riMEi Put Your Payroll Savings on a Family Basis1 Make 10 par cant Juat a Starting ? Voint I'lilDAY, UMST 13, 11143 i (Eight Pages) NUMBER 2T DISCUSS NEW SCHOOL TERM PRINCIPALS HELD MEETING SATURDAY Schools Will Open at 8:30 O'clock Each Morning ? County - wide Teachers Meeting to be Held on August 21st at 10 a. m. at Mills School in Loiflsburg ? Leaders to Discuss Im portant Subjects A meeting of the Principals of Franklin County Schools was held in the office of the Board of Edu cation, Saturday. August 7th at 10 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss plans for the organization and administra tion if schools for the ensuing year which is to begin on August 23 rd. In discussing school problems, Superintendent Mitchell pointed out that the beginning of the 1943-44 school term marked a new era in the educational pro gram of Franklin County. The children have been provided with a twelve year program to be op erated for a period of nine months. The citizens of Frank lin County and the State of North Carolina have made this possible because they realize the necessi ty and the importance of giving our children every educational op portunity at this time. These ad vantages come to us at a time when our nation is at war, and as a result we are confronted with many handicaps such as teacher shortage, rationing program, res tricted transportation, and a rap idly changing curriculum in or der to meet the demands brought upon us by the War effort In or der that we might defend the fundamental principles upon which our State and Nation were founded. It behooves all of us to put forth every ounce of strength and energy to meet these demands with a maximum amount of efficiency and at a minimum amount of cost. If our County demands increased industrial in telligence the training of men and women for leadership in man ufacturing, trade and commerce, we must put fofth an all out ef fort and embark upon this pro gram immediately. Yet we must realize that it becomes our duty to attempt to carry on a well bal anced program and in so doing it behooves us to instill in our pu pils the realization that intellec tual and industrial supremacy can mean nothing to a nation un less righteousness prevails both in public and private life. It should be our aim and purpose to train these boys and girls for citizenship that has always been interpreted to mean an education which will set a life for service to be the best interest of human ity. by training boys and girls how to play, work and serve to gether to the best interest of all concerned in all activities. The schools will open at 8:30 and the State requirements of a six hour schedule will be adherred to. A short schedule will be ar ranged at such time when the farming conditions would demand the assistance of the school chil dren. In cooperation with the farms the' school principals will announce request from various farmers for school children to as sist in carrying on the farm pro gram. Children interested in picking cotton or assisting in any other way in meeting the de mands for labor will be requested to bring a written permission from parents to go with the far mer, who in turn, will provide transportation and protection to the child while engaged In this endeavor. ? Care of present equipment was emphasized, especially in connec tion with the maintenance of the school plant and the buses which cannot be replaced for the dura tion. Superintendent Mitchell stress ed the need of well disciplined schools in Franklin County, ex plaining that good discipline is an index to good teaching. Sub ject matter cannot be mastered in a disorganized room. Self res traint, respect for others and care of public property are valuable traits for the future citizens of our respective communities to de velop. Dr. W. C. Perry, member of the Franklin County Board of Health, In addressing the group told the principals that every child must have a small pox vaccination scar BLACKOUT SUCCESSFUL Louisburg Undergoes Un announced Blackout Tues day Night With Great Success Louisburg experienced its first unexpected blackout Tuesday night, and as announced by Chief Air Raid Warden W. B. Barrow, proved to be a great success, with the people cooperating one hundred per cent. The yellow signal represented by lights flickering, was given at 9:45. This was a warning that enemy