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PAT PAT WAE BOND DAT <NP ffWil-MH MUM THE ENTERPRISE OVII TNI TOT FOR VICTORY UWTD STATU WM BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 83 WiUiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 20, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899 Call More County Men For Service In Army Over Half Hundred Colored Men Leave Within A Few Days Half of Last White Draft Call Said To Have Been Re jected by Army More Martin County men are be in? called up for possible service in the armed forces, the draft board an nouncing this week that notices had been mailed instructing the draftees to report for induction within the "next few days." The list, while ov er one-half hundred, is not nearly as large as the number reporting for service the latter part of October. It is understood that another call for colored draftees is pending, that the second group will likely report for induction before the first group com pletes the fourteen-day furlough. No official "audit" has been re ceived by the draft board in this county and the status of the last white draft list is not definitely known. It is understood that fifty per cent of the group was rejected for various causes, and that the oth er fifty per cent will have returned to camp by late afternoon today. The names of the colored draftees receiving notices to report "soon" for induction are, as follows with their addresses: Jonah Oscar Clemmons, Jr., Wil liams ton Leslie Mooring, RFD 2, Roberson ville, and RFD 3, Greenville Capehart Williams, Williamston and Camden, N. J. Leana Bennett, Hamilton and Nor folk Collie Sykes, RFD 1, Williamston Lee Ward, RFD I, Robersonville Thomas Ryan, RFD 3, Williams ton Ernest Andrews, RFD 2, Williams ton Joseph James Land, RFD 2, "Wil liamston and Norfolk David Henry Close, RFD 1, Oak City and Jamesville Archie Moore, Robersonville Wesley Anderson Ormond, Wil liamston 'Walter Lee Cooper, RFD 1, James ville Ralph Allen Keys, RFD 1, Hob good Samuel Thomas Williams, Wil liamston Vance Andrews, Robersonville William Henry Lloyd, Williamston Wheeler Smith, RFD 1, Jamesville Jesse Ben Congleton, Parmele and Philadelphia Ben Frank Wilson, RFD 1, Oak City and Parmele Augustus Vandrew Braswell. Wil liamston and Washington, D. C. Jacob Copper, Robersonville Evernard Edward Williams, (Continued on page six) Sell Seven Million Pounds of Tobacco Tobacco sales on the local mar ket are passing the seven-million pound mark today, the total today exceeding the 1941 poundage by about 600,000 pounds, according to a report released by Supervisor C. Urbin Rogers. While prices for the better grades continue to hold to those levels main tained during a greater part of the season, the general average has been forced downward by damaged leaf and a weakening in the prices for the greenish grades. Large quantities of tobacco were damaged by the rains last week. The market has just about worked out the damaged lots, and sales were operating smoothing early this afternoon after the block was cleared earlier in the day. Block sales were reported on the market last Friday and again yes terday, but regular schedules are now in effect and are very likely to be maintained during the remain der of the season. One Hurt In Wreck On River Causeway Maggie Rascoe, local colored wo man. was painfully cut on the face and badly bruised last Sunday eve ning about 7 o'clock when the car in which she was riding with her husband and mother-in-law crashed into a trailer parked on the Roan oke River fill. Raacoe, driving the car, was bruised a bit on the fore head but he was not badly hurt Traveling west on the road with a load of tobacco, Farmer Robert Jenkins, of Bertie County, was forc ed, to stop when a tire blew out on his trailer. While he was trying to make repairs, Rascoe drove up and apparently started to pass him. Just as he turned out he saw an ap proaching car and to avoid a hrad on collision with the car driven by Ronald Earl Gfbbs, of Elisabeth City, he turned to his right and plowed in to the car pulling the trailer. Con siderable damage was done to the Raseoe car, a Chevrolet sedan. IN HAWAII Going into the service in Sep tember as Chief Boatswain's Mate, Dick Ma I lory, son of Mrs. W. 8. Mailory of Oak City, is reported to be in Hawaii. Mrs. Mai lory, the former Miss Louise Council, is with her mother in Oak City. Registrations Will Be Handled in Five Centers This Week Transportation Com mittee and Volunteers To Attend School This Afternoon Plans have been completed for handling the registration of all trucks in Martin County on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday of this week, Chairman Jesse F. Crisp an nounced yesterday. All truck own ers and operators are given fair warning that if they do not apply for certificates of war necessity on those days or meet specific requirements, their operations will be subject to interruption on and after the fif teenth of next month The registra tion is no little thing; in fact, it is quite complicated and while it may be aggravating, Joseph Eastman, di rector of defense transportation