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VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 85 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 27, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899
Heavy Losses Are
Sustained by Navy
In Solomons Area
At Least Fourteen American
Ships Sunk and Others
Are Damaged
After paying a big price to gain
them, American forces are now hard
pressed in an effort to hold to the
Solomon Islands in the south Paci
fic, late reports stating that the de
fenders are under heavy attack by
land, sea and air. At least eight
heavy land attacks have been beat
en off by the Marines and soldiers,
and possibly the defenders are more
than holding their own in the air,
but on sea our Navy has sustained
heavy losses. Even there the fight
ing is not one-sided, but American
losses are mounting.
Last night the Navy Department
reported the loss of the plane car
rier "Wasp" and about 180 of its 1,
800 crew in mid-September. The
announcement also revealed the
sinking of the destroyer "Porter.
According to official reports, Amer
ican ship losses in the Solomons area
now stand at 14?three cruisers, six
destroyers, four transports and one
carrier. Other American ships were
damaged Unofficial reports state
that Tom Skinner was on one of the
transports when it was attacked. He
was saved along with all others
aboard. , .
On the other side of the ledger,
the Japs in two days of fighting be
ginning Sunday lost 22 planes, had
three cruisers and two plane carriers
damaged and other enemy ships
were believed damaged.
Apparently the main sea fight is
about over, for the present any
way. The losses have apparently
been so heavy on both sides that the
tempo could hardly be maintained.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
stated tdoay that the outcome of the
battle is not yet clear. He denied
reports emanating from Tokyo and
claiming that four Allied plane car
riers and a battleship had been sunk
in the recent fighting around Guad
alcanal The Navy man referred to
the claims as constituting just an
other "fishing expedition ? fishing
for Information."
Meager details have been heard
from the land fighting on Guadal
canal, but the last reports stated that
the defenders were still holding
their own after the Japs had made
eight attempts to regain the air
field there. -
The seriousness of the situation in
the Solomons is evidenced in Wash
ington where President Roosevelt
called the naval high command into
conference late yesterday and where
it was recognized American forces
in the distant area are now facing
one of the most "terrific ordeals in
American history."
With reinforced Japanese obvi
ously bent on throwing everything
they have into a drive to overwhelm
the Marines and Army men, an at
mosphere of tense expectation was
apparent in some'Washington quar
ters.
Conferring with the President was
Admiral Ernest J. King, command
er-in-chief of the fleet, ?nd Mr
Roosevelt's personal chief-of-staff.
Admiral William D. Leahy. The con
ferees said nothing to newspaper
men, but it was considered proba
ble that the conference dealt with
strategic and combat problems in
the Southwest Pacific, particularly
in the Solomon Ulands.
Representative Maas (R-Minn.)
who saw more than four months of
duty as a Marine Corps colonel in
the Southwest Pacific, was another
White House visitor and gave the
President a report on conditions.
Maas would not say what the gen
eral tenor of his report was but
there was nothing to indicate it was
optimistic. . . .
Activity, while partly overshadow
ed by reports from the Solomons,
continues at a rapid pace on other
fronts. The Allied offensive is roll
ing forward against Rommel s army
in Egypt and Allied bombers are ac
tive in nearly every part of the
world. The Japs have been blasted
in the Southwest Pacific and fields
on the Burma front have been at
tacked. The Jap submarine base at
Kiska in the Aleutians was pound
ed yesterday by American bombers.
Allied troops swarming through
widening gaps in the north, central
and south sectors of the Egyptian
front, have captured 1,450 Axis pris
oners, routed Nazi tanks in the first
armored clash, and are pulverizing
the enemy line with the 8rea^*t
British artillery blasts since the bat
tle of the Somme in World War I,
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Coffee Rations Are Fixed;
Canned Good Rations Soon
Effective November 29, coffee will
be included in the list of rationed
food* and article*. One pound for
five week* will be allotted each per
iod over 15 year* of age No new reg
istration will be necessary, the au
thorities stating that the sugar ra
tion cards will be used, starting
with Stamp No. 27 and working
back to No. 19. The system will al
low the addicts a little over one cup
a day.
