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i I 1 I '! 1 I 31 VOL 12 agnolia Saw Hill, Package Plant Totally Destroyed By Fire The" Carolina Manufacturing Company's plant in Magnolia was ' completely destroyed by fire Tues day night about 10:30, when fire broke out in the package plant building about 10:15. The fire de- partment from Warsaw was called but was late In arriving due to the fire chief being out of town. The fire, of unknown origin, started in the package plant and swept to the saw mill, enveloping the entire yards in a few minutes. The plant was a total loss. Re ports estimate the damage way up in the thousands of dollars. It was the largest package plant in Du . plin County. J. E. Ticker was . . manager. In its peak season the plant and mill employed about 30 people, v . CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS FOR SCHOOLS BEGINS FRIDAY v All schools in Duplin will close at noon Friday for the Christmas hoidays and reopen on the morn ing of New Year's day. Warsaw Man Killed;Hit-Run Auto Driver Theodore E. Huffham instant ly killed, whan hit by mov ing vehicle la - Bolton Fri day; Funeral services was la Warsaw Monday. wdore E. Huffham, 41, of yfj) iw was found dead beside .oad at Bolton last Saturday -wrung. He had gone to Bolton two weeks ago to relieve the ACL agent there. ' Mr. Huiinam was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. rorier Hulfham of Warsaw. He was born in Delco . and had a membership with the Delco baptist Church. Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon at 4:30 at the Bap tist Church in Warsaw, with tne "Rev. U. Van Stephens in charge. Kites at the grave were conduc ted by Masonic members of fct John's Louge In KenansvUle. In terment was In Falson Cemetrey. PROMINENT ROCKY MT. SURGEON DIES , Dr. I W. Komegmy founded Rocky Mount ktanatorlum; Mauve ef Ms. Olive; Bela ted to Duplin Kornegay. . Dr. Lemuel Weyher Kornegay, S3, prominent Rocky Mount aur- seon. died Mondav nicht after uf. lering a heart attack while at tending a moving picture show. He ' died' before he could be re- moved to the hosnital. I - Dr. Kornegay was a nativeof Mt. Olive, he craduAtpd in 19061 from North Carolina Medical Col - lege at Charlotte ana interned at Jersey City (N. J.) Hospital. He was a member of the Internation al Congress of Surgeons. In 1913, with Dr. J. 1 Lane and Dr. S. W. Staley, he founded the Rocky Mount Sanitarium. He waa a member of the Sous of the American Revolution, the Rocky Mount Kiwanis Club "and the Shriners organization. ' Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Le ononie DeMai Kornegay; "two sons, Capt R. D. Kornegay of the Army Medical Corps, ht. Bragg; and 1st IX. L. W. Kornegay, Jr., serving with the Medical Corps in France. ' .. DUPUN DOCTOR NAMED VICE-PRESIDENT OF . DISTRICT MED. SOCIETY - Jacksonville, Dec. 17. Dr. O. L. rker or win ion waa "n . Udent of the Third District UpbI Sncietv at the first meet " in two years Friday night He vdl succeed ur. J. Jr. nenaerson ett .Tarkmnville. . " ' Other of f icera Jiamed werefDT. ohn Robinson of Wallace, vlce- president, and Dr. D. M. Royall of Saiemourg, 8ecretary-xreasurer XIULAVILLE SENIORS " -"LENA mVZRS" at n;::c h:ll The Senior Class of the Beuta ville High School will af1n pre spnt the play LENA KI but this time af th- Pink V 1 hool Fri -v. DeromLtr J ' at : J p. ra. AdmiHsion 13 and oJ ct J. Wounded 1 4 f Pfc. Freeman Edwards of Beulavflle was wounded seri ously la action In Franc aa October IS, according to fta formation received by hit grandmother, pan, from this JZZZ Mrs, I T. the War ABOVE CEILING a .t rninv thn rounds In Ke nansvUle this week Is to theef- fect that a Duplin bootlegger noi only paid above celling prices for sugar but was even Jipped out ot the sugar. imnniliir in renorts here, not ...ini . sfpanirrr annroat'hfd a KMD-r of the "Nine MUe" section of this county a few night .n4 innnired If he would like "7 - m. l.llnrl tn hnv annifl SUE nr. xn uuu Tiger Jumped at the chance. The sugar distributor told him, "this Is very dangerous