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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-07-20
CHILD BROWNS
AT NEW CASTLE
Little Peggie Ann Montgom-
cry Drowned After She Fell
Off Logg While Visiting
HAD OPERETTA ROLE

Funeral services for Margaret
Ann Montgomery, Z year old
daughter of Robert and Margaret
Ann Warner Montgomery, near
Blackbird, were held yesterday af-
ternoon at the FAIRIES Funeral
Chapel, with the Rev. H. M. Davis,
Odessa, officiating. Body of the
child, who is granddaughter of
William D. Warner, near town,
was found Monday morning, after
she had drowned in the Delaware
River at New Castle Sunday even
ing. Besides her parents, the child
is survived by a sister, Dorothy
Roberta Montgomery, 4 years old.
Fell From Log
For the past week the child had
been visiting her aunt and uncle,
Mr.. and Mrs. William M. Whay-
land, who make their home in the
old Padberg property on Washing
ton Street in New Castle. Sunday
morning the girl and her cousin,
Ronald Whayland, 7, decided to go
bathing in the Delaware River at
Battery Park Beach. Because of
low tide the two came home and
decided to go again later in the
day when the tide came in. Ronald
told police his cousin was walking
on log that was several inches
underwater when she slipped and
fell into the whirling current. At
the point where the child fell in
the water it is about two feet deep
but it is thought the tide carried
her to deep water before she could
regain her feet.
All Night Search
Ronald Immediately ran to shore
and started screaming for assist
ance. Several adults nearby wad-
ed through the water but were I'M
able to recover the body. Firemen
of the Good Will Fire Company of
New Castle brought graphing
irons and large nets but up until
dark the body had not ben recover
ed. The discovery was made af-
ter an all-night search and the use
of every means available in the
vicinity. Search lights played on
the water constantly throughout
the night and the boats engaged in
the search included a buoy boat
from Edge Moor; Coast Guard
picket boat from Delaware City
Patrol Base, and the boats of Ed
ward Taylor and Joseph Sudler
Benton of New Castle. The can
teen committee of the Red Cross
provided food for the men, serving
hot coffee and sandwiches.
Had Operetta Role
Little Peggy Ann will be re-
membered locally for her perform
ance in the elementary school
operetta last spring 1.-THE Early
Bird Catches the Worm" The
child, who was in the second grade,
of the John Bassett Moore School
in Smyrna, played the part of
"Goosie-Waddles," and won prom
inent distinction for her portrayal.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-07-20
SMYRNA HOMEMAKERS
Meeting This Afternoon to Discuss
Subject of "Safety"

The Smyrna Home Demonstra-
ton Club meeting will be held
Thursday, 2 p. M, at the home of
the Misses Florence and Bertha
Shorts. A program on Safety"
has been arranged by Miss Louise
Whitcomb and will be presented by
Mrs. Charles G. Handy.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-07-20
VIM. FAIRIES PYLE PROMOTED
Now 1t. Col. in Pacific; Veteran of
National Guard

Lieut.. Col. William FAIRIES Pyle,
As, son of Mrs. Henry v. Pyle, of
Wilmington, who was elevated to
his present rank in the Pacific the
atre, where as assistant to the
Signal Corps chief of supply he
sees that fighting equipment gets
up to the battlefronts in time and
in sufficient quantities. Colonel
Pyle is veteran of the former
Delaware National Guard, and was
industrial sales manager for the
Delaware Power and Light Com
pany when he was called to active
duty in June, 1912, with the rank
of captain. He went overseas in
October, 1943, after being station
ed in Lexington, Ky.
Attended West Point
He graduated from Camden High
School and attended the U. S. Mil
itary Academy for three years, re-
signing after a period of illness.
He then attended the Drexel Insti-
tute of Technology. He received
numerous medals for his work with
the National Guard and was active
in lodge and club work. His daugh-
ter, Miss Janet Pyle, of this town,
was graduated this year from the
John Bassett Moore High School.
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07