planes had been sighted headed in this direction. At 10 o'clock the Blue signal, a long steady blast, was sounded. This * warning suggested the en emy planes were headed this way. At this signal all lights are to be put out, except some that have been specifically exempted, traffic quiets with auto without lights. At 10:15 the Red signal, rep resented by a series of Bhort blasts was sounded which was to .tell the public that bombs were expected to fall at any time. On! this signal all traffic was to stopj and all pedestrians take cover. This lasted only a short while before the Blue signal was soun-i ded again $t 10:25. represented! by a long steady blast, inform- j ing the public that the enemy planes had passed, but might re turn. The lights were to remain out with traffic resuming slow and dim lighted movements. The White signal was given at 10:30, with public .announce ments, over radio or full lights cut on. representing that all dan ger had passed. The citizens responded excep tionally. well in their cooperation making the blackout a complete success, giving assurance that the enemy would get little assist ance at finding its target in this section. Chief Warden Barrow was es pecially appreciative of the splen did work of the several assistants that contributed greatly to the splenjiid outcome of the black out. ? o SMITH-HARRELL The marriage of Miss Rachel [Leigh Harrell. daughter of firs. Levi Wells Harrell and the late Mr. Harrell, of Ytosehill, to Cpl. Fitz Gerald Smith, of Fort Worth, Texas, son of Mrs. Frank Smith and the late Dr. Smith, of Fort Worth, took place Saturday even ing. July 31. in Louisburg at the home of Mrs. William Wilson, Jster of the bride. The cere mony was performed by the Rev. Forrest D. Hedden, of the Louis burg Methodist Church. In a floral setting of white blossoms, an improvised altar was flanked by candelabra against a background of pines. The bride wore a dress of sol dier blue crepe with luggage tan accessories. Her shoulder cor sage was of Talisman roses. The bride attended Louisburg College. Prior to her marriage she held a position in Louisburg with the Agricultural Adminis tration Association. Corporal Smith attended Tex as Christian University. At pres ent he is intraining at the Army Finance School in Wake Forest. o ? - ?On Pay Day, Boy Bonds ? or a doctor's certificate of vacci nation at the time of registration. Dr. D. T. Smithwick presented his annual plan for awarding a medal to a member of the seventh grade for good citizenship in or der to impress the value of civic virtue. On August 21st at 10:00 a. m. a county-wide teachers' meeting will be held in the Mills High School in Louisburg for the pur pose of completing the organiza tion of the schools. At that time the groups will organize on the basis of subjects and departments. Leaders for discussion of the various groups are: English ? Mr. E. C. Jernigan. History ? Mr. O. G. Thompson. Mathematics ? Mr. R. G. Steph ens. Science ? Mr. D. J. Dark. Geography ? Mr. M. K. Cars well. Foreign Language ? Mr. W. P. Morton. Grammar Grade ? Mr. C. C. Brown. Primary ? Mrs. Clara Long Moore. j TOWN COMMIS SIONERS MEET The Board of Town Commis sioners met in regular monthly session at 8 p. m., August 6th, 1943. All members of the Board were present except Commission er W. J. Cooper. The Board approved the min utes of previous meetings and the monthly reports of the Chief of Police. Tax Collector, Town Clerk and Superintendent of the Light & Water Departments, Captain Htll Yarborough re quested the Board to install an extension telephone from the Town's Office telephone to the State Guard Office In the rear of the Armory Building. The Board agreed to permit the installation of this telephone. The Purchasing Agent was au thorized to buy the necessary paint with which to paint the two standpipes. The Board approved the pur chase of a new 37 V& K.V.A. trans former and a new 5 K.V.A. trans former. Mr. Fisher J. Beasley present ed through James E. Malone, Jr., a claim for damages to two of his lots in amount of $100.00. This damage was done when the WPA widened a street against the wishes and orders of Mr. Beasley, and took a portion of two lots for the construction of a street. The Board voted to allow the claim for damages as requested by Mr. Beasley. A request for a sewer line on South Kenmoor Avenue was pre sented by residents of this sec tion. Due to the shortage of la bor and the difficulty of securing the necessary materials for this proposed sewer line, the Board refused this request. The Board approved a number of invoices for payment.