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VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 51 Williamston* Martin County* North Carolina* Friday* Jam* 27* 1941.
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Several Thousand
Immunized Against
Typhoid In County
Health Officer l!r|<c? Parents
To Protect Themselves
R\ Taking Vaccine
Completing the first four days of
a five-day campaign to insure Mar
tin County citizens protection
against typhoid fever. Dr. John M
Williams, health department head,
said last night that he was very well
pleased with the results up to that
time. It is fairly apparent, however,
that large numbers have not avail
ed themselves of the protection, and
that possibly another campaign
would not be amiss among the col
ored population.
Up until late yesterday. 4,247 per
sons. mostly children, had taken the
typhoid vaccine, and 146 had been
given the first dose of diphtheria tox
oid. The campaign outside the sev
eralx established health centers in
the county is being completed today,
but any one missing the clinics in
their community are urged to re
port, to their nearest center at spec
ified datesfor the protection.
Commenting on the campaign. Dr.
William* said *=
"The health department, realiz
ing that a man's wages and salary in
the majority of these cases is fully
dependent on his health to earn
them, hopes that more bread-earners
for the family will take advantage
of the vaccinations to prevent ty
phoid fever because we know that in
the majority of the cases our people
cannot afford to have a long spell
of fever. In other words, we had ra
ther vaccinate the father and moth
er in a family than all the children
because it means more.
"Those children who have taken
their first dose of diphtheria toxoid
this week are urged to return in a
month to any of our clinic points for
the second dose which is p life time
treaimem. ' "
"Those children who this week
took their first dose of typhoid are
urged to return to any#of our clinic
points for their second and third dose
at weekly intervals.
"Those people who could not reach
us at any of our clinic points this
week are urged to meet us at our
regular clinic appointments which
are held every week from 9 to 12
at the following places:
"On Mondays at Jamesville, on
Wednesdays at Robersonville; <>n
Friday at Oak City, and any day iff
the week at Williamston but* we
would rather have them come on
Thursdays and Saturday mornings
with the one exception of the 4th of
July because the office will be clos
ed the 4th and the 5th of that
month.''
The numbers attending, both
white and colored, are shown m the
'following tabulations, by districts:
Typhoid
...... ? ?"?
White
Col.
WiUiamston
351
43
Boar Grass
353
184
Lilley's Store
240
167
Farm Life
282
79
Jamesville
. 291
68
Hardens
113
242
No. 90 Filling Sta
?155 ?
"77
Robersonville
253
51
Everetts
296
188
Gold Point
121
151
Parmele
51
86
Cross Roads
277
128
2783
1464
Diphtheria
White
Col.
Williamston
17
0
Bear Grass
9
8
Lilley's Store
0
0
Farm Life
5
6
Jamesville
20
1
Dardens
3
2
No. 90 Filling Sta
8
7
Robersonville
7
0
Everetts
0
11
Gold Point
9
15
Parmele
0
3
Cross Roads
11
4
89
57
Exhaust One-Third
Registration List
Approximately one-third of the
first registration list will have been
exhausted by the time July draft
quotas are filled, according to unof
ficial information received here to
day. It has been estimated that the
draft board will have to dig down
to the number, "1049" to get the 42
men called in this county to report
for service in July.
The demand on the order num
bers is likely to increase in greater
proportions from now on than was
the case in the past. It has been point
ed out that quite a few volunteers
delayed the call from the regular
list of registrants. Comparatively
few young men are volunteering
their services now, Draft Board Clerk
Marion Cobb stating this week thai
only four volunteers ? two while
and two colored?are now on the
waiting list. Dallie Mary'and Vfcr
non Ward Bryant will be included ir
the group of 27 young white men U
leave the county nn July 23. Slinor
Howard and Frank Felton Slade art
Willi U? llwig iif HUsn
colored men scheduled to report t<
Fort Jackson on July 17.
To date, 2,251 questionnaires havi
been forwarded to registrants in thii
county.
