Jap Ship Losses In
The Pacific Heavy
American ship losses in the Pacific
have been heavy, but compared with
those suffered by the Japs they are
relatively light. According to the
best information obtainable, the
the Japs have lost, either sunk or
damaged, a total of 517 ships since
Pearl Harbor as compared with 73
American ships sunk or damaged.
A comparison of the losses follows:
Japanese
Probably
Category
Sunk
Sunk
Dam'd
Tot
WARSHIPS:
Battleships
1
0
9
10
Carriers
6
2
7
15
Cruisers
16
5
62
83
Destroyers
34
12
27
73
Submarines
7
2
5
14
Tenders
1
1
4
6
Auxiliaries
2
0
0
2
Gunboats
9
1
2
12
Minesweepers 3
1
0
4
Patrol Boats
5
0
0
5
Sub Chasers
1
0
0
1
Unidentified
0
0
5
5
Tot. Warship 85
24
121
230
Transports
38
9
37
84
Tankers
18
0
8
26
Cargo
Supply, etc.
61
12
17
90
Miscellan.
11
7
9
27
Totals 213
52
192
?457
V )?uutrs nut uiiiuui' iusacst in
flicted by Gen. Douglas MacArthurY
Australian-based bombers, which
have sunk or damaged 60 Jap ships
since Oct 1. alone.)
American I
-"WARSHIPS:
Category Sunk Scuttled Tot
Battleships 1 0
Carriers 36 0
Cruisers 4 0
Destroyers 14
Submarines 3 1
Plane Tenders 1 0
Sub Tenders 0 1
Target Ship 1 0
Gunboats 3 1
Minesweepers 4 2
Minelayers 1 0
Total Warships 36 6
Non-Combatant:
Transports 4 0
Tankers 3 0
Fleet Tugs 2 1
Grand Totals 45 7 *52
(?)?Does not include 14 cargo
ships sunk off Pacific Coast, five mo
tor torpedo boats demolished in Phil
ippines. and two Army transports.)
A late report just received this af
ternoon stated that a second Jap
battleship had been sunk, that Am
erican bombers got it last Saturday.
The 47th Week
Of The War
(Continued from page one)
War Secretary Stimson reported
the Alcan Highway is now open to
trucks carrying munitions and ma
terials to troops in Alaska for its en
tire length of 1,671 miles. Formal
opening will probably take place No
vember 15th, he said. Mr. Stimson
said the furlough period of two
weeks given newly inducted soldiers
will be reduced to one week. Ap
proximately 3,400 tons of mail, in
cluding more than 1,000,000 Christ
mas parcels. Were sent to U. S. arm
ed forces overseas during the first
25 days of October.
The War Front
Army Chief of Staff Marshal, in a
letter to Commander in Chief King
of the U. S Fleet, said the "skillful
seamanship" of the Navy has al
ready escorted 800,000 soldiers safe
ly "across the submarine-infested
waters of the Atlantic and Pacific."
The Navy reported November 1st
that two enemy aircraft carriers, two i
battleships and three cruisers were
damaged and 100 airplanes destroy
ed in a great sea and air battle 250
miles northeast of Guadalcanal. Na
vy Secretary Knox said the Japan- j
ese fleet units have retired from the j
scene in the Solomons and the "first1
round" of that battle is over.
In the battle the U. S. lost an un
identified aircraft carrier and the
Destroyer Porter. Following this bat
tle U. S. Naval units shelled enemy
positions on Guadalcanal. On the
ground U. S. Marines and Soldiers
repulsed all Japanese attempts to
dent their positions around Hender
son Airfield, Gen. MacArthur's head
quarters in Australia reported No
vember 2nd that fresh bombing raids
on Jap bases at Bum and Faisi were
believed to have sunk or damaged
seven more enemy surface ships.
Labor Supply
President Roosevelt told his press
conference that a compulsory reg
istration for American women to de
termine their availability for war
work is being considered. While no
compulsory drafting of women for
war industries is contemplated, he
said, there is need for information
which a compulsory registration
could produce. Such a registration
would?require?legislation?which
probably could not be completed un
til close to the end of the year.
Labor Secretary Perkins reported
4,500,000 new workers must come
Baptist Parsonage For Sale
IN HAMILTON. N. C.
<jish or Terms. Will be sold in front of Guaranty
Bank and Trust Gonipany in Hamilton 011 Satur
day, November I Mi, at 2:00 P. M.
D. G. MATTHEWS and H. S. JOHNSON, Trustees
Germans Are Routed
In Africa By Hard
Hittijig Allied Army
(Continued from page one)
report today stated that German ar
tillery had gone into action, indi
cating that opposition is developing
A report coming from Madrid to
day claimed that the greatest air
activity of the war was underway
over and around Gibraltar, the full
meaning of the action there not be
ing disclosed.
