Oswald Stalls Hurls Shut-oul As
Cards Capture Season's Finale
League Play-offs Are Expect
ed To Get Underway in
The Near Future
In yesterday's curtain-dropper of
the regular schedule of the city soft
ball loop, the champion Cardinals
shut out the Martins by a 3-0 count
in as fine a game as was played all
season, the game being run off in
fifty minutes.
This shut-out was the second of
the 24 game calendar, and in racking
up this victor}', the Cardinals allow
ed only one Martin to get as far as
second base, this being accomplish
ed as Reg Simpson singled in tfre
As this edition of the paper
goes to press, the play-offs will
be held as previously announc
ed. unless an alternative that has
only reached the standpoint of
talk matures. In that event the
captains of the teams will inform
their players of the change.
seventh and went to the keystone
sack on an error. All the scoring was
crowded into the last half of'-tliif
fifth, as the winners used half of
their eight hits for the only run.- of
the game. Stalls. Bullock and Miller
all three singled to load the bags, and
then one run tallied On a fielder's
choice and an error, and two more
runs came home on a ringing two
bagger by Q T. Roberson.
The Martins were held to fourl
hits by the steady pitching of Os
wald Stalls, who racked up his
eighth win of the season. These four
brngies~were~dtvided among as many
Martins. C. T Roberson was the only
player getting more than one hit.
getting a pair of safeties in three,
trips to the plate, to lead the Cards,
while John Miller had one for one.
for the highest average.
The box:
Cardinals
Ah
- R
II
Critcher. 3b
2
1
0
Fitzgerald, ss
2
0
0
C. T Roberson. cf
3
0
2
Hall, c
3
0
1
Gurganus, If
2
0
1
N Cunningham, lb
3
0
1
Stalls, p
3
1
1
C Griffin, sf
0
0
0
Bullock, sf
2
0
1
Bailey, rf
1
0
0
Hopkins, rf
1
0
0
Miller, 2b
1
1
1
Totals
23
3
8
Martins
Ab
K
II
D Cobb, sf
3
0
1
Simpson. 3b
3
0
1
B. Peele, c
2
0
0
Everett, cf
1
0
0
Grimes, ss
3
0
0
Waters, lb
2
0
0
F Peele. 2b
2
0
1
Hoyle, rf
2
0
0
E. Hardy, cf
2
0
1
Pittman, p
2
0
0
F. Lilley, If
2
0
0
Totals
24
0
4
Score by innings
R
Martins 000 000 0?0
Cardinals 000 030 x?3
War As It Relates
To Home Front Is
Rev iewed for Week
(Continued from page one)
they are not enough. Only if each
one of us does his part will we have
enough? barely enough ? for our
needs
WPB Orders Will Be Enforced
At this moment when our troops
are fighting on world fronts and all
of us arc caught up in united effort
we cannot tolerate sly attempts to
dodge the restrictions and the de
privations most of us accept cheer
fully; The person who tries to dodge
rationing regulations, who tries to
beat price and rent control, who
thinks it smart to get illegally ma
terials reserved for the armed forces
?that person is a saboteur as surely
as though he had been landed on our
coast from a Nazi sub.
The record of the past few days
shows that such people are getting
short sbr+fh'in Sen Francisco, a bank
is stuck with two partly remodeled
(buildings, intended for branch of
fices. which must remain unfinished
for the duration by WPB order The
builders began construction work on
the buildings after WPB's order stop
ping civilian construction. In Massa
chusetts. the owner of two filling
stations may not receive any motor
fuel until December 20th because he
evaded gasoline quotas. Four Cali
fornia firms have had their supplies
cut off for violating WPB Priority
regulations We're tough with such
people, and we should be lough.
?Fortunately they are few. Most Am
ericans observe rationing regulations
and other restrictions patriotically
Sugar Rationing, for instance, has
produced only twelve prosecutions
f<>r violations so far. So far as sugar
is concerned, the Office of Price Ad
ministration believes we'll get at
least as much sugfcir during the next
thirteen months as we've been get
ting unless the shipping situation
m the Caribbean Sea worsens.
OPA has announced that during a
ten week period beginning August
2.1 and ending October 31 Ration
Stamp Number Eight will be good
for five pounds of sugar That is
more sugar than has been assigned
to any previous stamp, but it is a
longer ration period too.
ODT Faces Growing Transportation
Problems
Next month a lot of feet are go
ing to be stepped on, a lot of arms
are going to ache. The Office of De
fense Transportation says that by
the middle of September the coun
try's local transportation systems
will be carrying the heaviest toad
of their history. Already these sys
tems are hauling loads about 40 per
cent greater than last year and with
the opening of school buses and
trolleys, subways and elevated rail
roads and commuter trains will be
even more crowded. A lot of us will
be hanging onto straps, stepping back
in the car, walking further to the
bus stop and undergoing other in
conveniences?but that's war. ODT
says that by stopping service on bus
routes paralleling street railways, by
reducing the number of stops and
cutting out unnecessary runs to out
tymg distriets and by revising
schedules, forty-two of the largest
American cities will save rubber at
the rate of almost 300,000.000 tire
miles a year and more than 12.000,
000 gallons of gasoline.
