The Monroe Journal from Monroeville, Alabama • 1

T3J 3The Monroe Journal AR las to VOLUME 79 A 43 THE MONROE JOURNAL, MONROEVILLE, ALABAMA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1945 SUBSCRIPTION, ONE YEAR, LN'COUNTY, $1.50 Farm Bureau To Meet At Biloxi First Rubber Shipment Arrive: AjL Hv W. B. Sawyer Passes At Frisco City Wiley B. Sawyer, widely known resident of Frisco City, died of a heart attack at his home last Thursday at the age of 63 years. Born and reared in Monroe County, he was the son of the late Rev.

Burney Sawyer and Mrs. Sawyer. Most of his life-was spent on his farm. For twenty years or more he was a salesman for the Lee Motor Company. Funeral services were held from Shiloh Baptist Church Saturday at 10 a.

m. Burial was Li the church cemetery. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Maud. Sawyer; two sons, ChfUn Sawyer, Frisco City; Ffc.

Buck Sawyer, McDiil, eight daughters, Mrs. Jack Sims, Mrs. Warren Bettcher, Mrs. Lillian Campbell, Miss Virlie Sawyer, pll of Frisco City; Mrs. Sam Weeks.

New Orleans; Mrs. T. J. Crigger. Dallas, and Mrs.

H. N. Stow, WAR LOAN SYMBOL This li the symbol of the Victory Loan. The nation's first shipment of rubber from the Pacific since Pearl Harbor, produced under the very noses of the Japanese in the Philippines, recently arrived at San Francisco. Forty-two tons of the precious crude stock was shipped from the Pathfinder plantation of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company in Mindanao.

State To Light Victory Torches For War Loan Twelve Major 0f Leaders In Activity In Monroe County Manroe County, Alabama has had an unusually active play the major companies. With approximately 85 per cent of the county tfnder lease, it is evident frm looking at a map showing the lease holdings, that the majors have about 75 per cent to 80 percent of the lease holdings. Humble Oil and Refining Company and Atlantic Refining Company have each large tracts of lease acreage. The recent lease acquired by the Atlantic Refining Company covering 70,000 acres of the Vredenburgh Saw Mill Company's land places that company in a dominating position in the north central part of the county, with California Company in the northwestern and Humble Oil and Refining Company and Skel-ly Oil Company in the northeastern part The central part of the county is dominated by Humble but Shell Oil Company, Skelly, Arkansas Fuel Oil Company and Texas Company all holding considerable acreage under lease. The southern part of the county is dominated by Humble, Magnolia Petroleum Company and Sun Oil Company leases, with Stanolind, Arkansas Fuel Oil, Texas, Gulf Refining Company and others having various areas under their leases.

Geophysical work and core drilling has been going on over the county for some time. Last week the Cities Service crew moved out of the county after spending eight months there, and the Arkansas Fuel Oil Company sent in a core drilling crew to work in the northeastern part of the county. Magnolia Petroleum has three crews working in conjunction with each other in the southern part of the county. So-hio which has very little lease acreage has a crew working the southern part of the county also. California has just moved a crew into the county within the last week, and other crews are "shooting the county" from bases outside of the county.

The presence of these crews has caused a serious room and housing shortage in the county, but the people of Monroeville and the other towns of the county are bending every effort to see to it that "the oil folk" are comfortable and happy- Lease buying by the independent buyers has been accelerated by the fact that there are very few windows open in the blocks of the majors. Bidding for these leases has not increased the price to any great extent, but as it goes, the price is bound to go up. Royalty buying has been brisk in some parts of the county, to the extent that some areas have very Prei.der.t WsIut L- Randolph of the Alabama Farm Bureau Fedt-rat- announced that the organisation's annual meeting will be held in BJ-xi, M.isLs:ppi OctjU-r I. 1 This will mark the first time in the history cf the Federation that 'the mettir.g will be hi Id oulsid the State of Alabama, Mr. Randolph announced thit Farm Bureau not ga out jof the state by choke but wai i forced to do io to find hotel Every effort to I hold the meeting in Birmingham or Montgomery was exhausted.

Headquarters for the convention ill be the Buena Vista Ho-Itel, and the main speaking ses-jsions will be held in the hotel's Victory Room. The meeting will be called to order at 7:30 on the night cf October 30 and will end about 5 o'clock the afternoon of November 1. While the program was incomplete at the time of this an nouncement, Mr. Randolph said that Senator John H. Bankhead jof Alabama, Edward A.

