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PUBLISHED THURSDAYS The Dan bury Reporter N. E. PEPPKR ------- - Editor and Publisher l. VANCE PEPPER Business Manager PARIS M. PEPPER - Linotype Operator Issued Thursdays at Danbury, N. C., and entered at the Danbury postoffice as second class matter, under act of Congress. National Advertising Representative New York : Chicago : Detroit : Atlanta : Phil*. i ■■ . Danbury, North Carolina, March 11, 1943 Rationing SUGAR: Coupon No. 11 is good until Mar. 15. No. 12 will be good from March 15 for six weeks. COFFEE: Coupon No. 25 will be good until Mar. 21. No. 26 will be valid from Mar. 22 for five weeks. No coffee is allowable for medicinal use. FL'EL OIL: The value of Per iod 5 coupons has been set at 1U and 100 gallons. SHOES: Coupon No. 17 (on Su gar Book) good for one pair shoes until June 15. Institutional users of rationed canned, dried and dehydrated foods must register with local board by March 10. Retail merchants must regis ter with the board from April 1 to April 10. Blanks may be secur ed from the office after Mar. 15. They are required to show their sales in point values for month The Red Cross In AC^IH AT THE FRONT-With the fighters.^ vhersvcr they go, are Red Cross FiolH 1 i -rs, equipped with cigarettes s>'\ r r|iarcd to ai' 1 ■ r .">" Working To Build Up What J War Tears Down I PRISON KRS The;, haow they have not b:»cn forgotten when they fcj K*>i ifjut !.»\ from Lome - mnde possible by KcJ Cross e I THE RED CROSS IS A PEOPLE'S PARTNERS; IP - BRINGING relief in allied countries, working' wit i oiu* armed fences where- t ever they a:e. Enlist NOW with-your Chapter for f*>e woik ahead, r ni PfbWPD i.'Ui'i , ru" CS\ *:j• fi of March and many other definite facts in order to re-stock on ra tioned products. Owners of farm equipment, tractors, etc., who seek supple mental gas rations must first sub mit their applications to the War Board (of which Mr. Brumfield is a member and wTiose Clerical force receive the applications) after i which their recommendation will ■be acted upon by the rationing ! board. Merchants in the county are authorized to continue to sell seed ' beans anu seed peas in package, 1 pound or quart quantity to tho32 ' customers who expect to plant same. They are advised that -1 planting of field blackeye pea s, - ( pinto and lirna beans season is - not yet at hand and none of these . may be sold. r Grade 111 tires are now class i ed as used, recapped or recondi- THE DANBURY REPORTER I tioued tire. Grade 11 constitute "War Tires." Very few Grade ll's have been allocated to this coun ty. No Grade Ill's are yet avail able. Truck' tire allocations were ligfit for March. The tire situa tion is yet critical. Applicants are requested to be patient, drivo slow, use care and conserve the ones now on the car. No definits relief is in sight. The Price Panel Members of Lo cal War Price & Rationing Boar a has been enlarged this week tu permit closer touch with prico ceilings, point rationing and com ■ ing meat rationing in all sections ' of the county. There are now 0r... or more members of the panel in every township who will work in . close connection with the board and with inspectors of OPA to . see that prevailing price ceilings , set from time to time on sundry articles are adhered to. The fo!- > lowing now constitute this panel jor board: Ruth Coleman, Clerk: I Mrs. Janie Cofer, R .M. Greene, 1' I I. G. Ross, N. F. Christian, Ellis j II Coon, Mrs. Reid Jones, Mrs. R. B.! , Hutcherson, Mrs. Sadie Ksillam, | ; Miss Sauie Blackwell, Mrs. Eula : Beck, O. R. Nunn. i! . , Registration for Ration Book i Two in Stokes county was most t efficiently administered by the I. principals, teachers and advanced , students in thi various school.}. 3 22,800 n.en, women and children ;, were registered cr« a total of 0,- 1 964 Declaration Forms. Thin was - all accornp"shel with no friction I - end little inconvenience on the U. S. fliers Get Down Many Planes Witn No I Cieait On Official Rec-, ord ( LONDON.—Officers who ques tion the crews of Ftying Fortres-' ses after their European forays say they feel generally that the gunners of these planes destroy | more enemy planes than official 1 records show. The officially announced number of German fighters shot down since these raids began in August exceeds 200. The high rate of de struction by the B-17 bombers 's so revolutionary in aerial warfare that it has given rise to some question whether the figures were too enthusiastic. Here are the answers to ques tions posed about the prowess of 'the Fortresses. Q. Is it true that RAF methods of determining enemy losses which long were regarded as con servative and accurate> differ from I ! those of the United States Army |Air Forces? j A. The two forces use the same ' methods. In fact, the USAAF learned much of its technique di rectly from the British. Conclusive Evidence Q. What is accepted as conclu sive evidence that a plane was de ; stroyed? S. the circumstances vary with the cases, but, broadly, the evi . dense required is for the gunner i• or other witnesses to see the !' planes hit the land or sea, to see i . the plane explode in the air, tc ' see the pilot bailing out —in the ! case of a single-seater fighter— I or To see the plane dive away so completely enveloped in flames as to preclude all possibilities of its Leing flown away. Q. Doe* the