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VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 76 fFilliamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 25, 1912. ESTABLISHED 1899
Farm Machinery
Rationing Board
Named for County
Temporary Program Will Re
main in Effect Until
November 1st
Announcement of the personnel of
the Martin County Rationing com
mittee to handle temporary ration
ing of new farm machinery until No
vember 1, 1942, was made today by
J. F. Crisp, chairman of the County
USDA War Board.
Mr. Crisp, who is also chairman
of the County AAA committee, will
serve as chairman of the rationing
body, and other members named by
the County USDA War Board are.
Mayo Hardison, RFD 3, Williamston,
and R. S. Everett, RFD 1, Roberson
ville. Alternate members are: C. L.
Daniel, RFD 1, Williamston, and W.
L. Ausborn, RFD 1, Robersonville.
Responsibility for administering
the new farm machinery rationing
program was delegated tu the Agri
culture Deaprtment by the OPA, he
said. Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard named Fred S. Wallace, chief
of the AAA and special war board
assistant, to handle the program na
tionally, and directed State USDA
War Boards to be responsible for ra
tioning on state levels. Secretary
Wickard also provided for setting up
the county rationing committees.
The order setting up the ration
ing program provided that the chair
man of the County AAA committee
should be chairman of the rationing
committee, and that two representa
tive farmers should be selected by
the County USDA War Board to
serve as regular members Naming
of two alternates also was provided
in the order.
Chairman Crisp said that no mem
ber of the committee may act on his
own application to purchase new ma
chinery, an application of a member
of his immediate family or other
near relative, or that of his landlord,
tenant, or other business associate.
No member of the rationing com
mittee may be a person engaged in
the business of selling new farm ma
chinery and equipment.
Under the program, Chairman
Crisp said, one classification (Group
A), including items which are scarce
and which are vitally needed in 1942
agricultural production, may be sold
only upon approval of the county ra
tioning committee. Equipment in this
class includes, combines, corn pick
ers. disc harrows, feed grinders, fer
tilizer spreaders, milk coolers, milk
ing machines, pickup balers, potato
diggers, shredders, and tractors, in
cluding garden tractors.
A second classification (Group B)
includes items somewhat less scarce
which may be sold upon certification
by the farmer to the dealer that it is
^onunuea on page six;
Russians Take The
Offensive To Hold
City of Stalingrad
????
Counter-attacks Menace Ger
man Flank Northwest of
The Important City
?
Battered by frontal assaults, mass
bombings, Bankings and an endless
pour of fire, death and destruction,
the defiant Russians today continue
to cling to their battered city of Stal
ingrad Even though weary from
more than a month of fighting in
that immediate area and disappoint
ed because a second front has not ma
terialized, the defenders Wednesday
Started counterattacking and have
made successful but yet small gains
Hie counter-attacks are said to be
threatening the Nazis' flank north
west of the city, the action definitely
delaying if not eliminating the pos
sibility of the city's final capture.
Wrecked and burning from one
end to the other, the city itself is
no longer, and it -would appear that
both sides are fighting for a prin
ciple. The Russians' supreme stand
before the city can best be under
stood in an appeal made on Wednes
day to the defenders The appeal
reads:
"Soldier, you are the judge. You
must bring judgment into effect. The
German ifc before you?do not waver,
kill him.
"Soldier, avenge the mother and
sister of your comrade. Soldier, you
see the German torturing a Russian
child. You have a rifle?avenge it.
"Do not retreat. Judgment ad
vances. Judgment does not retreat.
"Hie Germans came to kill us
Hiey shall not escape. Not a single
man. Kill him, kill Imr quickly."
A late report states that 25,000
Germans have been killed in the
past eight days, 3,000 of that number
falling in the last 40 hours. It is ad
witted, however, that the Russian
losses are great, that neither side
has had time to bury its dead. Wen
dell Willkie, visiting the Russian bat
tlefront in one sector yesterday,
stepped over deed bodies waiting to
be buried.
That allied convoy the Germans
claimed to have wiped out almost in
its entirety, has reached Russia.
Most of the ships reached port after
an eight-day running battle, and it
would seem thst the Germans lost
heavily. One report declares that
(Continued on page six)
Under-Secretary of War Tries Machine Gun
A machine gun is a familiar weapon of war to Under-Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson. He won the
Distinguished Service Cross in World War 1. He is shown on the firing range at Fort Jackson, S. (\, as he
tries out hia trigger finger. He's firing a 80 caliber light machine gun at a moving target. This is an
official U. S. Army phonephoto. ,-f
Number Of Schools To
Close In This County
?w 1
All Negro Schools
And Several White
Schools May Close
Board I'asM'o Order Kiii|?ow
ering Committees To Clow
While Schools
?-?
