This Week In
Defense
(Continued from page one)
ed guilty. Thirty days on the roads
or pay up, the judge ordered.
Moses James, held in the jail over
tor fuel consumption voluntarily
He made^ecommendations lor op
erators of rommercial vehicles which
he said would cut gas consumption
about 30 per cent, and announced the
oil industry will give its patrons
windshield stickers pledging the use
of one-third less gasoline than usual
He said 82 insurance companies have
contributed to the "share-your-car
campaign" by revising underwriting
rules to enable motorists to carry
paying passengers to and from work.
Federal Security Administrator
McNutt urged immediate registra
tion at State employment offices of
all auton?>bile service station work
ers who lose their jobs as a result
of the drive to cut gasoline consump
tion. in order that they* may "be
transferred as rapidly as possible to
other work."
Power
C/?tigiimiT Administrator Harriet
Elliott issued a list ol suggestions to
housewives for the conservation of
power for defense by cutting elec
tric bills, and said. The practice of
careful consumption habits now is
the best preparation for the future."
Miss Elliott recommended economies
be practiced particularly in part, of
the country where power shortages
are threatened.
Labor Supply
The OPM said railroad labor and
management will help meet skilled
labor shortages in defense industries
out of the available supply of rail
road workers, which includes 20,000
skilled mechanics now unemployed
and 80.000 apprentices who could be
promoted to release other workers.
The OPM also announced 21 Gulf
Coast shipyards have put into effect
/one labor standards prohibiting
strikes and stabilizing wages during,
the next two years Federal Security
Administrator McNutt .'.aid ii.500.oou
jobs were filled by State Employ
ment Services during the first six
months of 1941. a gain of 52 per cent
over the same period in 1940
Agriculture
Assistant Price Administrator Gal- I
braith, speaking during the annual
Farm and Home Week, said "farm
ers must be the natural leaders
in the fight against inflation. It they
take the leadership then stability is
assured To stop this price in
crease . we need the willingness
to see price advances stopped and
stopped firmly." He said prices to
day are more favorable to farmers
than in years, but it took 20 years
"to rebuild agriculture out of the
wreckage left by the inflation of the
last war."
Prices
The P'iry^|i of Latjor Statistics re
ported retail food prices increased
1.5 per cent during the last two
weeks of July to a level almost AT
per cent above August. 1939 The
Federal Reserve Board said nation -
al income payments by last June had
reached about $88 billion a year- 19
per cent above May. 1940 and said
unless an unusually large part of
consumer income is saved or paid out
in taxes, price inflation will grow.
World Affairs
Secretary of State Hull, returning
sence. said "During the weeks cJf my
absence the most clinching demon
stration has been given (that)
there is a world movement of con
quest by force, accompanied by
methods of governing the conquer
ed peoples that are rooted mainly in
savagery and barbarism " Secretary
Hull said, "with full effort and ever
increasing production and prepara
tion for defense a successful re
sistance to the present world move
ment . will be made."
Music Plays A Big
Part In Soldier's
Camp Relaxation
(Continued from page one)
World War.
Popular music plays a big part in
a soldier's relaxation, and he often
does his own improvising to fit mi
nor changes in his temperament. You
can imagine what he has done to "I'll
Be Back in a Year. Little Darling"
since the request for extended Army
service has been made. Some of the
current versions are priceless. An
other time-tagged tune. "Goodbye
Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year," met
the same fate for obvious reasons.
Right at the moment, the "Hut Sut
Song" is getting a big play from the
soldiers-improvisers. The peak was
reached the other day when a drill
sergeant counting cadence for his
platoon on the parade ground sud
denly broke out with:
"Hut, sut, three, four! . . . hut, sut,
three, four."
Germans Continuing
Push Into Russia's
Rich Ukraine Area
(Continued from page one)
com* tut structure were predicted
today when it was officially an
nounced that the exemption allow
ed aingU parsons would be reduced
to |750. and that for married persons
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Albert and Hubert Cooke,
Dick Idler and Sam Nelson leave
tomorrow far Norfolk where they
plan to eager the Army Air Corpa.
They will be accompanied by Mr.
Jamea Herbert Ward.
Nazi Bomber Shot Down in Battle of Atlantic
This four-engined Nazi Folke-Wulf Kurier was about to attack a British convoy in the Atlantic when an
American built Lockheed Hudson of the RAF coastal command came on the seen#, At point-blank range,
the British plane shot down the Nazi raider. Photo above shows the bomber's-crew swimming to their
dinghy (arrow). The downed fliers were saved.
Guarding Russia's Wheat
KadiuphoLo Copyright RCA Test Transmission
An armed guard is shown in a wheat field somewhere in Russia, ready
to protect the grain as long as possible and to destroy ittby tire if the
Germans reach the area, according to Moscow, which sent out this td"?4o.
SKI.KCTKI)
James C. Wallace, young
Jamesville buy, was one of five
North Carolina youths out of a
field of nearly 100 to receive an
education grant from the State
of North Carolina recently.
