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(One Week Nearer Victory) rhe News family is growing arger every day. 80 why be in outsider when you can Join JS for only $1-50 for one year. Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, March 15, 1945 Do you want to swap, sell or trade? It makes no difference, just use The News want ads 1 to get good and fast results. 6 Pages This Week 'hree-Fourths Of far Fund Quota Is leached This Week The Orange county chapter the Red Cross is accomplish o its aim for a “whirlwind” ive in the War Fund drive iving already raised $3,500 of e S4 ,000 quota. Although the ,al was nvt reached in ten ^s, as had previously been ,ped, Mrs. Allen Whitaker, airman of the drive, ex cised gratitude toward the iblic in pushing the figure ore than three-fourths of the iy to the top in two weeks, his figure was reported Tues iy af this Week. The white residential sections ported $984.69 under the leader lip of Miss Maria Read. Miss ead set a goal of $1,000 for her ea and says she “won’t stop” itil that goal is reached. Of the anations so far received in her ictrn-, thejre were 16 "special ft??’ Any donation of $15 Or more classified as a special gift. Th£ rural colored section so far as reported one-third more dona ons in the drive than they did in ie 1944 campaign. A partial re art last Tuesday from that area nder the leadership of A. L. Stan ack, principal of the Hillsboro olored school, and M. C. Burt, lows $358.30 in donations. The olored residential area, headed by larinda McPherson, turned in 143.25, according to a partial re ort last Tuesday. Belle-Vue Manufacturing Com any employees reported $275, bout $25 less than they turned in uring the drive last year. Eno 4ills, under the direction of Bill Vhijte, have not yet reported. Clar nce Jones, chairman of the chap er and leader of the drive in the lillsboro business section, report d $535 from that area. The Hills oro schools have not yet reported The officials in the drive are well leased with the response and are onfident that the goal will be eached. Last year the goal was of, reached until almost the last Hour of the last day. lillians Show U063 Toward ^ed Cross Goal John M. Foushee, chairman of he Chapel Hill chapter of the American Red Cross, announced vlonday that $4,063.86“ of the >12,300 goal has been collected rom the Chapel Hill and Bingham ownships In the current drive. Of his amount $2,146.76 was contro lled in the business and residen ia} sections of Chapel Hill, and ’1.917 was listed under Special lifts. Division chairmen in the 1945 Red Cross drive are: Clarence Oak !ey, business; W. Plemmons, cam aus offices; Miss1 Kitty Kelly, cam pus students; J. R. Evans, Carr boro; Mr. Wentworth, Munitions Corporation; Mrs, Norma Snipes, negro; Mrs. J. M. Saunders, resi dential; Miss Woodward Byars, rural; Chaplain George Cummins, Pre-Flight school; E. C. Smith, theater. Chapel Hill storekeepers end or ganizations'have cooperated in the drive - by getting up posters .end handing out literature. The Little Shop has a full window Grey Lady display, showing the hospital, work done by the local chapter in this area. Carrboro Lions’ First Meeting In Local Church Hnt Carrboro", March 12.—At the first regular meeting of the -Carrboro Lions club held in the Methodist church- hut last Friday night, District Governor Francis Walker and Lion Chris Hamlet of Durham gave talks on the aims, objects, and principles of Lionism. Other visiting Lions from Durham who attended the opening meeting Were Dr. W. F. Mustian, Lion Tamer J. W. Wheeler, Wade Cavin, and Ed Gwynn, president of the Durham club. Dinner was served by the women of the Methodist church, who together with the " Baptist women will serve meals fpr the Lions at their regular meetings which are to be held every other Thursday night in the Methodist hut. The Rev. V. E. Queen is presi Elent of the newly organized chib, and Roy Riggsbee is secretary. ™ahs are now being made for h® charter night exercises which will be held early in April. SERVICEMEN’S SUBSCRIPTIONS Some of the subscriptions for men and women in the service overseas are ^gpiring. The News does not want to have to stop sending these papers to them be cause their letters back home tell us what the paper means to them. We do not want to have to send expiration notices to those overseas, and in a large number of cases we do not know who to send the notices to here at home. One letter received here de-_ scribed The News as “like a let ter from home’.’ when it arrives overseas. We do not want to stop this letter and we do not believe the families of those overseas wiint the letter stopped. If you have any doubt about the expiration date of their sub scriptions, drop in The News of fice and we will check the dates. If the subscription has expired, . we^hope the family will renew it. Otherwise, the paper will have to be stopped. Miss Florence Root Speaks To Lions Here The Hillsboro Lions club had as its guest speaker last week MisS Florence Root, the Bible teacher in Orange county schools, who pre sented to the club a report s!)ow ing a cross section of her work in the schools and the progress being made. The club met at Dud’s tavern at 12:15 p.m. Thursday with the vice-president, Don S. Matheson, presiding in the'absence of Presi dent Clarence Jones who was con fined to his bed with a cold. After lunch, vice-president Matheson recognized C. B. Parris who in-’ troduced the speaker, Miss Root, who has done missionary work in Korea. §he presented her schedule of classes in the different schools and compared the attitude of the stu dents at the beginning of classes with their attitudes now. Accord ing to her report, the response has been decidedly improved. She fur ther pointed- out the importance of a child’s background and home life in connection with the Bible classes. At the close of her talk, Miss Root urged the members to do all they can to further proper -training -in. theyhonfe^_, Dr. Maddry To Speak Sunday The Rev. W. W. Abernethy, pas-* tor of the Hillsboro First Baptist church, announced this week that Dr. Charles E. Maddry, former’ secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and former pastor of thg church here, will preach Sun day, March 18, at 11 a.m. Dr, Maddry is nojv field, secre tary of the Southern Baptist Con vention, and with his visit here is beginning a totir of all Baptist churches in the south. He has trav eled all over the world and is tell ing the Southern Baptists' about the world as he saw it. Dr. Maddry said he is especially anxious to render his first service at the Hillsboro church because this was his first pastorate Rev. Mr. Abernethy, on behalf of Dr. Maddry, urges everyone to be pres ent at this service. Patterson Promoted Headquarters, 10th Air-Force, Burma.—Promotion to sergeant of Wallace D. Patterson, son of the D. Pattersons of 107 South Columbia street, Chapel Hill, has been announced by his tfoop car rier squadron of Major General Howard C. Davidson’s 10th Aig Force. He is communications chief of his unit, and has been in the India Burma ' theater few nine months. v Sgt. Patterson’s squadron has twice been given the unit- citation for outstanding 'achievement in supplying ground forces in North ern Burma during the campaign to capture Myitkyina from the Japs. He is a graduate of Chapel Hill high school, and 'attended Capitol Radid Engineering Insti tute before his induction 27 months ago. This Week's ORANGE and UNIVERSITY MEN University Man of the Week DR. BENJAMIN W. SWALIN Dr. Benjamin W. Swalin, for the past ten years connected with the University music department, is regarded by his students, friends, and audiences as one of the state’s most brilliant and colorful perso nalities. Holding six music diplo mas, Dr. Swalin has gained na tional recognition in the fields of musical art, instruction, compos ing, and entertainment. - - - He began his musical career in Minneapolis, Minn., the city in which he was born', where he stu died violin, and played in the .Min neapolis Symphony Orchestra at an early age'. After receiving his M. A. degree in English literature in this country, he was given a fellowship to the University of yienna, where he took his Ph. D. in music. * • Since" t939 ©ft Swalin has eoii ducted the North Carolina Sym phony Orchestra, which has made noteworthy progress tinder his di rection. In March, 1943, the state legislature passed a bill granting (Continued on page 5) Orange. Man of the Week CHARLES J. JAMES 1 Charles J. James, one of Hills boro’s leading pharmacists, mark ed with distinctive