County's Rationing Board Commended For Unselfish Work (Continued from page one) charged the LaSalle Motor Sales Corporation, Boonville. Ind ; its pres ident. Charles L Hart, and its sec retary-treasurer. Russell W Baker, with violation of OP As tire ratiom ing regulations under Sections 35A and 37 of the U. S. Criminal Code. These sections deal with making false statements to the government and conspiracy to violate a Federal law. Conviction carries a penalty of not more than 10 years' imprison ment and a maximum fine of $10, 000, or both, for each violation. Commenting on the cases. Price Administrator Leon Henderson stressed the importance of the coun try's tire reserves and his firm pol icy to prevent theiit dissipation. "In time of war. private rights in many cases must yield to public' need." Mr. Henderson stated. "The Norfolk case involved passenger car and truck tires valued at about $1. 500. but many times more precious in terms of the transportation they can furnish to essential military or civilian vehicles In situations like this, we cannot afford to wait until possession of the tires passes and then act." "Tlie efficient teamwork between the Department of Justice and the Office of Price Administration that brought this case to court in less than a month after OPA began investiga tion and in less than two weeks from the time it was referred to the Jus tice Department indicates the ser iousness with which the government is going to view such situations. Per sons who are not inclined to abid< by rationing regulations should take notice A nation-wich investigation of tire dealers by government in spectors is now in progress "The regulations are a war time measure and must be adhered to strictly. wtTbthcr they pertain to tires, automobiles, sugar, or any oth er commodity. 'We art not out to make 'examples' but to protect the overwhelming majority of honest cit izens from the harm that comes from the illicit activities of a few unpatriotic persons "Rationing has been forced Upon | us by the course of war It is the] only-method, hy whi.ch a I im-HetHnip ply can be spread fairly. Thus* w'/ attempt to get more than the if shSTc" or to profit by scarcity at the ex pense of their neighbors will bring prompt punishment upon them selves" Martin Lounty liens Lay Over-Sized / gg> A chicken belonging to Mrs. W A Manning is doing its part to raise food for home consumption Whew the eggs weTe collected Mrs Man ning found that one of the chickens had laid a imubli sizt egg muasunng nearly eight inches in circumfer ence Working To Relieve (Farm Labor Problem i R Mayne Albright, director of the United States Employment Service for North Carolina, and Wellborn C Carlton, newly appointed Farm Placemen! Supervisor for the State, attended a conference of farm place ment officials in Regions III and IV. held in Philadelphia Friday and Sat urday. The conference had to do with the problem -of?supply--farm-labor- ?in states along the Atlantic Seaboard particularly, presented by the all-out war effort which is taking away from the farms many of the farm laborers and placing them in war construc tion and war production activities The officials considered means of re cruiting labor and moving it from one area to another, using trailer homes for housing the overflow, and then when the seasonal work has been completed in a given section, moving on to another. This problem has been mentioned many times in recent months in North Carolina, in which State it is expected to b< especially trouble some In his broadcast last week, as a part of the round table discussion of the federalization of Unemploy ment Compensation agencies. Gov ernor Broughton brought up the farm labor problem, asking Federal Security Administrator Paul V. Mc Nutt what steps are to be taken to relievo.' the farm labor shortage. The Philadelphia conference, call ed by Fay W. Hunter, Chief, Farm Placement Service, United States Employment Service, was held to help solve this problem. Population Survey Completed tor the Rationing of Sugar P P (Continued from page one) Gold Point, 716. Hamilton. 560. Jamesville. 420. Jones, 440; Oak City. 1.330. Panned. 812; Poplar Point. 168. Kobcrsonvillc. 900; Salsbury, 412. Smithwick! 