Brief Review Of State, World
News During The Past Week
JULY 4th CELEBRATED
BY BIG AIR ATTACKS
London — Reconnaisance pho
* tographs revealed United States
Flying Fortresses, in their three
pronged attack Sunday on France
scored heavier damage than at
first had been believed as they
'•bombed two German airplane
lplants, scored more than 100 hits
«XTi an airfield and wrecked im
Sfjortant submarine base installa
The American raids were a
* gainst Nantes and La Pallice on
"the west coast and Le Mans, 120
miles southwest of Paris. They
were followed up Sunday night
"by a R. A. F. assault on a heavily
laden medium-sized supply ship
which was caught stranded on a
^Norwegian reef.
N. C. IS NOW FACING
A TEACHER SHORTAGE
Raleigh — There will be a
'''definite teacher shortage in North
Carolina’s schools during the
15*43-44 school year, despite the
lowering of teacher certificate
qualifications and the fact that
•teacher allotments will be ap
proximately 200 less than that of
last year, Nathan Yelton, comp
troller for the State Board of Ed
ucation, said.
Yelton said that reports coming
‘to his office indicated the short
age would be about the same as
lqjst year, when teacher vacancies
Were difficult to fill.
The comptroller said he would
prepare a questionnaire to be sent
to all administrative school heads
Asking for information as te the
mumber of vacancies, and that the
State Board of Education would
make every effort to help fill va
cancies.
India reduced her cotton acre
“ age ' from 23,547,000 acres last
year to' i8,?16COOO acres this year,
with more acres in food crops. 1
MILLION MEN ARE
READY FOR INVASIO]
London. — What makes the un
derbelly of the axis quiver?
Across the blue Mediterranean,
opposite the 3,000 mile coastline
from Perpigan in France to Alex
androupolis in Greece, more than
a million men of the allied arm
ies, with air force such as the
world has never seen, are poised
to spring against any one of sev
eral places.
When it will come is the closest
held secret in the world.
No one can fight like well
trained, superbly equipped men
who have tasted the sweets of
victory.
And in the five allied armies in
North Africa and the Middle East
—there are at least that many—
there are hundreds of thousands
of veterans of the memorable
campaign that drove the axis
armies from Africa.
On the defensive along the un
derside of Europe from southern
France to the Dodecanese islands
are probably 2,000,000 soldiers,
three quarters of them Italians,
and an air force of something
like 2,000 planes, about half of it
the deficient Regia Aeronautica
of Italy.
MRS. CHIANG KAI-SHEK
RETURNS TO HER HOME
Chungking — Mrs. Chiang Kai
shek returned by, plane to this
war capital Sunday for a joyful
reunion with her husband, the
Chinese generalissimo, after an
extended tour of the United
States and Canada.
Weary and airsick, she landed
at the airdrome here in a trans
port plane piloted by an Ameri
can crew, ending her 15,000-mile
journey which began last Nov.
18.
The time of her arrival was
kept so secret that not even the
generalissimo was informed.
Consequently he was not at the
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'Moving Trouble Getting Help?
So are we. like you, we’re faced with the biggest
production job in our history. And, like you, we’re
lost many of the men who used to help us.
Yet that’s only part of the story. Every day, on
term and factory, there’s something new to test
the skill of those running the business. Not only get
ting help, but—to mention a few others—rising costs,
Snaking a fair profit, and setting aside reserves for a
srainy day. Essentially, those problems are the same
fee nans and factory, though they may at times differ
But h is that thine called management," that
•I gwcuharly American ability to think through problems
Sso matter how tough, that is helping to see us through
* today.
It is this skill in management that fanners and
have most in common, a shill winch
the realization of our determination to
i all that’s needed for our country today, and,
to make a fair living through greater serv
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Sailors Help Save Potato Crop
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Answering Governor Darden’s appeal to save the potato crop In t’>"
face of a critical labor shortage, 500 sailors at Norfolk, Va., went >>-to
the field to help harvest. There is no shortage potatoes here as the
sailors follow the digger turning np rows of tnbers.
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Labor Draft Is Predicted
Likely In Next Congress
Casualty List
Reaches 91,644
Washington — Casualties of
the armed forces since the out
break of the war now total 91,644.
The Office of War Information
said this includes 16,696 dead;
21,828 wounded; 31,579 missing;
and 21,541 prisoners of war.
