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BACK UP YOUR BOY I ImoM your payroll ravings to your hmlly limit I TIMEJ Invasion Is Costly fighjting Your Boy Olvou 100 per cent; How about your bond buying ? VOLUMN LXXIV $1.50 per year In Advance LOCTSBURG, N. CAROLINA KKIDAY, JULY 2, 1943 (Eight Pages) NUMBER 21 LOUISBURG MART OPENS SEPT. 13 NEW MANAGE MENT FOR TWO WAREHOUSES All Three to Oper ate This Year Planters by Arch Wilson, Bryant Cottrell and Ster ling Cottrell; Southside By Charlie Ford, Ben Wood and John William son; Union by Grover Harris and Numa Free man Within the past week announ cements have been made concern ing the operation of Louisburg's three big tobacco warehouses. This information shows changes, not in the personnel of the Mar ket but in the operation of two of the warehouses; The Southside will be opera ted1 this year by Charlie Ford, John Williamson and Ben Wood. In this arrangement Mr. Wood ^mains with the house he has been with many years and Mr. Ford and Mr. Williamson changes from the Planters to the South side. The assistants have not been named. 3 Messrs. Arch Wilson and Ster ling Cottrell, who were operators of the Southside last year, to gether with Mr. Bryant Cottrell, will operate the Planters Ware house this year. They have not named their assistants yet. The Union Warehouse retains its former personnel in manage ment, Messrs. Grover Harris and Numa Freeman. They likewise have not named their assistants. However these gentlemen are busy preparing all necessary ar rangements and accommodations to handle a large quantity of tobacco in these popular houses this season. Just the complete operation of the new schedule has not been worked out as yet but this information will be giv en out in full time for the people to know just what it is. Keep yourself posted on Louis burg and its tobacco activity and arrange to sell with these popu lar warehousemen. Buried At Louisburg The remains of Mr. M. F. Houck, who died at his home in Henderson early Saturday morn ing, following a long illness, were brought to. Louisburg and interred in O&kwood Cemetery, following the funeral at Hender son which was conducted-- by Rev. H. K. King, pastor of the local Methodist Church there. The services at the grave were conducted by Rev. Forrest D. Hedden, pastor of the Louisburg Methodist Church. Besides his wife, he is surviv ed by three sons, Percy Houck, of Philadelphia, Pa., George Houck, of New Orleans, La., and Clifford Houck, of Nashville, Tenn., all Qf whom were in at tendance at the funeral exercises. Mr. Houck was a resident of Louisburg from around 1900 to near 1820 and was engaged in Construction Contracting. Be cause of the funeral arrangements not being generally known here many of his friends were not in attendance upon the last rites. The floral tribute was espec ially pretty. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following is the program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, July 3: Saturday ? Buster Crabbe in' 'The Kid Rides Again' and Bar ton McLane in 'The Gentle Gang ster,' also Chap 6 'Daredevils of West.' Sunday-Monda-y ? Tyrone Pow er with Anne Baxter in 'Crash Dive.' Tuesday ? Fay Bainter and Ed ward Arnold in 'The War Against Mrs. Hadley.' Wednesday ? Robert Paigs and Frances Langford in' '.Cowboy In Manhattan.' Thursday-Friday ? Ray Mllland John Wayne, Paulette Goddard and Raymond Massey in 'Reap The Wild Wind.' o Patronise TIMES Advertisers j * I Tobacco Sessiori Fixes Sales Dates Richmond, Va., June 30. ? The _y,_,S. Tobacco Association today adopted a schedule of market opening dates tor auction sale of the nation's 1943 tobacco crop approximately the same as the opening dates of last year. The association adopted recom mendations of its sales commit tee on the market dates without discussion. Dates for opening of the var ious belts recommended by the sales committee were: South Carolina border belt ? Thursday, Aug. 5. Eastern North Carolina new bright belt ? Tuesday, Aug. 24. MIDDLE BELT ? MONDAY, SEPT. 13. Old belt ? Monday, Sept. 20. Virginia dark fire belt? Mon day, Dec. 6. The sales committee, in re-es- , tablishing the approximate open- , ing dates of last year, disregard ed urgent recommendations of a committee of North Carolina , I warehousemen and growers, sup ported by Gov. J. M. Broughtou, , for substantially earlier opening1 dates., * I In most