business, you know, and I must charge above illns- nrlce." The amount of the tia.mi . was satisfactory to the hooUeraer. The siurar man - then aid. we must unload this stuff In the dark quickly and let me get away from here; this is very hnnlnpllH. von know." His truck was directed to a stor- chey, M. T. Thigpen, T. P. Rooks, age building and In the dark 20lMordecai Blizzard, G. A. West, 100 pound bags were unloaded. . Alonza Dail, Solon Minton, E. W. The Nine Mile resident handed over $400 and the driver departed. Next morning the bootlegger went out to Inspect his, sugar. The first bag he opened was fall of sand. Anxiously he began ' exam mlnr the other .19 and discovered that he had purchased S400 Worth of sand, and that . above celling price. TEN TURKEYS STOLEN FROM FAISON FARM Some unlucky persons may have to do without turkeys at Christinas If any more are stolen . from Herman Taylor of Falson. Ten gobblers weigh ing ZS to 80 pounds each were stolen from his farm while he waa away Thursday- after noon of last week. Mr. Taylor can't understand how they were all stolen at one time. DUPLIN TRADING CO. PLANS EXPANSION i PROGRAM IN WARSAW Warren A. Smith, manager, says new store room, to be occupied and new ware- . , house constructed; new line of merchandise to be added. Warren A. Smith, Secretary- Treasurer and manager of the DUPLIN TRADING COMPANY in Warsaw, announced this week that at . a recent meeting of the board of directors of the companj it was decided to expand the bus! ness considerably. Business during 1944 was very satisfactory and the directors felt that there was a need for enlarging the business to take care of more customers and to offer more merchandise to res idents of Warsaw and its trading area. . . The store, now on the cornet' of Hill and Railroad Sts. will remain at the same location. The store building immediately adjoining will be taken over, remodeled and en larged. A passage way between the new store and the present building will be opened. The new department will house furniture and a complete line ,of electrical appliances. The Warsaw store will then conform to all other stores of the chain. At the rear of the store building will be constructed a large two- story warehouse with an opening on Hill Ht The directors met In Clinton on December 15th and commended th management of the Warsaw store and issued a nice bonus to the manager, Mr. Smith.. Mr. Smith stated that he an ticipated a hundred .percent in crease in the business during 19 45. Duplin Trading Company J is the largest' farmers supply stora m Warsaw and among the largest in Duplin County. v KENANSVIL Three Viccks Of Court' In Jan. Two weeks civil and one week yrimlnal court slated; Judge R. Hunt Parker' will pre side; Jurors drawn. Three weeks of superior court will be held in Kenansville during January. Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke Rapids will preside at each session. January 8th a two week term of civil court will convene and on January 29th a one week term of criminal court will convene. Jurors for each week have been -Irawn as follows: CIVIL, COURT First Week: t A .Tprntean. S. E. Johnson, Edwin Usher, A: E. Williams, R. Southerland, J. A. Thompson, A. O. Fussell, Ed F. Grady, Roscoe Sholar, J. C. Russ, B. W. Groves, Oliver Sloan, G. A. Cavenaugh, W E. Fussell, N. P. Blanchard, J: R. Waters, Jesse B. Brinson. B. F. niand, Dempsey Smith, J. W. Cot tle, I. V. Outlaw, V. V. JYicoowen, J. E. Holt, D. H. Carlton, O. W. Edwards, G. S. Register, K. V. Thienen. M. F. English, J. M. ""' ' tt c-A. lr.