W ar As It Relates
To Home Front Is
Reviewed for Week
(Continued from page one)
?Hie OPA is combating inflation
and the rising cost of living, and this
fight must be won 11 we are to defeat
the Axis Within the past few days,
the OPA has added many articles?
including 44 electrical appliances?
to a long list of things over which it
has set maximum prices. The OPA
has just opened seven new branch
offices .and more are to be opened
Cigarettes Feel Pinch
WPB has ordered cigarette man
ufacturers to stop wrapping cigar
ettes in lead foil after May 1st, re
gardless of how much lead foil they
inay have 011 hand Lead, let it not
be forgotten, is the raw material for
bullets, and tetraethyl lead goes in
to the making of high-test gasoline
lised in ;> 4fin-milf :m tmiir fighting
plane.
And since lead is one of the things
we need in great quantities, it is one
of the metals we must watch for es
pecially as we push the "Salvage
for-Victory" Campaign. This time of
spring housecleaning is a good time
to collect any scrap metal, old rub
ber. rags or paper you have around
your home. Give your waste to a
charitable organization, or sell it to
a scrap dealer. WPB is counting on
it to help build the tanks, planes,
ships and guns America needs.
Clothing Affected
The need for conservation of ma
tenals has reached into the field of
women's styles?but not with the
same result as 111 the case of men's
clothing. About the only parallel
between the rulings affecting men
and those affecting women is that
there will be no cuffs on women's
slacks?as there will be no cuffs on
men's trousers . Otherwise, the
effect was to save material and at
the same time avoid any drastic and
arbitrary interference with style.
WPB's effort was to strike an aver
age and then to move within that
average to effect savings It won't
affect clothes for this spring and
summer anyway, since most of them
are already made
Buy Coal Now
OPA warns that you'd better buy
your coal for next winter now or
soon We may not be able to
spare transportation spaey next fab
to get it from the mines . . The jew
elry industry has until May 15 to
use up what silver or gold-plated
copper it has in inventory and no
more copper after that . The sup
ply of adult bicycles has been "fro/
en." and bicycles will be made avail
able to war workers first and to oth
er civilians afterwards The Red
Cross will collect those cuffs cut
from trousers and will realize a
profit on their sale ot wool proces
sors With the radio industry con
verting 100 per cent to war work.
RCA turned over the last product
of its Camden plant to the Warm
Springs Foundation . . Hie War
Production Drive proceeds space
with more than 300 major compan
ies now fully participating and sev
eral steel makers repoorting all-time
records broken . . Several f irms |
have been penalized for violating'
aluminum priorities . . After June
30. tin may be ut.ed to can only a
limited variety of condensed soups
. . . OPA has ruled that mud and
snow tires, with heavy rubber lugs
and treads. cRn't be replaced by new
summer tires but must stay on the
rims until worn out.
No ^ omen Named
To Precinct Posts
In Martin County
(Continued from page one)
Herman Harrison, Democrat.
Gold Point: Harry Robrrson. Reg
istrar; J. L. Croon, Democrat; H. L.
Keel, Republican.
Hamilton: W A Beach. Registrar.
George A Oglesby, Democrat; John
S. Ayers, Republican.
Hasseli: D. R Edmondson, Regis
trar; George Ayers, Democrat; Geo.
Haislip, Democrat.
Goose Nest: R R. Rawls. Regis
trar; Francis Worsley. Democrat;
Ernest Bunting, Republican.
Local Debaters To
Go To Chapel Hill
Members of the debating teams
of the Williamston High School will
leave for Chapel Hill Thursday'
morning to participate in the finals
of the 30th annual state-wide de
bating contest sponsored by the
North Carolina Debating Union.
Winning the right to enter the fi
nals by defeating teams from Colum
bia and Creswell, the local debaters
will be among the representatives
of 34 high schools who will debate
the query, Resolved, that a union of
western hemisphere nations should
be established, at Chapel Hill on
Thursday and Friday of this week.
