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The \ News tamlly «e growing larger every rfey. So why be an outsider when you can Join u* for only $1.80 for one year. Volume 52., No. 6 Hillsboro, N. C., Thursday, Maych 22, ange County Oo you want to swap, sell or trade? It makes no difference, Jnet use The News want ads to got good and fast results. (One Week Nearer Victory) 8 Pages This Week War Fund Goal Oter The Top More Than $600 As Drive Ends Mrs. Allen Whitaker, chair man of the Red Cross' War Fund drive for the Orange county chapter, revealed this week that- the $4,000 quota had been oversubscribed last Tuesday by more than $600, bringing the total contribu tions up to $4,668.30 with some sections not having re ported in full. Having reached the goal in 21 days, Mrs. Whitaker commended all the workers for the job they have done in the drive, and on be half of the Orange county chapter expressed gratitude toward the public for their splendid coopera tion and generosity in pushing the figure over the top in 21 days. The drive was scheduled to be completed in ten days, but al though twice that much time was taken in reaching the goal, the drive this year compares favor ably with the 1944 campaign in that last year the quota was not reached until the last minute, anff was then barely oversubscribed. The latest report on contribu tions showed Eno Mills, under the leadership of Bill White, turning in a partial contribution of $566.54 and the colored residential section reported $105.05. Miss Maria Read, leading the white residential sec tion, attained her seif-set goal ot $1,000, a figure she vowed would be reached before letting up on the job. Mrs. R. B. Hayes, treasurer for the drive this year, said that 63.9 per cent of the total contributions will go to the national fund while the remaining 36.1 per cent will remain at home for use in the area in which this chapter works. The following cases were handled locally by the Orange county chap ter of the Red Cross: 106 family dependency benefits, 88 furlough verifications and telegrams deal ing with illness and death, 34 inquiries and welfare reports ot men in service, 32 JnstgncA ot such service rendered families of servicemen, 11 loans, 5 hospital bills, 24 consultations and guid ance, social history 12, mustering out pay 5, 8 dependency discharges, 5 prisoners of war, 27 veterans disability claims, 5 dependency death claims, -2 veterans’ burial benefits, and 2 veterans’ headstones for graves. WILLIAM HUSKEY NOW STATIONED IN NEVADA Pfc. William E. Huskey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Huskey of 403 McCauley street, Chapel Hill, has just arrived dt Tpnopah, Nev., where he will take further train ing in the Army air force. Pfc. Huskey has been in service nine months. He finished gunnery school at Laredo, Texas, in January and then, after spending eight days at home, went to Lemore, Calif., for reassignment. His present address is Squadron T-2, T.A.A.F., Tono Qah, Nev. WINS BRONZE STAR J08EPH N. EUBANKS Eubanks Wins Bronze Star In Luxembourg T-5 Joseph N. Eubanks, son ot Jacob N. Eubanks of Hillsboro Route 3, was recently awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroic achievement in connection with military operations against an armed enemy near Nothum, Lux embourg, last January 4. Eubanks is a member of Battery A, 102nd Field Artillery Battalion in the Army. He is a radio operator of a forward observer party on duty with Company I, 104th In fantry, and at the time of meri toriotus achievement was at the command post in the vicinity of Nothum. Heavy enemy artillery fire including white phosphorus shells began to fall in the imme» diate area. With utter disregard for his own personal safety, and believing an enemy counter-attack imminent, T-5 Eubanks and 'a comrade left the comparative se curity of the command post and, under enemy fire, set up the radio in an exposed position to estab lish . intact communications with the fire direction center „of his bat talion. ‘ His heroic act enabled the .for ward observer to gain valuable time in contacting the fire direc tion center and bringing close ar tillery support to -our infantry units. According to the citation from Army officials, “his courage, ini tiative and unusual devotion to duty reflect the highest credit upon T-5 Eubanks and the armed forces of the United States.” Eubanks and his company had previously been commended by General Patton for superior per formance in pressing the attack for the relief of Bastogne. WAR NEWS IN BRIEF By Mary Goodrich - Three great American armies lashed forth in force Monday to make new gains in Germany. The pincers of the United States 7th and 3rd armies were closing rap idly on the Saar Basin after break ing through