characte reties Of a,different laugh and an endless stream of cigars, is 100 per cent Orange countian in heritage, fam ily, education and occupation. Bom and reared in Orange coun ty, he is the son of the late Henry and Mary James. He has three half brothers now living. In 1933 he married another Orange coun tian, the former Miss Oma Rhew, and they have one daughter, 16 months old Charlotte Rhew. Mr. James attended Hillsboro high school and several other school^about the county. He even remained in Orange county" to get a higher education, taking a grad uate degree in pharmacy at the University of North Carolina in 1929. After his college days, Mr. Ja mes spent six months working in Durham and then came to Hills boro to work for the Hillsboro Drug Company two years, after which he bought the ^epneem and began operating under the name of James Pharmacy. If you should walk into James Pharmacy today, you will probably find him either scribbling at some thing on his desk, stirring up. some medicine or chatting with some customers—all the while keeping up with the cigat He says he doesh’t have any particular hobbies, except that .he likes to travel, but haenT heen anywhere. Perhaps being a jihpr oughbred Orange countian7 ra ’al so restricts his traveling to Orange county, especially in war time: -- Mr. James is a member of the Hillsboro Lions Club of . which he is the finance chairman! He is!also president of the Hillsboro mer chants association and a Shriner. Tie is a member of the Durham Shrine Club and the Hillsboro Methodist church. 7? This Week’s WAR NEWS IN BRIEF _. __ & By MIKE MICHAEL > A greatly reinforced U. S. First Army lashed out' from a,10-mile wide bridgehead at Ramagen Mon day in a drive which has carried more than five miles beyond the Rhine to take 23 towns in their wake* Aerial superiority of the American forces afforded valuable protection for the First fighters as they threw pontoon bridges across the Rhine in order to'move more and more gurts, tanks; and men across the . stream. Thus as the Canadian First and United States Ninth armies’crushed the Germans in the Wesel pocket, five allied armies found themselves solidly linked along 150 miles of the Rhine from the Dutch border to within a mile of Coblenz. Meanwhile a major obstacle in the path of the Russians was taken Monday as hardy shock troops of Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s First White Russian Army captured the ancient Oder Riyer fortress of Kueetrin aftpr a 35-day battle for this key position in the Nazi de fensive chain. Final victory is in sight for the battle-weary Marines on Iwo Jima as they are beginning mopping up operations', on' "tTYIS""strategic' blood-bought island only 750 miles from Tokyo’s front dopr. Else where in the Pacific, the Tokyo radio report of an American land ing on Mindanao has been con firmed when it was announced that infantrymen of the 41st infantry division under-Mai. Gen. J, A. Dge_ had landed on this island in the Southern Philippines Saturday af ter a thorough naval and air bom bardment of the- island. LaSt Week’s Fighting ^ Best tidings in the war news last week came from the Western front where thousands of Yanks of the First Army surged across the Rhine river just South pf Cologne Wed nesday to crack Germany’s his toric, supposedly impregnable, western barrier. So the hard-hit ting First added one more “first” to its enviable record of leadership, for it was first ashore in Norman dy, the first to enter Germany, and the first to break through the Siegfried line. The dramatic announcement came after 24 hours' of radio si lence which was imposed in order to keep the Germans in the dark as much as possible until the Am ericans had time to establish a powerful bridgehead on the other shore. The First army troops achieved a military triumph equal ling in importance the Normandy landing when they jumped the ri ver at 3:50 p. m. Wednesday in^the surprise blow delivered against an enemy *so thoroughly disorgan ized that he had no prepared po sitions from which to throw up an effective resistance to the in vaders. . • The .surprise crossing by the First will open the way for an early juncture with the surging Third Army on its right thus trap ping thousands *f Nazi troops in a pocket between the two Amer ican