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r fAGE TWO THE JOHNSTONIAN ■ SUN, SELMA, N. C. — THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1942. A King Takes a Ride in a Jeep Shown in this picture are Edsel Ford, Detroit manufacturer, and King Peter of Jugoslavia, as they take a ride in a “jeep” at the Ford River Rouge plant, in Detroit. This “shot” was taken when the boy king visited the great defense plants in the former automobile manufacturing center. Before stopping at Detroit, Peter visited in Washington. A Week of the War ★ ★ ★ ★ Army Chief, Speaking At Salisbury, N. G., Says Our Tanks Are Superior To Anything the Enemy Has — American Planes Manned by U. S. Pilots, Make Successful Daylight Raid On German-occupied Territory — Rubber Scrap Campaign To Close July yO — Gan Purchase Two Extra Pounds of Sugar Between July 10 and August 22. Army Chief of Ordnance Campbell, speaking at Salisbury, N. C., said “Our tanks are superior to anything the enemy has. Type by type, our ' tanks have heavier guns, heavier ar mament and greater speed.... our high-velocity 75-millimeter guns in our M-3 tanks far and away outrange the best the Germans have.... and we can fire this high-velocity 75 when the tank is in motion, which is more than any enemy tank, whatever its size, can do.” Gen. Campbell said the so-called “new German 88-MM. Gun” is “about as secret as a Daisy Water Pistol. It has been known to us and our Allies for at least 10 years. We outmatch this gun with several of our field and antitank guns.” He said the German 88 is effective as an antitank weapon only within its limited range. U. S. Machine guns, Gen. Campbell said, will “outfunction any enemy gun under the most adverse circumstances •—in other words, they will keep firing When enemy guns have to shut down to change barrels.” The United States “can build a better automobile, better typewriter, a better icebox and We can build — and are building— better machine weapons,” Gen. Camp bell said. Gen. Campbell said, “The Enemy cannot outdo American design and production and spirit.” The WPB reported the dollar value of war shipments from 430 automo tive industry plants totaled $350 mil lion during April, an increase of 46 per cent over February. Army Services of Supply Comman der Somervell instructed the civilian guards at 11,000 war plants to or ganize an Auxiliary to the Army’s corps of Military Police as a further protection against enemy saboteurs. The War Front The “Flying Tigers” of the Ameri can Volunteer group were placed un der the Army Air Corps command in China and opened their operations with heavy raids on three key Jap anese bases at Hankow, Nanchang and Canton. Six Japanese planes were destroyed without loss. A Navy communique reported Ar my bombers scored hits on an enemy cruiser and sank a transport in the Aleutian Islands. In addition, Navy submarines sank three destroyers. The situation in the Islands “has not changed materially,” however, in the past two weeks, the Navy report said. The Office of Indian Affairs an nounced all of the Aleutian Islands West of Dutch Harbor, as well as the Pribilof Islands, have been classified as parts of a total evacuation zone. The Office said nearly 1,000 civilians | have been removed from these areas by the Navy and transferred to the American mainland. The first communique from U. S. headquarters of the European theater reported six U. S. Douglas light bom bers manned by U. S. pilots success fully attacked targets by daylight in German-occupied territory in a joint operation with RAF bombers. Two American planes were reported miss ing. The Navy said U. S. bombers carried out a second attack on Jap anese-held Wake Island. The Navy also announced the U. S. Aircraft Carrier Wasp carried aerial reinforce ments to the British Island of Malta in the Mediterranean. Gen. MacAr- thur’s Australian headquarters re ported repeated air raids on Japanese held territory in that area. The sink ing of 17 more United Nations mer chant vessels by enemy submarine action was announced. Scrap Salvage The WPB said a new and greatly intensified campaign to salvage vital scrap materials will be formally opened July 13, because the only way the U. S. can meet materials require ments of war production is “to col lect every last bit of scrap from every farm and home, and from every commercial enterprise and industry in the country. The iron and steel industry has raised about $1,500,000 and the glycerin industry about $500,- 000 to finance national advertising to stimulate scrap collection, the Board said. The Farm Implement Industry has offered to assist the country’s 12,000 state and local salvage com mittees in the collection of rural scrap. Materials to be sought in par ticular are iron and steel, rubber and waste fats. The Rubber Scrap Salvage cam paign will close at midnight July 10. The Public Buildings Administration reported 15,000 pounds of scrap rub ber were salvaged from Federal Buildings during the first two weeks of the campaign. The War Depart ment said the Army faces a 250,000 ton rubber shortage by the end of 1943, but present plans do not include military requisitioning of civilian