the Siegfried line east of Saarbruecken, the capital. When the junction of these two power ful forces, now only 14 miles apart, -is made, Saarbruocken—and most of the basin’s steel mills will be sealed off. Four tank divisions of the 3rd Army were setting up traps in the Saar in an attempt to cut off all enemy forces from reinforcements. The Fourth Armored division cap tured Bad Krueznack and raced eight miles east of the shattered line toward Mainz.'The 11th Ar mored division joined forces with an unidentified new division in the vicinity of Marzweiler closing the door on a pocket of at least 300 square miles and trapping some 2,000 Germans. * The third, trap, the greatest of all, will snap shut in the center of the basin closing all escape routes from the Saar and trap ping or annihilating 80,000 of the enemy. While the 3rd and 7th Armies are battling for control of the Saar, the First Arrmy on the east bank of the Rhine reached flie plains of the Ruhr at two Points, widening its Remagen bridgehead to 18 miles and driving three miles deeper into Germany. RU88IAN8 RENEW DRIVE Meanwhile, the Russians con tin ned their offensive drive east of Berlin. Red Army tanks plowed through 17 to 25 miles of Nazi defenses southwest of Breslau while other Russian troops reached a point within two miles of the East Prussian outposts of Brauns berg and Heiligenbeil. The Ger man high command reported that the Soviets had clamped down on the War production west of the Oder. No confirmation was made by the Russians. ANOTHER BLOW ON NAGOYA In the Pacific, the all out,, air assault by B-29’sj}nd carrier based planes continued Monday as Su perforts delivered a second blow against Nagoya, Japan’s third largest city. On the heels of tfie mighty attack, carrier based planes of an American task force raided Kobe and Kure on Honshu Island for two consecutive days. Further news from the Pacific indicated that American infantry men have landed on Panay, sixth ranking Philippines island, and have secured 28 square miles. Un der cover of a bombardment by warships and planes, the v 40th Division made the landing, taking the Japanese defenders completely by surprise. This is the 25th island in the archipelago on which Amer ican troops iiave landed since the first invasion in October. AST WEEK’S REVIEW Heartening news came from all illied fighting fronts last week, s American Marines began mop ing up last Japanese resistance n Iwo Jima, Superfarts made the reatest raids of the war on the apanese homeland. On the West m front, AlRed armies from the (Continued on page 4) Men and Woaen la the Service +++++ HARRY GATES, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Gates, has been promoted to the rank of chief avia tion machinist’s mate. He is the youngest chief in his squadron, making the second highest gride in his group. He was graduated from Hills boro high school in 1939 and en listed in the Navy December 26, 1940. He received his baSic train ing at JMorfolk, Va., and further training at Jacksonville, Fla., Banana River, Fla, and Alameda, Calif. He is now stationed in the South Pacific. . ... « WILLIAM JAMES BEARD, HA 2-c, has just completed his boot training at Bainbridge, Md., and is spending his nine-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Beard. Beard volunteered for the Navy and was inducted at Raleigh January 2. He will report back to OGU, Bainbridge, Md., for further assignment!1. Cpl HERMAN H. RILEY, son of Mrs. Hattie Riley of Hillsboro, Route 2, is at home on a 21-day furlough. He has had 14 months of active service overseas. After completing his furlough Cpl. Riley will report to Kennedy General Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Cpl. ISAAC ASHLEY, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Ashley of Hillsboro, arrived here from Ft. Dallas, Utah, Tuesday of last week to spend a furlough with his par ents. He will return to camp Tri day, March 30. GUY BALDWIN who has been on active duty with the merchant marines for the past two years (Continued on last page) Nimitz Commends Lt D. W. Marks For Guam Action By Kay Kugler Chapel Hill, March 21.—Lt. (jjt) Daniel W. Marks, non! of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Marks of Chapel Hill, now stationed at Pearl Harbor, recently received a citation trqjn Admiral C. W. Nimitz, for his out standing action in the invasion of Guam. The citation, awarded af ter the attack on Guam in July, 1944, praised Lt; Marks for dis tinguishing himself as an amphib ian tractor wave commander. He “organized and supervised the as sembling and landing of an am phibian tractor under heavy en emy fire His efficiency contrib uted to the success of the opera tion.” A few days before the at tack Lt. Marks had had an emer gency appendectomy on board his L.S.T. and was not op duty at the time. • Lt. Marks graduated from U.N.C. in June, 1943, and enlisted soon after in the naval reserve. Upon receiving his commission after three months’ training at North western he was sent to San Diego. He left the United States in Jan uary, 1944. Besides the battle of Guam, Lt. Marks has been in the invasions of the Marshalls, Sai pan, Leyte, Palau, and several others. