Robesonian (Newspaper) - March 13, 1944, Lumberton, North Carolina IF IT YOULL ABOUT n 0 THAN VOL 21565 N X MONDAY MARCH 131944 Russian Army Near And Kherson Eire Axis Spy Base AM m STATUTE ORKNEY J iLe Havre f FRANCE Eire accused by the U S of being an Axis spy base lies adjacent to principal convoy routes from America to England Une of As distance circles reveal the Irish haven for German and Japanese officials is within relatively short distance of invasion preparations anywhere in Great Britain AP Wirephoto Large Group Of Negro Draftees To Report Mar 24 A Iarge colored regis trants are called to report to the office of Robeson county Local Board No 1 in Lumberton at 7 a m March 24 to be sent to Fort Bragg for preinduction examina tion Their names as listed by the board are Richard Graham Charlie Wil liams Bessie Worley T C Hayes Valley Bethea J C Lee James Hooper Frank Moody Fred Howell James Washing ton Charlie Wilkerson June Wal ter Henry John Willie Bethea Otha Branch Edward Nevins Beaufort Evans Henry Buchanna Harry Dillard Leo Jones Rolley Perkins Sylvester McEachern Roy Jr Romie Jefferson James Baker Hemon Hayes Frank Penick Booker ford Kelly Bartlett Taft Gaddy Booker T Edwards Craston Bar j ney Bethea A Q Page Leo Ed mund Tarry Fuller Regan Jan over Thompson Aubrey Ford Grady Pittman John Fred Buie J D Stevenson George Robert Medlin Paul Joseph Freeman William Henry Lewis Laurie Furman Clifton M McBryde Wil lie Leggett William Lemion John Willie Troy Leach Clem mie Austin Lane Floyd Tommie Townsend Alexander Lewis Wil liam Cain Charlie Eady Berry Graham Jr v Thomas Ingram Costner Where Red Gap Perils 500000 i Britain Ireland En Step Taken On Urent Request of Gen bower Axis Agents In Eire Reported Menace London March travel except in greatest urg was suspended today I i J Battle To Within 30 Miles Of Black Sea Port And Within 22 Enemy Dnieper Base Mrs N R Kinlaw Dies After Long Illness At Home T t C ar Fund Launched In County This Week Lumberton Committees Begin Work Tuesday AU plans are in readiness in the comity lor launching of an intensive drive this week to raise the 1944 War Fund quota of the American Hed Cross Robeson citizens are expected to donate the ot between now examination on March lo Lor Men Urged Take Army Exam On March 15 of Britain and Allied war secrets hands of enemy agents opera in neutral Eire A British government order posing the restrictions midnight came only 2 days after Eires Prime Minister Eamon Valera announced his refusal accede lo U S request man and Japanese fices in his country be The order torn the office resulted i cut request from Gen Dw Eisenhower supreme mander of the Allied invasion forces who was to have information that Axis representatives in Eiri constituted m serious requiring immediate It was generally London that the travel ban only the beginning of British U S measures to provide stf military security and the Rites Kor Esteemed Luni berton Woman Sunday Held Of Prisoners Mount Croups Surrender THE CAP torn in Nazi lines south of the Dnieper bend is being increased hourly as the Reds drive for and peril a million of Von men as the map shows the north where one Red drive beads for the Rumanian border via and another via Luck the top prong moves southward International Scott Says Balanced Economy Needed To Avoid Booms And Depressions W Thomas Raleigh Simmons High Prices berton J JL Mclntyre Gon fc 1 i ki t JL M M M i Maultsby Named of 7th Dis Select Leaders Elizabethtown March 13 A Maultsby of Whiteville was nominated as the partys candidate for Congress and elected a dele gate to the national convention at the convention of Republicans of Rotary Group We Two Mrs Alice Mae Prevail Kinlaw of Nash H Kinlaw Robe son county register of deeds died at her home on 13th street Satur day morning at oclock alter a critical illness of several months She had been confined to bed since the first of December and had been in a coma for several days i Funeral services attended byal large assemblage of friends were conducted from the home Sunday at 4 p m by her pastor Dr J Glenn Blackburn assisted by Ar nold Poole a ministerial student at Presbyterian college in Clinton S C Mrs M sang When They Pang Those Golden Bells as a solo and a quartet com posed of Mrs U JL Mclntyre Gordon Cashwell and Prisoners Report Morale Low and Short Bitter Fighting Rages In Tarnopol Area With Strong Ger man Forces Waging Resistance For Every Hilltop Stream and House Other Possibilities possibilities stand the Seventh Congressional district and end of the campaign on March 31 In Lumberton the soliciting oC will get underway Tuesday under the di rection of Chairman Ingram P and CoChairman Les lie J Huntley quota is is mately 80 percent over and above that of Six committees have been formed to work in as many di visions in the area in and around Lumberton The block system is being used according to Mr who says that each section of the iown will be cover ed thoroughly The aid of several hundred has been enlist ed Citizens