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s to the National Campaign. Others r help. What can that they can wear? War Loan starts May 14. Start saving for the mighty 7th. All "E” bonds bought count toward the goal. 8 Pages This Week Clothing aiwaWDtefcrstMwjc Jnderway I he United National Cloth rr campaign has finally ,,ved off to a slow start in illsboro with about half the nc already gone. The slow in is attributed to the mix i in getting a head appointed r the drive and designating central place for the clothes be collected. •• v ,- ‘ Rumor at first had it that Mrs. H. Brown was the acting head the drive and a few clothes >re even left at her home. When is was declared false, the tale un? to the Rev. R. C. Masterton, tor of the Episcopal church in llsboro and then to Rev. W. W. >ernethy, pastor of the First iptist church. Abernethy said this week that ere is no specific head for the ive,, but that the churches in ,vn had niutually agreed that all ithes collected would be turned er to. A. S. Mitchell at Mitchell’s irdware. Mitchell has accepted e responsibility of packing and ipping the clothes. So far, three rtons of old clothes have been eked and shipped from Hills ro, totalling in weight about 250 unps. etne churches in town are' col ting the clothes in groups and ning them over to Mitchell, lernethy said, however, that no thes are being collected at the ptist church. Each individual mber is responsible for getting old clothes to Mitchell’s Hard re. Everyone is asked to esti te the poundage of the clothes y-contribute to the drive and ve one cent per pound for the othes they leave with Mitchell to ke care of the shipping cost. The drive closes April 30. Jmstead Gets 1hanks Frpm L. Scotton J. L. Scotton, president of the •ange County Board M Agricul re, wrote a letter to Representa e John W. Umstead this week, anking him in behalf of the rmers of Orange county for his tiring efforts in behalf of the rmers in the last session of the gislaturg. Scotton’s -letter, read follows: )ear Mr. . Umstead: As president of our Orange unty Board of Agriculture, I ish to express the deep gratitude oiir farmers for your untiring orts in their behalf in the last sion of the legislature. Your pport of the North Carolina Ex riment Station, Department of griculture and North Carolina ate College Extension' Service as outstanding. The appropriation, ms adequate to enable them to nder greater sendee to the farm of our State. 'Your active interest in suc sfully securing- a special ap ropriation of $5,000,000,000 to be aside for the improvement of rm roads in the State is very ^mmendable and I am sure each irmer in the County will greatly enefit by this good work. J. L. Scotton.” *fc. Joseph Riddick Mackwood Killed In ictioa In Germany Carrboro.—Mrs. Nell Blackwood eceived a message from the war apartment , last -Tuesday that her 3n- Pfc. Joseph Riddick Black ood, recently reported missing 1 action, was killed in action in •ermany March 27. He was the usband of the former Miss Mar aret Blassingill of Savannah, Ga. Private Blackwood entered the rrr>y in August, 1944, and had een overseas since February, 1945. ?e was an infantryman in the !rst Army. He was a member of the Antioch baptist church. He is survived by is wife, his mother, two brothers, *-Sgt. Robert L. Blackwood, who ; in a hospital in England and -Sgt. Truett Blackwood in India, bs. sisters are Mrs. J. T. Lloyd, flrs. Alton RUey, Miss Hazel backwood of Chapel Hill and Mrs. W. Much of Virginia. ■OWDOIN PROFESSOR ONf ,,8IT TO CHAPEL .HILL JJ Chapel Hill, April 18.—Dr. and 4rs. Edward G. Kirkland are finding 10 days with his sister ^rs- Isabel K. Carter at 504 E. ranklin St. Dr. Kirkland is pro essor of history at Bowdoin Col ege- Brunswick, Maine. Elaer R. Dowdy With USS Pontotoc • ' '.I/ Elmer R. Dowdy, former agriculture teacher at the Hillsboro high school, is nojv an ensign in the Navy and deck officer on the USS Pontotoc, a new type cargo vesj^l which recently joined the fleet when she was j>ut into commission at the Westwego wharf at New Orleans, La. Shown standing on the deck of the USS Pontotoc are the officers who will man the newly commissioned cargo ship. They are, from left to right, Lieutenant (jg) J. M. Zahrndt, Wellsville, Ohio, supply officer; Lieutenant Commander C. W. Lockard, Cleveland, Ohio, commanding officer; Lieutenant (jg) F. G. Moses, St. Alband, N. Y„ engineering officer; Lieutenant (jg) P. L. Bryant; Southport,’ North Carolina, executive officer; Lieutenant (jg) W. CT; Alsop, Chicago, 111., communi cations officer; Lieutenant (jg) J. B. Odham, Sanford, Fla., first lieu tenant; Ensign E. R. powdy, Hillsboro, deck officer; and Lieutenant (jg) C. W. Ball, Louisville, Ky., gunnery officer. (Official U. S. Navy Photo.) Joy Ride In A Stolen Truck Draws 3 Months Road Term Chapel Hill, April 18.