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant (jg) after re ceiving the citation from Admiral Nimitz. - Edsel L Carr Edsel L. .Carr, S-2c, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Carr of Hillsboro, entered _the Navy June 30, 1944. He took his boot training at Camp Peary, Va., finishing September 22. After a ten-day leave at home, he was sent to Gulfport, Miss., to enter, the Naval Training school as quartermaster. He graduated from there after 16 weeks of training. # Carr is now at "Shoemaker, Calif., and says he likes the country out there. Sometime ago he met an other Hillsboro boy out there, Jack Roberts, and they spent quite some time talking about the hometown. TOOT DOTATION in this week’s issue of The Mews you will find eight pages chock-full of news of Orange Countians, by Orange Countians, for Orange Coufitlaas. But that . isn’t ail—you’ll also find a large number of ads displaying many fine products available to Orange Countians. This is your paper and we want you to read it in full— “from'klver to klver.” Make any comparisons. If you like, and be your own judge. When yoi» read this issue of The News pass it on to a- non subscribing Orange County neighbor and let him pass his judgment. If you receive a sam ple copy of this issue, it is your invitation to join the growing list of nOw .imnbers of The News family. L«Jk elsewhere in the columns of this issue and you will find the names of many Orange Countians who joined our ranks last week, and In Weeks to come there will be more and more lists to appear. We would like to add your name to that list next week. Trade Meeting To Be Held At Local School Mrs. E. R. Dowdy, price clerk at the ration board at Hillsboro, announced this week that a trade meeting will be held at the Hills boro high schd L library next Tuesday night at o’clock to clar ify the stipulatioi s of price regu lation 580 which will affect mer chants selling \ earing apparel, shoes, household textiles, durable consumer goods, and such things as lamps, lamps lades and floor coverings. George P. Whitley, Jr., price panel, coordinator from Raleigh, and J. E. Gregory, board super visor from the OPA office in Ral eigh, will be present at the meet ing to assist the merchants at tending this meeting to understand the price regulation and to work out price charts which they will be required to ve. Mrs. Dowdy uses all merchants to be affected bgrfthe regulation to be present at tM-meeting in or der to be able to fill out their price charts properly. A copy of the chart will have to be filed in Raleigh and the merchant will keep a copy in his place of .business. This regulation is an outgrowth from the freezing of prices on these articles March 19. Oraage Ceantiaas Entering Mrs. Mildred Collins has an nounced that the following white men from Orange county were sent to Fort Bragg last Tuesday to be inducted into the armed forces: John. Calhoon Hines, Erie Ewart Peacock, Jr., Craven Holloway, Joseph Harold Murnick, Harley Young Jennings, Cecil Hughes Mil ler, Peter Eugen Hexner, Vernon Rqyal Bivins, Cecil McCall Proc tor, Thomas William Womble, Lewis Wilburn Walker, Dallas Samuel Andrews, Billy Joseph Stallings, Elbert Wagoner, (Horace Lee Ward, Daniel Franklin Liner, William Haskell Levitt, Leon Lewis Gordon, William Ellison Thomp son, Jr. John Charles Apple, Jack Cling Talley, Joe Thomas Rountree, Wil liam Haywood Browning, Paul Eugene Tripp, Eugene Tunney Wilson, Roy Hubert Edwards, Wil liam Thomas Patterson, Ralph Hooker Berry, Malcolm Worth Cole, Andrew Comelious Sumner, Matthew Wilson Atwater, Philip William Gates, Auburn Marvin Davis, Franklin Bane Efland, Odis Charles Pendergraft, Henry Harri son Dawkins, Daniel Franklin Milam, Jr., Frederic Meyers, Jessie Jury Will Reach A Decision today As Pattie C. Stanford Faces Murder Charge Here Sgt L. Sae Harley Funeral services for Sgt. L. Sue Hurley, daughter of Mrs. C. H Hurley of Hillsboro, were held at the Eno Methodist church last Friday. A military burial followed in the Hillsboro cemetery. Sgt. Hurley, a member of the WAC, died at Northington General hos pital, Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 12, following a brief illness. TURN IN MILEAGE " RECORD FOR GAS Mary F. Kenion, chief clerk of the ration board at Hillshoro, said this week that when applying for