Over in Guadalcanal, the Japs are
definitely on the defensive despite
the late landing of reinforcements.
Gains have been made by the Ma
rines west of the airfield, and on the
cast the Japs are being slowly push
ed back, one report stating that near
ly 300 of the enemy had been killed
and that numbers of machine guns
and artillery pieces had been cap
tured. The defenders are being re
inforced by bombs and fire from
American warships and bombers.
The German drive in Russia was
reported today to have bogged down
on all fronts, the Russians adding
that 100,000 Germans were killed in
the past sixty days within Stalin
grad.
Five Arretted In Small
Cigarette Theft Ring
Five colored boys, their ages rang
ing from 10 to 14 years, were round
ed up and arrested this week by Of-,
ficer J. H. Allsbrooks as alleged
members of small cigarette theft
ring. The boys, Lewis Felton Free
man, 11, William Teel, 10, Benjamin
Franklin Purvis, 13, Roosevelt Wig
gins, 12, and Henry Peel, 14. slipped
two packages of cigarettes from the
express office and peddled them to
consumers at $1 a carton.
Freeman is slated for a trip to the
reformatory and the other boys will
likely be placed on probation.
?
ff inter Feat And Vetch
Available To Farmers
Made available under the soil con
servation program and financed by
grant of aid. 500 bags of Austrian
winter peas and hairy vetch are
ready for distribution in this coun
ty, the office of the county agent
announced today. Farmers are urg
ed to apply immediately for the
seed.
The time for seeding winter le
gumes has been extended until No
vember 15th.
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Mrs. Jim Rollins and little son,
Jim, Jr., of Gassville, Arkansas, vis
ited friends here today.
into the labor market before the end
of 1943 and an additional 3,000,000
by the end of 1944. War Manpower
Commission Chairman McNutt said
that about 500,000 workers will be
released to war industries when na
tionwide gasoline rationing becomes
effective November 22.
Mrs. Roy Roberson
Is Buried In County
?
Mrs Roy S. Roberson, 38, died in
Tayloe hospital in Washington at 3
o'clock Wednesday afternoon after
several days' illness.
Funeral services were conducted
from the home near Everetts at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Burial
followed in the Wynn cemetery near
Rose of ShaVon church in Martin
County.
Mrs. Roberson was born and rear
ed in Martin County and had spent
her married life in Beaufort and
Martin Counties She was a member
of Rose of Sharon Free Will Baptist
Church. (J, '
Surviving are her husband, Roy
S. Roberson; three sons, Elbert S.
Roberson, of Martin County, and
James Harvey and John Roberson,
both of the home ;a grandchild, four
sisters, Mrs. Howard Whitehurst, of
near Robfrsonville; Mrs. Sam Wynn,
Mrs. Emma Terry and Miss Francis
Moore, all of near Bear Grass, and
a brother, J. K. Moore, of near Bear
Grass.
Oak City Parents
And Teachers Meet
The Parent-Teacher Association of
the Oak City school will hold its
regular monthly meeting Wednes
day evening at 8:00 o'clock in the
school auditorium Mrs E. N. Howell,
of Swannanoa, will be present and
discuss vital war problems that may
be necessary for the local P.T.A. to
take into consideration. Mrs. How
ell is a field worker and has visited
our local unit before. We will be
glad to have Mrs. Howell with us
at the above announced meeting on
Wednesday, Nov. 11th. There will be
a special program arranged by the
grades under the leadership of Miss
Mildred Manning, chairman of pro
gram committee.
The public is cordially invited to
be present and take part in the dis
cussion.
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No General Holiday To
Be Had Next Wednetday
No general holiday will be observ
ed here next Wednesday, Armistice
day, but the banks will close along
with a few other business establish
ments. The post office will remain
open, but no rural mail deliveries
will be effected that day, it was an
nounced.
No observance program has been
planned here, and life, patterned
more or less on a war basis, will con
tinue very much as usual.
Reports Scrapped
From The Nation
Holyoke, Mass.?More than a mil
lion pounds of scrap were collected
in a recent household scrap drive in
this city of 55,000 population.
Motorists Will Have
To Depend More and
More On Used Tires
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(Continued from page one)
J. C. Rawls, RFD 2, Williamston,
two tires for farm.
R. Vernon Bunting, Williamston,
one tire for farm.
Bryan Ward, Hamilton, two tires
for (arm.
C. W. Brabble, RFD 3, Williamston,
one tire for farm.
A. E. Downs, Hassell, two tires for
farm.
Marvin H. Leggett, RFD 1, James
ville, two tires for farm.
Ira Jones, RFD, Williamston, one
tire for farm work.
K. S. Bunting, Oak City, five tires
for farm.
Reginald Sears, Hamiltort, two
tires for conveying timber buyer.
LeRoy L. Shone, Williamston, four
tires and two tubes, for making em
ergency calls.