armies. MAY SHORTEN THE. WAR . The brilliant coup may shorten the European conflict considera bly, especially since it synchroniz es so smoothly with the new Rus sian offensive across the Oder ri ver against Berlin. Nazi, broadcasts : indicated that the Reds had.com pleted the encirclement of the for tress-town of Kuestrin,, a main anchor of the last-ditch defense line between the battling Soviets and their immediate goal of Ber lin, only 38 miles to the west. STILL BLOODY ON I WO JIMA Meanwhile the bloody battle for two Jima raged on,"but observers coujd see things..entering' into the final phase as the three divisions of valiant Leathernecks kept up their yard-by-yard fight in push ing the Japanese defenders into a- rough' -crescent-shaped* area ab out -300 to 1,500 yards, wide along the north and east coast of the strategic little island. During the past week the Marines, support ed by tanks forced to operate in very unfavorable terrain, have made good progress, but it has been gained at the expense of high (Ubhtihuedonpagefl) — — Hillsboro 4-H Boy Wins $25 War Bond Mason Kenyon, Jr., 4-H club boy of Hillsboro, Route 2, *-was presented a $25 war bond for win ning first place in the 1944 “Feed a Fighter” contest. This bond was given jointly by the Bank of Chapel Hill and the Hillsboro Branch of the Durham Bank & Trust Com pany; Fred Green, secretary of the North Garolina BankefS Associa tion, made the award. This contest was among 4Q0 4-H dub bqys in-Grange 6ounty to see who would produce the most food ifi 1944. Mason Kenyon’s rec ord ,was 1,030 dozen eggs, 240 pounds of broilers,-a victory gar den, and a purebred spotted Poland China brood sow. A similar contest will, be con ducted ^jn 1945 among the 4-H club boys and the Bank of Chapel Hill and the Hillsboro Branch of th6 Durham Bank & Trust Company have offered another $25 bond for the 1945 winner. ' W" •• -f ' . March Superior Court Will Convene Monday Morning To Dispense With Heavy Docket The Little Tbiags About Red Cross (Ens. Robert E. Sonntag, USNR, wrote the following let ter about what the Red Crow la doing for the men overseas and. urges full cooperation in dona tions sought, by the Red Crow. Ens. 8onntag is a' Chapel Hill boy and attended the University of North Carolina, and this is what he thinks of the Red Crow.) One big blewing, believe me, has been the American Red Cross. They will do anything for you and really, make us feel at home In the various places I have been. Little things like peanut butter sandwiches and cokes mean an awful lot. So do girls with American accents. They are doing a wonderful job. Of all the things at home that want money, I should isay the Red Cross should come •gGrst. They’re O.K. Ens. Robt. E. Sonntag, USNR May 24, 1944 Men and Women • In the Service PVT. PHILLIPS HELPS BUILD BRIDGES IN ITALY Pvt. WILLIAM H.-PHILLIPS, son of Mrs. J. C. Phillips of Hills boro, is at present serving with the 175th engineer general service regiment in Italy as a basic engi neer. Pvt. Phillips’ duties consist of assiting in the construction of air port taxiways, bridges, highways, clearing mines and booby traps, repairing damaged piers, roads and hospitals, and at present main taining snow stations v^here em ergency rations are stored arid Is sued. ■ Since last August 1 his regiment has built 70 large bridges, 15 of which were under construction at one time. It has also repaired in record time many old Italian brid ges damaged by explosions. One of the bridges recently repaired was a masonry arch bridge built in 1628, located on Route 2 north of Bolsena. . The most recent bridge built by Pvt. Phillips’ regiment is the 270-foot bridge across the Serchio river on the Fifth army front in Italy. A 530-foot bridge was as sembled ~by one 'company of.. this, regiment in seven days to span the Arna river. ^ ■ CHESHIRE J. COLE. BKR 2-c., is home on a 30-day leave after seeing^ action -two years in. the South Pacific. He enlisted in the. Navy November 23, 1942, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cole of West Hillsboro. He has two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Oak ley and ^Mrs. Blanche Connally, one brother. Jack Cole, all of West Hillsboro. J ~ i: . The March term q£ superk die' courthouse in Hillsboro IV with Judge John J. Burney