—Howard Farrington, ’Orange County Negro, who decided he “just wanted..id ride” last Saturday evening and took a University truck for the •purpose, spent an anxious ten min utes at Chapel Hill Recorders Court last Tuesday while the au thorities searched law books to see if the charge “temporary larceny” was within the local court’s juris diction. It is. Farrington was sentenced to three months on the roads, but was given a"1 suspended sentence and put on good behavior for two years, plus a $25 fine and costs Recorder H. A. Whitfield made it clear that the sentence was being suspended in view of “a clean record” and excellent character testimony given by witnesses. The defendant told the court he drove the truck from the Univer sity out the Hillsbdro road near Mr. Smith’s place where he jan out of gasoline. The truck, re cently equipped with several new tires, was found there slightly damaged. Farrington, himself, re ported its whereabouts to a Uni wlrsity Buildings Department of ficial early Monday morning.' He denied any knowledge of the theft at first, but later confessed to questioning police officers. In one and a half hours the court dispensed with 12 cases as follows. George Baldwin, colored, drunk enness, $5 and costs. Jack Robinson, colored, speed ing and improper brakes, $15 and costs. Robert Baldwin, colored, drunk enness, $5 and costs. Zon King, colored, drunkenness, $5 and costs. Norwood Butler, disorderly con duct, nol pros. Everett Carl Wonxble, speeding, $15 and costSf Jack W. Waldroup, drunkenness, nol pros with leave. Odell Williams, drunkenness, costs. Hubert Herndon, drunkenness, costs. ~ ■ Homer McCauley, faulty equip ment and improper brakes, costs. Geronia Craig, colored, drunk enness, costs. This Week’s WAR NEWS IN BRIEF ■ • ■ : • - . . ~~■ . Over the weekend superfor tresses continued a heavy incen diary bombing of Tokyo’s war in dustries. The B-29’s met bar rages of Jap anti-aircraft fire in their second gttack in 48 hours. Meanwhile, American troops un der Gen. Douglas MacArthur in vaded Rapu Rapu and Batan, the 39th and 40th islands in the Philip pines archipelago, and destroyed the Japanese garrisons. Two U. S. columns are closing in on Baguio, the sumrper capital of the Philip pines, while the west coast cam paign on Luzon nears an end*~ In* addition, Hong Kong and Canton have been severely bombed. Though the Japs have staggd. fanatical aerial assaults on both amphibious task forces and Ameri can held airfields at Okinawa, in fantry troops in the southern part of the island have repulsed enemy attacks. Marines to the north are completing their occupation ot Motobu peninsula. SURRENDER IN THE RUHR POCKET - — Far -behind the front, two more German cities, Brunswick, the great air manufacturing center, and Dortmund have fallen. Allied and Russian forces have" taken possession of half of the German cities with a population over 100, 000. Those remaining are either under siege or threatened. U. S. First and Third Army tanks have pushed through rear supply and., communication bases >f the Nazis to within 85 miles of the Russian lines. RUSSIANS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE The Red Army has launched the Irst stages of a powerful new of fensive aimed at reaching Ber Defor£ the Amen cans.- Four great Russian armies, ranging along: a fro-mile front, are likely to strike ;he capital at any hour and join lands with U. S. forces only 88 ™ToS tfiTnorth of Berlin 3M.W0 Red troops have pitched into battle [o clear the Samland peninsula >f East Prussia, while Russian armies of the south, leaving cap tured Vienna behind tljem; are barging west toward Hitler’s lair at Berehtesgaden. Fresh,, strong forces, hurling toward the Austrian city of Linz have captured SL Poeltin, a strategic 10 way roa«f and rail center. NINTH ARMY TACTICS Despite stiffening German re sistance, the 9th Army -continues its drive on Berlin. The 2nd Ar mored Division has recrossed the Elbe River at a point 45 miles from the Reich capital after being forced, under fierce counter-attack, (Continued on page 5) * Uasigaei Letters Canaet Unrated **-»«This week Tb# New* received an unsigned latter from some one vitally Interested in the “citizens mass meeting” at the local school auditorium last week. The letter contains sugges tions and opinions concerning the meeting and underlying causes, but The News is unable to publish the letter either In part or all of it because it is un signed. ' The News would welcome an open forum column or a public opinion column Into which let ters, opinions and questions from the public, Intended by the writer for print, woulcl go. For the protection of the newspaper, however, and as a proper way of dealing with one’s fellow citizens, these letters must bq signed. An open forum of public opinion is one of the best organs for displaying public interest. Drop us a line on your favorite