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H MAKE EVERY PAY DAY BONO DAY JOIN THE PAY-ROLL ? SAVINGS PLAN * FOR ICTORY BUY UNITED STATES BONDS * STAMPS VOLUMN LXXIV $1.50 per year In Advance LOUISBURQ, N. CAROLINA KHIIMY, JUNE 4, 1043 (Eight Pages) NltlBGR 17 REV. HERCER DELIVERS STRONG ADDRESS At Franklin Memorial Association Services Sunday STEPHEN L. THARRING TON NAMED PRESIDENT Association Begins Plans For Memorial Services at Burial of Deceased Veter ans of World War II, and For Taking Care of An nual Expenses; Band Fur nishes Music; Flags De layed Because of Trans portation; Many Pretty Flowers; Graves Deco rated Although the attendance was!' smaller than usual because of ^ the pleasure ban on driving, the 1 Franklin County Memorial Asso ciation held a most interesting ' and patriotic annual meeting on Sunday. The Memorial program * was especially well arranged and 1 each item was well fitted into tlie . exercises to make a most com- 1 plete whole. i "Other men liave labored, and you have entered into their la- ! bor, was the text or motto used by Rev. S. E. Mercer, pastor of , the t ranklinton Methodist Church for the base of the most excel- ' lent address he presented to the many present on this occasion. ' It is fitting," he said, "that we memorialize the acts and deeds of the boys who gave all for God for country, and for the right " , ?"r? ?m,f and our generations aie not the product of individual effort, but of the influence the community activity produces. Our government is not a new thought or something that has come to pass iu your life and mine. It is the result of the labor of pio neers to build a free republic wheie every man can be a king ' and every woman a queen The ' present conflict is to sustain that hfhn 6 an/V.f bulldin8 upon their 1 labors of the past. Out of this 1 labor came the right to worship ' 33 Ze Bee flt and ^e Holy ' Bible. The preservation of the ' safety of this liberty is what the strongest boys and women have 1 gone out to labor for. Speaking 1 tL ? !U"68S of the sacrifice of the first World War he said It the people at home had had the same spirit that those young men wonM h? 76re ln the conf?ct, we would be in a much different sit uation this afternoon. W^,can all have a part in so many ways We can be alert, be ready, be sacrificial. How can we grumble or complain for the many sacri !???i8 ?.? inconveniences in our daily life. We must keep the ^nlethfireLbUrning' If we 8re to win the War and the Peace we ' must have a spirit greater than our enemies. We need faith in f ourselves. We need faith in one another. We need faith in our country our government and must follow It. We need faith in our caus?. God has more faith In America now, than any other country, to lead ln this hour The address was especially well made and presented, and greatly enjoyed. The speaker was pre sented by Mrs. Ben T. Holden, Chairman of the Arrangements Committee and Master of Cere monies, who also, extended the ? Vl? thanks and apprecia tions of the audience for the splendid address. The services were opened by a prayer by Dr. T. C. Amlck of Louisburg^ College, which was followed by the Louisburg Band playing America." Because of his health Dr R F Yarborough, President of the As sociation, prepared his address which was read by Mrs. Ben T. "?,den- 11 was especially well prepared and touched the key note of the occasion. The Band furnished a special selection which was followed by a report from the nomination committee, read by T. K. Stock ard. This report carried the fol lowing nominations for officials , for the coming year, who were unanimously elected: President ? Stephen L. Thar rington. i,l8t,?;.Pre8,d?nt? ? '? E" Malone, Position carries with it the Chairmanship of the Ar rangements Committee). 2nd V.-Presidant ? Frank A Read. CookT',^PreSidellt~Mr8' Walter ^ Secretary? Mm. Hugh W. Per- j r" Treasurer? W. F. SheUon. Chairman Local Details ? Miss Susie Meadows. Chairman Flower Committee ? Mrs. H. C. Taylor, Sr. Vice chairman ? Mrs. Hazel Roberson. Following this the Committee made the following further re port: Recommendation No. 1: We recommend that the American Legion Posts of Franklin County and the State Guard Unit be del egated to serve with the Franklin County Memorial Associaion for the purpose of conducting appro priate Memorial services for ul! deceased Veterans of World War 0. Recommendation No. 2: That the Franklin County Memorial Association be financed hereafter by soliciting two year Contribu ting Memberships from business firms and individuals; and thati :he Contributing Membership | lues be $1.00 per year, or Life| Membership for the sum of' (15.00. This - recommendation was idopted. W. D. Egerton read the names jf deceased War Veterans whose ieath has occurred since 1941. Mrs. Hugh W. Perry made an louncements and explained the eason why no flags were present was due to transportation. They ire to come and will be placed at he graves. A special prayer was offered for the boys, our government and Allies in the present conflict. I. D. Moon led thfe audience in , singing "God Bless America, " ind the meeting was dismissed , with the "Star Spangled Banner" rendered by the Band. Most of the graves throughout the county were decorated before the evening exercises, but others were decorated immediately fol lowing the dismissal. New Gas Cut Washington, June 1.