Draft Machinery Is Ordered Speeded Up By Selective Board (Continued from page one) quickly trained for essential jobs, now needing men. This survey will help to avoid in ducting into the armed forces men who are more urgently needed in war productions, and also to speed up war production by promoting transfers of workers from non-es sential to essential work. Later on. men from 18 to 20 and from 45 to 65 will receive question naires like these. In this way, the government will soon have informa tion on the job skills and experience j of the entire malt population of the United States between 18 and 65. or | approximately 40 million men. Tin-1 local county draft boards and the U. I S. Employment Service will work , very closely together ir\ carrying out the objectives of this program. Few Contests Have Been Announced So Far In This County (Continued from page one) Josiah Bailey are running for the United Stutes- -Senate. ;>nd Marvin K. Blount. Jack Edwards and Her bert C. Bonner for the National House of Itepreaentutiveii from tl: the First District On the Republican ticket. Sam J Morris and Stoner W. Klutz are out for the nomination for United States Senator. The machinery for holding the pri mary election will be set up tomor row morning at 11 o'clock when the members of the county board of elections meet in the courthouse and name the registrars and judges of election for the twelve precincts. $ Fire Destroys Team And Proj>erty Early Yesterday Morning {Continued froni page one) 4 The fire spread rapidly from one building to another and threatened the home Neighbors rushed to the scene, but they were too late to check the fire or save any of the property from the burning build ings The fire was described as the most costly reported in a rural com munity in this county during recent years, and leaves the farmer facing a market depleted of many neces sary tools, implements and machines. $ Bank3 To Observe !\exl Monday 4s Holiday Here Next Monday will be a holiday for local banks, the day marking the anniversary of the passing of the Halifax Resolves. No other places of business will observe the day as 6 holiday ?OLD? LEWIS HUNTER BRAND Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiakry From the heart of the Blue Grant region of Kentucky, famout for iu wonderful limestone water*, comes one of the great Kentucky bourbon*? Old Lewis Hunter. This whiskey it 5 years old ? 90 Proof Williaai Jibiiii A C? . lac., N Y. The 17th Week Of The W ar (Continued from page one) tors are cooperating with the boards in the surveys Prices The Office of Price Administration froze manufacturers', wholesale and retail prices of plumbing fixtures and 44 common household electrical ap pliances, all at March 30th levels Ceilings were also set on wholesale prices of bond, ledger, book and plain and fancy cover paper and Bristols, and on producers' quotations for Pennsylvania anthracite coal. The Agriculture Department said the re tail cost of food is now 15 per cent above the 1935-39 average, but still below the 1929 level. Civilian Defense Civilian Defense Director Landis said Axis air raids on American war industries this Spring are "entirely possible." He said. "It's worth a doz en bombers to the Uermans 10 wrecK vital industries, even in the heart of the country " Mr Landis said $20 million of OCD funds have been transferred to build facilities for manufacture of civilian gas masks First shipments of helmets, arm bands and other equipment for air raid wardens and auxiliary firemen and police were sent to more than 40 Atlantic and Pacific coast cities. Tin. A rmt.fl I'OWAL | The Senate passed and senT~to~~ttTr House a bill granting pay increases from $30 to $42 for privates and ap prcntirr seamen, and providing pro poftioiial increases for other classes of enlisted men in the armed forces. Tie' P""t Office d"p;irtrn,>nt issued regulations for granting of free first j class mailing privileges for all ranks of the armed forces. The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill eliminating restrictions on marriage of Army and Navy officers during the war The President signed leg islation to permit the War Depart ment to recruit American technicians serving in foreign armed forces and to pay them more than $21 a month during the first four months. The House passed and sent to the Senate an $18 billion War appropria tion bill providing almost $7 billion for military airplanes. The Senate passed and sent to the House a Naval Public Works bill to provide a bil lion dollars for expansion in air craft and storage facilities. The War Department ruled officers and en hstcd men. except those of the regu lar army, may campaign for and hold political office, if such activity does not interfere with military du ties Selective Service Headquarters instructed local boards to start class ifieatioti of February 16 registrants, and to prepai\ to fill the Army's June call?and possibly the May call from these men and the earlier registrants SS headquarters also is sued instructions to all local boards for registration of an estimated 13, 500,000 men between 45 and 64 on April 27th. The War Front The Navy reported as of April 4, total Japanese losses inflicted by H IS Naval forces included 21 war ! ships sunk. 13 possibly sunk and 22 'damaged; 48 non-combatant ships Isunk. 