112. Williams, Low er. 490: Whichard-James, 460; Wool aid. 390; Williamston, 2,886. and White Oak Springs, 340-^-a total of 13.312 Spreading of Price Ceilings Continues Sharpening of curtailments, spread . mg of'price ceilings, continue apace | No more crude rubber for girdle [and garters, corsets and suspender xNn more 12 gauge shotguns fo .porting uses . OP A calls for ceil j nigs on coal. rugs, the new "Victory I bicycles, guns, flashlights and dry I cell batteries. freezes fertilize [prices; extends policing of women' ; history?prices to cover?the?rayon i j variety Nationwide rationing of | gasoline and oil appears inevitable] ; si;!{<.-> i.< itig .iiu-i'tefl riohi nw sugar trade means the weekly ra j Ition will be lower than first planned | ?I. WILL I AM ST ON IN H4K,< I II B CO I I I H fo4 SMART S*yl*?' Appearance Is Morale MORAl.K require* that we main tain our confidence, our calm, our Irti^t. But we niiir-l do more than feel the?e lluiljt*. we 111 list look them. Our job in no nmall one ? buyinfi a neanon'n requirement* for all the family in more than making a icinh. *e ha\e done it Mieeesftfully for nearly a quarter of a century: We hope to~Ee able to continue it. F O K Smart Styles ? And ? Quality Merchandise FOR MEN. WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, COME TO MUlMOtfcBwlU&lS rfrfr V ? W V99|^ P IP WILLIAMSTON, N. C. New Army Meal Ticket Good News for Restaurant Owners What may prove a boon to restaurant owners ia the Army'a new practice of issuing meal ticketa instead of cash to soldiers for the spend a maximum of 75 cents a meal in restaurants and $1 a meal in railroad dining care?in many instances more than he would spend if he were paying cash. The tickets (one of which is reproduced below) are slightly larger than a currency note, are white and must be filled out by the issuing officer. When a restaurant operator receives one in tender for a meal, be filla in a few blaaki and mailt the ticket to the finance officer at the poat from which the aoldier traveled. When the meal tieketa are received by the finance officer, they are given 1 immediate attention and cheekj (or the (nil amount are aent at once. Now that the United Statea la at war, more and more of theeo meal tieketa will be uaed. Reataurant opera ton who wiah to ahare in the taak of feeding the aoldiera will acquaint themaelvee with ther new meal tieketa and be prepared to honor them. Tk? tork?i sboufcj bm m*r?ptm4 in Ue ?l > MWkt.tpAfr ??? >o pre 11 efdt >Jn? csdswog ?>T< tfce. j?Mft wV? M in chuji ml nit,. WU pf*e?'l7 Mf-* ky U*um? OtUn, h Wlii. k abseNt fife adMl (DUKCI OTflk > TfirV.Cb.ufChill , AlaASTA.... (AA*?> ..Fori Ch'.irrhl T1 , Alflbana .?I?. UNITED STATES ARMY MEAL TICKET (Good for meals oalf) 6874U1 gbf IT |K|fj -0QM?. Earl. Oiurchl.Il. -Alabaoa rfibruarj:.^.^ \i?2 ^ ^ jxjo. fU ? f Any concern (or person) serving meals to the public, on presentation of this request, signed by the Issuing ^ jvvvjW ? * rl Officer, u authorized to furnish ..PVtct. . JO^H D0? %. 3.4QQQQQ and ..XKP. ..... ... enLsted men of the Army en route from ..... Clover dale .""Alabama ??j2 to .. .GpQrSift With .3.. mpjs. sis cm!ef lot Is tuvljl per aasl risa sened is faiag can J'M ?5 ^ F*l S r S es railrod trua*. sad sot U> eicted 75c slscffbsre. Approprulioa sq^^^iq^t_lol|io^fFIii^l^lj-?.P_J7-r^^>..A..Q41Q , jy $3 t ?-? ^ , T. R. Nos. 3 693791..., issued for transportation.' FFttlb an fcB ?^'TiBii (itriiiii s fc 1116 u t a ?t'lI 51 i \ I c-rtify th?l-.2-... nK?l(?)|*|t|funuiScd by ..United.Nations.jCa?e. fcJC3 R- 15. I t " fr" 8 I ?t ..KpA.QnYiIlfi,..AlahaDa J ->XeLruarz..5 i?i2- ?= g & j l?j? ? u ? tout COM of I 2.tl0. P i i Mil i ?H?) m whm t? ?Sm? W mmitrt ro? w^vS' " C&.55X 0?JS! CI THIS MEAL TICKET SHALL IE USED FOI THE ftOCUKEMENT Of FOOD AND NONALCOHOLIC (EVRACES ONLT January IS. IM1 (Dm typewriter, Ink, or indelible pencil only to All In thia ticket) Soldier's MeAl Tieket . . . Take a Cood Look At It. Sir. Restaurant Man Wants to Enlist?City Says No! Frederick Donna elli, of Revere, Mass., shown with his wife and four children, wanted to enlist in the army so badly he wrote President Roosevelt about it The city's welfare commissioner has fought the enlistment on grout ds the family would become dependents of the city if he succeeds. Mrs. Uonnatelli and the draft board have signed waivers. ..f Central Preee) Fierce Battle For The Rich Island of Java Is Now Racing (Continued from page one) ^ I Ihe German lines in the Lake I linen j area ,and the 16th German