- ? The Of fice of Price Administration today clashed the value of all "B" and 'C" gasoline coupons in the Eas tern shortage area from three to two and a half gallons, but left the value of basic "A" coupons unchanged in its latest effort to relieve the continuing fuel crisis. The cut is effective tomorrow In 12 Eastern states, the eight eastern counties of West Virgin la and the District of Columbia, where the pleasure driving ban was relmposed two weeks ago. Not affected are North Carolina, 3outh Carolina. Georgia, where >asic "A" rations were cut March 22 along with kindred cuts in the Jther shortage states. Price Administrator Prentiss M.~ Brown said the cut would ef fect a saving of about 30,000 bar rels of gasoline a day. t He said these steps were nec essary to hold civilian consump tion to the allotted 356.000 bar rels daily in the affected states, especially in view of increased war industry requirements and greater summer demand for gas oline on farms. Ethiopian Wish London, June 2. ? Belata Ayela Gabre, Ethiopian minister to Bri tain, today urged that a picked group of Ethiopian "Comman dos," equipped fully with long knives and a long-standing ven geance should be allowed to Bpearhead an AQled invasion of Italy. "The Facist blood would turn to water," he said. '"the Ethiopians, remember the thousands of their comrades who died on the hot desert sands in 1936 and they never will be sat isfied until they can rip an Ital ian gullet,' he asserted. Ethiopia would like nothing better than to lead an Allied in vasion, he said, for CommanA) type fighting was old stuff to the average Ethiopian, "who cuts his eye teeth on a spear and learns to undergo hardship at an early age.' v "Give us the weapons and we'll lead the invasion," Gabre Baid. "When they Invaded our homeland, many Ethiopians fought and licked the Italian sol diers with only sticks." French-speaking Gabre said that Ethiopia would be willing to follow the lead of other United Nations in the matter of disposing of Benito Mussolini' aff* an Axl? war criminal. "But If we had a free hand," 1 he conjectured, "well ? In Ethio pia we eceoute a man for taking anathema life." ? ? o ? On fay Day, Bay Bonds? 1 Missing LT. N. PERCY INGRAM, JH. Who was reported missing in the Pacific War Zone last week. Lt. Ingrom was a .Pilot in the Air Corps. Egerton Elected Commander The Jambes Post o? the Amer ican Legion met in the Armory Building on May 29, 1943. for the purpose of electing officers to? the ensuing year and for the con sideration of other business. Charles K. Cooke, Jr. inform ed the Post that the Raleigh, rN. C., Voiture of the Forty & Eight has decided to send a hoy from Franklin County to the Boy's State meeting which will be held at Chapel Hill, N. C. during the months of June, 1943. He re quested the Post to confer with Bob Rose of the Franklinton Post in the selection of the boy to be sent to the Boy's State meeting. The Post voted to buy the nec essary flags with which to deco rate the graves of veterans in Franklin County on Memorial Day. At the request of the Post Legionnaires W. D. Egerton, James E. Malone and T. K. Stock ard were appointed by Comman der E. F. Thomas as a special committe to draw a petition to our representatives in the United States Congress requesting them to support anti-strike legislation in Congress. The Post voted to issue a hear ty invitation to all eligible veter ans of World War II, tg. Join the Jambes Post of the American Legion. The Adjutant was instructed to have the Certificate of Distin guished Service and the Special Certificate of Most Distinguished Service properly framed. The Post is proud of winning these two coveted national citations, and proud of the fact that it now has the largest membership in it's history, with a membership of 88 men. Credit for this record breaking membership is largely due to the successful efforts of our champion Go-Getter, Weldon Egerton, to whom, the Post ex tended it's sincere thanks. The following officers were elected for the year 1943: Commander ? Weldon D. Eger ton. Vice-Commanders? A. Wilson Macon, John W. Neal, A. W. Fow ler, Dollie Pearce, Joseph R. Phelps, George T. Flow, E. Ver non Stone. > Service Officer ? Charlie R. Young. Guardianship Officer ? James E. Malone, Jr. Historian ? Carl M. Watkins. Chaplain ? Otis B. Burrows. Adjutant and Finance Officer Tracy K. Stockard. Delegates to the State -Conven tion ? Charles K. Cooke, Jr., Ernest F. Thomas, Dollie Pearce. Alternate Delegates to the Con vention? A. W. Fowler, George T. Flow, 9- W- Smithwick. Unemployment Meeting The FRANKLIN TIMES is re quested to state that a very Im portant meeting of employers to discuss and study the stablliza-! tion labor plan of the War Man power Commission will be held on Friday evening, June 4th, at 8 o'clock in the Federal Court Room of the Post OfTice building in Raleigh. It is especially de sired that all essential employers or their representatives in the Raleigh area which is composed of Franklin, Johnston and Wake counties be present. The purpose of the meeting is to study and arrive at a uniform interpreta tl<m of the War Manpower Com iptasioa's stabilization plan which vent into effect in region 4 in eluding North Carolina, on May i5. 