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PAGE TWO Brief Review Os Slate, National And World News During The Past Week A=LL BANQUETS MAY -BE OUT FOR DURATION -New York The New York World-Telegram said this week -shad learned from an OPA spokesman that “banqueting is 'jsut for the duration.” “‘While no order has yet been issued covering the ban, an OPA spokesman indicated it would ap- E>ly impartially to all group-eat ang functions in hotels, Rotary truncheons as well as soup-and fish banquets,” the World-Tele gram said. The newspaper said the OPA spokesman added: "Don’t let anybody think that foecause they may have more "money than the next one they can go to some high-priced ho tel and get a bigger and better meal. Hotel meals will be on a Tpar as far as quality goes, big ’■hotel or small hotel.” Service organizations which fields regular weekly luncheons, including Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions iand Exchange clubs, presumably "would be affected. The World-Telegram said it ■was learned that several New York hotels, which already were their banquet and din ing room services, had been " advised by the OPA to prepare for no-banquet days for duration, as soon as meat ra tioning becomes general.” ’HITLER’S ROPE HANGS MORE THAN 3,000,000 London—Adolf Hitler’s “hang man’s rope” rule in occupied Eu rope has claimed more than 3,-, £500,000 lives, the in ter-Allied Committee reported. “‘The figures are mostly Ger man so the extent of human life taken and amount of suffering "caused by the Axis is only par tially revealed,” the committee .said. ' Death at the hands of the gesta po experts never have been re vealed and accurate information is difficult to obtain. | The committee reported that • T 1.500.000 persons have been exe " cured or died in Polish concentra tion camps, and that 744,000 have been executed in Yugoslavia, with 152 Belgians executed and | 1,290 more f .3 concentration .camps I I MANY AT RECEPTION FOR MDM. CHIANG KIA-SHEK Washington The top foam of Washington surged en masse into the Shoreham hotel’s best ball room to greet Madame Chiang '*K.ai-shek and partake of Chinese < embassy hospitality. For two long hours they came, six abreast extending the length of a block, through cushioned lounges where palms were early casualties army, navy and governmental elite moved in steady file past the chair where sat the first lady of China in • sapphire velvet aflash with se quins and highlighted by white orchids which the President and Mrs. Roosevelt sent. Amid the bevy surrounding the wife of the Chinese generalissimo, Madame Wei Tao-ming, wife of, the ambassador, greeted the more | chan 2,000 guests with constant j good humor. WANTED IVY and LAUREL BURLS Dogwood, Hard Maple and Hornbean Cash in on your Ivy and Laurel stools NOW while prices are high and demand is good. Highest market prices paid for well-trimmed and solid burls. Also for clear Dogwood 4'A” in diameter and up. About 70% of the pipe production goes to our boys in the Armed Forces of “Uncle Sam”. So—“ Keep ’em Smoking”. Turn your burls in for cash and buy more “WAR BONDS”. PURCHASING AGENTS: TODD DRUG COMPANY West Jefferson, North Carolina Brownwood, North Carolina W. H. BROWN Fleetwood, North Carolina Carolina Briar Corp. WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. CRANBERRY, N. C. ON BAPTIST HOUR 11 B' irk / ’? w DR. ROBERT G. LEE, of Memphis, Tennessee, Pastor of the Bellevue Baptist Church, author and outstand ing preacher, will be heard on The Baptist Hour in March in a series of three addresses, ac cording to announcement by Dr. S. F, Lowe, Atlanta, Geor gia, Chairman of the Southern Baptist Radio Committee. The first address, entitled “Gaining God as Ally”, will be delivered Sunday morning, March 7th, at 8:30 EWT. The programs may be heard. in North Carolina over stations WPTF of Raleigh and WBIG of Greensboro. BOMBING OF JAPANESE INDUSTRIES PLANNED Washington An indication that America’s naval might in the Pacific is about ready to under take a drive for positions from which Japanese industrial cen ters can be brought under direct and devastating attack came this week from Admiral Chester W. Nimtz, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet. “We are now at the cross roads of the Pacific campaign,” Nimitz said in a radio broadcast spon sored by the American Red Cross His prepared statement was re leased by the navy in Washing ton. “Through the unmatched devo tion of the men who held the ’ lines in the trying months of the past year, we have turned back the enemy in the South Pacific. The loss of Guadalcanal marks the first defeat of that kind suf fered by the Japanese in modern times. HOPE FOR 68 MINERS IN MONTANA VANISHES Bear Creek, Mont. Hope for the 68 men still trapped in a gas filled tunnel of Montana’s big gest coal mine since Saturday morning faded this week as mem bers of the rescue squad report ed the wrecked shaft was a veri table hell. Six bodies have been recovered and three miners were rescued alive. More than 400 rescue workers have been trying to reach the men since a terrific blast wrecked a section of the mine Saturday, 800 feet below the surface and possibly a mile from the central Proclamation BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHEREAS The American National Red Cross during the first year of our participation in the war has rendered vital humanitarian services to the members of our armed forces and to their families; and WHEREAS the demands made upon the Red Cross are steadi ly increasing from day to day as it is called upon to accom pany our Army and Navy into z worldwide theaters of action, to provide