North Carolina Newspapers

V I c T .A O R Y . i ..... . ,- ; . ' . .. V v VOL 12 it The iThe bandaed-Marine on the stretcher at a dressing station on Tarawa prove that ha not only can dish It out but that ho can also take it,ej ha calmly smoke a cigarette at traction Is applied to fractured leg. Note the flat, sandy . fcfirb. that the Marines had to take tint; before they could get at the Jap defenders. Every Wax Bond you buy backs Bp these fighting xneo, . . . .. front V. usawry uth Celebrated Birthday Of tlcbsrt E. Lee This Week Aral r BY REV. C. T. THRIFT " Once more It la time to cele brate the birthday of the Immor tal Lee. v..,...-i...-...iv..:.-.J General Robert" Lee Was bom In Westmoreland County, Va. January 19. J805.-The youthf iday ought to know the life 01 he great chieftain that ttiey may i,K.Mt unth his noble spirit. ' He is the pride of Westmoreland, the idol of Virginia, the peerless hero of the South, the growing . ideal of America, the flower of the Anglo-Saxon race, and the glory of the whole world. ? , Outside of Jesus Christ there is no character In all the tides of time that can compare with him. Robert K- Lee was a born sol dier. He was the fourth son of Light Horse Harry Lee. who won the sobriquet by - which he -is known to the world because of his rapid and daring movements to scouting and foraging for Wash ington's army during Jhe American Revolution. He was descended from Richard Lee, the emigrant, scion of an old English- family ancient enough to have followed Richard the Lionhearted to the Holy Land. Robert E. Lee was born with the military passion of many generations beating In his blood and the heroic traditions of . military ancestors on horseback and afoot blowing their bugles in his soul. He was educated at West Point where he graduated second In his class and without a single demerit against him. He lived ' and died without a blur on his name or a stain on his shield. ' Eloquent Tribute ' Here is an eloquent tribute paid General Lee by Senator Ben H. Hill of Georgia: "When the future historian comes to survey the character of Lee, he will find it rising like a huge mountain above the undulating plain of hu manity, and he will have to lift his eyes toward heaven to catch Its summit He possessed evry vir tue of the great commanders with out their vices. He was a ioe wiui out hate; a friend without trea chery; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without' re proach, a christian without hy pocrisy; and a man without guile. He was a Caesar without his am bition; a Frederick without his tyranny; a Napoleon without his - selfishness; and a Washington without his reward. He was ob edient to authority as a servant, and royal in authority as a true king. He was gentle as a woman in life; modest and pure as a vir gin in thought; watchful as a Ro man vestal in duty; submissive to law as Socrates; and as grand in battle as Achilles." v t Another Tribute.' Here Is another beautiful trl- hute to the peerless Lee, this time eneral Ri E. Lee, the most stain- s of ' living commanders, and, t in fortune, the greatest s volume is presented with the 'r's sympathy, and respectful ration: e crand old bard that never dies, - v Receive him In our English torie; ' J thee, but with weeping eyes, i ( story that he sung. y h f ! 1 thy dear land '1 t'- f "r's Marines Can Take "f -"'J .' ' -Wi.'....., .. ..J...... , v. ' - . ' ' i : . J V a Ah, realm of tombs! but let her , near , ; TKia Mnmn to the last of time No nation rose so white and fair, Gr fell so pure or crime. The widow's moan, the orphan's Committee of the Pulpwood Con yj)tn ,. m - jsuming Industrie (nwounced.. this Come round thee, yet In truth ho afrnno! Eternal right, though all else fail, Can never be made wrong. An angel's heart, an angel's ' . mouth,-' ... - Not Homer's, could alone for me Hymn well the great Confederate South,. !" " " '. .Virginia first and Lee. P.S.W. The above inscription and poem accompanied the presentation of a perfect copy of the "Translation of the Lliad tf Homer into Spen serian Stanza," by Phillip Stan hope Warsley, Fellow of Corpus Christ! College, Oxford a scholar and poet whose untimely death, noticed with deepest regret thro ughout the literary world of En gland, cut short a career of the brightest promise. . Robert E. Lee and George Washington were born in the same county m Virginia. Here is what the Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, emi nent Presbyterian preacher of New Orleans, said about them: "The influence of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, as the repre sentatives of the highest