MAKE EVERY PAY DAY BONO DAY] For Victory... Btry U. {.DEFENSE , BONDS STAMPS W'illiamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 10. 1042. VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 20 ESTABLISHED 1899 Greater Demand For Tires And Tubes Is Reported In County Applications for Thirty-three Tires and Thirty-four Tubes Pending The rubber shortage is coming home fast to an ever-increasing num ber of Martin County motor vehicle operators, a report direct from the county rationing board yesterday stating that the demand for tires and tubes is increasing week after week and that more than enough applica tions were already on file to ex ! naust the entire March quota "And areiil " ? # Thf increasing necessity for Home Front sacrifice is apparent from scores of WPB and Office of Price Administration orders new and old. orders which add lip to less for ev erybody. WPB and OPA are filled with "less men" because we must have more and more for our armed forces and our allies. For a long while shortages, ex cept in tires and automobiles, were just something to talk about The output of one product after anoth er might be curtailed or cut off at the source, at the factory, but there was Still plenty of Stock 011 the re tailer's shelves and in the dealers salesrooms. Now these shortages arc working their way down. Men's clothing, for instance The Army and Navy need more and more new wool. So under the new plan worked out with the textile manufacturing industry, after March 30th trousers will be cufflesi. suit coats will be about an inch shorter, there'll be no patch pockets, pleats, lucks, bellows, gussets And 110 vests for double-breasted suits It might have been worse But to the war pro duction side, it means a credit of some 40.000,000 pounds of wool sav ed. On the up-side of production, lalair organizations in the copper mining industry have offered full coopera tion. according to Sidney Hillman, WPB s Labor Director, to increase the,output fo highly necessary metal from these mines by going on a con tinuous-operation. seven-day week and by establishing joint labor-man agcment production committees. Because a lot has happened on the motor vehicle front, little of it es pecially cheering to the average cit izen. it is pleasant to record that we've a new medium tank in mass production in the Midwest The M 4's -armament wall be?more nsefuPtie-' ause of new wrinkles in design That's one of the ways our steel and rubber goes to make 45.000 tanks tins year. It's easy to under stand why WPB prohibits manufac ture of medium trucks ufter delayed tebruary -quotas, are viimplvti'd, why lutiuiinig program?has been in stituted for all new trucks, truck tractors and trailers. Incidentally, vrl'A siiesses tiial a civilian consuni er who applies to .WPB for a priority rating to purchase a new lire or tube is just wasting his tune- the deci sion is up to his local rationing board Among. (lie developments last week which affect most of us, 111 one way or anothei OPA's action 111 (Continued on page six) $ Local People Si?;? I |> For First \i w.l|nltTiSl,)ii T ,t William Asa Taylor It F I) J, Oak City. ?T-l ' "II I T I Ii ! II ji 11, 2. Robersonvillt' I 5 -Jantes Bryant Thomas, ion Watts St.. Williamston. T 6 Alva Stilton la-ggett. Hanoi ton I V Haul Dave Manning, Kverctts. T H Joe Mike Mitchell, 114 Smith wiek,St., Williamston T II William Pear lie Moore, It F : D J, Williamston. T 1)1 Andrew Mobley, Hamilton The first ten registrants lo get ser ial numbers were white Iteelassifirationsp. luitidleil by the hoard at Its inoetiiig last night be cause of changes of deferment status by?registrants'?speeial r<..|o..si were announced, as follows Jesse Seotl, Oak City I A ? 'has B. Piftmaii, Oak City I A Daniel Coble Sharpe, of William: ton and Greenville 2-A, wliieli gives lorn a 60-day deferment. Jos Cleophus Revels, It F.I) I, Williamston.?1-A Jesse Alton Harris, It F D 2. Wil liamston?1 A Woodrriw Wilson Braird, William ston?1-A Warren Ray Allen, It F.D 3, Wil liamston | A ?David John Cherry F"eri l|.; :t A Jeffrey Lawrence Taylor, Ruber? sonville?I A Burke Felix Peed, Williamston 1-A Hubert Thomas Cooke, Williams ton?1-A Wlut Cofficld Purvis, of William ston and New River?1-A William Thomas Crawford, Wil liamston? 1-A Geo. Hyman Harrison, Jr., Wrl liamston?1-A. Thomas Frederick Grimes, R.F.D. (Continued on page six) ? ? Slight Fire Damage At Peanut Factory ?t? Thought to have been started by a spark, fire slightly damaged the top floor ceiling in the Williamston Pi unut Company plant yi ulerduy nf ternoon about 4 o'clock. No one was on the fourth floor of the plant at the time and when the automatic fire alarm sounded the fire could not be discovered immediately When work men went to the top floor, the sprink I ler system had the fire out. but much i water was turned loose in the top story before control valves could be closod. No general alarm was sound ed The fire, confined between two rkfters, charred about fifteen feet of the ceiling before the automatic sprinkler system responded. Commenting on the fire. Chief G. P. Hall was certain the sprinkler sys tem saved the building, that it would have been next to impossible for lo cal volunteer firemen to effectively fight a fire in the tall