved them. Home Folks Writing Guide For Soldiers 'The Office of War information offers these pointers for home folks writing to soldiers, sailors and-marines based on sugges ' Hons gathered in a survey among .. . . servicemen at home and overseas. ' --w: -TJSJJbi Hltl:--- '''-- -. 1. How the family is doing ev- 0rything possible to help win the ar. 2. How anxious the -family is lor tne dojts return " . " 3. How well and busy the fam ily is. Give details. -. , 4. How the family is getting a long financially. . 5. What's doing in the commun ity: news about girls he knows, doings of friends, who's marrying whom, exploits of the home team and other sports events, social do ings, effects of the war on the 'I. -home town. Reminisce a little a bout past events and places the . , boy used to visit. Enclose clippings from the home-town paper. DON'T TELL HIM: 1. Your troubles. He has trou- bles of his own. ; 2. Your complaints He can't do anything about them. 3. About things you are depriv ed of. He can't supply them. ' 4. Doleful predictions about the ; 1 future. He's fighting for that fu ture now. i ' ' 5. Unnecessary details about fi- 'nancial troubles. If there are any things he should know about fam- ily finances and he is in a position " f to do something about it tell him but don't string it out. i s Editor Gets A Letter From Duplinite in Africa '-Dear Mr. Grady: ; - I wish to call to your attention . v that I haven't received your paper since the April 16th issue. I am ' very much concerned with the -happenings back home. I noticed ; in your April 16th issue that Dup--,hn got off to a slow start in the second war loan-drive, I am eager to learn the outcome. However, ', ,. il know Duplin has done more , than it was asked to do m the past " ,,and I feel quite sure she did her - r ' part this time, but I would like to see it in print to clear any . doubt ' . v - "The soldiers in North Africa are "burned -up" over the coal strikes'. They often ask if John L- Lewis ' Is an American. They would like , for him to show it "once" if he .is an American. While our boys 1 . ver here are , sweating, bleeding ' )d dying to protect our Jiome ;.iid and to keep for America the 's t ylght to strike, those people back there have the gutt to quit their jobs. Turning their backs on their i own soldiers. I say put them in the army and In the front lines and let them get the smell of hot lead and that will cure them I cannot ' see why they cannot Bettle their i troubles by arbitration. We imjst get the equipment If we are to win this war. For God's lake, America, wake up i C , v ' Sincerely, ' 7" Woodrow Blackburn, Hq. Co., 131st FA Bn. APO 36 (3842) Cfo P.M. j New York, N. Y. -' Warsaw Girl Graduates To YeomarT Stillwater, Okla., June 23 Two North Carolina WAVES recently were graduated with the rating of Yeomen third class from the Na val Training school for yoemen here and have been assigned to duty in the,' office of the Vice Chief of Naval operations Wash ington, D. C to replace a Navy man for service at sea. They are: Rosalie Ferrell, da ughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Ferrell of 318 Seiond Street, Clay ton and Dixie Harriet Wiggs, da aughter of Mir. and Mrs. B. Wiggs of Rt. 1, Warsaw. . Sgt. Carr Newton Gives Good Report On Tar Heels The following letter was re ceived last week from Carr New ton, son of E. C. Newton of Ken ansville. Army Air Base Salina, Kansas June 9, 1943 Duplin Times Kenansville, N. Dear Bob: C. Several times I have written you asking a bill be forwarded me for your (our) paper which I re ceive each week. I have been won dering why ' I never received it and,, not .until I read- SSgt Wood row Blackburn's letter that you published on the front page of the June 4th issue did I realize what you are doing. I must be about the dumbest guy in the Army. I want to thank you from the bot tom of my heart the paper is re ally appreciated and I know that all the boys in Service feel as I do. I look forward to receiving it almost as much as I do a letter from home. I don't think anyone appreciates a paper of any kind as much when they are living among the things uiai are Happening in tneir home. Once they are away from home, it is then that they realize the value of a way to receive all news and gossip from home townsThe Duplin Times does just that We men away from home can and do realize what you are doing and if every person back home made an an effort to boost the morale of men in service as your paper