tires. Rationing Price Administrator Henderson said consumers may purchase an extra two pounds, of sugar between July 10 and August 22, in addition to the basic half-pound-a-week ration. He said the new East Coast coupon sys tern for gasoline rationing will grant a fraction of a gallon more per week than temporary A cards, but the conditions that must be met to obtain supplemental rations under the per manent system are so strict that most motorists will have to get along on the minimum. Motorists will register for A books July 9, 10 and 11. Small boat owners will be issued E and R. gasoline ration books and will receive a basic six months ration of four gallons for each horse power for in board motors and five gallons for outboard motors. The OPA set the quota of passenger automobiles for rationing during July at 25,000, excluding state and nation al reserves, which will reduce the original inventory of about 402,000 cars to about 260,000. Between July 9 and August 31, the Office will re lease 230,000 bicycles for rationing— 180,000 to the states, 20,000 to state reserves and 30,000 for a national I reserve. Transportation Transportation Director Eastman banned for the duration all automo bile, midget car and motorcycle rac ing meets, effective July 10. He also asked that State and County Fairs be postponed for the duration to help relieve the strain on transport facili ties. The ODT postponed until July I 15 the date on which over-the-road carriers' will be required to be loaded to at least 75 per cent of capacity for return trips and on which tank trucks will be limited to one delivery daily. The office reported the majority of milk dealers have put their deliveries on an every-other-day basis and have I reduced mileage by an average of 25 per cent. The office authorized its 51 field offices to begin action im mediately upon applications for the special permits under the truck con servation regulations. Shipbuilding The Maritime Commission said shipbuilding has not yet equaled total sinkings, but delivery of 66 ships to taling 730,000 tons by American ship yards in June set a new world’s rec ord for steel ship construction and represented an increase of 450 per cent in volume of construction since Pearl Harbor. The War Shipping Ad ministration reported the U. S. will operate between 2,200 and 2,600 mer chant vessels this year. Housing I FHA field offices resumed the pro cessing of applications for priority assistance in the construction of privately financed homes for war workers. Processing was suspended late in May. The Agency said a new simplified procedure combines prefer ence rating applications for the elec tricity, gas, water, and sewer connec tions of proposed war housing pro jects with the corresponding applica tions covering the housing itself. The joint applications will be processed entirely in the field by the FHA of fices and by NHA and WPB regional offices. NHA administrator Blandford issued a simplyfying order to em power qualified creditors or lenders to decide whether a proposed remedy ing project is “war housing,” thus exempting the project from credit restrictions set up by the Federal Reserve Board. President Roosevelt signed the $42 Mrs. J. R. Durham Dies On Way To Hospital Mrs. J. R. Durham, 61, of Four Oaks, Rt. 3, died on the way to the Johnston County Hospital Sunday morning at 8:30 following a sudden heart attack suffered at her home around 7:30. The funeral rites were conducted at five o’clock on Tuesday afternoon at the Four Oaks Primitive Baptist church. Burial took place in the Four Oaks cemetery. Mrs. Durham, daughter of the late Joseph and Cassie Temple of near Four Oaks, was a native of the county. Surviving besides her husband, James R. Durham, are three daugh ters and five sons, Mrs. W- C. Mun- den, Mrs. Cassie Lee, and Miss Katie Lee Durham, all of Four Oaks, Rt. 3; J. R. Durham, Jr., of Asheville; J. C. Durham of Raleigh, Carlie Durham of Four Oaks, Rt. 3, J. Keith Durham of Hawaiian Islands, and Kenneth Durham of Four Oaks; one brother, J. S. Temple of Four Oaks; three sis ters, Mrs. Robert Massengill, Mrs. Needham Dunn, Mrs. James A. Creech, all of Four Oaks; five grand children and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Fannie Jernigan Dies At Age oJ 70 Benson.—Mrs. Fannie E. Jernigan, about 70, died Wednesday morning at 3:30 o’clock at the home of Junius Moore near Coats. She had made her home with Mrs. H. K. Benson of Raleigh for the past several years. Funeral services -were held at the Red Hill Free Will Baptist church Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, with the Rev. David Capps, pastor, in charge. She had been a member of this church for about 40 years. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. H. K. Benson of Raleigh, and Mrs. Laura Lee of Raleigh, and 11 grand children, and five great-grandchildren. Mrs. D. B. Thomas of Four Oaks Passes Mrs. Bessie Blackman Thomas, 40, wife of David B. Thomas of Four Oaks, Route 3, died in the Johnston County Hospital in Smithfield at 1:30 p. m. Monday after a long illness. Funeral services were held from the graveside in the Dicey Cemetery Tuesday at 2 p. m., 'with thq Rev. Lloyd Vernon of Kenansville, former pastor of the Bethel Free Will Baptist Church, of which she was a member, officiating. She is survived by her husband; two ~,ons; Durwood and Davis Thomas; and one brother, Boyd Blackman of Cherry Point. Mrs. J. Lloyd Holland Of Angler Route 1 Dies Angler.