cases, the dates adop-j, ted by the association for 1943 were one day earlier than the corresponding 1942 dates. R. A. Carrington, Jr., of Dan ville, Va., president of the asso ciation, said in annual report that the industry during the past 12 months had "faced as many changes and shocks as during i any time in history." Discussing the farm and ware-, house labor shortage, he remind ed members of the association that it is "the duty of everyone in the organization to use labor so there will be no detriment to the growers and no harm to the nation's food crop." "fhe association's legislative and manpower committee said in its report that it was working to get the industry classified as essential. The War Manpower COmmis . sion, Selective Service and the Deportment of Agriculture all "have agreed" that the tobacco industry is essential, the commit tee said, "but none up to now has been willing to promulgate a di rective to that effect." The committee said it hoped to i have "something more concrete" to report in this regard by the time the Georgia-Florida mar kets open. "In reality, tobacco is being dealt with as an essential indus try even now," the report said. Rev,. I. W. Hughes Dead Henderson. ? Funeral services for the Rev. Isaac Wayne Hughes, rector of Holy Innocents Episco pal Church here for 34 years, who died at the rectory Sunday after a long illness was held from Holy Innocents Church Tuesday at 5 p. m. Bishop Edwin A. Penick, of Raleigh, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, was in charge, of the services. Inter ment was in Elmwood Cemetery here. The Rev. Mr. Hughes, a native of Hendersonvllle, would have been 79 years of age on July 17. Before coming to Henderson In 1909 he served churches in Den isin, Texas, and Fayetteville. He was the first chaplain of the 105th Medical Regiment of the North Carolina National Guard and re tired with the rank ot Major. For 27 years before his death he served as chaplain of the North Carolina division of the Travel ers' Protective Association. Surviving are his wife; two i daughters, Adeline Edmonds Hughes, of Henderson and New York, and Alice Swann Hughes, of Henderson; and one son, Sgt. Isaac W. Hughes, Jr., U. S. Army. MEAD JOINS IN MOVE TO DROP MOTOE STAMP Washington, June 30. ? Sena tor Mead (D-NY) who contends the $5 use stamp levy on auto- , mobiles in a "pay-as-you-don't- i go-tax for ration-ruled motorists," | Joined Representative Celler (D- , NY) today in introducing legisla- i tlon which would walite the tax | until next Jan. 1 for passenger cars. * { "The tax at issue is a ? 'use' tax." Mead said. "If the privi lege of full and unrestricted use of an automobile is denied, ob- i viously there should be no tax." : \ ' " ??* I Great Britain has almost two i million "allotment" or commun ity war gardens. \ IN EUROPE BE FORE AUTUMN Churchill Indicates Heavy Fighting Before Autumn; U-Boats Now on Run London, June 30. ? In a bu>y-| ant and cheering speech. Prime Minister Churchill toduy forecast thrusts this summer in the Medi terranean "and elsewhere", tri umphantly reported a toll of 30 odd U-boats in May alone, and warned the Germans of an air of fensive of ever greater wrath and destruction. "Very probably there will be heavy fighting in the Mediterran ean and elsewhere before the leaves of autumn fall." Britain's leader and master phrase-ma kej^ told a victory-minded assembly in London's blitz-blackened Guild hall. Churchill delivjsrtd a confident war review there after receiving the ancient capital's highest tok en of *cclaim ? the freedom of the city ? and after a tour through streets of cheering citi zens and soldiers of Allied na tions. And Churchill concerned him self earnestly with Allied unity, declaring that upon British American cooperation "depends more than upon any other factor the immediate future of the world"; that "acting together we can help all nations safely into harbor; and that if we divide, all will toss and drift for a long time on dark and stormy seas." War Analysis His war analysis repeated the Allied demand for "unconditional surrender" of "the Nazi, Fascist and Japanese tyrannies," and again the Prime Minister promis ed that should Japan still stand when Germany and Italy are top pled, "every man, every ship and every airplane in the King's ser vice that can be moved to the Pacific" will be sent there to fight "as many years as