1943 at 12:01 a. m. All who can should be pres Mt. 0 RENEW YOUR 8UBHCKIPTIOK Legion Protests Against Lewis A special committee appointed by tile Jambes Post of the Amer-' lean Legion dispatched the fol lowing letter to Honorable* Jo siah William Bailey, Robert R. Reynold^ and Harold 1). -Cooley, in Washington this week: "We are officially, designated by the Jambes Post^ No. 105, of the American Legion. Louisburg, N. C., to direct this letter to you. "We represent the overwhelm-' Ing sentiment, not only of the ex-service men of North Carolina, I but of all the patriotic citizens of our Nation, in denouncing the actions of John L. Lewis, the Benedict Arnold of World War II, and all other treasonable! strike leaders and WILLING' strikers, who are taking advan tage of the present crisis facing our Nation, to force their de mands for increased wages and other unreasonable privileges on [ our Government. "We regard their actions as I nothing less than high treason. |We are not only dissatisfied, but thoroughly disgusted with the | policy 'of appeasement that our Government has adopted in han ! dling strikes. We think that this problem is squarely on the door step of our Congress, and if our Congress fails America's war effort in this emergency, it will have to answer to the voters of our Nation now, and also to the millions of men and women in our armed services, when they return to the polls. These pa triotic men an<| women of our armed forces are offering and giving their all, twenty four hours each day. for a mere pittance, contrasted to the prevailing wag es of labx>r. "We insist that you, as our Representatives, take all neces sary and IMMEDIATE action, not only to relieve the present emergency, but to prevent the re currence of same, by the passage of DRASTIC anti-strike legisla tion. "We also request that you se cure the enactment of a law that will place all workers in essential war industries, under the control of our War Department, subject to disciplinary measures for de sertion, commensurate with the punishment meted out to desert ers from our armed forces. We are, "Respectfully yours, W. D. EGERTON, JAMES E. MALONE, JR. T. K. STOCKARD, Committee." ? I Recorder's Court Franklin County Recorder's Court held regular session on Tuesday, with two Judges, J. E. Malone and R. C. Whitfield, pre siding. Judge Malone tried the regular docket, but because of | special reasons he called in Vice Recorder R. C. Whitfield to try I the case of George Washington' Harris. The cases were disposed of as follows: I Judgment was prayed in the case of manufacturing whiskey and possession of material against Hubert Perry and Jesse Baker. Perry was given 90 days on road suspended upon payment of $50 fine and costs. Continued as to Baker. George Washington Harris was found not guilty of bastardy. Daniel Driver plead guilty to no drivers license, to be dischar ged upon payment of costs. Spencer McKlnley Massenburg was found guilty of speeding, fin ed $5 and costs. The following cases were con tinued: R. R. Radford, reckless driv ing. Eugene M. Gupton, operating automobile intoxicated. J. H. Fuller, assault with dead ly weapon. A. G. Holmes, Mrs. A. G. Hol mes, assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill. Alton Estes, no drivers license. o LOUISBURG ; METHODIST CHURCH Rev. E. H. Davfi will deliver the sermon at the Louisburg Methodist Church next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, according to announcement ot Rev. F. D. Hedden, pastor. There will he no services at night, the congre gation will worship at the Vesper service on the College campus. Sunday School will be at 9:45 a. m. under supervision of Mr. I. D. Moon. Young People's Service will be held at 7:30 o'clocu. All are invited. Explosions A series of mysterious explos ions were heard over a wide area in Eastern North Carolina ?arly Tuesday morning, but all efforts by highway patolmen and others to determine their causes or lo cations were unavailing. The prolonged reverbations were heard about. 