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LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1043
(Eight Pages)
NUMBER T
ANOTHER
BLACKOUT
SUCCESS '
Only One Slip
At End
Thursday Night of Last
Week Shows Greater Co
operation ;Last Handicap
To Be Eliminated; Chief
Warden Barrows Issues
Letter
It was more than gatifytng to
the residents of Louisburg and
especially the Wardens and their
assistants, when on Thursday
night of last1 week the Second
Blackout was so greatly cooper
ated in and came out with such
united success. The only slip
that has been mentioned so far
was in the last blue signal,
through misunderstanding or lack
of sufficient assistance the street
lights were turned on just before
time for the all lear or last sig
nal.
Chief Warden Barrow says he
will arrange for more assistance
at tljis point of control.
Lbuisburg was really blacked
out at this time. There was no
movement and all places were
dark. From this angle it would
been hard for an enemy to ascer
tain they were near a point of
centralized population.
Of course the date of this back
out was set and was known by
all, only the hour being a matter
of secrecy. With the present ex
perience and knowledge of what
and when to do it is probable
that a surprise blackout would
meet with full success. The peo
ple are becoming more safety
minded.
Mr. W. ?.- ?Barrew, -Chief Air
Raid Warden, in his effort to get
? the people of this district fully
informed as to the rules has 13
sued the following letter:
"This letter is being written
for your information, with refer
ence to future Practice Blackouts,
and you are urgently requested
to read and memorize the signals
given here, which are as follows:
"1st. Where possible, the first
signal given will be to have the
lights blinked three times short
ly before the Blue Warning or
one long Blast on the City Siren.
This will mean for you to get on
duty or your place of patrol.
"2nd. When the Blue Warn
ing or one lo?g blast on the siren
comes the lights are all supposed
to be turned off; but allowing
cars and pedestrians to continue
moving, cars to use only dim
lights.
"3ra. When the Red Warning
or a series of Short or Waving
Blasts on the Siren comes: All
traffic stops, both cars and pe
destrians; all Lights Out.
"4th. When the Blue Warn
ing comes all lights are to remain
out, pedestrians to leave shelter
and resume activity, cars and oth
er traffic will be allowed to move
with dim lights only; you are to
remain on duty.
"5th. Is the All Clear Signal
which will be indicated by the
street lights being.<<tnrndA on. This
will also be announced a?er ra
dios for the accommodation of
those fttdoors. You are then to
leave your post t.nd resume your
private duties.
"In the event of an Air Raid
during the daytime the only sig
nals you will have will be long
blast on the siren, your duties
then are to see that all traffic is
stopped and pedestrians are to
take cover and remain Indoors
or under cover until the All
Clear ? Another long blast on
Siren. >
"Siren. The Air. Raid gignals
can be distinguished from Fire
Signals because all Fire Signals
will be given by two or more long
blasts on the City Siren."
?On Pay Day, Buy Bonds?
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SAVE WAR NEWS
ARTICLES
Franklin County citizens are
requested to clip all news arti
cles concerning Franklin Coun
ty's part in the war* effort, with
date and name of publication,
? from the start of the war in
Europe until the war's end ?
from old or current newspa
pers, magazines or other publi
cations and send them to Mr*.
Ben Holden, Louisburg, N. C.
These articles will be made
Into a srrapbook by the North
Carolina Daughters of the
American Revolution and will
be preserved by the State His
torical Commission.
Mrs. Hidden to historian for
the Major Green fllll Chapter
D. A. R.
Maj. J. A. Wheless Began Army
Career In Artillery Unit
?? iimn nini1 iinl ? ? him??
MAJOR WHELESS
Major James A. Wheless. com
manding officer of the main re
j cruiting and induction station in
j Charlotte, began his military ca
reer in 1933, when he received
i his commission as second lieuten
I ant of Battery "B", 113th field
1 artillery. . . -
He was promoted to first lieu
| tenant on July 31, 1939, and
transferred to headquarters' bat
| tery, first battalion, 113th field
artillery at Youngsville, N. C., as
\ executive officer.