Much Food Funned
For Scluxd Lunch
Working under the direction of
Mrs. Carrie Dell Pippen. WPA forces
here have canned a large quantity of
f<x>d for use in the local schools this
coming term, Principal D. N Hix said
yesterday
Nearly 3.000 quarts of soup mix
ture, tonjatoes, pickles, beans, but
terbeans and other foods have been
-cwned-sh-far. Mr. Hix said.
The food was grown in a WPA gar
den of about three acres of land of
fered to the school by Farmer Mar
shall D. Wilson -ynsr btr or "West
Church Street
Last year the WPA canned approx
imately 2,800 quarts of vegetables
for the lunch rooms
The canning project is being main
tained in the grammar school build
ing.
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Take* If ife Ami Then
Attack* Her Hatband
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Said by police not to be uncom
mon in this day and age. a colored
man took another man's wife and
then attacked her husband. Sam
Roberaon. the hushand. jcas danger
ously hit with a pop bottle in the
! hands of his "friend" Lewis Belch
er Saturday night? on Washington
Street Roberson's head had a knot \
| on it as big as one's fist, one of the
officers of the night force declar
ed.
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Mr. Slick Edwards. Grady Thom
as, Charles Peel, Reg Griffin, Carroll
Jones and Sprague attended the ball
games in Wilson last night.
Mrs. Susan Thomas is reported
seriously ill at her here on Warren
Street.
County Youth Gets
Educational Grant
James C Wallace, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Wallace, of Jamesville,
was honored recently by being se
lected as one of the five children of
disabled veterans to receive a four
year college education from the State
of North Carolina.
The five were selected on their
scholastic record and ability. Sixty
made application for the five schol
arships awarded under a legislative
act sponsored by the American Le
gion All of these were eliminated
except thirteen and these were sum
moned to Raleigh for an examina
tion and conference with the com
mittee appointed by Dr Erwin, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
These were told that they were se
lected as being the best students of I
.thc- Statc and-that from these theJ
five who were to receive the scholar- J
ships would be selected. James will
attend the University of North Car-1
olina at Chapel Hill for the next
four years with all expenses paid.
James Wallace was valedictorian
of his class in high school, is an Eagle j
Scout, participated in and won his i
way to the state finals in the Amer-1
ican Legion oratorical contest in 1940
and was on the honor roll of the uni
versity last year.
He and his parents wish to thank !
all those who petitioned or did any
thing to advance his appointment as !
one ol the- five and acknowledges, i
with gratitude, the help of the John j
W Hassell Post of the American Le
gion.
No One Injured In Our
Accident Sunday Night
No one was injured and no great
property damage resulted when two
cars crashed vn the improved curve
just this side of Gardner's Creek late
last Sunday night. Damage to the
old model cars? was estimated at
about $50. ? ? - ' I
John Manning, colored of Griffins
Township, accompanied by Claude
Dempsey, Cleveland Manning and
Floyd Spruill, was traveling toward
Williams ton, and James R. Riddick,
of Plymouth, accompanied by Miss
Pearl Barber, of Jamesville, and
Albert Williams, of Plymouth, was
driving toward Jamesville when the
cars overlapped the center of the
road and crashed.
Tiro Charmed B'ith Aiding
Attack On Aged Woman
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Charged with encouraging a brick
bat attack tat the humble home at
Tillie Jones. 90-year-old colored wo
man who lives down the river hill,
Eleanor and Delia Morgan, members
of the "famous" clan of that name,
were carried into Mayor J. L. Has
sell's court last evening. They were
given a suspended judgment.
4-H Member* Start Feeding
Baby Beef Calvea For Shotc
Fifteen 4-H club members of Edge
combe County have started feeding
one or more baby beef calves which
they will show at the Rocky Mount
Fat Stock show next March.
Day Of Reckoning
Is Reached Monday
fn County's Court
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he had spent about nine of them on
the roads In dismissing the action.
Judge Coburn said that he could not
expect a man on the roads to list
taxes* but he warned Bonds to list
immediately and pay up.
The first case in which Judge Co
burn took action was the one against
Ernest Johnson. The defendant,
pleading guilty in the case, told the
court that he was somewhere else at
listing time and did not get notice.
The warrant was served in accord
ance with the law, and Judge Coburn
Ki-ntcufi-H him to the roads for 30
days, the sentence to be suspended
upon payment of the costs of the ac
tion and all taxes, including those
for 1941. The young man. pointing
out that he was working for only
one dollar a day. owed $12.50 in
taxes. The costs, limited to a mini
mum at the direction of the commis
sioners. jumped the figure to $16.90.
"He is in your custody until the bill
is paid," Judge Coburn said.
Major Lloyd, defendant in a crim
inal action and tried earlier in the
morning, was called again to the de
fendant's seat to-^inswer in the tax
case brought against him. He plead
The case charging Darrell Simp
son with not listing his property,
was continued until next Monday.