Bill Peele, Richard Margolis, Em
ma Belle Ward and J. D. Woolard,
accompanied by Miss Doris Leach,
of the faculty, will make the trip to
the State university
All debaters will report to Mem
orial Hall at 3:00 o'clock on Thurs
day, and will begin the preliminary
rounds of debating at 7:00 that eve
ning. The debates will continue on
Friday with the winners
for the Aycock cup Fri
This year marks the first time in
scant years that the local school
represented In the Chapel
Paul McNutt Urges
Public To Prepare
For Any Emergency
Recrimination and An Awful
S<iw of K<'*poiifcihility
Mhn Kemilt
Confusion, recrimination and an
"awful sense of responsibility for
lives needlessly lost" may be the re
sult of enemy bombings in Ameri
can cities if the communities are
found unprepared, Federal Secur
ity Administrator Paul V McNutt
declared recently.
Speaking in Washington at the
fortieth annual conference of the
United States Public Health Serv
ice with the State and territorial
health officers. Mr. McNutt, who is
director of Defense Health and Wel
fare Services, said emphatically that
it is up to State and local health de
partments to come forward and as
sume their "rightful dynamic roles
He asked the health officers if
their communities would be found
unprepared in the event a fleet of
enemy bombers should "one night
elude our coastal patrols, appear ov
er our cities and unload their dead
ly cargoes on our homes, factories
and offices."
'Has your State health depart
ment a clearly defined plan in the
event of such a catastrophe?" Mr
McNutt asked. "Who would man the
first-aid stations? Who would or
ganize the ambulance and hospital
services? How would hospital bills
paid1' Is ihere a blood bank with
sufficient plasma*' Are there facili
ties for the emergency treatment of
answered now, confusion, recrimina
tion. and an awful sense of responsi
bility or lives needlessly lost may be
the Jesuit."
The Administrator declared that
the part played by health agencies
in the community facilities program
"has left much to be desired."
'TKe health departments were in
a position to give material assistance
to the Federal agencies in planning
and implementing this program," he
added
'Many of them however remained
cautiously on the sidelines while
thors showed themselves to be ac
tivated mmv by special pleading
than by true civic needs. In some
cases the Public Health Service has
had tojjo contrary to State health de
partment policy and recommenda
tions in order to inject an element of
ison into the facilities work."
Mr. McNutt declared that today
teamwork and cooperation are neces
sary for national salvation and that
State health agencies might well fol
low tin- example of the Public Health
Service "whose cooperative relation
ships with other agencies have de
veloped to a remarkably high de
gree."
Turning to the subject of nidus- !
rial hygiene as a public health ac -|
mty. Mr. McNutt said that wisdom,
nitiative aiid sustained effort will]
je required in greater measure than ]
??ver before.
"By the end of the year we expect j
10,000,000 more persons to be en- j
iuged in war industry than there
tvere at the end of 1941," he said
"Many of these new War workers
.vill have to be drawn from the old
?f ? IL' e I'M?II|1S 111" of tO.,
?ountry and those whose physical
Lxmdition leaves much to he desired..
'The time has conic when we
should launch a rehabilitation pro
sji.Uii in order to utili/e the potential
labor power of the physically han
dicapped
"Yet longer hours and increased
working speed will tax the workers'
strength and resistance."
Harrison* lltthl Family
Rvunion Scar Hichmoml
The family of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Harrison of this county held a fam
ily reunion on a picnic ground, near
Richmond, last Sunday Relatives in
this county met Mr. and Mrs. Ches
ter Harrison and daughter there for
the outmg,
Those attending from this county
were, Mr and Mrs. Joseph Harrison,
Mr and Mrs. H. C. Harrison and chil
dren, Norma Pearl and Alton; Mr.
and Mrs. R. H. Harrison and children
Harold Harrison; Mrs. J. W Peaks
and Mr N. K. Harrison.
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival services at the Pentecostal
Holiness Church will continue on
through Sunday night
Much interest has been shown in
these meetings and it is hoped that
attendance will continue. Everyone
is invited to attend.
