War As It Relates
To Home Front Is
Reviewed for W eek
(Continued from page one)
and from the Pacific Coast, Labor
Manafement Committees send in
production reports which a few
short months ago?seven and a half
months ago ? would have seemed |
unbelievable. A single plant, the
Ashland. Kentucky, Division of the
American Rolling Mill Company,
have set more than a thousand new
production records since Pearl Har
bor, and its workers and manage
ment commented last week that "this
is the pace we have set for ourselves
until the war is over.
Plants Call for Scrap Metals
This pace will win the war too, but
it cannot be maintained unless we
keep scrap iron and steel flowing
back to the mills. The great new
salvage drive is on?now?and there
is iiu excuse fui half lu'artedru'ss or
half-measures on the part of any
city or any town or any individual. If
we want to win the war we must
scrap metal. An indication of how
much scrap iron and steel we need
was a statement by WPB last week
that it would require more than 750,
000 freight car loads of this scrap to
keep our steel furnaces going at
capacity this year.
And that much of this load must
be moved by tracks to rail points.
WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson
has asked state and local govern
ments to lend trucks and manpower
to salvage committees to help get
this scrap to the railroads. Steel
mills today, some of them, are op
erating with less than a week's sup
ply of scrap metal in reserve.
Here's another chance for free
Americans to prove that a free peo
ple can do a better job than the
slaves of a dictatorship. The Nazis
need scrap even worse than we do.
And the Nazis are going after it, a
recent Berlin broadcast for the Ger
man home front said Hitler had or
dered all unused iron and steel con
fiscated and added?"active support
of the total action will be brought
about by the uniformed police."
In other words, by Himmler and
the Gestapo.
WPB Issues Drastic Restrictions
Salvage is one way of saving ma
terials for war and another is re
stricting the unnecessary use of war
materials in civilian products. We
already have gone a long way tow
ard ending such unnecessary uses
but we can always tighten up the
belt another notch. Last week
brought these tightening^?(1) WPB
ordered all hand tools simplified to
save iron and steel and other ma
terials and decreed that after the
end of August alloy steel may not
be used in any shovels except those
used in mining. (2) WPB decreed
that sole leather of military quality
and weight may now be used only
in shoe or repair leather bought for
military purposes (3) WPB issued
more drastic restrictions in the use
of rubber for a long list of civilian
products, including rubber footwear
and a variety of farming and indus
trial equipment. (4) WPB announc
ed that a way had been found to
make powder bags and other mili
tary articles out of used silk hosiery,
stopped sale of used silk hosiery in
the hands of dealers.
Plants Participate in Slogan Contest
If production were our only prob
lem we might feel that we had pret
ty well solved it. The more than 1,
000 factories with War Production
Drive Labor-Management Commit
tees continue to reach new highs. The
story of the American Rolling Mill
Company plant cited above, is typi
cal of reports from workers and
from management in most of the
great plants in America's converted
industry The Production Drive Slo
gan Contest is a concrete guide to
the way America's production sol
diers feel about their work. Some of
the plants send in more than a thous
and slogans and most of the slogans
stress those things which are most
important to the work of war ? the
need for speed, the danger in being
absent from work, the perils of in-|
efficiency, the duty to work hard,
bu>M>onds^and^ceepasilenttongu^^
Coal Replaces Oil in War Plants
The War Production Drive head
quarters this week begins a campaign
to bring the 300 anthracite coal
mines in Eastern Pennsylvania into
the War Production Drive. "Hie
sinking of American tankers has
created a critical fuel shortage and
hard coal will be necessary to re
place lost oil or many war plants
may have to shut down this winter.
Very little hard coal is used for man
ufacturing munitions but is vitally
necessary to keep plants warm and
to heat the barracks and canton
ments of our constantly expanding
army New England is an especial
ly critical area because of the diffi
culty in getting oil there and the
(bleak New England winter.