O'Neal, 'President of the American Farm Bureau Federation, P. O. Davis, -Director of the Alabama Exten- ing speakers were slated to attend. Negotiations were being made to obtain a speaker on the subject of atomic energy, one on international affairs, and an outstanding medical authority. DEBTS THAT ARE OWING TO GENERAL SCOTT Maj.

Gen. Charles L. Scott has well earned the rest which he contemplates in asking for retirement, and The Courier-Journal welcomes the occasion to express what must be the unanimous sentiment of this community. This is gratitude for his active and helpful interest in the life of the city. He has evidently considered i-one of his obligations as commanding general of the Fort Knox Armored Center to be a good citizen of Louisville, and no native-born inhabitant could have filled that role more satisfactorily.

His co-operation both with the municipal authorities and with civic causes has been generous and unfailing. A word of sincere appreciation is definitely in order. But there is a vastly larger debt owing to General Scott a debt which is by no local boundaries. This debt is incalculable in two ways. First, it is impossible to calculate the value of human lives.

Second, it it also impossible, of course, to compute exactly how many lives were saved in battle by the training methods which General Scott developed at Fort Knox, after he himself had spent months observing actual battle conditions in Libya. His success in simulating these at Knox, the thoroughness and toughness of the training he imparted, sent many a man to the front to survive where a greener one would have perished, and that is a certainty, as military- men know. The task was unspectacular compared to a Pat- ton's, and not to be measured terms of enemy killed and captured, but who would say that it was less important? Fortv-four years a soldier, and always a good and faithful one through all grades from second lieutenant, a modest and com panionable as well as strong and able man, General Scott is entitled to many more years of that 'ease after warre' which the old poet Spenser said does greatly please. Louisville Courier-Journal. General Scott is a native of Monroe County.

Borrf and rear ed at Mt. Pleasant, he is the son of the late Robert G. Scott and Mary English Scott Corp. Henry Rowell, who has been in the South Pacific for nearly three years, is on furlough and is at home with his mother and other relatives at Frisco City. Henry was assigned to duty at most of the Army Camps in the States before going to the Pacific and while there, he was stationed on a number of the islands.

JOHN D. FORTE WITH 81ST DIVISION IN JAPAN Mr. and Mrs. J. D.

Forte, of Beatrice, have received a booklet from their son, John D. Forte, who is with the 81st (Wild Cat Division) giving the highlights in the history of the 81st Infantry. The booklet pictures the trail of the Wild Cats from Camp Rucker, to Conecuh forest to Tennessee maneuvers, thence to Camp Horn, for desert training and to Camp San Louis Obispo, for amphibious training and then to Camp Beale for embarkation. The first stop was in Hawaii, and from there the trail led to Guadalcanal, to the Palau Islands including Anguar Peleliu, Ngulu, Fais, Ulithi, Kayarrgel and Pub Anna, then down to New Caledonia and afterwards up to Lcy-te in the Philippines with the next projected stop on Japan. The booklet says: With Japan's surrender the Division began immediate preparations to sail for Japan as part of the United States Occupation Force.

A letter was received last week stating the 81st Division landed at Aomori in Northern Honshu Island, Japan, on Sept. 23. ARTHUR M. BROOKS RECEIVES DISCHARGE SSgt. Arthur M.

Brooks, 30, who has served in the Army Air Forces for four years and ten months, is returning to Monroeville and home, honorably dis charged from military service. Sgt. Brooks, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S.

Brooks, Route 1, Box 265, Evergreen, was overseas for 26 months with the 8th Air Force in England, serving as an aircraft mechanic on B-24s and medium bombers. He wears the ETO ribbon, the American Defense ribbon and the Good Con duct Medal. The Monroeville non-commissioned officer entered the service in January, 1941, had basic training at McDiil Field, completed airplane mechanic training at Barksdale Field, and Burton-Wood Repair Depot in Warrington, England. He returned to the States in November, 1944. He was stationed at Courtland Field, assigned as an engine specialist, until transferring in June 1945, to Hondo Army Air Field, Hondo, Texas, home of a huge B-29 Flight Engineer School, where he serv ed as an engine-change specialist.

Prior to entering the service, Sgt. Brooks was engaged in farming near Monroeville. He is a graduate of Beatrice High School. His plans for the future are in definite at present. FIRE BOMBS ORDERED BURNED AT HUNTSVILLE A lot of fireworks are going up at the chemical warfare service storage depot center.

One hundred thousand therm-ate-filled incendiary cluster bombs are being burned at the rate of about 3000 clusters a day. They are obsolete, and too dangerous to dismantle. Lee Motor Co. Plans Expansion John T. Lee of the Lee Motor Company, announced last week that he had purchased the lot between J.

