Most Of Fifty-four Cases Are Entries For Tax Judgments (Continued from P?ge one) sum of $100 was required to guaran MiIII Ul f 1 , | tee the payment of the fine and one half the costs by September 29. Elbert Bell, entering no plea in | the case charging him with assault ing another with a deadly weapon, was adjudged guilty, the court con-1 turning the case under prayer for | judgment. Pleading not guilty in the case charging him w ith an assault with a deadly weapon, Bert Best was fined $15 and taxed with 1-2 the costs^ Mat tie Best, a minor and a second de fendant in the case, was turned over to the juvenile court. The case charging E R. White with careless and reckless driving was continued until next Monday. Ellison Barrow, charged with driving an automobile after consum ing the greater part of a pint of for tified wine, was found guilty. He was sentenced to the roads for four months, the court suspending the sentence upon payment of a $50 fint and costs of the court His license to operate a motor vehicle was revok ed for one year. , Jesse James, colored, charged with violating the liquor laws, entered a plea of not guilty. The case was con tinued under prayer for verdict and judgment until next Monday. Judgment was suspended upon payment of the cost in the case charging Leverne Godard with an assault. The entries in the tax cases snow - ing that properties had been listed and that taxes and court costs had been paid were listed as to the fol lowing defendants Arthur Webb, James Ollie Purvis. Elijah Brown. Jr. Ivory Griffin. Claude Danford Tyner, Percy Tyner, Thomas Ran dolph White. Samuel Thomas Wil liams, Ausbon Rogers. Roosevelt Stokes, William D. Crisp, Donoval Sanderlin, Alexander Bunch, Augus tus V. Braswell, Abel Smallwood, William Winbush, Tonfik Mitchell. Alexander Douglas, Jack D Knight, l'aul Parker. James Arthur Slade. Gordon Earl Bryant, Johnnie and James Battle, Loren/.a Council. Jr.. Harvey L. Perkins. Roosevelt Brown. Claude A Dempsey. Sam Stokes, Ma jor Brown. S. L Watts. Arthur Lee Brown. James Henry Thomas, E. W Stroud, Marion Knight. John BUI 1., ggetL Linwood Willie Rhodes, Loo Marshall Slade, Nathaniel Bos ton, Henry Simpson, Levi Jones, Ed Goss, Mrs. J. W Crisp and James Thomas Spencer. Employment. Office Has job Openings Many jobs are open at the Wil Iiamston office ol the Male Kmploy ment service, in the town hall here; and in the last few days, both lecal and distant employers have called for electricians, electrician helpers, cooks, servants, maids, housekeepers, metal lathers, highway workers, ho tel cooks, beauty operators, and sev eral other job classifications. From other sections are open or ders for bus drivers, machinists au tomotive mechanics, and others of various skills There i> a strong de mand for cooks and domestic help in Wittiamston at .present. Many such jobs go unfilled for days and weeks, there being insufficient applicants to fill the demand. Those are mostly for servants, cooks, and domestic workers generally in local homes -4^ APPEAL TO WASHINGTON IN &EHALF OF MISSING MAM Mrs K. S. Peel, accompanied by Mrs. Ned Laughinghouse, is in Wash ington City today appealing to au thorities in behalf of Mr. Laughing house who has been missing since the sinking of the Zamzam several months ago. Eight of This Group in Army Rejecting six, the Army now has eight of the above group in its ranks They are. first row. left to right: Clayfield Williams, a volun teer; Columbus James Kodgers, Nathaniel Dunn, Willie Junior Spruill; second row : William Samuel Mabry. Harry Clinton Norfleet, Lemuel Outterbridge, Vernon Staton. James Willis Lloyd; third row: William Edgar Rhodes, William Thomas Cray, George Washington Joyner, Charlie Clarence Ormond, Johnnie Peel. The boys reported on August 22 at Fort Bragg where Norfleet, Uoyd, Dunn, Peel, Sta ton and Mabry were rejected for one reason or another. This Week In Defense (Continued from page one) thus covering almost all textiles re quired for woman's dresses, men's shirts, underwear, coat and suit lin ings. handkerchiefs, sheeting anil other items of cotton and rayon. Conservation of Materials OPM requested bicycle and furni ture manufacturers to conserve ma terials by simplifying models and de signs, eliminating brass, chrome, nickel, copper and metallic finishes. whitJ side-wall tires, and using re claimed * instead of raw rubber The Division of Consumer Supply asked consumers to take special care of their cars, cut down on consumption of tires, gas and oil and offered check-list to aid in conservation WPA inaugurated a program to sal vage steel from abandoned publicly - owned street car rails. The War De partment reported it had found re capped and retreaded auto tires gave 80 per cent of the service of new tires and cost 60 per cent less. Doctors, Dentists, Nurses Federal Security Administrator MoNutt announced an agency will be set up to mobilize physicians and dentists to meet special demands for medical care arising?from the de fense program. Plans will take into account distribution of doctors and dentists in relation to population, training and experience and their availability for service. Red Cross Headquarters and the OCD announc cd plans to train it)0,000 volunteers as nurses' aides with the help of lo eal hospitals. Volunteers must be be tween 18 and 50. graduates of high school, physically able: they