ODT Tightens Up on Transportation
Transportation?The East now is
under a permanent coupon system
of gasoline rationing, a system which
should really eliminate unnecessary
driving. And in a buffer zone on the
! border of the rationing area gaso
line deliveries have been cut 25 per
cent. This comes at a time when a
[new record has been set in the
amount of petroleum products moved
by rail to the East Coast, and when
the world's largest oil carrying pipe
line?a 24-inch, 550 miles emergen
cy line from Texas to Illinois ? is
under construction. But our need for
petroleum products is not restricted
to gasoline, with all the fuel oil we
can bring in by whatever means we
shall have less than we need to keep
our war industries and power plants
going, to heat Eastern homes which
cannot convert to coal,
j We cannot put great quantities of
(war materials into new transporta
tion facilities whether they are for
'the movement of supplies and finish
ed goods or the movement of war
workers. The Office of Defense
Transportation is conducting _aJ
drive to have transit companies re
duce the number of stops in order
that they may maintain the same fre-'
quency of service with less equip
ment. The rubber situation is as |
critical as ever and from now on
only trucks performing services j
necessary to the war effort or to pub
lic health and safety are entitled to
recapped or new tires. This means no
recapped or new tires for privately
operated trucks which primarily car-1
ry luxuries such as alcoholic bever- j
ages, soft drinks, tobacco.
OPA Enforces Price Ceilings
The Office of Price Administra-1
tion continues to get tough with un
patriotic people who try to evade
the ceiling over prices set in order
to prevent a runaway cost of living
-a runaway which would bring suf
fering to~millions: Antl-OPA contin
ues to protect the honest merchant
against injustice.
OPA has started a nation-wide
drive to end profiteering in the sale
of beer and soft drinks to members
of the armed services. Price Admin
istrator Henderson called this rack
et a "low form of chiseling" and
said his office "has evidence that
grills, lunch wagons, taverns, res
taurants and similar establishments
in the vicinity of Army camps and
Naval stations have jacked up the
price for bottled drinks of all kinds."
OPA is going to stop this practice
"by civil suits and where necessary
by criminal action." No bottled drink
may be sold at a price higher than
the establishment selling it charged
last March. OPA Price Ceiling Reg
ulations have been amended to help
storekeepers, wholesalers and manu
facturers whose prices were unus
ually low last March because of
special merchandising deals or tem
porary reductions. And OPA an
nounced that residential rents will
be cut back and stabilized in 18 more
rental areas varying in size from Key
West. Fla . to Milwaukee, Wis.
The War Manpower Commission
announces that $5,000,000 will soon
be available to help technical and
professional students speed up their
training for war jobs. And the Fed
eral Security Agency's Apprentice
ship branch is working on plans to
train new typewriter repair men. The
campaign to get 600,000 used type
writers from business and private
sources for the armed services and
the war agencies shows how critical
is the shortage of typewriters . . .
WPB has ordered that officers mil
itary insignia must be made of
sterling silver and solid gold in or
der to save other metals needed for
Thanks Friends!
I wish to sincerely tliunk my friends and
policy holder* for the fine patronage ac
corded me during the pust several year*.
I have been associated with the
METROPOLITAN LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY
FOR 10 YEARS
During this time I feel that I have cap
ably and efficiently served my patrons
and I shall continue to serve them in the
future as I have in the past.
PAUL BAILEY
Closeup of Renault Plant Wreckage Left by RAr
How affectively the R A F. wrecked the Renault auto plant In Paris la shown by this photograph which
was smuggled out of occupied France. The factory had been turning out vast stores of war material for
the Nazis. Motors, crankshafts and valves were manufactured in the workshop above before the British
bombers blasted it into s mass of twisted wreckage.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
For the second time in two
weeks no automobile accidents
were reported on Martin County
highways last week. It was the
first time in years that a per
fect record followed another that
was perfect. However, the gain
is not so great when compared
with the safety accomplishments
in the corresponding period a
year ago. There were no acci
dents reported in the county dur
ing the 30th week in 1941.
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.
30th Week Comparison
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'gc
1942 0 0 0 0 000
1941 0 0 0 000
Comparison To Date
1942 44 27 1 $ 5,943
1941 53 44 2 17,175
Health Department
Announces Ratings
For County's Cafes
(Continued from page one)
ket, A; Sunnyside Market, B; Mc
Clees Cash Grocery, A; Andrews
Market, B; Roberson's Market, C;
E. L. Brown's Market, C; Red Front
Market, B.