special gasoline rations, supple mental rations and furlodgh ra tions, it is always necessary that the mileage rationing record for the car being used accompany the application. The board has had trouble in the past with people failing to comply with this re quirement. By attaching this record to the application, much time and trou ble will be saved and the appli cant will receive hie gee bftMt it»u«h more quickly. J “I loved him," Mrs. Pattie Crutchfield Stanford said on the witness stand bejfore a crowded court room yesterday when facing trial for the murder of her husband at Efland last December 14. The jury is scheduled to reach a decision on the case today and will either convict the defendant of murder in the second degree, or of manslaughter, or return a verdict of not guilty, as would be in accord with the defense plea of accidental death in self-defense. Nearing Final Red Cross Goal Chapel Hill, March 21.—With five big sources yet unreported, the Chapel Hill chapter of the American Red Cross had come Monday afternoon within $1,200 of reaching its $13,300 goal in the current Red Cross drive. ‘Total re ported at that time was $12,100. Contributions which had not been turned in were those from the Navy Pre-Flight school, rural communities. University students, Negroes and a number of campus office buildings. Of the total reported so far, residential canvass in Chapel Hill netted $3,713.40, nearly $1,700 over last year’s sum. Contributions of business firms and their employees amounted to $1,873.88. Carrboro’s Red Cross'drive, \lh dpr the direction of the Chapel Hill chapter, netted $1,696.62, the munitions plant and its employ ees giving $971.60 of this amount. A week-long campaign conduct ed at the Pick and Carolina thea ters here added $1,247.77 to -the total. Chairman of the local drive is John M. Foushee. His division chairmen are Mrs. J. M. Saunders, residential; W. H. Plemmons, cam pus offices; Clarence Oakley, busi ness; J. R. Evans, Carrboro; Mrs. Norma Snipes, Negroes; Chaplain George Cummins, Pre - Flight school; Miss Kitty Kelly, campus students; Miss Woodward B&prm, i rural; and E. C. Smith, theaters. 7th War Bond Drive Plans - ..<£■■- : >:vV ; - ; " .... Underway; Opens April 9th By Mary Hill Gaston Chapel Hill, March 21.—W. E. Thompson, chairman of the Or ange county War Finance Com mittee, announces that he. and his group have begun work on plans for the Seventh War Loan drive April 9 through July 7* Thompson attended a meeting of regional War Finance directors in Raleigh on Tuesday of last week, when tentative plans for the drive were discussed. Payroll deduction programs will be especially 'Stressed in the Seventh Loan drive. No county quotas have been set as yet, but the national overall quota is 14 billion dollars. The coming drive will lay more em phasis on ,E bonds than ever be fore, according to Thompson. Na tional E bond quota is four bil lion dollars, and the total quota for bonds purchased by individuals is seven billion. The Orange county quota will probably be announced sometime within the next week. J. Maryon Saunders is chairman of the Sev enth War Loan drive .in Orange county. .Thompson explained that the coming drive, beginning April 9 and lasting through July 7, is for E, F, and G bonds only. A con centrated campaign to boost sales of all other types of bonds will be staged for three weeks, start- j 4ng May l4 . ——_ J New Subscribers To The News I Have you been reading the list of new subscriber* from week to week? We are proud to pre sent them to you each week and let you know jgst what paper your neighbors enjoy reading. Here is. the list of new and re newed subscriptions that have been received in this office dur ing the past week. We earnestly believe they express not only faith in our paper but express the fact that they are enjoying the news of their neighbors. Hillsboro: Mrs. Q. E. McAdams, Margaret Richardson, W. B. Coleman, Mrs. Taylor Bivins, Mrs. L. L. Scearce, Mrs. Joseph ine Patterson, R. O. Forrest, G. A. Brown, J. D. Eskridge, Don 8. Matheson. Wept Hillsboro: Nettie Strum, W..P*. McCauley. . Route 1, Hillsboro: G. W. Crabtree, Thomas Warren, J. W. Jordan. Route 2, Hillsboro: Gary W. Lloyd. » Route 3, Hillsboro: Mr*. Lillie Riley, Henry H. Brown, Charles 8nipes, L. M. Riley, W. A. Da- * vies, John D. Long, \ Chapel Hill: G. H. Lawrence, E. E. Ericson, Robert E. Burch, Zeb V. Council, Alfred 8. Law rence, L. J. Phipps. Route 1, Chapel Hill: Mrs. J. W. Zachary. Route 2, Chapel Hill: H. J. Neville, W. 8. Nunn. Carrboro: Mrs. D. J. Ivey,,Roy Riggsbee. Eftand: Mrs. M. P, Efland. Efland, Route 1; Charlie F. Sykes, A. L. McCauley. Route 1, Hurdle Mills: W. B. . McBroom, R. D. Parker. L. C. Cooper, Route 2, Meh ane; Miss Mattie Blackwood, Route 1, University; Mrs. Julia C. Davis, F.S.A. Office, Durham; G. T. Pentecost, Cedar Grove; (Continued on last page) ATHLETIC DIRECTOR HERMAN W. SCHNELL ” Herman Schnell Is Physical Director At Randolph Field Headquarters, Army Air For ces Central Flving Training Com mand, Randolph Field, TeX7~Marr 19.