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A WEEK OF WAR • • • • V Production Director Nel gon peiikir.fr in New York City, sail •• Vmerica’s industrial plans is' y< illy beginning t<> roll.” He gaj,! plane production schedules f0 | first three months of this yea have been met or exceed e(j production of tanks is a hea schedule. iji \ Ison said production of me ships is “Rising rapid.• jyO th year’s sehedtde shouht be \ (larand rifle is now a-' ygj ,, for "every one of our com. bai is who is supposed to jjg., he said. Production ge) for anti-aircraft ami a:: ti-i frans also are being m u. g<, i. "This is no time for ga- ••limism,” he stated, "Re gal production of war goods jg age a job we can break gg, ord wo ever made md gtj slu.rt of the need.” ■ '| uate passed and sent to th, il legislation to set up a |ji illioti smaller war plants ee: r, tinder the War I’rn. (Ji, B’.inl. The corporation ff(. tain contracts from Clov er: procurement agencies and re : them to small enterpris es. ng the orders into suh-1 where necessary. Cr.11.1 \ N Sl'PPLY S’| WPB ruled persons buying toothpaste, or <having cream in ■tnhf's must utrn into the retail, ors some kind of tin or tin-conlod title for each new one purchar 1 he Board troze sales ami deliv eries of all new bicycles for ad ults, including those already or dered and paid for. Red Cross lo cal chapters began collection of 'tile extra cloth made available by! | lbe elimination of cuffs from ap proximately b() million pairs of I trousers now on hand in stores. I The salvage clip will make about | •MOO,OOP new suits. The Board ordered production I l of coyer caps ,d' tinplate or tei noplate, used as closures for cat -up. jelly, et' . stopped immediate ly ami id' crown caps for bottled 0 !' and soft drinks stopped April Hi. Production of fluorescent light' ing fixtures was also ordered end ed immediately; id' vacuum clean-1 ers. April MO; and toys and games made id' metal, plastic and other essential materials. June MO. The Boanl curtailed use. of crude rub i her and latex in 50 articles, in eluding fire and mill hose, storage11 batteries, etc. i PRIORITY ORDER COM PLIANCE The \YPB reported investiga tions of 1 1.000 firms for complain-j G&W FIVE STAR H.NltX $2.15 quart c<’ "ith priority orders have been undertaken since last .June. Ite l,0lts have been completed on 3,. :,0(l fil™s, tile Board said, an.i of these 1,600 showed no violations while approximately the same number reported minor violations through misunderstandings. The reports '(.suited in 35 suspension orders, affecting- 46 firms and one individual. Thirteen Federal agep-! civs an(| more than B.500 investi-1 gatoi' are cooperating with the Board- in the surveys. PRICES I he Oifirc of Price Administra tion froze manufacturers’, whole sale iii’il retail prices of plumb’ng March .'.in levels. Ceilings were also set on wholesale prices of hond, ledger, hook and plain and ■ lancy cover paper and Bristols, I iu;d on producers’ quotations for Pennsylvania anthracite coal. The Agriculture Department said the! I ''tail cost of food is now la per-! cent above the 1935-3!) average,1 II Lit is still below the 1929 lev-' CIVILIAN DEFENSE Civilian Defense Director Lan-! dis said Axis air raids on Amor-1 ican war industries this Spring are “entirely possible.” He said. “It s worth a dozen bombers to the Germans to wreck vital in dustries, even in the heart of the country.” Mr. Landis said $20 million of OCT) funds have been; transferred to build facilities for j manufacture of civilian gas masks. First shipments of helmets, irm bands and other equipment for ait raid wardens and auxiliary fire-1 men and police were sent to more \ than In Atlantic and Pacific coast cities. THE ARMED FORCES The Senate passed and sent tu' the House a hill granting pay in-' creases D'om $30 to $42 for p>-i-' votes and apprentice seamen, and providing proportional increases ! for other classes of enlisted men i in the armed orces. The Post Of.. ! l'ice department issued regulations for granting of free first ilass j mailing privileges for all ranks . of the armed forces. The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill eliminating restrictions on iHfairT* nit ■ f Sinclair SuperFlame Fuel Oil. It’s always uniform in quality and gives maximum usable beat per gallon. By signing a Sinclair SuperFlame Fuel Oil contract now you can protect yourself against rising prices next winter. Phone us for full derails. distributed by E. VV. PARKER WELDON, N. C. COLLIER’S SERVICE STATION WELDON, N. C, A lilfIS SERVICE STATION JACKSON, N. C. WELDON MOTORS, Inc. WELDON, N. C. I I-MONDS service STA. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. V. I. MOHORNE BRINKLEYVILLE, n. c. , ./■!