4:30 a. m. Late Tuesday night nothing had been learned other than that they were heard at such widely sepa rated points as in lower Virginia, Greenville and Washington. El'ic Uodgcrs. Scotland Neck newspaperman, said the explos ions broke window panes in that town. He said the sounds indi cated the explosions occurred northeast of the town. In Green ville the explosions caused con siderable alarm for a time. The reports were heard in Wilson, Rocky Mount and other towns ol that Section. In Wilson an Unus ually large number of Army planes were reported over the city during the day. State Highway Patrolman H. W. Rothrock, stationed at Roan loke Rapids, said the explosions ?apparently three in number and in quick succession? were heard in that area and in lower Virginia. He said planes appear ed over Roanoke Rapids about dawn and were last seen return ing toward Norfolk. The public relations office at Camp LeJeune said that office knew nothing of the source or causes of the explosions. Othe.' Army and Navy officials in the State and area could give no il lumination to the mystery. o ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Church School will begin promptly at 9:45 A. M., Sunday, and will last for one hour. Mr. Will Yarborough, Bible Class teacher. These services will close in ample time for members to at tend church services elsewhere. o ? On Pay Day, Buy Bonds ? EVERY DRIVER CflS HELP J : : -.1 KEEP EM ROLLING WAR. 1943 style, is war on wheels. Mefc ? weapons and materials rital to victory > must lie moved swiftly, safely and without delay. But each day accidents at grade crossings in America injure or kill 19 motorists and delay 38 trains a total of 22 liours ? a drain on manpower and time that a nation at war simply cannot afford. Will you, as a patriotic driver, enlist in the nationwide campaign now under way to stop these Occidents? Here's how you can help; , 1. lie e?tra careful ? wartime careful ? in all your driving. 2. Be especially alert when approaching a grade crossing. 3. Be sure the way b clear before you ? cross the tracks. 4. LOOK, LISTEN and LIVE! Help keep em rolling for victory! WAR NEWS ! London. June 2. ? An official ] Royal Air Force spokesman to }day enthusiastically praised the] American air offensive in the European theatre, but urged that the United States send more | bombers immediately. "These American attacks by daylight have tremendous value and effect," he said. "A very important part is being played jby the forces of American air craft now available. All we can jsay now is that we want more J of them ? and quickly." i The It AF_ commentator made 1 his appeal at a press conference ] during the third day of lull in I the air war. Britain's big bom Ibers were grounded again last | night. Four or five German Focke-Wulf fighter bombers | bombed two East Anglian towns early this morning, causing only | slight damage and injuring one j person. One of tUe raiders was shot down. Remarkable Results He reviewed the list of tar 1 gets raided by the Eighth United States Air Force, commenting af ter almost every one ? "remark able results." (The RAF spokesman's com ments dovetailed with remarks of Gen. Henry H." Arnold, who told the West Point graduating class yesterday that "we are going to end it (the war) and end it soon by bombing military objectives consistently and with the Maxi mum destructive power we pos sess . 4 . The RAF and the (US) AAF with their bombing are building up a situation which, by all reasoning, should make his tory repeat Itself.") The British spokesman said the RAF still was increasing its bom ber strength and. in view of that, its recent heavy losses could be discounted despite the fact that "the Germans have put their whole soul into this thing and have doubled their night lighter force in Western Europe. He said reconnaissance photo-, | graphs and other intelligence in- j jdicated that the 7,5(1*0 tons of | I bombs dropped on four main cit ies of the Ruhr ? Dortmund. Dus-j iseldorf, Essen and Wuppertal ? | during the week ending May 2!) jput steel works, coal mines and ! other important installations out I of action for monhs. 'I Washingon, June 2. ? The Navy underscored the suicidal < nature of Japanes resistance in the Wes tern Aleutians today with ? the disclosure that only four prison ers were captured while a mini mum of 1,500 Japanese were be ing killed in the first 20 days of ths American drive on Attu Is land. The death toll probably will be increased greatly when final reports are in. The figure is ad ditionally moderate in that it re presents only bodies counted and takes no account of Japanese who may have been buried under the snow by their comrades or left unrecognizable by the blasts of great shells and bombs. It is this stubborn resistance which has prolonged the Attu struggle into its fourth week. American forces were understood to be continuing mopping up operations today; and despite the enemy's heavy casualties, a num ber of pockets of resistance in the mountainous northeastern end of the island around Cape Khlebnikof still had to be clean ed out. London, Thursday, June 3. ? Radio Moscow