building dur ing the strong wind that was sweep ing out of the west at the time. W VKKHOl SI M \\ A?strong??warehouse personnel line up for the Wil liamston market this coming mmmih is in tin1 making J m ward Corey, above, has entered into a partnership with .Messrs. I.eman Itarnhill and Joe Move for the operation of the New Farmers Warehouse. Thirteen Marriage Licenses Issued In (oiiiiIn in February Issuance S?inn? lii Normal Vflrr llrarliiiifc I.oh I'oinl In l'rc\ioiiH Monlli Apparently i mivi i inri from the shock caused by a Selective Service order ruiiiig out marriages after De cember 7tb as a basis for deferment, j Dan Cupid partially regained his] cquilibrum last month when the | number of marriage licenses again j iipproaclied normal It is now appar- 1 cut that while' storms, troubles and i war may slow "Id Dan down, they won't vti.n him, for lost month he 'worked among a few young men I who are making re ady to enter thej aimed yefvicos .shortly It is indeetrj iVident that Cupid isn't working for i place of vantage in combaiting the , draft law or dodging duty to one's; country. Thirteen licenses were issued, six , to white and seven to colored cou- ; pies, in this county last month by Reg isle r of -Deeds- J. Sam Cletsingcr, | as follows: White ?Joseph?Mardiw.n?and Ruby Lee Padgett, both of Jamesville Leslie* David Coltrain and Lillian i (Continued on page six) i si: IHSCKKTIOIN In bundling up their ulil pa pern and waste materials for sale -to scrap ilealem, Martin County citizens are earnestly urged to use marked diseretion and re serve those papers that earry a high potential value. For in stance, any old Martin County papers dating hark as far as IftOO or before and even a few of later date will sell for a hundred times more than the established waste material price. The enterprise Is in the market for old papers dat ing hack forty years or more, hut please note that they must he Martin County papers includ ing early editions of The Enter prise .the Martin County Sun, the Williamston Echo. East Car olinian and others. When cleaning out the attic, one is urged to make certain about the value of old papers and manuscripts before selling them for junk. Disturbing Reports I'or \llies (.oming From I lie War Front >IIIC,,,M.? K< IIOII<X'Port^appeiir~t<) - "" not really as dark as ; would hav < thorn Tt?- cvacua " II Hangi...,, II,o capital of Bur ma officially admitted, but the tndonunubie Dutch say their forces iU.iKin Dutch and 5.IKII) American ami Hiitish soldie. can be expect id to hold out to tie last man It is jidmitt.xf-ttgp no official u ?rd has ?'von heard hom Java since last ?' ?' h ? rid The transfer of 40 French "?'"hins by the V? by regime to the t.CI man, ua, mporleil by Russian 'US despatches yesterday The Uml ??d states and Britain are investieat 'IIK the report, but no off,rial com mon has been offered m either of lor two couiitru's The Russian report dated that the snips were under construction at the line I" 'Since fell, and g.icx on to sav that included among the transferred s ops were a nun,be, of submarines, KIHtn i " Ot.rn.'rii. nu and an t?? All agreement ?'-'tween Why and the Hermans for jtradual tran.sf. i ?( a large part of ??' Henri, navy to th* Hermans was claimed 1 "8?-" Aided by the Burnusc. the Japs pushing west of Rangoon and making It difficult for the British to establish new lines Completing their s '? Jhvil. th. Japs arc now push '''H.-LLj 1 ?''< y dirns^?ffar. r jn. ilia, toward Australia and a hack glance t,, the Philippines Failing in us attempt to defeat Hem rat Doug ':,s ^' "'Arthur or, Balaam one Jap general e. ,111 III it led snienle. and now ? K-nvral ,.| tl,.- Singapore sweep 1 vntg sent aft,a Ma,-Arthur whoso men with bloodshot eyes caused by mck of sleep stand whh guns in ?laud heady h,i ., new and more pow - v""1 a at,It. I'd Moresby in New Huini., seam 350 nnles from Aus ?'"hiv I . M J?'l? I??i*i*?\s .He moving into I hat .li t ,i U''"lr "" " " I' ll, s III, t? scorch more of the earth, the" con servative group m London, a pi - ntly acting at the comiiiand of dust,aalists wI u n piopntics "I' fiddling ovc inde pendence lor II,. more than four hundred million people t|,at vast 'ourdry The Mohammedans are lo revolt and the more than ? wo hundred million Hindus are de manding nothing less than complete independence hcfuiv they lake up against the Japs A statement "a promised today hut mi'action 1 ' spec-toil unlit Parliament meets again, possibly tomorrow or possi My uvt'k.s | coin now " J.iimm claim-, it has captured I"'1 oners since the war be gnu. anil stories of atrocity are fol '"""'g It has been proved that < I line.' have hci ,, committed against women, and Anthony Kden announc '?'I today that an official report from ? long Kong staled that fifteen offi " is and men had been bound and "set as living targets in bayonet pi actict? lor the Jap heathens. Kojlownig the leceipt of reports ili , ribing the atn? ipus crimes, the Hi Hi: h House of Commons rose up in anger to demand an explanation d'" lie -pool -bowing Hie British we" making the war, and why extini Infant profits were accruing to the industrialist* ;?ppar in 03'ntinn, .J ori page six) Sii"ar Hationiiifir j P Ciistwiihn Named VVJnJe di finite instructions am .