An Axis deception Committee' Holds a Workout
?. ? V ?m
Ready to greet any enemy vessel with death-dealing torpedoes is a fleet of U. S. mosquito boats somewhere
off the Panama Canal. This photo, one of the first to be taken during maneuvers in that area, shows a long
line of the swift motor boats speeding along in the single file that enables them to break rapidly into any one
of many attack formations. In the background is a low -flying plane that works in conjunction with the fleet.
4-H Club Award for Wickard
\ C. P.
This picture shows Doty Remsberg (left), and Sarah Jenkins (right),
members of the 4-11 Club, as they pin the first Victory Pin on Claude
Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture, in Washington.
I'lW THIS WKKK
William,ston lli^h's baseball
team will complete their home
schedule with two games this
week.
On Wednesday the (ireen
Wave will play Windsor High
here at 4 p. m. The locals took
their first game in Windsor last
week. On Friday the Wavers
will play Kobersonville here at
4 p. 111. rue boys will he out to
avenge the defeat the visitors
handed them at an early nieet
ing.
Asphalt Plant Sel
I n Here This Week
Setting up a huge asphalt plant,
the North Carolina State Highway
' and Public Works Commission are
! making preparations to start widen
ing U. S. Highway 17 from William
| ston to the Beaufort County line. Lo
I cated near the river here, the plant
will possibly bo placed in operation
by the latter part of this or early
next week. Between fifty and seven
ty-five men have been moved here
by the commission to handle the
It is understood that the project
| will be completed within the next
two or-throe months.
Handled in cooperation with the
Works Progress Administration, the
\V Itliunni* 4 it 1 | ; l v? . I" 1 *4 I i I In n Infm
^ v ,,T,'b ? TTTT nupvlTTTTTl " I 1^11 TT U J
link has been in progress for months.
A right-of-way, 100 feet wide, has
been opened, workmen having mov
ed all types of buildings and uproot
ed numbers of trees along the route,
MASONS WILL MEET
There will be a meeting of Masons
at the Masonic Lodge tonight at 8
o'clock.
Australian Children on Alert
JinlHuJ'.i!?' abOT*' "J100* childrm of Radf.ra, Au.traila, are ahown
?V*,an<* keeping ^tir n^utht op?n u instructed by their
!i*n bdnf hurried Into a school corridor during en eir raid
4nJL Similar drill* aw baln? bald la aU of Auatralim Bd>ool?
Joint Occupational
Registration Plan
An occupational registration is be
ing conducted jointly by the Select
ive Service System and the United
States Employment Service, it is an
nounced by H Mayne Albright, di
etor of tlie Employment Service
or North Carolina
Every man between 20 and 44
HI'S "f :u'e ulin registered for Se
lective Service on February 16th
will receive an "Occupational Ques
tionnaire" from his local Selective
Service Board. Each questionnaire
is in two identical parts?one for the
Selective Service System and one
for the United States Employment
Service. Mr. Albright announces
that the United States Employment
iffices will examine the occupation
al questionnaires which it receives
to determine which men are already
qualified or can be quickly trained
for work in essential war industries.
Those men will then be asked to
come to the local United States Em
ployment office for a fact-find in
terview. Workers possessing skills
important", to war production, but
who are nbt working in war indus
try or in essential civilian activities,
but who are willing to be trained
and transferred to such work, will
be given an opportunity to do so.
Mr. Albright states that the Unit
ed States Employment Service w ill ,
tern and provide that Service with
current information on the need for
workers for war production so that
these needs may be taken into ac
count in classifying registrants for
deferment or induction into military
service. In any individual case, the
United States Employment Service
will be in a position to provide the
Selective Service System with fact
ual information as to whether or
not the individual possesses a skill
urgently needed by the war indus
tries. The Selective Service System
will be guided by this information
on war production labor needs in
making its decision as to the way
in which each individual can best
contribute to the war effort.
These questionnaires, Mr Al
bright announces, will be mailed to
registrants soon and must be filled
out and returned to the Selective
Service Boards within ten days af
ter they are received. The local Se
lective Service Board will keep one
part of the questionnaire and send
the other identical part of the local
United States Employment Service
office in its area.
?
lilaisw (-rmcert To Stick
To Rcller Knotcn Vegi>table?