Following the official coffee ra
tioning announcement, it was ru
mored that rationing of canned goods
would follow in due time, possibly
during the early part of nest year.
Father of Nine Enlists in the U.S. Army
Raymond Keiley, 40, of Pittsburgh, Pa., poses with wife and nine children whom he'll soon leave to join tha
U. S. Army. Upon Kelley's induction, the family will be eligible for $142 a month in Government allot
ments and allocations. He has been on WPA and relief rolls. Members of the Keiley family are left to
right: Paul, 3; Clarence, 5; Harry, 7; Michael, 8; Dorothy, 9; Tommy, 11; Anna, 12; John, 14; Raymond,
Jr., 15; Mrs. Cecelia Keiley, 83, and Raymond Keiley. (Central Press)
Local Tobacco Market To End
Current Season Next Tuesday
The Williamston Tobacco Market
will end the current season upon the
completion of sales next Tuesday, it
was announced yesterday following
a meeting of the tobacco board of
trade. Virtually all the tobacco in
this immediate area has already
been marketed, the market opera
tors reasoning that another week
would afford ample time for the
marketing of the remainder of the
crop.
Sales on local floors continued
fairly heavy up until the past week
end, but comparatively little activ
ity is being reported this week. The
selling organization will be main
taned in its entirety until the last
pound is sold, and the buying com
panies will have their representa
tives on the job until the last bid is
heard.
A complete review on the market
activities for the season is not avail
able at the moment, but as a whole,
the season has been possibly the most
successful one since 1919. There was
very little variation in the prices, the
market maintaining an upward
trend during most of the season or
until about two weeks ago when the
demand for some grades slacken
ed. The reduction followed a week
of rain, and it is possible the large
amount of damaged tobacco had
something to do with prices. How
ever the better grades held their
own.
The price situation was far bet
ter than the quality of the crop in
this immediate area. Nearly every
farmer, admitting that his crop was
badly damaged by the dry growing
season, received more for his crop
than he expected. This section was
possibly the hardest hit in the en
tire belt, but even then prices were
satisfactory.
MAILING TIME
Saturday of this week is the
last day for mailing Christmas
packages to the boys overseas.
Already more than 100 pack
ages have been mailed in the lo
cal offises for delivery in wide
ly scattered parts of the world.
Disappointment for many
young men in foreign service is
almost certain at Christmas time,
the government announcing this
week that 4,986 sacks of gift
mail had been sent to the bot
tom of the ocean. The mail was
on a cargo ship that was sent to
the bottom apparently some time
after October 3rd. As far as it
could be learned no packages
were mailed for overseas deliv
ery during the latter part of
September and up to October
3rd.
Shortage Of Copper
Bobs Up In County
Unable to get copper for making
kettles and with the rationing pro
gram making sugar almost unavail
able, illicit liquor manufacturers
continue to carry on in this county
dcspute the obstacles. Turning to
honey for sweetening and using a
common old gas drum for a kettle,
the manufacturers had just about
solved their problems when ABC Of
ficer J. H. Roebuck and his assistant,
Roy Peel, came along and wiped out
the crude outfit.
It was the first time in his long
years of enforcement work that Of
ficer Roebuck had found a gas drum
in the Free Union section of this
county. The officers wrecked the
plant and poured out about 200 gal
lons of honey beer during recent
raiding activities.
POSTPONED AGAIN
The registration of fuel oil
dealers in this county and State
has stall been postponed, the
county rationing board was ad
vised here yesterday. No date
for holding the registration was
mentioned and no reason for the
second postponement of the task
was offered.
As far as it could be learned
here otday the registration for
Individ sal consumers will not be
held until after the fuel oil deal
ers register.
The fuel oil dealer regtstra
tiou was first scheduled for last
week and then delayed until this
delaying the rngtatratlon
for an indefinite time.
