BACK UP |YOUR BOY * Imhm yo or payroll savlagt to row family UaJt riMEj Put Your PayrolljSavings on a Family Basis Maka 10 p?r cant Just a Starting ? '/oint VOLUMN LXXIV $1.50 per year in Advance LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA HtllHV, AUGUST 0, II?43" (Eight Pages) NUMBER -M WILDER IS RE-ELECTED DRAWS JURORS FOR SEPTEMBER COURT No Action Taken on Re quest For Fire Warden; W. Hall Brooks, Sanitar ian to Arrive Soon; Many Reports Received And Filed The Board of County Commis sioners of Franklin County met in regular session on Monday at 10 a. m., in the Commissioners room of the Court House, with all members present. The following reports were re ceived and ordered filed: Dr. S. P. Burt. County Health Officer; E. R. Richardson, Supt. County Home; Lilfie Mae Braxton, Home Dem. Agent; W. C. Boyce, Farm Agent; Mrs. J. F. Mitchiner, Supt. Welfare; H. H. Price, Negro Farm Agent. Dr. S. P. Burt appeared before the Board and stated that W. Hall Brooks, of Roxboro, will be in Louisburg in a few days to take up his duties with the Frank lin County Health Department as sanitarian. Mr. E. R. Richardson, Superin tendent of the County Home ap peared before the Board and ex plained his situation to the Com missioners. He being out of gasoline requested that they make a motion and write a copy of same to A. F. Johnson, Chairman local Rationing Board as to his need of gasoline for the County Home use only. Motion by Com. Joyner an'l seconded by Com. Bartholomew that E. R. Richardson, Supt., of County Home be allowed suffic ient gasoline to travel the dis tance of 600 miles per month. The above motion was duly car ried by the Board. Mr. Ray L. Westerfield from the State of North Carolina De partment of Conservation and Development (Division of Fores try) appeared before the Board and asked that the County of Franklin have a Forestry Fire Department. Mr. Westerfield ex plained. the program in full and also its cost to the county. Mr. Joe Perry gave a short talk on the opinion of some of the peo ple in the county. No action was taken at this time. A Jury was drawn by the Sheriff for a one week term of September Court (CiviJ/ Term) to begin the 13th. Samuel Owen Wilder was unanimously elected Tax Collec tor for Franklin County for., a period of one year. F. M. Fuller, Fire Chief of Louisburg, asked that the Board appropriate the sum of $75.00 to the Louisburg Fire Department. Motion by Com. Dean and second ed by Com. Pearce and duly car ried that said amount be appro priated to the Fire Department of Louisburg, plus $25 to Fraiik linton Fire Department. Ther3 being no further busi ness the Board adjourned after allowing a number of accounts, to meet again at its next regular meeting, or subject to the call of the chairman. ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Rev. I. Harding Hughes, Chap lain of St. Mary's School, Raleigh, will conduct services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 11:00 o'clock a. m., Sunday. August 7. Church School will begin promptly at 9:45 A. M., Sunday, and will last for one hour. Mr. Will Tarborough, Bible Class teacher. Rev. Alfred P. Chambliss, Jr., of Warrenton, will conduct ser vices at 8:00 o'clock p. m., on Sunday, August 14th. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. o To help the feed situation, the Commodity Credit Corporation has recently purchased 6 million bushels of corn. Some of this corn will go to war industries. o ? PROGRAM AT TEU5 LOUISBURG THEATRE The following Is the program at the Loulsburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday. Aug. 7th: Saturday ? The Three Musqui teers in 'The Blocked Trail' and Margaret Lockwood in 'Alibi,' also chapter No. 10 'Daredevils of The West.' Sunday-Monday ? Susan Peters, Richard Whorf and Pierre Au mont in 'Assignment in Brittany.' Tuesday ? Richard Arlen and Chester Morris in 'Aerial Gunner' also chapter No. 5 'The Secret Code.' : Wednesday ? Claire Trevor and Edgar Buchanan in 'Good Luck, Mr. Yates.' Thursday-Friday ? Robert Tay lor, Lloyd Nolan and George Murphy In 'Bataan.' PROMOTED LIEUT, (jn) W. A. HUGGIN8 News was received tills week that Ensign W. A. Huggins had been promoted to Lieutenant (jgl in the U. S. Navy. Lieut. Hug gins volunteered in the Navy on July 15, 1942. His many friends wish him success. Sch ool Bus Driver's School To Be Held In Louisburg August 11th At 9:30 a.m. Supt. W. F. Mitchell states that in order that all school bus driv ers might be properly certified prior to the opening of schools on August 23 rd. another School Bus Drivers' School will be held in the office of the Franklin Coun ty Board of Education on Wed nesday morning, August 11th at 9:30. This will be the last oppor tunity for any boy or girl to be come certified prior to the open ing of school. All applioants in terested in driving* a school bu? during the school year 1943-44, who have not already beep cer tified, should arrange to attend