Called to active duty on Sep
tember 16, 1940, Major Wheless
was sent to Fort Sill Okla., to
take an officers' specialist course.
He then returned to Fort Jack
son, S. C., in February, 1941,
where he assisted with the organ
ization of the 30th division
I school of communication. He
served as an Instructor until May,
1941, at which time he was made
battery commander of headquar
ters' battery, 113th field artillery
; battalion on the 30th division.
I Maj. Wheless was promoted to
I a captaincy on August 11, 1 941,
jand commanded headquarters'
battery until July 28, 1942, at
which time he was transferred to
the Fourth service command and
[ >vdered to the Charlotte recruit-;
! and Induction district as as
i i;tant to Col. Harry A. Weils,
district recruiting and induction
? officer.
! , Major Wheless received his ma
jority last November 13 and was
placed in charge as commanding
officer of the local station on Jan
uary 10. where recruiting also
includes the procurement of
WAACs, aviation cadets and en
; listed reserve corps.
Major Wheless is a native of
I Louisburg, N. C., and was educa
ted at Wake Forest College. His
wife, the former Lena Christian
! Morrison, is a member of an old
and prominent family of Moore
county, being the daughter of the
late John C. Morrison. Major
Wheless held a civil service posi
tion for 17 years, up to the time
he was called to active duty last
September.
Major and Mrs. Wheless ex
press themselves as delighted
with Charlotte and Charlotte peo
ple, and since moving here last
August have been residing at 24
Grandin road. They have two
children, James A., Jr., age nine
years, and Ann Morrison, age.
four. ? Charlotte Observer.
OPA FIXES MEAT ALLOWANCES
Point Prices Also Set Up For Butter,
Lard and Cheese
16 Points Per Week, Per
Person; Relatively Liber
al Ration Plan Goes Into
Effect Monday
Washington, March 24. ? Dis
closure today o? coupon values of
meat showed that Americans will
be allowed, starting Monday to
buy a maximum of two pounds
of steak or 3 1-2 pounds of ham
burger per person per week un
der rationing.
Actually, most people will buy
less because they will want to
use some of the same coupons for
butter, lard, cheese or canned
fish. They will have 16 points
to spend per week at an average
coupon cost of 8 points per
pound for the whole group of
foods.
A typical budget probably will
be per person, two pounds of
meat plus perhaps a quarter
pound of butter and a quarter
pound of cheese. A whole pound
of butter calls for eight points.
OPA said the "rations are rel
atively more liberal than the ra
tions for processed foods," but
the impact will vary sharply in
each family. Families that have
liked and been able to afford to
eat a lot of meat may find their
rations only a fraction of their
customary purchases, but in some
j)t the poorest classes, the ration
may exceed what families may be
-able to afford.
HALF OF FOODS
ON RATION LIST
Washington, March 24. ? Ap
proximately one-half of the Am
4
erican housewife's weekly food
budget will be rationed when
point rationing of meat, fats and
cheese goes in effect-March 29.
Here are the aproximate
amounts which each civilian can
get (exact amounts depend great
ly on the individual's preferen
ces):
Sugar, 8 ounces weekly.
Coffee, 1 pound every 5 weeks.
Canned foods, 4 cans monthly.
Meat, 2 pounds weekly.
Butter, 4 ounces weekly.
Cooking fatas 8 ounces weekly.
Cheese, 2 ounces weekly.
Foods not rationed Include
fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh
and dried fish, bread and milk.
Have you noticed that after
Uncle Sam limits the price of any
thing, the price is the limit!
Giraud Puts In
Bid For Rommel
London, March 84.? Gener
al Henri Honore Giraud wants
to be notified If and when Kr
wln Rommel Is captured be
cause he has "an account" to
settle with the German mar
shal.