Truck Registration
Believed Far From
Complete In County
Mileage Form* for Antonio
biles To Be Made Avail
able About Nov. 1st
The complicated registration of
motor trucks in this county is prog
ressing slowly, unofficial reports ga
thered from some of the registration
centers indicating that the task is
far from complete. The tedious task
of filling in the forms was started
last Thursday, and it is understood
that hardly more than half the esti
mated 750 trucks in the county were
registered at that time. The regis
tration of farm trucks is still under
way in the offices of the county
agent in the agricultural building,
but how long it will be continued
there could not be learned.
According to instructions coming
from the Of/ice of Defense Trans
portation, the applications must be
in the agency's office at Detroit in
time for certificates of war neces
sity to be mailed back to the truck i
owner. It is understood that quite
a few truck owners did not receive
the application forms. What action,
if any, will be taken in those cases
could not be predicted. The names
and addresses of those receiving no
application forms were taken by the
county committee and are being
forwarded to the national office.
Puzzled by the apparently compli
cated application form, a few far
mers were quoted as saying they
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Rationing Causes
Belt-Tightening
With wider rationing of scarce
commodities, particularly foodstuffs,
near at hand, a lot of belt-tighten
ing is in prospect. Signs of what is
to come already are evident. Coffee
has become a will-o'-the-wisp. Meat
is harder to obtain and milk short
ages are reported in some areas. Cur
rently, of the foodstuffs, only sugar
is being rationed. But others will fol
low, say Washington reports ? as
soon as the necessary machinery can
be established. Meat rationing has
been promised ? two and a half
pounds a week to a person. In fact,
some cities are experiencing it with
meatless days in restaurants. Thus a
swing from abundance to scarcity is
taking place. Although there's little
likelihood of the nation going hun
gry on the war-time diet that's tak
ing form, one thing is certain: the
dinner plate isn't going to look the
same.
Missionary Relates
His Experiences In
Concentration Camp
Pentcroatal Conference Hears
Rev. Clyde Herndon Here
Siiiiduy Afternoon
Foreign missions climaxed the pro
gram at the 32nd annual conference
of the Pentecostal Holiness Church
here Sunday afternoon when seven
of the denomination's leading mis
sionaries appeared before the nearly
800 delegates, religious leaders and
communicants It was an impressive
service, and the large congregation
expressed its appreciation by raising
a sizable free-will offering for one
of the mission workers
Seven missionaries, including Rev.
and Mrs. Clyde H. Herndon, of Dan
ville, Va.; Miss Anna Deane Cole,
of Birmingham; Rev. and Mrs. T
H Rousseau, of Franklin Springs,
Ga.; Miss Mavis Lee Oakley, of
Greenville, and Rev. J. M. Turner,
of Franklin Springs, Ga., appeared
on the program Mrs. Herndon, Miss
Cole, and Mrs. Rousseau portrayed
a typical Chinese street scene with
Miss Oakley as -their interpreter.
They, with Rev. Rousseau, sang sev
eral songs in Chinese.
The Rev. Mr. Turner, missionary
to India home on furlough, sang two
Hindu songs and expressed a desire
to return to his work. He did not re
late any of his experiences in that
country, and offered no comment on
the uncertainty of British rule in
India.
The feature address was deliver
ed by Mr. Herndon who related his
experiences in Hong Kong from the
time he was arrested last December
unitl he was released from a Jap
concentration camp last June 30. A
bit nervous and hardly back to his
normal health following the trying
ordeals that were his and many oth
er Americans in the Jap controlled
city, the missionary was careful not
to reveal any information that might
endanger the lives and safety of
those Americans remaining in Japan
ese hands
Following the outbreak of war on
December 7th, the little missionary
group held to the mission. On De
cember 12th, armed Chinese fifth
columnists visited the home and
carried away personal effects, in
cluding money, clothes and baggage,
but the property of the church was
not damaged at that time The Japs
made their appearance at the mission
on December 21st and they were ev
erything but pleasant to the mission
aries." The small group was left
there until December 28th when Rev
Herndon and others of the group
were driven from the home. Wan
dering in the streets of the city, they
were arrested the following day and
interned in a hotel. "Although we
were not allowed to leave our rooms
or even look out a window, we saw
plenty," the missionary declared, in
timating that it was there that wo
men were insulted. On January 23
the missionaries were herded into
the Stanley concentration camp
where they merely existed week ?f
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TOBACCO CARDS
All tobaceo farmer* are being
urged to surrender their mar
keting card* immediately after
completing their marketing, a
spokesman In the office of the
county agent's office said this
morning.