Many Farmers in the County
Gambling With Boll Weevil
I Checked by weather conditions
last year, the boll weevil is expected
to catch quite a few Martin CoUnty
cotton farmers napping before the
| current season is spent. Reliable re
ports state that many Martin County
| farmers are gambling with the wee
| vil this year, most of them betting
that because the pest did not make
his appearance on a large scale last
I year he will not come this season.
I Others are apparently not worried
about the weevil; in fact, they j
frankly declare that they naa noV
even thought about the weevil and
tthe threat he holds over the grow
ing crop.
In some section^, farmers are pre
paring a sizable blitzkrieg against
the weevil by mopping the growing
plants with a poison mixture. Near
ly every farmer in the upper part
of the county is talung no chances^
A<;\1NST
Onr Robert Rice Reynolds,
attain gallivanting over the
country, declared yesterday that
he was "iineonivmallv opposed
to any sort of aid to Russia, no
matter what the general opin
ion of the Congress will be."
Reynolds. North Carolina's No.
1 Disappointment in the United
States Senate, was down in
Charlotte inspecting the new air
base there, and his stand against
aiding Russia is little different
to thr one he has maintained
against helping Britain.
A hi milium Shortage
P
Is Facing Country
This nation, two years after a grim
! emergency first presented itself, is
; just now finding out that it*? defense
! has been threatened all the while
| by a shortage irt aluminum, that the
shortage is not the result of labor
troubles or strikes. An investigating
j committee of the United States Sen
ae said this week. "It is reasonable
to conclude that the Aluminum Com*
I pany of America had convinced the
Office of Production Management
of the adequacy of the supply in or
der to avoid the possibility that any
one else would go into a field which
they had for so many years success
fully monopolized."
Sleepy-headed Dollar-a Year men
in.'Washington would not listen even
when small producers, including the
Reynolds Metal Company, pointed
out that there was a shortage of the
important metal and that serious
consequences could be expected.
It would appear that the profiteert*
have pushed into the background the
saboteurs, the strikers, the insurrec
tionists, the German spies and all
others when it comes to retarding
America's defense efforts
While the situation can hardly be
corrected, a drive is now in the mak
ini? to partially relieve the situation
by calling on the common people of
this nation to surrender their alum
mum pots and pans and by rationing
electricity. The collection of second
j hand aluminum is already underway
in some sections of the country. The
local power company has been in
structed to ship back all its alumi
num wire.
Men Act Quickly
In "Gas Station"
Fort Bragg?The Ninth Division
"Gas Station," where men are train
ed in actual field gas condition, has
been in operation since last week
The First Battalion. 47th Infantry,
was given a taste of chloricetophen
one, or tear gas at the station recent
ly when the men, wearing gas
masks, were grouped in the already
exposed chamber. This served as a
measure to check on the efficiency
of all masks antl then, to add a more
realistic touch, the men were order
ed not to don masks until after they
had entered. There was a twofold
purpose here: first, to give the men
a taste of the gas, and second, to
check on ability to don a mask rap
imy:
And there wasn't one laggard here.
The impetus was furnished by dis
integrating capsules of the chemi
cal which filled the room \vith an
almost colorless vapor. If any man
underrated the instructions caution
ing against delay in following the
prescribed procedure, he didn't hold
long to that opinion. After a short
time in the chamber each man was
ordered to remove his mask prior
to his leaving It would have done
any football coach's heart good to
see the way the men came charging
out?heads low. legs churning like
1 pistons.
Building Home On Rhodet
Property IStvir Ball Park
Construction work on a new home
for Mr and Mrs. W. B. Nash and
i family- on the Rhodes property, near
> the baseball park, was started this
week. The house is located on a new
street recently opened |>y Dr. J. S
Rhodes. It will be of frame construc
tion and will have five rooms.
and is said to be doing everything
possible to successfully combat the
weevil. -
As far as it can be learned here,
the weevil has not yet made his ap
pearance. but the setting is next to
ideafl for him in some communi
ties and he is expected iiv due time.