are asked to have their contributions ready when toe workers and to make their donations as generous as possible Ml will be necessary to increase ones gift oi last year by at least GO percent r order to meet the quota stated Mr Hedgpeth we feel confident that Lum berton will reach her allotment and go over top Chairmen The committee chairmen who been named arc Residential H P Allen Mrs Guy Townsend Business Wein stein Ed Wesh Jasper Hutto Wilker J B Berry French Henry Kass John Phillips City E Lohr Special Gifts and Advisory Hutaff J E John son Max Weinstein Rom A Hedgpeth Leroy Townsend Colored T Brooks Washington Mar Secretary of War Stimson urged all eligible young men to take the j here Saturday B C Fussell party secretary army specialized training reserve j for this district was named program elector and L E Chenault The examination to be heid jwa delegate throughout tiat nation in high Officers of the congressional schools and colleges will district elected by the convention ine are qualified Those aci were S H Rogers chairman Mrs will get special training in colleges at army expense until i they reach the age for active military duly The examinations closing of the Ire land Ulster frontier and the curtailment of the shipments of wheat gas and coal which Eire imports from Britain and the U The Daily Mail Daily Express and other London newspapers all strongly emphasized the hood of restrictions on such im ports despite statements from both London and Washington official quarters that economic sanctions were not proposed Although the home office order did not affect the customary easy communication between Eire and Northern Ireland the London Daily Herald said police had in a drastic among the 30000 JEhe workers who have weaith must begin with raw was ia are intended lor high school grad uates who will be not mor 17 years and 9 months old July 1 Grace Byrd McCoy woman B C Fussell secretary Members of the State executive committee are Thad H Pope Charles M Trott Dr L Baggett C Downing and Mrs Lillian next i M B Rodgers Following his nomination Mr with such training in colleges has shown it increases a mans fitness for tiis future duties as a HOG MARKET Richmond SI 385 Stimson the armys Maultsby expressed determination to make a thorough campaign in each section of the district There were several short talks misim Each county was sented and delegates brought en reports it was report ed Weather Partly cloudy probably cooler Tuesday partly cloudy slightly wanner products and a balanced economy is necessary to avoid booms and depressions W Kerr Scott North Carolina commissioner of ture said in an address before the j Lumberton Rotary club Friday night National prosperity is depend ent upon an abundant production of and we must have some real system of disposing of surpluses not simply plow them under the speaker said We must produce and prosper in abundance and not by curtail ment We must have high prices for farm products and profits must begin with raw products The commissioner began his ad dress by outlining the duties and responsibilities of the state depart ment of agriculture He said the department had sixteen distinct divisions ranging all the way from operating the state fair to the op of experimental stations Mr Scott pointed out that North Carolina uses oneseventh of the entire consumption of commercial fertilizers in the United States and that North Carolina was the first state to get rid of the dread Bangs disease among cattle Welfare Depends On Agriculture Your welfare in Robeson coun ty is wrapped up in the future of j agriculture Our entire state is 1 right much in the same position In the test few years have fared reasonably well in tobacco but some other crops must yet be brought more definitely In line w with cash profits There should be Succeeded At Penney j a floor under crop prices Store By A G Willis Wc You a cemetery r Mrs Kinlaw was born in the Back Swamp section of were married on April 23 1919 Survivors Surviving are her husband one daughter Mrs W B Tiley of Jackson Tenn two sons Billy since tn ed Prime Minister Curtin of Aus tralia was quoted today in an AP dispatch from Canberra as an nouncing that Eire had asked Aus tralia to intervene and to secure withdrawal the American note We said quite definitely Aus tralia was in accord with the Am erican requies and hoped the Eire government its clear to Curtin add in the dinner and the program that followed More Bombers Head To Europe After Mght Blow London Mar Mosquito bombers attacked un specified objectives in Western Germany last night without los the air ministry announced today the Naval program at the and shortly lice da heard heading France The identity of the formations was hidden by low clouds and rain squalls but coastal residents said they sounded like bombers First reports said there appar ently were hundreds of planes in the outgoing formations Later the and the Bremen and Calais radios went off the air indicating the raiders were over the continent Moscow