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FOR ICTORY BUY UNITED STATES BONDS * STAMPS VOLUMN LXXIII $1.50 per yeur In Advance NUMBER 7 WAR NEWS ' Washington, March 25. ? A daring and successful United Sta tes naval thrust against the Jap anese island outpost of Marcus ? only 990 miles from Tokyo? was announced' today by the Navy, which disclosed that the attack ing forces warmed up for the ambitious venture by smashing at enemy-held Wake Island. In each instance, the Japanese were caught completely off guard ? so much sb thati some prisoners were taken in the Wake raid, which was dedicated to the gal lant Marines who held out there far two weeks before their cap ture last! December. The double-edge assault, made by a task force of carrier-based ers, cost only two American planes ? one in each raid. Little opposition was encoun tered and only a few enemy ships and planes were found in the ureas. Wake was attacked February 24 (Wake time) by air and sur face craft which smashed shore installations, sank two enemy pa trol boat?, shattered three large seaplanes and battered runwaye and defense batteries. Aircraft alone rained 219 bombs on the island which fell to the Japanese December 23. New Delhi, In'dia, March 25. ? Japan reached out (or India by sea tonight, occupying the Anda man Islands in the Bay of Ben gal, barely 500 miles off the Uni ted Nations Ceylon-to-Calcutta supply route, and struck by lani toward the riches of Central Bur ma in heavy figflMng which part ly outflanked the BriMsh-Chinese positions at Toungoo. The government of India dis closed the seizure of the Andaman group, first actual Indian terri tory to go to the enemy, in a communique which said the blow was struck two days ago, Aarch 23 and was not opposed. The small British-Indian defense forces had been withdrawn "some days pre viously." Much of . the population and some of . the convicts in t-he penal settlement on the Islands also wire removed, the communique said. The position of the Andamani had been defenseless since the Ja panese ocupled Malaya, Rangoon and the lower Burmese delta. At tbeir nearest point, the $04 is lands lie but 120 miles from the Burmese mainland. Cape Negrais Attack Bases Their real significance, how ever Ilea in the fact Miat they af ford excellent anchorages ? Port Blair and others ? and air basei for combined sea and air attacki on Calcutta. Ceylon and the vital ship lanes in between. The Andamans are but' S90 miles from the mouth of the Hugli, most Important of the mouths of the Ganges and no) much further from Calcutta it self. It is 800 miles from the is lands to Trincomalee, the British naval station on Ceylon. Moscow. March 25. ? Red army forces tonight were reported bats tling within sight of Staraya Rus sia. trap for the German 16th ar my, and storming their way from house to house through the blast ed suburbs of Stalino ? "City ol Steel" at the other end of the eastern front near the Sea ol Azov. The army publication Red Stat said t'hat the Russian army reduc ing the German forces at Staraya Russa bit by bit now has liberated 150 of the 300 inhabited point! - in that area. Heavy tank unit* leading shock troops of. Marsha; Semyon Timoshenko's southert army were said to be pushing in to Stalino in violent fighting. - (Stockholm advices to Londoi said t-he Rusians began storming the Stalino iron and steel centei five days ago. Guerrillas inside the city dug up arms which they bad hidden when the Germani marched in and are attacking the German garrison in the rear, t'h< reports said). Stalino is 150 miles southeast of Kharkov, another great Uk rainan industrial center to whict the Russians have been laying siege, and 70 miles north of t-he Sea of Azov. ? Terror Campaign The German occupation forcei we're accused of waging a terrot campaign against civilians In the Smolensk area, burning 90 vil lages and 'slaying "unconquer able" peasants by the hundreds as the Russians drove closer to that big base. Washington, March 25. ? PreS-f ident- Roosevelt tonight ordered the Congressional Medal of Hon or awarded to General Douglas MacArthur (or "conspicuous gal lantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty" for his heroic defense of the Philippines. The annouacemeaL waaL jnada in a special War Department communique which said Mr. Roosevelti directed that the pre sentation be made by the United States Minister to Australia, Nel son B. Johnson. Announcement of the award was radioed to Major General' Richard K. Sutherland, who is MacArthur's chief of staff. Suth erland accompanied MacArthur [The Philippines to take supreme | command of the united forces in Australia and the southwest' Pa | ciflc. The