• P. CRAWLEY ANDERSON’S X ROADS, N. C. EUGENE LASSITER LASKER, N. C. \V. J. DEBERRY CONWAY, N. C., R. F. U. R. G. FUTRELL CREEKSVII LE, N. 0. Ml RRAY’S SINCLAIR SER ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. C. L. KELLY AUREUAN SPRINGS, N. C. R. W. LONG LASKER, N. C. TILLERY MUTUAL ASSN. TILLERY, N. C. F. 15. COOKE TILLERY, N. C. ELMORE WILKERSON TILLERY, N. <J. II. T. HANCOCK SPRING HILL, N. C. JACK WALKER HALIFAX, N. C., R. F. 0. .1. T. MIZE LEE PALMYRA, N. C. JOHN PARKS JACKSON, N. C., R. F. D. P. A. BULLOCK SEABOARD, N. C. marriage of Arm* and x4yv 1" ■ during the war. I h« I’m dent -igned legislation to ^ , 'h,. War Department to meruit American technicians serving- in foreign armec) forces and to pay them more than S21 a month dur ing the first four months. The Navy Department -aid f meetings have been arranged in i do states between April !) and 17 I to adquaint educators with the Navy officer procurement pro. j gram under which 80,000 college freshman and sophomores will be recruited annually. The students j will he enlisted as aprentice s>;u I men and allowed to remain i j school at least to the end of th.■ ; second year. About .‘Id,000 will be I selected each year for furth •: | training leading to commissions .is j I'.nsigns in the Nava! Reserve. i he House passed and se.ir to the Senate an $18 billion War ap propriation bill providing almost 87 billion for military airplanes. 'The Senate passed and sent t> the I House a Naval Public Works bill to provide a billion dollalr.- for expansion in aircraft and sior : age facilities. The W ar Depait | ment ruled officers and enlisted 1 men. except those of the regular I army, may Campaign for and hold | political office, if such activity does not interfere with military duties. Selective Service Head, quarters instructed local boards to start classification of Fcliruaiy : Hi registrants, and to prepare to fill the Army’s dune call -- and | possibly the May call - from pies* men and the earlier registrants.! SIS headquarters also issued in structions to all local hoards .' u registration of an estimated 500,000 men between 45 and ,;1 On April 27. THE WAR FRONT The Navy reported as of April 4, total Japanese losses in'lisle.1 by U. S. Naval forces included 21 warships sunk, 14 possibly sunk an,| 22 damaged; 4S non-combat ant ships sunk, 1 1 possibly sunk and 14 damaged. The Army ami Navy said .Axis submarines sunk or preseumed unk by the Navy totaled 24, and those by tip. Army number four. Assistant Seeleiary of War for Air Lovett said L. S. pilots in the Far East are s'r| Ping down five Japanese planes f r every plane lost. The forces of l.t. ten. Wain, weight in the Philippine* repel’.,' I several enemy attacks by kind, sea and air on Bataan Renin ala and Oorregidor Island with heavy Japanese losses. Japanese bam', ers sank the U. S. Aircraft ti nder Langley, the Destroyer Peary at 1 the Navy Tanker Pecos in ■ v Southwest Pacific, with an esti mated loss of 700 men. The Nsvv ■reported the torpedoing of more United Nations mnehun: vessels in the Atlantic. SHIPPING , The Maritime Commission im ported all contracts have been, a warded for the 24 million dead weight tons of merchant shippi- •; —nearly 2.400 cargo ships and tankers—which the President 1 -> 3w! t!tu Ip ]• 43 g j| i tia Si-r.iite parsed and netuined ■'ai- ii ; provision, of the Mer chant .Marino .-Vet to allow insur ance of foreign a- well as domestic I ships. AGRICULTURE I he Department of Agriculture **id it had purchased moi> than $80h million worth of farm com modities, totaling more than 7,500 million pound*. during the In : year of the Department's expand ed purchase program -. March 15, r.'ll t/ March 15, 104:1. More than half of all purchases were for j local, dairy and poultry products. I Mosl purchases were tor loud-least i shipment. , The Agriculture Department re ported prices of all farm produces eomhined were 99 per cent of pari ty on March 15, 1942 and 4(1 per | cent above the 1909-14 average. : The Commodity Credit Corporation ; reported it has contracted for the jsale, during the period ending April j hn, of about '5,500,000 bushels of corn and about 240,000 bushels of wheat to be processed into indus trial alcohol. I Drying CM Vegetables, HAULING Call W-512-1 - FOR - Local and Long Distance Hauling QUICK PICK-UP CAREFUL DRIVERS PRO M P T DELI V E K V WELDON TRUCKING CO. WELDON. NORTH CAROLINA Motorist BILLION miles a year 5,000 Expected To Vote Approximately r>.00'» North Ca rolina wheat producers are expect ed to vote in tile marketing' quota r<deremlur.i n Saturday, May 2nd according t" V,. Hi rbc-rt Whit". •' '•‘Well Count;, farmer ami a member o:' the Statu AAA Com mittee. I his will he the second succes sive year North Carolina wheat growers have voted on imuketng quotas, approval having' been giv en last year by a majority of s per cent. Quotas were proclaimed on !h tt'lti crop by Secretary of Agri culture Claude R. Wiekard aftiu it became apparent that It) 12-1 t supplies would exceed greatly the marketing' quota level set by law*. To be in effect, quotas must be approved by at least a two thirds majority in a national refen-e tlUHI. Hie 11)42.4 national vm-at supply is estimated at 1,12N.P00. 