—Capt. Herman W. Schnell, of Chapel Hill, N. C., has been assi gned to headquarters of the AAF Central Flying Training Command, Randolph Field, Texas, as direc tor of physical training for the Command. A former professor of physical education at the University of N. Carolina. Chapel Hill, Capt. Scnnell received his B. A. degree in his tory and government at the Uni versity in 1930 and his M. A. de gree in physical education at Co lumbia University in 1939. He was manager of wrestling and boxing at the _University of North Carolina during 192JJ and 1930 and is a member of Delta Psi fra ternity. - - Before coming to Randolph Field, Capt. Schnell was attached to headquarters of the Army Air Forces, Washington, D. C., and headquarters of the AAF Western Technical Training Command in Denver, Colo. Mrs. Schnell and the two child ren are residing in Coushatta, La. Mrs. Stanford, who is alleged to have shot and killed her husband, John Stanford, following an argu- . ment and scuffle between the tygp, entered the courtroom and with stood the trial calmly, showing'lit tle break in emotional control until the latter, part of the hearing, which is the most dramatic trial in. the March term of superior court at Hillsboro. The jury was chosen yesterday morning and the hearing got un derway in time .to hear the testi mony of one witness. Sheriff S. T. Latta, just before the court was recessed for lunch. A. H. Graham of Hillsboro and Victor S. Bryant of Durham were the attorneys in, the defense. Sheriff Latta testified that on the morning of December 14 he was called to Walker’s Funeral Home where he viewed the body of John Stanford who had been shot ab*ut 814 inches below the shoulder, the load lodging in the upper part of the shoulder on the front side of his body. Both he and J. F. Bradshaw, special agent fpr the North Carolina SBI. ,who, was called to investigate the case, said they questioned Mrs. Stan ford who at first was reluctant to discuss the happenings, but later .confessed that she had shot Stan ford after he had threatened to kill her and the baby. Latta said that Mrs; Stanford admitted that after the argument with her husband she loaded the gun and went into the room where he was lying down and shot him. apparently at close range. Powder burns were found on his under shirt. She was said to have then gone out for help; H. J. Walker, Orange county cojrgpat^ said he was called to ia Jl35gak 'the case between <9 and id a m. on the day Stanford was shot. When he appeared at the scene, the body had been removed and the room completely cleaned up. Mrs. Stanford, who entered the court dressed in black, showed little sighs of nervousness but seemed to become slightly tense as the hearing began to take place. She controlled, herself well when cross examined on the witness ; stand and presented a story to the ■court that was somewhat iri con trast with the story Sheriff Latta i said she had told him and Brad shaw. She said she married John Stan ford in 1940 and had been living in the store building in Efland three years last November. Prior (Continued on page 5) Eastern.Star Installs New , Officers Here Officers for the? new year were installed at a meeting of the Hillsboro chapter No. 180 of the Eastern Star held in the Masonic hall Thursday night, March 15. In stallation ceremonies were in charge of Mrs. Allen H. Walker, grand warden of North Carolina and a* member of the Hillsboro chapter, assisted by Mrs. Herbert Riley as grand marshal, Mrs. G. G. Bivins as grand organist and E. C. Liner, grand chaplain. New officers are Mrs. Esther Goodwin, worthy, matron; Sydney Strayhom, worthy patron;__ Will Smith, associate matron; Will Smith,.associate patron; C. Walker, secretary; Sirs. Alma W. ker, treasurer; Mrs. Daisy more, conductress; Miss Ri Liner, chaplains Mrs. Hazel horn, marshal; Mrs. Nettie Biv organist; Mrs. Virginia W Adah; Mrs. Ora Laws, Ruth; Bettie Broad w£ll, Esther; Lizzie D. Long, Martha; Mrs. nes Bivins, Electra; Mrs. Boland, warden; Herman W sentinel. Following the meeting Mrs. Wilson and John P. Ballard_ i-efreshments to the 37 mem presei^. HEALTH CLINIC MARCH The Maternity and Infancy ic will be held on the fourth nesday in this month, March at 2 p. nu, in the health dep ment office in Hillsboro. Dr. salyn Ferguson is in charge. Expectant mothers and chil who are under school age, inc ing new babies, are invited to tend the clinic.
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