this Course of Instruction. Any driver who has already been cer tified is eligible to drive a school bus and it will not be necessary that they attend this meeting on August Vlth. Th^ schools of this County will begin the 1943-44 term on August 23rd and all drivers must be certified before they will be permitted to drive a school bus. Interested applicants who have not already obtained their driv er's license should do so prior to attending this meeting. Bus Driv er's license cannot be issued un til such license have been obtain ed. Recorder's Court Franklin Recorder's Court held regular session on Tuesday morn ing and disposed of cases as fol lows: D. L. Ayscue, charged with op erating automobile intoxicated, reckless driving, hit and run, up on compliance with former Judg ment the defendant to be dis charged. Ned Nicholson plead guilty to unlawful possession of whiskey and possession of distilling outfit, given 3 months on roads, suspen ded upon payment of $50 fine and costs. Joe Mayo, charged with assault with deadly weapon, a nolle pros with leave was taken. Percy W. Joyner, Qeorge Hall, William (Willie) Joyner, Hobart Roberson. assault. Jury requested continued to Saturday, Aug. 14th. The following cases were con tinued: Buck Perry, oai. J. W. Cobb, speeding. Irvin O. Gilliam, non-support. Jack Everett Bridges, speeding. Junius Chavis, Betty Perry, f and a. M. C. Bailey, assault. u KNTERTAINS Mrs. Frank Harrington was hostess to members of her bridge club and special guests, Thurs-j day evening at her home on Franklin Street. Members present were: Mrs. Lee Bell. Mrs. Numa Freeman, Mrs. Edgar Fuller, Mrs. W. H. Horton, " Mrs. Davis Perry, Mrs. W. G. Lancaster, Mrs. W. F. Shelton. Mrs. William Wilson and Mrs. Alex Wood. Guests were: Mrs. Clifford Hall, Mrs. E. F. Thomas, Miss Elizabeth Best. Mrs. Harrel J. Lewis, Mrs. Ken neth "White, Mrs. F. E. Pulley, ., S. contending there are more men Inunlforni now than needed, .said he opposed draft ing fathers until "every single man lias been inducted" from any community in which they are available. "If we induct fathers, we break up the family and make the family dependent on tile sfate," he said. "Then, our next generation of rulers will be raised in incubators. " "Besides, I donf see why we need any more soldiers. We've got more than we need now." tore lasV'September 15 and are not workers in the activities clas sed as non-deferrable. Also, the boards were instruct ed to continue calling single and childless married men first if they have no occupational or hardship ground for deferment and 10 make reclassifications out of fa thers' group. 3-A, "only as need ed to meet the demands upon a local board for men for military service." The calling of fathers will be according to their draft order numbers regardless of the num ber or age of their children, un less they are granted deferment as "essential" in agriculture or industry; or unless their induc tion would mean "extreme hard ship and privation" to their fam ilies. The policy of not draft ing men over 38 continues. Up lo Local Boards The decision in each man's case will be up to his local board, sub ject to appeal. In deciding whether to grant hardship deferment, classification 3-D, boards are to take into con sideration provisions for allot ments to dependents of service men and "other means by which the registrant could contribute to his family's support in event of induction." Currently wives get $50 month ly ? $22 taken from the husband's pay and $28 as an outright gov ernment grant ? while the gov ernment gives $12 monthly for the first child and $10 more monthly for each additional child. The Senate has passed a bill to increase allowances so that a wife with one child would get a total of $68 instead of the $62 now provided, while allowances for each additional child would be raised from $10 to $11. House action on the measure is expect ed after Congress reconvenes September 14. ? 1 u Jury List The following jurors were drawn Tor the regular September term of Franklin Superior Court, civil term, beginning on Monday, September 13 th: First Week Dunn ? H. K. Baker, Jr. Harris ? Bryant Strickland, J. D. Morris. Youngsville ? K. H. White. Frankllnton ? H. H. Utley. Hayesville ? H. C. Ayscue, R. H. Ayscue, J. B. Ellington. Sandy Creek ? J. C. Tharring ton, W. A. Burnette, P. D. Moore, C. R. Edwards, Fred Finch. Gold Mine ? Burton Burnette, L. H. Williams, Hubert Gupton, H. L. GrifTin. Cedar Rock ? J. H. Shearin, Harrill Heading. L. L. Gupton. L. D. Upchurch, Isaac Malone, R. H. Williams, T. K. Arnold, E. M. Sykes, O. J. House, D. E. House. Cypress Creek ? G. J. Perker son, G. R. Boone, A. H. Edwards. Louisburg ? R. W. Ashley, W. B. Joyner, James L. Purgurson, C. F. Stone, J. R. Terrell, J. B. Beasley. RENEW IUIK SUBSCRIPTION I1JI0 per year In Advance Badoglio Regime Forcing Italians Under Nazi Yoke Berlin Well Pleased With Growing Resistance; Peace Enthusiasm Cool