MAKE EVERY J PAYDAY For Victory... Boy I. (.DEFENSE f BONDS STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 24 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 24, 1912. ESTABLISHED 1899 Demands For Tires Far Exceed Number Allotted To County Eleven Tires and 11 Tubes Allotted Applicates in County Monday The shortage of tires and tubes for both passenger cars and other types of vehicles in this county is becom ing more pronounced from week to week, Rationing Board Chairman C. C. Martin stating this week that the demand now pending will cut deep into and possibly exhaust the allot ment for next month. No April al lot ment has been announced, but it will have to be a sizable one if the (resent demands are to be met along with those expected next month. More applications for certificates of purchase were received than the board allotted this week, and now the board has accumulated applica tions requesting 20 truck tires and 20 truck tire tubes, 32 passenger car tires and 28 passenger car tire tubes, 12 trailer tires and 12 trailer tire tubes and two tractor tires and one tractor tire tube. Altogether there are 31 applications for tire purchase certificates carried over by the board at its meeting Monday. New applications were received by the board Monday for the purchase of fourteen truck tires and tubes, ton car tires and six car tire tubes, eight trailer tires and tubes and one tract or tire No requests were rejected, j but it is understood that favorable action is not to be expected when I further consideration is given some | of the applications next week. Ex hausting its weekly quota, the board ! this week just did not examine all | the applications, other than those falling in high-rating classifications Certificates of purchase were awarded the following: Dr. Edward Lee Early, Jr., Williamston, four tires and two tubes. E. F. Pollard, Robersonville, two] truck tires and two tubes for hauling | produce. Daylite Bakery, Rocky Mount, one tire for the delivery of bakery prod ucts. It is understood that this cer tificate will be charged against the quota in the company's home coun | ty Roberson Slaughter House, Wil- I liamston, two truck tires and tubes | for the delivery of meat and othei food products. John S. Whitman, Robersonville, two truck tires and tubes for hauling logs. Rogers Supply Company, William ston RFD No. 2, one truck tube for | hauling supplies. Unable to establish a classification that would qualify them for a cer tificate of purchase, some of the boys in the county are talking about studying for the ministry. Ministers, in some cases, are able to get tires but those who would reform are ad vised that a number of bona fide ministers have had applications be have gotten no tires as yet. New applications for tires and ] tubes received by the board this j week were filed by the following Columbus Ebron, Williamston | minister, four car tires and tubes. Walter Alexander Manning, Jr., Williamston, two truck tires and | tubes. W. O. Abbitt, two truck tires and | tubes. Charles H. Ange, Jamesville, two | car tires and tubes. Martin County Forest Fire Serv ice, six trailer tires and tubes. Lawrence Thomas Scott, of the | Agricultural Marketing Administra tion, Williamston, four car tires. Easter Seal Sale Planned In County The school children of Martin County are going to do their part to see that crippled youngsters have a chance to be like other kids by join ing the annual sale of Easter seals for crippled children. Miss Mary W. Taylor, local chairman of the sale, said today. "Over 6647 children will take part and will dispose of that many seals," Miss Taylor said. The seals, which sell at one cent each, are being sold throughout the nation this week. Sponsored nation pled Children, the seal sale is put on in North Carolina by the North Car olina League for Crippled Children. "Laid end to end, the number of Easter seals distributed last year in the United States would reach from Elyria, Ohio, the National Society's headquarters, to Los Angeles and back." "It is hoped that this year the number distributed will show an in crease consistent with the gains made each year in the past," she said. Proceeds from the sale are used to advance the general program for physically handicapped children, in cluding physical correction, educa tion, social and vocational adjust ment, and recreational opportunity. "The cooperation of the schools is practically welcome because of pres ent efforts to establish adequate edu cational facilities for crippled chil dren," Miss Taylor said. "Frequent ly the only hope a crippled child has of becoming an independent wage earner is that of becoming a train ed brain-worker. The Easter Seal has come to be recognized as the pictor ial symbol of freedom and indepen dence of the handicapped child." Plaits For Rationing Of Sugar Encounter Still Another Snag Plans for rationing sugar to the 130 million mouths in this country have now encountered another snag, and it is qutie possible that diabetic victims will have been developed and passed on before the stingy bus iness is inaugurated. First scheduled for early March, the rationing plans was later tentatively scheduled to go into effect the latter part of this month. Now the rationing authori ties have come out of their circle just long enough to say the registra tion will be handled on May 4. 5, 6 and 7 for individuals and on April 28 and 29 for commercial users. But will the individuals register at the elementary schools in this county on May 4. 5. 