traditions of the South,, is like, the radiance of those binary stars which open their glory and shed their splen dor on the darkness of the world. John Temple Graves Joins also in the praise of Lee: ; . For if in majd? or in. minor key I could to the end of ages reach, I'd whisper the name of Lee. , Never'Xlave Up Sword, Grant never returned Lee s sword because Lee never tendered it to him. Many Northern people err at this point and not a iew Southerners -also. Historians re fer to it as a "myth." Even Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt made uus erroneous statement a few days ago in her daily column, "My Day." General Grant's . Memoirs ex plode this myth,- as does General Marshall, General Horace Porter, and a host of others. . , . . , John Randolph Tucker quotes Lee as saying; "No, sir, he had no opportunity of doing so. By the terms of the. surrender the side arms of officers were exempt from surrender, and I did nbt violate those terms4 by tendering my sword. All that -was said "about swords was that, General Grant apologized for not wearing his sword,, saying it had gone off in his baggage, and he had not been able to get it In time." Ar;?,'oufJCE d::ith .Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brown Kenansville announce the birth of a 10 1-2 rxmnd bov Thursday night ' Mother and baby doing fine-and Ralph too. ; ELECTMcrnr The evi rnf e farm consumption f f ..,.):.:, ,i,y Ym incwnTfl ly 11 KENANSVILLE, It .' Marine Corp Photo Appalachian Pulpwood Receipts Reflect Fall Rise AnDBlnehinn DulDWOOd DrodUC- tion, as represented by mill rece ipts, showed some Improvement during the fall months of Oct. and Nov., when tne 1543 Newspaper Victory Pulpwood Campaign was at Its Deak. the War Activities week. At the same time, the Commit tee stated that military and clvi lian requirements for pulpwood products in 1944 will necessitate an even greater effort by farmers, pulpwood cutters, and part-time workers than in 1943, op account of the tightening manpower and transportation shortages. - Mill receipts of domestic pulp wood throughout the nation tot aled 11,911,000 cords during 11 months of 1943. This Is only 1,098,000 cords under the I3,uuu 000 goal set for th year by the W P B, with December figures as yet unreported. Total mill re ceipts In October were 1,228,000 cords and In November, 1,115,000 cords. . . The Appalachian region's up swing in pulpwood production dur ing the fall months contributed materially to the national rise, the Committee said, although mill receipts do not reflect accurately current production because of the time lag between the cutting of pulpwood and its delivery to the mills. ' -M-M: Mill (receipts, In cords, for the Appalachian region, comprising southeastern Pennsylvania, Vir ginia, West Virginia, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and Mairyland, follow: October 113,000; November, 114,000; 11 months, 1.136,000. ; , "It is, of course, impossible to say how much of this increased pulpwood production is due to the Newspaper Victory Pulpwood Campaign, but I am confident that these hundreds, of local news paper drives have; been lalrgely mnnBthlA for the improvement, Frank Block, director of the War Activities committee, saia. Letters from mills and news nonapi Biihatnntlate these stastis tical reports. Farmers, already homi nut tn meet Wartime food re. quirements, are cutting pulpwood betwen harvesting and planting and thus are doing a double Job for their country. Hundreds of business and professional men, many of whom have never before engaged in wooas warn, are lad ing time out to cut a cord or more of pulpwood for the boys in uni form." -, . v. f: , 1 "The Victory Pulpwood Cam paign, however, Is by no means over; the continuing expansion of our Army and Navy, the draft and war industries have taken many men from woods work. All this calls for maximum produc tion from those that are left pn the home front" Mr. Block said. c::le study course ; in warsaw; JAN. 31 to.T3. 4 Miss Mary Herring, returned Baptist missionary from China, will teach the Book Epheslans at the Warsaw Baptist Church, the week of January 31st., through February 4. The time of day will be set later. IV.3 IIcrriri'T will be remember ed p 1 e n".!ir of the late Mr. P. 1 t-., i . , ... ,V'i I rr'r"T, Of N0.7TH CAROUK FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1944. " . , ' If. x - . . 4 HEADS Industrial Department of Sea board Railway - D. T. Daily (abeve) haa been appointed General Industrial Afent at the road's Norfolk, Vat, headquarters. Ha baa been instrumental in industrial development of the South for the pert . . ..... . 