Brief Review Of State, National And World News During The Past Week
JVENILE DELINQUENCY
IS SHOWING INCREASE
Washington—Activities of ene
my Agents have been kept under
control since the war but boys
and girls have been getting out of
hand as evidenced by a sharp in
crease in juvenile delinquency.
These were conclusions of two
separate reports this week on the
war and police problems— the
report of Director J. Edgar Hoo
ver on work of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation in the 12
months ending last June 30, and
a survey by the children’s bureau
of the Labor Department of ju
venile delinquency.
YUGOSLAV ARMY IS
ACTIVE AGAINST NAZIS
London — Bitter fighting rag
ed this week throughout Yugo
slavia and Northeastern Italy as
the Yugoslav People’s Army of
Liberation advanced on all fronts,
threatening four major cities, in
cluding Trieste, and holding their
position against a German on
slaught spearhead in one area by
200 tanks.
A communique from partisan
headquarters reported that the
guerrilla army of Gen. Josip (Ti
to) Brozovich was fighting in the
suburbs and south of Trieste and
was closing in on the Italian-own
ed Adriatic Port of Zara, and on
Karlovac and Ogulin in South
western Croatia.
PEACE AND QUIET
OVER LA. SHERIFF
Pointe a la Hache, La. — Sher
iff Walter J. Blaize, whom the
state militia convoyed to his of
fice here Saturday against pas
sive armed resistance of a Plaque
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mines Parish political faction, re
ported that “all is quiet.”
“We are still finding weapons
that were left concealed in vari
ous parts of the court house,”
Blaize said.
Detachments of the State Guard
which originally numbered be
tween 500 and 700 heavily armed
troops for the “invasion” Saturday
of the parish, left last night. Oth
ers were said to have departed
later.
Brigadier General Thomas F.
Porter, commandant of the guard,
still at the parish seat in Pointe
a la Hache, said that some of the
troops will remain on guard duty
at the court house several days,
or longer, if there is danger of in
terference with the sheriff and
the performance of his duties.
SON OF WINANT IS
REPORTED AS MISSING
London — First Lieut. John G.
Winant, Jr., 21-year-old son of the
American Ambassador to the
Court of St. James, who piloted a
Flying Fortress in.Sunday’s raid
on Munster, Germany for his 13th
mission, is missing in action, it
was announced.
Returning fliers reported that
young Winant’s bomber ‘Tech
Supply,” in which he negotiated
at least two shuttle bombers be
tween Britain and North Africa,
was hit by a Nazi' rocket bomb
15 minutes after leaving the tar
get.
There was no immediate indi
cation whether Winant and his
crew members succeeded in bail
ing out.
Young Winant, who quit Prince
ton University to enter the U. S.
Army Air Force, took part in the
raid on Regensbury, August 17 in
the Eighth U. S. Air Force’s first
shuttle bombing run.
3,269,125 ARE NOW
WORKING FOR GOV’T
Washington — The Civil Ser
vice Commission has reported
that civilian employees of the
executive branch of the federal
government numbered 3,269,125
in June, an increase of 37,406 over
May.
The total included 185,587 who
sefVed without compensation or
fo{ $1 a year, and 154,500 employ
ed in Alaska, the Panama Canal
2bne> and other possessions and
foreign countries.
Tables published by the com
mission showed that of the exe
cutive departments the War De
partment with 1,375,596 and the
navy with 606,590 were the larg
est employers of civilians.
Of the war agencies, the War
Manpower Commission with 223,
486 led the list. Of this total,
however, 161,911 served the WMC
without pay or for $1 a year.
SUGGESTS JAPS BE
HANGED FOR ACTIONS
Washington — The Army and
Navy Journal says death by hang
ing should be meted out to Japan
ese responsible for the execution
of American aviators, because the
Nipponese regard death by the
rope as “the most disgraceful.”
When Tokyo surrenders, the
Journal suggests editorially, we
should require that the Japanese
turn over to us for hanging “at
least ten officers, some of the
highest rank, in' any case all of
the men who slew our aviators.”