are need ed to make the Japanese in their turn submit or bite the dust." Of invasion, he stated directly only the prediction of probable fighting. Of the submarine war, he de clared that in May the Nazis made a determined effort to halt the Allied convoy bridge from the United States to Britain, but that this vital battle "ended in the total defeat of the U-boat at tack." o Two Years Raleigh Bakery Operator Also Fined $2,450 on Su gar and Tire Violations A sentence of two years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta and fines totaling $2,450 was the' Judgment in two OPA violation cases against Fred W. Staudt, Raleigh bakery operator Wed nesday in Federal Court. The prison sentence will begin Sep tember 1 and until that-1 time Staudt will be freed under $3,000 bond. Staudt was charged by the OPA on three counts of failing to register holdings of sugar amoun ting to 432,000 pounds, stored in Greenville, N. C. He also was charged on 23 counts with mak ing false certifications on appli cation for new tires and recap ping tire services while he "had a large number of serviceable tires in his possession." In sentencing Staudt, Judge I. M. Meekins of Elizabeth City, pre siding, said, "I have no doubt that Staudt is a high-type man, but he took the wrong turn. He knew that there was a war on and he knew of the regulations. The general public knows that what he has done is a flagrant violation of an act of Congress." Judge Meekins then turned to OPA Attorney Clem B. Holding, who was prosecuting thfe case, and asked the attorney if he thought Staudt should be given a prison sentence. Holding ans wered, "Yes, Your Honor, I do. If I ever saw an OPA violation that demanded a prison sentence, this is it." "What do you think the prison sentente should be?' Judge Mee kins asked Holding. The OPA atorney replied that he would "leave the matter up to your wisdom." Holding ad ded that he realized that "a sen tence of 30 days would as hard in a man of Staudt's type as a sentence of 30 months would be :o a criminal." Holding pointed out that he did not think the maximum penalty should be given Staudt because, under the provis ions of the law, the maximum in the 26 "counts would be a total at "260 years in prison and a fine of $260^)00." Judge Meekins agreed that the maximum would be too much. He then announced his judgment at a sentence of -two years and } fine of |2r4&0. Patronize TIMES Advertiser! *+++**i +*++++i..l..H .1 I 1 Employer Meeting Tonight X There will be a meeting of Employers Friday !' (to-night) July 1943, at 8:30 o'clock in the jj ,! ! school building at Franklinton, A very impor- j j |! I tant meeting called by the War Manpower Com- ! j ] ; mission, of Raleigh, for Franklin County for the ! ! ; ; purpose of discussing and interpreting the ! ! ; ; Stabilization Plah effecting the control of Labor I ; < ; movement. All employers are invited to be II ; ; present or have a reprsentative there in order I ; ; ; that a uniform interpretation and practice may ; ; ; j be affected. This includes essential and non- ; ; ' ? essential employers. L. J. Craven, Manager of ; ; ' '< the Raleigh Local Office of the U. S. Employment ; ; 1 1 Service will be in charge of the meeting, and ? j I ! Mr. P. B. Pollock, Area Director for the War j j ' I Manpower Commission will be the Interpreter. ! ! ; ; Every employer in Franklin County is invited. | ? New Restrictions Placed Upon Tire Replacements Washington, June 29. ? The Office of Price Administration to day ruled ineligible for tire re placements all holders of "A" gasoline ration cards 111 the Eas tern shortage area .and restricted replacements elsewhere to auto mobiles in occupational service. Rubber Director William M. Jeffers advised the action to cope with a temporary shortage of used and recapped tires which is expected to last at least 90 days. OPA, announcing passenger car and truck tire rationing quotas for July, set the allotment of used or recapped casings at 414, 931 as compared with 690,000 for June. Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., meantime told the Senate judici ary committee that government workers who use federally-owned automobiles on unofficial trips are violating the law and making it more difficult for the general public to accept severe driving limitations. The committee is studying his bill to curb such un official use. Starting on July 1, eligibility for tires for drivers with mileage rations of 240 miles or less a month will be determined as fol lows: 1. iu me ciastern area, wliere the maximum non-occupational driving for "A" card holders is 90 miles a month, drivers with no other coupons cannot get replace ments. But they still may have present tires recapped if neces sary without obtaining rationing certificates. 