Phillip Thompson, out under bond
after a short stay in jail, had paid
Alonza Hassell was called to an
swer for not listing, but the court
adjourrrcd -before?aetion-was taken.
Officers were directed to have him
in court next week.
Unable to meet the financial terms
proposed by the court, Major Lloyd
and Moses James started their 30
day sentences on the roads this morn
ing
Several additional cases have al
ready been scheduled for trial in the
court next Monday, a report from
the week-end, pleaded guilty and he
was directed to pay up or go to the
roads.
irvmg Wynne, claiming to have
paid $4.50 of his $5 80 tax account,
was ordered to pay the remainder,
the case costs or go to the roads for
thirty day. _J
the sheriff's office .stating that oth
ers will be placed on the docket just
as rapidly as the warrants can : be
served.
Fairly well convinced that the
days of grace are over and that the
tax authorities mean business, quite
a fhw listing delinquents are dou
bling their efforts to comply with
the law. Next Monday several who
listed their taxes late but who have
not made payment, are expected to
explain to the court why they have
not paid.
Social Security
Cards Necessary
Every person who is planning to
work in a tobacco factory or ware
house this year should check now
to see if he still has his Social Secur
ity Account number card. This is
important because each employee
must show his account number card
to his employer in order that he be
properly credited with the wages he
earns, according to a statement made!
today by Marshall H Barney, man
ager of the Rocky Mount office of
the Social Security Board.
If a worker finds he has lost his
Social Security card he should ap
ply immediately for a duplicate. This
is done by filling out an application
blank and sending it to the Rocky
Mount office. The card will be mail
ed to the address given by the appli
cant.
If a man or woman has never had
a Social Security account number,
and intends to work this season, he
may obtain an original account num
ber by filling out an application
blank which he may obtain by call
ing at any post office or at the Rocky
Mount board office.
The 1940 census shows that the
number of farm tenants declined
slightly during the 1830-40 period, a
development probably associated
wtih the decrease of sharecroppers
in the South. 1
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Milk production per cow on July
1 was about the same as in 1840,
whereas on Jupe 1 it was 3 per cent
larger than in 1840, reports the U.
S. Bureau of Agricultural Econom
ics. . ?
Radio f Alert' for America
David Sarnoff (left) radio executive, shows New York's Mayoi
LaGuardia how the new radio alarm, the "alert receiver" works
Easily attached to home radios, the machine has a bell which rings anc
a light which glows to notify listeners of emergencies, such as air raids
ever come to the United States.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
The victim is dead and buried,
but Asa Tom Sherrod, colored
man who was. fatally injured on
Williamston's main street last
Thursday night, will live on and
on in the records showing the
deadliness of the automobile on
North Carolina highways and
streets.
Already more people have
been injured and killed on the
highways and streets of this
county than last year, and the
busy season for the grim busi
ness is hardly underway. Mr.
human hfe and limb worth en
ough in your estimation for
you to exercise every care and.
precaution to protect them?
There's silent suffering going
on in many cases right here in
this county as a result of auto ac
cidents, some of them needless.
If you don't believe it go to the
county home and visit in the
room of a victim who ca^'t lift
even as much as a finger.
The follpwing tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present time.
32nd Week Comparison
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'ge
1941 2 0 1 $ 59
1940 1 1 0 30
Comparison To Date
1941 56 44 3 $17,260
1940 57 38 2 6,800
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Mrs. B A Critcher. Mrs. J. E.
King and Miss Alia Critcher are
spending this week in New York.
Mrs. Carroll Jones is visiting
^obersonville
Wants
CLARK'S MALARIAL TONIC
For Chills and Fever. Guaranteed,
or money refunded. Clark's Phar
macy. m23-tf
FURNISHED ROOMS AND FURN
ished apartments for rent. Tele
' phone 339-J. a8-2t
PEANUT HAY AND CORN FOR
Sale. J. S Meeks. Williamston R.
F. D 3. al2-19-26-s2
PIANO ? RATHER THAN HAVE
piano returned to factory will sell
a small spinet piano like new at a
very favorable price. Terms to re
liable party if desired. Write for lo
cation and full particulars to T. P.
i Maus, c-o Lester Piano Manufactur
ing Co., Inc., Philadelphia. al2-2t
OFFICER IN U. S. ARMY, RET1R
i ing for physical reasons, desires to
. locate in eastern North Carolina. Will
need a house with not less than three
; good sized bedrooms, sitting, dining
room, kitchen, garage, large closets,
running water with hot and cold
bath, furnace heat, enough room on
I plot for^ small gaiilfii, setvant quar
| ters desirable, house to be in excel
lent repair. Monthly rent reasonable
and not less than a five-year lease
to be given. Write care of this paper.
Seven Point Hosieiy
JiihI received a .small shipment and
manufacturers informed us that it
might he the last . . .
Slightly Irregulars, Full Fashion
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I'erfeel ? Tiro- and Three-Thread
69c ? 79c ? ?9e ? 31 09
Slightly irregular Nylons .09
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Perfect Nylons . 31.119
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