will be selected by local public health and nursing groups and seive as assist ants to graduate nurses in hospitals without pay after 80 hours of inten sive training over a seven-week per | ipd. I Selective Service i Headquarters directed loca'l draft I boards to speed arrangements for aiding m the reemployment of sol Idlers the Army is planning to re lease beginning September 1st by | getting in touch with former employ j ers or finding other jobs for the sol diers In the first case of its kind, a j discharged selectee from New York was returned to his former job after I the local IF. S: attorney requested his firm to take him back for at least one ] year although the firm said his job had been abolished while he was | gone. Oil, tiMolint 1?President Roosevelt told his press | conference the launching of many oil , tankers already on the ways and the operation of two pipelines from the Southwest to the Eastern seaboard 'will materially relieve the gasoline shortage in the East by next spring. I Price Administrator Henderson is Sales Pass The Two Mil I ion-Pound Mark Here This Morning (Continued from page one) sales, report little variation in the market prices. Reports of a higher price trend for the better types are substantiated in the government fig uies For instance, lemon cutters are now a dollar higher than they were earlier in the week, and fine orange leaf yesterday sold for $38 as com pared with $36 last Monday. ?Common orange leaf wus fifty cents weaker than it was earlier in tin week, but there was no notice able variation in the prices for oth er grades. -f ENTERTAINS CLUB Mrs. George Whitehurst entertain ed her bridge club and invited guests Friday evening at her home here. Arrangements of summer flowers deocrated the rooms where play was in progress. Guests were greeted at the door and introduced to Miss Martha Whitehurst. of Bethel. Mrs. Richard Elliott. Jr., passed tallies. I? ? (J di inks were served during tin progressions. Mrs. K. D. Worrell was awarded high score prize for club members, and Mrs. Harold Hargett, second. Mrs Robert Cobum and Mrs. Her man Bowen were winners of high and low for guests Miss Martha [Whitehurst was remembered with a gift A sweet course was served to Mesdames Julian Harrell, Harold Hargett, K. D. Worrell, George Har sued a table of fair maximum retail prices for "regular" gasoline in 40 major cities, and the Senate began an investigation of the shortage. Act ing Oil Coordinator Davies said "sin ister and planned" sabotage may lie behind the "multiplicity of misin formation" that there is really no I shortage. Enrollment Figures Do Not Come Up To First Expectations (Continued from page one) folks this year as compared with the | figures of a year ago. A complete report from the color-1 ed schools could nt be had immedi ately. but preliminary estimates in dicate an increase in enrollment and | reflect no Serious effect from a de pression birth-rate. Several of the white schools re ported a greater interest among the patrons, Principal Russell Martin stating that the mothers were at Farm Life in numbers, that they were eager to get their children started off right. . Principal Jim Uzzle did much head scratching in trying to find places for 26 additional tots in the Jamesville school. The JamesviUe school reported the largest single gain in the enrollment figures for the elementary grades. With the excep tion of Williamston and Everetts where marked decreases were re ported. the enrollment figures are recognized as being fairly stable when compared with those of last year Williamston lost 33 in the ele mentary and 10 in the high school. Bear Grass gained ten in its high school. The term beginning yesterday marks the inauguration of the five year high school in the county. Just how the added grade will be incor porated into the old system even ed ucators don't seem to be altogether certain. It is fairly certain, however, that the boys and girls now in the eighth grade will be in high school five years with some few exceptions, | of course. Several of the sopools in this county have been working tow ard that goal in an indirect way dur ing the past few years, but the pres ent eighth graders will be closely as sociated with the change when it takes final form four years from now. Based on the unofficial enrollment figures released late yesterday af ternoon and early today, the teach er allotment for the county will like ly remain unchanged. Superintend ent J. C. Manning said today. No official comment was offered immediately following the opening of the new term, but it was quite evident in conversational trends yes terday that school authorities are expecting a serious response on the part of the pupils to the call of the time, and that a successful term is in the offing rison, Ernest Ethei idge, J. A. Ward, Francis Manning, Vernon Bunting, Frank Margolis, Frank Barnes, Joe I Glenn, David Davis, Herman Bow ten. Ben Courtney. Richard Elliott, Robert Coburn. Hubert Coburn, Her bert Taylor, Henry Handy, Edwin Holding, Wheeler Manning, Wood Harrison. Phillip Keel, Victor Brown, Bill Harrison, Roy McClees and Miss Martha Whitehurst, of Bethel. Mesdames Elliott, Hargett and Mc Clees assisted Mrs. Whitehurst in serving. Look Ahead! And Make Sure of Your Insurance Hum Mire are you that a * LIVERY SERVICE ... BE SURE TO USE IT! BELK - TYLER CO Williamston, N. C.