The drive against the weevil got un~
derway in earnest last week in sev
eral sections when farmers prepai
I ed poisons and sUM"*rd applying them
laeejjcUM^' to"recommendations.
The crop situation is a bit spotted
in the county at the present time,
farmers in some areas reporting ex
cessive rains while others report
damaging dry conditions. The spread
of the mosaic disease is being report
ed in many fields over the county.
Agent Brandon stating that it' was
more damaging thik year than possi
bly ever before. - -
Tax Collections In
County Increase As
Late Listers Report
\ll KiiuU of Kxciim'm Offi-r?*<l
For Failing To l,i?t
I'raprrlirs
Considerable revenue heretofore
lost to the county as a result of len
ient tax policies is now pouring into
the county treasurer following a
tightening of the general tax laws.
While no large amounts are being
received, the accounts are already
running into fairly big numbers,
clearly indicating that many of
those with'only a small share of the
tax burden were "getting by" the
tax collectors.
Accounts, ranging up to as high
as $18 and $20. have already been
recorded, but most of them are for
poll taxes. The poll tax, in quite a
few cases, run up to several dollars,
the subjects having failed to list and
pay at any time since they became of
age
Numerous excuses are Being of
fered by the late listers. One stated
yesterday that he was of the hon
est opinion that it was not necessary
to list property when the property
was held under a mortgage. "I have
an automobile, hut I still owe for
it. and I thought one did not have to
list it for taxation," ?)nc late lister
explained. Then there are those
cases where the alleged non-listers
declare they live in other counties
or states. One of the county tux au
thorities explained that there was
no effort being made to have a prop
erty owner list in more than one
place, but they 'considered it only
fair for the property owner to list
in one place or the other. It is un
derstood that many cases of that na
ture will he checked with tax offi
cials in other places.
That the order handed down by
Judge W. C Harris in the Martin
County Superior Court last week di
recting non-listers to get their names
on the tax books by July 23. will be
defied by sonu i.i almoul n certain
ty according to reports reaching the
tax authorities. I have never listed
or paid any taxes, and I don't expect
to," one man well in his t^jities
was quoted as saying. Threats have
been made frequently in the past,
but non-listers can well depend on
the execution of the superior court
judge's order. The grace period ex
pires July 23, and indictments are
to follow immediately after that
date.
So far there have been a few cases
where those charged with failing to
list their property had actually list
ed, but their names were included in
the list because of changes in ad
dress or variations in the initials.
New Wine I*iw Goes
Into Effeet July 1st
North Carolina's now and uncer
tain wino lpw goes into effect next
Tuesday?with cnfui leineiit officers
and others still in the dark as to its
meaning and as to what action
should be taken in enforcing Ifie
? * , i :?.?-i?; ?
The law is not expected to effect
any erea\ change in the way wihe
is sold in this county. Possibly one
wine store will close, and sales in
cafes and a few other stores will
come under slightly more stringent
regulations.
The law, regarded as little more
than a farce as far as its application
to sales in the wet counties is con
cerned. definitely states that forti
fied wines may .not be legally sold
in the 74 dry counties. In the wet
counties, fortified wines are to be
sold only in ABC stores, but cafes
and a few other establishments may
sell wines of alcoholic content not
to exceed a certain percent.
Representatives of the wine indus
try in a recent meeting are said tc
have recommended that no sales bt
made to persons under 18 years ol
age, that there be voluntary prohi
bition of sales between the hours oi
midnight and 7 a. m. on week days
? and between midnight Saturdays ant
12:30 p. m. Sundays.
About the only hope of controllin|
the sale of the fortified wines, ac
cording to some observers, is through
the licensing system.
Draft Registration
\\ ill Be Handled In
Draft Board Office
All Men Reaching 21 Yearn of
Age Since October 16
To Register ffi
Plans were announced complete
today for registering all Martin
County men who became 21 years
of age since last October 16 or who |
wilt have reached that age by next
Tuesday. K. H. Goodmon, chairman
of the draft board, announced today. |
The young men will register be- ,
tween the hours of 7 o'clock A. M
and H o'clock P. M. next Tuesday.