Giraud relayed his request to
General Sir Harold R. L. G.
Alexander, deputy Allied com
mander, during their recent
trip to the Tunisian front, radio
Morocco reported.
"In 1940, I nearly took Gen
eral Rommel prisoner In
Prance, bnt a few days later I
was his prisoner," Giraud said.
WAR NEWS
Washington, March 24. ? An |
American submarine torpedoed
and sank a surfaced Japanese sub
marine within sight of a Jap base
the Navy Vevealed today in list
ing the daring exploits of the U.
S. submersible, a veteran of the
Philippines and Dutch East In- 1
dies campaigns and victor over
nine other enemy ships.
It was the first known A'meri
can instance in this war of one
submarine sinking- another.
The victory was described by
Lieut. Comdr. William E. Ferrall
ol Pittsburgh who commanded
the underseaa raider.
Sank ltapidly
"We came upon' the Jap sub
marine when we were submerged
and on patrol," he said. "They
were on the surface near their
base and they never saw us.
"We fired one torpedo and she
filled up and sank rapidly, stern
first. We didn't see any survivors
and they never knew what hit
them."
Ferrall, now on duty here after
five years in the submarine serv
ice, had directed the sinking of
nine other Jap vessels ? all of
them accounted for in previous
Navy announcements ? but he
listed the hitherto unannounced
sinking of the enemy sub as his
prize catch.
London, March 24. ? Maj. Gen.
Ira C. Eaker revealed today that,
his 8th U. S. Air Force is going
to get powerful new bombers
carrying three to four times the
loads of Flying Fortresses and
by mid-summer the Allied day
and night offensive against Axis
Europe will be so mighty "We
won't give a damn whether the
Germans know we're coming or
not."
He predicted it would be pos
sible eventually for American
bombers to make daylight raids
against Berlin with 100-plane
formations.
Precision Pnys
Eaker told a press conference
that a seven-month experimental
period, which began last Aug. 17
when he led the first Fortress raid
i against Europe, had ended in
complete victory for exponents of
| highlevel, daylight precision
bombings. The TJSAAF In Britain
now will proceed Immediately to
| build up to parity with the RAF
for a "true round-the-clock of
fensive."
Eaker also announced that
some of his gunners, like knight
of old, are wearing new-type tin
hats and armored jackets In an
experiment to determine whether
the number of shell fragment
wounds can be reduced. He said
the armor was "proving success
ful."
The former commander of the
U. S. bomber force here did not
go into detail about the new
bombers, merely reporting that
they were blg?er. faster and had
much larger bomb capacities than
the four-motored Fortresses. He
did not say when they would ar
rlve. On the basis of meager in
formation available on the capa
city of the Forts it was indicated
the new bombers, which have
been reported under secret con
struction in the U. S., might carry
nine to 12 tons.
The Forts are reputed to carry
3% to four tons at an extreme
range of 4,000 miles. Britain's
biggest night bombers ? the Lan
caster and Stirlings ? have, a top
capacity of eight tons but they
have been carrying only about
three in recent raids.
Ride Sharing
Mr. M. C. Murphy, of G. W.
Murphy & Son, is sponsoring a
unique Ride Sharing scheme that
should produce convenient results
(or the public and gas and tire
sharing for the government as
well as the accompanying ex
pense to the individual
In this movement he has had
prepared and displayed at Scog
gin Drug Store a bulletin board
with a sheet properly marked off
l inviting people who will make
trips from Louisburg by car to
: any other f>oint, who has room
;for riders, to register on this in
, formation sheet his name, tele- j
' phone, home address, number
I persons he can carry, place to
which he is going, time of leav
; ing Louisburg and time of arri
val at destination together with
j the time of departure from des
tination and arrival at home.
