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Watch The Label On Your Paper. Aa It Carrier The Date Your Subscription Expiree THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will find Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1.M0 Homes Of Martin County. VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 38 ff'illiamtton, Martin County, Korlh Carolina, Tueaday, May 13, 19-11, ESTABLISHED 1899 Reorganization Of Scouts In District Planned At Meet (AHmiiitte*-* Expfrlrtl To Art At Meeting To Be Held Here On Mav 28th ??? Preliminary plans for reorganizing the Boy Scout movement on an ex tensive scale and after an active fash ion were advanced at a meeting of interested citizens and Scout lead ers held in the high school here last Friday evening, the final action for reorganization to be taken at a meeting of special committee mem bers to be held Wednesday after noon. May 28. at 5 o'clock. The twenty or more citizens at tending the meeting from James ville, Robersonville, Everetts and Williamston last Friday night ex pressed a keen interest in the re organization movement, and sensing the groat need for an active organi zation movement they pledged their willingness to work for and support scouting in this district. Special com mittee members are to be named dur ing the next few days, and they will be asked to formulate definite plans for the reorganization. Addressing the meeting. James Gaskins, Scout Executive for the Eastern Carolina Council, stated that this district had been altered to in clude Windsor, and declared that the new set-up made this district one of the most compact in the Council. Windsor was not represented at the meeting last Friday, but the reorgan ization will be advanced with the youths of that town and community forming an integral part in the new set-up. The Scout executive stated that a representative survey had proved that nine out of every twelve boys in this district want to become Boy Scouts, that for some reason or oth er only one out of every fifteen was a Scout. "Wo are not reaching the youth of our section," Mr. Gaskins declared. He pointed out that on an average one out of every three boys in the country is a Boy Scout, that in this Council only one out of every eight boys belong to the organization It is an acknowledged fact that the adults in this district are not show ing much interest in the movement and that they have done little o promote the valuable training Mr. Gaskins is strong for an active and voluntary support of the move ment and is against any compulsory plan now being considered m some quarters for regimenting the youth of the land. It is apparent that un less the organization intensifies its work the movement to regiment the youth into one of the strongest arm ies in the world. No such motive is considered in this country, Mr. Gas kins pointing out that the Scout movement is to train the youth into the ways of Americanism, to develop character. "If there ever was a time to com bat evil and other foreign influences among the youth of our section and country, it is now." a civic leader re marked following the meeting. Fa thers of youngsters are urged to take a more active interest in the program with the assurance that when they do the general public will follow with a strong support in the name of civic betterment and in the name of rising citizens. Mr. Gaskins was accompanied by his assistant, Douglas Kelley, and the two of them will be able to keep in closer touch with the work in this district than they and they predeces sors did in the past. I^eary In Race For Congressional Seat State Senator Herbert Leary, of Edenton, last week-end announced his candidacy for Congress from this, the first district, subject to the Dem ocratic primary next May Leary, who has served the first judicial dis trict of the State as solicitor for a period of eleven years, said in an nouncing his candidacy last week end that he would issue a formal statement of policy next January, "in which he will declare the plat form on which he will make his cam paign for this high and important of fice." Senator Leary further said he hoped he had demonstrated by the public bills sponsored by him and the votes cast by him, during the re cent General Assembly, that he has a keen interest in all educational and agricultural problems, as well as all of a public nature and that the News and Observer of Sunday. March 23. in a review and summary of the leg islation passed by the General As sembly of 1941, made the following comment in bold headlines: "Agri culture Gets Biggest Victory," and "Legislature Given Name of Friend of Education." It is generally con ceded by the press of the State, said Senator Leary, that more legislation for improvement in agriculture and in aid of education was passed at the recent session than at any session within a period of 25 years prior thereto; and that if nominated and elected he will continue to give his time and energies without stint in aid of education and improvement of agriculture and all other problems affetting the peoples of the First Congressional District, and our great State and Nation. Will Start Compliance