State College Hints
For Farm Homes
Evary garment in active aervice is
a good slogan for tbe patriotic home
maker.
Keeping this slogan in mind, why
not divide the family clothing into
the following groups: (1) Those gar
ments ready for use; (I) those gar
ments that can be remodeled; and
(4) those which can be used for oth
er purposes.
Not even hopeless garments should
be discarded.
When buying materials be sure
what the fabrics are made of and
whether they will fade, shrink or
lose their finish when cleaned or
washed.
Appropriate, comfortable, durable
clothes are necessary to every fam
ily's efficiency and morale.
?la view of the shortage of n<
pressure cookers and the absolute
necessity of canning all food possi
ble, pleasure cookers?both old and
new should be looked upon as
trust from the Nation. Patriotic
plans should be made, therefore, so
that each pressure cooker available
will serve several families. Not only
will you be patriotic to lend your
pressure cooker but help your
nej^ibo^f^frien^twejMfrti^oes
Develops Tubeless
Tire. For Vehicles
For half a century auto tire en
gineers have been trying to devise a
tubeless tire. Last week John L. Col
Iyer, president of the B. F. Goodrich
company, announced that Frank
Herzegh, a young engineer of the
company, had developed such a tire
for heavy vehicles. Collyer said the
invention is of primary importance
because of the savings it makes pos
sible in rubber ordinarily required
for inner tubes and flaps. While the
amount of this saving of course var
ies with the size of the tire, at a min
imum it figures to be approximately
seven per cent of the rubber con
tent of the conventional casing-tube
flap combination. Use of a special
ly designed locking member which
retains the air in the casing is the
secret of the device. Hie company
president said that already substan
tial test results obtained by the com
pany demonstrate the new tire's use
fulness and ability to perform under
all sorts of difficult road conditions.
Further tests under other auspices
are now being conducted.
not know how.
Buy sparingly and carefully only
goods necessary now for the health
and welfare of your family.
Carry packages. Shop for your
neighbors and let her shop for you.
Tobacco Farmers!
Wf Have a Complete Stock of the Neces
sities You'll Need For the Housing
of Your Tohoeeo Crop.
Check Thit List and See l)? ?
Thermometers ? Alarm Clocks
(Compressed Air Sprayers
T wine?Lanterns?N ails
And Many Other Hardtcare Itemi You'll Need
in Harvesting Your Tobacco Crop.
WOOLARD
HARDWARE COMPANY
WILL1AMSTON, N. C.
War Bond and
Stamp Booth
For the Convenience of Our Cuiiomert, We
Are Intlalling a Special
Booth In Our Store
For the exclusive sale of War Stamps. This booth
will be operated through the cooperation of some
ehurch or civic organization.
SPECIAL INVITATION
We extend to the citizens of this section a special
invitation to buy their Staple and Fancy Groceries
from us and spend their loose change for War
Moore Grocery Co.
CARSTAIRS
WhiteSeal
"THE
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U. S. Fliers Sink Jap Transport at Kiska
Official U. S Navy Phot?
The Navy Department announced that American bombers have made five damaging raids on Japanese
shore installations and invasion boats in the Aleutian Islands, west of Alaska. This photo shows a Jap
transport on fire after bombing by Army planes at Kiska, one of the islands held by the enemy. A Navy
flier took this picture shortly after a i Arnjy plane scored n direct hit. A short time later the transport
) ^ont to the bctvOin. (Central Press)
The 31st Week
Of The War
(Continued from page one)
lonal war appropriations to date to
tal more than $225,000,000,000 the
Board said, but the U. S. actually has
spent less than $40,000,000,000. The
WPB Bureau to Finance obtained
$62,000,000 in the form of loans or
advances on payments for war ma
terials for almost 40 manufacturers
in June. During the past six weeks,
the army signal corps has given fi
nal acceptance each day to more
than $2,000,000 worth of radio and
communications equipment, and
awarded contracts for $1,000,000,000
worth of additional apparatus.
Labor Supply
Persons who desire jobs in plants
working on secret or confidential
government contracts will no longer
be required to turn in birth certifi
cates to prove American citizenship,
the War Manpower Commission an
nounced. The WPB labor division
said the aircraft industry will re
quire more than 1,500,000 workers
by the end of 1943.
A total of almost 20 million per
sons will be drawn into war produc
tion and service in the armed forces
during this year and next, the WMC
reported.
Rationing
The OPA said local rationing
boards may refuse to issue new tires
to eligible motorists if an inspector's
report shows the purchaser has
abused his old tires. The "bonus" su
gar stamp, number seven in war ra
tion book no. 1, may be exchanged
for two pounds of sugar until mid
night August 22.