15 wan. . Writes From Overseas '. : ' ; Jan. 2, 1944 Hello Mom, .V ' woii T will trv aealn and see if I can write a few letters. I lust trot back from a raid on the Jnna nnd eot all your letters you have written since Nov. 1, of last year and will try to answer all of thpm with this letter. I know you were worried about not getting any letters from me, but I could not write for a long time and when I did get to, I could write but 3 a week. I tried to get one to every body while I was down there but one of them allways ended up with your address -pn it., --.I hope you have got, them, by now, and know why I did. not write before , i . i I am Still alright-and. none the worse for what 1 saw -.and went through. I don't know If they will cut it out or not but I am going .A tlu nom. nf tha lolonH I was on, it was 'Makin', I guess . 1. i t. l . t. 1 . L. n you nave reau eui ouuui ii in urc.ucra . , v i 1 t ntoiio 1 Annntntments will be made in 1W1JC1B BU A null I ft" MIW WIHU 1 tmi n wf.N i thoi.' ktwn-fr tt tefa-ltl it was a utue late wnen i got mem. I got the. Cigarettes and Book that Mattie sent me and like them fine, but I like the lette.s best of all. I got 18 from you and 13 oth ers from my friends, and I mean I did enjoy them, now I have a job answering them. I don't know when I will get around to answer all of them and I reckon before I do, I will get a lot more to go with them, but that is the biggest thing I am going to do now for a while. : I wish I could have been there to eat Thanksgiving and Xmas dinner with you all for I did not get any of the big dinner they told you ' about on the Radio, Where I was, they Just couldn't get anything like that to us. I was! Just as glad to get what I did get; - - - .. - I as if had been one or the best dinners there is and I don't think I will ever forget them, as long as I live, not that they were not good, but because of the things that took place where we were. I think I had the least to seem to be thankful for, but the most to be thankful for that I have ever had and I sure hope that the war will soon be over before next year this time and we can stop worrying and go back home to the life we all like and love, what there is left of us to go back. ' We are bound to lose some men In battle and I can get it as good as any of the rest, but don't wor ry about me, just as long as you don't get a letter fvom Washing ton saying I am dead or missing in action, you can rest assured I am alive and kicking somewhere if I can't write. .Well. I started to put this in two envelopes but decided to send It all in one if it would go and when I told the boys what I was doing they wanted to know if I was writing on the Installment plan. ' ' " Well, it looks" like you have been getting along pretty good with things at home and I hope Larry stays in class- 2c and can and will stay home and help - out with the work. . ' I would sure like to go back home, and see you all for a while and see what the old place looks like for it seems like I have been gone 11 years instead of 11 months How is my calf, or has she grown to he a cow? I still think of every thing as it was when I left Well,.! have just about written all I 'can think of and will stop and write again soon, but don't ever look for another tetter, this loner. Well, so long, your loving son, ' Pvt. Hinson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F, Hinson of Beula- ville. TO THE TIMES ; ., , ..... Jan. ,19, 1944 Dear Sir: " " - . I'm so proud" to be receiving the Duplin Time? each. week. It seems Rood to be getting the news from Expect Army In County SAYS 20 INCREASE IN TOBACCO ALLOTMEHTS BE ALLOWED INDIVIDUAL FARMERS IN 1944 Rocky Mount H. A. Easley, S resident of the Eastern Caro na Warehousemen's Association, stated that he had been advised by tha AAA office in Raleigh that the 1944 tobacco allotments for the individual farms In five South ern States will be an increase of 20 percent of the permitted ollot ment of 1943 for each individual farm. Easley was notified by H. A. Patton, executive assistant of AAA in Raleigh. The States to be affected and, North and' South Carolina,- Vlr ginia, Geoigia and Florida, Eas ley said. The action has been taken on the part of the Government in an Exam' Announced For Manpower Utilization Consultant. The Director "of the Fourth U. S Civil Service Region announ ced an open competitive examin ation for the position of Man power Utilization Consultant in Region IV of the War Manpower Commission. The salary is S5228 per year including overtime. - Information and 4 application non rw- apcured from the CoArotnrv '. Board of U. S. Civil Service - Examiners,' Warsaw, N. r . . AnnHotinn will be accepted by the Regional Director Fourth tf - r nvil Service Region, Niss r.iilllnT Wlnstnn-alem d. D. V. until the needs of the service have KnAM maf 'fl- ... 