Mississippians
Serving With
Ouartermaster Unit

ALLIED FORCE ADVANCE
PRESS HEADQUARTERS, Italy =
The 81 Mississippi soldiers are serv-
ing with a Negro quartermaster
service company which has supplied
fighting units of the Fifth Army
with better than 468 tons of food,
oil and equipment daily during the
drive into northern Italy. Men OF
this company often worked long
hours through rain and snow un-
loading an average OF Is box cars
and $50 trucks a day.
Following the Fifth Army, the
outfit operated an oil dump which
supplied the 3rd, Oath and 45th
Divisions with over 5000 gallons of
fuel every "a hours. 1t is also cre-
dited witt, having set up one of the
first fuel points in Italy. The COM
pany's men landed at Salerno on
80 plus one'
This unit received commenda-
ton from Major General Arthur
General of Peninsular Base Sec
ton.
The 81 Mississippi soldiers are:
Pfc Willie j. McGhee, son of Mr..
and Mrs Tom McChee, Boyle:
Pfc. A. W. McLaurin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John McLaurin; Pvt.
Linster William, husband of Mrs.
Alice May Williams and son of Mr..
Cleave Williams, both of Carson; ;
Pvt Willie Porter, husband of Mrs.
Mae Clara Porter, Cleveland; Pfc.
Daniel Gillispie, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Willie Spencer, Collinsville;
Pvt. Freddie l.. Brown, son of Mrs.
S. Culperper, Durant: Pvt. Lewis
Holmes, son of Mr.. Sim Holmes,
Durant: Pfc. Verlie Williams, hus-
band of Mrs. Venda Williams, and
son of Mr.. E. Williams, both of
West; Pfc Clay Guyse. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Billie Guyse, Forest; Pfc.
Hollis Pape, husband of Mrs. Eva
M. Pape, Foxwcrth, and son of
Mrs. Lizzie King, Columbus; Pfc.
Harding Hubbard brothers of Mag
gle M. Willis, Grenade; Pvt. Frank
B. Lee, brothers of Ina M. Hughes,
Gulfport; Pfc. George Carter hus-
band of Mrs. Ledora Carter and
son of Mr. Napolean Carter, both
of Hollandale; Pvt. l.. G. Silas, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Nose Silas.
Kilmichael Pvt Ed Evans, son of
Mr.. Sam Evans, Lawrence; Cpl.
George Arthur Finley husband of
Mrs. Cathrine Finley, Meridian, and
son of Mrs. Sarah Finley, Meri-
dian; Pvt. johnnie Leroy Rembert,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Rembert,
Meridian; Pvt. Sarluel t. Smith.
husband of Mrs. Olo B. Smith, Of
Meridian; Sgt. Charles H. Young,
formerly of Meridian; Pvt. Willie
P. Evans, husband of Mrs. Elmilrie
Evan (and son of Mr.. Willie P.
Evans, both of Okolona; Cpl. James
Cook, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
Continued On back page)
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
WITNESSES SAY ACCIDENT
UNAVOIDABLE

A twenty-year sentence in the
state penitentia-y, the maximum
penalty under the state law, VIII
be asked for Jesse Armstrong, local
Negro man, who is charged with
man slaughter in the accidental
death of Mrs. S. Gordon Green,
white, q member of one of the most
prominent families in the city and
state, it was announced here early
this week by District Attorney M.
NJ. MCGOWAN, who will be charged
with the prosecution of the case.
MIR. McGowan's statement in which
he stated that the full penalty
would be asked nthe case, was
followed by a strongly V'orded
condemnation of reckless driving,
in which he stated that the full
penalty would be asked in all cases
of reckless driving in the future.
Mrs. S. Gordon Green died in a
local hospital a few hours after the
accident which occurred here about
IL o'clock Tuesday morning, Sep
tember %.
According to reports, the accident
occurred at the corner of Fortifl-
cation and North State Street,
when Mrs. Green, after getting OF
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Observation-Disclosures What
We Fight For Says Willkie

''This war has made us conscious
of the contradictions between our
Negro minority ana the iueals for
which we are fighting, for as
Americans whatever we do at
home affects our foreign policy,
and whatever we do abroad affects
our domestic policy. We cannot be
cn one side abroad and the other
side at hom,," thus warns Wendell
L. Willkie, recent author of "One
World" ond the 1910 Republican
presidential nominee, in special
ly prepared article appearing in
the Golfers magazine for October
7, now on sale at newsstands.
lone of the widespread conse-
quences of this is The growing de-
termination among colonial sub
jects and minority peoples every
where to win for themselves a
Continued On back page
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Many Negro
Families Suffer
Loss In Fire