2. In the rest of the nation, where the "A" coupon Is good for 240 miles a month, the appli cant for tires must show he uses his car for an essential purpose. Present regulations make any driver with a mileage ration of 240 miles or less a month eligible for used or recapped tires. The new order does not affect drivers with monthly rations In excess of 240 miles, as they get new tires when they need" replace ments. Inner tube eligibility remain as in the past for all drivers. If the tighter restrictions fail to bring about thev desired con servation, Jeffers wfttned. "new and more drastic regulations" may result. of the barrel for tires sential cars in service," he said in a telegram to Price Adminis trator Prentis M. Brown. "I am confident that, in possession of the facts, the American public will cooperate to achieve our goal of keeping cars rolling. "I hope that by some time in 1944 our supply of rubber and tires may be adequate to enable us to remove most, if not all of the existing regulations." JOYXER- FOSTER Invitations as follows have been mailed: "Mr. and Mrs. Peter Foster re quest the honour of your pres ence at the marriage of their daughter, Mary Kathryn, to Mr. Maurice Clifton Joyner, Friday afternoon, the sixteenth of July, at five o'clock. Trinity Methodist Church, Louisburg, North Caro lina." All friends and relatives of the couple are cordially Invited to at tend. No invitations will be is sued in Louisburg and Franklin County. The FRANKLIN TIMES is re quested to state that the Stores generally in Louisburg will be closed on Monday, July 6th, in observance of the 4th. Likewise the Banks in Louis burg, Franklinton and Henderson will be closed on the 5th. Those who have business with these institutions will bear this In mind. * "We are scraping ?o To Observe 4th GASOLINE The gasoline situation grows more serious each day, according to information received from the State OI'A office in Raleigh. The officers in charge there seem to think our supply of gasoline will 'be exhausted long before the to bacco markets open and automo bile and truck operators will | have to park their vehicles for various periods. If the demand !for gasoline continues in keeping | with the past ten days this sup ply may give out before the last | of this month. Governor Broughton and oth er State officers and employees are receiving very severe criticism | for unessential driving. The | Governor just returned from a 650 mile trip to attend a Gover ! nor's conference and many other ' officers and employees of the j State have been doing too uiifch ' pleasure riding. This has caus ed the OPA to more closely scru tinize the rulings in connection with these and are ordering the I cancellation of all A books held | by governmental officers. This | is the first step to control this lack of cooperation. Likewise the state office advises local Hoards to call in all A books of j persons found using gasoline to ;go on fishing trips. If reports ! a re true this will embarrass some I of Franklin County's leading of ficers and citizens. Citizens are taking exceptions at public offic ials and others usjng gasoline to go fishing when they can't get nasoline| to visit a sick member of their family. This is good logic and public officials, includ ing the Governor, should be more cooperative in a war measure like this. A new ruling is tnat no local Board can issue any gasoline to persons to go to work unless they live more than two miles from theiv place of work or a distance that can be walked with in 40 minutes. This rulings will break up most of the town daily riding and a lot of mill employees, as there are many of these classes of workers who do not live two miles from their work. The tire situation is bad and V more complete article dealing with the new rulings will be fouiuKin another column. Repoit^ are continuing to come in ii>put different persons .doing lots orninnecessary driving and using too, much gasoline. In fact in many casfes. it is charged that persons are usftig