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iVOLUME XLV?NUMBER 28 Williamiton, Martin County, North Carolina, Fueulay. April 7, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899
Uneventful Session
Held By The County
Board Here Monday
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('.omniiasioner* Have Agrwl
To Provide Equipment
For Canning Project
The Martin County Board of
Commissioners were in a long but
uneventful session here yesterday
when few matters of major import
ance were placed before the author
ities for consideration. Leisurely dis
cussing current problems, the com
missioners did not adjourn until al
most six o'clock. Several tax relief
orders were granted. A petition for
road improvements was received,
and the commissioners virtually
agreed to provide equipment for a
county wide canning project for the
school lunch rooms. No action was
taken on the proposal to advertise
and sell delinquent 1942 taxes before
next fall, but it is possible for the
commissioners to reconsider the pro
posal and order the sale in any
month between June nad Novem
ber.
Submitting his monthly report,
Tax Collector M Luther Peel stated
that $152,988.18 of the 1942 levy had
been collected, leaving a balance of
$53,084 95. Mr. Peel also stated that
$2,012 99 had been collected from
the 1940 land sales, leaving a balance
due of $4.476 97 The insolvent list,
fixed at $5,898 94 when the books
were turned over to the special col
lector, has been reduced by $2,
469.55
Tax relief orders were issued in
the following cases:
W. Berkley Rogers, Bear Grass,
$8.88 taxes on $658 worth of proper
ty astessed by error.
J. It. Griffin, Jamesville Town
ship, $2 taxes double listed
Thomas Moore, Jamesville Town
ship, $2 taxes lifted on account of
physical disability.
H. W. Gardner, Williamston Town
ship, $2 taxes double listed.
Tom D. Taylor, Robersonville
Township, $2 taxes listed in error
James Slade, Robersonville Town
ship. $2 65 tuxes double listed
Octavius Barber, Jamesville
Township, $2 taxes double listed
A petition, carrying the names of
seven persons ant^ calling for the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission to take over that road
leading from the D. W. Etheridge
home west to the Edgecombe Coun
ty line and known as the Chance
Road, was submitted as a follow-up
to a similar request filed a month
ago.
After quitting the farming busi
ness some time ago, the county is
now going in for gardening. Equip
ment has been provided and a siz
able gulden is to be cultivated in co
operation with the Works Progress
Administration for the county school
lunch rooms The WPA was before
the meeting asking thai a cannery bi
provided, the representatives of the
organization explaining that other
plans to preserve the vegetables had
been rejected. Commissioner Joshua
(Continued on page six)
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Forest Fires Riiging
Over Large Area In
Old J. And W. Lands
Church and Several lagging
Camps Said To Have Been
Burned Already
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Fire believed to have been of in
cendiary origin is sweeping over
hundreds and possibly thousands of
acres in the old Jamesville and
Washington timber lands in Griffins
and Jamesville Townships, unoffi
cial reports stating that part of the
lands in Washington County were
also burning. Starting late last Fri
day night, the fire burned rapidly,
and landowners in the path of the
fire resorted to back-firing and ap
parently aggravated it. The fire
burned across roads, and while
some progress had been made to
check it late yesterday, the wave of
destruction burned on into new
areas.
One report stated that a church
building had been burned over in
Washington County, and the Fore
man-Blades Lumber Company lost
several logging camps in this coun
ty. The membership of Christian
Hope Church, fearing the fire would
sweep down upon their building,
was said to have back-fired in an
effort to save the structure. The ac
tion was taken Sunday morning, and
later the building caught fire and
burned.
According to information reaching
here, the fire started about midnight
Friday near the six-mile pine or a
few miles east of old Dymond City.
It burned in a southeasterly direc
tion from that point, by passing
some valuable timber.
Forest Fire Warden Marvin Leg
gett summoned possibly fifty men
and strenuous efforts were made to
check the fire. H>e Worth Carolina
Pulp Company assigned a large num
ber of men to the task and special
fire-fighting equipment including a
large tractor and plows, was moved
into the area ahead of the fire. Some
progress had been made by late af
ternoon, but the fighters were of the
opinion that only a heavy rain would
check the fire.