OPA Will Give No Truce
To Inflation
The fight to keep down the cost
of living is a fight in which there
can be no truce.
Anybody who remembers the last
war knows what happens to the cost
of living when prices are not con
trolled The last war brought what
the economists called "inflation" and
this inflatiop did tremendous dam
age In some countries it wiped out
the life savings of millions and
brought other millions close to star
vation. In the U S A the cost of liv
uig rose so high that wages were not
able to keep up with them
During the last war, for instance,
the mail order price for a pair of
overalls rose from 82 cents to $2 95
Work clothing ? overalls, jackets,
dungarees, work shirts, and pants?
are an important item m the budget
of every working family and when
they cost too much the result is real
hardship
Last week OPA took steps to make
sure that work clothes, this time, re
main at reasonable levels. OPA saw
that there was a situation in the
wink clothes industry which, unless
corrected, might force an increase ii
the prices charged for work cloth
ing by retail stores OPA cut the
maximum price of cloth going into
work clothes?denims, jeans, etc.?
and then reduced the maximum
prices which may be used by manu
facturers and wholesalers for this
clothing The reduction is expected
to save more than $6,500,000 for re
tailers of work clothing and as a re
sult these clothes, worn by most Am
erican workers in industry and agri
culture, w ill continue to cost no more
than they did last March.
Kight vessels were launched from
Maine shipways in a single day last
week six cargo vessels and two
destroyers . . The only two man la
bor-management committee in the
War Production Drive consists of
Jake Sparling, 60, and Percy Fogel
Minger. 79 They're the entire force
of a Bay City, Mich., "factory" mak
ing steel flanges for war machin
ery . . The Boy Scouts are distrib
uting leaflets explaining Price Con
trol to 25,000,000 homes throughout
the country WPB again urged
home owners in the East to convert
theif furnaces from oil to coal if
they can- and do it now. And ODT
took control over all inland and
astal craft capable of transporting
|uid cargo in a further effort ot
lieve the oil shortage . WPB has
nted a program to reclaim mil
ms of gallons of chemical solvents
d Oils These products are critical
needed by our war machine and
e being wasted now . . and the
partment of Interior is making it
issibie to harvest yucca from pub
? lands?yucca, which grows wild
id abundantly throughout the
luthwest, is a domestic substitute
, the hemp "lie fiber - we used
1942 Tobacco Season
Opens With A Bang!
RECORD PIUCES Are Bein?r Paul At The
Planters Warehouse
Wejjnt three of our many satisfied container* on opening day:
KKIHUCk & HKIIDICk
Lbg. Price Amount
70 37c __ 8 25.00
34 32c __ 10.80
90 44c 39.00
14 __ 39c __ 5.40
70 45r __ 34.20
184 .. 45c __ 82.80
468 8198.84
AVERAGE 842.49
SIDNEY BEACHAM
l.hx. Price Amount
112 __ 15c __ 8 50.40
Ki 43c __ 19.78
191 45c __ 73.80
206 __ 47c 96.82
528 $240.80
AVERAGE $45.61
MILDRED PURVIS
ANI) ROBKRSON
Lb*. Price Amount
230 .. 44c __ 8103.84
196 __ 4k- __ 86.24
170 __ 42c __ 71.40
134 41c _ _ 54.94
736 8316.42
AVERAGE 813.00
FIRST SALE
Friday, August 28th
AT THE
New Carolina Warehouse
For Highest Prices, Sell Your Tobacco at The
Carolina or Planters
JOHNNY GURKIN, JOHN A. MANNING, SYLVESTER
LILLEY and CARLYLE LANGLEY, Proprietors
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Death hovered close to the
highways of this county last
week, but fortunately the grim
reaper was cheated by a narrow
margin. Some think a tobacco
laden truck hit a small girl.
While this could not be estab
lished as a fact, the case should
serve as a warning to everyone
as the tobacco hauling season
gains momentum.
The following 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.
34th Week Comparison
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'ge
1942 1 1 0 ) 000
1941 3 10 145
Comparison To Date
1942 47 29 1 $6,243
1941 61 46 3 17,680
To Mail Christmas
Parcels for Armed
Forces In October
(Continued from page one)
behalf of the same person or con
cern to or for the same addressee.
Preparation: Owing to the great
distance this mail must be trans
ported and the handling and any
storage it must undergo, it is abso
lutely necessary that all articles be
packed in substantial boxes or con
tainers" and be covered with wrap
pers of sufficient strength not only
to resist pressure of other mail in
the same sack, but to withstand the
weight of other sacks of mail, which
in the long transit may U* piled
thereon.