for the nation, says it must be done. The county transportation commit tee was in session here for four hours yesterday completing plans for the registration and the job will be done by them with the assistance of vol unteers. In a special school here this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the court house, the committee will study the applications with the volunteers and make ready for the registration in five centers on the last three days of this week The registrations will be held at Jamesville, Williamston, Robersonville, Hamilton and Oak City between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m The registration forms have been mailed from Detroit and most truck owners have received them. If a farmer did not get one for the right truck, he should write for it immediately. To aid the work, truck owners are asked to be prepared to answer the questions, which out of necessity, are briefly outlined as follows; Make of truck, body type, model, type, rated capacity, license number How long does the owner think his tires wlil last? Number of acres in farm, number of acres of crop land, number of horses and mules on farm, how many milk cows and other cattle, sheep, lambs, hogs, poultry? Give names and distances to near est markets. What is truck used for? Has owner-operator joined a com munity transportation plan? Size and type (new, used, retread) of tires and number of miles driven How many trips, total miles driv? en and tonnage hauled in the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 1M1? (It is admitted that the owner will have to estimate the figures, but they should be prepared by quar ters. He will also beusked to give the (Continued on page six) RATIONING Rationing is pinching the ac tivities of quite a few, bat for many others rationing is mean nglees. There were seventy-five ears in one main street block here last Sunday night at It o'clock. Fifty-five of the ears had supplemental gas stickers on their windshields. Twenty had "A" stickers pasted on the glass and five had none. There was no business houses open, and the c*r> were parked too far from the church doors to even indi cate that the owners-operators were seeking spiritual values Travelers, getting around the best they can by bus, declare they see more supplemental stickers in this section than la any ether place they have trav War As It Relates To Home Front Is Reviewed for Week I More and Drastic Changes in | Our "Way of Living" Are Certain Forced labor under Nazi jailers? by millions of war prisoners and other millions of workers from con quered lands?is one of the "innum erable acts of savagery" the United Nations are determined to punish at the proper time by trials of those responsible for them. Germany's manpower scarcity is a sign of weak ness?the Nazis have paid dearly in men and war materials for their gains in Russia. Their desperation makes them ever more ruthless, but neither their promises nor their bru talities have brought about any measure of "collaboration" in a Na zifieji "New Order" for Europe. A genuine New Order?for the world as well as for Europe?is in the mak ing through the free, unforced col laboration of the United Nations. Manpower Must Be Forthcoming Our own manpower shortage is one of "growing pains" developing out of our steadily mounting war strength?a strength that is just be ginning to be felt in a series of worldwide military operations. We have set an immense goal in the pro duction of ships and war materials for use by powerful forces of Am erican fighting men and by our al lies. The automotive industry alone, since its conversion to war produc tion, is turning out more than half a billion dollurs worth of war goods monthly while the total value of all munitions plus war construction now runs close to five billion dollars each month. Our output of war wea pons cannot grow less?on the con trary, it must increase, and great ly. So, too, will the number of men in military service, who must soon include 'teen age youths if we are to avoid calling up classes of older men. With some 15 million workers now engaged in direct war work, more millions must be poured into our reservoir of war labor to replace those drained away into the armed forces and to take care of next year's expansion in production. Women are being hired to work above the ground in the coal industry, which lost more than 50,000 men, mostly to the armed forces, since January 1, 1942. Women are performing thousands of other unfamiliar indus trial operations successfully, too. A further step in making the best use of our labor facilities was taken when Government contracts were ordered placed, wherever possible, in areas not suffering from acute la bor shortages. Labor to do our stag gering war job must be forthcoming ?by voluntary means, if possible, but by whatever means may be nec (Continued on page six) ? Steel Production Exceeds Capacity I Steel production last week exceed ed the theoretical 100 per cent of I capacity for the first time since Pearl | Harbor. At the root of this achieve ment, say industry operators, is the | topnotch job being