L. P. Watson, Extension horticul
turist, advises growers to stick to
the wide variety of the better known
vegetables, because they have prov
ed themselves as being well adapt
ed to State conditions. The rarer
vegetables are rare, he says, proba
bly because they failed to grow and
produce well.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Despite a marked decrease in
travel, the accident wreckord
continues to flourish. Possibly
the business is not as effective
and certainly not as deadly as it
was a year ago, but comparisons
show very little improvement in
numbers of accidents over that
of a year ago.
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.
15th Week Comparison
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'ge
1942 3 1 0 $ 150
1941 1 0 * 0 . 167
Comparison To Date
1942 28 11 0 $3835
30 17 2 2271
DKFKINOKK |
Handed (he difficult task of
defending Kataan, Lieutenant
General Jonathan M. Wain
wright did a masterful job be
fore being overpowered there,
and is now fighting back at Cor
regidor fortress.
Trucks Stalled In
County, Rationing
Board Member Sais
(Continued from page one)
two car tiros and tubes;
Mary Louist Taylor, county health
nurse, one car tire and tube.
Explaining to the board that he
teen, Williamston, was given a cer
tificate of purchase for a new one.
Youths Charged With
Creating Disturbance
Blasting away with their automo
bile horns in Oak City and Hamilton
last Sunday night, several white
youths in that section stand chargec
with creating a disturbance, accord
ing to reports heard here today. The
youths whose names could not be
learned immediately are schedulec
to face Justice of the Peace J. H
Hopkins in his court tomorrow after
noon.
Numbers of people were said tc
have been disturbed by the appar
ently thoughtless merry-makers.
Japs Push Toward
India After Plans
For Defense Flop
?
(Continued from page one)
through the Caucasus with an idea
of joining hands with the yellow Japs
in India. . ?
Just what India will do to defend
itself is a speculative matter, but it
would appear that the Japs have ef
fected a masterly propaganda job
there.
And while India hangs in the bal
ance, France has just about sold out
lock, stock and barrel to Hitler. It
has been officially announced that
Laval, pro-German, has reutrned to
the French cabinet with more pow
er. Displacing Darlan, another pro
German, Laval is certain to work for
a closer cooperation with Hitler. The
return clearly indicates that Petain,
head of the Vichy government, has
toppled into the arms of Adolf and
Company
The British and Chinese are still
falling back in Burma. A delaying
action is being fought in Cebu, all
indications pointing to another Ba
taan. Four raids have been directed
against Corregidor today w'ith some
casualties but no great damage re
sulting.
Encouraging news still trickles out
of Russia where the defenders pen
etrated deep into the enemy lines,
killing 9,000 in the Leningrad area
-during tlie past nine days. Russia has
warned Japan to stay away from Si
beria, meaning that the same Soviets
who, according to Bob Reynolds and
the other learned disappointments in
Washington could not hold out three
weeks when the war started last
June, are prepared to scrap the Japs
there, too.
Another little bright spot in the
news was reported in Iran today, the
government there breaking off rela
tion with Japan.
Britain today called upon its peo
ple for 21 billion additional dollars
for war.
In this country more unsavory con
nections between leading business
firms and the Hitler gang are being
uncovered. It has been declared that
the General Electric had connections
with the mighty German armament
firm of Krupp that were detrimental
to the welfare of this country.
And while the bad news flows
from nearly every corner of the
world, hundreds of thousands of our
hard-working and hard-thinking tir
ed people gallop off to the opening
of another baseball season.
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Animals Do Not See
Colors As Humans
Do animals, insects and other crea
tures see colors exactly like those
perceived by human beings?
No, the world of color varies wide
ly over the animal kingdom, accord
ing to the Better Vision Institute
Many lower animals see objects in
varying shades of grey. Dogs, it is
believed, have little or no color vi
sion. Some zoologists say that fish
cannot distinguish colors. However,
certain insects have eyes that are
sensitive to light rays in the infra
red and ultra-violet fields that art
invisible to human eves.