F. Lathram store and all property between his building and the J. C. Hudson property. All trees will be removed from this lot and it will be used for a used car lot.

As soon as materials are available Mr. Lee will add considerable floor space to his building. NELSON FORE SEPARATED FROM ARMY SERVICE Nelson Fore, son of Mr. N. I.

Fore of Monroeville, has been honorably discharged from the Army. During the time he was in the service he served 12 months overseas. Before his enlistment, he was a shipyard worker in Mobile. His wife, Mrs. Carolyn L.

Fore lives in Monroeville. FRISCO CITY SOLDIER STATIONED IN TOKYO Sergeant Zeno E. Bailey, of Frisco City, one of the first American soldiers to land in Japan, is now stationed in Tokyo with advance headquarters of General George C. Kenney's Far East Air Forces. He is assigned to the EAF Intelligence Section.

A veteran of 39 months in the Army, Sergeant Bailey has been overseas five months. He holds the Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon with a bronze battle star denoting the Luzon campaign, and the Philippine Liberation and Good Conduct Ribbons. A graduate of Frisco City High School, he was employed by the W. T. Smith Lumber Company prior to entering the service.

His wife, the former Sarah E. Smith, and five-month-old daughter, Elizabeth Anne, reside at 735 Breedlove Street, Memphis. His mother, Mrs. Annie Bailey, lives in Frisco City. ROBERT HILL SERVING ON FLOATING SHIPYARD Robert Randolph Hill, steward's mate, first class, Frisco City, served on an advanced Base Sectional Drydock, a great floating shipyard which repaired 94 fighting ships in less than seven months.

The ABSD repaired four battleships, two cruisers and an aircraft carrier, getting them back in the fight in a fraction of the time it would have taken the vessels to return to a shipyard in Hawaii or the States. One day 11 ships were in the dock at once. Mrs. J. D.

Rawls, Mrs. Harry Carter and Pvt. Dewey Rawls visited relatives in Mobile Oilie-Excel Road Being Paved That part of highway 84, between Ollie and Excel is being put in shape for paving. The primary coat is being applied and in a short time this part of the work will be finished. With the project completed, the people of Excel and surrounding communities will have an all-paved highway leading north and west.

WALTER S. KELLY KILLED IN ACTION Lt. Walter S. Kelly, 23 year old pilot of a B-17, previously listed as "missing" has now been officially declared killed in action over France Feb. 14, 1945.

Lt. Kelly, a son of Mrs. J. E. Kelly and the late Hon.

J. E. Kelly of Repton, was a senior at Alabama Polytechnic Institute when he was inducted into the Army Air Forces Feb. 27, 1943. At the college he was a student of aeronautical administration and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Lt. Kelly graduated from the Army Advanced Flying School at Stuttgart. May 23, 1944, receiving his pilot's wings and a commission as a 2nd lieutenant. His pre-flight training he received at Centre College. Danville, Ky.

Preflight at Maxwell Field. Montgomery, Primary at Augustine Field Jackson, Basic at Walnut Ridge, Advanced at Stuttgart, Operational with B-17's at Sebring, Transitional at Rapid City, South Dakota. Lt. Kelly, affectionally called 'Skipper" by his crew, left the States Dec. 17, 1944, to join the 8th Army Air Forces in England.

He was assigned to one of the oldest groups over there, the 92nd Bombardment Group of the 407th Bombardment Squadron. He reached England at the beginning of the big "push" and went into combat immediately. His 2nd mission carried him over Berlin. Three times he was forced to leave formation for emergency landings in the short time that he flew as a combat pilot. Once he came back in a tattered plane on three engines.

On Feb. 14th he went to Dresden for his 6th mission. He made his target but gave out of gas on the way back. Lt. Kelly's plane was shot down at Dunkirk, France, while he was attempting to land at an emergency field on the English coast.

Gen. Marshall's message to the family reads: "Lt. Kelly fought valiantly in the supreme hour of his country's need. His memory will ever live in the grateful heart of our nation." A. B.

Blass, a student at the University of Alabama, spent last weekend here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Blass.

guished in real Victory ceremonies. "Members of the state committee have met with war bond worker throughout the state during the past two weeks and I am proud to say for them that Alabama goes into the Victory Loan with one of the finest and most enthusiastic organizations of all the war loans. "Every group of our people, those in the plants and mills, those on the ms, those in the schools and those at home, are all anxious and willing to do their part 'to finish the "I know that Alabama will keep bright its great record of every county going over the top in every war loan. Our state is the only state in the nation that has that record. It will be up to each of us, sellers and buyers alike to be sure that when the Victory Loan is finished that we can still say that Alabama is the only state in the nation in which every county went over the top In every war loan.