is doing they would have no worry about morale of their sons, hus bands and sweethearts. In regards to morals, I want to say this also, every day I hear men making statements as to their wishes about being stationel in different parts of the United States, some say they would not like to be stationed in certain sec tions of the country because the Civilians were not too friendly to wards them. I have never heard this about North Carolina from any. and hope that I never will. Civilians back home can do a great thing in this respect for after all there are but few families in the United States that are not repre sented in some branch of the Ser vice. They should treat these men as they would like for others to treat their husbands, sweethearts and sons. Opinions are being for med every day by men in service about different parts of the count ry and I truthfully . hope that North Carolina and particularly Duplin County will be on .top of their list as a number one. .. ' In speaking or this I would like to say that I have been very for tunate in my asignments. Every city I have been in the people have been 100 per cent towards the men in uniforms. , 7" I tcuess I have said enough for I this time. In mailing my next is sue of The Duplin Times, please address it to Sgt. E. C. Newton, Jr., 1st Heavy Bombardment P.o- cessing Headquarters, Communi cations Office, Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Salina, Kansas: Sincerely, ..... "Newt" - Sgt. E. C, Newton,Jr. rtkrffff wwaWaef wto . ' War. KTeVf f fwcfttr Y f&ats tktmd. ":.f J e Kenansville, N. C. Flier Writes Father How Plane Came Home on "Wing and a Prayer" (The' following article is from a New York newspaper and writ ten by Lt Henry Allen West, son of Chief Quartermaster and Mrs. Joshua H. West, formerly of Warsaw. M. West is the nephew I of Mesdames J. W. Qulnn and J. J. West.) A Winchester county youth, whose father is attached to the Navy , recruiting bureau South Kensico Ave , was navigator of a Flying Fortress that limpcu ame "on a wing and a prayer" f.oiu mi air raid on Sicily, it was learned recently. Pictures of the riddled bomber were released by the army a few days ago. First Lt. Henry Allen West, son of Chief Quartermaster and Mrs. Joshua H. West, described in a letter to hia father how the crew brought the bomber home with half the tail "and -all JlU.JlristnP ments shot away, and most of Uio controls damaged. " "Only by the grace of God, your prayers and mine, and the exc si lent eunners of my crew, am i able to write you this morning," Lt West wrote. "Yesterday I grew about 10 years older. I wasn't scared at all DUt I SUTS was apprenensive as hell." The objective was Palermo, Si cily. The squadron was greeted with strong anti-aircraft fire and later German planes appeared. "It was wonderful bombing I saw some bombs hit. It must have been a naval gas storage tank, for flames spread over the harbor and smoke came up 15,000 feet. Then the trouble started, Flak burst in our bomb bay which looked like a sieve. It cut our rudder control cable, locking the rudder. We fell out of forma tion. After about 10 seconds that seemed like eternity we regained control, but were all by our lone some and two ships came in at us. One got a B17 on our right, the first loss in our squadron. The pi lot had 29 missions to his credit, and had just come back from a rest cama He caught fire and spun down and collided with an ME-109 at about 15,000 feet and exploded. "The other ME-109 shot up our rudder, put a few bullet holes in the elevators, a cannon "hole in the right wing, another in the No. 3 propeller, and others in the leading edge of the left wing that shot all our instruments away for the No. 1 engine. No 2 engine was out too. "I saw a big flash and thought, There goes Lt. Jordan,' because it looked like lt hit up around him, but actually it came nearer me because I found four holes in the navigation compartment head ing right for me. r : "There were about 20 ME-109s attacking us now, and to top it off the ball turret man yelled, 'I'm out of ammunition.' What a spot I told him to keep turning . his turret as if he stil 1 had bullets. "To make a long story short we got two more ME-109s. When we landed we found the ilak had so riddled the main spar of the-plane that the engineering section .mar velled at it coming back So did we'l v.