army of | learly 100,000 Germans in the Star- j iy:> > t ftiiin ure facing st;irv;i lion. Hitler has failed in his at tempts to fly food and ^enforce ments to the trapped army. The Libyan front is temporarily j jut of the news, hut attacks were renewed by Na/i planes on the Sue/ Canal last night, the British driving them off before much damage was done. This coihitry lost iUs ninth naval vessel of World War II last Saturday when the destroyer, Jacob Jones, was sent to the bottom by a German submarine off the Atlantic coast. More than 100 officers and men lost their lives, a preliminary report re leased by the Navy Department slat ing that there were only six survi vors One of the torpedoes fired by the enemy struck the bridge and killed several men A second torpe do struck the stern causing the de stroyer's arsenal to explode1 Donald Nelson, directing an appeal 1 to both management and labttr la*t night, asked for an increase of 25 per cent in production schedules. The new tax law is now before Congress, and the new tax program among other things will double the income tax and gasoline tax bills, up 1 liquor taxes, add one and one-hall I cents to each package?of cigarettes i and tack on a 15 per cent increase on chewing gum, but no sales tax is mentioned. County Authorities Hold An Uneventful And Brief Meeting r (Continued from page one) roundup to be under the direction of the sheriff Kiting his monthly report. Special Tax Collector M Luther Peel stated Ihut $148.849 73 of the $206.066 85 levy for 1941 had been collected. It ! has been rumored that the sale of delinquent tax accounts may be ad vanced in the county this year The collector also stated that $2,293.06 tout hei-n rnlli Tl.wt fruni ll?. 1 Q4fl lanH sales, leaving $4,546 92 uncollected. Tlie "insolvent" list amounting to $5,808.17 when the special collector received the 1940 books has been re duced to $3,714 20. ??? v ()utline Tentative Plans For First Aid Courses In County (Continued from page one) planes overhead, the ack-ack tear ing at its roots with each violent bark, when the ack-ack- fragment* are falling down like rain, then thi people's army is at work. That's th< job cut out for our volunteer*." Still on Luzon Attending the Gay N?-pa festival in the Philippines a few days before the Japanese invasion is Mrs. Douk las MacArthur, wife of the com mander in chief of the Philippine forces. At last report, Mrs. Mac Arthur was still with her husband and their son on l.uzoitTT Gardeners To Get' Free Soil Tests Raleigh?Prospective planters of "victory gardens" in North Carolina can save bqth time and money by availing themselves of the free soils li sting services of the State Depart ment of Agriculture That is the opinion of Dr. I. E. Miles, director of the Department's soils testing division, who said today that "in order to produce a success ful garden for food it is essential that the gardener know the kind and amount of plant food necessary for economical production." He explained that in the soils lab oratory "soils are tested for fertiliz er needs, degree of acidity and from the samples and information secur ed from the gardener himself, the general adaptability of the soil can be determined." "The samples of soil must be col lected very carefully," Dr. Miles em phasized. "A tablespoonful of topsoil (from top five inches) should be col lected from 10 to 15 places over the garden and all of it put in one box and labeled 'topsoil.' A subsoil sam ple (from 12 to 15 inches deep) should be collected at two or three places (about a half cupful from each I place) over the garden and all put I in one container and labeled 'sub Isoil). Then a questionnaire (which I will be furnished on request) should be filled out for the area represent ed by the samples. If possible, all n{ the quest ions ihniilrf he answered and certainly anything peculiar or unusual about the soil should be in dicated. "The soil sample containers are also available and free of charge. Those interested in having their soils tested should request the question naires and soil sample containers from their county agents, agricultur al teachers, or other agricultural leaders, or the Soil Testing Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh. Farmers who plan to have their soils tested, should use the containers designed for such purpose and collect the samples ac cording to directions shown on the reverse side of the questionnaire furnished." ? Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Parkin, ol Whiteville, are now making theil home here. County Farms Lack Home-^rown Foods The place of the farm in this war is the production of "Food for Vic tory." Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College, and other leaders of the N. C. Agricultural Extension Service, including our own county farm agent, says that farmers of this coun ty generally are deficient in home production of such essential food products as garden vegetables, milk, pork, poultry and eggs From the last Federal census comes proof that a large number of farms in Martin County are with out gardens, cows, hogs and chick ens. The 1940 census shows that there are 2406 farms in tiie county. The census report also reveals that 247 farms were without gardens, 1581 farms did not keep a cow, 475 farms had no hogs, and 311 were without a single chicken. "This is the first war-time task of farm people," Dean Schaub declared, "to see that every farm has a gar den. at least one cow, and sproe hogs and chickens. These are all vital to the health and welfare of rural peo ple. Our farm families must be well fed before they can expect to feed the rest of the Nation, and our Allies in the fight for freedom." The 1940 census listed 278,276 farms in North Carolina. Eighty-nine per cent of them, or 247,127, had gar dens, leaving 31,149 without gardens. Those farms which did have gar IcLeiis va.lued .th.em at-atutal of $14, 773,625, or an average per garden of $60. Figured at the same average jvolui . the 31.140 funiM mtliuul gai ; dens "lost" $1,869,000 by their fail- I ure to grow vegetables and small I fruits The State census showed that 65 | per cent,"or 179,816, of the farms kept j cows; 69 per cent, or 191,672, had J hogs, and 88 per cent, oi 245.122 kept some chickens. Wants SEED PEANUTS FOR SALE?190 bags. W A. Vanderford. Gold Point. f27-3t THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . As far as the official reports show, motorists traveled a full week on Martin County high ways without an accident. One or two accidents were reported near the county line, including one on the Roanoke River bridge, but the record was clear as far as this county was concerned. Patrolman Saunders explained. To go a full week without an accident, motorists have really accomplished something, and the feat clearly shows that it is not possible to limit the number if not eliminate entirely so much wrecking, maiming and killing on the highways. The following tabulations of fer a comparison of the accident trend: first, by corresponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. ..&tb AJieek Comparison Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'rt 1942 0 0 0 $ 000 1941 3. 1 0 ? 30 Comparison To Date 1942 15 8 0 $2935 1941 19 10 2 900 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A BET tor cleaning job? Send your clothes to Pittman's. We look after your buttons, sew up the rips and clean the cuffs. Cash and carry 55 cents. Delivery 05. Pittman's Clean ers. Phone 139. FOR RENT ? SIX ROOM HOUSE, I It'll i?tnir ground;* Avuihiblc atfre March 15. Telephone 383-WX Mrs K. A White. m3-2t GARDEN SEED: PACKAGES AND bulk Also package flower seed and lawn grass seed. Now is time to plant. Leave us your order for cab bage plants J C. Loggett. Washing ton Strei t. m3-0t WANTED ? WE NEED 50 GOOD used suits. Liberal allowance on your old suits in trade on new ones at Pittman's. 500 new suits to sjelect from. Pittman's LOST: IRISH SETTER ANSWERS to the name "Timmey." My name f an ordei of the Clerk of Superior Court of Martin County of even date herewith, directing the under signed to re-sell the property here inafter described by reason of a raise in the bid in a former sale, I will on Monday. April 6. 1942, at twelve o'clock Noon, at the Court house Door of said County, sell to the high? st bidder for cash to satis fy said execution, all of the right, ti tle and interest which the said Major Latham, deceased, had in the follow ing described real estate, to-wit: Eleven (11) acres of land adjoin ing the S R. Mobley Farm on the old Williamston-Greenville Road in Wil liamston Township, Martin County, and being the same lands deeded to Major Latham by J L. 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