suggestion or worry and get your column started next week. Registration For Sugar To Begin S&on Sugar for home Canning will be available on approximately the same procedure during registra tion as that of last year. Moody W, Durham, Chairman of the War Price and Rationing Board, an nounced this week. ' . In order to be eligible to regis ter for home canning sugar, it will be necessary for an adult member of each-family ot family unit who applies for sugar to appear at the registration in order to secure the sugar , which they need to take care of the fruits to be canned during this summer. It is necessary for the applicant to know how many pounds of sugar were used in 1944 for the purpose of making jams, jellies, preserves and blitters, how many pounds of sugar will be used in 1945 for making jams, jellies, pre serves and butters, how many quarts of finished canned fruit were canned wikt* sugar in 1944, how many quarts of finished can ned fruit will be canned in 1945, how many pounds of sugar were issued to each family or family unit for canning fruit in 1944, how many pounds of sugar did your family or family unit pse in can ning fruit last year and state whether or not you grow your own fruit? The . war ration book number four for each member of the fam ily has to be presented at the regis tration in order for spare 'stamp No. 13 to be detached at the time Of applying for the canning spgar. , The registration for the issuance of home canning sugar will be held for the applicants of Chapel Hill and Bingham ' Townships on the Fridays and Saturdays of April 20, 21, 27 and 28 and May 4 and 5. The hours of registration will be from 9 o’clock to 12 o’clock' in the mornings and from 2 o’clock to 5 o’clock in the afternoons in the Court Room of the Town Hall in Chapel Hill. There will be no registrations for canning sugar ac cepted by the War Price and Ra-8 tion Board Office in Chapel Hill except for the above specified time until a later date has been an nounced. The maximum amount of sugar which can be issued is 10 pounds per person or a maximum of 80 pounds per family unit on the first registration. Sergeant Kifflin R. Hayes Of Chapel Hill Goes A-Galluping In Luxembourg To Learn What Genuan Subjects Think rabies cumc here SAT UR D AY- AFTERNOON Dr. S. A. Nathan and Dr. W. G. Chrisman will be in Hillsbor^ Saturday, April-14, to eonduct the rabies clinic at the Hillsboro and West Hillsboro Schools, the colored school and at P. H. John’s store. The clinic will begin at the white schools at 2:00 o’clock, and at the colored school and P. H. John’s store at 3:30. HOUR PF LAUGHTER SKIT AT AYCOCK AUDITORIUM Katherine Ray will present a skit tonight on the Sophomore program “Hoyr of Laughter” to be given in the Aycock auditorium of Wo man’s College Jn Greensboro, Skits, in the form of “lake-offs” on the various departments, will be given by the. major of each department. Miss Ray will represent the Eng lish department. The program _ is being held in connection with Sophomore Day, to promote class spirit! _ German inhabitants of six .Luxembourg towns have recently been introduced to the ^American Gallup-phobia, ~a©<f\a Chapel Hill Sergeant—KifRin R. Hayes—was one °f yie researchers selected for the job of Setermining what Hit ler’s former subjects think about war and postwar. Sergeant Hayes is a member of the 6th Armdred Division which sought, through the so-called “Gallup Poll’’ to find out what civilians were,thinking about. Some of the questions asked were: “Do you think Hitler has another secret weapon?”, to which a majority answered “No”; “Do -you think the Germany will use poison gas£”, 67 per cent answer ing “No”; “Will guerrilla warfare continue after the war?”, 43 per cent believing the Germans would continue .to wage that type of -re sistance; “Are Americans treating German civilians all right?”, 72 per cent believing they were, and 10 per cent believing ;£he Allies were too strict. Eighteen per cent questioned thought the Allies were too lenient. Ten questions in all were asked of 210 persons between the ages of 16 and 82. ; .14 Orange County Aims Its Guns For The 7th War Loan Drive: ' ' ' -V - T 7 ’ Gilbert Ray Named Chairman Parker Closes For Duration J. R. Parker, owAer and oper ator of Parker’s Shoe Shop in Hillsboro, said this week that the shoe shop will close next Satur day and remain closed lor the du ration, or tfie portion thereof that Parker will.be in the army. Leaving Hillsboro completely without a shoe repair man, the draft is calling Parker for induc tion Saturday, April 28. He stop ped taking orders for repairs early this week, and urges those having shoes to call for them before he closes. •„ An Orange countian by birth, Parker’s home is near Chapel Hill. He worked In the shoe repairing business in Chapel Hill eight years with his uncle, the late D. A. Groves. That shop is still being operated by Mrs. Groves. About four years ago, Parker opened his shop in Hillsboro and has been operating the business here ever since. According to present plans, Par ker will reopen his shop here in Hillsboro following his service in the army. Chapel Hill Seeks Priorities For New School Structure Chapel Hill, April 18.