-v'vt' Ltl' West comes from a fighting family A brother, Pvt. Richard M. West, is at Camp Pickett Va. Both parents were In the first World War. Mrs. West was a yeo manette at the Fleet Supply base Brooklyn, where Chief West first met her. He, served nine monthi oi) a destroyer and the rest of the war in transport service. Chief West enlisted In 1910 and was re tired In 1940, but ' was ' recalled three days' after Pearl Harbor and Is one of the few in his age group still qualified for combat duty, rr s . - Id zn r ft 7 s Wv-. ft)': ' " ' t ' Friday, June 25, 1943 Army Calls For More Women Volunteers The Army and Civil Service Commission have sent out an urg ent call for 120 women between the ages of 21 and 44, inclusive, to receive specialized t aining as WAACS, the WAAC enrollment station Fort Bragg announced this week. These women are vital ly needed by the U. S. Army Sig nal Corps to serve as radio tele phone and radio teletype opera tors and repairmen. Applicants must be high school graduates, meet WAAC require ments, and pass a Qivil Service examination Accepted applicants will be placed in the enlisted re serve' corps of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and will be sent to the Signal Corps radio school at Livingston, Ala. They will take courses in radio operator, radio telephone and repair work. While learning, these tainee? will be paid at the rate of $1020 a year for the first three months and at $1440 per year for the sec ond three months. At the comple tion of their radio training, these women will be sent to WAAC ba sic training centers for a five- weeks period and then be assigned to duty with the Signal Corps as specialists. In addition, these wo men are eligible for officers train ing if they demonstrate leadership ability.' Ap ''cations and additional in form:ilion efjarding these posi itons may be obtained from Lt. Mnry J. Nor I on, WAAC Enroll ment station, Fort Bragg. Weekly War Ration Round-Up BLUE STAMPS (For canned, frozen and certain dehydrated foods) Blue stamps K, L, M, are good until July 7. COFFEE Stamp No. 24 good for one pound of coffee through June. GASOLINE "A" book coupons No. 5 good for three gallons each and must last till July 21 RED STAMPS (For meat products canned fish most edible oils and cheeses). Red stamps J. K. L, M, and N good through June 30. SHOES Stamn No. 18. eood for one pair of shoes, valid through Oc tober 31. SUGAR Stamp No. 13, good for five pounds, is good through August 15. Stamps Nos. 15 and 16 in War Ration Book One now are valid for five pounds of sugar each, for use in home canning. They are good through October 31. To relieve crowded trains and buses, residents of gorth Carolina are asked not to make unneces sary trips. ODT has defined trips by train or bus, for the following purposes as non-essential: 1 To other cities to visit friends; 2, Home for the week-end; 3 Sight seeing; 4 To the theatre, races or other places of amusement; 5 pleasure; 6 Travel merely,for the Any social travel or travel for sake of going somewhere. VICTORY TAX COLLECTIONS The victory tax, which to date has been withdrawn from wages and salaries, above exemptions, at the rate of 5 per cent, will be in cluded in the 20 percent withhold ing plan provided for in the cur rent tax payment act on or after July 1. Total victory tax collec tions as of June 5 were $682,382 - 523 20. -STICKER FOR RATION FREE SHOES . V, North Carolina shoe : dealers must put an official OPA sticker on shoes that are to be sold ration-free because of damage by fire, water steam or other accK dental cause, the OPA has an nounced. The purpose of the stick er is to protect the customer against black markets in shoes. BARBED WIRE AVAILABLE , Approximately 20,000 tons of barbed wire with extra long barbs made for military purposes, will He's expecting a combat assign ment soon. ,;: Chief Quartermaster West is a brother of Mrs. J. W. Qulnn and Mrs. J. J West of Warsaw and was reared here. a 1 i A 3 " CHESTER C DAVIS j , Major responsibility for feeding the nation's armed forces and civi lians and keeping a steady flow of strength-giving food moving to our allies .ests upon the shoulders of War Food Administrator Chester C: Davisj above. Davis came to his war food post on leave from the Federal-' Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and his ag . icultural hack ground includes service as admin istrator of the Agricultural Ad justment administration from De cember, 1933, to June, 1936, and as agriculture's representative on the National Defence Commission in 1940-41. The biggest part of the job, he believes, rests in the