^ There being no further busi ness before It, thtj Board ad journed.. 1 n Chinese Quick to Reject Three Jap Peace Feelers Chungking, Aug. 10. ? The Jap anese have made three separate peace feelers to the Chines gov ernment within the past two months, all of which have been spurned, well-informed sources said today. Official circles stated categori cally, however, that the govern ment of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek would not consider any form of Japanese peace offer, hut was determined to stand by the United Nations. The Tokyo proposals, it was revealed included an offer of a return to the status quo as of July 17, 1937, when Japanese troops opened fire on tfie Chinese army at the Marco Polo bridge on the outskirts of Pelping. In return for economic rights in North China, the Japanese were said to be willing to aban don completely their aspiration in central and south China. The disclosure followed a re cent charge of Vladimir Rogov, published in an article in the of ficial Soviet trade union organ, War and the Working Class, in Moscow, that the Japanese are using "appeasers" who hold high government posts in Chungking "who by means of vicious politi cal Intrigues" are trying to split the Kuomintang, Chinese govern ment party, and Chinese Commu nists, and that these "defeatists" are plotting to reach an "honor able" peace with Tokyo. Authoritative sources comment ing on. Rogov's further warning that Trouble between Chungking and the Chinese Communists would lead to civil war, said: "The central government has no intention of using forcible measure to dissolve the Commu nists." Following the recent departure of Gen. Chou En-Lai, chief Com munist laison officer in Chung king to Yenan. northern China Communist center, Communist circles in the capital expressed the fear of possible military ac tion against the "border regional government." It was felt that this would be aimed at ending the an omalous situation where a Com munist independent government and army exist on the Mongolian border outside the framework of the Chungking government. That fear, however, since has been dissipated, it was said. If you don't get everything you think is coming to you maybe you should be glad. ? ? gasoline Chairman Johnson, discussing the gasoline situation the past week stated the public generally Was not cooperating with the government in the gasoline con trol1 effort, but on the other hand resented the efforts of the govern ment. He said recently a person applied for gasoline to go to i physician in Rocky Mount for treatment several times. The certificate presented did not con tain the statement that "the phy sical condition of the patient would not permit the use of a bus." Upon investigation it was found that a bus made three trips daily from within about a mile or mile and a half of the persons hume to Rocky Mount and The schedule was such that it could easily be used. The gasoline reg ulations say that if bus. or train accommodations are available gasoline cannot be issued for this purpose. The question of con venience or cost is not a consider ation It further developed that the person had arrangments witli a neighbor to take them to Rocky! Mount for $3.00 a trip, and we, found that the round-trip bus fare! was only $1.21 from Stallings or, 99 cents from Castalia. Appar-j ently there was nothing seriously wrong with the person. This is j not the only case of this kind. I We have many, said Chairman j Johnson, some with even less co operation evident. It is this lack! of cooperation that makes the work of the Board so hard and unpleasant. The local Board together with all other Boards, said Chairman Johnson, are instructed to deduct] from all supplemental gasoline: allotments, mileage heretofore j granted for travel to work a dis tance of less than L' miles.