done by Ameri cans in gathering scrap metal. Some 5,000,000,000 pounds already have been collected from industry and from rural homesteads, city apart ments and suburban dwellings. As examples of industry contributions, General Electric company salvaged 380,000,000 pounds, the scrap includ ing an outmoded power plant. An especially effective scrap collector has been the railroads, with the Chesapeake & Ohio, Nickel Plate and Pere Marquette together report ing collections of 762,000,000 pounds | since the war started. These "Vic tory" piles of scrap scattered throughout the country are being speeded to the mills as the govern ment continues to break collection bottlenecks. Another salvage drive?the saving of waste kitchen fats and greases for conversion into glycerine for explo sives?is moving forward on the home front, too. First authoritative estimates indicate that housewives are doing a whale of a job. During the first three months of the cam paign which began July 1 they sal vaged enough waste fats to provide glycerine for 17,900,000 anti-tank shells, but many more housewives must participate if the national goal of 500,000,000 pounds is ever to be achieved. State President To Address Meet! Mrs. J. S. Blair, president of the State Congress of Parents and Teach ers, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Williamston Par ent-Teacher Association to be held in the high achool auditorium Wed nesday afternoon, October 21st, at 3:30 o'clock. Mrs. B. W. Nash, president, who is attending the district meeting in Hertford-today, will preside over the meeting. All members of the association I and interested patrons are urged to| be present at tomorrow's session. Divers Prepare Lafayette for Reflotation A diver i? shown going down into the cold waters of the Hudson River in New York to work on the U.S.S. Lafayette, the former French luxury liner Sormandit, which burned and capsitcd at her pier. The above water work of clearing the hulk of the super-structure and upper docks is completed. When the divers complete the more difficult task of clearing the under water sections, reflotation of the giant vessel will start. (Central I'rett) Reduction In Sugar Rations For Certain Type Of Users Seen Marked Reductions Are To Be Expected in Future Guh Rations A general tightening up of the sugar rationing program is expect ed for cafes, boarding houses and other institutional users beginning next- month, according to advance instructions received by the county rationing board this week. Allowed 50 per cent of their norm al requirements during the months of May, June, July and August, in stitutional users were granted an increase of 25 per cent for Septem ber and October. The allotments will be reduced to 50 per cent of the normal requirements beginning next month. Nothing was said about it, but apparently a bonus for individ ual consumers is out during the next two months. Three pounds is the an nounced value for the No. 9 stamp which is transferable on and after November 1, the allotment to last until December 15. The No. 8 stamp, good for five pounds, expires Octo ber 31st. The rationing board points out that young men entering the army should surrender their sugar stamps and those persons with canning su gar left over should report it to the board sqjjidjustmcnts can be made. It is qunfe possible that in those cases where draftees fail to sur render their sugar rationing cards upon entering the army, ipvestiga, tions will be made, subjecting those who use another's card to a with drawal of all rations. It was also pointed out by ration ing authorities that those individuals eating at a cafe or boarding house and who received rationing cards should surrender them In those cases where sugar is allowed the boardqg or cafe patron, the boarding house operator or cafe proprietor should surender claim for rations (Continued on page six) r POSTPONED 1 _ J The registration of dealers scheduled this week under the fuel oil rationing program has been postponed until next Tues day and Wednesday, October 27 and 28, the Martin County Ra tioning Board was advised by telegram here yesterday. It was also learned at that time that no date had been set for registering consumers under the fuel oil rationing system. Cash Crop Farming Will Not Support Claim for Deferment That (arming the way it's done in Martin County will keep young men out of the Army or support claims for deferment has just about been ruled out according to unofficial in formation gained a few days ago. De ferments have been granted, to be sure, to farmers, but they were is sued on about the same basis as those granted any young draftee in c^her fields of endeavor. According to the information re ceived recently, any farmer who pro duces tobacco or any other crops of which there is a surplus will not be able to establish himself as a vital human cog in the war production ef fort. He may and no doubt he will produce food and feed badly and ur gently needed in promoting the war effort, but when the farmer starts out with a tobacco crop he, in the eyes of the draft authorities, is do ing little more to promote