Oak City: Ayers' Market, B; W
V. Daniel's, B.
Robersonville: Everett and Wil
liams, C; Robersonville Mercantile
Association, B; Mrs. Francis Bry
ant's Market, C.
Jamesviile: Brown Brothers Mar
ket, C; Sexton's Market, B.
Everetts: Hardy's Grocery, B;
Cherry's Market, B.
Hamilton: Johnson's Market, B;
Johnson and Matthews, C.
Parmele: Tom's Market, B.
*
Schaub Again Urges
Wise Use Of Tires
A trip to town today to the movies
may mean the impossibility of tak
ing a load of tobacco to the market
this fall, cautions Dr. I. O. Schaub,
director of the N. C. State College
Extension Service, in a special ap
peal to farm people to save their
tires.
With the Japanese in control of the
lands from which the United States
once received more than 90 per cent
of its rubber supply, there will be
no more tires for civilian use, eith
er synthetic or reclaimed, earlier
than the summer of 1944, tf then.
Even the needs of the Army have
been cut to the bone.
Dean Schaub suggested that far
mers make as few trips to town as
possible. When making such trips,
they should share rides with their
neighbors. If possible, three to four
families in a community should or
ganize a "Share Ride Club."
The director also pointed out that
neighborhoods could organize defi
nite days for sending a truck or a
car to market. However, the person
in charge should make sure that a
full load goes and that the truck re
turns with a full load.
When tobacco marketing time
comes, farmers would be wise to
organize a regular schedule for tak
ing their product to the market. In
stead of a few sticks from one man's
barn, each neighborhood group
could make up a full truckload.
Individual farmers who held out
some hope of buying a new truck
from the small supply now available
may be disappointed, the extension
director said, unless it can be shown
that the vehicle will be put to good
use in the community.
As a final reminder, Dr. Schaub
said, "Use a horse or mule, whenever
possible, for hauling. Until the gen
eral use of the automobile, these an
imals did all of this type of work,
and they can do it again."
Local Young Man Is Nou>
In Coatl Guard Service
Volunteering for service in the
United States Coast Guard, Thad F.
Harrison left this morning for in
duction at Raleigh. He will be trans
ferred late today to Norfolk and for
a definite assignment later.
INVISIBLE BARRIER
w
civilian
MISUSE OF.
AUTOMOBILE .
T,RE\uJ
I
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Citizens Of County
Fake More Interest
In Spotting Planes
<t>
(Continued from page one)
last December.
Improved "spotter' service in oth
er centers will be reported from time
to time.
During the first week the William
ston post operated on a 24-hour
schedule, seventeen planes were re
ported. Starting a second week yes
terday, the post reported eleven
planes in a very few hours.
The crash of a plane near Plym
outh last Sunday afternoon was re
ported through the local post, the
quick action making it possible for
other planes to start a search with
in an hour.
While more than 100 persons have
volunteered to help man the local
post, others are needed, Chief Ob
server W. H. Carstarphen says. The
names of recent volunteers follow:
Mrs. J. B. Taylor, Kenneth Linds
ley, Jr., H. L. Barnhill, Delia Jane
Mobley, Anne Fowden. Mary War
ren. Mrs. J. E. King, H. L. Brown,
Mrs. C. G. Crockett, Jr., D E. Dar
den, Mrs. Dean L. Speight, Jimmie
Waters
Plane Travels Two
Miles And Crashes
Near Plymouth
(Continued from page one)
he could wade the stream, he step
ped in and almost mired up to his
neck. He worked himself free, pull
ed off most of his clothes and start
ed swimming. At first he moved up
the stream, but changed his course
and started swimming down the
creek when the pulp mill whistle
was sounded for a few second about
every ten minutes. He had traveled
possibly' a mile during the five and
one-half hours he was in the water
and before he was rescued by R.
and Van B. Martin, Plymouth young
men. He was carried to Plymouth
and retired after receiving medical
attention. The young man, a native
of Texas, continued to his base in
Norfolk yesterday afternoon.
