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THE NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 5; NO. 45 SWAN QUARTER, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1944 Single Copy 5 Centi HYDE COUNTY DOCTOR SERVED ON BOMBED SHIP Dr. Nathan Fitts Awarded Purple Heart Bar by Navy For Service While in Danger Dr. Nathan T. Fitts of Swan Quarter sometime ago was award ed the Purple Heart Bar in recog nition of his gallant services and injuries received in action while a member of the crew of the Liberty Ship S. S. Ru-hard Olney, operated by the Marine Trans port Lines. Dr. Fitts, a native of Rocky Mount, who first entered the Ar my, was later discharged, be cause of toxic neuritis. He then "shipped out" on the transport and at the time of the action in which he received his wounds, the ship was doing shuttle work between man bases and Salerno in the Mediterranean. While on one of these runs in the daytime, the Richard Olney was sighted by a German plane and attacked. She was about 15 miles off the coast of Cape Bon near Bizerte, however, and after being hit by bombs and later tor pedoded by a German sub, the ship finally was beached and all hands on board, including about 400 soldiers, were rescued. When the ship was torpedoed, said Dr. Fitts, three members of the crew who were in the engine room at the time were killed and about 30 injured. The German submarine was "run down" a few days later by British naval units and captured. Dr. Fitts was in coastwise ser vice in 1941 and 1942. The letter informing him of the award was sent to him by W. N. Westerland, president of the Marine Trans port Lines, and read as follows: "Dear Dr. Fitts: "As operators of the vessel on which you suffered injury in northwest African waters on Sep tember 22, 1943, i s our privi lege to present you with the Pur ple Heart Bar This, award is made on behalf of the United States Navy under direction of the President of the United States for injuries received in action against the enemy. "Commander F. J. Lowry, in charge of the amphibious forces in that area, has requested that we convey to you his heartiest rnnpratulations for a job well done. "This decoration is one that we j hope vou will wear with great down the ways of the North Car pride in the knowledge that you olina Shipbuilding Company have served your country SO i courageously in carrying on your duties faithfully in the face of great danger. It is an evidence that you have contributed to the combined effort of the men of the American Merchant Marine in thoir solendid exhibition of lovalty and steadfast allegiance to I ihe noblest traditions of our great American heritage." In an interview with Dr. Fitts we are able to give a rather in teresting account of his experi ences as follows: 'I entered the Merchant Marine twice in 1941. I made one trip in July and sustained a knee injury that kept me on the beach for several months. In February of 1942 I again sailed. We lost our first merchant ship on the U. S. coast Jan. 14. 1942. Every month af.er that the going got tougher and tougher. Having sailed in the Nay in the last war, it was my lot to ;;o to Texas City, Texas on a tanker, and to tell the truth, I don't mind admitting that I was plenty scared. During the laf.er part of March and to the 21st of j Ar,ril r.f that 4 - !1 nmP ( CiT ' a j..., our cn; ?t. We passed over miles and milts of great slits of oil. It was a common occurrence to see so many poor tankers that got it. I was scared coming back we were loaded with 105 thousand barrels of high octane gasoline. Every mile seemed to be 15 or 20 miles. we sot five S O S. calls within a few minutes My cabin was close to the steering gear and all of a sudden things got very quiet. I got used to sleeping with the noise, and I presume the quiet ness caused me to awake. Any how, the "Gulf Bell," who were trailing us (she was a brand new tanker with a 16 man gun crew. We had not as much as an air rifle on the Pan Delaware) d.s-obc-yed inteliiser.ce orders and al so the warn;. ,3 from our skip per, Cip'-iiu I.r She parsed us an wA I c id tell by the wake Iron-, trc pro; tllnr that our sh.p ai (.rthng ery sUnvly. Our c.'.i ',;-:!) sent word '.o us to (" .'