—Architect H. R. Weeks, Building Chairjnan J. F. Gobbel and Supt. A. W Honeycutt, of the high school building committee, spent'' Tues day in Raleigh conferring with the War Production Board with a view to securing priorities in manpower and materials necessary to erect the first section of the proposed new school building. - „ If priorities can be secured a 12-classroom structure will be started at once, on the Cone prop erty on West Franklin situated along Burman Court. This will be an integral part of the new school building and every effort is being made to haVe it ready for the fall term of school. Four cottages now occupying the site will be offered for. sale at auc tion the first week,in May. Gilbert W. Ray, county accountant, tvas appointed to head the 7lh War Loan Drive in Hillsboro and rural Orange at a meeting of officials held at the Durham Bank and Trust Com pany^ building in Hillsboro last Friday, An over-all quota of $574,000 has been set for this area with $458,000 of this amount to be subscribed in bonds of series “E.” Stores Closed All store* end business houses in Hillsboro and West Hillsboro closed for one hour last Satur day afternoon from four until five o’clock, during the funeral of Our late president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. A petition was carried all oyer town by T. P. Hofler, highway patrolman, and It was signed by every merchant and business man in Hillsboro and West Hills boro. At 4:00 P. M. Saturday, the town siren was briefly sounded and all doors closed for one hour. Tar Heels Divide Games Oi The Week By '• MIKE” MlCHAIL Chapel Hill, April 17.—Coach Bunn Hearn’s, Tar Heel baseball club broke even in two recent ex hibition games, getting an 8-7 win over the Roanoke Red Sox in Dur ham last Friday afternoon, and then dropping a 4-2 thriller to the Cherry Point Marines Monday afterpoon here at Emerson Field in Chapel Hill. Carolina’s “Lefty” Ed McElrath effectively handcuffed the Red Soft hitters in the early stage of that game as his mates built up an 8-1 lead for the first ftye innings. But the Virginians suddenly found their hitting stride late in the con test and pounded McElrath and Jones, his successor, for 6 more tallies, their impressive rally fall ing just one run short of a tie-up With the Heels. The Tar Heels, lacked punch at the plate, as well as suffering from jittery ball-handling as they went down before the strong Leather necks from Cherry Point. Nint .hits and a few costly errprs on the part of the Carolina dltfb gave Cherry Point a 4-2 decision over the collegians. The game was tight’ and close all the way, featuring a hot pitcher’s duel between “Red” Forrest of Carolina and Scott ol the Marines. . .„L,_: Umstead Reviews High Spots Of The Legislature To Lions John W. Umstead, representa tive' ^n the fiftieth- session' of the legislature, who spoke at the regular meeting of the Hillsboro Lions Club Thursday of last week.. Baseball Friday Hillsboro and- Chapel Hill high school teams will meet in a base ball game Friday afternoon in Hillsboro. Competition between these schools is keen as their teams are the only two in this section qualified'for entrance in the. B con ference. AWARDED PURPLE HEART Sgt. E.^tJraham Broadwell is the recipient of the Purple Heart, awarded him for-wounds received in action in Germany Feb. 3, ^.The wounds were only slight and not sufficient to give cause for hos pitalization. »'_ Sgt. Broadwell also, wears the Combat Infantry Badge. He has been in the European theater since” September of last year. [ Representative John W. Um stead of Chapel Hill spokfs at the regular meeting of the Hillsboro Lions Club Thursday of last week, reviewing some of the high spots of the fiftieth session-of the legis lature, and aiming criticism at the mental institutions at Raleigh and Mbrganton. Umstead said one can usually know what to expect in a session of the legislature, but the past session was packed full of, sur prises even for the legislators. Mentioning the Control Bill, he said the legislature definitely de fined the status of the bill and the duties of school superintendents. The number of teachers for all schools in the state was frozen and teachers’ salaries adjusted. It was also made illegal for any school ^cafeteria to operate on a profit basis. Umstead pointed out that one school in the state had pre viously operated jts cafeteria at a clear profit, of $1,690. Umstead has been working in behalf of the farmers to help bring about the improvement of county d irt. roads