The Journal referred both to
the recent report from General
Douglas MacArthur of the be
heading of an Allied airman by
Japanese in New Guinea and the
execution of some members of
the Doolittle mission which raid
ed Tokyo in May, 1942.
Dairy machinery and equip
ment may now be manufactured
in a greater number of sizes than
heretofore, the WPB announces.
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Civilian Defense Helps WAC Campaign
Raleigh, Oct. 12—An intensive campaign to recruit North Carolinians for the Women’s
Army Corps, with the official sanction and assistance of the State, was mapped at a con
ference of the group pictured here. From left: Governor J. M. Broughton; Lt. Lucy Page,
WAC liaison officer; Mrs. Walter G. Craven, State director of the Service Corps for the Of
fice of Civilian Defense; and R. L. McMillan, director of the North Carolina OCD. At the
request of General George C. Marshall, U. S. Army chief of staff, Governor Broughton desig
nated the State OCD to cooperate in the WAC drive through its local organizations in the
100 counties. The campaign will end Dec. 7.
Defeat Of Japan Predicted
By Wallace In Near Future
Washington—The United States
and China can look forward to
the certainty “in the not-distant
future” of Japan’s unconditional
surrender and the opportunity for
building a prosperous and lasting
peace, Vice-President Henry A.
Wallace said this week.
In a radio address commem
orating the 32nd anniversary of
the founding of the Chinese Re
public under Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, he
said Americans and Chinese
stand together against totalitar
ian aggression because they be
lieve fundamentally in the same
way of life. He pointed to amaz
ing parallels in their ways of
thinking and living and added
that both believe in the sover
eignty of the people and have
shared a belief In peace—“not as
a vacuum, not as the mere ab
sence of conflict, but as a posi
tive way of living.”
In the past year the United
States has relinquished its extra
territoriality rights in China and,
as a further gesture of friendship,
both Houses of Congress are pre
paring to pass a bill amending the
oriental exclusion law to permit
entry annually of 105 Chinese
who would be eligible for citizen
ship.
Wallace said Japan invaded
China in the hope of frustrating
Sun Yat-Sen’s program for con
stitutional democracy but, in re
ality, has hastened its fulfillment.
“We can now look forward,” he
said, “to the certainty of Japan’s
unconditional surrender in the
not-distant future.” He did not
elaborate.
He praised China for “two great
roles” which have contributed to
American life and welfare.
“The first is that of China’s re
sistance to our common enemy,
totalitarianism,” he said. “Twelve
years ago China became the first
victim of the totalitarian plot
against the world. For six years,
during more than four of which
she stood alone and unaided, she
has fought against the invasion of
her land, while a large part of her
people have suffered torture and
death.
“But, while a considerable por
tion of her territory has been oc
cupied, she has. kept the enemy at
i bay. This enemy has not alone
I been hers but also the active ene
my of the United States since
Pearl Harbor, and the close Ally
of the other totalitarian enemies
of all that we in the democracies
believe and cherish.”
China’s second role is little
known to many Americans—that
of chief inspirer and, indirectly,
one of the creators of Western de
mocracy, he continued.
“Chinese philosphy and the ap
proach in the living habits of the
Chinese people exerted a power
ful influence on the minds and
the political philosophers of the
Western world who, in their turn,
laid the foundation for the Amer
icans who led our revolution and
designed our constitutional gov
ernment”
BEER INDUSTRY BIG
TAXPAYER IN N. C.
Raleigh — North Carolina’s
beer industry paid the state $675,
000 in taxes for the three-month
period ended September 30th, the
first quarter of the 1943-44 fiscal
year.
Figures, compiled by the Brew
ing Industry Foundation’s North
Carolina Committee, disclosed
that this amount represented 63
per cent of the total beverage tax
collections for this quarter.
Beer paid the state $2,960,058 in
taxes for the 1942-43 fiscal year
ended last June 30, representing
60 per cent of the total beverage
tax collections.