pre will act as solicitor as the cour a heavy docJCet, much of wl Hillsboro WAC Dies After A Brief Illness Sgt. L. Sue Hurley, 28, of Hills boro, died at Northington General Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Ala., at 6:33 p.m. March 12, following a brief illness. Sgt. Hurley enlisted in the WAAC in December, 1942. She received her basic training at Day tona Beach, Fla. She was then transferred to the WAC Detach ment, the Armored School, Fort Knox, Ky., where she was sta tioned at „the time of her death. Sgt. Hurley was a graduate of Hillsboro high school and prior to her enlistment she was ern8 ployed by Eno Cotton Mills, Hills boro. She Was an active member of Eno Methodist church. Sgt. Hurley is survived by her mother, Mrs. C. H. Hurley pf Hills boro; fiv& sisters: Mrs. W. M. Er win and Mrs. Cleo Davis of Roan oke "Rapids, Mrs. D. M. Ferree of Ran'dleman," Mrs. D. M. Bowden of Haw "River and Mrs, Ralph Cheek of Chapel Hill; five broth ers: Carl H. Hurley of Miami, Fla., George B. Hurley of Burlington, B. H. Hurley of Newport News, Va., Pvt, C. Norfleet Hurley, U. S. Marines, stationed somewhere in the South Pacific, and Sgt. j. Carson Hurley, U. S. Army, sta tioned somewhere in Germany. Sgt. Hurley was engaged to Sgt. Richard Faris of Spokane, Wash., who is stationed somewhere in France. * Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Eno Methodist church, West Hillsbor6. Interment will follow''ia the Hillsboro cemetery. Brunswick Stew Planned Plans for a Brunswick stew were announced by Mrs. Efland For rest at the PTA meeting held Monday afternoon in the home economics department of the high school. The date has not been de termined. • _A. jQ.OJCniaa.Ung.. committee con sisting of Mesdames 'Alton Wil liams, Charlie Walker and Grady Brown was requested to submit names for a second vice-president and a secretary for the PTA at the next regular meeting. —y The program, a discussion’of the problems of adolescents and sug gestions for solving -them, was conducted by Mrs: Mitchell Lloyd. A special night meeting will oc cur on Tuesday, April 10, at 8 p.m. so that as many fathers as possible eanatten<i.~ _ « Heart Attack Fatal To Scott •. Cates Last Saturday Morning H. Scott Cates, 67, ope of Hills boro’s most prominent citizens affd business men, died suddenly at his home last Saturday morning at 7:30 as a result of a heart attack. Prior to the attack he appeared to be in good health. Mr.'Cates, who'owned much real Estate,, spent-many -years of -his, younger life engaged in the mer^r cantile business. He retired about 20 years ago and devoted the greatest part(jof his time to the improvement of -his many real es tate holdings. He took keen interest in the civic development of Hillsboro and took an active part in bringing improve ments of modern nature to the community. About • 30 years ,ago he organized the Hillsboro Power and Light Company, which gave to Hillsboro its first electric lights and current, and he remained president^ of this organization until it war^sold to one of the large utility corporations. He had been actively connected with the Hills boro Building and Loan Associa tion in the capacity of president for many years. He is survived by his wife, Alice Smith Cates; three brothers, Claude Cates of Burlington, Currie C. Cates of -Spencer, and F. S. Cates of Hillsboro; and a large number of nephews and nieces. Funeral services were held from the Hillsboro Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Cates was a mem ber, last Sunday afternoon. The service was conducfecF 'by TTtS'pas tor, the Rev. S. W. DuBose. Active pallbearers were Dr. H. W. Moore, Dr. B. N. Roberts, Carl Davis, Whit Mincey,.John W. Dick sOn and Clarence Jones. Honorary pallbearers were A H. Graham, Saul C. Collins, John Clayton, S. A. Johnson, S. Strud wick~~'T6m~DlPksoii, 0;--S-.