Persons wishing to make any
of these trips are Invited to get
in touch with the parties making
the trip and arrange to ride with
them. ? v
This Bulletin Board is now on
display and all persons, those
having accommodations for rid
ers and also the persons wishing
to get a ride are invited to use
Its facilities,
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The Bragtown Junior 4-H Club
Durham County, has planted ISO
pounds of Sequoia potatoes, 100
pounds of Irish Cobblers, one
sixteenth of an acre of beets and
of carrots in their garden.
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On the level, Uncle Sam won't
stand for fast driving. Or oq
the hills, either.
RED CROSS WAR DRIVE
The Chairman of the Local Red Cross announces
that the War Drive is making tine progress in the
Louisburg Area. Another week is before the work
ers. So far more than $2,700.00 lias been reported,
and there are a good number of districts to be heard
from. A conservative estimate is that we will go
500 or more dollars over our apportionment of
$3,900.00.
The following is a list of the (
larger giVers in Louisburg:
P. W. Elani? $100.00.
Agricultural Workers Council
? $47.21.
Louisburg College (Teachers
and Students) ? $39.95.
Mills High School (Teachers
and Pupils) ? $80.52.
Fifty Dollar Girts
Louisburg Supply Co.
Leggett's Dept. Store.
F. H. Allen.
Louisburg Dry Cleaners.
Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Owens.
Dr. W. C. Perry.
Mr. and Mrs. L. ,E. Scoggin, Sr.
A. Tonkel.
Ben Eox.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Taylor, Sr.
Dr. J. B. Wheless. _
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Yarborough
Dr. and Mrs. A. Paul Bagby.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Joyner.
McKinne Bros.
T. M. Harris.
Mr. .and Mrs. Bland B. Pruitt.
Twenty-Kite Dollar Gifts
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Kemp.
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Hedden.
G. D. Fuller.
R. W. Smithwick.
Rose's Store.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Beam.
Dr. and Mrs. D. T. Smithwick.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Tucker.
Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Perry.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Wheless.
Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Eagles.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Lancaster.
A. W. Person.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Malone.
Chas. E. Ford.
M. C. Murphy.
Geo. VY. Murphy.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lumpkin.
Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth White.
Louisburg Theatre.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Cooper.
Home Oil Co.
D. T. Dickie.
Geo. W. Ford.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Raynor.
A full list of all givers will be
published later.
CANNING TRAINING SCHOOL
HELD IN LOUISBURG
I ?
Every family in Franklin Coun-I
ty. white and colored, in towns I
and in the country will soon bei
eached with information on the
safest ways to can their food or
in S,aV,. U, l)y S<MS? other approv
ed method. At a meeting Tues
day and Wednesday of tnis week.
Plans were worked out for every
family down the last lane to have
tnis information.
Home"' bUCy P' GeIltly' District
wi.h % Management Supervisor,
with Farm Security Administra
tion, demonstrated the best
known ways of canning all types
of fruits and vegetables. The
methods of caring for foods by
diying and brining were also de
monstrated by Mrs. Gentry, who
?Ut the faCt tIlat tl,ese
methods would be used this year
in case of a shortage of canning
equipment and whenever there
occurred a large surplus of foods
that could not be adequately car
ed for by canning alone. She al
so showed the group the equip
fnh f ?eeded t0 carry on a good
Job of food conservation and made
suggestions for Improvising such
equipment and making best use
of materials on hand in the home
Proper and safe ways of storing
foods were stressed.
The purpose or the meeting
was to distribute uniform info *
mation on food conservation to
all Home Economists and urban
leaders in the county who will,
n turn, see that all rural leaders
their communities are trained
so that they can reach every fam
ine ? th6',r, group- The follow
ing Home Economics teachers at
tended the first-day workshop:
Mrs. Nellie Moon, Louisburg Col
hisses Evelyn Jernigan,
Edward Best; Ialeen Sigmon,
ijranklinton Public School; Hul
. Str'ck,and. Gold Sand;
School 5a'?rner' MilIs H'?h
School, and Virginia Gilliland,
^nn- T*? teachers from the
colored schools of the county
Louise Spearman, Fnyiklin Coun
ef r wm,-8 Sehool; and Margar
School Gethsemane High
Also attending were Miss Lillie
Mae Braxton, Home Demonstra
tion Agent; Miss Aileen Crow
aer. Home Management Supervis
?r Farm Security Administration:
P- Barnes- Assistant
County Agent,
The following sector leaders
attended the second-day work
shop: Mesdames J. p Timber
iake^ Jr., Lee Bell, W. J. Cooper,!