The uncertain operating schedule
iredicted for the schools in this
lounty a few weeks ago is now fac
ng all the colored schools with the
possibility that it will include sev
eral of the white plants, according
:o information coming from the of
'ice of county superintendent fol
lowing a meeting of the Martin
Board of Education yesterday morn
ing.
Reviewing the attendance figures
in the colored schools now operating,
he board passed an order definite
y suspending classes in those schools
it the close of the daily session next
Wednesday. Twelve of the colored
choirs closed some days ago to make
ivailahle children for cotton pick
ng. All of them are scheduled to re
ipen on Monday. October 12th, in
iccordance with the order passed
>y the county board yesterday
Reporting attendance figures be
ow normal in the colored schools
ind will a serious labor shortage ex
sting on the farms, the board took
lefinite action calling for the clos
ng of the colored schools, but the
losing of the white schools was
nade Optional with the local com
nittees and principals Four com
nunities, Jamesville, Bear Grass,
iamilton and Oak City, had enter
id formal requests for the closing
if the schools in those areas. It is
lossible that requests will come from
latrons in other school districts,
vhile in still others the patrons have
lirtually agreed to work just so
nuch harder themselves in an effort
o keep their children in school; "
The board considered passing an
irder calling for the suspension of
lasses in the four schools, but after
inding that the attendance figures
n all of them are far above normal
-ranging as high as 98 per cent of
he total enrollment at Jamesville?
he authorities decided it would pos
ibly be advisable for each commit
ee to make a study of its own situa
ion and act accordingly. Heretofore,
iperating schedules have been main
ained as long as the attendance fig
ires held to about 75 per cent of the
nrollment. Should the figures drop
lelow that point, it is understood
hat the county board would recom
fContinued on page six)
BLACKOUT
A state-wide blackout has
been ordered and will be in ef
fect for about 45 minutes be
tween the hours of 7 o'clock p.
m. and midnight next Tuesday,
September 29th.
It was stated a short time ago
that the last scheduled blackout
had been held, that future black
outs would not be announced.
However, the authorities, includ
ing state civilian defense beads
sidered U advisable to ih^ldIn
other test ami make it state
wide.
Local wardens and civilian de
fense workers are urged to re
pert to their poets immediately
upon hearing the five-blgst
alarm next Tuesday night. One
long blast of the siren will be
the all-clear signal.
ARMY TANKS
The army tank, the weapon
that has supported Hitler in his
drive over vast areas in Europe
and Africa, made its appearance
on Williamston streets for the
first time early last Tuesday eve
ning.
Apparently complete and
equipped with guns, the tanks
were loaded on two transport
trucks. They were equipped
with rubber shoes and were
moving south.
American Legion
Fair Opens Here
Tuesday Morning
??
Timely Pagcunt, "America on I
Parade" 1h Entertainment
Program Feature
_?
The annual American Legion fair
will officially open here next Tues
day morning with a varied entertain
ment program and a schedule in
keeping with the times. Altered to
meet new conditions, the fair this
year will have a local nature and
will cater to the people of Martin
County and nearby areas. Work is
already underway in the exhibit
halls, Manager W. fc. Dunn stating
this week that numbers of farmers
were, planning to compete for the
exhibit prizes in the various depart
ments including general farm, poul
try and swine. Although there has
been a renewed interest shown in
cattle raising, no general livestock
exhibits have been scheduled up un
til this time.
The Kaus shows, now playing in
Asheboro, are scheduled to reach
here Sunday to play the midway.
Next Tuesday, all white school
children in the county will be ad
mitted free, and that night one of
their names will be drawn and the
owner will be given a $25 war bond.
Colored school children will be ad
mitted free next Friday and one of
them will be given a $25 war bond
that evening.
While the admission at the main
(Continued on page six)
?
Eleven Cases Heard
By Justice Hassell
??