.f .. d on J ;i';t- ,-jr) 283 POLIO CASES REPORTED IN N. C. BY HEALTH BOARD Hyde and Dare Contribute Funds Toward Combatting Outbreak Infantile paralysis cases in North Carolina since June 1 reached a total of 283 Wednesday, July 12, the State Board of Health reported. M.st cases were in the Piedmont counties. Seventyeight of the State's 100 counties have made contributions toward combatting the polio out break, according to J. C. B. Ehr inghaus, chairman of the North Carolina Polio Emergency Fund Committee. The total contribu tions amounted to $33,737.85. Dare county contributed $33. 62: Hyde, $223.25; Tyrrel, $247. 72;' and Beaufort, $100. Contribu tions in most cases amounted to half of funds held by counties from the March of Dimes drive each January. J. M. LONG IS NEW PRESIDENT OF ROTARY CLUB New officers of the Engelhard Rotary Club assumed office last Thursday evening at the regular weekly dinner meeting at the Watson Hotel. All are serving in their respective positions for the first time. J. M. Long, building and elec trical contractor, is the new pres ident. He succeeds L. A. Dudley. Mr Long is mayor of Engelhard and is active in community and civic affairs. Other officers who are serving with Mr. Long are A. G. Silver thorne, traffic manager for the Engelhard Bus Company, vice president; N. W. Shelton, super intendent of Hyde schools, secretary-treasurer; and Carl E. Whit field, state highway patrolman, sergeant-at-arms. ! The new oificers were elected for a term of one year. Mr. Long announced at his first meeting that committee appoint ments would be made later and given at the next meeting. j THE TYRRELL, AN AKA BOAT, LAUNCHED MONDAY j The Tyrrell, the first of a num ber of AKA's (American cargo ships, attack) to be named for North Carolina counties, slid .iunuiy a: ici iiuuii. uuicia iwl iuu- ing one named for Hyde county honor Tar Heel counties. j The first five AKA's were nam ed for counties of other states. The Tyrrell was the first boat named for an N. C. county. The names of six other counties have been assigned by the Secretary of Navy, me counties are Ala mance, Caswell, Duplin, Lenoir, New Hanover and Stokes. In addition to the names given to vessels which will be built at the Wilmington shipbuilding firm other naval craft honor sev eral Tar Heel counties. They are .Hyde.' Pitt, Carteret, Bladen Chatham, Clay, Edgecombe, Granville. Guilford. Rockingham, Warren, Wayne and Yancey. I mini n inn in n ii ii mi gtfZW NEWSOFOUR MEM-uWOMEM W'Zlt- IN UNIFORM TRAINING IN MARYLAND La'.ney Hioker, son of Mrs. Frank Swindell of Engelhard, I who recently volunteered for I naval service, is training at Bain i bridge. Md , Hooker graduated j from the Engelhard hih school in VJiS and attended N. C. btate College, Raleigh, last year. VISITS MOTHER Bill Hardison, U. S. Navy, spent sometime visiting his moth- M"- ,Lee khm. t Engel-' h"rd last week oung Hardison recntly returned from a trip ov erseas. THAW DANIELS. USCG VISITS AT WANIIESE. Thaw Daniels. USCG, who has been stationed in Mississippi, is home for a ten-day leave, and is visiting h:s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Major Daniels of Wanchese. His wife is also visiting them. ; four WurlUmtl I Ittvvstinvttl is I Your Em vslmviit in Amvrivu Allied Wounded Flown From France ? A 3 L, i ' ' t ' kef If' " I r i , t; 4 X, 5 4 Aml zrr(y PLANES WHICH TAKE SUPPLIES to the Normandy battlefield airstrips icturn to Britain with battle casualties. This picture shows Corporal Lydia Alford, a nursinj orderly ol Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air Force, helping one of the wounded being loaded on a Douglas Dakota transport plane of the R.A.F. Her job will be to tend the wounded during the flight back. Around the IN DURHAM N. W. Shelton, Su- perirttendent of Schools, is in Durham attending a meeting of North Carolina city and county school superintendents. Mr. Shelton left Tuesday morning. The meeting began Wednesday and continued through Thursday. Mr. Shelton will attend a meet ing of the Regional Library Board In Washington Friday while on his return trip home. He is a member of the Hyde County Li brary Board. APPLICATION BLANKS Hyde County service men's wives who desire to apply for free materni ty and infant care can get appli cation blanks from the local health department or the coun ty Red Cross chapter. Federal ' officials urge that those eligible! ply at the beginning of