—Mrs. J. Lloyd Holland, 63, of Angler, Route One, died at her home Monday morning at 3:50 o’clock. She had suffered a stroke of paraly sis a week previous’ and had been critically ill since that time. Funeral services were conducted from the residence on Angler, Route One, Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Elder T. Floyd Adams, Primitive Bap tist minister of Willow Springs^offi- ciated and burial was ,in the family cemetery near the home. Mrs. Holland was a member of a Chatham County Free Will Baptist Church. She is survived by her hus band, J. Lloyd Holland; three sons, Brodney, Bennie, and Randolph, of Angler Route One; and six daughters, Mrs. John Denning of Raleigh, Mrs. Harry Owen of Angler, Route Two, Mrs. Millard Young of Angler, Route One; and Misses Lector, Swannie, and Leola of the home. Eighteen grand children also survive. U. S. Nitrogen Output Saves Use of 300 Ships billion Army Supply bill for fiscal 1943. The War Department said men now in Class 1-B because of minor | ed today that this year’s chemical defects will be inducted into limited manufacture of nitrogen in the United New York, July 5.—Officials of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, manufacturers of munitions, estimat- military service under a regular quota system in order to release fully* qualified soldiers for duty with task forces. Only those 1-B’s “who are able to bring to the army a useful voca tion which was followed in civil life” will be called. States will have saved the use of approximately 300 ships—about the same number of ships sunk in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor ■—bringing the natural substance from Chile. Nitrogen is a necessary part of all explosives. 4-H G>unty Council To Give Style Contest The Johnston 4-H county council will meet Friday night, July 10, at 8:30 war time at the Legion Hut in Smithfield, with George Johnson of Four Oaks, the president, presiding. John J. Harris, landscape specialist of State College, will be the guest speaker. He will illustrate his talk with colored slides on home beautifi cation. At this time, the Girls’ Four-H style revue will be presented with about 30 girls taking part. Eighty- three girls participated in the style revues held in the schools in the spring when two girls from each club were chosen to enter the county con test. Friday night, two girls will be selected to represent Johnston county in the State Style Show at State Style Show at State College in Octo ber 3. The style revue entries are as fol lows: Wilson’s Mills—Doris Mitchiner and Marjorie Whitley. Four Oaks—Edith Lee and Ruby Mae Munden. Pine Level—Doris Braswell and Betty Lee’ Massengill. Princeton—Dorothy Lambert and Cleve Denning. Cleveland—Mary Stephenson and Mary Ann Roberson. Benson—Doris Strickland and Lu cille Barbour. Meadow—Edna Earle Johnson and Edna Ruth Parker. Archer Lodge—Myrna Lancaster and Sally Sue Barnes. Glendale—Thera Mae Boyette and Dorothy Stancil. Selma—Iris Worley and Kathleen Starling. Smithfield—^Grace Laughter and Edna Rose Peterson. Micro — Irene Glover and Lila Creech. Kenly—Geraldine Jones and Elgie Scott. Corinth-Holder—Vara Wright. Clayton will also have representa tives. All club members whether officials or not are invited to attend the coun cil meeting. WANTED: WHEAT, COTTON, shelled corn and meat. We will pay highest market price in cash or trade for merchan dise. —Floyd C. Price & Son, Selma, N. C. CONDENSED STATEMENT First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. As of the Close of Business June 30,1942. SMITHFIELD RALEIGH ANGIER NEW BERN CLINTON KINSTON DUNN BENSON LOUISBURG MOREHEAD CITY BEAUFORT ROSEBORO BURGAW CLAYTON PORT BRAGU GRIFTON RESOURCES Cash in Vaults and Due from Other Banks $12,011,9'29.43 U. S. Government Securities $ 5,133,549.96 (Direct or fully Guaranteed) State Bonds 2,978,000.00 Municipal Bonds 3,710,481.45 Federal Land Bank and Other Marketable Securities 1,342,712.30 $13,164,743.71 Less: Reserve 156,155.81 $13,008,587.90 Accrued Interest on Bonds 128,948.55 Loans and Discounts 12,304,428.48 Banking Houses, Furniture and Fixtures (Less Depreciation) 282,436.02 Other Assets 14.00 (Consists of 14 Pieces of Real Estate, carried at $14.00; Appraised Value $36,225.00) JACKSONVILLE FAYETTEVILLE FRANKLINTON SPRING HOPE RICHLANDS $37,736,344.38 LIABILITIES Capital Stock: Preferred $330,000.00 Common 450,000.00 $ 780,000.00 Surplus 1,500,000.00 Undivided Profits 29 761 99 Reserve Account: Preferred Stock Retirement Fund 165 000 00 Reserve Account: Accrued and Unearned Interest Taxes, Insurance and Other Reserve 995 302 gg DEPOSITS 34,265J20.01 ?37,736,344.38 EVERY COURTESY, ATTENTION AND SERVICE CONSISTENT WITH GOOD BANKING ARE THE FACILITIES OFFERED BY THIS INSTITUTION We Serve Eastern Carolina MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
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