July 1. Registration headquarters for
the entire county will be maintain
ed in the draft board office *it Wil
| Uumston on the second floor in the
I old Martin County bank building on
| the corner just across the street from
I the town hall? J
Kmployers and other citizens are
cordially urged to assist in getting
the young men to the office by pro
viding transportation and offering
them short leaves of absence from
their jobs. Any other assistance the
general public can and will offer in
| advancing the registration is earn
jcstly solicited by the draft hoard of
TTTOTST
The registration next Tuesday will
be similar to the one held in this
county and throughout the- nation
last October 16, only the second one
will be centered in the draft board
office and it will be on a much small
er scale. It is estimatecfHhat between
100 and 150 young men are in the
group scheduled to register in this
county next Tuesday.
All men discharged from the Na
tional Guard or- other branches of
the armed service since last October
16 are to register if they are between
21 and 35 years of age, inclusive. It
is also possible for others in that age
group who for one reason or another
did not register last October 16 to
register next Tuesday.
Those who are scheduled to regis
ter and who do not are subject "to
prosecution in the United States
courts.
Just how the numbers for the new
registrants will be handled could not
be learned. It is believed by some
that the serial numbers will follow
those listed in the first registration
and that the order numbers will be
determined by the national lottery
held a short time after the first reg
istration Approximately 3,275 men
were registered in this county dur
ing the first registration.
Later reports,comihg from unoffi
cial hut reliable sources, indicate
that a new national lottery will be
la id to determine the order num
bers*.
Thirty-Nino Years
Ago As Recorded
In The Enterprise
SEPTEMBER 13, 1901.
Our commissioners arc still push
inn tl><' town improvements.
The Groves' property on Smith
vVU-k Ml eel tins heen mipmvul by
new fence.
There arc about 35 regular pupils
at the Academy and about 20 music
scholars.
Mr. J. I) Li ggett has had a new
barn built on the lane in the rear of
W T Crawford's.
Mr. Matthews, representing the
Sanboi n-Pcrris Map Co., of New
York, was in town making a new in
surance map of Williamston.
Wilhamston public school com
menced Monday, CO scholars on roll
Mrs. C M Lanier, principal, ariff
Miss Clyde Hassell, assistant.?
Williamston is now minus about
a dozen of its young people, the same
being aw??y attending various schools
and colleges in the State.
Sheriff Crawford notifies the tax
payers of Martin County of the dates
and places he will visit for the pur
pose of collecting taxes.
Mr. P. R. Rives, of Hamilton, was
in town yesterday and called at The
Enterprise office to renew his sub
scription and to give us an ad.
Littleton Female College will have
a special train from Weldon to Lit
tleton September* 17th, to leave Wel
don on arrival of the Atlantic uoasi
Line afternoon train from the South.
Dr. J B H. Knight, of Williams
tonr N C , has a scholarship in a rep
utable medical college to bestow on
some worthy young man of good
morals, and who is qualified to take
up the study of medicine. Those wish
ing to study medicine could do well
to apply to him at once. Martin Coun
ty young man to have the prefer
ence.
Mr. Dennis Simmons, who has
been quite sick since his return from
Buffalo Lithia Springs is much bet
in- at this writing.
Mrs. Arthur Anderson and broth
er, Grover Hardison, returned from
Mt. Olive Sunday evening
FIRST BLOSSOM
Farmer R. S. Edmund son. of
Goose Nest is displaying the
first cotton blossom plucked
from a Martin County field this
season. The blossom, a deep
pink, was detected by Mr. Ed
mondson's daughter, Miss Alice,
on Tuesday, June 24.