USAAF list as a destroyed plane one which the gunner has shot into and seen fal ling away apparently out of con trol, but which went into a cloud or otherwise lost to sight? j A. No. Q. Even if such a plane is clear ly smoking? A. No. We know the pilot may have a brisk fire aboard, topple away, put the fire out and then regain control. | Q. Is it possible that, flying in tight formations, gunners from two or more Fortresses might be pumping bullets into an enemy iighter which blows up and eacii gunner honestly reports that m shot the plane down, thus getting duplication? j A. This is possible and no ont 1 can say there have not been ;i | , few instances of duplication, bu: ; I can say—without going into un publishable detail—that every pre caution is taken to prevent it bj ! checking times and other circum ! stances, preliminary figures, be ;fore the various interrogating of jijeers compare notes, check ant J double check the answers, are of , ten higher than the ones finallj Sj!given. When in doubt, we are in | clincd not I 'ist two as destroy , rt of T* .O JP'T of the county .j The 'nol '.in itios : nrt 'heir stn h dents are to DO ' ILED f.U u; R the earnest ."'Tin' the/ road."* i :j, doing this worit in ST sl.r.r* a per 4 iod and in nt'.ch a splendid pat i 1 . . * notic manner. ea. ] Q. Granting that fighters are the traditional destroyers of the air, why, when a large number ox fighters escort 100 Fortresses on a raid, will the fighters be credit- I p ed with only two or three enemy planes, while perhaps 20 or 30 e i f will be given to the bombers? A. It's simple. The Fortresses a get the shots and the fighter 3 * [don't. German fighters are not en gaging our fighters if they can r I « possibly avoid it. Their job is to g knock down bombers and protect the targets. Also, on raids where i bombers go beyond fighter range, ' I the Germans have learned to WBit I and concentrate on the bombers wnen tliey are unprotected. [ Q. The USAAF communiques 1 issued in London do not list ( '"probable enemy planes destroyed 1 or enemy planes damaged," and ' t in some instances communiques , IXTTe salu "some enemy pianes I 1 were destroyed" without stating 'the number. Why? Probables' Om.tted i A. "Probables" and "damaged" ( were once listed, but they seem ed to cause some confusion and exaggeration i n the public ( thought, so they now are omitted | in the interests of conservatism, j • In some cases, the numbers were ■ not given because planes were j scattered, pilots and crewmen j ' wounded, and other factors made I ■ accurate data impossible until af ' ter other raids had intervened * and it was decided there was no - point in giving out belated fig - ures. ■ Q. Are enemy plr.nes destroyed " ever credited to Fortresses which ! 5 do not return? 3 A. Only in very rare instances, ' where the crew s of other planes say absolutely that they saw an I enemy shot down by thp crew of ? the lost bomber. " j Q. Is it true that the Fortresses' " practice of flying very high in I tight formation makes it harder | for them to report losses accurate- J ly than for fighters which follow targets closely? A. Yes, but the effect is not to V . enlarge the Fortress credit sheet. e | On the contrary, it undoubtedly I I works in the opposite manner, I since it seems certain a definite share of the enemy planes which n fall away in distress are lost from 0 sight and can be listed only as y "probable." Li j ~ I WANTED —T-Model Ford. 25 or is 27 model. Fairly good condition. Write or see— ie THOMAS C. PETREE, Danbury, N. C. "l ~ '" I HIE DANBURY RErORTEB, DANBURY, N. G. y j. Enclosed you will find for which ptoaHe son \ i'.:3 DANBURY j. REPORTER to the following address: t-1 If renewing old subscription plss.se Chech here: ( ). i d f-i NAIall: y I ADDRESS: f 1 ' CITY: STATE J - Jobwork Guaranteed Thursday, Mar. 11, 1943 > Blackout For Mm western Stokes Jul March 18 U. S. army ha 4 declared Thura- HB day, March 18, BLACKOUT N IGHT for western Stokes county, S| embracing the Germanton, King, |SS Pinnacle and Francisco territory and east including Hanging Rock -|B| Park. All lights go black at 8:50 p. .gpj m. No exceptions in this area of sij Stokes county. "All-clear" cornea at 6:22 p. m. Listen to Black-out news over the radio or in daily papers. LAWRENCE MACRAE. .|j| Last year American workers f'Mm lost about two million social se- f K§ curity account cards. These cost H| the Government $500,000 to re place. V ■ The amount of money used for the duplicate cards issued during the last 12 months would equal the amount required to buy 833 machine guns or 550 jeeps or 25,- OCO rounds of pistol ammunition. Mrs. Hollis Rhodes and Cath erine Sisk visited Winston-Salem this afternoon. iSTUART, THEATRE , Stuart, Virginia Friday $• Saturday, March -2-13 "i)UDE CO it'BOV" Tiiu Ujit—Xiay Uil.t.ey I Also | I'SIIEPiILRD OF TIJE OZA.iKS" I Xhe Weaver liros. ail J tiviry I SaniLy & Monday, March 14-15 "WIFE TAKES A I LYl.il" : Jo. n Lennett—Franchot Tone ITues., Wed., Thurs., Mar. IC-17-18 "MRS. MINIVER Greer Carson—Walter Pi.lgeon T: resa Wright Also News l Deed Trust blanks, 50c doz.; Chat- A tel Mortgages, 25c doz.; Land Posters, 25c doz.—on sale at tho Reporter office. Mailed on request. i AT FIRST ' Kfe SIGN OF A O 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DftOPS
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