the war effort than the merchant or clerk does when ordering goods and plac ing them on the shelf for resale. And the merchant and the clerk are in line for call when their time comes. It was pointed out that the young farmer in line for service may be de ferred if he has reached a certain point in the production of his crops. But it is fairly certain that a claim for a deferment between harvesting and planting times will hardly re ceive much consideration. Now the farmer who produced only those crops deemed vitally necessary to the war effort, may gain considera tion should he ask fur a deferment. But even in those cases, the claims would have to be examined closely. It was also unofficially announc ed recently that all able-bodied men subject to the draft and employed in various defense industries will be called in due time for service in the armed forces. Plans Completed For Truek Registrations r~ DECREASE After running their tongues al most out filling up the county jail a week ago, local and coun ty officers had it comparatively quiet last week-end. The number of arrests dropped from a high of nineteen reported a week ago to eight last week-end. Only four drunks were Jailed. Three other arrests followed charges of larceny, disorderly conduct, assault and the eighth person arrested and jailed was said to he crazy. Two of the eight were white. Ages of the group ranged from 14 to 68 years. Organize Citizens Service Corps Here The organization of a Citizens Service Corps is being perfected in a meeting in the courthouse here this afternoon for the coordination of all defense efforts. Representatives from eight coun ties are in attendance upon the meet ing which will offer a complete pro gram and a full discussion for better handling problems directly or indi rectly connected with the v/ar effort on the home front. The Citizens Service Corps, the community war service division of Civilian Defense, is being organized throughout North Carolina this week in a series of 20 district meetings. The purpose of the service corps is to coordinate activities of existing community agencies to prevent ov erlapping and duplication of effort and to prevent an over-multiplicity of "drives." Utilizing the same Volunteer Of fice set-up now employed by the protective division of Civilian De fense, the community service divi sion wll be headed by a director who will have on his or her planning board the heads of all the participat ing agencies. Thus the Citizens Serv ice Corps, as such, will initiate no new programs except where the need arises for community action that is not being met by an exist ing agency. With the heads of all community war services meeting in common council, the Citizens Serv ice Corps will be able to anticipate , needs and through its ability to pro vide united action, meet them before they rcaoh a critical stage. Joseph B. Eastman Addresses Appeal to All Truck Operators ? Nch Plan To Bovern Mileage And Minimum Load* for All Truekn In a special release this wef'k. Jo seph B. Eastman, director of defense transportation, appealed to all truck owners for their cooperation in help ing solve the serious transportation problem now facing the nation. In his appeal, Mr. Eastman said: The United States now has about 4,890,000 c nop-military trucks and about 154,000 buses. The trucks are carrying a tremendous volume of property, and the buses a tremen dous volume of people. Our railroads are operating to near capacity. They could not carry the traffic which the trucks and buses are carrying: First, because they do not have the ca pacity, and, Second, because they are so located that they could not han dle a. great part of the traffic, even if they had the capacity. Most of this traffic is essential Our country will suffer severely, and the war effort will suffer, if the trucks and buses and other commer cial motor vehicles find themselves unable to continue to handle this es sential traffic, or any large part of it. They must be kept rolling. No more civilian trucks are.being built. The plants which built them have gone into tin- building of mili tary trucks or other war products. Much the same is true of the buses. The supply of repair parts is critical ly limited. There is, and for months at least will continue to be, a ser ious shortage of tires. There is grave danger that our supply of all types of commercial motor vehicles will be barUy Wep4eted, unless we co: serve mem to the utmost. This means that these commercial vehicles and their tires must be giv en the best possible care; they must be driven with equal care; and every mile of unnecessary operation must cease. Your welfare and the safety of our country demand that this be done, We propose, therefore, to issue to the operator of each commercial mo tor vehicle a Certificate of War Ne cessity which will govern the maxi mum mileage to be operated and the minimum loads to be carried. These certificates will be required not only for trucks and buses but also for taxi cabs, jitneys, automobiles which are available for public rental, and certain other similar classes of mo tor vehicles. These latter