A large number of Negro families
Of the city suffered loss in the fire
which destroyed ten dwellings here
Sunday afternoon the fire start
irg at about eleven o'clock.
Most of the home located on Ran
oolph street near the fertilizer
factory in N Jackson were COM
pletelv destroyed with the families
losing most If their household fur
nishine and clothing the damage
from the tire was estimated at
more than $4,000 The blaze is
said to have started in the kitchen
flue of one of the houses.
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Twenty-year Prison
Sentence To Be Asked

a bus, attempted to cross the street
in front of a bus, y'aen he bus,
started to move at the same time
When she attempted TO hurry from
in front of the bus, she stepped
into the path of the automobile
driven by Armstrong, who, passing
the corner on the green light, was
unable to see her as she came from
in front of the bus in time to
avoid Ithe accident. Most of the
passengers on the bus, at the time,
including a number of Negroes, are
alleged to have stated that the ac-
cident was unavoidable
Relatives of Armstrons stated
early this week, that one of his
brothers had been to see the rela-
tives of Mrs. Green, who had in
formed him that they were not
seeking prosecution in the case,
as they realized the accident must
have been one that could not
have been avoided.
In the preliminary trial here last
Friday, Armstrong was placed
under a bond Of $1,000 to await the
action of the Kinds County Grand
Jury, after he had entered plea
of not guilty to a charge of man.
slaughter.
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07

Headquarters, Advance Section.
Communications Zone, September
7 - Private First Glass WILEY
BURNS, JR., of / College Street,
and Private THOMAS JOHNSON,
of Route l, Box 346, both of Nat
chez, Miss, are among the quarter
master truck company drivers who
are speeding vital First and Third
Army supplies across France, on
the Army's newest super duper
motor transportation miracle, "The
Fast Express" a onc-way, high
priority freight and express line,
extending from the French coast to
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Georoian Is In
Charge Of Huge
Motor Caravan
Quartermasters
Play Vital Part
In Victory Effort

SOMEWHERE NEAR THE GER
MAN BORDER (sNs)- Having
swept down from Normandy
beachhead all the way across
France to territory which still
smells of the enemy, Negro drlv-
ers of a Quartermaster Truck Co.
operating over the low famous
Red Ball Highway. have deliver
ed a Bailey bridge lalge enough to
span the Rhine, the War Depart
men reported today.
After delivering the bridge the
veteran invasion drivers left the
Red Ball route and returned TO
the beachhead by way of Paris
with everv town turning itself in
10 a welcoming committee as the
Z. S vehicles rolled through. II
was Bon Jour" from the Marne
to the Channel.
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Fort Huachuca
Inactiyation Is
Set For Oct. IS
Many Rumors
About Hospital
Float Around

FIT. HUACHUCA = "a N P)-
FIT. Huachuca, training ground for
the famed 92nd and 93rd infantry
divisions and the site of the ma
tion's largest Negro hospital, is
destined for inactivation Oct. 10,
according to an official announce
ment las tv'eek by Col. Edwin n.
Hardy, post commanoer.
Though it is reported that the
MID October evacuation WIN cause
a shrinkage in population from
$4,000 to 800 persons, no official
news have come forth concerning
The disposition of the all-colored
hospital staff, the nearly 100 oft1-
GERS in the medical offlcers re-
placement corps or the 80-odd Ne
gro nurses stationed st the fort.
TO OTHER POSTS
Rumors, which are fast, many
and varied, have it that these doc
tors and nurses will be sent TO
other posts where they 1dll be
placed under white supervision;
Douglas air base will be convert
ed into an all-colored base and
some of the medics viii be sent
there; a veteran hospital will be
established and turned over to
Negroes; the more qualified ply
sicians will be distributed to GER
tain white hospitals.
Despite radio requests for 5000
additional nurses nearly 100 are
here doing very little. The war
department needs doctors so bad
ly that all limited service medical
officers are to be re-examined with
the idea of putting as many as
possible on overseas assignments
Medics here are desirous OF offer
ing their designations en- masse
but are being discouraged by the
commanding officer who wants
them to wait action of the war de-
NO MIXING
Further rumors are that the
general staff will not permit a
Continued On back page)
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Bv HARRY McALPIN