"I do not believe that there will I be one home that will want to be I "-itVinut a Victory Boiri." J. N. Sproule Dies At Butler Saturday Death claimed Mr. J. N.

Sproule on Saturday at the hospital at Butler, following an illness of three weeks. Mr. Sproule was a native of Canada. Some twenty years ago he came to Monroeville where he lived until the death of his wife. Since that time he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs.

Ida Jones at Butler. Besides his daughter, he is survived by a niece, Mrs. Jim Sawyer of Frisco City, and other relatives in Canada. Funeral rites were held at the Monroeville Presbyterian Church Monday afternoon at three o'clock, Rev. David Edington officiating.

Burial was in the Baptist cemetery. Pallbearers were: E. S. Gardner, L. L.

Dees, A. L. Nettles, Troy Hall, W. H. Simmons, C.

O. Finklea and J. R. Jernigan. MOXROE COUNTY SAILOR SERVING IN PACIFIC On the USS Tuscaloosa in the Pacific Raymond H.

Lambert, shipfitter, second class, Uriah, served on this cruiser when, as part of a task force of more than 50 ships, she steamed into Jinsen, Korea, Sept 8. to help occupy and liberate the country from the Japanese. About 15,000 American sailors and soldiers streamed ashore to occupy the capital city of Keijo, 23 miles away, to the cheers of the natives. A crowd estimated at 100,000 gathered in the vicinity of the capital to watch the lowering of the Jap flag and the raising of the Stars and Stripes. Thousands of American prisoners of war, many listed missing, were assembled, identified and headed for home.

Ceremonies Will Mark Opening Of Bond Drive October 29 The lighting of Victory Torches In Alabama towns and communities will mark the opening of the Victory var Loan Oct. 29. These torches will burn, day and night, until each town and community and rural beat has finished its part of the victory loan job. This was emphasized today by State War Finance Chairman Ed Leigh McMillan of Brewlon as he called upon town and county organizations to participate in the ceremonies. "I know of no liner way in which we can start our Victory Loan effort than by lighting a Victory Torch, the symbol of the Victory Loan," Mr.

McMillan said. "This torch should burn brightly, day and night, until each community-has finished its part of the job and then it ran be triiimrhnrnlv extin 1946 Ford Cars And Trucks Unveiled Here The arrival of the first new 1946 Ford cars was announced Monday by Chambers-Lazenby Motor They will be on display in the company's showrooms Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 27. "We've never been personal more enthusiastic about a new Ford model," Mr. Chambers said. "Without doubt it's the smartest Ford car ever built, and as far as performance is concerned, please note that the 1946 Ford, the first postwar model, contains more engineering advancements and mechanical improvements than were included in any previous year-to-year model.

The answer, course, lies in the four years of stored-up research results, and the advancements which came out of the Ford Motor Company's intensive participation in the manufacture of war products." Outstanding features of the car are: a more powerful engine, better performance, longer life, improved economy and a better ride. The new V-8 engine develops 700 horsepower, making it the most powerful Ford in the history of the company. Pre-war Fords were equipped with V-8 engines developing 90 horsepower. A. MEETS OCTOBER 30 The Monroeville A.

will hold its next meeting at the Elementary School auditorium on Oct. 30, at 7:00 p. m. The Scouts will give the flag drill and salute. Miss Shomo will discuss the United Nations Charter, and Prof.

Vickery will remind us of the part schools can play in winning permanent peace. The meetings last one hour. Everyone is cordially invited. -1. 1 rpu-xl little or no royalty avanauie.

mc prices on Monroe County Royalty is high for a wildcat are a due to the spirited bidding in selected areas. The oil play in Monroe County started around 1940, but most of leases taken at that time were dropped, and leasing again became active in 1943. Humble went into the leases taken at that time were 1943 and leased five blocks about the county. The late fall of 1943 and the early months of 1944 saw California, Skelly, Arkansas Fuel Oil, Shell and others with large crews in the county buying leases, sometimes in the same area. Other companies followed immediately, together with many independent lease buyers.

Mineral and royalty buying started in the spring of 1944 and has continued at a fast rate, with prices being doubled overnight in the early day. Mississippi Oil Review. MISS BRANTLEY TO APPEAR IN COLLEGE PROGRAM Miss Marie Brantley has been chosen to appear in the annual Elite Nigh program at Alabama College Saturday night," October 27, at 8:15. At this time the College Beauties, Miss Alabama College, and the Campus Elite will be selected to appear in the College annual, the Montage. Brantley, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. L. Brantley of Excel, is representing Monroe county hi the Beauty competition. BLEEDTHR0UGH.