blood plasma for . our wounded, to send relief to American and United Na tions prisoners of war, and to expand its preparations to meet emergencies at home; and WHEREAS The American National Red Cross is under the necessity of raising further funds in order that these es sential services may be con tinued and expanded: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, and President of The American National Red Cross, do hereby designate the month beginning March 1, 1943, as “Red Cross Month,” and I request that during that month our people rededicate themselves to the splendid aims and activities of the Red Cross. I summon the men, womui, and young people of our country, in every city and town and village, in every county and state throughout the land, to enlist in the army of mercy mobilized under the banner of the Red Cross and to contribute generously to the Red Cross War Fund in order that the sum of One Hundred Twenty-five Million Dollars, every cent of which is needed, may be raised promptly. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affix ed. DONE at the City of Wash ington th,is twenty-third day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and of the Inde pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and sevty-seventh. (SEAL) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State. SAPP INFANT DIES Baby Sapp, 16-day-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sapp, of Sly, died last Friday, February 26, and was buried at the Sapp cemetery on Sunday. shaft. Rescue squads were brought here from surrounding towns to aid local mine workers. Rescue workers who stumbled gasping and reeling from the shaft said additional bodies had been found but mine officials said there were no developments. SENATE SAYS “MAN ACCOUNT” OVERDRAWN Washington An estimate that American working and fighting forces must total 62.500,000 nearly half the population of all ages—by the end of 1943 led a senate committee to the conclu sion today that the nation’s “per sonnel bank account” appears ovprrlrawn by “several million men.” After questioning of Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the war man power commission and Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war pro duction board, Senator Thomas Okla.) asserted it appeared we ought to consider regimen tation of civilian population to do the Job on all the fronts.” ADVANCE IN COST OF NEWSPRINT MADE Washington The Canadian and American governments an nounced a $4 a ton increase in th& ceiling for standard newsprint paper. The announcement was made jointly by the office of price administration and the Canadian wartime prices and trade board. The increase became effective March 1. OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown said the increase was nec essary “because the newsprint in dustry can no longer absorb the increased cost which condi tions have brought about.” The War Production board re cently postponed a proposed addi tional 10 per cent curtailment in newsprint consumption when it developed that supplies would be larger than estimated originally. THE SKYLAND POST, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. Meat Pricing To Be Revealed Soon Washington A new system of price retail cuts of pork is due to be unveiled by the Office of Price Administration Friday. Long promised by the agency to replace the present irregular system by which each butcher has a different price maximum, the new system is to provide uni formity in each of the large zones into which the country will be divided. The new prices, however, will not go into effect until April 1. The pork schedule will be follow ed later by similar pricing sys tems on beef and other meats. Under the new system, OPA will fix standardized ceiling pric es for each type of cut, specifying, for instance, the top price in Zone 1 is so many cents per pound for loin chops, so many cents per pound for shoulder chops, and so on. While the new price system will not affect the total supply of meat available for sale to civ ilians, it is expected to even up supplies between stores in the same localities. At present, those stores which have the highest individual ceilings tend to get more meat to sell than competi tors who have lower individual ceilings. NEW PENNY IS NOW BEING CIRCULATED Washington The treasury be gan distribution of a new zinc coated steel penny that looks at first glance like an outsize dime or an emanciated nickel. The treasury put the new coin on sale to collectors and others but limited purchases to 50 a person. The penny—designed like the old copper Lincoln pen ny—will go into general circula tion as current penny stocks de cline. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and relatives for their kindness shown during the sick ness and death of our dear com panion and mother, and for the beautiful flowers. O. Lewis and family. Os the imported foreign labor ers in Germany, 25 percent are women, and they are forced to work from 13 to 15 hours a day, many in unhealthy occupations. CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY Della Mae Horton (colored), celebrated her eleventh birth day with a party Monday after noon at her home. Games were played during the afternoon. Seven guests were present. Re freshments were served and she received a number of gifts. THE pARKWAy THEATRE West Jefferson, N. C. FRI.-SAT. MAR. 5-6 Matinee Sat. 1:00 P. M. The 3 Mesquiteers —in— PHANTOM PLAINSMEN Chapter 9 “Riders of Death Valley” Also Comedy MON. ONLY MAR. 8 $l2O Bank Night $l2O Don Ameche Joan Bennett —in— GIRL TROUBLE Also Short Subject TUES. ONLY MAR. 9 J. Carol Naish Lynne Roberts —in— DR. RENAULT’S SECRET Chapter 3 “Secret Code” Also Short Subject WED.