award is the fouth made by the President during the cut*" | rent war. In a citation accompanying it, the War Department called atten . tlon to MacArthur's "conspicuous ,j leadership" in preparing the i Philippines to resist conquest and to his "gallantry and intrepedlty" in action againsti the invading i; Japanes forces as well as his of fensive operations on Bataan Pen I insula. Munitions Convoy Asked as Explos ion Probe Ends Smlthfleld. March 25. ? ltecom- 1 mendatlons that all shipments of munitions over the highways of Nort-li Carolina In the future be convoyed either by the Army or i the State Highway Patrol and be accompanied by a representative i ' of the United State? were made, by a coroner's jury here t-hls af ternoon as they wrote the final ' ' chapter In the explosion near Sel ' ma that claimed the lives of seven persons on the morning of March I 7. ' The jury ended its delibera tions with the declaration that ? "effective action by competent authorities would have lessened 1 if not prevented the tragic loss of ' life and property ttiat accrued ! 1 from the explosion." ' A report which found "no per ' son or persons criminally liable" ' and which did not recommend that any one be held for further investigation by the grand jury was filed with Dr. E. N. Booker, Johnston Cofinty coroner. The Jury, which first met on the morning of the explosion of ' the munitions-laden truck on the , Smithfleld-Selma highway', had been Instructed to determine "who was dead, how they met their death, and who was to be held responsible for their deaths." - The report went on to state: "We find that neither of the two employes In charge of the munitions truck were familiar with explosives; Uiat neither had been instructed as to the nature. . type, or potential power of the . munitions; that> the driver had . never before transported ammu nition of any sort; that- the truck , was not convoyed, and no member . of the U. S. armed forces accom . panted t-he shipment, which was , being transported over the hlgh > ways of J^orth Carolina without adequate safeguards." The Investigating body request . ed that t<he recommendations of Governor Broughton, made a I short time after the tragedy, be , followed In the future. Governor , Broughton had recommended that) I the Army and Navy either pro , vide convoys for shipments of . munitions or notify the State so that such shipments could be con , voyed by the State Highway Pa , trol. o . . Patronize TIMES Advertisers ' PROGRAM AT THE ; LOUISBURO THEATRE The following Is the program 1 at the Loulsburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, March 28tih: i| Saturday ? Roy Rogers in "Man [ From Cheyenne" and John How j ard In "Tragedy At Midnight." Also Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. Sunday ? Fred McMurray and Marlene Deltrlch In "The Lady Is Willing." Tuesday ? Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake in "Blondle Goes To College." Wednesday ? Joe E. Brown la "Shut My Big Mouth." Thursday-Friday ? Gene Tler iney and Henry Fonda In "Rings | On Her Fingers." Two More Ships Sunk by U-Boats 29 Survivors Landed At Southport; Wilmington Man Tells of Torpedoing Norfolk, Va., March 25. ? Con tinuing their intensive campaign against Allied merchant shipping Atlantic Coast, A*ia sub marines blasted a medium sized American vessel into a V-shaped derelict early Saturday morning, sending her Captain E. V. Peters, of New York, to almost certain death. The other 36 crew members es caped in four life boats, eight crewmen in '.two boats were pick ed up by a rescue ship after nine hours adrift and were landed at Wuifulfc. -* ? "~*?i ? - ? ' Another ship rescued 29 others and took them ashore at South port, N. C., the Fifth Naval Dis trict' said in announcing the sink ing today. First Mate Christian A. Hansen of Wilmington, N. C. told news men he believed Captain Peters was lost. Fell Into Water "He tried to leitp from a ladder into No. 2 lifeboat," Hansen re lated. The sea was choppy and car-j ried the boat away from the ship. ! The captain fell iuto the water be-1 tween the ship and Mie boat. The captain was a good swimmer but the sea was covered with heavy I fuel oil. You can't swim in that.' It paralyzes you. "We never saw the captain again. We heard him holler 'Here I am' and we yelled, 'We' are coining.' But' by the time \v c I could row back toward the ship there was no sign of the caplaln."] Court Closes The regular April - term of Franklin Superior Civil Court came to a close Saturday after a Jury failed to agree in the case of A. H. Fleming va R. B. Mitchell. Upon the failure to agree the Court ordered a mistrial. The remainder of the docket was as follows: A mistrial was made in t-he case of A. H. Fleming vs R. B. Mitchell Involving a question of storage charges in the rental of a storage warehouse. A divorce was granted Jean nette Blackwell Hatton from her husband Joe C. Hatton. A divorce was granted Ruth Yergln from her husband Mar cus Yergln. A number of judgments were signed In smaller clvlt actions. B Men 45 To 64 Will Register On April 27 Washington. March 20. ? The government late yesterday order ed the oldest group of men under the selective service law ? 