hands of farmers themselves In a recent statement Davis declared that "a program of food production and distribution or any other nation al program for that matter , must stand or fall, succeed or fail, according to the way it is understood and the way it is ad ministered right out in the coun try." be used to meet a shortage of barbed wire on fa.ms, according to WPB. The action is part of the Office of Civilian Requirements program to make needed supplies available to farmers. USED CAR OAS RATION j ing a used car may qualify for a gasoline ration to operate it, ev en thouch he is unable fo get a tire inspection record from the,' p evious owner, if he can satisfy the local board that 1. No tire inspection record ever was issued for the vehicle, or 2. The buyer ( ul Ken unable to get the reco ,-d j from the previous owner after a diligent attempt. LUMBER FOR FARMS Five hundred million board feet I of softwood lumber have been I made available for fa.m needs I under certain conditions. Prefer- I ence ratings may be no higher than AA-2. Ratings may not be -ict-itrnnH frvv lumhop trt Via llcnri in const uction or repair of dwellings j or in construction subject to the i provisions of Conservation Order L-41. Farmers apply to the War Production board on form GA-201 lumber dealers on form GA-202. This order Is good through Sep tember 20, 1943. i INCREASE IN FARM ! MACHINERY I A new farm machinery and e- ' quipment o dor (WPB-L-257) sets 1 up quotas based on the actual ' needs of farmers for machinery . and equipment as determined by the War Food Administration. The order, which becomes effec- j tive July 1, pc mits uncompleted j quotas under L-170 to be produced in addition to quotas hereby es tablished WOOD IS CRITICAL Because otherwise there will not be" enough containers" to pack all of next year's fruit, vegetable, egg and poultry production, the state Food Distribution administration is asking all North Carolina re tailers, food processors and house wives to save every wooden box, crate, basket hamper and barrel. The Wood shortage- makes this necessary, FDA says.-Housewives may turn in the containers' to the nearest retalle.v FDA subcommit tees have been set up to conduct educational campaigns throughout the state explaining the necessity of saving and turning in the con tainers. ... .-. ..'-.- ..''' NO MORE ELECTRICAL REFRIGERATORS r. '' ' I The WPB offices in this state say that they have been swamped with requests for purchase orders for mechanical refrigerators. The WPB says, however, - that North Carolinians might, as well relax, because -there are -no mechanical refrigerators available to civilians. 8 Year Old Girl Killed As She Leaps From Truck Announcing Duplin County's Day of Dedication Pursuant to "A Proclamation by the Gove.nor of North Carolina," a dedicatorial meeting is hereby called to meet in the Duplin coun ty court house, on Monday, July 5th at 11.00 a. m., for the purpose of studying conditions and organ izing to take steps to effectually end any idleness or loafing that may exist in the county during the present war emergency. A detailed program of this pa triotic meeting will be published in the two county papers next week. It is very impo.tant that our county, along with the other 99 counties in the state, develop the ways and means for properly util izing the entire available labor supply. All leaders and citizens of the county in the agricultural, official and business lines of service, are urged to attend tu' -neeting and join wholeheartedly in this cam paign for production. C E. Quinn I Chairman on arrangements for meeting. "Peanut" Harrison is Buried in Kinston William Asa Harrison 68 died Monday evening at 9 o'clock at the home of his son William Har rison, Jr , in the Scott's store sec tion, after a brief illness following a stroke of paralysis. Funeral services were conrljctcd nt (ha Tvnrtall-Wood funo al home in Kinston at 4 o'clock Wtdnes - day afternoon. Interment vm i:i Maplewood cemetery in Kinston. The Rev. Clifton Rice, Baptist minister, officiated. Survivine are three sons and five daughters, H. II. Ka rison of f Catonville, Md.; William Harrison : Mount Olive; Robert Harrison, of : C'heshi.v, Cc.vn.; Miss Ma-garet Harrison of Pnllimore, Md.; Mrs Louis Rosedahl. Ridee Park, N. J-: M. Tom Wood, Dover; m s. Jiiilk'ri west, wan-aw, unu mi. Paul Ewlii.cn, of Jacksonville. Al- ' svcril grandchildren -nt-rnndchildrpn survive. and BACK UP YOUR BOY laatast jrwr payroll tavlagt to yawt