New Grade Will Be Added To
High Schools In This County
Meeting in special session here
yesterday, the Martin County Board
of Education virtually completed
plans for adding a new grade to the
county school system, the board
chairman, J. D. Woolard, Sr., ex
plaining that other arrangements
and details would have to be handl
ed by the various school principals
and teachers.
Briefly stated the board is adding
a new grade to the elementary school
system; BUI"OtJTof necessity it will
have to be incorporated in or handl
ed by the six high schools where
teachers are available. Under the
present plans, students in the cur
rent senior class will be graduated
according to schedule next month.
Current tenth graders will be grad
uated in 1943. but the current ninth
grade will not be graduated in 1944
according to the old schedule, the
school heads stating that they will
be required to take additional work.
Eighth graders will follow a simi
lar schedule which requires them to
take four more years of training in
the local schools ?? a?
Commenting on the enlarged sys
tem, Superintendent of Schools J. C.
Manning stated that no new teach
ers would hardly be necessary be
for the 1944-45 term or until the
foundation had been laid for the
new grade. After eliminating the
graduation program in the spring of
illi.iritini: yill op.Tnl.. ^t>
schools on a strictly 12-year basis.
During the meantime, there is a
drive being advanced to have old
graduates return and take post-grad
uate work In the Oak City district
1(> of the 27 seniors have already
planned to return for additional
study. The enlarged system in the
small counties will cost very .little
as the present faculties will be able
to handle the extra work.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Late registrants in this coun
ty will have pot shot questions
fired at them within the next
week or ten days, according to
information coming from the
county draft board today. It is
not likely that any of the ques
tionnaires will be mailed this
week, but the records are being
prepared and mailing is expect
ed some time next week.
It is not very likely that any
of the late registrants in this
county will be made subject to
draft call before June.
Number Marriages
Continues To Drop
In Martin County
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Fifteen White Couples Murry
In Past Three Months; 27
Marrv A Year Ago
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The number of marriages in Mar
tin County continues to drop, the [
decrease being traceable to the white
population while the colored are |
barely holding their own at the mar
riage altar. During the first three
months of this year fifteen white
touples were married in the county
as compared with 27 in the first
three months of 1941 The same num
ber of colored marriages was report
?d for the corresponding months of |
the first quarter this year and last,
the issuance being three times great
er than that for the whites in one of |
the three montiis.
Last month there were sixteen
licenses issued by Register of Deeds
I. Sam Getsinger in this county, but
while there were sixteen marriages,
the court severed the bonds of ma
trimony in nine divorce cases Brief
ly stated. Dan Cupid made little |
progress in the county last month.
Licenses were issued to the fol
lowing couples in the county last |
month:
White
Morgan R Taylor, of Jacksonville. I
and Thorne Mae Taylor, of William- |
?ton.
Eli Stalon Stalls, of Everetts, and i
Jennie Bett Stalls, of R.F.D. 1, Rob
ersonville.
Edward G Taylor and Mrs. Liz- ]
tie Griffin, both of R.F.D. 1, Wil-1
liamston.
Lester L. Whitaker and Fannie |
Mae Harris, both of R.F.D. 1, Tar
boco.
Leamon Foch Keel and Amanda |
Wynn. both of Williamston.
William Hugh Sessoms, of Tar-1
burn, and Grace Wilson Manning, of |
Williamston.
Colored
William Smallwood and Eveline \
Williams, both of Quitsna.
John Thomas Cooper, of Windsor,
and Ella Mae Smith, of Williamston. I
Robert Lee Hooker, of Palmyra, |
and Cottie Mae Davis, of Oak City.