1T. accordance with War Manpower OMniwssJon iPos v,- ment Stabilization Plans. TO THE TIMES C. B. I. Jan. 10 - 1944. Mr. Bob Grady, Kenansville. N. C. Will write a few lines to let you know that I'm getting your paper O K, and I can not say how plea, sed I am to get it I got two cop ies yesterday and one today. It takes them a long time to get here, but I'm sure glad to get them. ... . " . . have been In India since last July. Like it fine. Did not have much of a Xmas for I was In the 1 11.1 1IT.. Ma fAH St TV. hoBTiital Was operated on for ap. pendictis, but I'm well now and back to my Job. It's somewhat cold here now and I'm glad to see it I run into cary Hawes tne otner day, he is the only boy from home I've met since I've Deen in inaia. I sure was glad to see him. He has been here far two years. . We have lots of good shows and dances. I have had lots of fun since I've been here but sure will be glad when the day come that we can all go back to the good old U. S. A, I hear from mother and daddy two and three times a week. It and to carry ent that pledge -sure makes a fellow feel good to that no Infantile paralysis patient get mall from home. When I first ! shall go without hospital and med- arrived here, I letters. Sure had had over sixty a time reading all of them, We have some good doctors and nurses here and they do the "best for the boys that are sick. They send quite a few back to the states Well there isn't much I can write about to guess I will have close for this time. Hope I keep on getting your paper. . ' ' . Hoping you the best of luck throughout the new year, I am, sincerely yours, ; , Pvt. Preston Bosuc. Have You Bought , 1944 State Tag? Regulations require that the new plates be placed on all motor vehicles by Feb. 1, and the btate Highway Patrol is prepared to be gin enforcement of the law on that day. Regulations also require that the new plate -r only one Is being issued this year - be at tached to the rear or each vehic le and that old plates be removed. The Patrol plans to stop all ve hicles not complying with these retaliations. Commissioner of Motor Vehic les T. Boddie Ward yesterday urged all motorists to buy the new plates at once. Ward said that there Is no re a son for further delay in buying the plates, since this time there has been a 60-day period (from Dec. 1 to Jan. 31) instead of the inunl 30-dny re.lol In wt'-h to Maneuvers To S'ar J In The Near Fufeo effort to supply more tobacco. Easley stated that an Increase in production of tobacco is as Impor tant now as the cutting of weed production was several years ago. He added that this action was taken In view of the increas ing demand for tobacco products in the last two years. Easley also reminded farmers that the change in uovernmem nolicv was made In an effort to demana. tie siaiea urn -".- , . sumption of cigarettes by the ar- It was Ported out ttat tead med forces had Increased notably owners ting nuever rights maluficturr.' .ik. were; now Sted below the normal level, - . nrAtkA - TtnW ' Polio Drive Gets Underway; Duplin's Goal Is $474,00 Crannied In the iradertroek of Guadalcanal, badly wouraea American soldier lay unconscious. The Jans hTrfThlm for ded. Tteoughout that tor Aurt , day, the tide of battle W wpd back and1 forth across a bitterly contested strip of Jungle, When Marine Don C. Hornbocit 01 rm- tlac, Michigan, regauea asness, It was nignc ana n seven miles Inside the enemy Hues. Almost too weak to move, Horn- beck realised that he must ret back to his own lines before J-j Vfht. Biowiy, pauniuuy, i ernment hours ana neecuess -himself together and started . penditure of vital tires and gaso crawling throat the rank under, fo ne said." : r . . growth. He paused now and then The Army representative said, to rest, and listened to the nryrUd -wnen we signed up nuumerer sounds that filled the thick, tMpte, rights In the Carolina xnanuever night. Ac the familiar voice) 'area, over 70jpeseiit ot the Jand- of the jungle, Hornbeck listened owners signed these cards snq for tha alien sound of Japanese i soldiers. Then he resumed his la bored crawling. . - Somewhere near the American lines, a busy Jap sniper betrayed his own location, Hornbeck, sorely wounded though he was, wormed bis way up to that sniper aaa 1 killed him. Then he crawled on. Back In the American lines, me story of Don Horn beck's