-i nDfl Barden. W H. So", Ewl Da 11. T.ewis, C. B. Kennedy, A. J. Dail.l Frank Baker, H. T. Horne, Jno. -n H-ii- tf-k C TinnnHlf U 'OVA Kennedy, Percy Maready, Adrian J. Bostic, anl D. I . wunams, Second Week: a a. BrTnW C V. Rivenbark. -- , n,-j.ii uuiiiiu (univ iroin ino crop wi Herman Taylor, HQda"- 1944 prior to December 1, as corn Matthew Parker. C. D. Sloan, D. ti. f, th. o.rn w Knowlps. John Frederick. J. H. Moore, Lonnle Hardey, Jasper R. Powell,C K. Carter, Russell Gar ner, J, A. Brooks, Burrell Edwards Melvin Powell, Roland Thigpen. William Waller, R. W. Powers. R. L. Quinn, C U .Wade, I H. Jernigan, O. H. Chambers, W. M. Brinson, R. L. Dail. Jonah Whaley, Ernest Batts, Albert L. Sander orm R r Harner. B. F. Brock. H. n Broaden. C-L. Davis, Jesse iRrvIr Jack Pickett D. H. Tea' , Brock, H. S. Whaley, tmmeit r.ei- ly, George Rhodes, Herman Bishop Leslie Batts, and J. P. Tucker. CRIMINAL COTJRTj Flave Mercer, W. S. Pierce, J. C. Thompson, Ashley Blizzard, W. T. McNeills, Jesse Bryant Rob erts, Austin Pate, John Mathew Sumner, L. A. Brock, John Hous ton, J. Tate HarrelV Jamie Will lams, R. A. Murphy, W. D. Pate, L. C. Usher, Albert Turner, Ben nie B. Drew, Albert Whitfield, C. McL. Batts, Preston Register, B. G. Teachey, Jesse Outlaw, Ludan E. Wells, William Kelly, J. C. Mercer, J. L. Hall, I. D. Johnson, McCoy Kennedy. A. J. Rouse, A. J. Raeklev. J. M. Jerome,J. E. Sloan, Ed Carter, L. A. Brinson, Paul Outlaw, S. v. jackson, . v. Sullivan. E. Leslie Waters, L. B. Moore, and Ramond Grady. - . . . John Maready, J. J. Howard, U T. Knowles, Cicero Sumner, Coy Kennedy, Ransom erocK, j. McNeills, S. J. Rackley, R. C. Futrell, N. C. Taylor, Herbert Mercer, w. i. wurpny, n. Kennedy, Verdell Teachey, L. N. Lanier. J. H. Darden, Gaylor Maready, A. L. Humphrey, Albert Martin, Herbert Kornegay. James R. Thomas, M. B. Outlaw, A. M. Howell, L. M. lw . xv j. W. Hollingsworth, O. D. Faulk, W. J. Mallard, C. S. Scott, E. A. Taylor. Charles Jones, John j New- ton, rrea uuu, and H. D. Kornegay. heart ma 9: de Ut Season- L E, NOR TH 'CAROLINA COMPLETES COURSE "' .....uiyinnn 'v mo ywup""" """f ,1" V'- - C s ' l ': w ; IH Iff ' ' t?i ft; V.irV i ' ' L, firni i Avlc JOHN W. FONVIELLE Avc John W. Fonvielle, of War saw recently graduated after completing the course in Primary Training at Curtis Field, Texas, "nu nuB ueen sent 10 vvauu aiiiijt for baslc MMMlMf COTTON GINNING KfcPOKT Census report shows that 4982 ! " bales of cotton were ginned in of 1943. Missing in Action mmmumm j i l-fjiM it $ Pfc. Leon X Mobley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Mobley of Beulaville, Route 1, has bean reported missing in action since Nov. 18 in Genu any. He was -recently wounded in action but had returned to duty. He has been overseas sines last June. SELBY KORNEGAY GETS GLIDER WINGS Selby D. Kornegay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Zollie Kornegay, of Mt Olive has received his wings as a glider pilot and appointment aa flight officer at the "Home of the Winged Commandos'' at Lubbock, Tex. These "winged Commandos" have completed their course of training in Uncle JSam's giant car go and troop carrying guaers ai South Plains Armv Air Field. which trained hundreds of glider pilots who landed troops in France tn hAin snenrneaa me invasion. FO Kornegay attended B. t . . . T State College, -w pray us et - . .non Usvn-- Tin-. 1 ' CJ si ' FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22nd., 1944 Xmas Excitement Gets Off To Early Start In Duplin; One Murder Joe T. Bright of Falson, Color ed, killed; Mrs. Cole suffers broken back at Muddy Creek; Ezzell McKlver (col) seriously cut in Smith township. Christmas merriment, in spite of the War, got off to a good start last week in Duplin when one mur der was committed; one woman's back broken and one man serious ly cut at a party. Joe T. Bright (colored) of Fai- jsnn was instnntlv killpd when Rav- 'mond Jenkins, also colored, shot him through the eye with a pistol as he f Jenkins) lay on his bed in a gambling joint in Fuison on Dec. 10. According to officers, Jenkins and Bright were operating a gam bling joint and had an argument as to the splitting of each pot of poker after a game. Jenkins was reported to have gone to bed when Bright threatened to cut his throat. Jenkins had been asleep. As Bright made his threat, accord ing to officers, Jenkins grabbed his pistol, and without getting up, shot Bright in the eye. Bright fell across Jenkins, dead. Jenkins is being held in jail here without bond. WOMAN INJURED A Mrs. Cole suffered a broken back and a