000 bushels on a basis of a .July 1. 11M2, carryover of 635,000,0000 bushels and a 1042 crop of TtKl, 000,000 bushels. This is the great est supply cm record, nearly 100, OO.ooo bushel more than a year ago. Ally wheat grower wha lias planted more than 15 acres and whose normal production is 2(>o bushels or more is eligible to vote in the rcel'endum. Voting pine, will he announced by county AAA officials. Mr. White pointed out that the quota psogratn thi > eai is - ib stantially the same as last year. Quotas do not apply to farms on which not more than 15 acre - of wheat is planted for harvest or on which the normal production is less than 200 bushels. The normal or actual produc J tion of farms’ allotted acre age may be marketed free of penalties. Kxcess wheat, unless stored under bond, is subject to a marketing penalty of 50 percent of the basic loan rate, he said. --- MILLIONS OF POPPIES TO BE WORN MAY 23rd. Poppy Day, May 2d w:P see more Americans than <ver »»«-.. wear ling p o p p id. .' in tribute to the na ition’s war dead. poppy orders pass im.' ‘hrwigh the \nierican Legion Xuxiliary's national headquarters indi • ite. 11 is es; i mated that 1 oim.eoo popies ma.;e f<*r the Aux iliary by di-abled war veterans will | be worn <>n Poppy Day. Funds from this year’s poppy sale will be used for the needy families of men in the present war, as well as veterans of Wmld War. X«>. 1. Heavy increase in the welfare work of the Legion and -Auxiliary, which is largely sup. ported by P ’pPy Day contributions is expected to result in added in terest. Already tue Legion Auxil iary are helping today's service linen and their families o met their problems. Making of t be poppies das given hundreds of disabled veterans •nt during the w inter, and inis will continue through April and part of May. Pop] . de in govermnent hospitals in all parts of the country and in conval escent workrooms maintained by the Auxiliary. They will be Ft i - - tribute*! on Poppy Day y an ar ■> of more than L'd.nuo Aaxiliey volunteers. The oiitdooj pan should l*e of wire netting, cheese cloth covered, and slanted to the dire-: min. Drying also can be done in traym on can vus or on non-rasiimus boards *>n a slanting roof. Forsyth County farmers have placed more than ldfl dairy ani mals from their farms this spring, reports S. R. Mi'.chiner, assistant farm agent of tue X. C. State College Kxtension Service. Eighteen Babies Smothered To Death In February I: A LEIGH — Of till- III. ■ .*; t!) i t :* under a year old who died in Nin - th Carolina during February. IS smotIn )ed death wnil. leeping with parents, according to reimris made to the State Board id' If alia About 75 such den; no.- ,. ,, he Stat,. annually, most of t in wintertime. !■<■ rnary deaths Iroin inf'Iuenga totaled only Is. as compared with - ' i I'.'ll. while pneumonia deaths f,,r the month dropped from .'122 to 2-.!. Measie- claimed II victim . a ".must 2 in February last From January 1 through tin .-h 11, 111 12. there u re lll.sb.u <d measles reported in Nnfth i ;■ rolina, against 2.2 b; during the corre.-ironding per. -d of last year and 1,070 in l'lln. The dis-aa.-. on the upsurge this year, is scat tered throughout til" state. Suicides are temjiorarily on the decrease, there having been only 15 reported last month, against 25 in Ft .■.;. ' rides for There were 28 reported in Fe - ruary last year. Reports for the year thr sigh February -how that ai average of 235 bus! ds were bon each (iav. while daily deaths iver aged 89. Prelim saiy High naming for cadet t undidates is c-ondueted at one of Id naval reserve aviation bases located throughout the U i:ite,! States. The Navy's vast i.ew Class Y-l program is designed t., enlist Ml, (Hld college men a year for future duty as deck and engineering i f fieers, flu ht officers and reser vists with the fleet for general ser\He. 7o Relieve Misery of LITTLETON, N. C. Week of April 13th MONDAY. TUESDAY (it-iu* Tioriu*\-Victor Mature SHANGHAI GESTURE Admission—Children Oc. All adults down stairs 2.n\ l»alcnn> 20c, in^ eluding tax. WKDNKSi) VA Mast Side Kids FLYING WILD Admission -- Mternoon and Ni^ht Qc and 20c. including new lax. THURSDAY and FRIDAY Weaver tiros. and Klvirv TUXEDO JUNCTION Admission—-Children 9c. All adults clown stairs 25c. Balcoin 20c, in cluding tax. SATURDAY Kill Klliotl . Tex Kilter ROARING FRONTIER DO YOU KNOW ? . . . YOLR HOME is worth more toda\ than in the past 20 years. 11' you are not Evilly protected, let us help vou get the necessary protection. Weldon Insurance Agency, Inc. STERLING B. PIERCE. See. and Manager insurance Of All Kinds WELDON, N. C.
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