The War Front
Recent far Eastern events indicate
The turning point in air operations
has been reached and the Japunese
are now more on the defensive
whereas the American Air Forces
are on the offensive," U S Army
Air. Force! Headnuarters in China
reported. U. S. submarines within
two days sank or destroyed five
Japanese destroyers in the Aleu
tians, the Navy said. The War De
partment said American troops are
now stationed at Port Moresby, al
lied base in New Guinea. The de
partment also announced that y. S.
crews, manning American-lhade
medium tanks, knocked out a num
ber of German tanks in the Battle
of Libya in Mid-June without any
losses of their own personnel. Gen
eral MacArthur reported more al
lied raids on numerous enemy bases
in the Southwest Pacific. The Navy
announced the torpedoing by axis
submarines of sixteen additional
Unitpfi Nations merchant yi-ssels
War Information
Director Elmer Davis of the Of
fice of War Information issued OWI
regulation number one, stating "the
Federal Government will issue as
promptly as possible all news and
background information essential to
a clear understanding of this Na
tion's war effort . . . Tbe impact of
the war on all phases of American
life will be reported. So* will the co
operative efforts of the United Na
tions. Only information which would
give aid and comfort to the enemy
will be withheld." Mr. Davis estab
lished three major branches under
himself and OWI Associate Director
M S. Eisenhower, with an assistant
director for each branch.
Gardner Cowles, Jr., president of
the Des Moines Register and Tri
bune and president of Look maga
zine, was placed in charge of Domes
tic Information Operations; Robert
Sherwood, in charge of Overseas In
formation Operations; and Archi
bald MacLeish, Policy Development.
The Armed Forces
The Army Specialist Corps, with
190,000 applications for member
ship, will enlist more than 11,000
men during the rest of this year, the
War Department said. WAAC Direc
tor Hobby reported two of the first
eight WAAC companies will consist
of Negro women, commanded by Ne
gro women, who will attend the
first WAAC Officer Candidate
School. President Roosevelt signed
a bill authorizing $8,500,000,000 in
new navad warship construction with
emphasis on aircraft carriers Thej
Marine Corps said it is now promot
ing competent noncommissioned of-1
'iters in the field to meet needs for
additional officers.
ft ar As It .Relates
To Home Front Is
Reviewed for Week
Stwl Industry Is Producing
Million Tons Steel Plate
A Month Now
All of us these days are sacrific
ing temporarily a measure of free
dom in order that we may preserve
liberty. This surface paradox is as
old as the concept of liberty, it em
erged when the first group of free
men banded together and pledged
their all to resist despotism. It is
only u surface paradox, of course,
because the sacrifice of freedom is a
free and voluntary sacrifice.
Today, as individuals, we are
hedged about increasingly by all
manner of restrictions. We cannot
live as we did in the days of peaci
because the things which went to
make that full life of peuce are need
ed now for the work of war. And
what is true of individuals is equal
ly true of all the governments with
in the united framework of the Unit
ed States?true of town and village
and city and county and state.
Just as we aren't wasting the met
a Is and materials we need for guns
and ships and planes on the non-es
sentials and luxuries of normal liv
ing, so we aren't wasting these ma
terials on unnecessary construction
or other projects by governments.
The decision as to what is or isn't
essential rests with the War Produc
tion Board's Bureau of Government
al Requirements and the bureau, de
ciding upon the needs of some 130,
000 governmental units?needs vary
ing from a few dollars' worth of pa
per clips to a $300,000,000 aqueduct
for the U.S.A.'s greatest city?is sav
ing thousands of tons of steel, cop
per, rubber, aluminum, concrete,
and other materials for the war ef
fort.
Steel Is Key To Battle of Oceans
Ships and tanks and guns and
shells, will wlrTThe war and none
could be made without steel. Steel,
rolled into staunch plates and rivet
ed into hulls of warship and cargo
vessel, is the answer to the Axis
subs, the key to the battle of the
oceans.
America's steel industry is doing
a job. It is doing a better job every
day, and occasionally it is possible
to see, on the rising curve of a graph,
just how much better. Last month,"
for instance, the steel industry ship
ped 1,050,962 net tons of plate. It
was the second successive month in
which plate production had topped
|a million tons and it continiii'.s
month by month increase which be
gan last Autumn.