Army casualties total 64,621,
divided as follows:
Killed, 8,533; wounded 17,094;
missing, 21,046; prisoners of war,
17,948. Of the wounded 6,268
have returned to active duty or
have been released from hospi
tals. The army casualties include
12,506 Philippine scouts. Of
these 481 were killed, 743 wound
ed, and the remainder are pre
sumed to be prisoners of war.
Navy casualties totaled 27,023
as follows:
Dead, 8,163; wounded, 4,734;
missing, 10,533; prisoners of war,
3,593. The navy casualties were
divided as follows:
Navy—Dead, 6,293; wounded,
2,265; missing, 9,389;'prisoners of
war, 1,855; total, 19,802.
Marine Corps —Dead, 1,688;
wounded, 2,447; missing, 987;
prisoners of war, 1,737; total, 6,
859..
Coast guard—Dead, 182, wound
ed, 22; missing, 157; prisoners of
war, 1; total, 362.
MANPOWER NEEDS
TO REACH 65 MILLIONS
Washington — The War Man
power Commission, projecting U.
S. needs in human resources a
year ahead, estimated that full
manpower requirements will
climb to 65,900,000 by July 1,
1944, and that the armed forces’
alone will take 11,300,000.
In a statistical analysis survey
ing the entire manpower outlook
for the coming 12 months, WMC
sounded a noje of encouragement
by emphasizing that the rate of
increase in the armed forces and
war industries will slacken.
4-JI Clubs Give
Army Ambulance
North Carolina 4-H Club boys
and girls celebrated Independence
Day this year on July 3 by giv
ing the U. S. Army a completely
equipped ambulance for overseas
service, says L. R. Harrill, State
Club Leader for the Extension
Service at N. C. State College.
The ambulance was presented
to a representative of the Sur
geon General’s Office at ceremon
ies on Fayetteville Street in
Raleigh and the Wake county 4-H
Club Council made the formal
presentation in behalf of all club
members in North Carolina. The
proceedings were broadcast over
Radio Station WPTF.
On the same day, Miss Francis
Banks, president of the North
Carolina 4-H Club Council and a
member from Pasquotank county,
appeared on the National Farm
and Home Hour program from
Washington in presenting another
4-H ambulance to the Army. She
represented the Southern States
and was accompanied to Wash
ington by Miss Celeste Spivey,
home demonstration agent of the
Extension Service in Pasquotank
county.
Through a salvage pregrain the
North Carolina club members
collected $1,741.66 for the ambu
lance fund and came second on
the honor roll among all the
states in the U. S. The variety
of ways in which this money was
accumulated is a real tribute to
the ingenuity and resourcefulness
of the 4-H boys and girls.
mibihI
airport to greet her and only up
on her arrival at their home here
were they reunited.
Washington — Legislation for
the compulsory draft of labor,
probably with administration
backing, to prevent possible col
lapse of manpower policies this
week appeared headed for enact
ment when Congress returns
from its Summer recess.
Responsible Congressional quar
ters said a proviso undoubtedly
would be included calling for the
dismissal of War Manpower
Chief Paul V. McNutt who has
been under incessant fire from
the Legislators, although he be
lieves a labor draft is “inevitable”
he has been experimenting with
voluntary methods and pleading
for time to prove them a failure.
.The administration, faced with
a need to recruit 3,600,000 men
and Women for essential war work
in the next 12 months and admit
tedly running into “increasing
difficulty,” is said to look more
favorable on the National Service
Act drafted by Rep. James W.
Wadsworth, R., N. Y., and Sena
tor Warren R. Austin, R,, Vt.
' Some officials said a public en
dorsement by President Roose
velt after Congress returns is en
tirely likely.
Wadsworth, who conferred
with the President last week,
said he had received no definite
commitment but got the impres
sion the administration is show
ing “greatly increased interest”
in the draft proposal.
The shellac coating formerly
applied to prevent their shrinkage
! in transit has been replaced by a
wax coating to save shellac for:
war use.
I More than a hundred girls
graduates of a Roxbury, Mass.,
high school were red and white
graduation gowns they had made
themselves, with corages of blue
War Stamps.
Cotton fibers, impregnated to
make them durable, are now used
to manufacture house screens.
Europe normally produces 90
per cent of the world’s potato
crop; the United States produces
only 4 per cent
Saved food is one of the most
effective ways for the average
citizen to help win the war.
An American aviator, lost in
the jungles and forced to eat a
grasshopper for food, said that
it tasted like crabmeat.
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Known As The
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AT
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10 A. M.
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