Many combination packages will
probably be made up, including mis
cellaneous toilet articles, hard can
dies, soaps, etc. The contents of such
packages should he tightly packed,
in order that the several articles may
not be loosened in transit, damaging
the contents of the parcel itself or
causing damage to the covering of
the parcel. Christmas boxes should
be inclosed in substantial contain
ers. Candies in thin paste board
boxes should be inclosed in wood,
metal, or corrugated paste board
Sealed packages of candy, cigars, to
bacco and toilet articles in simplest
mercantile form may be inclosed
within parcels without affecting the
parcel-post classification of such
packages. Sharp-pointed or sharp
edged instruments such as razors,
knives, etc., must have their points
or edges protected so they cannot
cut through their coverings and dam
age other mail or injure postal em
ployees.
?
Prk ;es Range From
About Twelve To
A Peak Of 47 Cents
(Continued from page one)
first sales, the price ranging from six
cents to about 47.
The average on the Kinston mar
ket was between 36 and 37 cents.
Goldsboro reported an average
close to 40 cents for the first thirty
piles sold, the main price range be
ing between 23 and 43 cents a pound.
As far as it could be learned from
the early reports, prices were satis
factory thoughout the belt. No tags
were turned. Compared with the
opening prices on the border, receipts
for the early sales in this belt were
about the same or a fraction lower.
Considering the quality of the two
crops, the prices in this belt are
equally as high as those reported by
the border markets, if not slightly
higher.
"Inferior quality tobacco is selling
high, and we have inferior tobacco,
making it just right for us,'' a tobac
co farmer summed up the situation,
more or less, correctly.
The weather for the opening was
ideal, the old-timers declaring that
never had they seen the weather as
cool as it was this morning for the
initial sales.
Situation In Russia
Approaches Critical
Stage At Two Points
(Continued from page one)
the north for a possible drive on
Russia. The fighting time in Siberia,
however, is short before winter and
the likelihood of an attack there is
dwindling.
Late reports state that the Ger
mans, crossing the Don River with
large numbers of tanks and drop
ping parachute troops behind the
lines, are steadily advancing on Stal
ingrad. The civilian population of
the industrial city are already lin
ing up for its defense, and more
bloody fighting is certain. Can Rus
sia hold is the important question
now facing the Russians and the
world? The outcome of the great
to get from the Far East. It can be
used to make rope and twine, bur
lap and materials used in mattresses
and in upholstery ... a loss of key
men in coal mines to other war in
dustries and the armed forces is
limiting production and threatens
to make it impossible for the mines
to supply the fuel needed for war
industry and essential civilian uses
. . not to be opened until Christmas
?OPA has exempted "trees, mistle
toe, holly, ferns, plants and other
green stuffs" from the provisions of
the General Maximum Price Regu
lations.
ro Conduct Service*
In Everett* Sunday
Mr. Robert Baroe, with the Duke
?"oundation, will conduct the serv
ces at the Everetts Chriatian Church
in Sunday. August 23rd
ttruggir is expected by this week
end.
The counter-attack on the Solo
mons, predicted late yesterday, is
reported underway today, but no de
tailed reports have been received on
the late fighting there. p
Churchill is back in London and
today he is holding a momentous
conference with his war cabinet.
Spectacular developments are be
lieved in the offing.
WantS
HOGS FOR SALE ? 45 SHOATS,
weighing from 40 to 75 pounds. Red
Jerseys. Sec or call Henry Johnson,
Robersonville. a21-2t
WANTED ? ABLE SUPERVISOR
for T. B. Sanatorium at the Mar
tin County Home. Room, board and
laundry furnished, plus salary. Ap
ply Martin County Welfare Depart
ment. a21-2t
IF YOU NEED AN ICE REFRIGER
ator?We have a few that have
just arrived. Come in and see them.
B S. Courtney, Furniture. William
ston. N. C. a25-2t
WANTED: OPERATOR FOR MOD
ern service station situated on U.
S. Highway No. 17 in Williamston.
Apply to E. P. Rhodes, Gulf distribu
tor in Washington. Phone 750.
al8-4t
IF YOU NEED AN ICE REFRIGER
ator?We have a few that have
just arrived. Come in and see them.
B. S. Courtney. Furniture. William
ston, N. C. a25-2t
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> Pittman's. One day service on any
arment. Suits, coats and dresses, 53
;nts, cash and carry. 65c delivered,
ittman's Cleaners. f3-tl
-ROOM APARTMENT FOR RENT
?Unfurnished. See Clyde Waters,
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s
LARK'S MALARIAL, CHILL AND
Fever Tonic. Sold on money-back
;uarantee. Clark's Pharmacy, Wil
iamston, N. C. jy24-tf
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stores and storage space. Apply
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med glasses with one side broken,
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ANNOUNCEMENT: We Have Secured The Services
OF A NEW BARBER
MK. J. A. THOMAS
Of Windsor and Brother of the Proprietor
GUY THOMAS
OWNER COMMUNITY BARBER SHOP
Closing Out!
Summer Dress
MATERIALS
Values Ironi 69c to 89c
NOW ?
49c yard
(This Week Only)
WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK
Cotton Sheets
See Us For Your Requirements
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Subscription Rates
For The Enterprise
Will Increase September 1st
NEW RATES WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:
In Martin County
One year $2.00
Six months $1.25
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One year $2.25
Six months $1.50
RENEW NOW and SAVE!