pregnan - cy so that their health and that of the child can be better safe guard- eu Medical, nursing and hospital, care tor tne service man s wile ; if any other Hyde home has been are provided during pregnancy, ' called on to make such a sacri childbirth, and for six months t f after childbirth, and for the in-! Mr Ropert himself a veteran fant throughout its first year, all 0f the last war, takes much inter- without cost to the service man or his Jamily. NATIONAL ELECTION The Republican national convention which was recently held in Chica-j go, and the plans of the Demo crats for their meeting in the same city next week has been a source of conversation around the courthouse for the past sev- eral days. Most of those with! fall . . . Miss Jennie Brown of-. I whom we have talked think it is , the AAA office and Mr. E. E.I (certain that Mr. Roosevelt will be'Crabtree were married last week.' (nominated for a fourth term. j Ex-sheriff S. O. Jones, w ho has j 'shown himself pretty good at predicting county campaigns on j some occasions in the past, says !that Thomas E. Dewey, the Be- publican nominee, will make a j ' good run in the county. He thinks that the people will be voting ' more against Mr. Roosevelt and a BIBLE SCHOOL BEGINS AT ENGELHARD MONDAY A Vacation Bible school, under the sponsorship of the Engelhard Methodist and Christian churchej wil begin Monday. July 17. It will , continue through Friday and will ; be held in the Christian Church All of the children of Engel hard are invited to attend the classes which begin at 9 o'clock each morning. The school will be 1 under the direction of the Rev. F. D. Davis, Methodist minister and the Rev. J. T. Brown, Chris tian minister. HYDE RED CROSS SEC Y ATTENDS KINSTON MEETING Miss Kathleen Cooper a'tended . a meeting of the Red Cross in , Kins'.on this week. M:js Cooper j is secretary of the Hyde County, chapter. The Tifth War Cotia Urive be gins in June remen:W-r "'. Courthouse .fourth term than they will be for ' the New York governor. , PREFER ROOSEVELT There are those, 'however, who express the belief that Mr. Dewey will not get very far. It is pointed out that even though many people do not like the idea of a fourth term for Mr. Rooseveit, tint Ujey pre fer that to a reactionary such as Mr. Dewey. nr., : tj..j . where individualism stands out, pameni co,,st3w. , K arn would go against the Democratic ' Winfhead' Negr' party on the fourth term issue. Nrfolk' dr,V'ng hW.! ha'm it is said, if a liberal and p' cen on automobile ari Utanf gressive candidate had been put "cen3e longmg to Albert W W -forth by the Republicans. But ekeT and us'"l II' S'63 they say Mr. Dewey is too close-I' sentenced to 30 day. on the ly tied with the Hoover-Landon ' roads suspended upon payment conservatives, dailv paper that Ralph L. Roper.! ; clerk of Court, looks for first is I i the ca9uahy ,ist. Mr. RoDer who i lost his on Iv son in fhp war aoamst , . -0v' the Japs looks every day to see! est in American Legion affairs. His interest in veteran's affairs has increased since the loss of his son, Sidney. THIS 'N THAT The Board of Commissioners met in special session Monday and approved the 1944-45 budget . . . Miss Iberia Roach has been named to head the annual War Fund drive this HIS NAME WAS I .. 4. 'Zrr.Z-."V- ? - - Y- Vj Army Siiatl Corps Phori 1 An Army doctor with the Fifth Army in Italy Im.ks at the d.. tagj of a dead Aro-ru'.-in ldivr so that his bc-luved bat hon.e may know that he 1 f He h.s life f'ir hi our. try. All your country is askir.g you to do :s ti t;:ve . M ur duiiar to batk up the men who are Cghtn.g for you by bjyir.g Wat 401. Gi. . C 5. r.jiuf ifj'.'.'ni,, BOND SET $500 FOR APPEARANCE SUPERIOR COURT Hyde Negro To Be Tried In October On Charge of Trespassing at Night Bennie Young, Middletown Ne gro employed at Manns Harbor, charged with trespassing at night, was bound over to the October term of Hyde County Superior Court by Judge E. S. Fisher in Hyde Recorder's Court Monday Bond was set at $500. Young was charged with at tempting to enter the home of Mrs. Nancy Berry, near Engel hard, on Saturday night, June 3. Mrs. Lizzie Berry, one of the five women in the house when the at tempted entry was made, identi fied Young in court as the person she saw at the scene of the crime. The Negro denied the charges