14 possibly sunk and 14 dam aged The Army and Navy sai'd Ax submarines sunk or presumed sunk by the Navy totaled 24. and those by the Army number four. As sistant Secretary of War For Air Lovett said U. S. pilots in the Far East are shooting down five Japan ese plapes for every plane lost. Japanese bombers sank the U. S. Aircraft tender Langley, the De troy er Peary and the Navy Tanker Pecos in the Southwest Pacific, with an estimated loss of 700 men. The Navy reported the torpedoing of 15 more United Nations merchant ves sels m the Atlantic. Shipping The Maritime Commission report ed all contracts have been awarded for the 23 million deadweight tons of merchant shipping?nearly 2,300 | cargo ships and tankers?which the ] President has set as the 1942-43 goal The Senate passed and returned to the House a bill enlarging tile war risk provisions of the Merchant Ma rine Act to allow insurance ot tor eign as well as domestic ships Agriculture The Department of Agriculture said it had purchased more than $800 million worth of farm commodities, totaling more than 7.$00 million pounds, during the first year of the Department's expanded purchase LOCAL BANKS To Close MONDAY APRIL 13th To Observe Halifax Day GUARANTY BANK & TRUST CO. BRANCH BANKING & TRUST CO. Australians on Alert tor enemy With the Japs concentrated on New Guinea bases, only 400 miles from the Australian mainland, the continent "down under" is making fever ish preparations for the coming struggle with the enemy, particular attention being given to anti-aircraft defenses. Hundreds of posts, like this one outside Melbourne, are springing up everywhere. Fate Of Defenders Of Bataan In Doubt After Ixmg Battle (Continued from page one) Hided in enveloping tin defending right flank and that a counter'-at tack?ordered by Lieutenant- Gen eral Jonathan M Wainwnght to re lieve the trapped units?"failed due to complete physical exhaustion of the troops " At a special press conference, Stimson said, "Our troops, outnum bered and worn down by successive attacks of fresh troops, exhausted by insufficient rations and with disease prevalent in that peninsula, finally had their line broken by the en emy . . ?" "A long and gallant defense has been worn down and overthrown. "We have nothing but praise and admiration for the commanders and the men who have conducted this epic Chapter tn American history." So ended the valiant struggle of men who fought fearlessly and mag nificiently The cards were stacked against them from the start and they knew it But they fought on, killing Jap anese. knocking Japanese planes out of till' sky. silencing Japanese ar tillery and gaining precious time for the United Nations by immobi lizing a big Japanese army. Today wherever liberty in cher ished, men bowed in reverent trib ute to these fighting men who fight no more. The nation was proud of them, but was fighting mad, too This spirit was epitomized by Chairman Andrew J May. (l)-Ky), of the House military affairs com mittee "It's tough to lose the Philippines," lie sa'id. "hut. damn them we IT be back!" In tlm dying days urounil the Phil ippmes. Japanese forces paid heavily Tor their gains, a Jap cruiser was sunk, but five others and ten de stroyers operated without mishap in landing additional forces to smash the last allied defense Jap bombers attacked Corregidor in waves all day long yesterday and today, but tin American flag still waved from the fortress In India, Allied and Indian lcad eis liavi reached an agreement v hereby tndia will join the war ef fort against the Japs But while the Allies were scoring a diplomatic vic tory a costly naval battle was in progress for the British. Two cruis ers and a 20-year-old, 10,000-ton air craft carrier were lost ill an engage ment about ten miles off the island of Ceylon. The Japs claim they in-, fluted other losses, but they have not beeii confirmed American war leaders, meeting iwith British leaders m London to day, are urging offensive action. It is far better to strike and create a new front now for Hitler than it is to wait for more reinforcements, it was pointed out. The presence of General George Marshall in London has some significance, but the mean ing has not been divulged, i Encouraging reports came out of Russia today, one communique stat ing that two German divisions had ' been smashed northwest of Moscow and that thousands of the invaders had been killed during the past 24 hours An official spokesman for the Red Army today declared that the Russian forces would liquidate the German armies on the Eastern front this year. Hitler is having troubles bark home where he has issued drastic orders in an effort to keep production schedules from cracking, lite work ers are breaking under long hours and insufficient food. Saboteurs are more active, and it would appear that Adolf's headache is being ag gravated at home and in all the con quered countries. In this country, the big boys are getting warmed up over bottlenecks program?March IS. 1841, to March 15, 1942. More than half of all pur chases were for meat, dairy and poultry products Most purchases were for lend-lease