-THURS. MAR 10-11 Matinee Thur. 1:30 p. m. Charles Boyer Rita Hayworth and many others —in— TALES OF MANHATTAN Latest War News Farm ‘Trenches’ On The Contour I ”■ > MAYBE IAM OVER- I DOING IT, MOM, ‘ BUT COHTOURf H 6 ' WILL HELP US MEET 1947 1 ■S ■ ■ ■ -</ Soldiers fighting in trenches and foxholes on foreign soils may not be interested in the contour of the land, but farmers back home find contoured “trenches” pay dividends in food and fiber needed for victory, according to Earl B. Garrett, State Conservationist of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service and a member of the State USDA War Board. Con servation practices carried out in the past ten years have done a great deal toward increasing per acre yields on North Carolina farms, Garrett says, and contour farming is one of the modern conservation methods which will help farmers meet their food production goals this year. Black Out Regulations Are Cited By State Officials Unattended lighting in homes, business establishments and on vehicles, were responsible in some measure for ragged performance in the practice black-outs last week, Levem Johnson, command er of Civilian Defense here said today. The local defense official stated that he had received a communi cation from R. L. McMillan call ing attention to the fact that the entire state of North Carolina is governed by an order of Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, Command ing General, Eastern Defense Command and First Army, which requires that “at all times of darkness, occupants of premises and operators of road vehicles and other conveyances shall not 4 MILLS IN N. CAROLINA 4 MILLS IN VIRIGNIA MEDGENTRA LIMITED U.S.A., INC- Manufacturers of Textile Loom Implements Fair view Road—Biltmore Asheville, N. C. Under the recent amendment to the FEDERAL SABOTAGE ACT “to punish willful injury to or destruction of war material, Dogwood Is Now A War Material and as such it is intended for, adapted to or suitable for the use of the United States or Associate Nations in connection with the conduct of the War. The United States Forest Service Refuses To Sell Government Dogwood Except For Making Sluitttles The UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE in its broadcasts of September, 1942, “Here’s Another Tree That’s Going To War” “Dogwood To Uniforms” [ “Mr. Farmer -- Help Win The War” AND ITS CIRCULAR appealed to all farmers to bring their Dogwood to SHUTTLE BLOCK mills because the Textile Industry needs Shuttles which must be made from Dogwood, and short age of Shuttles decreases vital war production. The WAR PRODUCTION BOARD wrote us in November, 1942, to stress the fact that Shuttle Blocks are a critical item without which our Government would be unable to clothe our Army and Navy. No patriotic farmer will therefore want to help the Axis by reducing the dwind ling supply of Dogwood through sales for non-essential use. Be sure YOUR dog wood goes to war by selling it to Medgentra, to make shuttles. Write us to ASHEVILLE, N. C. or call at our mill-unit in WEST JEFFERSON, N. C., for specification. Spot Cash And Highest Market Prices for Dogwood Sticks 4'A inches diameter and up in suitable grade for Shuttles. have any unattended lighting, ex cept indoor lighting meeting War Department specifications. Light ing shall be considered unattend ed unless a competent individual, who is a member or employee, or guest of the household or busi ness establishment of the occupier or who is the operator or the oc cupant of a road vehicles or other road conveyance, or who. by ar rangement with any such indi vidual has undertaken responsi bility for said lighting, can black out as provided.” The State Director said that during the period and in the area of blackouts persons in control of lighting should extinguish all lights visible from the outside as promptly as possible. This applies THURSDAY, MAR. 4, 1943 Conservation Farming News By j. t. McLaurin Much interest has been shown in the past few weeks in laying off contour furrows on fields to be farmed this coming season. Last week, fields were layed off for Paul Reeves and Mr. Good man, of Nathan’s Creek; W. M. Transou and F. T. Rose, of Laurel Springs; Bryant Pennington, of Sturgill and Ralph Goss, of Lit tle Horse Creek. With an added acreage being converted to the production of food and feed for freedom, care ful consideration should be given to the place and method these crops are planted. This will aid the nation during the crisis and assure the farmer of good pro ductive soils to farm on after the peace. The functions of Phosphrous are: (1) Increases root development. (2) Hastens Maturity. (3) Develops seed and fruit. (4) Increases quality. Next week: The functions of POTASH. Make your plans early for a Victory Garden. to lights of every description, electrical, gas, oil or any other source, including matches, cigar ette lighters, etc. Any person who violates these regulations is subject to penalties provided by Title 18, section 97A, United States Code, which is a fine of not to exceed $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for each offense. The OCD Head stated that this warning is being issued in view of the fact that lights in many business establishments, such as show window and neon overhead lights were not properly attended during the latest blackouts. Un less outside switches have been provided and the local warden notified of location of such switches, persons leaving lights burning unattended will be sub ject to the penalties mentioned.
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