ing London Aug. 4. ?Italian dec larations by press and radio indi cated today that Marshal Pietro Badoglio's regime was bindins Italy closer to the Axis and stif fening the will to tight on. While Italian newspapers car ried articles rejecting the Allied demand for "unconditional sur render." Foreign Secretary An thony Eden told the House of Commons that the Allies had of I fered no other peace terms. Badoglio called his cabinet to ! meet tomorrow, but there was no j indication that it was to discuss peace terms. The Milan Corrlere Delia Sera, which had been outspoken in its criticism of Fascism after Musso lini's downfall, was quoted by Rome radio as writing: The Dally Mail reported from) the Italian frontier that BaidogW> j had forbidden Italians to listen j to enemy radios, a decree au-j nouncing that heavy prison sen tences would be inflicted on any one caught listening to British,' American "or other enemy wire less programs." (Meanwhile, the Rome radio said tlw^ Italian cabinet met to-1 day , to discuss the appoiutinent of a new ambassador to the Vatican -fo replace Count Ciano, Musso lini's son-in-law. The Rome broad cast. reported by the United States Foreign Broadcast Intel- ; ligence Service, said the minis ters also discussed "reports from, the air ministry."} "The enemy keeps on repeat ing they are waging war against Fascism and not against Italy.! Fascism has fallen. What have! they offered to Italy? Nothing but| a vague promise for generosity? | the velvet glove over the iron] fist of unconditional surrender. \ "Those two words repeated every day on every occasion . . . take away all illusions and break down moments when one might, feel inclined to be persuaded . . . j Our peace could be nothing butj a continuation of war with us or( without us or over us." o Drive Begun On Cars With No Stickers While there are many automo biles being operated in this sec-j tlon without the new Federal au-| tomobile use stamp attached to windshields, as required by law. there have been no raids and no arrests by authorities by way of ; enforcing (he act. as far as can be learned. Prom the office of Charles H. I Robertson, collector of internal revenue in Greensboro, has come! information that around 8,000 car owners in North Carolina j have been cited for failure to dls-i play their Federal auto stickers j and were warned that stiffer mea sures of enforcement will be used I if necessary, The collector' office stated that1, some few car owners have refus ed to buy the stickers and that the "proper penalty" will be ap-| plied against these persons. The ; penalty is a fine of $25 or 30: days in jail, or both. It was ex-j plained that the Internal revenue, office has been conducting in va rious parts of the State since July 1 drives to enforce purchase' of the stickers, and it was added that the drive will be continued. To date deputy collectors have been lenient in their enforce ment of the federal regulation that stickers be displayed on all cars July 1 and thereafter. Own ers of cars found on the streets or highways without the federal stickers have been issued cita tions to appear in the local depu ty collector's office where they were called upon to purchase the sticker or produce evidence of purchase. LOUISBURG METHODIST CHURCH The Rev. J. Claud Chaffin, pas tor of the Louisburg Methodist Circuit, will be guest preacher at the Louisburg Methodist Church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sunday School convenes it 9:45 a. tn. led by Prof. I. D. Moon. The Union Vesper service will not be held pn Sunday night. o Nothing else puts so much flav or and succulence into>im couple of thin lamb chops as menu tar iff of $1.75. : ; -V A lot of women cottld do the family washing with the energy expended tn keeping their "foun dation" ?in place. * SEAMAN'S HOLIDAY . . ? ? .v Though they've gambled with death in the performance ot their doty these merchant seamen can't forget the sea, even on a holiday/ Here they are recuperating at one of the many rest centers' which the United Seamen's Service, a member agency of the National War Fund, maintains here and abroad, in cooperation with the War Shipping Administration. Rationing Board Gives Rules Con cerning Gasoline Rations The Franklin war price andl rationing board has issued the' following statement concerning gasoline rationing: The following changes are now in effect and should be noted by all users of gasoline: 1. Persons who iive only a short distance from their work ! will not be given supplemental i gasoline to go to and from work. 2. One hundred gallon bulk coupons are 110 longer used. The gasoline deposit certificates have taken their place. One-gallon bulk j coupons are to be used for spec-j ial furlough only. 3. Vacation travel: this has! been a confusing subject; here isj the "low down" 011 it: Persons' living in North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia and Florida | may use their 'A' coujfltns toi travel within these states with out going to their local boards' for permission. It should bel kept In mind, however, that, enough 'A' coupons must be re set"! c(i foi' going to church, shop-J ping and visiting ? and if a hoi- j der uses all his 'A' coupons on aj vacation the board will not re-| place, these with -B' coupons. Any person who wishes to talA? a va cation which carries him into the critical shortage area (Virginia and north) must apply to the lo cal war price and rationing board for permission. 