r.particular Ly -farm*- to.. market roads. Several months ago, he promised a group of people at a meeting of the Orange county Board of Agriculture that he would do his best to help get a bill through fdr” state aid to county roads. This session of the legisla ture passed a bill earmarking five million dollars per year to be used solely in the improving of county roads throughout 'the state. During the past session, Um stead was appointed to serve on a committee investigating the men tal' institutions in the state. He highly' commended the negro in sane asylum at. Goldsboro and ex pressed conditions gt Dix Hill and •Morganton as being deplorable. This year being the time for the biennial-problem of wine, beer and liquor, the question came up and most of the trouble was-found to be in the wine. The legislature passed, a bill. forbidding the sale of wine in glasses except in grade “A” cafes. The wine must hea product approved by law. The liquor question, Umstead said, was handled in the senate. Chairman Ray read a letter to the group from J. Maryan Saund ers of Chapel Hill, chairman of the drive for the' entire county. Saunders pointed out that the “E” bond quota is somewhat higher than the figure named in previous drives, but he expressed confidence in the county’s being able to reach the goal by virtue of. the fact that the people bought almost that amount in the past two drives. During the 5th War Loan $404,000 was subscribed in “E” bonds, and sales in that series amounted to $455,000 in the recently past 6th War Loan campaign. The official opening date of the drive is May 14 with the closing date set for June 30. However, all bonds, in series “E,’\“F,” and “G,’* and treasury savings- notes bought anytime from April 9 to July 7 will count towards the goal Mrs. M. B. Roberts, Mrs. H. W Moore and Mrs. R. C. Masterton will be in charge of the drive in the residential areas of Hillsboro, and R. H. Claytor will lead the schools in their efforts to aid the drive. Don S. Matheson, county agent, was appointed to head the drive in the rural areas of Orange county. Matheson said this week that the campaign will get underway in the •rural areas May 1 with circulars and ietters promoting the, effort being sent to every, farm family. However, he pointed out that this is not the best time of year to con duct such a drive among the farm ing populace since the farmers have mpst of their money invested in their crops. Matheson said be cause of this, he expects to find it difficult to reach the “E” bond quota. In contrast to previous drives, there will be no house to house canvass In the rural areas by the neighborhood leaders, but the neighborhood leaders will be call ed upon to aid the campaign in any way they can, especially by encouraging the farmers to buy their bonds in Orange county. Some farm families in Orange live close to Durham or Mebatte and have bought bonds in both places. Since these places are not in the county, Matheson urges them to purchase their bonds in the county so the county -will get the credit during the drive. - _ - At the meeting last Friday, ~ Claytor introduced the question as to whether the response would be as good as it has been in the past in view of the fact' that V-E Day is close at hand and tmobtainable goods will again be on the mar ket. Hay said he believes the people are just as interested in the war as ever because more people have so many more members ot theIr‘'farHrlies overseas. . . . Those present at Friday’s^ meet ing were Gilbert W. Ray, J. M Bleiden, Don S. Matheson, C. J James, Mrs. M. B. Roberts, R. H Claytor, Mrs. H. W.- Moore and R. O. Forrest. Federated Clubs Of Sth District Will Meet Next Tuesday The 8th District Federation of Women’s Clubs will hold its an nual meeting Tuesday, April 24, in jhe Methodist churdh at Chapel Hill? County officers from 'Durham, Chatham, Person, Wake, and .Or ange will take part-in the meet ing. Home Demonstration club women of the host county. Orange, will also attend this meeting. County reports will be of great interest to the group. Dr. H. D. Meyer, University of North Carolina, will address the group on community recreation plans. Some Carrboro 4-H club members accompanied by Mrs. Ira Mann will lead in some songs. Picnic lunch, provided by H.D. clubs in Orange county, will be served at noon. The afternoon will be devoted to seeing Chapel Hill. NO FISHING IX CHATHAM COl’M Y R. L. Logan, district garr;e war den, of Chapel Hill, said this,week that contrary to the custom in ..past years, absolutely no Ashing is al lowed on Saturdays and Mondays in Chatham county during the spawning season from April 5 to May 20. It has been customary in past years to" permit fishing on Saturdays and Mondays during the closed season, but under a new regulation, this is prohibited.
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