Reporting the first blossom
of the year,
Compensation Agency
Prosecutes Violators
County's Court In
Session Hardly An
j
Hour liUst Monday
FuiirUM'ii Cliurn?-?l xilli K?*
reiving Compensation Co
der False Pretense
Handling the largest docket to
i come before it in recent months, the
Martin County Recorder's Court last
Monday chalked up a new record by
j disposing of approximately two doz
en cases in a little over one hour The
court machinery with Judge W
Cobum on the bench and Attorney
Don K Johnson prosecuting ground
out justice rapidly hut surely. No ap
peals were noted and nothing out of
the ordinary marked the proceed
ings
One thing was firmly established
|m in., fm.iine- of a iinmhi-T ill tla
defendants and spectators and that
was the Unemployment Compensa
tion Commission is not to be played
?with. Foui Uen of thc 24 defendants
facing the court were charged with
obtaining compensation by misrepre
senting the facts'or under false pre
tense. Representing the commission.
Attorney Overton stated that- the al
leged violations were noted when
Compensation payments were cheek
id against employment records, the
workers having claimed unemploy
ment compensation when they were
actually employed. Much time was
required in checking the records,
some of the cases being based on
AM11V *'? v... - ell
checks made of pay rolls as far back
as the latter part of 1939
Proceedings of the court
The ease charging Fenner Respass
with aiding and abetting in lareenry.
was nol prossed with leave.
Judgment was suspended upon the
payment of the cost after the defen
dant. Nelson Mason, pleaded guilty
in the case charging him with Iut
ceny
Charged with violating the liquor
laws, Alexander Jones pleaded guil
ty of possessing illegal liquor, the
court suspending judgment upon
payment of the cost.
The ease charging Jurdan White
hurst with drunken driving was con
tinued until June 30.
The case charging Claude Spruill
with destroying personal property
was nol pressed
Tilt- two eases charging Howard.
Cherry with drunken driving on sue
cessive days were continued until
July 7 by the court.
Continuances were granted until
next Monday in the cases charging
Z. T. Sawyer and O- R. Boyd with
assaults with a deadly weapon
Lewis Cherry Outterbridge, charg
oil with larceny and receiving, pleaib
ed guilty and was sentenced to the
roads for a term of three months.
Pleading guilty in the case charg
nig him with drunken driving, Char
lie Mainy Ldinoiidsoii wii.i fini d >50
ni- i?i?n iv j . -?- ??
taxed with the court costs and had
Ins license revoked for a period of
one year.
The defendants in all the cases
brought 111 connection with the al
leged violation of the unemployment
compensation laws pleaded guilty,
Judge Coburn suspending thirty day
road sentences upon payment of the
costs and the repayment of compen
sation allegedly drawn bjt-falsifying
their claims.
Justice Andrews, false pretense,
30 days on the roads suspended upon
payment of the court costs and $4.50
to the Unemployment Compensation
Commission
Walter Stokes, false pretense, 30
days on the roads suspended upon
payment of the cost and $7.50 to the
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission. .
Robert Purvis, false pretense, 30
days on the roads suspended upon
payment of $5 to the Unemployment
Compensation Commission.
Caesar Purvis, false pretense, 30
payment of cost and $31 to the Un
employment Compensation Commis
sion.
William Livingston, false pretense
30 days on the roads suspended upon
payment of the case costs and $35 50
to the Unemployment Compensation
(Continued on page six)
Thousand Cattle
Tested In County
The drive against bangs disease
among rattle in this county contin
ues. a late report from Dr. Heflin.
representing the United States De
partment of Agriculture, stating that
1,000 cattle had been tested and that
about one per cent of the cases are
found to be positive. Five of the dis
eased cattle were found in a single
herd, the report stating that all of
them had been killed.
Assisted by Paul Ballard, Dr. Hef
lin is now Working in the HasseTI
area, tests having been completed or
virtually so rast of Highway No.
125
With one or two exceptions, own
ers are willingly cooperating in tha
drive, it was learned.
BOM) QUIZ
Q. What is a IT. S. Defense
8ftvifl|l Rond?