4. Automobiles operating un der a ,4euler's "license plate are not eligible for basic 'A' gasoline rations. 'A' books which are held for such vehicles should be iurn-1 ed in to the board at once. 5. Plant transportation com-! mitteemen should notify the lo-j cal board at once if a worker stops working at the plant. As soon as this notice is giveu, the board will call in the book held by the worker. 6. Physicians who give the ra tion board a written order for gasoline to enable a patient to attend a clinic of any kind which requires periodic trips are re quested to notify the ration board at once if the patient falls to show up for treatment. The local bourd will cooperate to see that the patient appears for treatment or have the gasoline ration taken from him. The physician should also note on this certificate "the patient is not phycially able to ride on a bus" if such is the case. 7. Further special rations for victory gardens are prohibited. 8. After July 22, each indi vidual gasoline coupons must have the license number of the vehicle to which It is issued writ ten on the face in ink. Service station attendants will violate this new regulation if they ac cept any coupon without this number already written on it. All service stations should aid the ration board by giving this infor mation to their customers. Fail ure to comply with ths new regu lation will result in the loss of further gasoline rations. 9. Indications seem to point to a standardization of the gallon age value of all 'A' coupons. This will mean that the buying power of a North Carolina 'A' book would be on* an equal footing with the buying power of coupons in other states. OPA Adminis trator Prentiss Brown is quoted in this matter as follows: "Consistently, day in and day out. I have opposed restrictions to- the extent that we have them here. I have always opposed the TSD-called pleasure driving ban, except where and unless absolute ly. qeeessary. The 'A' card hold er should be permitted to use his gas in any way he sees fit. As soon as possible we will lift this restriction. The 'B' and 'C' cards are given for a specific purpose and must be used only for those purposes." WAR NEWS Allied Headquarters in Austra lia. Thursday, Aug. 5. ? Allied troops pressing upon the Japanese liases of Muiida and Salamaua at opposite ends of a 750-mile South Pacific front are meeting stiffen ing resistance today from an en emy making a last-ditch fight from pill-boxes and trenches dug into the hills and jungles, front dispatches reported. Both bases ? Munda on New Georgia and Salamaua on New Guinea ? virtually were cut off from ocean supply lines. biii nevertheless, dispatches empha sized. the Allies faced a long, tough fight before they fall ? battles similar to that which rag ed for months across the south eastern part "of New Guinea be fore the Allies conquered the Buna-Gona sector and drove the ?laps from Papua. Allied Headquarters, North Af rica. Aug. 4. ? The heroic Island of Malta was Allied operational headquarters during the Sicilian invasion; and on the night the drive began, General Dwight D. Eisenhower stood silently in a road and saluted American and British airborne troops roaring overhead on their way to Sicily, it was revealed today. Eisenhower; his British depu-j ty. Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander; Air Marshal Sir Ar thur W. Tedder and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Browne Cunninghani-*-the "Big Four" of the Allied Mediterranean com mand?all were on the island as the invasion got under way, and remained there during the initial stages of the Sicilian fighting. The night of July 9th ? when theiairborne troops opened the invasion? was an anxious one for Eisenhower because a stiff gale was blowing and threatened to upset his carefully laid plans. Elsenhower checked the wind carefully, as too high a velocity would have meant airborne troops would overshoot their marks. He gauged the wind by keeping an eye on American-made windmills which Malta has im ported for years. Then he smiled reassuringly when the velocity declined as the night wore on. London, Thursday, Aug. 5. ? A German broadcast announced the evacuation of Orel today after the Russians had broken into the ruined city and started driving the desperately-resisting enemy rear guards through its streets in hand-to-hand fighting. A German official DNB agency bulletin recorded here shortly