Coleman Columbus Cross, of Rob
ersonville, and Beulah Catherine |
Lee, of Williamston
David Mayo, of Hamilton, and |
John Anna Gray, of Oak City. v
Jim Scott, of Bethel, and Dollie |
(Continued on page six)
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Mail Is Seriously
Wounded Saturday
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Ben Wilson, 40-year-old colored
man, was critically stabbed by Wil
lie A. Moore, colored, at the Wilson
home on the Plymouth branch of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com
pany here last Saturday evening
shortly after seven o'clock. It is be
lieved that Moore drove the weapon,
a sharp butcher knife, through one
of Wilson's lungs. Given first aid
treatment in a local doctor's office,
Wilson was removed to a Washing
ton hospital where, according to late
reports reaching here, his condition
is considered critical.
Details of the attack which was
said to have followed an argument,
could not be learned. One report in
timated that the two men had been
drinking wine. Moore left immedi
ately and has not been apprehend
ed.
Rationiii" Board Is
r>
Still Swamped with
Demands For Tires
Thirly-wveu \|>|>li<-uliuii? for
Tires and Tubes Are
Still IViuling
I
As muGh as they regret it, mem
bers of the Martin County Tire Ra
- I
tioning Board are now thoroughly (
convinced they'll never catch up <
with the demands for tires and tubes
or at least not until Hirohito lies 1
down and reopens the trade routes
to Java. The board members don't
even believe the synthetic program 1
will help them bounce out of the *
hole they are now in. 1
After rationing to the limit this 1
wcrk, the board added seven new 1
applications to the old ones, boosting I
the number of requests now pend
ing to thirty-seven. The applicants 4
are requesting a combined total of I
about 100 tires and ninety tubes.
At the meeting this week, the
board granted several certificates for
the purchase of recapped tires. Af
ter he gets his certificate, the appli
cant is likely to experience diffi
culty in getting the tires. There are
few if any recapped tires in this
county for sale. 1
With the doctors' automobiles vir
tually "retired," the board this week
looked after the interests of the ru
ral letter carriers and the ministers.
New tires were allotted as follows:
W. L. Brown, Jamesville mail car
rier, one car tube.
(3. ('. James, Kobersonville mail
carrier, -fine car---tire and tube. _
W. B. Harrington, ministers of '
Williamston kfd l, two car tires and
two tubes.
? Dennis W. Davis, minister of Wil- 1
liamston RFD 3, one car tube.
Wallace O Andrews. Roberson 1
ville minister, one car tube.
Recapped tires were allotted to '
the following: *
Ben H James, Williamston RFD 3. 4
two car tires for use in biology I
work. 4
Lawrence Thomas Scott, surplus '
commodity representative, four car ;
tires. ? ~ ' 1
New truck tires were allotted to 4
the following: -
Slade-Rhodes and Co., Hamilton, I
one tire and one tube, for general
farm hauling. I
Biggs Funeral Home, Williamston, '
four truck tires and tubes for am- <
(Continued on page six)
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Soldiers Enjoy Stay
Here Last December
The following letter was received
this week from William D. Work
man, Jr., captain, Norfolk AAA Re
gion:
Frequently during these past
months I've wondered whether or
not anyone ever expressed in writ
ing the appreciation we all felt for
the splendid welcome and enter
tainment the people of Williamston
heaped on us when we passed
through your town shortly after war
was declared. Captain Lennon, who
was in charge of the battery at the
time, has since been transferred to
Camp Davis, so I haven't known
definitely whether he wrote anyone
or not.
In any event, please accept this
belated expression of gratitude
and, perhaps through the medium
of your paper, let the community
know that we still think of William
ston often. In particular are we in
debted to the Rev. John W. Hardy,
of the USO; Mayor J. L. Hassell,
and Mr. D. N Hix, principal of the
high school. The hospitality shown
all at the dance by the Misses Mew
born, Everett, Strickland, Lindsley,
Hardison, Carstarphen, et a)., made
the evening most enjoyable.
Thus far, we still are stationed in
Norfolk, although what the for
tunes of war will bring, time alone
will tell. From time to time, there
still can be overheard the wish that
this war could be fought in William
ston, but I fear that such a pleasure
is to be denied us.
?Hianks again for the rousing re
ception Williamston gave us.