The cards are to be checked
against the warehouse receipts,
and the immediate surrender of
the cards will make it possible
to correct any error*. Quite a
few farmers have already sur
rendered their marketing cards
to the office of the eounty agent
in the eounty agieultural build
ing.
War As It Relates
To Home Front Is
Reviewed for Week
Transportation and Manpow
er Constitute Major Prob
lem for the Nation
The war we are fighting is war on
the vastest of scales. It involves vast
numbers of men, vast quantities of
weapons and materials, vast dis
tances. In its earlier stages the Axis
aggressors, fanning out along inter
ior lines that radiated from Berlin
to Tokyo, were aided by the rela
tively short distances to their fronts.
As the enemy's lines of communica
tions were extended the odds no
longer were as overwhelmingly in
their favor, and yet distance is still
the Allies major problem.
But whereas the Axis means of
transportation and supply are ap
proaching definite limits, those of
the United Nations are steadily in
creasing. The phenomenal growth of
our "external" system of war trans
portation?new ships launched at
an average of three a day, thous
ands of motor vehicles and cargo
planes heading for overseas?is evi
dence that we shall solve that prob
lem of distance as we shall solve our
other problems. We may not hope,
however, that this external trans
portation growth can be matched by
a corresponding expansion of our
continental transportation systems.
We've about come to the end of our
production of new railway freight
and passenger cars, streetcars, buses,
commercial trucks -materials used
to build these carriers and convey
ances are more needed for war
uses. The wartime burden of the
carriers has been staggering this
year, and will be even heavier next
year.
Hope to Get 10,000.000 Tires
Much of our transportation rolls
on rubber wheels?about 86 per cent
of all travel in the U. S. is by pas
senger automobiles. In 2,300 cities
and towns they constitute the only
available means of transportation.
And were millions of farmers, war
workers and others engaged in vi
tal services to be deprived of the
use of their cars, the extra load could
not possibly be absorbed by buses,
streetcars, and railroads. If we were
to use up our existing tires reckless
ly, all the steps so far taken to save
rubber might not avert a great
transportation disaster. For we
must save our stocks of crude and
I synthetic rubber for our armies ?
| they also roll forward on rubber
: wheels.
Here's the answer?from Novem
ber 22 oh, we'll have to get along
with only one spare tire for each
j passenger car.?All others must be
sold to the Government, and it is
hoped that by this means some ten
million tires may be obtained. Some
of these will be good only for scrap
rubber, but the greater part will
serve as a reservoir from which tires
may be drawn to meet essential
needs.
Manpower Situation to Be Critical
The program will not alter the
necessity to keep aUtos within the 35
miles an hour maximum speed lim
it, in fact, we'll be more than ever
obligated to take the best possible
care of the five tires we keep. The
Railway Express Agency will col
lect the "idle" tires at no cost to
owners. While motorists may keep
their five best tires, they must note
down the serial numbers of those
they keep- these numbers must be
given on your application for gaso
line mileage ration.
By the end of next year we'll need
at least 20 million workers for direct
war production?five million more
than we now have?and there'll be
about nine million in the armed serv
ices, several million of them drawn
ffom w?f jobs In June, 1943, about
47 1-2 million persons were employ
ed, only a small percentage of them
in war industry. During 1943 we can
count on about 32 1-2 million peo
ple to carry on all civilian work arid
services other than direct war work
and fighting. In the face of such a
[critical manpower situation local la
bor of all kinds, without prejudice
as to employment, must be found for
farms and local industries. And ev
ery business and factory must ex
amine its roll of employees to see
whether workers are doing the job
for which they are best fitted, whe
ther they can be trained on the spot
for more highly skilled jobs, and
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?