non-high way gasoline in their This information is being carefully [checked by U. S. enforcemerivof j fleers and it is probable many | such users will be surprised when they are called into Court. PRICE CONTROL Order No. 4 under General Or der No. 51 of the Office of Price Administration has been placed in the hands of every registered merchant in Franklin County showing the price in dollars and cents of rationed commodities. Every merchant should have a copy of this price list posted In his store and every customer who desires should be allowed to examine same. All merchants are earnestly requested to keep this list posted. There will be a checkup to ascertain whether or not this order is being carried out and It is hoped that none of our merchants will be penalized for failure to observe these rules. Price control is the only means of avoiding Inflation and infla tion means an aftermath-pf de pression. Not only patriotism, but our own selfish Interests de mand that these rules be observ ed. n ? On Pay Day, Boy Bonds ? HOSPITAL FOR LOUISBURG Dr. H. G. Perry to Equip Residence To Take Care, Of Patients Dr. Herbert O. Perry informed the TIMES the past week that he has ordered the necessary eqiup ment to convert his large and commodious residence on Main Street into a modern hospital. He has begun the excavation of a side entrance for the accommo dation of autos and ambulances. The hospital will be equipped with fifteen beds to begin with besides the other necessities and it is expected to be open for the public by August 1st. This is quite an important civic move on the part of Dr. Perry, as it will give a badly needed ser vice to the people of Franklin County. More especially since, because of the war necessities, Doctors are scarce and the pres ent hospitals are over run. The opening of this hospital will bring i within easy reach of our citizens the services and accommodations so bodly needed. 4-HCLUB RALLY Held at Louisburg College This Week Ninety-six 4-H Club boys and girls in Franklin County are as sembled at Louisburg College for a two-day camp program. The group assembled Thursday after-: noon and will be there until Sat urday afternoon. Thursday and Friday nights the boys and girls will have Re creational programs, under the direction of Rev. F. D. Hedden. I Rev. Campbell will conduct ves-1 pers at the conclusion of the Re-! creation program each night. In the mornings the group will do handicraft and have somei class instruction. Mrs. F. D. Hedden will have charge of han dicraft. Mrs. I. D. Moon, class instruction for the girls and Mr. W. N. McClure class instruction for the boys. Some of the group leaders selected by the boys and girls before school was out are| acting as councilors and helping i with the program in general. Twelve of the thirteen clubs in J the county are represented at the Rally. ? ? ? o To Enforce Vagrancy Law Mayor W. C. Webb and Chief of Police C. F. Cash inform the TIMES they are cooperating with Governor Broughton one hundred per cent in his effort to put ail loafers to work. In the past week they have handled abouf twenty-five cases. Many of these agreed to get a Job and go to work and satisfied! the officials that they could and would secure jobs. Others were, given forty-eight 'hours to find' work. As a result about all of them are at work. It is under stood this law and effort includes women as well as men; and all those who^cannot get work in town had better find work in the country. Mayor Webb says he thinks that while the boys are fighting i on the battle fields and working . in training camp it is nothing! but right that those at home; shall work also, therefore, as far as it is possible he is going to break up loafing in Loulsburg, at least until after the war. FIRST TOBACCO CURED Informal ion received b.v the FRANKLIN TIMES yesterday morning states that Mr. Ed Place, of near Seven Patlis. Cured the first Sara of tobacco from the 1043 crop In Frank lin Cobqt.V this week. The barn contained 4 SO sticks taken from 4 acre's. This indicates an early crop. ? o Interest to Truck Owners A representative of the ODT State office at Raleigh, Is ar * ranging to be at Loulsburg on Saturday, July 17th, 1043, for the purpose of assisting in set ting straight all complaints of Truck owners in regard to gas oline allotments, according to A. F. Johnson, Chairman of the Franklin County War Price and Ration