small child suffered minor injuries last Saturday at Muddy Creek as the car in which they were riding, driven by William Lanier, erased into a mule and cart driven by Willie Raynor. Four persons occupied the car. None were injured except the woman and, child. Raynor was not injure in the cart but the cart was to tally destroyed an the mule in jured. FIRST PARTS Ezzell McKlveY, (colored) war seriously cut about the neck and shoulders last Saturday night when Will Brown (colored) attac ked him with a knife. He was rushed to a Klnston hospital but was released this week. The af fray occurred at the home of Brown, whose wife said it was the first party ever held in their home, and added ' the last." Brown is out under bond. WARSAW MARINES AT QUANTICO Pfc Henry L. Stevens, 111, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Stevens, Jr., who has been stationed at Camp Lejeune, passed through Warsaw Wednesday morning on a troop train enroute to Quanttco, Va., where he is now taking his officer's training. Pfc. Rivers Johnson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Johnson, has been at Quantico, for several weeks. PUT MOWING MACHINES IN GOOD CONDITION There Is probably no piece of farm equipment that suffers more from .poor adjustment and lack of care than the mowing machine; and winter months are ideal for putting the machine in good con dition. m a, - it. mower can be traced to the cutting bar. This bar is a vital part of a J2L ! sharp for best results. The two parts forming the shears are known as knife sections anl ledger plates, and they must be properly adjusted along their entire length of the cutter Bar., The knife holder must keep the sections down against the ledger plates without binding and without too much clearance. In repairing a mower it is necessary to remove all the bro ken or badly worn sections by shearing them off. This is easily done over an anvil by cutting the rivets. Guards that are badly worn or have broken ledger plates should be replaced Badly worn shearing plates or knifa holders can also be replaced, and it Is important that an guards nt'snugly against the cutter bar. The mower will enjoy longer life if properly lubricated. The gear case should' be thoroughly cleaned once a year and flushed with kerosene, before putting in a nign grade lubricant. TWO FROM DUPLIN REPORTED WOUNDED A War Department release on Dee. 16th listed two soldiers from this county among those wounded In action. Pfc. Lemuel J. Smith, son of Ed Smith of Rt. 2, Pink Hill ' was wounded in the European area. SlSgt. Ervin T. Bell, son of James A. Bell of Warsaw, recel vel wounds while in action in the Central Pacific area. Missing in Action - Pvt James A. Rackley has feeea mining in action' in Northern Italy since .October K, according to Information re ceived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Croom Rackley ef Wallace, from tne War Department He en tared the Army In December, yu, and was sent overseas last TWO-YEAR OLD FALLS INTO HOT POT LIQUOR A huge boiler of collards had been prepared at the home of Robert Smith, Rt. 1, Mt OUve last Thursday. The hot liquor left after the collards were taken out sat on the floor. Robert Earl, aged two, tod dled about the room, bomped into the pc .taining the hot liquid, saf down in it, bur ning the skin from his hips and legs to mld-thighe. DANCE AT 3. F. GRADY SCHOOL FRIDAY NIGHT DECEMBER 29 There's going to be a Square Dance at the B. F. Grady School Gym. Friday night, Dec. 2yili. 1 i-o-ceeds to go to the Building Fund to build additional classrooms. Music for the dance will be furnished by Paul Byrd and His Radio Pals. Admission: $1.50 ptr couple; $1.00 for Stags; ladies unescorted. 