P. H. Massey, E. S. Ford, W C i
Boyce. H. C. Taylor, and Miss'
Lucy Smithwick. all of Louis
burg; Mesdames It. L. Seymour
P. J. Harris, and S. W. Sykes, of
Bunn; Mesdkmes H. S. Daniel,
G. B. Harris, J. A. Cox, W. A.
Eaton and Mr. H. C. Kearney, of
Franklinton.
It was planned that this infor
mation would be available to all I
families not later than June 1;
all community leaders will have'
their training by April 20, Every I
family is deeply interested in
learning how to save their food I
properly so the Home Economists
are urging everyone to take ad
vantage of this opportunity when
this information is presented to
them in the near future.
This two-day worxsnop for
Home Economists and sector lea
ders was sponsored by the Nutri
tion Council of the Franklin
County Office of Civilian Defense.
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Patronize TIMES Advertisers
N. B. Allsbrook
Dead
Funeral services for Noah Ben
jamin Allsbrook were held last
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock
from the residence, 536 N. Blount,
Street. The Rev. M. O. Sommers
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, officiated, assisted by the
Rev, J. McDowell Dick, rector of
the Church of the Good Shepherd.
Burial Was in the Louisburg Cem
etery.
Mr. Allsbrook moved to Ral
eigh from Louisburg in 1923. He
was associated with the Alls
brook-Spiers Hardward Company
here. He was a member of the
First Presbyterian Church, serv
ing on the Board of Directors of
the First Vanguard Sunday
School.
Surviving are his wife, who be
fore her marriage was Lillian
Louise High, of Louisburg; a sis
ter, Mrs. Leban Wilkerson, of
Scotland Neck; two brothers, T.
M. Allsbrook, of Weldon, and W.
H. Allsbrook, of Trenton, N. J.
? Active pallbearers were Hugh
Isley, F. W. Mahler, W. C. Bow
en, S. M. Hobby, A. J. Allison, J.
D. Bowers, Thomas Dorth, John
T. West, J. E. Cole, Henry .Bow
den, and J. W. Kellogg. There
were 30 honorary pallbearers, 20
from Raleigh and 10. from Louis
burg.? News-Observer.
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Bickett Honored
The 83 rd Liberty ship to be
built at the Nor^h Carolina Ship
building Company in Wilmington
will be named for the late
Thomas W. Bickett of Franklin
County, the distinguished World
War Governor of North Carolina,
Storer P. Ware, secretary of the
shipbuilding company, announced
this week. Ware has .requested
Miss Frances Yarborough Bick
ett, daughter of Solicitor and
Mrs. William Y. Bickett, to
Christen the ship when it is laun
ched on April 6. She has accep
ted the invitation.
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COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that
14,572 bales of cotton were gin
ned in Franklin County from the
crop of 1942 as compared with
12,618 bales for the crop of 1941.
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Two thousand Pitt County 4-H
club boys and girls have Joined
the victory food drive. Gardens,
poultry, and hogs aTe the princi
pal lines of work.
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Horse Meat
Wilson, March 22. ? Small
shipments of horse meat were
reported today being shipped In
to consumers in this section
from New Jersey.
As far as could be learned
from the reports the meat has
been shipped direct to consum
ers and none of it has been
shipped to retailers. Retaileiw,
in fact, knew nothing about it
when asked concerning the re
ports.
It was the first report of
horse meat being shipped into
the State that is known since
the selling of horse meat be
came general to some sections
of the north.