A. This bond is proof that you
have loaned money to the I'nit
ed States (Government for na
tional defense. Your bond bears
interest at the rate of 2.9 per cent
a year, if held to maturity (ten
years). _
Q. Why should I buy Defense
Bonds?
A. Because money talks. To
dictators it speaks defiance. To
friends of freedom, it says,
"Here's my hand."
Note?To purchase Defense
Bonds and Stampo, ro to the
nearest post office or bank, or
write for information to the
Treasurer of the United States.
Washington, D. C.
Work On Deep Well
Nearin^ (lompleiion
Work on the town's 814.800 deep
well, near the county courthouse, is,
nearly completed, but connections i
with the water mains are likely to
be held .up by the delayed shipment
of pumps and equipment, Jack Sun
quiest. vice president of the l.ayne
Atlantic and representative of the
contractors, said here yesterday.
'Digging operations were complet
ed Several days ago after a depth of i
51H 12 feet hod been reached?A-i
Large eighteen-mch casing was low- i
ered to a depth of 250 feet and was
sealed with 401 bags of cement, mak
.ing it next to impossible for water
above the 250-foot level to get into
the well. All eight inch rnsirig, in |
eluding forty foot of bronze screen j
ing. was then placed in the well, the
bottom resting 500 feet in the ground
Yesterday afternoon. Superintendent j
C. II. Brown and his men started j
packing rock or fine gravel in the
bottom of the well to filter the wa
ter The well crew worked until 2 20
this morning and resumed operations
a few hours later They are expect
ed to complete the task today. Ap
proximately '17 yards, or almost a
carload of fine rock taken out of
the ocean off the-roast of New Jer
sey. will have been packed into the
well by the time the job is complet
ed
Part of the pumping equipment
has been shipped, but government
demands have delayed tlie. shipment
of complete units. The pumping
equipment includes a pump to draw
the water froni the ground, another
to force it into the mains and the el
evated tank at the water plant, and
an auxiliary gasoline engine for use
in emergencies
Welfare Worker
Dies In Durham
Tit*my DTTFarrell, at one time head
of welfare activities in this section of
the Slate with headquarters in Wil
liamston, died in a Durham hospital
last Monday afternoon .following a
long illness. He was 42 years old, a
graduate of the University of North
Carolina and a member of the var
sity football team. Graduated with
the class of 1925, he soon entered
welfare work and made a splendid
record' m that field.
Sympathetic in his dealings with
the less fortunate, Mr Farrell. work
ed hard, placing his own welfare
second to that of others He made
rriany friends here and throughout
this section of the State, and was
highly regarded a$ a conscientious
worker and a valued friend by his
co-workers.
Funeral services were conducted
in Chapel Hill yesterday afternoon,
interment following in the cemetery
there. Misses Nell Johnston, Kloise
Banning and Mary Taylor attended
the last rites from here.
Funeral Wednesday
For Marialt Finch
Funeral services were held here
Wednesday afternoon for Mariah
Finch, 52-year-old colored woman
who was found dead in bed at her
home here early last Monday morn
ing. Burial was in the family ceme
tery near here. She was a respected
citizen. Complaining with what was
believed to have been an attack of
"indigestion Sunday, she was believ
ed to have died of an heart attack
during the early hours of Monday
morning,
A son, Noah Anderson, was pain
fully injured in an automobile acci
dent near here just about the same
time his mother's death was discov
ered.
?
Weather Condition* Are
Extreme in The County
?
The extreme tn weather conditions
was reported in the county this week
with some farmers reporting parch
ing crops and others declaring their
land was too wet for plowing. The
dry group saw possible relief in
clouds early this afternoon.