45 to 64 Inclusive ? to register on April 27, for possible non-combatant service In the future. The new registration date pro claimed by President Roosevelt will leave only one group not yet recorded, those of 18 and 19 years. Estimates of t-he total reg istration for the 45-64 age group range around 15,000,000. While none of these compara tive oldsters will be taken Into the figbt4ng forces, there is the possibility that some or many of them will be assigned eventually to essential war work. Brigadier Oeneral Lewis B. Hershey has saidthat one purpose of the draft! law was an "accurate and sys tematic appraisal" of the supply of man power. Testifying before a House com mittee last month. Hershey assert ed that "we must have much more control over placements of men than we now have to meet the war manpower problem." It> was noted, however, that there is no existing law to compel a work or-fight policy. ? o ? SENIOR PLAY The FRANKLIN TIMES is re quested to state that the Senior Class of Bunn High School will present a play "Hiidie- in the Hills" on April 2nd, at 8:46 o'clock in the high school audi torium at Bunn. A small admis sion will be charged for the bene fit of the class expenses. tj Despite a shortage of labor and other drawbacks. Wayne County farmers are not neglect ing terracing their land, reports D. J. Murray, assistant farm agent. MATERIALS BEING MOVED TO BUTNER Army of Workers Growing As Contractors Prepare For Full Speed The growing Army of workers at Camp BUtner labored beneath a bright March sun and in a stiff wind yesterday as another step was token toward putting the construction' program into high gear. A store of building materials is being accumulated on the can tonment site as train cars on the -Suuiiham. ^Hallway and fleets, ot trucks haul lumber, and other materials to the scene prepara tory to the construction of ap proximately 1700 buildings. A comparatively small number of workers are being employed on the project at the present time, pending the completion of work organizations and the placing of supplies of materials which will permit uninterrupted work on the structures. Heavy machinery continues to work on the roads, railroads and building sites. Rain brought a work stoppage for^a couple of days last week on the railroad project, but operations were re sumed Monday. Vehicles carrying workers to the project- are being required to operate at moderate speeds over the approaches. Some time will lie required to cut and grade the principal road into the camp site. This will be- located between the two roads now in use. one enter ing by Cozart and the other by I Lyon Station. ? Oxford Ledger. o ? *>11 I'ay I>ny, Buy Bonds? LIEUTENANT LUMPKIN I MAHINH PljVBn^ -Boaond. Lieut. George T. Lumpkin, of Loiiishurg. wtio just' received his reserve commission in the Marine Corps. Lieutenant Lumpkin was transferred from the Rqlelgh Navy recruitings-station on July 7,1 1941, to the Naval Reserve Aviatoin Base at AManta, Ga., where he began the intensive training of an aviation cadet. He was sent to the Jacksonville Air Station for further training and thru to the Miami Air Station wherfe he received his commission as a Marine aviator on March 20. Lieutenant Lumpkin is the broth er of Suite Senator W. L. Lump kin. The young flyer is a 1941 ! I graduate of Louisburg College and had 100 CAA primary andj second hours of flying time be fore entering naval ih-lution. - Lieut. Lumpkin is now at homel on 15-day furlough. During 1941. life insurance' companies purchased more than $80.1,000,000 of bonds of factor-1 ies and industrial plants of Am erica. 