Board. This representative will be ' at the local Rationing Board | office in Loulsburg, located in ^ the store room on Cdurt Street formerly occupied by L. J. Per- j nell, and all truck owners not fully satisfied with their allot ment am Invited to call in and I see him. ' ? OPENS OFFEN SIVE ON JAPS Land on Rendova Island in Central Solomons; Appar ? ently Headed Toward Nearby Jap Base at Mun da; Sharp Fighting In Prospect; No Details Available Yet Washington, June 30. ? Amer ican forces launching their long expecter campaign to break Ja pan's South Pacific defenses have landed on Rendova Island in the enemy-held Central Solomons, the Navy announced today, and violent lighting is ih prospect ? it it has not begun already. The Japanese air base at Mun da. New Georgia Islahd, only five miles from mountainous Ren dova. appeared to be the imme diate objective of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's powerful aggre gation of land, sea and air fight ers. but in the absence of any of ficial comment there remained the possibility that Halsey is af ter some more significant prize. A 22-word Navy communique reported the immensely-import ant operation, which by some standards shaped up as the first thoroughly offensive campaign of the war against Japan. The com munique said: "On June 30, during the early morning, combined United States forces landed on Rendova Island, New Georgia group. No details have been received." The timing indicated that the action started about noon. June 29, Washington time. The Solo mons are in an east longitude time zone, and run about 15 hours ahead of Eastern War Time. Scant Information Because of scanty official in formation. it was not known whether the enemy had opposed the landings or engaged Ameri can troops as they drove into the island from the back sand beach es. Hut authorities considered it certain that heavy fightipg would develop, since the Japanese hold ,many strongly-garrisoned posi tions in that section, about 170 nautical miles northwest of Gua dalcanal airfield. The reaction of the Japanese fleet and air force also was re garded as a question of import ance. The enemy used both ships and planes prodigally in futile ef forts to defend Guadalcanal against American conquest. Simi lar costly activities on his part in the defense of the Central Solo mons would further reduce sharp ly his sea and air striking pow er. This in turn would make easier the job of pushing north and west from the Central, Solomons in the direction of Bougainville Island and beyond that toward the main Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain Island. iiaimui iveystono Conquest of Rabaul would knock the keystone from the Jap anese defense arch in the South Pacific and threaten both the enemy naval base at Truk and the supply lines through the Chi na Sea between Japan and the rich, conquered territories in the Southwest Pacific. Porgress beyond the first step which now has been taken may v be relatively slow and expensive, requiring months to complete. The development of future moves undoubtedly will be modified by the Japanese reaction to Rendova. since the American high command | ormally employs a fluid strate gy. On the point that the thrust into Rendova marks the begin ning of the big offensive, there was general agreement. The Strategic location of the island is cited in this connection. Ameri can bombers have rendered Mun da and nearby Vila virtually use less for the enemy's sea and air forces and little need was seen here to take Rendova merely as a means of outflanking them for defensive purposes. In American hands, the Munda area would possess considerable value for offensive actions. It is only 360 nautical miles from Rabaul and about 125 miles from the Shortland Island area, which embraces the well-defended south eastern end of Bougainville Is land. American planes operating from Munda could furnish air cover for attacks anywhere in those regions. o REVIVAL A revival meeting at Hickory Rock Baptist Church is announ ced to begin on' next Sunday night, July 4th, al 8:30 o'clock. Rev. Clyde Chapman, of Wake Forest, pastor, will preach and services will be held each night it 8 o'cl&ck. There will be only light services because of the ihortage of gasoline. AH are invited to attend. 0 RENEW TOUR SUBSCRIPTION ?I SO per year In Advance \ J
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