6 and 7? All the schools in the county except those at Jamcsvillc. Farm Life. Bear Grass | and Wiiliamston. will close May 1. Docs it mean that the teachers will be detained in the several commun ities to handle the registration? The superintendent of schools in this county does not know what will be done. It has been suggested that the registration dates could be advanced a week or more, but before that in formation can be had local authori ties must first learn where t?? write] to get instructions. During the meantime, the ratipn ing authorities of the OPA (Office of Price Administration) must decide whether the individual is to be al lowed one-half or three-quarters of a pound of sugar per week. All su gar sales in the United States will be suspended on April 27 for approxi mately one week or until the ration ing system is placed in operation in accordance with the announced reg istration schedule. I.1KKS llii VRMYY Indirect reports reaching here indicate that Albert (Jim Daw son) Cooke likes the Army very well. Leaving with a number of other county boys a few weeks ago. the young man was report ed to have said that he would pay 'em a thousand dollars and walk all the way home if they would let him out. He is in the St. lamis area, some 1.200 miles from here. "Skippv" Cowen. another re crnt addition to the fighting forces from this county, has been home twice to tell everybody how well he likes the Army. School Girl Hurt In Bus Accident Hazel Jarred, right year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs John Robert Jones, of near Wilhamston, was se verely hurt yesterday afternoon when she was struck by a school bus in front of her home on or near the Mary Cherry farm. The bus driver, Russell Bullock, stated that several children got off the bus and cleared the front of the vehicle, that he thought the road was clear and started to drive away. He j heard a bump and looked hack and saw the child lying in the road. Ac cording to the victim, she got off the bus and dropped her shoe and when she darted back to get it and was bending down the truck struck her and knocked her clear of the wheels. She suffered a broken hip and was removed to a Washington hospital for treatment after receiving first aid in the offices of Drs. Rhodes and Llewellyn here . 4 District Churches Meet In Pinctown Delegates of the various Christian churches throughout this section are attending the annual Roanoke Dis trict Convention meeting with the Church of Christ in Pinctown next Saturday and Sunday, B. F. Leggett, president of the convention, an jnounced this week. The sessions will get underway I (promptly each morning at 10 o'clock, eastern war time and the theme of | the convention will center around) | "The Ministry." President Leggett is 'extending a cordial welcome to all the delegates and a large meeting is I anticipated. Superior Court In Final Session Of Term Here Today Niur DiMim-K Arc Granlnl by Court During Current Term in Count\ Holding very few jury trials but continuing a number of cases and settling others by compromise or agreement, the regular term of the Martin County Superior Court made ready for adjournment this after noon. The final sessions are being largely attended, and the proceed ings in one or two eases actually at tracted disinterested spectators. During the terip opening on Mon day of last week, the court granted nine divorces, a near record for one sitting. Based on two years of sep aration. divorces were granted in the following cases this week Wil liam David Cromwell against Mar tha Williams Cromwell; Geneva Dal berryx against Columbus . Dalberry, and Estelle Williams Holliday against Roland Holliday The case of W L. Chesson against the Town of Robersonville was con tinued for the defendant when it was pointed out that a defense wit ness was sick and could not attend court. A continuance was also grant ed in the case of Margaret Whitaker against D. M. Roberson when the de fendant explained to the court that one of his witnesses could not be found A compromise was noted in the case of Mrs. I, H. Matthews against E. R! White. the plaintiff taking nothing and the dtdVndtmt-bctng tax ed with the cost. The case of C. U. Rogers and oth (Continued on page six) BEATS DRAFT Drawing a comparatively low number and realizing that he did not stand the chance of a ghost when his name was called by his father as chairman of the Martin County Draft Board, Kay Coodmon, Jr., last week volun teered for service in the Army air Corps. Quitting school at the University last week, the young man received instructions to re port for a physical examination in Raleigh this morning He is expected to return home for a few days pending the outcome of his tests. Jaj )s' Fierce Drive Southward Has Been Halted Temporarily Outcome of Diploiualic Move 111 India ami Fighting In Ku??ia Awaited After overrunning a large terri tory in the far Pacific, the Japs in a fierce offensive southward are en countering a stronger and more de termined opposition. late reports stating Unit?the barbarian hordes" have been halted temporarily at the door of Australia. Reported to have lost thousands of men. more than 50 ships and well over 100 airplanes during the past eight weeks, the Japs are now waking up to the fact that there is an opposition, and a grow ing opposition at that. Less than 24 hours after Japanese planes had struck the heaviest blow of the war at Port Moresby, a dis patch from the Papuan capital, on the New Guinea Island, said the Japanese land drive in that direc tion had broken down and that the invaders had reached "a more com plete stalemate than they have en countered in any other zone in the Pacific war." Since landing at Kabuui, the Jap anese have captured only one town on New Britain -Gasmata -and they have not been able to extend their hold on New Guinea beyond the beachheads at Lao and Salamaua, except for a slight advance into Markham Valley, the Port Moresby dispatch said. The Japanese air offensive, how ever, lost none of its force. Nineteen Japanese heavy bomb ers and three fighters raided Port Moresby, 350 miles across Torres Strait from Cape York, but a com niunique said they caused little dam age and no casualties. The communique said the Japan ese dropped 60 to 70 bombs on Port Moresby, apparently concentrating on the airdrome in an effort to make it useless as an Allied base While it said two crack Japanese "Zero" fighters crashed outside the town, a Port Moresby dispatch reported third was known to have been hit. The Japanese plane losses brought to a probable 27 the- number destroy ed or damaged by the Allies in two days of the most savage aerial fight ing yet waged at the approaches to Australia. While the Jap push southward is in an apparent stalemate, temporar ily at least, results of pending devel opments in India are being anxious ly awaited in the diplomatic world. ! Sir Stafford Cripps, the Britisher who recognized Russia as a bulwark I (Continued on page six) IVIIs Kxm'rinHv At Pearl Harbor In .1 recent letter t