75 for TRIPLE A OFFICES CLOSE FOR XMAS Triple A offices and other offices in the Agricultural building will be closed Dec. 22, 23, 25, and 26 for the Christmas holidays. BOWDEN NEGRO IS INJURED BY HIT-RUN DRIVER Charlie Falson struck; right -leg broken; says he did not know who driver was. Charlie Faison, Bowden Negro, was struck, according to officers, by a hit-and-run driver last Satur day night about a half-mile from Warsaw. He was nearly frozen when Policeman Thomas Rogers of Warsaw reached him. His right ,,, i,,i .u to ZLa& Rogers found e hadben ;iyin abut an hour and a half. "Claire Voyaiil"' Jack Spnrlinj PM Syndicule YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE CLAIRVOANT TO SEE THIS WAR ISNT OVER. OUR SIXTH 5ENSE VILL TELL VtiU TO SUPPORT THE k SIXTH WAR LOAN. No. 51 Tobacco Prices Set For 1945 Raleigh, Weighted average purchase prices of not more than 39 cents a pound for untied flue cured tobacco and 43 1-2 cents a pound for tied flue-cured tobacco will be set for the 1945 crop sold by growers on thP loose leaf mar ket, the Raleigh District Office of Price Acfministration announced. These are the same prices which were used for the 1944 crop of these tobaccos, OPA said. They are announced in advance, in con formance with the congressional requirement on notification to growers. By weighted average price is meant the result obtained by dividing the total outlay of money a buyer pays for each kind of tobacco by the number of nounds of the respective types he buys during the season. Buyers of tobacco may pay in dividual growers more or less a pound thnn the weighted average prices but thj. buyer's weighted average purchase price for these types of tobaccos cannot exceed thp figures announced by OPA. Untied flue-oured tobacco, grown principally in Georgia and Florida is known to the trade as type 14. There are four types of tied flue-cured tobacco - - type 11-A or "old belt." grown in Virelnia ! and North Carolina, type 11-B or , "middle belt " a'o crown in Vir ginia and North Carolina, type j 12, produced in Eastern North I CarniinR. firid tvne 13 or "border , belt." produced in South Carolina i nnd Southeastern North Carolinn Most of tboin tobaccos are nsd in the manufacture of cigarettes. War's End Nccesetates Housewives Cooperation The fact that victory In Europe might nui be us close as generally believed a month or so ago in creases, rai !..-.- than lessens, ihe importance ol Uv current Grocer Consumer Anti- Inflation cam paign, Theodore S. Johnson said today. "Kifeclivi'ness if grocer-con- punier cooperation now iu Eastern . i Carolina in keeping food prices down will be the foundation upon which the postwar fight against inflation is built" he said. At this time 6,597 out of 7,339 stores in Eastern North Carolina have plans to take part in the campaign. As a part of the present cam paign, grocers have joined with OPA in urging housewives to check closely OPA community ceiling prices posted in all stores and mar kets, when buying. Failure to ob serve ceiling prices from now on could not only cost Americans millions of wasted food dollars, but could easily set off the spiral of inflation. WARSAW SOLDIER NOW IN ASHEVILLE AFTER 57 MONTHS OVERSEAS TISgt. Oliver J. McCullen of Warsaw, Rt. 1, is now at Ashe- -ville, Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Station awaiting reassignment to duty. nogi. MWJUiien ftas just re turned from 57 months service in tne Pacmc Theatre. WARSAW SOLDIER MEMBER OF FAMED 2nd BOMBER GROUP IN ITALY 15th AAF in Italy The Second Bombardment Group, a B-17 Fl ing Fortress unit which traces ' orltrin to World War 1 as the old est heavy bomber group has flov n its 300th mission in. the Medito anpnn Theater. This Grouo was organized n September, 1918, at Moulon. France and its giant Flying For are a far cry from the old Frenfv Breguet day bombers flown by )tr; original members. TISgt. James F. Miller, 20, aer-" entrlneer-gunner, of Warsaw, is r. member of this squadron. GET SOYBEaIJ SEED" FOR 1945 PLANTING Farmers who plan to plant soy beans in 1945 will do well to r . their seed now, If they do not al ready have them on hand.- Late planted soybeans last year were severely damaged by Insec-n and many fields were not harves ted because they were almost i total loss. .. As to the . scarcity of soybe-". seed, prices of these seed has t vanced recently and is at a hlghcv f level than usual. it if -if i r i I