C. H. Hollowell Is
Reported Missing
C. H. Hollowell, III, former audi
tor of the State Department of Rev
enue and who worked in Williams
tdn and this section for some time,
was recently reported missing in ac
tion presumably somewhere in the
Southwest Pacific. The young man,
a native of Elizabeth City, made
many friends during his visits to
Williamston.
It is understood that he was a
member of the Wasp airplane car
rier officers' staff, the carrier having
been reported sunk the middle of
last month
Young Hollowell resigned his poat
with the State department to enlist
in the service. He was schooled at
Northwestern Univeraity and had
been in the Navy only a short time.
Church Group Urges
Ban on Liquor Traffic
Ranger Honored
Corp. Franklin M. Koons, a former
Iowa auctioneer now a U. S. Han
ger, is the first American soldier
to win a British army decoration
in this war. Koons was awarded
the Military Medal for "conspicu
ous gallantry and admirable leader
ship" during the raid on Dieppe.
(Central Vresa}
Bit Of Scrap About
Collection of Scrap
For the War Effort
Old Civil War Kclic Shipped
to Steel Mill* for Fne
in Current War
Used on Roanoke Island during the
Civil War and after playing a rath
er dangerous part in political vic
tory celebrations here for a long
number of years, an old cannon was
loaded and shipped from here a
short time ago to the steel mills for
use in the current war.
Little of its actual war history is
known, but shortly after the strug
gle the cannon, weighing possibly
more than three hundred pounds,
was shipped to Plymouth and later
delivered to the late John Watts,
farmer-business man, who lived to
the edge of town on the Washing
ton Road and who maintained a bus
iness office on the main street. The
date the cannon was delivered to Mr.
Watts is not known, but it is under
stood that the Democrats, celebrat
ing a victory at the polls, stole the
weapon and fired it about 1876. No
cannon balls were used, but liberal
quantities of powder were packed
into the barrel and when the gun
was fired everybody within a rad
ius of several miles heard about a
Democratic victory at the polls
without the means of modern com
munication systems or the grapevine
telegraph.
If the Republicans ever tried to
reclaim the weapon it is not known,
but the Democrats, fearful of the
(Continued on page six)
Visiting Ministers
In IiOeal Churches
Receiving special invitations, vis
iting ministers to the 32nd annual
North Carolina Conference of the
Pentecostal Holiness Church just
concluded here, appeared in several
pulpits throughout the community
last Sunday morning and evening.
"We are all striving for the same
goal and trying to make this a bet
ter world in which to live," one of
the ministers was quoted as saying
while handling the special assign
merit in one of the churches.
The assignments were as follows:
Bethany, Rev. W. Harvey Morris, of
Goldsboro; Rehoboth, Rev. C. B.
Strickland, of Falcon; Memorial
Baptist, Rev. A H Butler, Falcon;
Methodist, Rev. I. D. Dickens, Wilm
ington; Christian, Rev. J. W. But
ler, Goldsboro; Community Church,
Rev D. F. Fulcher, Vanceboro.
Dr. T. L. Aaron, president of the
denomination's college in Georgia,
occupied the pulpit in the host
church.
ROUND-UP
*
After showing a marked de
cline the week before, the
round-up of drunks by local and
county officers bounced np
again last week-end. The num
ber of arrests Jumped from six
for the previous week-end to an
even doien last week-end. Ten
of those arrested and Jailed were
booked for public drunkenness,
one for assaulting another with
a deadly weapon and the re
maining one for bastardy.
Four of the twelve persons
were white, the ages of the
twelve ranging from IT to M
years. Most of the alleged viola
tions are being cleared in Jus
tice J. L. HaasoU's court
Holiness Conference
Holds Final Session
Monday Afternoon
* ?