Even in human eyes there is con
siderable variation in color vision
'continues the Institute, adding thai
111 the United States there are sever
al million persons who are color
blind. Such persons have worlds ol
color that are different from those
)f their companions.
1
Recovering from Operation
Mrs. Andrew Long, of Jamesville,
is recovering from an appendicitis
operation in the local hospital. Hei
son, Andrew, Jr., of Norfolk, visited
here last week-end.
?
Largest
Barring unpredictable develop
ments, the total food supply produc
ed on American farms this year will
1* the largest on record, reports the
U. S Department of Agriculture.
College Players
To Present Play
The State Teachers College Play
ers are-to present a three-act drama,
entitled "Your Town and Mine," at
the colored high school, Wednesday
afternoon, April 15th, at 1 o'clock.
It is a royalty play directed by
Professor M. J. Whitehead of the
dramatic department at the college,
and promises to evidence superb
training of the entire cast. They are
winding up a successful tour through
the State.
Together with our own people, we
should like to have our white friends
witness this drama. We shall have
reservations for them. The admis
sion to the auditorium is 15 cents.
?
f olunleer Firemen Get
Fifth Call Saturday
???
Local volunteer firemen rounded
out a bus-y week last Saturday eve
ning when they were called to a
trash fire near the plant of the Wil
liamston Package Manufacturing
call was the fifth received by the
department during the week, and
the sixth in seven days.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina Martin County.
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain deed
of trust executed to the undersigned
trustee by Virginia Perry on the 14th
day of February, 1930, and of rec
ord in the public registry of Martin
County in Book C-3 at page 180, said
deed of trust having been given lor
the purpose of securing certain note
of even date and tenor therewith, de
fault twvmg been made in the pay
ment of said note, and the stipula
tions contained in said deed of trust
not having been complied with, and
at The request of lhe holder of the
said note, the undersigned trustee
will, on Saturday, May 16th, 1942, at
twelve o'clock noon, in front of the
courthouse door in the town of Wil
liamston offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash the following de
scribed real estate, to wit:
A house and lot in the town of Wli
liamston, N. C., on the coiner of
Beach and Biggs Street, adjoining
the property of Harry Meadow, Mrs.
Emma Daniel and others, and being
the same ploperty conveyed to the
said Virginia Perry by will of her
husband, W. M Perry, and being the
same premises occupied by Virginia
Perry
This the 14th day of April, 1942.
WHEELER MARTIN,
Trustee.
Peel & Manning, Attys. a!4-4t
Wants
WANTED ?GIRL TO WORK IN
Sandwich Shop. Must be willing
to work. Experience not necessary.
Apply at The Martin. al4-ch
NIPTON CHINA SET FOR SALE.
Will service 16. Will sell at a sac
rifice. Call Mrs. R. W. Bondurant,
City. alO-Jt
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 DII
cleaning service, bring your clothe*
| to Pittman's. One day service on any
j garment. Suits, coats and dresses, 65
cents, cash andcarry. 65c delivered.
Pittman's Cleaners. f3-tf
DR. C. L. HUTCHISON
DENTIST
Next To Marco Theatre
WUliamston, N. C. Tel. 114-1
WANTED?50 to 100 Good
FEEDER PIGS.
J. S. WHITLEY
Williamtton Supply Co.
MORE PORK, BEEF
POULTRY and EGGS
FEED THE NEW, IMPROVED, VITAMIZED
Watkins Mineral Compounds
(IODIZED)
Prices are up! Get your share by speeding up production. Feed
Watkins Mineral Compound?the very latest development in
Mineral feeds for hogs, cattle and poultry. Cut down market
ing time and save feed. Wait for my call and I'll tell you more
about the new, vitamized, iodized, streamlined mineral mixtures
JOE EVERETT ? PARMELE, N.C.
LOOK!
Beginning MONDAY, APRIL 20
W. C. Kaus Shows
FAIRGROUNDS - WILLIAMSTON
"Sensational FREE Act Nightly"
6 BIG NITES OF FUN 6
Under Aiupicei
JOHN Hf. HASSELL POST AMERICAN LEGION