Behind the rising curve of plat
production lies a triumph of Amei
ican ingenuity. Conversion of th
automobile industry to war wor
left a number of steel mills withou
a job to do. These mills were whs
is called strip mills, they'd been i
the business of rolling the thin stec
sheets used in motor car productior
To change mills over from makin
steel sheets one-twenty-fifth of a
inch thick to turning out sturd;
plates a full inch thick meant heav
ier equipment, and more space ii
which to house it. It has been don<
and swiftly. In June strip mills whic
were not producing a single plate
few months ago turned out 489,70
tons fo plate. But steel mills requir
?crap?get it in.
ODT Faces Tough Struggle
The Office of Defense Transports
tion continues to wrestle with it
tremendous problem, the problem o
maintaining all our varied means c
transportation at maximum strengt
to meet the needs of war and at th
same time making sure that the ei
sential transportation needs of th
civilian economy are met.
Fundamentally ODTs job resem
bles, on the vastest of scales, that c
train dispatching. Except that OD'
dispatches not only trains but ship
and barges, trucks and buses. Th
other day ODT issued an order foi
bidding coastwise colliers fror
transporting coal from the Hampto
Roads, Va., area to any port west c
Conn , except by spec
ial permit. The purpose was to o
centrate service by deep-water v
?els on the further New Engli
ports?barges can be used effecti
Air Raid Rules And
Regulations Posted
?
Seeking the cooperation of local
merchants and citizens. Coordinator
|of Civilian Defense W. Iverson Skin
1 tier urged everyone to place Air
Raid rules and regulations in a con
| spicuous place either in his busi
ness establishment or in his home.
Chief Warden G P. Hall distributed
the huge posters Wednesday morn
ing to the local merchants, and oth
er wardens posted them throughout
the town. Mr. Skinner pointed out
the necessity for knowing and un
derstanding the Air Raid system,
"For as long as it is merely printed
matter on a poster it will benefit
absolutely no one." The coordinator's
plea is directed at the Wllliamston
merchant chiefly, because there are
innumerable times during the day
that the merchant can call a custom
er's attention to the rules, thereby
enlightening someone who has not
heeded the regulations before.
j ly in the shorter haul along the in
i land waterway to New York State
and nearby Connecticut. OUT con
tinues to order consolidation of in
tercity bus schedules to save rubber
and equipment, presses its campaign
for a more careful and efficient use
of the nation's trucks, emphasizes the
need for the pooled use of passen
ger autos?something which has now
become the official concern of fac
tory labor-management committees
in the War Production Drive.
Need of Fooling Realized
There's no need to call the advan
tages of car pooling to the attention
of eight million motorists in the gas
oline-rationed East. Last week they
registered under a permanent cou
pon system which will allow "A"
(Continued on page five)
Interesting Bits Of
Business In the US.
The nation's department store
sales are "just fair." For both the
one-week and the four-week periods
ending July Fourth they were one
per cent below the same periods of
1941 . . General Electric booked
more businessman the three months
ending June 30th than in any full
year prior to 1940 . . . Talk about
sizzling war production' One plant
of Inland Steel turned out 3,313 net
tons of ship-plate steel in one day
recently, and the plates were hustled
aboard a train of 73 gondola cars for
shipment while still at a temperature
of 600 to 700 degrees Fahrenheit . ,
The farm labor shortage is credited
with boosting sales of milking ma
chme^in^hio^^^^h^^elegrajl^
companies agree that girl toaaeen
gers, on the average, are more de
pendable than boys ... So well-pub
licized is Leon Henderson's hanker
ing {or cigars he's getting a flood of
them from grateful persons whose
rents OPA has "rolled back."
ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad
ministratrix of the estate of the late
J. S. Ayers, deceased of Hamilton.
Martin County, this is to notify all
persons holding claims against said
estate to exhibit them to the under
signed for payment on or before
June 29. 1943, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This the 29th day of June, 1942.
MRS. CHARLOTTE AYERS,
Administratrix of the late
jn3l)-6t J. S. Ayers Estate.
ANNOUNCING
Blount - Harvey's
MAMMOTH STORK-WIDE
July Clearance
SALE!
SALE BEGINS
Thurs. Morning
JULY 16th ?9:00 A.M.
For Special Items and Prices, See
Oar Two-Page Circular
VII MiiniiU'r tM'urin^ apparel for both
men anil women Mill It*' Hold during llii*
Hide at COST!
SALE WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH MONTH OF JULY
?fti^
KKKNVll.LK, IN. C.
WHERE CAN
I GET
LONG-LASTING
MOTOR OIL ?
ASK FOR
OP/U.//VE
AT STATIONS
DISPLAYING
THIS SIGN /
OIL IS AMMUNITION ?USE IT WISELY
N. C. GREEN, Agent
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.