--Robert. son, E. M. Lynch, S. C. Forrest, S. T. Latta, W. R. RobeVts, J. W Richmond, W. B. Coleman, B. S. Carr, W. T Murray, D. B. Mahaf fey, B. D. Sawyer, W. M. Chance, L. E. Beard, Dr. J. S. Spurgeon, James Webb, Dtr. R. E. Nichols, Dr. W. M. Coppridge, A. B. Elkins, G. C. McBane, B F. Allison and Clarence Cates. MISS'DASHIELL WINS scholastic;: honors A I STEPHENS COLLEGE Columbia, Mo., March-14:—Miss Dorothy Ann Dashiell, daughter of Mr. and# Mrs. John Fr Dashiell, 5 Westwood drive. Chapel Hill, has recently been pledged to Phi Theta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, at Stephens College for women. From the student body of 2100, 66 girls were admitted to the fra ternity. These students received sm excellent rating in scholarship at the college and comprise the upper 7 per „pent of the entire student body. court will get underway at fonday morning of next week siding. R. H-. Sykes of Durham t undertakes the task of airing ich was continued from the December term. The December term, which started on Monday, December li, was cut short by the death of Judge Burney’s sister. He received word of* her death a few minutes» after the opening of the session, but stayed with the court all day, presiding over 19 criminal caseg and covering the uncontested di vorce docket. All defendants held in the jail at Hillsboro at the time were tried. At the end of the day, the term was brought to a close and all remaining cases continued to the March term to begin next week. A point of interest during this court session will be the report of the grand jury. Their last report singled out many faults about the school buildings ^throughout the county, and the public will be looking forward to a comparative report at this session. It is with skepticism and doubt that court spectators will look on the Roulhac robbery case involv ing Isaac Hundley, Ruth Hundley, Blanny Long anji Willie Sparrow. The case has been placed on the docket and crowds gathered to hear it time and again. It now seems natural that it will be con tinued. The courtroom will prob Thursday when Mrs. Pattie Stan-.. ford of Efland is slated to fade a murder charge involving the death of her husband some time ago. The remainder pf the docket with about eighty cases llstedig as follows: Erie King; statutory rape; Joe E. Allen, Chas. Berry, Willard K. Rimmer, Hubert Wray, D. A. Laws, Richard Banks, J. Ed Dixon, Walter H. Clayton, Otho G. Taylor, R. E. Copeland, George Funderburk, Charlie Gar rison, George O. Clay, Lewis Ed wards, Robert P. McLeod, J. C. Wfight, O. W. Patrick, J. C. Carr, Md^hy Durham, George Jone.-; * J. C. Stubbins, Hubert Scarlett and Oscar Couch, all driving automo biles while drunk. Wyllie Wynn, larceny of gas; Nannie Belle Hatch, aiding and abetting in theft of gas; Eugene Blackwood, drunk, disorderly con duct, assault with deadly weapon, and resisting arrest; Jake French and Zona Alston, larceny; Willie Sparrow,” carrying concealed wea pon; Leon Ellis, illegal possession of whiskey; Leroy Andrews and Tom Brown, aiding arid abetting, breaking and 'entering: Roland Hobgood, break, enter and assault (Continued on page 2) Carrboro Red Cross Report Carrboro. March 12. —J. R. Evans, in charge of- the Red Cross campaign in Carrboro, reported $724 paid in last Friday night and the work is continuing this week. Workers in the campaign met in the Baptist church Friday night and made their individual reports to Mr. Evans.' — The munitions plant was not ’ready with j its report -when the meeting was held, although past records indicate that the fund wtjtt get a healthy boost when the drive -is-over. -;—-j Mrs. Frank Madry, in charge jpf the drive aj the local school, re ported subscriptions of $85.80. Visitors at the dinner included Mr.' and Mr#. R. M. Grumman of Chapel Hill and Rev. and Mrs. V. E. Queen. American Legion To Sponsor Fair By Kay Kugler Chapel Hill.—Tentative plans for Orange County’? first fair to be sponsored by the American Le gion post No. 6 of Chapel Hill were announced last week by E. B. Pat terson. chairman. The fair is to be held in the tin can at the Uni versity and in the Chapel Hill high school grounds. The tentative date has been set, for late summer or early fall.and all 4-H boys and girls are urged to enter exhibits. After this yeah members of the Legion hope to have facilities for a livestock division. The, fair, tp be held annually, will not be m. money-making venture, but an educational project for the couhty. The Legion also sponsors a square dance each Saturday night at the Legion hut in Chapel Hill. Danculg starts about nine. Re freshments are available aniL a juke box furnishes music for dan cing between the figures. j
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