War As It Relates
To Home Front Is
Reviewed for W eek
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Ku/.or Blade Shortage Brand
ed Nothing More Than
An Unfounded Rumor
ft
Remember the tale of Hans, the
little Dutch boy who stuck his fin
ger in a leaky dike and thereby pre
vented a flood which would have
iwept over his home community?
Isn't there something within you
that thrills to the quiet bravery of
a lad who could stand for hours,
numb with cold, because he knew he
held the lives and homes of his
friends and relatives literally in his
hands?
It was a modern story of " Dutch"
xmrage which unfolded itself at
the plant of the Doehler Die Casting
Company in Batavia. N Y.. recent
ly. Workers were straining every
muscle, every nerve, as they joined
in Uncle?Sam's production?drive.
With Axis aggressors running amuck
throughout the world, these men
it hew that the safety of their homes
and their homeland hinged upon the
success of this production campaign.
Suddenly, the Tonawanda Creek
swept over its banks . . . Like a Nazi
Panzer division, it lashed at the
tomes and factories in its path. But
did the workers scurry to safety?
They did not! Instead, plant officials
nid workmen toiled side by side to
iave equipment and materials. To
gether they continued to operate ma
chines . . until the water came up
;o their knees and forced them to
lalt production. Then they saved
thousands of dollars worth of metal
ind packing materials . . and only
16 hours elapsed before the plant was
in operation again.
America Answers FDR
Just what is this production drive?
Well, it is a movement launched by
the War Production Board to attain
President Roosevelt's goal of 45.000
tanks, 60.000 planes. 20,000 anti-air
craft guns, and 8,000,00 tons <?f ship*
ping this year
How does it work? The WPB has
isked management and labor in the
plants of 2.000 prime contractors to
?peed the output of war goods. The
drive is spreading to the factories of
subcontractors, and there is every
ndication that production will be
roosted by the more efficient use of
machines, by finding new uses for old
machines, and by bettering morale
and effort through a pattern pcrmit
ing recognition of individual and
plant attainments.
Use of Tin Restricted
The WPB's determination to chan
nel American industrial effort into
war production was reflected last
week in its order requiring every in
iividuul purchaser of a tube of tooth
paste or shaving cream to turn in
ui <>ld tube for every new one he
puys. The unit i imposed drastic reg>
Ration.-, on the u.v and piuducliun
>f Collapsible tin tubes and Com:
foods, cosmetics and most toilet
preparations
Too. the WPB has banned the
manufacture of electric toasters, dry
?havers, waffle irons, vacuum clean
ers and various other household ap
pliances. Production of lawn mow
jrs is to he halted, the use of slidi
fasteners made of copper, steel am
tine on numerous garments has beei
forbidden, and curtailment has beei
ordered in the use of iron, steel am
sine for making various kitchen ant
lousehold articles.
Nobody's going to get the WPB'i
goat. No sir! 11 has just taken con
trol of all supplies of goatskin suit
able for military purposes . . Anc
the Board has even invaded Santa'i
workshop by placing a ban, effect
rvr duly t, on product ion of toys ant
games made of metal, plastic anc
plhcr materials needed for war
Free Economy On Trial
"Tins is our last chance to show
that a free economy can survive anc
be strong," declares Mr. Nelson in i
foreword to a supplement to the Of
ficial Plan Book for the Pjroductior
(Continued on page six)
Charge Man With
Serious Assault I
Cecil Pippen, Bear Grass Town
ship colored farmer, will be given
i preliminary hearing before Jus
tice J. L Hassell here this evening
it 7:00 o'clock for the alleged serious
assault upon Mrs. Lee Glenn on the
town's main street last Saturday
night. The man is now at liberty un
der a $300 bond.
Darting out of a dark alley be
tween Hoses' and Darden's stores,
Pippen is said to have thrown a pop
bottle after a promiscuous fashion.
The bottle-hit Mrs. Glenn on the
head, leaving an ugly wound, and
bounced and broke the show window
in Pender's store. Four stitches were
necessary to close the wound in
Mrs. Glenn's head. After remaining
in bed that night and Sunday Mrs.