- This] restriction will seriously reduce the allotment to most all cars in! any town in Franklin County. j The Board has recently receiv-j ed instructions not to take re-] newal applications for supplemen tal gasoline more than 15 days before the expiration date on the last allotment *In effect this means if a person is given an al lotment for three or four months it must last out that time or the person to whom it is issued will have to do without until his old allotment has expired. o ! Recorder's Court Franklin Recorder's Court held regular session on Tuesday and! disposed of cases as follows-: George W. James was found guilty of motor vehicle law vio lation. to be discharged upon pay-| ment of costs. Lillie Mae Batchelor pleads guilty to assault with deadly wea-j pon, 6 months in State's prison,' to be suspended on payment of costs and doctor's bill, not to ex-! ceed $10 and $8 to prosecutingj witness. George Jones, assault with deadly weapon, the costs having been paid by the prosecuting wit ness the State took a nolle pros. Junius Chavis and Betty Per ry, f and a. verdict of guilty as to both and sentenced each to 30 days in jail, suspended upon saving the County harmless. The following cases were con tinued: D. h. Ayscue, reckless driving, hit and run. J. W. Cobb, speeding. Irvin B. Gilliam, non-support. o LOUISBURG METHODIST CHURCH The Rev. E. H. Davis will be guest Preacher at the Methodist Church Sunday morning at 11:00 o'clock. Sunday School convenes at 9:45 a. m., led by Prof. I. D. Moon. Union Vespers will not he held Sunday night but will be resumed next Sunday night, August 22. ? o- ? HKRBKRT GRAHAM HOLMES Franklinton. ? Herbert Graham Holmes, 56. died Tuesday night at his home after a short illness. Funeral services were conduct ed Thursday afternoon at o'clock from Pope's Chapel Christian .Church, by the Rev. E. M. Carter, of Youngsville, assist ed by the Rev. S. E. Maddren, of Franklinton. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Irene Ferguson; and six chil dren. Nlel, Dorothy, Anne, and Henry Holmes, of Franklinton, Mrs. Royall Spence, of Burling ton, and Graham Holmes of the Nary. . o? , ?On Pay Day, Buy Bonds? WAR NEWS I.ondon, Thursday, Aug, 12. ? Powerful, fast columns of Red Army tanks and motorized infan try cut the Khar^ov-PoltaVa rail road yesterday, and passed the peak point of last winter's offen sive. captured the German base of Aktyrka. 62 miles northwest of Kharkov, and drove 7 1-2 miles northeast, of Kharkov. The cutting of the Poltava rail road isolated Kharkov on the west, made its fall within a mat ter of days almost inevitable, and left the Germans with only two escape routes by rail for the tens of thousands of men garrisoned there. Allied Headquarters in North Africa. Aug. 11. ? British war ships extended Allied domination of Italy's coastline from toe to shin in the pre-dawn hours of yesterday tfith a bombardment of targets as far north as the Bay of Naples. The ghostly flotillas moved with ease up to the naval estab lishments of Castellammare at the southern corner of the Bay of Naples and the vulnerable rail way bridge at Cape Vaticano, 150 miles to the south, dramatically demonstrating the weakness of Italy to amphibous invasion. London. Thursday, Aug. 12. ? British heavy bombers spilled more than 1,500 long tons of ex plosives on the Nazi shrine city of Nurnberg Tuesday 'flight, and Berlin radio abruptly quit the air. just after mid-night today to in dicate that the RAP was ham mering Germany for the third straight night. German planes dropped bombs j on a southwestern English coas-j tal district early today. These retaliatory slabs have grown in- 1 frequent during the summer as the Axis air force has been put more and more on the defensive. The blasting of Nurnberg dis closed a switch in Allied strategy, aimed at destroying Germany's finished products centers as dis tinct from her already devastated I basic industries. Sixteen bombers, all of the Royal Air Force, failed to return from the 1,000-mile round-trip flight. Three Nazi night fighters were destroyed. Dr. Patten Speaks To Lions Club The*5>ouisburg Lions Club held its regular luncheon meeting at Mrs. Beasley's Dining Room, Tuesday. August 10. 