through his attorney, Clay Car ter of Washington. Orher cases tried at the court sesion Monday were as follows: Preston Watson, Belhaven, drunk on highway and damaging jail, pleaded guilty, sentenced to ix months on the roads suspend ed upon payment of $25 fine, cost and repairs to jail. Matthew Knight, Ponzer, fail ing to stop automobile at regula tion stop sign, plead guilty, sen tenced to 30 days on the roads suspended upon payment of cost. Ed Fonville, Negro, Washing- i ton, violating speed law, capias and continued. Edward Whitaker, Negro, Swan 'Quarter, giving check without ! having sufficient funds, capias and continued. Elmo Moore, Negro, Engelhard, Operating motor vehicle on pub lic highway in careless and reck- ' less manner- Plead guilty, sen tenced to six months on the roads suspended upon payment of $33 fine and costs, and provid ed that he doesn't drive an auto mobile until he gets permit. John Fulford, Negro, Engelhard, being diunk on public highway, Dlead guilty, sentenced to 30 "days on ruaus, suspenucu uon , i . j j OI SJU line aim tuai. I I SUMMER GARDENS NEEDED unrn v,p r.untv famj,ies are urg- "due"un fan "'f! f? i . m, , i mar oirnPn no urn ni.il re Sl s that unless such a step is carried out many pantry shelves will be empty this winter. The Spring gardens produce very little because of the dry weather. Few families were able to can any vegetables. Most peo ple generally do much canning out of their spring gardens. Farm Agent J. P. Woodard say that among other things, string I beans, bunch butter beans, col- lards, any root crops, beets ana carots can be planted now. He said that special emphasis should be put on planting crops for can ning. Buy War Bonds and Stamps. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF 0CRAC0KE WOMAN LAST WEEK STILL UNSOLVED Mrs, L. C. Godfrey, Cafe Operator, Found Dead In Car on Outskirts of Morehead City After Myster ious Disappearance; Coroner James of Carteret County Had Made No Statement Through Tuesday RALLIES BOOST BOND SALES BUT QUOTA NOT MET Fairfield and Ponzer Rallies Add More Than S6,G00 To Total Sold Fifth War Loan sales in Hyde county pased the $50,000 mark through Saturday, $26,000 below the goal. Sales through the month of July will be counted in the quota, however, and this will boost the amount some although little hope of going over the top is eld by officials. Two rallies, one at Fairfield the sales more than $6,000 last and the other at Ponzer, boosted week. Sales at the six rallies held in the county passed the $26, mark and thu3 accounted for more than half of the sales in the drive to date. Fairfield held its rally Thurs day night, July 6. Bond3 and stamps sold amounted to $4,300. Music was furnished by mem bers of the high school band and by the Fairfield quartette. Reci tations were given by Edward O'Neal and William Doughtie. Auctioneers were P. C. Simmons, P. E. Swindell and R. F. Bayes. The committee in charge of the publicity, program and auction were Mra. J. L. Simmons, Mrs. C. M. Swindell, Mrs. G. R. Cuth rell, Miss Margie Jones, R. F. Baynes and P. E. Swindell. The Ponzer community held its rally Friday night, July 7, in the community building. Sales amounted to $2,183. The Home Demonstration Club sold $14.10 worth of ice cream at the meeting. The money goes into the club treasury. Those in charge of the Ponzer rally were Mrs. E. J. Clayton, ; Mrs. Denneth Dunbar, Mrs. Geo. iScjuires and Mrs. Ben Harris, i Robert E. Tunnell of Swan Quar ter was the auctioneer. ROSE BAY HOME CLUB PLANS FISH FRY IN AUGUST The Rose Bay Home Demon stration club held its regular monthly meeting last Friday af ternoon, July 7th, at the home of Mrs. Sim Brickhouse. Plans i wer damestra-FORwn teoliadfh ' were made o hold a fish fry at the regular August meeting. ! The Rose Bay club has made it 'a custom to have a picnic at the August meeting each year. Next month, however, the members ( will go to Bells Island for a fish I fry rather than their annual pic ! nic outing. I The meeting Friday was open !ed by singing "Is Everybody Happy." The devotional was by Mrs. Roland Dunbar. Contribu tions of $.70 were made to buy War Stamps for the club album. Miss Iberia Roach, county home agt-r.t. gave an interesting talk. ; At the end of the business ses sion, the mo;'es served cakes, tea and fruits. HYDE