Glenn was said to have improved
yesterday and was able to be up
Pippen, arrested bjT Officer John
Gurganus, was said to have been
drinking. He denied the charge, but
tome witnesses identified him while
nthers who were near the scene of
the assault were of the opinion that
another man threw the bottle. It is
well established that no harm was
intended for Mrs. Glenn.
More Martin County
Men Called To Armv
Call For Colored
Draftees From the
County Is Pending
F,?v More Vtiling Men in Tins*
('.onlitv Are VolnnU?g!>
ing Tlieir Serviced
Uncle Sam is gradually but sure
ly building up his (ightmg strength,
the Martin County Draft Hoard this
week adding its bit by issuing calls
to a fairly large number of white st
leetees to report for duty A call for
colored selectees is pending. u
group to follow the white selectees to
camp The date of induction and
number culled weiv ?w>t dwelusod by
tiie draft board in accordance with
instructions issued by the War De
partment 5
The current call for draftees is
much smaller than was generally
expected. Other counties with small
or populations are said to have fur[J"
ished more men than are being call
ed from this county in the current
period However, .1 was pointed ou
that fairly large numbers of local |
young men have volunteered their
services and entered the Army or
Navy ahead of schedule. Among the ;
late volunteers is Warren Gray A!
Ion young white man of Williams
ton RED No. 3 He entered the
Navy just a few days ago, the coun- j
ty draft board was advised last Sat- j
urday. Bryant Claude Cherry, of j
Williamston R-F.D. f, has volunteer- |
od his services and he will accom
pany the other selectees when they
answer the April call to service
The young white men being noti
fied this week to report for service
are being called subject to a final
physical examination al the induc
tion center It is possible that some
of them will be rejected on account
of physical ailments.
Names and addresses of the men
being called for service are as tot j
lows:
William Leonard Jones, of James
villi? and Cottondale, Ala
John Leon Rogers, KFD 2. Wil
hamston.
Elmer Gray Modlitt, RED 1, James
Grovel Alton Wynne, RED 3, Wil
liamston
William Dawson Raynor, Oak
City , ?
Willie Mayo Ange, Jamesvillc.
Josse Seolt. RED I, Oak City
Henry Cliurelivill Harrington. RM>
I, Balmyra. j
Hubert Harrison Joyner, Itru I.
Hrrhi rt Roger Wlute. RED 3, Wil
liain.iion.
Oscar Everett Roberson, Ruber
sonvillc
Hubert Milton Ange. RED 1
Jamesvillc, and Greenville
Robert Theodore Taylor, RH) J.
Williamston
Howard Everett Roberson, Rob
crsonville.
Jim Scott, Hamilton
Hugh John Hollingnwortli, former
|y of Williamston hut now of Eort
Mills. South Carolina r__
?Louis Henderson Mi/cne, RrD I,
Jamesvillc.
John Thomas Daniel, Oak City.
Delwood Eugene Jackson, HtD 1
Jamesvillc.
John Edwin Manning. RED '?
Jamesvillc
Astiley Garner House, RFD I, Rob
ersonville.
Mack Daniel Coltrain, RrD I, Wd^
Sunrise Service
largely Attended
On Easter Sunday there gathered
on the lot adjoining the Williams- i
ton cemetery possibly 300 or more
worshippers to celebrate in songs of
joy and praise a sunrise service pro-1
claiming a risen Lord.
As we stood there we watched the
night flee away at the approach of
the rising sun. The stars receded be
fore the pillars of lambent fire that
pierced the zenith. The birds began
to warble their morning drumbeat
to welcome the sun in his coming,
and as the curtain was listed high
er and higher the eastern horizon
beamed with radiance and glory.
As I stood there and saw nature
in all her loveliness and this beau
tiful world made for man I thought
why on this glorious day man was
not in tune with nature and the
teachings of the Master rather than
devoting all his ingenuity to destroy
one another.
I have never witnessed a more
thrilling and heart inspiring scene
than this beautiful service.