shipment The Agriculture Department re ported prices of alt farm products combined were 99 per cent of parity on March IS. 1942, and 46 per cent above the 1909-14 average. The Commodity Credit Corporation re-1 ported it has contracted for the sale, during the period ending April 30th. of about 3,500,000 bushels of com and about 240,000 bushels of wheat to be processed into industrial alcohol. Aids Night Fliers C. P. Phonephoto Shown axe the new dark adapter lenses developed by the Medical Re search Section of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. These plastic pola roid goggles with red lenses, enable pilots to work under full illumina tion thus eliminating the twenty to tmrty minutes period usually spent In the dark room to condition the eyes of a pilot before a night flight. C1V11. SERVICE Seven Kobrrsonville High School students, now enrolled in the eleventh and twelfth grades, took the Civil Service examina tion in Greenville, N. C? last Friday and passed. They were immediately offered positions as senior typists in Washington, I). C. Those passing the test were: Mable Curtis, Mattie Roebuck, Alma Bullock. Mary Jenkins, Dorothy Matthews. Maxlne Smith, and J. H. Dixon. Miss Helen Davis, commercial teach er, accompanied the group to Greenville. Easter Buying Was For The Duration! Easter's traditional shot in the arm to store sales, while considerable, this | year was somewhat swallowed up in the steady surge of shopping "for I the duration." That surge has spur red ctpthing and household supplies sales, and has kept the nation's de pigment store sales showing steady' margins?of 24 to 26 per cent?over comparable weeks of last year, for more than two months now . . . Most spectacular single item has been men's suits uf which as many were sold in first three months of this year as ordinarily in eight mnoths Many stores are advertising in |an-effort-to discourage advance-of needs buying . . Philadelphia stores To ported an acute shortage of mens work clothes San Francisco I commented upon the predominance I of "cash on the counter" in its brisk store business . . . Salesmen in one Boston store have had their own trousers de-cuffed, for the psycho logical effect on customers (the no | cuffs order now applies to garments that were already in retail stock.) $ Rubber Ninety-eight per cent of new Am erican rubber came from British Ma laya. the Netherlands East Indies, and adjacent territory, all in the Far East fighting zone. Anti-Freeze Because there may be none avail able for civilian use in the future, the WPB is asking farmers and oth ers to save the anti-freeze they drain from their radiators this spring for next winter "" ; ? Pasteuriser Development of a device which j pasteurizes soil, effectively killing disease-producing organisms has been announced by scientists of the California College of Agriculture. in the high places Commerce Sec retary Jones and Editor Mayer of the Washington Post clashed follow ing an argument growing out of certain charges directed against Jones and his financing of a war in dustry. President Roosevelt today stated that a plau was being advanced against inflation, but the nature of the plan was not disclosed. Some observers believe it will be in the form of increased taxation. The Prtfcident also stated that women between 18 and 65 would be asked to volunteer their services and aid the war effort Drying Vegetables, Fruits Are Urged Home drying is a satisfactory method of preserving certain fruits and vegetables, says Miss Ruby Scholz, Extension conservationist of N. C. State College. Used as a sup plement to canning and storage, it will reduce the cost of the food bud get and provide an adequate variety of food for winter use, she pointed out. Some of the advantages of drying, or dehydration, listed by Miss Scholz are: The product's weight is only one-fourth to one-ninth of the weight of the fresh materials; there is a considerable reduction in bulk; storage is possible for long periods without the use of hermetically seal ed special containers; and very little special equipment is needed. Among fruits best suited for dry ing are apples, peaches, and pears. Berries and figs do not dry success fully in this climate, the Extension worker reported, and are most pal atable when canned in syrup by the hot water bath method, or when made into preserves. Miss Scholz says that drying is ad vised for a limited number of vege tables. "Dried vegetable materials are prone to deteriorate in flavor and table quality," she explained. "This is especially true of asparagus, spin ach. cauliflower, and green peas. "Corn is delicious when dried. So are green peas, some greens, and peas. Vegetables to be dried require partial cooking before they undergo the drying process This pre-rnnkjng should be done in steam rather than water, to preserve the food value." Types of dryers for fruits anH veg etables include the outdoor, screen tray, oven and stove dryer. The out door pan should be of wire netting, cheese-cloth covered, and slanted to the direct sun. Drying-also can be done in trays, on canvas, or on non resinous boards on a slanting roof. Limited Amounts oi Seed Soy Beans And Peanuts Avail able ? . (Continued from page one) asked them to plant as their direct j part in supporting the war program. , The soy bean acreage will be far greater than the number of acres the government is asking the farm ers to plant ?