1S43 at 7 p. m. Lion President G. M. Beam announced the appointment of the following committee chair men for the coming year: Attendance, W. J. Shearin; Constitution and By-laws, W. B. Tucker; Finance, Dr. R. L. Ea gles; Lions Education, P. H. Massey; Membership, C. R. Sy kes; Program and Entertainment. I. D. Moon; Publicity. W. O. Lam beth; Military Affairs, Lee Bell; Blind Work, N. F. Freeman; Boys' and Girls' Work, Dr. A. Paul Bagby; Civic Improvement, Dr. R. L. Eagles; Community Bet terment, W. B. Tucker; Educa tion, Wiley F. Mitchell; Health and Welfare. Edgar J. Fuller; Safety, Lee Bell. Dr. Walter Patten, , President of Louisburg College, spoke to the Club on some of the enroll ment problems confronting the College this coming year. Dr. Patten brought out that in spite of all the emphasis being placed on short training courses today due to war pressure the school will carry on and give the regular courses to those who desire them. "There will be a great need for the college trained boy and girl," said Dr. Patten, "to solve not only local but national and inter national problems in the world of tomorrow." Willie Lee Lumpkin and A. C. Hall were welcomed into the Club as new members. o ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Rev. Alfred P. Chambliss, Jr., of Warrenton. will conduct ser vices at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at eight o'clock, ,p. m. Sunday, August 15th. Church School will begin promptly at 9:45 A. M., Sunday, and will last for one hour. Mr. Will Yarborough, Bible Class teacher. The public is cordially Invited to attend these services. The only kind of strikes we like to hear of is .when our army strikes the enemy. PRICE DIFFER ENTIAL MADE Between Graded and Un graded Tobacco ? Meet ing Held at Wilson Wilson, Aug. 11. ? The Office of Price Administration has set al three-cents a pound differential j between graded and tied tobacco I and ungraded and untied tobacco, R. Flake Shaw, executive secre- j tary of the North Carolina Farm j Bureau Federation announced at I a meeting of some 1,000 farmers' from throughout the State at a protest meeting in the Wilson County courthouse tonight. Shaw said he was informed of this action early tonight in a tel ephone conversation with J. B. Hutson, head of the Commodity Credit Corporation. He quoted Hutson as saying i further that "No further changes will be made this season in the tobacco price ceiling." Hutson said that the CCC will j ( make "purchases substantially in \ line with last season, but will show a little better price on bet- ! ter grades." with an approximate' raise to 50 cents a pound instead of 47 cents. These purchases w;ould not, however, "be at the expense of low grad? tobacco." Ungraded or Nothing The statements were given by Shaw tonight amid a growing de termination of farmers through out Eastern North Carolina to ; either sell their tobacco ungraded1 and untied or not at all. unless, the price celling is raised. Most of the farmers expressed j the opinion that the recent OPA ! ruling "meant nothing at all" and j would result in the same prices.! The OPA was quoted in a dis pach from Washington today asi willing to raise the price ou flue-| cured tobacco to $44 per hundred; for graded and tied leaf. if_ enouifli ungraded and "untied to bacco was sold to bring the sea son's average to the present ceii-j ing of $41 per hundred. But whether or not Eastern North Carolina farmers could place their tobacco on warehouse^ floors ungraded and untied and ( find any bidders appeared doubt-' ful today after such action was! tried down at Mullins, S. C. AT HO.MK ON KIRIXH'tiH Chief Petty Officer David Col-* lier. of the U. S. Navy, son of! Mr. and Mrs^W. E. Collier, Sr.., I arrived in louisburg Monday! to spend a week with his parents.! He has just seen extensive servicoj in the Pacific War Zone, and upon arrival on the Pacific coast! he came home by plane. David | has been in the Navy about four! and a half years. His many friends in Louisburg were de lighted to see him. Raised $487.50 Molly Pitcher Day was cele brated in . Louisburg Saturday, August 7th. by seven enthusiastic Boy Scouts. $112.50 worth of stamps were sold and $375.00 worth of bonds. This meant much walking in heavy shoes and socks for feet accustomed to cool breezes. For ty-one and one-half hours of ser vice were given by the following boys: George Davis, Leslie Thar rington, Grady Harris, Edgar Owens, Edmond Rabll, Clifford Joyner and Wyatt Freeman. The Scouts and the Women's Division of the Franklin County War Finance Committee thank each person who purchased a stamp or bond on Molly Pitcher . Day. ? o ? ? Many a husband has turned over a new leaf because his wife can read him like a book. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE - r The following is the program it the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday, Aug. 14th: Saturday ? James Craig and 1 Patricia Dane In 'Northwest Ran- : gers' and Dick Foran and Irene Hervey in 'He's My Guy.' Sunday-Monday ? Ann Miller. John Hubbard. Rochester and '' Freddy Martin and Band in 'What's Buzzin Cousin.' Tuesday ? George Sanders and ' Anna Sten in 'They Came To Blow 1 Up America.' Wednesday ? Harrie Hilliard and David Bruce in' 'Honeymoon Lodge.' , Thursday-Friday ? Jon Hall. Maria .Montez and Sabu In 'White Savage.' ' < FIGHTING IN SICILY Allies Crowding' Axis For* Finish Allied Headquarters in North Africa. Aug. 11. ? British and American attacks, knifing through both coastal flanks, put the heart of German bitter-end resistance at Randazzo in Sicily under In creasing pressure today." British Tommies of the 50th Northumbrian Division fought their way through the town of liuardia, seven miles north of Aclreale on the east coast of Sic ily. and advanced to within a short distance south of Riposto. 30 Miles From Italy The vanguard of the British Eighth Army thus drew up to a line directly east of Mt. Etna's summit and gained its first glimpse of Italy's shoreline after battling its way from Egypt. Riposto is nine miles south of Taormina, an Axis evacuatioa base, and less than 30 miles from. Italy. The American Seventh Army was reported to have made gains in the battle for Cape Orlando, a little more than 40 miles from Messina, after firmly establishing itself on the bridgehead won by sea-borne infantryment two days ago. This landing was at the mouth of the Rosmarino River, three miles east of San Agata. (The German communique said German forces there were adopt ing a mobile defense.) The enemy's small boat trafTic across the narrow strait of Mes sina increased and indications of the gathering of an evacuation fleet multiplied ? signs which caused the Allied air forces, fa vored by moonlight nights, to hurl greater fleets than ever into making ajiy Sicilian ? Dunkerque a costly endeavor. Iiut Allied spokesmen warned against expecting anything but a measured advance. Hot Battle The battle for Randazzo. north of Mt. Etna, grew in intensity as the stubborn enemy burrowed in to the ruins of that central sec tor key point, apparently deter mined to make it a Sicilian Ver dun. American troops threw them selves across mountain rivers In. the face of raking artillery fi"re and with their British and Cana dian Allies charged to within about six miles of their objective. Allied combat engineers con tinued to perform near miracles in building temporary bridges and clearing the roads of thous ands of tons of dynamite-loosed debris in order to get up the guna and the materials to strangle the Germans into submission. For the fourth consecutive day fleets of Allied light and fighter bombers saturated Randazzo with bombs, intended to choke the nar row twisting roads and make It untenable. * German losses in killed and wounded were reported by Allied spokesmen to have been extra high because of their grim, fa natical resistance against over whelming odds. Some companies of parachute troops and of the Goering Arm ored Division, with normal com plements of 200 men, were said to have been reduced to less than 20. ? ' Randazzo. because of its domi nation of the roads crossing from north to. south and east to west, is the Tunis or Bizerte of Sicily, so far as the Germans were con cerned. and they are making the battle on* of the fiercest Of Sic ily. Less Ack-Ack That this center of resistance might be weakening, however, was indicated by the reports of Allied airmen who said the anti aircraft fire there had dwindled to almost nothing. A few days ago it was as heavy as at any point encountered in Sicily. The enemy was reported by ae rial reconnaissance to have con centrated more than 100 barges and armored ferries along IS miles of mainland coast between Cape Spartivento and Cape Armi. Other signs of increased anxiety over an Wcape route were seen in the fact that for the first time in days. a large ship and barges entered Milazzo harbor on the north coast in broad daylight. o ' *t v ? -* And we heard about a girl w(io was asked if she wonld like to sell kisses at a bazaar, aid when questioned it she had an y experience, ' replied. "Yea, I weat to college." She cot the Job.