March The Third Ukranian army pushed down both sides of the swollen Ingul river today within 30 miles of the Black port one of the major objectives Sou thern Russia The newspaper said the number of prisoners was in creasing hourly and that Germans in some eases surrendering in groups assaying short and ranks more London March county on Sept 4 1391 daughter Red army battled to 22 of the late W W and Amanda I miles of the big Nazi base Mitchell Prevatt She had lived j Kherson ori the lower Dnieper in Lumberton since early girlhood j river Moscow announced alter She was a member of the First slaying 5000 Germans yesterday Baptist church here and active bring to more than 607000 its affairs She and Mr Kinlaw I number declared killed in 8 day of the massive Southern offensive The Russians swept up 210 moe communities yesterday slashing a railway leading into Rumania and Hungary and storming into voron on the middle Bug river 50 daylight i The bulletin did not mention the of Jackson Tenn one sister Miss i Lizzie Prevatt of the home four j brothers J Rowland Luther J W W and C M Prevatt all of of the v Soviet news agency reported berton Mrs TUey was unable to the attend service for her but houie uy she had visited her in January with M Pallbearers at the final rites 11 y ditch and gutter in were R B Tolar Johnnie L Me whee streat has Neill W R Allen Vv B Ivey E since last Thursday K Butler and Dr M F Townsend A field to the The flowers which were paper siar said the German ly beautiful and numerous ivere j fighting for every in charge of Mrs W R Allen and j and stream m the n MERCHANTS MEET TONIGHT AT 7 S Mrs Luther Canady assisted another Russian report The Lumberton Merchants Mmes J L Spivey of Charlotte the German will meet tonight at 7 o Marie Carter C P Moorer Joe a single Russian plane hafi clock at Crawfords Tea room I Continued on Page 5 Col 5 Position Change For Paul Smith Eastern And County Championship Paul W Smith who had been manager of the J C Penney Com pany store in Lumberton for the past three and a half years has resigned from his position and be gan work this morning Titti the company in Succeeding him at i the local Penney store is A G Willis who comes to Lumberton 1 w j land length We fix transportation costs by air truck and rail We fix the of gold and silver It is economically to fix a meas ure for raw materials products created by human labor from the soil and the The commissioner said more food would be necessary this year as a part of the war program and i he urged to plant and encourage food production in had been assistant manager a Continued on Page 5 Col MRS W S WISHART WILL BE 89 YEARS OLD TUESDAY Mrs W S Wishart one of oldest native inhabitants of Lum berton expects to celebrate her 80th birthday Tuesday She born here on March 14 1864 a member of one of best known families of a Kin dred years ago Only a few her childhood friends are still Mrs Wishart does not good health but she is able be up the time and is delighted to in to see her every way To pay the national debt red by this war the income of the nation must be increased We must have an increased income in i America and we how must have i more food for our people and for our men in the service You peo ple must be on the alert Mr Scott was introduced by Otto P Owens club program chairman for the meeting C E McLaurine manager of the Robeson FCX Store in Lum berion was introduced to the club as a new member Others attend ing as guests were L HHood and of Pembroke J ed 400 Nazi tanks coming tp t the battle Tne bulletin said that other S viet troops had captured a key junction to the leading south to Nikolaev important river and sea sup 1 ply port oi the Black sea i Russians last were reported 1 in 30 miles of Nikolaev The Hungary and Bulgaria To Have Simultaneous Parliament Meetings Istanbul Mar the Hungarian and Bulgarian par will convene March 21 according to official menl The holding of sessions ures whether the Hungarians or Bui j were planning sonie com mon action Shown above arc members of the St Pauls high school boys basketball team who haxe already Eastern Class C and Kobe son county championships and who will play fyr the State C title in a same against Cramerton at St Fauls Tuesday night at 8 oclock The Pauls Uris have won 18 Barnes during the season averaging 42 points to their opponents 19 They defeated Maxton boys by a score of 2326 in a game played at the Lumberton school gymnasium Friday won the girls championship in the county basketball tournament The boys are left to right Mc Cormick T Hall D Hall Powers Butler back row G Graham Sugar Jackson T Smith was mt present whett the picture was made The team was coached by Princi pal Lewis S Cannon GRANGE TO 1 MEET TUESDAY P M Proctorville w i meet Tuesday at p rr musical program will be given i ter the regular program Ail mff i bers are urged to attend A NEW YORK COTTON MARKET Xew York March I Cotton opened 5 to 25 ctris a bale higher Noon values wore 25 to 50 cents a bale higher March May 62014