<$> Three Err or a In Draft Order Number* Corrected Making a final check of the third registration order numbers yester day, the county draft board office corrected three errors. The serial number. T-219 belonging to Simon Amos Perry was the l(J.654th num ber drawn. Serial number T-605 be longing to James Oliver Keel was the 10,084th number drawn, and the serial number, T-1220, belonging to Benjamin Lanear Daniel, was the 10,628th number drawn in the na tional lottery All other numbers were found correct. * .. "H'owfip** n"r" W B*? Obterveil In l.ocul i.hurch "Woman's Day," sponsored by the Woman's Council of the Williams ton Christian Church, will be ob served Sunday night, April 12th. At the evening service, Rev. John Goff will deliver a special message in keeping with the program arranged by the ladies. The women of the town are asked to attend. Probably the most outstanding change in the poultry marketing pic ture during the past five years has been the increase in the number of turkeys raised and sold Candidate Cards ?* NOTICE OF CANDIDACY I hereby announce my candidacy for renomination as Clerk of the Su perior Court of Martin County, sub ject to the Democratic Primary on May 30, 1942 If re-nominated and re-elected. I renew my pledge to per form the duties of this office to the best of my ability and according to law. I am deeply appreciative of all courtesies and favors extended to me in the past and of your loyal sup port during my tenure of office. L. BRUCE WYNNE. NOTICE OF CANDIDACY Subject to the wishes of the voters of Martin County in the May 30th Democratic primary, I hereby an nounce my candidacy for County Commissioner from the Griffins Bear Grass district. If nominated and elected I pledge my very best ef forts in handling the affairs of our county and promoting the best in terest of all the people. R. L PERRY, R.F.D. 2, Williamston, N.C. NOTICE OF CANDIDACY Subject to the wishes of the Dem ocratic voters in the May 30th Dem ocratic Primary, I hereby an nounce my candidacy for re-nomi nation as Treasurer of Martin Coun ty I I pledge my best efforts in per forming the duties of this office. Your support will be sincerely ap preciated. DICK SMITH NOTICE OF CANDIDACY I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Sheriff of Martin County, subject to the wishes of the voters to be expressed in the Dem ocratic primary on May 30, 1942. If nominated and elected I pledge my best efforts in performing the du ties of the office and in justifying the trust reposed in me. al0-3t-ch C. B. ROEBUCK. ?? ?a : TOK THUSE UELItlUUB BUI dogs, with chili, try The Martin, near fair grounds, Williamston. REAL HOME-MADE CHICKEN salad sandwiches. No foreign meats added. Try The Martin, Williams ton. Telephone 354-W. NIPTON CHINA SET FOR SALE. Will service 16. Will sell at a sac rifice. Call Mrs. R. W. Bondurant, City. al0-2t FEATHERS WANTED ? WE BUT geese, duck, turkey, chicken feath ers. Goose and turkey quills. Good prices. Write for same. Preston E. Cayton, Edenton, N. C. m20-tf FOR QUICK, QUALITY DRY cleaning service, bring your clothes to Pittman's. One day service on any garment. Suits, coats and dresses, 53 cents, cash and carry. 65c delivered. Pittman's Cleaners. O-tf FOR SALE: ONE LARGE CIRCU lating heater that will take care of four or five rooms. One large new heater with flat cast iron lop. Ex cellent for heating and cooking. One large new handknit bedspread with fringe. One beautiful healthy Tier man shepherd pup, seven months old. Weighs now about 60 pounds. About half grown. Splendid for chil dren's pet and watch dog. One very nice fat heifer six months old. Very gentle and will make good milk cow. For rent?store in good loca tion and stock of goods for sale. L. C. Nurney. Williamston, Route 1. a7-2t-ch FOK RENT ? GROUND FLOOK apartment on West Main Street, ideal for small family. (22.50 per month. See C. H Godwin, Eastern Bond & Mortgage Co., Inc. a7-2t GROUND YELLOW CORNMEAL for feed purposes. $2.20 per hun dred. Supply limited. Apply Abbitt's Mill, Williamston. a3-3t-ch BABY CHICKS ? LARGE HUSKY Chicks. N. C. sad U. S. Batches Tuesdays and Fridays. PHONE 3*14 Windsor, N. C. LANCASTER'S HATCHERY DR. C. L. HUTCHISON DENTIST Next To Marco Theatre WiUianuton, N. C. Tel. 114-J WANTED?50 to 100 Good FEEDER PIGS. J. S. WHITLEY Williamtlon Supply Co. ARBECUE Hot (fit the Coals Made from small pigs and thoroughly rooked. "The Ileal You Tver Tasted" THE MARTIN INeur Fuir Grounds X. Ward Tel. 354-W Baseball . . . Sunday,. April 13 HICKS FIELD. EDENTON, N. C. Norfolk Naval Base vs. Biii^iiaiiiton Willi BOB FELLER (Cleveland Indiana) FRED HUTCHINSON SAM CHAPMAN (Detroit Tigers) (Phila. Athletic*) ACE PARKER MAXIE WILSON (Duke University) (Portsmouth Cub*) \ikI OTHER WELL KNOWN BASEBALL STARS \dmit? . Due to the need of our nation in the war effort, there is a shortage of materials for civilian use, so we ask you to come in now and select not only your summer wardrobe, but those woolens for next winter. BUY NOW FROM fktvuwlis BwtitVlS WILUAMSTON, N. C