As we stood on the lot adjacent to j
the resting place of the sleeping
dead what blessed assurance we had
of the Resurrection morn when they
and put on immortality and God |
would wipe away all tears from their
4QUHL- 1
I hope that these services will
continue frohi year to year and grow
more and more in interest to those
who have put their trust in our
Lord and Master ?Reported.
VERY BRIEF
With little business schedul
ed for consideration, the local
town commissioners last night
held one of their shortest ses
sions in recent months. W. K.
Cherry was given permission to
build a small tool house near the
river wharf. Commissioner R.
T. Griffin advanced the aging
problem of toilet facilities for
the general public, and some
mention was made about en
larging the cemetery. Nothing
was done in either case, and the
meeting was adjourned after
the current bills were inspected
apd approved.
Chinese Migration
Greatest Known In
VII Unman History
IIoiiu'h. Kuril in, Bimiiii'niM't
mid \a*l lVrriloriwi !???
M'l tcd in I'alh ??f Jap*
By l?r. ('has. A. I.oonard. Sr.
Never m the history of mankind
has there been so great a movement
of men. women and children as dur
ing these past few years in China,
where the Japanese armies have
fought the defenseless Chinese and
brought about such trying condi
tions that'they have had to leave
their homes," farms and places of
business.
The Chinese are a peace-loving
people, as we are. and did not pre
pare tor war. even as we, too, had
not prepared. Chinese troops have
liatl to fight with well-equipped Jap
anese forces both, along the coastal
regions and also interior far up the
Yangtze River. When retreating,
these Chinese have found it advis
able to use the "scorched earth" pol
icy, as the allied armies are doing
in the Nether land East Indies, Bur
ma and elsewhere Everything of
value to the enemy is destroyed, thus
making it hard for the Japanese to
find suitable shelter, food and fuel.
Railways, bridges and roads are de
stroyed. Even the carts, wagons and
animals arc sometimes taken so
these will not fall into the hands of
the invaders This, of course, works
a great hardship on the people who
are left behind. Then when the Jap
ancse are dnven back, they, when
retreating, destroy whatever is left
?Tins is done because, they hate the"
Chinese, and so these will be put to
-a?Jisadvantage?XLu_?people are,?li
ve i i I he seen, left with almost noth
-mgr
But worse than all this, wherever
the Japanese soldiers go they of
ten seize and outrage the women,
and then frequently kill them They
kill off many young men who may
not have fled, and all men of mili
tary age are slain, if thought to have
worked against the' Japanese; of
they are forced to take up urmk
against their own people as soldiers
for Japan The Japanese took rro
prisoners in Manchuria, but killed
all who fell into their hands. Then,
too, where the Japanese get control
they take from the people every
-fhmg--of- value. When they entered
northern China during World War
No 1 to attack on land Tsingtau, the
German port on the coast of Shan
tung Province, though traveling
through a neutral country, the sol
dienLoccupied the best homes of the
people, forced the Chinese to fufre"
ish them food and serve them, the
Japanese Government providing only
a little rice. There was much loot
ing. When the Chinese offered oppo
sition to this and the outraging of
their women, they were sabered or
shot When we exposed these atros
ities through the Associated Press
and papr? s in China, the Japanese j
military not only sought to arrest
us, hut certain prominent people in
America, duped, decorated, and oth
erwise favored by the Japanese gov
ernment, called upon the American
public not to believe such reports,
claiming that the Japanese could not
(Continued on page six)
$
Cirl Sli^lity Hurt
In Bike-Car Wreck
Thelma Gurganus, eight-year-old
Jamesvillc girl, was skinned about
the forehead and painfully but not
badly bruised in a bicycle automo
bile accident at a Jamesville street
intersection last Friday evening
about 7:40 o'clock- According to re
ports reaching here, the young girl
rode her bicycle out of a side street
into the highway and had almost
crossed the busy thoroughfare when
an automobile driven by Hansel Vir
gil Uavanpoit, of Plymouth, -struck
the wheel and knocked the girl to
the ground.
Investigating the accident, Patrol
man Whit Saunders stated that Dav
enport waa not driving very fast,
that he brought the car to a stop
within five steps after striking the
wheel.