ROMMEL
FAILS TO
STOP ALLIES
Axis Fighters Slow British
Ffrmtal Attacks on Mar
eth Line, But Gains By
Other Columns Are Re
ported by Britons and
Americans; Enemy Poun
ded By Fierce Allied Air
Assaults
Allied Headquarters In North
Africa, March 24. ? Strong Axis
counterattacks were reported to
day to have blunted British fron
tal assaults on the Mareth Line,
but another Eight Army column
gained two miles in its threat to
encircle the Germans, and U. S.
troops already have begun shell
ing Mezzouna. only 32 miles
from the enemy's coastal road far
above the Mareth Line.
(Prime Minister Churchill told
the House of Commons this mor
ning that Axis counterattacks
largely had erased the British
breach in the Mareth Line. In
formed quarters did not know
whether his information super
seded today's Allied communique,
which did not mention any re
verses.)
More Axis Prisoners
An Allied communique said the
Eighth Army had "successfully
repulsed enemy counterattacks"
in the Mareth village area of the
Axis fortified line 20 miles below
Gabes, and that prisoners now
totalled 2,000.
Enemy counterattacks also
i were beaten off by American
1 troops east of El Guetar, the
1 southernmost of two drives by
General Patton's forces made at
j surrounding Marshal Rommel's
i army.
(A German radio commentary
recorded by The Associated Press
said. German counterattacks bad
re-won the "first line of strong
points" lost to the British, but
warned that the Axis position still
was ''not satisfactory" and that
the fighting still was in full
swing.)
A storm of enemy counterat
j tacks beat against the tenacious
I British infantry clinging to an
arrow shelltorn salient in the
coastal end of the Mareth Line,
and the-?immediate outcome ot
the Allied offensive appeared to
hang on the fighting in this new
"devil's cauldron;"
uuiig ivn ;? h?i:k.i
For more than 36 hours Rom
mel struck back at lliis wedge
driven by General Montgomery's
shock troops. German grenadiers
and tanks, as well as the best
of the Italian soldiers in Africa,
fought to wipe out British week
end gains.
Axis artillery concentrated Its
fire on the Wadi Zigzaou which
British guns and armored ve
hicles must cross if the salient is
to be widened and deepened.
This is the area between Mareth
and Zarat and as yet General
Montgomery has not been able to
employ his armor there.
Rommel, however, was report
ed to have sent his Nazi tanks
against British infantrymen who
got beyond the Wadi Sunday.
Allied airmen of the western
desert force, however, dumped
thousands of pounds of bombs on
the Axis positions in this narrow
area, particularly around Zarat,
five miles northeast of Mareth,
and the communique said the en
emy was suffering losses in men
and equipment.
The Mareth Line still is a for
midable position as long as the
British can be held near Zarat to
a mere foothold in the midst of
enemy concrete pillboxes.
Allies Gain In North
Behind the Mareth Line and far
to the north, however, the pic
ture was different, and continu
( Continued on Page Eight)
PROGRAM AT THE
LOUISBURG THEATRE
The following is the program
at the Louisburg Theatre, begin
ning Saturday. March 27th:
Saturday ? 3 Mesquiteers in
'Thundering Trails' Aid William
Tracy, Joseph Sawyer in 'Fall In".
Sunday-Monday ? Teresa
Wright (Accademy Award Win
ner) and Joseph Cotten in
'Shadow of A Doubt."
Tuesday ? Jimmy Lydon and
Charles Smith in 'Henry Aldrich.
Editor'.
Wednesday ? Jeanette McDon
ald, Robert Young and Ethel
Waters in 'Cairo*.
Thursday-Friday ? Ann Miller
William Wright, Bob Croaby and
Band, Count Basle and Band.
Duke Ellington and Band, Fred
die Slack and Band, The Mills
Bros and frank Sinatra tn
'Reveille With Beverly".