Marked Growth Is Made Bv
Church Ijist Year, Bishop
Kin# Tells Conference
thJhpN?.rth Carollna Conference of
brought. H?liness Church
br ught to a successful close its
[" annua! session ln the local
church yesterday afternoon, the ex
panding religious group, represent
from ,NPPr?X'm;"c'y 300 delegates
from all over eastern North Carolina
and several states, taking a firm and
compromising stand for things spir
forcL. o,,tron,gIy cnndt'inning the
world" ?f eV" a" "un8odly
coiftaded by Blsh?P J H. King, the
conference carefully reviewed the
work of the Church during the past
year and with equal care formulated
plans for an expund.d work for the
fromyeBr' E"courag,?g reports came
from every quarter, and the confer
aUond"1 by prominent nation
al leaders and returned missionar
ies from India and China, was rec
ognized as the most successful held
in recent years. a
Ten ministers, passin gtests for ad
mission, were licensed and enrolled
as the- conference got underway last
Saturday following an informal
opening the evening before Making
his formal report, Conference Super
?ntendent W Eddie Morris, of Ken
ly. announced that three new
churches had been organized at Ben
son, Raleigh and Roper, and that
mission points had been established
a Thompson s Chapel, near L.ucama,
at Moore s Creek, near Wilmington,
and at Spring Lake, near Fort
Bragg New parsonages built during
the year and improved church plants
were noted in reports submitted by
'he lay delegates.
The business program was aban
doned Sunday when a full worship
schedule was held
Bishop King ,n the conference
sermon said Christians must be ex
amples of Christ-centered life ir. a
sin-darkened age, holding up Christ
as a sure foundation for those groD
ing for a firm faith. ,
"Sacrifice, service and self-deniai
are essentia! if one live saccording
'o the Christian ideal," the Bishop
asserted.
Church Extension
Reaching the unchurched millions
in the United States is not the task
of one denomination, but of all
t hristians, declared the Rev G H
Montgomery, church editor and di
rector of general evangelism, in a
Church Extension rally.
May God help the church to rise
above the sins of this age and ungod
ly world, with her enthusiasm, her
initiative, her Christian personality,
power and possessions, with a
mighty message of full salvation for
this world," the editor concluded.
Returning to its business to mark
the close of the sessions, the confer
ence yesterday announced the as
signments to the eighty-two churches
and took a firm stand against the li
quor traffic, condemned the ever-in
creasing number of divorces and
pleaded for a return to worship
around the family altar. A resolu
tion seeking to ban the sale of alco
holic beverages in and around army
camps, naval bases and other mili
tary areas was approved, and the
conference overwhelmingly voted to
continue to fight the sale of intoxi
cating liquors, calling upon church
men to support a program of "edu
cation, legislation and salvation"
against the business of selling alco
holic beverages anywhere..
The proposed transfer of the Fal
con Orphanage, valued at $96,000 to
the Pentecostal Holiness Church, was
advanced in the orphanage commit
tee reixirt submitted by Mr J. A.
Culbreth, superintendent and one of
its founders. During his stay here
Mr Culbreth, now 71 years of age!
Stated that the first two children to
enter the orphanage came from Par
mee, in this county. Hundreds of
children have been cared for by the
institution since it was founded back
in the early part of this century.
A?VU'uUon thankln8 'he people
Of Wilhamston for their hospitality
the local and state press for their
coverage of the session, and William
ston churches for opening pulpits to
visiting ministers was adopted.
(Continued on page tlx)
Stiffen Fractured Skull
W hile Playing "Tartan"
Master Wilton Knox, young son of
Mrs. Janie Edwards Knox, suffered
a severe skull injury in a fall from
a tree near his home last Friday af
ternoon. Imitating "Tarxan," the
little fellow started to jump from a
tree limb to a telephone pole, miss
ed and fell, his head striking the
concrete sidewalk. No bruise was
noticeable, but after a short time
he lost consciousness and was re
moved to a Washington hospital (or
treatment. His condition is mueh im
proved and the little fallow is ex
pected home shortly.