Check On County Farms Next Week Plans were announced virtually complete today for a checking com pliance by Martin County farmers with the current AAA program Twenty or more local supervisors have been trained in the work, and field tests were made in Roberson ville Township yesterday by a num ber of the new recruits Additional tests will be given in the field next Friday, it is understood. Planning to launch the annual check of crop plantings and compli ance next Monday, the office of the county agent*is appealing to the far mers to assist the local supervisors in every way possible. The cost of the compliance check can be mater ially reduced if those in charge of each farm will accompany the sup ervisors and explain the division of crops and determine each individ ual's share in the soil building pay- ' Thirty-Nino Years Ago As Recorded In The Enterprise SEPTEMBER 6. 1901. Rev B. K. Mason is holding a ser ies of meetings at Riddick's Chapel. J A. Mizell and Co. are having a new floor put in their place of busi ness. The rain last Saturday was the heaviest of the year. For an hour or more a portion of our town was al "most flooded Services at the Hall next Sunday morning and evening, conducted by Capt Williams One hundred and fifty dollars for one cart load of tobacco. That was what one man got this week at Rob ersonville. Mr. V. R Taylor, of Hamilton, was in town last' Friday. Before leaving Mr Taylor renewed his subscription to The Entreprise. Mrs. Henreitta Peel is visiting in Robersonvllle. S. C. Sitterson left for Oak Ridge Tuesday morning Ed Council, of Conoho, spent Tuesday in town. Ed Hardison and S. Ii. Cleary, of Weldon. are visiting their parents in town. Miss Hattie Harrell has given up her position with Blount &c Bros and accepted a similar place with C. D Carstarphen Miss Muriel Bulwinkie, of Dallas, N. C-. who has accepted the position as assistant teacher at the Academy is in town. Misses Carrie Biggs, Victoria Mar tin and Ida Williams left Tuesday morning for the Baptist Female Uni versity at Raleigh. Contract Is Let For Teacherage -4> A contract for a 14-room teacher age in Robersonville was let by the Martin County Board of Education in a long afternoon session here yes terday The building contract was let to F B. Birmingham. Williams ton contractor, for $10,390 The W E Dunn Plumbing and Heating Com pany, also of Williamston, was the successful bidder for the plumbing and heating which will cost $2,310. I Bids were also submitted by Shoe and Cannon, of Greenville, in the sum of $11,260, and by J. C. Martin in the sum of $10,507 for the con struction of the building. Ross Plumbing and Heating Company, of Greenville, submitted a heating and plumbing bid in the sum of $2,643. and the Harris Hardware Company submitted a bid in the sum of $3, 453 for the plumbing and heating. Work on the building is to get un derway immediately. Orphanage Singers To Give Concert Tonight The youthful singers of the Oxford Orphanage will appear in their an nual concert in the high school audi torium here this evening at eight o'clock. The public is cordially in vited and urged to witness the pro gram. No admission fee is asked, but a free-will offering will be receiv ed. The fourteen children are being en tertained in private homes during their stay here. Tomorrow, the group will go to Colerain. WEAK There's a lot being said about helping Britain and defending the country, but there isn't much beinf done locally to finance the aid prof ram and defense plans, lip until today $57 worth of de fense savings stamps had been sold since the first of the month by the local poatofflce. Just four defense bonds have beenAold lo cally, the $911.75 raiamTOy the sale beinf hardly enoufh to fi nance a back-yard recreational project The stamps and bonds may be boucht at the poatofflce, and judging from the record estab lished since May 1 the purchases may bo made without delay. ments. Annual paymenU to farmers will be divided according to the in formation given the supervisors, it is understood. Acreages will be checked for the basic crops such as cotton. peanuU. tobacco and Irish potatoes, but not for general crops such as corn. Those farmers desiring a re-check of their plantings will be requested to make a deposit with the under standing that the deposit will not be refunded if the measured acreages are not within the allotment. If the supervisor makes a mistake and the complainant's plantings are found by a re-check to be within the al lotment. then the deposit will be re funded A deposit for a re-check will be required at the rate of $1 for 4 acres or less, 25 cents an additional acre up to 10 acres. 