WASHINGTON, u. C.-NNPAJ
President Roosevelt told dele
CATION of Negroes Friday that the
Army had considerably abandoned
it's segregation proposal in the es-
tablishment of redistribution CEN
ters for overseas veterans return
ed under its rotation system.
While refusing to reveal details
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Natchez, Miss, Soldier Hi-Balling
On Army's New "'FaSt Express In France

a point some hundred and twenty
five miles beyond Paris, as the
First and Third Armies drive on
towards Berlin.
Their unit landed in Normandy
on d plus IL, and set record or
having it's full complement of 48
tracks hauling for ten straight
days, twenty-four hours day.
without having a single truck fall
out of line for repairs. and gaining
the commentator Of their group
commander for having hauled more
Continued On back page
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Jim Crow Plans
Are Abandoned

of the plan, all three of these per-
sons-Walter White, Charming To-
bias. and Mrs. Mary Mcleod Be
thune-said they were pleased Win
the change.
This jimcrow program originally
planned by the Army, which m
cluded taking over the Hotel Per-
shing in Chicago and the Hotel
Theresa in New. York city as Ne
gro centers, was protested by Ne
gro organizations and citizens In
both cities. Several of these pro-
tests were directed to the Presi-
dent. Both White ami Tobias were
among the 26 New Workers who
wired such protests TO President
Roosevelt.
NNPA EXPOSURE
The proposed seizure of the Ho-
tel Theresa was exposed first by
the NNFa.
It was under pressure from the
White House, the NNPA has learn
ed. that the Army revised its plan
for the jimcrow centers. Announ-
cement of the revision has been
expected for several days from the
War Department, but at the end
of the week had not been made,
The new plan, however, is re-
liably reported to provide for COM
Continued On back page)
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Dnuers Rush Bridges For
Crossing OF Rhine Riuer

Ye Shall Know The
Truth Ard The Truth
Shall Make You Free
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07

ALLIED FORCE ADVANCE
PRESS HEADQUARTERS, Italy -
The 81 Mississippi soldiers are serv-
ing with a Negro quartermaster
service company which has supplied
fighting units of the Fifth Army
with better than 468 tons of food.
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07
Irritated Bus
Driver Leads To
Arrest, Terms
County Deputies,
Military Police
In Collaboration

AIKEN, S. C.-(S N Slight
Negro soldiers were made to re-
move the uniform. of their warning
country and don the black and
white convict clothes of the Pal
metto state recently as the result
of a bus incident according to
information released here this
week.
Mixed soldiers end civilians, the
information said, boarded a Valley
Coach bus in Augusta, Ga, Sep
telnber %, and took their places
according to segregation laws. All
went well until the bus arrived at
Warrenville, S. c., about II miles
from Augusta, and proc eded to
take on additional, passengers.
The bus driver turned around
and saw a Negro and white SOL
dier sitting together on a double
seat. 1t was stated that the Negro
soldier had been standing by the
partially occupied seat when the
bus left Georgia and would have
remained standing there if the
white soldier had not very cor
daily insisted that he take the
empty portion of the seat. They
had ridden and talked together for
several miles before the Warren
vile stop The bus driver ordered
the Negro soldier to move This
the Negro soldier did without hes
itation or protest.
WHITE SOLDIER PROTESTS
However. the white o ! d r
protested and asked the bus driv-
er his reason for making the SOL
dier move. The driver said that
in South Carolina white and
colored could not sit together un-
der any conditions, that he was
white, the Negro soldier colored
and that the latter must stand up.
The white soldier offered the
colored soldier his seat and he
moved. The driver still insisted
that the colored soldier stand.
That incident was then closed.
The irritated bus driver then
turned his attention to taking on
the several Negro passengers wait
ing to get on the bus. One Of the
passengers was a middle-aged
woman who paid her fare and made
her way down the aisle to a seat
two-thirds the way to the rear
which was occupied by a middle
aged white man who seemed un-
der influence of intcxicants. She
asked the driver to have the white
man move to one of several empty
seats in the front of the bus. The
driver refused and told her that
he ran the bus and colored peo-
pie didn't have to sit and that if
she didn't like it she didn't have
to ride. The woman replied that
she didn't have to tide the bus,
Whereupon the driver gave back
her fare, but as She turned to
move forward to get off he hit
her with his fist and knocked her
glasses one way and her purse an
other.
The previously mentioned white
soldier and white companion
caught the bus driver and told him
not to do it again. Three or four
OF the Negro soldiers on the bus
joined in in the warning, where
upon the bus driver, sensing the
tenseness of the situation, reach
ed for his money box and left.
Shortly afterwards another bus
arrived on the scene and the driv-
er of the first bus instructed the
driver of this bus not to allow the
Negro soldiers board the bus. All
other passengers boarded this bus,
while the criver of the original
bus commented that he had noti-
fled the military authority. About
Is minutes later eleven county
Continued On back page)
Jackson advocate., 1944-10-07