Germans Are Facing
Stubborn Resistance
Offered bv Russians
llriti<?li riaim Ma*t?*r\ of the
Skie;* in the \\e*t; Raidn
liein^ (.oiitiiiued
Behind conflicting and confusing
ivporK it is fairl> well established
as the first week.iof the Russo-Ger
ma.ii \var draws to a close that the
Red Russians are offering the Nazi
invaders a stubborn resistance, that
the loss of life and destruction of
property are reaching into big fig
ures It is also apparent that Hitler
is beginning to realize that he has
a war on his hands, with Russia, the
nation that has struggled under the
curse and ridicule of other nations,
intervening in behalf of democratic
nations w ithout a request for help
While Germany is claiming that
her march into Russia is advancing
according to plan," it is then evi
dent that Hitler anticipated hard
sailing. for independent hews
sources declare that German tank
divisions have been turned back in
-several drives, and that the Rus
sians have successfully couiiter-at
tacked. ? ''
Soviet troops again repulsed Ger
man efforts to force the Prut River
on the southern end of the long bat
tlefnmt ttt eastern Europe and sue
cessfully engaged German tank un
fits filtering through Rod defenses "in
the direction .of Minsk," white Rus
sijin capital, the Soviet information *
bureau announced yesterday.
The Russian radio challenged Ger
many with heavy sarcasm last night
to come forth with its "baffling rev
elations which the Berlin radio has
promised to the world repeatedly
for the last two days."
(The Russian announcer said in a
broadcast heard by NBC at New
York that the Germans had not an
nounced anything hut generalities
because there "were novmiracles to
I tip reported ? ? ?">
A great tank battle is being fought '
in former Poland and "continued
throughout the day with a manifest
advantage for our troops." the Rus
Isinn communique said. ?
Much of this action is in the Ger
'man effort to drive toward Lutsk,
5(1 miles east of tho Bug 'River boun
dary.
! Soviet troops holding the Prut
River boundary between Rumania
and Soviet Bessarabia were said to...
have frustrated repeated German
1 attempts to fold that river, partic
ularly in the t'ernauti area.
Minsk, the White Russia capital
'and apparent goal of one 'German
(h ive as 1 (ill nulleast ??f the.eastern -
most tip ot German Ka t Prussia, It
was in this direction that Soviet
troops were said to he lighting Nazi
' tanks that crashed through advance
?rRed positions."
The Russian inaneuvei of throw
ing masses of men around these ad
? vanced Nazi meeliaiu/ed lorces was ?'
nineil at cutting them off hom their
.Niip-porting infantry : and annihilat
illg thrill. ?
At one point counter attacking
: Red troops were said to have crossed
the Prut Rivei to successfully raid
enemy p"^dI " 'L'*1" " I11*1*'"1'' ""
ers and guns.
Tlie Russians also accuWif the Ger
j mans of landing parachutists cjress
|(d in Red army uniforms, but said
thanl>s to the vigilance of our
' troops this imposition of the perfid
ious enemy was exposed in time and
diversionist groups were annihilat
ed or captured."
Tla se parachute spies, as they
Were catted, were, said to be carrying
wireless equipment. Some were cap
ttiled by peasants and turned over
j to the military.
| Gen-nan Rumanian batteries on
the western side of the Prut River
' were silenced by Soviet artillery,
and three pontoon bridges thrown
across the river were wrecked, the
j communique said.
I The Russians reported Rumanian
I prisoners as saying that in each of
I then regiments 4(1 German soldiers
I and officers were mingled because
! the German command does not trust
i the Rumanian soldiers, and that Ger
! man artillery units were planted be
hinil the Rumanian troops as an ex
tra precaution.
The German and Rumanian troops
losses" also near Skuleni on the Prut
River
(Continued on
1 1?
Marine Corps Calls
For Additional Men
In a patriotic message addressed
to young men between the ages of
17 and 30 years, the United States
Marine Corps this week asked for
additional volunteers AH men be
tween those ages, in sound physical
condition, without dependents, and
of good character, with common
school education are urged to see
the recruiting officer at the post of
fice building in Rocky Mount be
tween July 1st and 12th.
Volunteers may enlist for the dur
ation of the present emergency in
the Marine Corp* Reserve, and may
return to private life when the em
ergency no longer exists.
John M. Greer, captain, declares
that the chances are 100 to 1 that the
volunteer will leave the service a
much better man In all respects.