Starting to report the crash, a
watchman at a Plymouth mill wa
slightly injured when lightning
struck the telephone line and he
could hardly talk for nearly an
hour. Garland Woolard, local man
who was on the golf course, report
ed to the observer's post here and
Observer Bob Taylor relayed the
message to the district filter center..
9
Mrs P. C. Blount, Sr., Mr. "Tip"
Blount and little son, "Jimmy," ot
Jamesville, visited 1fir. "Tee Wee"
Blount, who is in the Coast Guard
in Norfolk last Tuesday.
Local People Now
Sending EFM Wires
Local people today began sending
the new "EFM" (Expeditionary
Force Messages) to members of the
United States armed forces station
ed in many foreign countries, it was
announced by Mr. Jamison, manager
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
The first "EFM" message from this
city was sent by Mrs. Leslie Bailey,
RFD 1, Williamston.
Special '1EFM" blanks, listing the
103 fixed-text phrases provided for
the service, have been received at
the local Western Union offices
where the outbound service was
started this morning. Members of
the armed forces abroad began send
ing "EFM" messages to their homes
on May 29, when inbound service
was inaugurated.
In the "EFM" cablegram, a con
tribution by the communications in
dustry to the nation's war morale,
the sender may incorporate in one
message, costing sixty cents, as
many as three of the 103 fixed text
phrases. These phrases relate to cor
respondence, greetings, health, pro
motion, money, congratulations and
other subjects.
Dike President Roosevelt's use of
the fictitious land of Shangri-La to
conceal the base from which Ameri
can planes bombed Japan, the War
Department has provided all West
ern Union offices with charts iden
tifying foreign countries only as ar
bitrary code words. Relatives and
friends sending these messages will
not know in what countries the ca
blegrams are to be delivered.
Outbound "EFM" messages will
be addressed to the troops by rank,
name, identifying serial number and
Army Post Office number. Families
of members of the armed forces Have
this information. The telegraph com
pany will use the Army Post Office
numbers in selecting the proper code
addreses, but will not know what
countries the code words indicate.
The telegraph company will trans
mit the messages to the country of
destination, where the Army Post
Office will make delivery.
a
Nearly Six Hundred
Are Now Subject To
Draft Immediately
(Continued from page one)
war effort, and then to those mar
ried men with children.
Anticipating a general and sweep
ing call for all single men, the draft
board office is sending out draft
questionnaires to third registrants as
rapidly as possible. So far, 7M of
the questionnaires have been mailed,
and dlhers will be sent out as soon
as possible or probably by the Ut
ter part of this week.
Germans Continue
Their Push Toward
Caucasus Gateway
(Continued from page one)
in an effort to draw off Russian re
serves from the Caucasus.
While Russia is fighting for her
life on the Eastern Front, the RAF
went into action on a big scale last
night and blasted Hamburg, great
est port in Germany and the largest
submarine-building center in the
world. Vast areas of the city of more
than a million and a half peoPlp were
left burning or in ruins. The attack
was rated one of the most success
ful of the war. . . .
Rommel in Africa is having his
supply lines and bases bombed some
more and the Imperial land troops
are renewing their attacks against
:he lightning German general
Loud talk came from Japans To
io. the primn minister declaring in
a speech yesterday that Japan is de
termined to crush and destroy the
United States and Britain.
Late reports declare that the Ger
mans are within 40 miles of Stalin
grad, but that the Russians were of
fering a stronger defense in ot"?r
sectors. It was admitted by the
army's official organ. Red Star, that
the withdrawals before the superior
German forces were becoming more
difficult.
Gains made in renewed attacks Dy
the British have been wiped out by
German counterattacks in Egypt.
The time for a second front is not
yet ripe, the militarists say, but it
is believed that events are pointing
to such action. Hitler is declaring
that the coastal defensives have been
made almost impregnable by 10,000
men who have been working on them
(or two years. It is also claimed that
Germany is moving her factories
toward the east, the move indicating
that something is to be expected
sooner or later.
A powerful drive is being launch
ed against the Japs by the Chinese,
ind China's capital, Chunking, was
saved from an attack when Ameri
can airmen drove the invaders away.