Dominion Status Of
India Is Unsettled As
^ a r Pushes Nearer
^a\age Battle Kilter* Fourth
Duy To Drive Americans
From Hataau
Even while the Japs strike at the
approaches to India and on Indian
ports, the question of Dominion sta
tus for that nation still hangs in the
balance. Proposals to incorporate the
millions ot Hindus and Moslems m
to the allied war effort have been
rejected again, and it would seem
that the leaders of the All-India Con
gress are about as willing to accept
Japanese domination a.s they are to
line up wtih the Allies and fight the
aggressors. The picture in India is
exceedingly dark just now. and it is
aggravated by the movement of Ger
man troops m vast numbers toward
ler is waiting for the turn of events
in India, that if .the millions there
refuse to line up with the Allies he
will then march into Turkey., con
tinue through the Middle East and
on to Suez. Take about the last re
maining supply of oil directly avail
able to the Allies, in the war zone 111
Persia and push on to meet the Japs
in India At the same time, Hitler
has large concentrations of troops
in Norway for a possible invasion
attempt of England or for a drive
northward toward Russia
After wrecking Kipling's Munda
lay, killing an estimated 5,000 peo
pie and leaving the city burning, the
Japs yesterday moved on toward
India, bombing two coastal areas and
stalking shipping ot Calcutta. Today,
[ the Japs bombed Madras. In the face
of the invasion. Mohandas K Ga.nd
| hi is advising his people to keep
calm, explaining ttlat to keep calm
is the best weapon against the in
vaders. The advice puts to shame
C ham ber lain appeasemeiiI.
Indian leaders are l<Joking to~Pies
ldciit Roosevelt to help solve the
problem, but during the meantime
hope continues to fade rapidly for
an effective and successful settle
rnent of dominion status. And even
if India joins the Allies in the war
effort, it is fairly apparent that she
will Ik- too late Willi too little.
Discouraging news comes out of
the Philippines today as 10,000 Am-$
erican and Filipino troops continue
their defense against 20 to 1 odds A
late war communication states thai
tin- defenders have yielded ground
for three days in succession, and
that defenders suffered heavy losses
as well as the attackers War. offi
cials stated today that the Ualauii
defenders can't hold out much long
er, that a withdrawal to Coi regidor
is to be expected Such action will
wean that somr lew American and
Filipino soldiers will be required to
sacrifice their lives m fighting a de
(Continued on page six)
(loiuitv Dralt Order
Numbers Officially
Released Hv Board
()ril<-r in W liirli IVIiruury l(>
U<-^i*lruiil? \\ ill Ri'
Called 'I'o \rin-v
Official oilier numbers for those
men registering last February 10th
were released for this county by the
Draft Board over the week-end.
Nearly 900 of the order numbers had
been published unofficially, a check
A&iih the official list revealing a
slight variation in the nnmher as??
signrnents.
The numbers start at 10,001, draft
authorities explaining that the high
figures were used to avoid any pos
sible conflict with those numbers as
signed following the two previous
registrations. Just as the draft start
ed calling men with low order num
bers in the first registration, it will
start calling men with draft num
bers starting at 10,001.
The total number in the third reg
istration in this county has been
pegged at 1,291 Should there be
other late registrants .their numbers
will~be filtered into the list accom
panied by a letter fromo the alpha
bet.
Appearing on page three of this
paper is a complete and official list
of the third registration order num
bers. The numbers are so arranged
to make it possible for the registrant
to determine his position in the draft
very easily The serial numbers were
carried in The Enterprise on Friday,
March 13th, by address and in al
phabetical order. The registrant will
determine his serial number from
that list, then turn to the numbers
on page three in today's paper and
he can pick out his order number.
The listings are arranged with the
serial in numerical order and not in
accordance with the order in which
the numbers were drawn. For in
stance, Noah D. Gurganus, young
white man of Williamston R. F. D.
That number was the first one in this
county to be drawn. The young man
then gets No 10,001. The number
can be found by turning to the col
umn headed by Serial No. and find
ing the serial number, and the cor
responding order number will be in
the row of figures just to the left