MRS. MYRA FULFORD. District
Supply Captain, w. H. and F. M.
Society AME Zion Church, South
Mississippi Conference leads the
drive the week of September "a,
for emergency collections of cloth
ings for Europe. The member OF
st. Paul AME Church of which she
is a member, gave $50 worth be-
side the merchants of Jackson, Mis-
sissippi, who gave 5000 worth, max
ing total of $3.50 in clothings.
Evening star., 1944-02-13
FEB RUARY l3. 1914

JEEPEH: Here is Herbert
G.. Lanks. who once drove a
car to the sOutherh tip Of
South America. Now he has
another record: The first
trip to Alaska by highway!
For his story, see page =.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
RADIO, CARNAROLI
 GET JAIL TERMS

Two Naugatuek youths were sem teneed to 30 days in jail by Super for Court Judge Robert L, Munger yesterday afternoon following trial on charges of larceny, The accused, Charles Rado, a, and Samuel Car naroli, 2l, were charged with talk ing two cameras, Q watch, and three silver dollars from the home of Mar lon Kaliek of Middlehury last July lA,
 Assistant States Attorney Walter w ,Smyth pointed out the youths had permission to enter the Middle. bury home, since they had been em- ployed by the owner at her riding stables He asked that the original charge of breaking and entering be changed to larceny,
 Carnaroli was given a suspended sentence in superior court last year on q charge of larceny and was still on probation when the offense was committed, the court was told. It was also pointed out he had been discharged from the Maritime SerV. fec because of bad conduct, A pre- vious offense of Rado also was cited,
 In reply to the public defenders comments that Rado was ready to enter military service, Judge Mum ge, said there would be ample time for that after he gets out Of jail,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
OBITUARY

FREYHEIT-MrS, Minnie Frel. heit, widow of John Freiheit and mother of Dr. John M, Freiheit, died last night at Waterbury hoSpa. tal after Q brief Illness.
 She was born in Derby and lived in that city until she moved to Wa. terhury two years ago. She made her home with her son at S6 Grove street,
 Besides her son she Is survived by c daughter, Mrs. Alton Palmer, An. sonia and four grandchildren,
 The funeral will Do held from tho Lunny funeral home, 25 Central avenue, Saturday morning at 9 o. clock to St. Mary's church, Derby, where Q solemn high Mass will be celebrated at 10. Burial will be in Mt, St, Peters cemetery, Derby, Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to and to 10 p. m,
 BURRITT - Charles Morris Bur- ritt, 60 Pierpont street, died sudden. ly at his home last night, He was born February 10, 1870, m Rexoury, MT, Burritt was Q foreman at the American Brass Company and Q member of the Knights of Pythias at Speedwell Lodge.
 Surviving are Q son, Richard Day Burritt, Leona, N. J., one daughter, Miss Elizabeth Falrchild Burritt of Waterbury, two sisters, Mrs. Aida J. Ashworth, Watertown and Mrs, Jessie T. Mower, Tulsa, Okla, and one granddaughter.
 The funeral will be held Monday at 2 p. m. at the Alderson Funeral Home, 70 Central avenue, Rev, M. Webb Wright, officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery, Water town. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 5 and to 9 p. m. Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Full Weather Report

NOAtOM, Sept, a2- (UPl - New ENglaNd weather fOrccNsU
 CONNECTICUT MAINE. NEw MAMpSHINE, VERMONT MAS- SACMU SEINrS aud NliODE lS~ hANn-ENlr and much cooler toe Might, TOMOrFWW fair aud CON- ttNued cool,
 The Now ENHlAMd extended weather fOFcCNSU
 The temperature during the next Ave days win average from two tO NtN degrees below the aeN~ NOMNl normal, Except for MOder- NtelS warm weather MONO . v, teMNcrNtureA Wlll continue OM the cool atde throughout the period,
 The normal temperature for the ported Nt NOatON and New Haven, cOMNw Ia Ol NeWrcesl Burlington, NtW Concord, N, H,, aud Portland, Me~ M Nantucket 0Ol and ERat- port MeM aA,
 RNlAVulc win average between OMc-UNNrter aud twO-thirdS inch, 0cCuElNg late Tuesday Or Wed- MeNday,