20 cents an acre up to 20 acres, and 15 cents an acre for each acre over 20. Lawrence Stalls Dies At His Home In Bethel Sund ay Funeral Servicen (loiuhieleil | Here Yeatrrdli) After noon at .'t O'dloek William Lawrence Stalls, native of this county and a resident of Wil liamston for a number of years, died ai his home in bethel Sunday morn mg at 2 15 o'clock following a long period of declining health A vic tim of cancer, he had been confined to his bed for about four months, spending part of that time in a Dur ham hospital Sixty-two years old last October. Mr. Stalls was born in Cross Hoads Township, near Everetts, the son of the late Raleigh Stalls and wife. He spent his early life on the farm and at an early age married Miss Millie Bullock who died about eight years! ago. Soon after his marriage he lo- | cated in Gold Point where as an able machinist and craftsman he engaged in the early manufacturing business in this county. After a stay of about seven years lie returned to the old home in Cross Roads, moving to Wil fiamston in 1908 to accept employ ment with the old Martin County | Buggy Company A year later he formed a partnership with the late Asa Tom Crawford and bought and operated the company. The period of transition from the buggy to the automobile was detected by him and in 1915 he sold his interest in the company and established the first | Chevrolet agency in this immediate section He later sold the business to the Peel Motor Company and since that time and until his health began to fall him he represented a | Icnr pearrot pickkr manufacturer trr~thts~j territory Mr. Stalls was closely associated with the manufacture of farm ma chinery. carts and buggies in this county for a long period. He was an able mechanic when it came to mak ing something that fitted in with the progressive march on the farm. About four years ago he was mar ried to Miss Caroline Blount, of Bethel. Forced to virtual retirement bv failing health, he moved to Beth el about a year ago to make his home. He leaves by his first marriage one son, Leon Stalls, of Ocean View, and | by his second marriage, a daughte Arlinza Caroline. He also leaves his wife, and one brother, Green Stalls, J of Tarboro. Funeral services were conducted at the Biggs Funeral Home on West | Main Street here yesterday aftei noon at 3 o'clock by Elders B S Cow in and A B Ayers, assisted by Rev. James H Smith, local Baptist [ minister. Interment was in the fam ily plot in the cemetery here. Religious Worker Coming To County Since 1935 the Presbyterians have had an assistant worker in the Coun ty under the direction of the local minister. Rev. Jack W. Vinson filled this position for about two years but last August was sent by the Foreign Mission Committee to China. Due to the Japanese occupation of a large part of China and their hostility to the missionaries, he and Mrs. Vin son are now in the Philippines. Since last August the work of the I assistant has been carried on by first 1 one and then another. Just a few weeks ago it was decided to fill this vacancy with one of the graduates of the General Assembly's Training School in Richmond. Va. The grad uates of this school, most of whom are women, are trained specifically as pastor's assistants. Specializing in young p<K>ple's work, women's aux iliary work, and Sunday school work. On a recent trip to Richmond, Mr. Peiphoff secured the services of Miss Louise Strange for this work. Miss Strange will arrive May 17th to begin her duties. Miss Strange is from Inman, S. C . and comes high | ly recommended. Miss Strange will live at Bear Grass and will take an | active part in the religious life of the County. iSeek Cooperation Of Local Citizens In US. Cotton Vi eek OM'ur JohiiMin Says Collon Week Big Asset in Cot ton Champaign Making a direct appeal to the cit izens of Martin County and the sur rounding territory for full support of National Cotton Week. President Oscar Johnson of the National Cot ton Council said today that "this great cotton merchandising event of fers one of the keys to the solution of the cotton problem " "During the past fourteen years National Cotton Week has proved to be a valuable adjunct in the cam paign to increase cotton consump tion I am glad to say that through the increased cooperation of citizens of Martin County and other Cotton Belt communities, Cotton Week has met with ever-increasing success." Mr Johnson said "Now more than ever is the co operation of evefy community in Ithe Belt needed. The probability of the greatest surplus in history at the end of the current crop year makes it doubly necessary that every ef fort be made to increase domestic cotton consumption. "It is increasingly apparent that if the cotton problem is to be perma-1 nently solved, the solution must be arrived at through the intelligent and united effort of all cotton peo ple. National Cotton Week, sponsor ed jointly by the National Cotton | Council and the Cotton Textile In-I stitute. is a part of that effort. j "During this cotton sales event the ! merchants of every Community in the Belt will offer quality cotton ar- J tides at bargain prices. Here is an opportunity for you both to aid cot- ] ton and to boost your own buying power. "Cotton people can work out their own salvation. Most of us already know that, but knowledge and the ory are worthless unless we put them into practice. National Cotton Week is our Number One opportunity of 1 941 " Presbyterians Will Hold Bible School Yesterday, the annual series of Vacation Bible Schools in the Pres byterian Churches of the. County got underway. The schools this year are to be under the direction of Rev. Z. T Picphoff, Miss Louise Strange