35% more "than in 19401 and twice the 1939 total. Franklin Cfcunty 'Salvage for Victory' Committee Makes Splendid Showing At' a meeting of the Franklin County Salvage for Victory Com mittee. It wan reported that 237.300 pounds of metal had heen gathered and put Into t-he chan nel! of commerce, and in addition to this, approximately 10,000 pound* of waHte paper has heen collected and will be deposed of at an early date. White I bin Is a good beginning. | lb hardly touched the surface of what can be done If every cltlxen In Franklin County will be on the lookout for scrap metal, waste paper, old rags and old rubber. [ At this season of the year the farmers are especially requested to watch carefully as they break their lands for any scrap metal which might he used. If this metal is collected at the home, then It can easily be put into t-he proper channels. Although there, are yet some members to be added to Franklin County Committee, t-he following have been doing very effective work: W. O. I.ambcrth and J. D. Morris for Harris Township; P. C. Mitchell, Youngsvllle Town ship; Fred Rlount. Prankllnton Township; J. T. Griffin, llayes ville Township: N. M. Griffin, (Centervllle) Sandy Creek Town ship; R. M. Griffin, Gold Mine Township; L. H. Dickens, White Level Community; Stalling* Gin. , Cedar Rock Community; K. J.' 'Wheless. Justice Community; and Arthur Strickland. Seven Paths Wonimunlty. In addition' to the 'above. W. C. Royce. I)r. A. Paul Itaghy, K. J. Cheatham. Elton Mitchell and G. M. Ream, Chair man. are members of t-he general committee. Profits from this galvago are being donated to the various or ganization in the community from which M*e salvage Is derived and these org?nlzat4ons are now en-| doavoring to see that Franklin i County does ltlf'Hart In every way to put this salvage into use. A Chance To Be Like Other Kids Important In the general program supported by Easter Seals for crippled children is the provision of play opportunities for little fellows like the one pictured above. Buy Seals from your school and the Welfare Department. SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS LEARN FROM EXPERIMENTS TO THE EDITOR: ? ? In addition to my experi ments with coating old tires with hitinnitious cement and sand, |>nt on at 3S23 degrees, tiie students at Webber College are making some even more valuable tests ' - . I Two of the girls are driving i an old Kuril with 21" wheels, without any rubber. They have , welded 4" iron bands on the four rims after having taken off tiie tires. Slightly con vexing these bands and welding same on both sides gives a spring to the iron tires. .They drive com fortably at 85' miles per hour. Some girls who huve only two good tires, continue to uso two rubber ones: lyut also two iron tires. A third good rubber one tlioy are using as a spare tire. They have a modern ear with small wheels. These wheels they have built up with wooden bloeks to 22", capping the same with iron bands like an old wagon wheel. They also are making another experiment with a rim filled with cement. Young women readers of your paper should write Web l>er College, Habson Park, Florida for a free report upon this "Itubberless Tire Project." lUKiKK W. BABSON. Band Concert Quito a Rood sized crowd gath ered at the Court house Wednes day afternoon and enjoyed a de-l llghtful hand concert given by the Mills High School Hand, under i leadership of Prof. Jlmroie Byerly. Quitv a nuinher of popular num ber* were rendered and their rendition exhibited much excel lent talent masterly guided and instructed. The hand is doing fine. The hand is expected to visit Raleigh today for check up ex ercise hy one of the big boys iu Baudom, f Fountain Visits Louisburg Mr. R. T. (Dick) Fountain, of Rocky Mount, former Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, and now a candidate for the U. S. Senate agalhst Senator Josiah W. Railey, was a visitor to I.oulsburg Tuesday, shaking the hands of former friends, voters and inci dentally Informing them' he was a candidate. He said he should he elected because he was a strong advocate of the. pVesent administration and New Deal pol icies. and that he would he more of an eastern Carolina represen tative than htB opponent. Board of Elections At a meeting of t+ie State' Board of Elections held in Ral eigh Saturday. Messrs. Phil R. Inscoe, R 1. Castalla, L. O. Fraz- ; ler, R 1, Henderson, and Bland.1 0. Mitchell, of Youngsvllle, were ' re-appointed as a Board of Elec tion! for Franklin County for the ensuing two years. The County Board will meet on the seventh Saturday before the primary (April 11th) for the pur pose of organizing and appointing the registrar and Judges of elec tion for the several precinct* for 1 holding the primary and general ilioUwi. I1 We've got Axis to grind. Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps. o I Not Invincible Berlin (From German Broad- 1 rusts ) , March 24. ? The Japa nese were warned today by a Navy spokesman that Japan "now Is on the defensive;" that the United Nations have taken the offensive and may at- < tempt to assault Nippon from 8 aircraft carriers and island bases alike. As quoted by the German ra dio, Capt. Hildeo Hiralde, writ ing in the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri, acknowledged that Japan is not invincible and urged that she strike out for Australian and Indian Ocean bases in preparation "for fu ture wholesale military opera tions.".. He said: "Defense alone . . . cannot win the victory. Japan must therefore win the present war in all circumstances by offen sive measures." The Japanese navy for one, , he added, "is prepared for its big ta$k and determined to break enemy influence In the Pacific and Indian oceans." Babson Says They Will Benefit From Rationing1 By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park. Mass.. March 27. ? I am greatly interested in our small cities and towns through out the country. Due to the de centralisation of industry which is now going on and to other fac tors, they have a great future. Now, with tire rationing. they should immedi ately benefit' pro vided the local merchants wake 'awn RABSOX *u P~ Thrj'Ts' a 1 clear case of one man's poison being another man's meat! THK BACK TO THE FARM BUG More and more city people are looking for small good farms. Even the suburbanites are mov ing "further out." The motives are: a desire to "get1 away from it all," iifcJUih to live more sim ply, to cut VpcUM and to bring up the children in a healthier environment. Certainly our_ chil dren and grandchildren miss much in wholesome training which many of us oldsters receiv ed from doing t-he simple chores which farm life provides. I get many letters from readers asking advice about buying a farm. It's okay if you can afford it! But there is no living in it unless you are willing to do a hard day's work. However, this distinct' mi gration from city to rural locali ties has considerable economic sisniticunce. ? Many city people who purchase farm properties will bid prices up and gel royally stuck. Further more, they are apt- to think the first cost is the last. They will miss the modern conveniences of their former homes and. In the majority of instances, put far more into t-heir farm than they will eVer be able to take out. -They will find ? mortgage ? money hard lo get; ? not because local hanks do not want to .lend, but because Hie average "going farm" is spoiled by too many improve ments. If a bank is obliged to foreclose, it - usually finds the property useless for the practical working farmer and must wait its chance to resell to another "city lilrk." TRANSPORTATION A FACTOR Thte country Is no full of en terprise and Inventive genius that when one Industry or process goes out of business, two or n\ore rise to take Its place. Washing ton thought thit slapping down oil tires would conserve gasoline. It will to some extent hut we won't go without transportation. Already one of my friends has announced a new process for mak ing Mres that uses only 2% of rubber. I cannot Imagine this ~iii.il] amount of crude or repro cessed rubber being refused to him. ' My prediction is that plen ty of new tires of some kind will come on the market later and be available to everyone. If for no other reason, they will come be cause they are needed by our 48.000 small^cltles and towns without other means of transpor tation. Our city cousins are okay on* transportation anyway After all, they have street cars, busses, and subway, elevated and steam rail roads to ride on. Furthermore. I heir shopping centers are mainly within walking distances and they can do wlt'h the exercise. In Bos ton, apartments are now being opened in office buildings In the heart of the financial and insur ance district. For families with out children, there is a growing tendency to live as close to the |ob as possible. This is nothing new to farm and country folks. But this latter group have acquir ed the bad habit of shopping out if town. This bids fair to change. LOCAL STOREKEEPERS TO BENEFIT While we may soon have plenty )f tires, their quality will be poor ind their cost will be high. Hence, :ountry people will have to con lerve their tires even more than ilty residents who at least gain he benefits of smooth pavements or driving. No longer will rural -esidents drive to the large cen ters to trade. Instead, they will [gain patronize the nearest stlre vhere they used to ljuy before hey went "high hat". I am cer ainly bullish on the little local ;eneral store. It should take on i new lease of life and again be he center of activity in Its com nunity. I- hope that the owners of such itores will stock up. brush up, ind wake up! They have an op portunity now to give such good lervice as will enable them to lold their trade after World War I is over! Certainly, there will >e changes in rural buying Jutbits (Continued on Pace El<ht>)
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