Little news is coming out of Wash
ington at this time, but traveling
salesmen appearing there and de
manding more gas were told yes
terday that "War plants on the east
coast may be forced to close down
md inhabitants in that area may
freeze this winter because of the in
tense shortage of fuel oil." Joel Dean,
DPA fuel rationing chieftain, issued
the warning and emphasized the
gravity of the situation now facing
this area.
Car owners will face prosecution
if they do not display their $5 use
stamps after Friday of this week. The
stamps may be purchased at post
offices through Friday, but they can
be procured from the Internal Rev
enue Collector, Greensboro, after
that day.
There's a beef shortage in Boston,
but the rest of the country appar
ently isn't worrying about that, at
least not at this time.
Pvt. John R Coltrain, Jr., left
Monday for Pine Camp, N. Y., af
ter spending several days here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R.
Coltrain. He was accompanied to
Rocky Mount by Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Coltrain, Sr., Mrs. John R. Coltrain,
Jr., and Miss Sallie Coltrain.
Mr. Roland C. Crawford, of Nor
folk, spent the week-end here with
his mother, Mrs. J. C. Crawford.
Mrs. Sam Zemon left yesterday
for Durham to spend a few days
with relatives.
Number White Men
Leaving For Army
From This County
(Continued from pact one)
Wilson Thomas, Dardens and Nor
folk.
Joseph Clinton Roebuck, RFD 1,
Robersonville.
HuDert Durwood Hardison, RFD
1, Jamesville.
Russel Warren Biggs, RFD 2, Wil
liamston. 1
William Archie Mobley, Jr., RFD
3, Williamston.
Alton Wesley Gurganus. james
ville.
James LeRoy Williams, James
ville.
Thirteen of the young men, said to
have been accepted, returned late last
night on 14-day furloughs. Others
are expected to return home today
and tomorrow.
Wants
The ENTERPRISE
WANT AD RATES
One cent a word (this type)
each insertion.
25c Minimum Charge
2c a word this lise
Cash must accompany all or
ders unless you have an open ac
count with us.
count with us.
We reserve the right to
or reject any copy.
The ENTERPRISE
PHONE 46
FOR SALE QUICK ? ONE USED
Evenrude Motor, 4.8 H.P. Good as
new. Leaving town at Friday noon,
so bring $60.00 and take it along.
First price. $129.50. Apply $09 Watts
Street, Williamston.
I HAVE FOR SALE A BLACK
tongued cow. Will fresh the 1st
of October. See me at my home. Mrs.
Zeno Beddard, Route 3, Williamston.
TEXACO SERVICE STATION IN
Bethel, Texaco Service Station in
Oak City, and Texaco Service Sta
tion in Hamilton available for in
terested parties. No rent. Stations in
good condition and have good gaso
line allotments. Harrison Oil Com
pany. Williamston. jy28-2t
FOR SALE ?NICE FRYING SIZE
chickens. Delivery in small num
bers at farm on Hamilton highway.
Large orders delivered. V. G. Tay
lor Farms, RFD 3, Williamston, N.
C. Jyl7-8t
CLARK'S MALARIAL, CHILL AND
Fever Tonic. Sold on money-back
guarantee. Clark's Pharmacy, Wil
liamston, N. C. jy24-tf
FOR QUICK, QUALITY DBF
cleaning service, bring your clothaa
to Pittman's. One day aarvica on any
garment Suits, coats and disease, IS
cents, cash and carry. 65c dalivarad
Pittman's Cleaners. t$-tf
SODA SHOP FOR RENT.
see or call Mrs. Elbert S. Peel.
JnB-tf
COOL SECOND FLOOR APART
ment for rent on West Main St
Apply Mrs. Elbert S. Feet jnB-tf
Special Reductions
On
Summer Merchandise
LADIES' and MEN'S
White Shoes 20%
REDUCED
MEN'S
Straw Hats 25%
REDUCED
100 LADIES DRESSES
NOW ON SALE!
Large Shipment White
ENAMELWARE
20c to 95c
Martin Supply Co.
WILLIAMSTON, N. C