Four obsolete size trailer tires and
tubes were allotted.
Kiwanians Observe
Ladies' Night Here
Ladies night was observed by the
local Kiwanis Club last night with
Edmund Harding, North Carolina's
leading entertainer and speaker, tak
ing the leading role in giving the
club members, their wives and the
teachers of the local schools a night
of wholesome fun and entertain
ment.
Mr. Harding, a native of Wash
ington and well-known by many^if
our citizens, sandwiched his many
jokes with much valuable advice and
information relative to our duties
and obligations in connection with
our war efforts. "The time is pass
ing rapidly and we need to do some
thing about it. All of us may not
have the privilege to wear a uniform
but there are many things we can
do to help win this war," Mr. Hard
ing reminded his audience many
times during the night's entertain
ment.
Edmund's accordian, which is just
about as indispensible to him as
Charlie McCarthy would be to Bur
gen, led the club members and their
guests in several appropriate songs.
Peanut Prices Hold
Firm As Sales Show
Big Gain In Volume
(Continued from page one)
The shortage of regular burlap
bags is quite noticeable as farmers
make deliveries in odd-sized bags
and bags made of cotton in various
colors and types, including those
looking very similar to fish or hair
nets.
?cr. D. J. Little Announce*
Service* In Local Church
Rev. D. J. Little, newly appointed
jastor of the local Pentecostal Holi
less church, announces regular serv
ces in the church each first and
hird Saturday and Sunday. Hie
ninister again expressed apprecia
ion to the people of the town and
:ommunity for the hospitality ex
ended in entertaining the annual
inference of the denomination re
:ently.
Believe County Boy
Is Still Alive After
Being Reported Lost
(Continued from page one)
ship as reports when they were re
leased several weeks after the sink
ing clearly indicated that the men
had ample time to abandon ship in
an orderly manner.
No members of the family could
be contacted immediately, but all
of them were said to have never
abandoned hope for the youth's safe
ty. Mr. Glover was heard to remark
several times that he could not un
derstand how the youth could still
be alive, but it was apparent that
he still hoped for his safety.
The report alters the county's war
casualty list. Three young men, Mur
ray Cargile, John Goldie Leggett and
Austin Randolph Jackson, are known
to have been killed, Leggett and
Cargile in the Pearl Harbor attack
nearly a year ago, and Dennis Col
train and L. Dan Roebuck, Jr., are
still missing. Reports indicate that
there is little hope of young Col
train's return, but there is still hope
for the safety of young Roebuck who
was on the U. S. Cruiser Quincey
when it was sunk off Guadalcanal
in August.
CHRISTIAN
Bible school, 9:45 a. m.
Morning worship, 11 a. m. Subject,
"The Everlasting Doors,"
Prison Camp service, 2:30 p. m.
Young Peoples meeting, 7 p. m.
Evening service, 8 p. m.
Choir rehearsal Tuesday, 8 p. m.
Prayer service Wednesday, 8 p.
m.
A special program of five weeks
Degins aunaay on liie general theme,
"Opening Door for God." This pro
gram invisions the mobilization of
all units of the church in an all-out
program for God.
Only 1,137 Ballots
Are Cast In AIT 13
Election Precincts
(Continued from page one)
Mr. Bailey's name was scratched in
several precincts. The vote accord
ed state officers who were without
opposition, follows: Walter P. Sta
cy, Supreme Court chief justice, 1,
079; Michael Schenck, associate jus
tice Supreme Court, L,066; Emery B.
Denny, associate justice Supreme
Court, 1,067 for the short term and
1,068 for the long term; R. Hunt Par
ker, 3rd district superior court judge,
1,076; Clawson L. Williams, 4th dis
trict superior court judge, 1,070; W.
C. Harris, 7th district superior court
judge, 1,073; J. H. Clement, 11th dis
trict superior court judge, 1,064; F.
Donald Phillips, 13th district judge
superior court, 1,064; Frank M. Arm
strong 15th district superior court
judge, 1,062; Julius A. Rousseau, 17th
district superior court judge, 1,064;
J. Will Pless, Jr., 18th district super
ior court judge ,1,064; Zeb V. Net
tles, 19th district superior court
judge, 1,065; Felix E. Alley, 30th dis
trict superior court judge, 1,063.
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HESE are tense, anxious,
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soldiers. They try our souls, and
test the mettle of America's will
to win. Time is short and victory
is the goaf. Keep your chin up.
Keep your efficiency high.
Under heavy strain human en
ergy burns at a rapid rate. Hours
between meal and meal, now
seem even longer. Dr. Pepper is
a liquid bite-to-eat. Its effect is
immediate. Its energy-lift is re
freshing; stimulating to re
newed zeal. Get yours daily at,
10, 2 and 4 o'clock. Like good'
news, it will cheer you up.
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