and Miss Ruby Wynne The first school in the series is at Poplar Point. This school is to run | for two weeks and will be followed by the one at Bear Grass and then by the one at Robinson's Chapel and then possibly by the one at Gold Point. The enrollment at Poplar Point is already well above 40 and will in crease to around 05 tomorrow. The teachers in this school are, Miss Ru- I by Wynne. Mrs. Norman Swain, Mrs. Brinkley Lilley and Rev. Z. T. Piep- I hoff. Assistant teachers are Jerry Raynor, Leland Hardison, Courtney Jenkins, Virginia Griffin, Dolly Har dison and Frances Raynor. The sessions last from 9 a m. un til 11:30 a. m There are three de partments and courses are given in worship, recreation, Bible, the Cate chism, music and handwork If you live close enough to any one of these schools you are invited to send your children. Re|>ort On Eggs Shows Increase Raleigh?North Carolina egg pro duction for the first quarter of 1941 was 11 per cent above the same per iod last year, W. T Wesson, junior statistician of the State Department of Agriculture reported recently. Production for January, February and March totaled 191,00,000 eggs, compared with 172,000,000 for the same period in 1940. "North Carolina was the only South Atlantic State showing an in crease in the number of layers on hand during March as compared with the number on hand during March of last year," Wesson said, us ing a Federal-State Crop Reporting Service summary as a basis for his information. The March egg production of 93 million eggs was four per cent above the same period last year, while the rate of egg production per layer for the month was 14.29 eggs compared with 13.93 a year ago and 8.6 eggs for February, 1941. North Carolina's average produc tion per layer during March was slightly under the United States av erage of 14.96. The number of lay ers on hand during March in the State was estimated at 6,506,000 or two per cent above the number last year at the same period. Wesson reported that "prices re ceived by North Carolina f arm era for eggs on March 15 were 12 per cent higher than a year earlier and chicken prices were up nine per cent from the pervious year." For the United States, the March production of 4,611,000,000 eggs was the largest for the month since 1931. However, the number of layers on farms for the period was three per cent under March, 1940. To Receive Bids For Surfacing River Fill Not Ortain W lien Work On Dirt Fill W ill Be Completed Hrst t lunge* of I >\ imuiilc To S?>|||?' Din \r,. Kire.l Ijmt K\ ruing ? ? Although n.> definite date has been mentioned for completing the dirt fill across the Roanoke River low ground* at this point, the North Car olina Highway and Public Works Commission Thursday. May 22, will receive bids for the surfacing of the four mile stretch of road according o an unofficial announcement heard here over the week end It ,s appai ??lit that the commission does not plan t< have the surfacing work started immediately after the bids nr.- re vived and ,f they do then some of the concrete will have to he placed on Stilts more'n likely. Only a short time ago it was re liinms! 'arn,'d ,hat 12000(1 ,,f "'<? 80,00(1 square yards needed to wid hu'W the fill ,o a certain leight had been placed on the road figures are not available just now. but it isn't reasonable to be ,o workmen ca., v000 >a,<ls of dirt in the course of ^ 1 1 nftt'" fttyy fiptl iniiiij | "Illy 120,(100 yards since las, ber up until about three weeks ago I'lday. nine trucks were haul nig dirt mi lb f,|| om. (j A] iix Zrfat "',UkS ",U,d oiake six loads an hour and could carry three yards of dirt at each-load, the fount at the end of ? ten-hour day would be only 1,620 square yards trucks t ",1" f"UI ? inks dismissed from the project1 toward the latter part of last week were ordered back last Saturday I .n . To',? "ri" ??' "Pinion'that the dut fill will be completed by the early part of J,,ly Unofficial reports' from up Raleigh way state that there I* no reason why normal traffic ' "Stored by the middle I meaning ?f "normal ?iffic IS not definitely known, hut the report would indicate that the load will he surfaced, bridges com p eted and traffic sailing by .the mid dle of July. The report would lead o m to believe that a regular hid, kites IS going to strike between here , and the highlands of Bertie County ere long, and causes one to only hope that the person knows what he is i talking about. I The economic effect the curtailed ' tiaffic schedule has had is far great ? t than many suspect. Hanging by a shoe string and borrowing money to, slay open, more than one little bus, ness along the road side will hi- ? lung time recovering from the eco j nomie blow. lthmr",u"l",,'".Xg"'"S- U"d "M'y l'r"v?'d , . } ? ? " demonstra Hi t " i . ','Sl , v, "'nK. are burying dirt about as fast as Kikcr and Younts trucks can haul it ()n the fill between the last new bridge and the hide highland. Unable to get a foundation over*a fisti-feet course of quick sand, the authorities are dyna miting for a firm footing Planting about 400 pounds of dynamite about ? < et under the ground and in holes to either side and in the middle of the