NEGROES LEAVE TOR INDUCTION MONDAY Eight Hyde County Ncsrors left Swan Quarter Monday morn ing for Fort Bragg to be induct ed into the armed forces. They were Willie Satterthwaite. Wil liam Edward Mann, Wallace Gibbs and Weldon Gibbs, Scran ton; Hubert J. Whitaker, Swan Quarter; Tommie Lee Bryant, Engelhard; Osier W. Gibbs. Mid dletown; and Kennie Shelton, Lake Landing. M. A. MATTHEWS ATTENDS X. C. BANKERS MEETING ' M. A. Matthews, cashier of the Engelhard Banking & Trust Com pany is in Chapel Hill this week attending the North Carolina Banker's Conference at the Uni versity. RETURNS TO CAMP Pvt. Guy GibbJ. V. S. Army, who spent several days with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Huron Gibbs of Muidi. '.own. k ft Wed nesday to return to duty at Fort Fsnr.in, Texas. Carteret County officials inves tigating the deaht of Mrs. L. C. Godfrey, Ocracoke cafe operator, who mysteriously disappeared following her arrival in More head City from Wilmington last Thursday, had no statement to make regarding the case Tuesday. Sheriff Sherman Holland said that there was little evidence of foul play. Mrs. Godfrey's body was dis covered Monday morning by members of the Morehead City police. They had been notified Thursday by her husband who lives in Wilmington that she had been missing. Mrs. Godfrey was reported en route to Ocracoke from Wilming- i ton, accompanied by Ila Riggs j Smith of Atlantic. They picked 1 up a serviceman, Richard Mat 1 thew Coster of Toledo, Ohio, sta itioned at Atlantic, en route and stopped to shop in Morehead City. jMiss Smith left Mrs. Godfrey in j order to fill an appointment and ! was unable to find her at the ap pointed place and hour, j Morehead City police were no tified of her disappearance Thurs ! day night by her huaband and her body was found in a car Monday morning on the outskirts of the city off the New Bern highway by a member of the Morehead City police as he went about his rounds. The woman's clothing was not torn acd there were only slight bruises on her body. Officers said that there was a possibility of gagging. The body remained in a More head City funeral home through Monday while the Carteret County coroner, sheriff and More head police investigated the case. The provost marshall and his assistant from Cherry Point studied the records. No date had been set Tuesday for the testi mony of Miss Smith and Coster. Funeral services for the 41 year old cafe operator were conducted Wednesday from the Yopp Funer al Home in Wilmington with the Rev. C. D. Barclift officiating. Interment was in Oakdale Cem etery, Wilmington. CIVIL SERVICE WORKERS NEEDED AT FORT BRAGG Henry R. Rose, Senior Recruit ing Representative of the United States Civil Service Commission, announced today the great need for Watch and Instrument Re pairmen, Armament Machinists and Repairmen, and Auto Me chanics for employment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The civilian employees of Fort Erag? are proud in knowing that they have played an important part in the successful invasion of Western Eurone. Without the 1 thousands of tanks and other mo- 1 torized equipment that were pre pared at Fort B.-333 for over seas ship-rent, the ;nvacion corld ! never have been started. The I successful berirnira of the in- I vaslon has rot diminished the de mand or. Tort Pray 3 for the im plements of war. Veteran? of the Army. Navy, or Marine Corns are e-irliy de sired for these po?it,:r3. The wagc. hours, and working conditions are good. Anyone nrt presently enjased in an essentia! activity at his high est skill should immediately con tact the local Civil Service Sec retary at th Post Office or the nearest office of the United States Employment Service or write to the Civil Service Commission, Building 310, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. j RAIN'S STILL BADLY j NEEDED ON COAST FARMS I More rains are reeded on j coastal farms, and crops are burn I ing up or maturing too early. The idry spell has continued all the had been no rains up to Friday Save a sca'tenrg sh.iwer no and then which did !itt!-. (rood. r,,-;-flcn on H'O'i.iko I-'ard anl vicinity which rnrtrd out with the greatest prOii;:e it year h:ti proved a con j-iete f.n'.j'C. there l.iin3 m;ghtv few cxcep'.ons tj
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