reported today that 500 German planes had raid ed the great Russian stronghold pf Kursk on the Kharkov-Moscow Railroad in five waves Wednes day and that 123 of them had been shot down in one of the greatest air battles of the war. Swarming in on the city of 102,500 persons, 120 miles north of Kharkov, which they had loot ed and ruined during their occup ation and whose people they had killed, tortured and enslaved, the Germans met a shattering de fense. The first impact took the Ger man planes to the city approaches and some of them broke through, the Moscow broadcast said as re corded here. But fighter planes and thund erous gunfire met them and those that pierced the defenses had to jettison their bombs, causing casualties among the people who had remained or had managed to return. Wave by wave, in separate at tacks, the Germans came Aback, Moscow said, to lose 93 planes to Russian fighter pilots and 30 to anti-aircraft guns. Thirty Russian planes were lost. o Vesper Service Rev. A. Paul Bagby, pastor of the Louisburg Baptist Church will preach at the Union Vesper Service on the Louisburg College campus next Sunday eveuing at 7:80 o'clock. All are invited to attend. Subscribe to ti>? Frauum Times ?1.30 per year in Advance i COAL SITUA TION IS WITH PRESIDENT President Roosevelt Holds Conference With Advis ers, But No Indication Given As To Action He Will Take; War Labor Board Calls On Executive To Intervene Washington, June 2. ? Presi dent. Roosevelt held a prolonged conference on the coal strike at the White House tonight,., and was believed to be preparing to intervene personally, but there was no hint as to what action he planned. "There is nothing to say," Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said at the conclusion of an hour and a half conference of the President, War Mobilization Di rector James F. Byrnes, Secretary Ickes, members of the War Labor Board and Abe Fortas, Undersec retary of the Interior. All of the President's conferees brushed aside inquiries from re porters. The case landed at the White House in a bitter exchange of wdrds between the War Labor Board and John L. Lewis, leader of the 500,000 idle miners. The board, calling a halt to further collective bargaining till t,he strike ceases, turned the case over to the President, declaring that the United Mine- Workers headed by Lewis were, flouting the law of the land and the "no strike" pledge. Morse's Letter Then the White House made public a letter from Wayne L. Morse, public member of the board, to President Roosevelt as serting: "This strike has no parallel, since Pearl Harbor, insofar as a reckless and wanton disregard of the no-strike agreement is con cerned. "Viewed from the standpoint ; ! of its damage to the war effort and its serious threat to the maintenance of government by I law and order, his strike proba |bly lias no parallel in American history, x x x "It is the opinion of the War Labor Board that the fundamen tal issue in his case involving the supremacy of law is perfectly clear ant must be met by the government. Lewis Reports Lewis hit back with a charge that the War Labor Board was acting illegally, a charge recall ing recent hints that he might bring action against it under the Wagner Labor Relations Act. o J. M. MOORE DEAD J. M. Moore one of Franklin County's older farmers died Wed nesday night about 9 o'clock fol lowing a paralytic stroke, in the 64th year of his age. Besides his wife he is survived by the following children: Carl Moore, Walter Moore, James Moore; Woodrow Moore of the U. S. Army, Mrs. Ollis Vaughan, Mrs. Aaron Medlin and Mrs. Tommie Stallings, also the fol lowing brothers and sisters, Carl Moore,, of Henderson, Sheriff John P. Moore, of Louisburg. Mrs. Buck Mitchell, Mrs. S. M. Phelps and Mrs. A. T. Shearin. The funeral strvices will be held Friday (today) afternoon at Ebeneeza Methodist Crurch, near Mitchiner's Cross Roads. o? ? ? ' THANKS W.e wish to extend our deepest thanks and appreciations tor the many kindnesses and expressions of sympathy in the recent illness and death of our husband and father, Mr. W. J. Hunt. They will be tenderly remembered. Mrs. W. J. Hunt and family. The quantities oi fruits and vegetables that canners must set aside from the 1943 production for Government requirements will be sharply reduced, ? about 30 mijlion cases. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following Is the program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ing Saturday, Junt 5th: Saturday ? Don 'Red' Barry In 'Days of Old Cheyenne' and John Archer in The Purple V.' First chapter 'Daredevils of The West." Sunday ? Hedy Lamaar and Walter Pidgeon in 'White Cargo.' Tuesday ? Jinx Falkenburg and Tom Neal in 'Sht Has What It Takes.' Adventures of Smilln' Jack. ? Wednesday ? Marjorie Mann Zasu Pitts and Lee Bowman In. 'Tish.' Thursday - Friday ? Joe B. Brown and Judy Canora la 'Chatterbox.'
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