types have been included because of the neces sity and desirability of correlation (Continued on pagt six) SOW SODA > Facing a certain shortage in nitrate of soda next crop season, Martin farmers will do well to "sow soda" in their fields now. Cover crops, planted on every available foot of land, will do much to relieve the soda short age. leading farmers declare. The need for cover and grain crops has been aggravated by heavy rains, farmers explaining that their peanut hay crop has been damaged and that they are making immediate plana to plant fall oats and other grain crops to offset the loss. No great amount of peanut hay will be baled in the county this season. It is be lieved. Both Sides Prepare For Certain Battle In Solomon Islands Report Landing of American Forres at I)amu*eiig for Action in Iran. Iraq Although an all-out battle is still in prospect, late news coming from the Solomon Islands is a bit more encouraging, the reports stating that Allied naval units have gone into action and successfully, bombarded Jap concentrations and ammunition dumps on Guadalcanal. The action is expected to interrupt the all-out assault planned by the- Japs in an effort to regain the air base on Guad alcanal. American forces are still holding to and apparently using the Guadal canal airport, but Navy Secretary Knox stated this morning that the real battle lies ahead. The pounding of Jap concentrations by American warships clearly indicates that the Japs do not possess control of the seas around Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon group, but large un its of the Jap fleet are still hovering around in that area or about 200 miles north of the island. After being battered and forced to fall back to new positions by re inforced German divisions, the Rus sians today were said to have main tained their lines without weakening during the past twenty-four hours, the heroic action renewing hope for Stalingrad. Winter is sweeping across the Russian steppes, encour aging the defenders before and in Stalingrad. The concentration of large Russian forces to the north is causing Hitler and his crew some worry. No details on the Russian move to the north have been releas ed, but it is possible that the Soviets are planning an offensive of their own. Something is apparently brewing in Africa, both in Egypt and around Dakar. American forces were said today to have landed at Damascus for possible action in Iran and Iraq. Corporl Joe Louis was said to have been in the group. General Smutts is in London where some believe plans are being discussed for an at tack on Dakar American forces have been landed in Africa within 750 miles of Dakar, and diplomatic rela tions are said to be progressing fav orably in that part of the world. The Mediterranean area is still seeing plenty of action Malta is still holding up under terrific poundings, but the attackers are paying a big price in planes. British fliers are al so finding time? to strike in that area, a late report stating that they had attacked a large convoy of gliders and disrupted the plans of the en emy. ?r According to an announcement (Continued on page six) Officers Wreck Two Plants In the County ? Despite a sugar shortage, illicit li quor operators in this county appar ently continue to compete with the legal stores by manufacturing mon key rum. Considerable quantities of molasses beer have been found by ABC Officers Roebuck and Peel in this county during recent months, but last Saturday they found three gallons of the rum itself. Raiding in Hamilton Township, the officers wrecked a 50-gallon capacity gaso line drum still and poured out 200 gallons of beer and three gallons of rum. The plant was equipped with a copper cap and a radiator for a worm. "I have been raiding_liquor plants for a long time, but that was the first automobile radiator I have ever seen used as a worm for mak ing liquor," Officer Roebuck said. Late that afternoon, the two offi cers, accompanied by ABC officers from Pitt, wrecked a plant in Rob crsonville Township. The operators there apparently heard the officers when they blew up the first still and suspended operations at once. The still was missing, but the operators left five gallons of molasses and much equipment. About two hun dred gallons of beer were poured out. Sponsors Library Book Club Locally ? In order to secure more titles for the library and help meet the in creasing demand for the newest books as they come off the press, the library committee of the Junior Wo man's Club is sponsoring a Public Library Book Club. Every interested person in Wil liamston and in Martin County is ligible for membership and cordial ly invited to join. Each potential member is requested to chooaa the title of his book and turn in his se lection with the purchase price of $1.75 to Miss Ella Mae Gaylord, Mr*. Julia Manning, or Mrs. Iris Cooke. Orders will be taken until Novem ber 1st. The gift of a new book of equal value and interest approved by the committee will also entitle anyone to membership. Further information and book liats may be obtained from any commit tee member and the public library.