family Umit Invasion b Costly fighting Tout Bar Qivaa JOOpareentf How v$9ut your bondbajingf hit Your Payrol Savings on a'FansSljr Basis Majw tO per cent JmtaStarUag Point BACK UP YOUR COY, Aktmm ym V it pa)rrMWifS .,. A few thousand were released from the st ' ckpile held for mili tary purpose, but there were two or three applications fo ; every ice box, and su; ;ily has long since disappeared. There are plenty of ice boxes a liable, and no pur chase certif ate is needed for them. ., TOOLS FC '.V FAuMERS Wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers and other me "hanical hand service tools should i a more generally available to Worth Carolina farm ers and home mechanics, as a re sult of an nnendment of Order E-6 by t: o War Production board, whlc'.i Is ' designed to bring about a better distribution of the tools among consumers, sets aside fron2Q to 25 per cent of the reg ular, monthi;' production of speci fied tools for commercial distribu tion. f " m vx- l'l1 li LI No. 25 Louise Baily Dies in Front of Mothers Eyes at Char ity Crossroads Louise Bailey, 8 year old child of Mrs. Betty Bailey of Charity Crossroads, leaped to her death f.om a moving truck as her mo ther and two girl companions lo oked on about dusk last Friday. According .to reports from Cha rity, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Teachey after having ther supper, decided to drive to a neighbor's house for some milk. The Bailey girl and their two young girls were play ing in the yard. As they prepared to leave the three young girls crawled into the rear of the pick up t uck. They made the trip to the neighbor's. As they were returning home, just as the truck passed Louise's home Mr and Mrs. Bailey heard the chlUL en holler but paid no particular attention to them thin king they were playing. As the truck came to a stop just a short distance from the accident they discovered what had happened Mr, Teachey ru"hed to Louise but she was dead w!.en he picked her up. The girls said that as the truck passed her home she saw her mo- -ti.jur startling in the yard and it was presumed she became . afraid and jumed out to go home. When she jumped she landed on her fore head. Funeral services were conduc ted from the home Saturday aft ernoon with burial in Kinston. . ... ' If She is survived by her mother;"" three brothers Johnnie ana Clem 1 Bailey and Woodrow Rouse and ' c:ie sister, Edna Rouse. Magnolia Man Dies After Long Illness W. L. cne&uiuit.bu, son oi Mr c.a i.iis. oiuuri uiusUiuU, uieU at ins Hume in Magnona Monday mo liung loliowmg a lingering illness oi inuny inonuis, ana poor health all his life. On Set. 19th, 1932 he married iVius ivtaiie Cavenaugh wno sur vives him with three small chil dren, lus parents, one broiher.Jack and two sibiers, Mrs Ada C as teen oi Magnolia and Mrs. Mildred Wil son oi Carolina Beach. lie was well known ' around (Magnolia, he and his brother Jack I were in business there several ye i ars. The funeral was conducted at the home at 3:30 Tuesday after noon by Rev, K. D. B own, pas tor of the First Free Will Baptist church and interment was in the family cemetery two miles from Magnolia. Violinist to Give Concert in Warsaw on July Sixth Circle No. 3 of the Woman's Au xiliary of the Warsaw Presbyter ian church will present Miss Mary Graham Herring, Violinist and Miss Marie Chesson, accompanist of Rocky Mount, in a recital - at the Church on Tuesday evening, July 6th, at eight thirty p. m Ad mission will be twenty five cents. Miss He. ring will be- remembe red so pleasantly- for her skillful interpretations of both classical and sacred music in her recital in Wa-saw last summer, which so many enjoyed. This year her pro gram will be made up of classical sacred and patriotic numbers. Honor Son at Father's Day Dinner , , Mr. and Mrs. Chaneey Nether cutt entertained a number of guests at a Father's Day dinner Sunday, June 20 in honor of their son, Pfc. Audrey L Nethercutt, who is home on furlough. He is stationed at Randolph Field Tex as. They had as their guestj at the dinner Mr. and Mrs. Melvln Whaley and children, Mrs. John Butts and children; also Resse Nethercutt and Mrs. Emma Hall of Warsaw; Mrs. J. R Tucker of KenansvllW. who is spending" a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Chaneey Nethercutt They had, In the afternoon, some of their rela tives, Mr.: and .Mrs Jack Lanier and children of Wamw; nnd they all reported a nice tin .a. -.
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