sevea mile crawl to safety amazed bis buddies. But fortttade and courage were not strangers to Don. In 1988 he was stricken with infantile par alysis and tha doctors gave him little chance to live. Hornbeck fought It out with the Crtppler, and in that grim struggle gained the physical and mental courage that were later to spell the dif ference between life and death on Guadalcanal. .... Here on the homefront, the fight against Infantile paralysis con tinues. We are all In this fight, to gether. The health et the nation rtTS Lo and It la the task of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis to assist the public la meeting that responsibility. It Is only through the dimes and dollars con tributed each year br the Ameri- can public to the fund appeal and "March of Dimes" that the Nat- .tonal Foundation Is able to pledge ksal care because of lack of money, Last year Duplin raised $278 and this year the goal Is S474 O0 Paul F. Beknond Df Wallace, chair man of the drive, asks that each worker who took part last year, to aid again this year. The drive continues through Jan. 10, the President's birthday. . "Time, tht subtle thief of youth' Milum le Dutch purchase lenq Is land from Indians, lfctt. - It-First Isqtslaluie of Ne braska Territory meet. 1855. 17 Tlssu taken from heart ot chick sou olive aner 30 years tn far, 1942. 'i'"y,pj-yrs. RoofeTell are King Edward by wtreleea telegraph. 1901 f i,yi U It-First legislature In Ak' j '-j bama Territory k 4 1818. rVtts coast J ; r at t, ..J, K fc, 1 ik tlo. 3. Wants Ri'shtt Froisi ; Farmers, Jan. 1 5, '44 To July 1 1947 Major Foster W. Jfells, presi dent. Fourth Service Command Rents and Claims Board at Ft. Jackson, S. C has suinounced that the Army Is desirous of acquiring maneuver rights on approximately 1,500,000 acres of land, locate to nine North Carolina counties. They are, New Hanover, Brun swick, Bladen, Pender, Onslow Duplin, anrrci , July 1. i947, ar. thai 111 IV 1 a I Sirs' TOasjlV IS-iaas c drive as well as give tnose who train on their land , better chance to come through the war alive. The Army officer also assures the landowners that the Army will do everything to protect pri vate property and will, guarantee a fair settlement covering, any damage ccuring. Army represenimuvea are ta- king thS : field at once to the new n,anr ii.. hv the February 13 aeaoune, Major Kells declared. Each landowner in the mamie ver area will be contacted by let ter in which will be placed a card for signature signing over maneu ver rights. . - If landowners will sign these- y self-addresser, franked cards ana return them, it will save the. govs mailed them in, merepy. "?TUI us endless aetaus ana uuw. The president of the board as sured that necessary orders would be Issued by the Army to protect farmyards, gardens, pasture lands graveyards and private homes from all daman and annoyance. This manuever permission grants the U. S. Army the privilege of inanuevering and camping tem porarily on the property owners land with the understanding that -the owner will be compensated for any damages that may result His permission may be revoked at any time by the land ownei upon written notice to Fourth Service Command Rents and Claims Board, Fort Jackson, S. C GOU'JTY c::z73 MINOR WRECK Last Friday night a minor -wreck in Warsaw resulted to the ' gas tank burning on a Navy truck - i h.Mb Mum hv TjithMT ' ."ided a drefhound ' . . inM tank on the truck caught fire but no other damage was reported. CANDIDATE HZXB W. T. Alstead of Camden Coun ty, candidate for Lt Governor was In Kenansville last Thursday. Store Break-ins ; Continue In County H. A. Parker's store in Bowdea was entered Tuesday night some time after midnight by thieves. They entered through V window In the storage room at ine rear of the store. Breaking another window over the door to the main storeroom, thew removed the bar from across the door and opened it The lock on the safe was cut or broken off and the safe opened. AH told around $100 in cash was taken and quite a bit of merchan dise, including ladies silk hose, men's dress and work shirts. shoes and some tools. The sheriffs office said today that so far no clues as to the iden tity of the men have been found. WALLACE MAM l"'LZD IN FALL AT BCC.:S W. t Barfleld, 23-year-ol3 wr"e man, of Wallace, an e? . :.-' n employed at the construct' , i Ject of floatlr"? rydof I s r city of Wife ton, d i li I -, lock Ilorpit&l at 6:"0 V.'c" v" ' mornlr j as -th result of I .' i sustained in a fall at the site L:i- day afternoon. . Barfull f 1 errroxI.T!ate!y . i feet on a c " t t f -turlr Vi " a 1 lr.' f i 1 Al