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Private Collections. State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"These papers relate to the Philippine Islands estate of Gordon Webster Thompson (1885-1931) and to shares in the Red Line Transportation Company that formed part of his estate there The collection includes petitions, orders, and reports dating from 1936 to 1939 relating to Thompson's estate in the Philippines. The greater part of the collection, however, is made up of letters and documents dating from 1937 to 1968 that relate to shares in the Red Line Transportation Company that had been inherited by Thompson's two sisters, Gladys Thompson (Mrs. J. C. Parker of Fountain, N.C.) and Claudia Thompson (Mrs. W, A, O'Brien, of Leaksville, N.C.), and his half-sister, Cynthia Robertson (Mrs. W. Robert Sherwood of Spray, N.C.). The correspondence and other papers demonstrate how the women dealt with, recovered, and looked out for their interests in the company for more than thirty years. The collection includes five photographs one printed leaflet, and various reports.    Thompson, a native of North Dakota, moved to Spray, North Carolina, with his two sisters, mother, and stepfather shortly before the year 1900. He worked for some time as a beamer in one of the local textile mills before leaving for the Philippine Islands between 1911 and 1917. He spent the remainder of his life in the Philippines. Thompson was commissioned a major in the 4th Regiment, Philippine Guards, when the Philippine National Guard was called into federal service for a month's training in November 1918. The troops assembled at Camp Tomas Claudio, Paranaque (adjoining Fort William McKinley) southeast of Manila. (While here the designation of this force was altered to Philippine Guards.)    Thompson became heavily involved in the Red Line Transportation Company which was organized in the Island of Luzon at the end of World War I, and became one of the company's directors. The firm ran a bus line in Luzon and had a fleet of launches for transportation on the Cagayan River and from Aparri at the mouth of the river to other Filipino ports. A letter of January 7, 1947, gives details of wartime losses brought about by impress�ment of the company's vehicles by U.S. forces at the beginning of World War II, losses occasioned by the Japanese invasion of the island, and subsequent imprisonment of some of the company officers. After the. war much effort was made to put the firm back onto a sound footing. The letters in the collection suggest that the tendency of the law, following the proclamation of independence in 1946 and the establishment of the Philippine Republic, was to favor Filipino over American-owned companies, and that this hampered full post-war recovery of the Red Line Transportation Company.    The collection includes petitions, orders, and reports dating from 1936 to 1939 relating to Thompson's estate in the Philippines. The greater part of the collection, however, is made up of letters and documents dating from 1937 to 1968 that relate to shares in the Red Line Transportation Company that had been inherited by Thompson's two sisters, Gladys Thompson (Mrs. J. C. Parker of Fountain, N.C.) and Claudia Thompson (Mrs. W, A, O'Brien, of Leaksville, N.C.), and his half-sister, Cynthia Robertson (Mrs. W. Robert Sherwood of Spray, N.C.). The efforts of the three women to determine what could be salvaged of their transportation company stock after World War II appear to have been spearheaded by Mrs. Parker. The correspondence and other papers demonstrate how the women dealt with, recovered, and looked out for their interests in the company for more than thirty years without input from their husbands.    The collection includes five photographs. One of them portrays Major Thompson and members of the Philippine Guards \"starting out from Boowang\" sometime between Nov. 20, 1918, and Feb. 19, 1919. Four unidentified photo�graphs, taken on August 1, 1919, may relate to the transportation company. Three of these were taken on the water, and the fourth shows Red Cross nurses posing on a truck. There is a single completely unrelated document in the collection: a printed leaflet setting forth the program and plans of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon League dated August 10, 1929, and a mimeographed letter dated October 7, 1929, soliciting paid subscriptions to the league."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"2 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Finding aids"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Claudia Thompson O'Brien Papers. Private Collections. 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