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N. C. LEAF SALES
HIGH IN SEPTEMBER
Raleigh — A total of 184,748,
604 pounds of flue-cured tobacco
were sold in North Carolina on
the four belts during September
at an average of 39.31 cents per
pound, W. P. Hedrick, State De
partment of Agriculture Tobacco
Marketing Specialist, said.
Hedrick said that sales were 20
per cent below those of a year
ago, with the price up four per
cent. Last year’s price average
was 37.76 cents.
“Higher average prices were re
ceived during September than in
August,” Hedrick said. “However,
the average still is $1.46 below
the 41-cent ceiling.’
He attributes the price rise to
the fact that inferior grades
showed advances—some as much
as five to 15 cents per pound.
Reports from the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate that
the 2,712 hatcheries co-operating
in the National Poultry Improve
ment Plan producing nearly half
a billion chicks of U. S. Approved
Pullorum Tested, or higher,
quality chicks during the 1942
43 season. This breaks all re
cords.
Mt* Zion News
By MBS. S. E. SMITH
Staff Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Pugh had
as dinner guests Sunday Mr. and
Mrs. George Pugh, Mr. and Mrs.
P. C. Edwards.
Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Douglas
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Moxley, of .Topia.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Mabe have
moved to Twin. Oaks.
Mrs. R. M. Pugh* is spending
some time with Mrs. W. F. Pugh.
Frank Perry spent Sunday with
John Grubb.
H. D. CLUB MET
The home demonstration clutk
met at Rocky Ridge recently, witife
ten present. The meeting wa&
opened with a special song hQk
Frances Ann Reeves. Mrs. Myrtles
Perry conducted the meeting. Mrs..
S. E. Smith displayed at quilt tap,
“Star of the East,” a very simples
design. Numerous subjects were
discussed at the meeting.
Belt's Dept. Store
“We Sell It For Less”
Sparta, N. C.
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Jy Joe Marshy
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Charlie Jenkins writes me from
down at camp:
“Dear Joe: Somethin' mighty
swell happened to me on my last
day’s leave. I’m standin’ on the
corner, not knowln’ anybody in
town, when a stranger says
’hello, soldier-how’d you like a
chicken dinner at home with me
and the wife?’
“Well, it turns out they were
the kind of folks who couldn’t
do enough to help out soldiers.
They’d invited two other fel
lows and just as soon as we’re
introduced the lady brings ua at]
glass of beer before dinner. i
“We had a fine dinner, lalkeij
till ten... Honest, Joe, I’ll nerea-1
forget their hospitality. Make
me feel good' fighting for i
like that.*
Thought you might like t&i
hear what kind o’ fellows we got
in this army of ours, and htnei
they like to enjoy themsetya*,
when they get a chance to.
© 1943, BREWING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION. North Carolina Committal
Edgar H. Bain, State Director. 606*607 Insurance Bldg., Raleigh, N. C,
CHESTNUT WOOD
QUOTE FROM PRODUCTION DIVISION WAR
DEPARTMENT
TO ALL IN THE CHESTNUT WOOD AND
CHESTNUT EXTRACT INDUSTRIES:
Despite our thousands of planes and tanks, most
American soldiers still fight on their feet. They need
the best shoes made. Production of chestnut wood ex*
tract is essential to the tanning of good shoe leather.
Every cutter and hauler of chestnut wood, every person
connected with the making of this badly needed extract
is striking a blow at the enemy. Let’s hit the enemy
hard.”
THOUGH CHESTNUT WOOD TODAY DOES NOT
HAVE TANNING VALUE OF THE MARKET PRICE
IT IS AN ESSENTIAL WAR NEED.
Wilkes Extract Works
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
ARE BUYING AND PAYING CASH
Truck Delivery for Chestnut Wood Every Day Except
Sunday and Can Take Any Quantity.
Auction Sale
60 Registered Hereford
Cattle
At Statesville, N. C.
On Thursday, October 21, at 1 P.M.
Iredell County Fair Grounds
10 Cows, calves at side
20 Open Heifers
20 Bred Heifers
10 Bulls
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