fill and about five feet apart the experts' lowered the road several fee over a course of about 35 or 4n bet in about a second and a half by p'; t,m'' "f Judge J. c. Smith, from Robe siinv,lie. who was on band to sir the blast The dynamiting was delayed yesterday by a breakdown and local workmen bad to be train in their new tasks. By late after noon, the workers were handling and packing dynamite with tamp sticks ft n i" W'r" dl" Just h"w king It Will take to ?settle" the fill cannot be determined, but the task will hardly be completed before the latter part of the week. One or two cars moved over the road yesterday while dynamite was placed out of the path if traffic. But from now on the dyna tri/fi * h"' P'"C ,n lln'' traffic and no passing will be per milted only between the hours of fl P m and 8 a. m. until the job is fin Twelve Persons In Car Wreek Sunda Jy Although slightly jarred and bruis ed, twelve persons escaped serious injury in an early Sunday morning auto accident on U. S. Highway No. 17 just this side of the Beaufort - Martin boundary line. Driving toward Williamstcn, J. T. Swanner, Beaufort County man, was blinded by the lights of an approach ing car and sidoswiped it. The second ear, driycnby Joe Thomas Black, of NewportNJ'wk, was struck Tn the side and caused to swerve and turn over. Property damage was in ex cess of $250, it was estimated. There were six persons in each car. Charged with reckless driving, Black was found not guilty in the county court here yesterday morn ing. Swanner was fined $10 and tax ed with the coat. This Week In Defense OPM AsMwiate Director Hillman told his pre** conference he wus drafting plaits with tin* AFl. and the CIO for a four-shift day. 160-hour week for all defense industries able to use extra labor. Mr Hillman said the plan provided a shut-down of production only on Sundays from 7 a in to 3 p. in to repair machines He recommended that defense indus tries pay a bonus to workers who vol untarily forego vacations. I.abor Disputes The War Department announced that only throe one hundredths of one per rent, of the total tune work eil has beep lost because of label troubles on its $1,200,000,000 eon struetion program. Administrator Straus of the I' S Housing Author ity reported "work has not been de layed by a single hour by a single strike on any defense housing built by USIIA * Aid To Democracies President Roosevelt. directing "whatever action is needed" to speed the production of heavy bombers, said m a letter to War Secretary Stmison that command of the air by the democracies must he achieved even if it means "a great strain on -otti?pi oduc t ion?effort."?Thr?ITcsi dent, requesting the Department of Agriculture to establish an Office of Agricultural Defense Relations, wrote Secretary Wickard that "the | most vital operating functions of agriculture in the defense program are. first .the guarantee of an ade quate supply of food for this ha It ion and . those nations whose de fen.se is essential to the defense of this country; second, the provision of sufficient agricultural raw materials for expanded defense-production." Cabinet Officers Speak Secretary of War Stinison said in a radio speech that American free j (loin will not be saved "unless we are ready to sacrifice, and if need be. die It is within our power to turn the tide of darkness back" by using the Navy ft? "secure the seas i for tin- delivery of our munitions to Great Britain . and hold cheek the onward rush of the tide of Naziism until the other defense forces of all the democracies are completed." Mr Stimson said "at least a year will pass before we can have an army and an air force adequate to meet the air and ground forces Which could he brought against us if the control of the seas passes into Axis .hands II we should allow the present strategic iuonuM.it to pass until the power of the British Navy is gone, our Navy' would become | merely a secondary power instead I of the decisive and winning power." (Continued on page six) Local Youth (>cls Promotion In Navy IVtr K^an, local young man who enlisted in the U. S. Navy several months ago, revealed in a recent let ter to his grandmother, Mrs Walter Halbcrstadt, that he had been pro moled to Third Class Machinist. Young Kgan is located at Pensaco la, Fla , and has under his direction and supervision ten planes and 12 men He is responsible for the con dition of the planes and has to see that they are properly serviced and conditioned before the pilots take off Of the 75 men who stood the ex amination, Kgan's rating stood sixth from the top. II"ork On Slrrrl Project Finally (wvt* (lii/lrrivay Actual work on Wilhamston's | three-year-old street improvement i program was launched yesterday | when Contractor J. M (Jregory plar d in operation a large grader over on Warren Street and Marshall Ave nue It will require several weeks' time to prepare the foundations, but the actual surfacing work can,, be handled in three or four days. TK VNSHiANTINO Thr transplanting of (hr 1941 tobacco crop Is now virtually complete, reports indicating that the task will have been handled in its entirety by tomorrow or certainly by the latter part of the week. Farmerx state that the transplanting season has been next to ideal, that the young plants are living and showing signs of growth in their new lo rations. A year ago hardly 25 per rent of thr crop had been transplant ed up until May 13, and the out look was not at all encouraging. The plants, it will be recalled, were wind beaten, hardened by cool weather and cut down by worma. Next Momentous Act In The War Now I p To The I niteil States ??? Fliiilil of lli^fli Nu/.i Official From Gorman* I- Nc*? S?