be foreM:30 a. m., admitted tho first great summer triumph of the Red army In the capture of the city, an anchor point for the entire German front, which the blitzkrieg hordes of the German Wehrmacht had taken nearly 22 months ago. DNB's announcement said: "It is learned that most pow erful Soviet attacks have been re palled at the shortened flanks of the Orel salient and that after the evacuation of all militarily and war economically essential installations according to plan, the German lines havq been tak en back behind the remnants of the town." "Diienjtajjed" Themselves The agency added that "unno ticed by the enemy" the Ger mans had "disengaged" themsel ves and taken up more favorable positions "prepared in advance long ago." "Several hours after the meth odical evacuation movements the Soviets probed their way in the (Continued on Pace Eight) TAKE CATANIA Block Last Two Roads of Escape From Sicily; Threefold Attack Con tinues The 8 o'clock Radio broad cast yesterday morning an nounced the taking of Catan ia, hy the British 8th Army. Catania port was described as ! being the only port from which tile Axis can disembark. I ' ? . i I Allied Headquarters, North Af | rica. Aug. 4.? Allied land. sea ! and air bombardments pinned the main body of Sicily's Axis defend ers around Mt. Etna today, block ing their last two roads of es cape, while American troops drove to within 55 miles of Messina and Anglo-Canadian forces hit deep er into the sagging Catania line. A United States naval force of cruisers and destroyers joinejjr" the battle as it swirled towapda flaming climax on the \I^ssina peninsula, spelling the^Cape Or lando area on the north coast in | the path of the ^Vtnerican Sev I enth Army's advance, which had 'carried 12 miles past San Stefano and overrun the ancient seaside town of Coronia. With the enemy fighting des perately for every foot of ground and counterattacking with tanks for the first time since the early hours of invasion, the Allies di rected the full weight of their power against his last lines of communications. British and Canadian troop* secured their break-through to ; Centuripe on the southwest sec tor by capturing Cantenanuova, which had been bypassed, then : hauled their long-range guns on j to the heights overlooking Adrano i and shelled the road from there to Catania all along its 22-niil<3 length. lioads Closed ? the moment at least the Germans could not use this curv j ing, back-door road around Mt. Etna for either supply or with drawal and their only other ar | tery to Messina was the east coast road. The Navy was tak i ing care of that. On the night | of July 31-August 1, a naval i communique revealed, British de j stroyers shelled the coast road near Cape Molina. IT miles south I of Taormina. Late dispatches I said these bombardments were continuing at frequent intervals, i ? Border Markets Opened Yesterday Light Sales Forecast; Aver age of 40 Cents or Better Anticipated; Quality Fair Border Belt tobacco markets in the Carolinas opened for the sea son Thursday, but exceptionally light sales were forecast from the seven North Carolina auction centers last night. | Most market officials said they expected the opening day's aver age prices to be close to the $41 per hundred "weighted average" price ceiling established by the Office of Price Administration a week or so ago. Last year's opening day aver age was $37.37 per hundred pounds, with 5,934,246 pounds being sold. In 1941 a total of 6,291,536 pounds were sold on opening day on the North Caro lina markets for an average of $26.93 per hundred. Some of the larger markets ot the belt reported fairly large of ferings ,pn warehouse floors, but smaller markets said that only a small amount of tobacco was? on the floors last night and that very light sales are expected to day. One or two of the markets said that they expect to clear all floors by shortly after noon. Quality of the first offerings was reported as ? "fair." One I warehouseman said that there was some good tobacco and "a lot of bad" on hand. Sales will start at 9 a. m., ahd will be concluded at 5 p. m. if there's enough tobacco on hand. No special ceremonies are plan- % ned for the opening of sales on the Tar Heel markets. ENTERTAINS BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. Joe Pearce entertained the members of her bridge club and additional guests Tuesday evening at her home. Miss Ann Barnhill assisted the hostess in serving a salad plate and drink t6 Mrs. George Selby, Mrs. J. L. Gupton. Mrs. Merrill Bynum, Miss Ann Baruhlll, and Mrs. Wilbur Raynor, members. Mrs. Davis Perry. Miss Elizabeth Best, and Mrs. William Wilson, guests. Mrs. Merrill Bynum and Miss Elisa beth Best received defense stamp*. Milk, butter, cheese, ice cream and other dairy products annual ly create an output valued at 5% billion dollars. One out of every 15 families in the U. S. is depai dent on milk for a livelihood. ' - ? ? ? ' 'flw