-najition ? White v ???lit .ittontion was tem I|Mtiartl> shifted ?<? ltic sensational 'flight ?>i Rudolf U? v high ranking (Getman official, 11? mi Hitler > re gime 1o S'-eti nut lu^t Saturday mght * the tog prut'li in tdda> awaits a solu lion mi this country Public opinion has atread\ been ?-x pressed in fa vor of the act, but the use of con voys is apparently to be decided by the President alohe The convoy question offers tie big prot.l. in next in line to be tackled by this nation, and carries with it the power to alter the outlook of the war ?>i to spread the struggle to new land If Con gr,-N-. i* left to deeide the |SSIK\ the i^datioYiists with tiie support of the pi*> Na i ? lenient w ill filibuster for months M i a inonietitoUs question and one that will have !?? be decid ed by the l'i? sid? lit Tlic people, ex pi t ssing a burning desire to render .,11 possible aid to Britain are not in favor of seeilig American aid ditch ed. meaning that they are 111 favor ot convoys if convoy? are necessary to get badly needed iurppims b? Britain anil to others fighting against bar baristn i The recent and most severe air raids dished out by flic RAF on Ger many and by Germany on Fngland have been pushed into the back ground teinporai ily. at least, by the i imat lonal I light ot Rudolf lies.1'.. third in command in German, to Brit am last Saturday night Rated as one of the most sensational events of the War. the man's flight has the woild guessing. German' officials, report ing, th? man missing, maintain he is crazy Kxaniinations in a hospital prove him to. be sane, the genetal public '-reasoning ..that he was crazy while he remained in Germany, thai lie regained his sanity and fled Whatever tin real meaning of his departure may he. it is generally he lii veil that there is a rift in Ger many. that all I not well w ithin Hit Pi's'domain Hess, forbidden to fly tl pi;,,,,-, stole out of the country last Saturday evening and flew to Scot land lb deserted hi> twin motored plane anil landed with a parachute, breaking an ankle ill the landing He was not armed Hess was quoted today as saying that he left Germany m an effort to save humanity. and declared that 11 it |ei was 'ru?w working with all his might to push Germany into a part i net ship with communism; meaning pos ably through collaboration with | Stalin The sensation created by I lies .' flight I being climaxed by de-r velopmclits following lu capture |Churchill la.gland's Prime Minister. | .aid that lie woiiUI have a statement I to release shortly in connection with (Hess' unexpected visit Germany, while still maintaining that Hess is mentally unbalanced, is flabcrgasted and the talk and acts of Hitler are secondary new s as compared with the sensational -'revelations and supposi tions offered hi connection with the high German official's sudden de parture from his country last Satur day That his departure from Germany will upset Hit lei' plans to any great extent is: not expected, but time and (Continued on page six) Anticipating New Draft Registration No definite date ha* been fixed, but present indications point to a new registration of the nation's youth for possible army service within the next month or two The new regis tration will he for those young men who have become 21 years of age since last October It is possible the registration will be held in late June. Possible changes in the selective service act are also being considered in some high official quarters, but other than briefly outlining the Changes officials have taken no ac tion to have them written into the law Brigadier General Lewis B Hershey, acting chief of the draft, has expressed the opinion that younger men should be called to the ;service and that provisions should be made for deferring skilled workers and other classifications of workers. In expressing his opinion, Her jshey said: I am informed that men in the younger age brackets are best qual ified for the training and service contemplated under the act. Also, in view of the provisions for retaining the trainees in the reserve for a per iod of 10 years, it is desirable that he age of those trained be kept as low as the national interest will per mit so that the reserve forces will be composed of men whose effectiveness will remain at a high level during that period." TTCTCTiry proposed a change that would permit the President to pre scribe rules and regulations for the deferment of men whose age is such that they should he deferred "in the national interest." Hicse men then would be classified in a deferred lift, but would be liable to and available for training and service if the em* ergency became acute.