Rounded up for the most part last
week-end, eleven defendants had
their rounds in court this week'when
Justice Hassell meted out sentences
and imposed fines and costs
Eleven cases were heard by the
trial justice as follows:
Joseph Perry Fannie Scott and
Hattie Rascoe. charged with disor
derly conduct, were each sentenced
to jail for thirty days the justice
suspending the sentences upon pay
ment of $7.50 costs each
Sam Williams, of near Williams
ton; Henry Johnson, colored, and
Hubert Page, charged with being
drunk and disorderly, were each
fined $5 and Jaxed with the cost.
Roh Staila Pnrpy Rrahhlp and Fl
mer Swain, charged with being
drunk, were taxed with the costs of
$7 50 each.
Charged with non support, Harry
Gorham was bound over to the coun
ty court under a $100 bond.
Randolph Hinton. charged with
hit-and-run driving, was bound-ov
er to the county court under bond in
the sum of $200.
Review Observation
Post Activities For
Past Two Months
Two Hundred Planer* Report
ed li\ Loral Ohfterver*
During That Period
Reviewing'the activities at the lo
cal observation post for the past two
months. Chief Observer W. II Car
starphen reports -many interesting
highlights relating to the work of
the observers and Cooperation on the
part of the general public. For in
stance, 200 planes were reported dur
ing the period, and 140 volunteers
reported for service at one or more
times in helping to maintain a 24
hour watch seven days each week
from July 20 to the 20th of this
month.
The operation df the post has of
fered its problems, and while the
volunteers have cooperated splen
didly, the number is not 'quitr large
enough to effeet a fair distribw+ion
of hours and watches. "We need at
least fifty or seventy live more vol
unteers to help man the post," Chief
Carstarphen pointed out. Pointing
out that quite a few observers have
been lost to the colleges, schools and
defense centers, the chief said he was
particularly missing J. B. Taylor,
Jr , since lie left for State College.
The young man had served a total
(Continued on page six)
II. Marriott Britt
Dies In Hospital
Henry Marriott Britt, former lo
cal resident, died in a veterans' hos
pital at Kecoughtan, Va , last night
at 10 o'clock following a long per
iod of declining health. He had been
in the hospital for an operation and
treatment for nearly three months.
The son of the late J H. and Lin
ia Braswell Britt, he was born in
Edgecombe County, near Tarboro, 47
/ears ago. He moved to this county
tfith his family in 1915 and a year
ate r 'located in WilUamston where
el for a number of years. During the
World War he served two years in
he Navy at the hospital base in
Portsmouth. Following the war he
eturned home and lived here until
t few years ago when he moved to
Plymouth to continue his work as a
ialesman. He was a member of the
Episcopal church.
He is survived by one brother, Ly
nan Britt, of the U. S. Army in Miss
ssippi. and four sisters, Mrs. C. B.
siceloff, of Williamston; Mrs Mark
iuffin, of Tarboro, and Mrs. J. D.
rhrower and Mis. Ethel Anderson,
>oth of Williamston.
Funeral services had not been
ompleted early this afternoon, but
he body is being brought here for
>urial. Final arrangements are being
lelayed pending the receipt of more
nformation from his brother in Miss
issippi.
CAUGHT UP
Exhausting its current supply
of material, the Martin County
Red Cross chapter is suspending
operations temporarily or until
another shipment of material is
received, Mrs. Tom Barnhill an
nounced yesterday. Approxi
mately 9,0<D0 surgical dressings
have been made In the Red Cross
room over the Western Auto
Store, leaving more than 4A.000
-to be made before the quota as
signed the local chapter is met.
The arrival of the extra mater
ial will be announced within a
short time, Mrs. Barnhill be
lieves, and the volunteers will
be urged to continue the work at
that time.
UNCLE
SAM
BATTLING TO UPHOLD
America's
Freedom
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
reported September Slit that Aus
tralian troops have cleaned out the
entire Milne Bay area at the south
eastern tip of New Guinea, thus con
solidating the biggest Japanese do- i
feat of the war in the Australian!
/.one. Despite heavy fighting in the
Owen Stanley mountains pass where
the Japanese have thrust forward to
within 32 air miles of the Allied base
at Port Moresby. Gen. MacArthur's
bombers and fighters have made
heavy raids on Japanese troops and
on key enemy bases in the northeast
Australian zone in a continuing of
fensive
A strong Japanese naval force, in
cluding battleships and cruisers, was
attacked by army bombers northeast
of Tulagi. with possible hits on two
battleships, the Navy reported Sep
tember 19. After the attack, the Jap
fleet turned and fled northward U.
S. Marines continued to hold their
positions in the Solomons despite
constant air attacks from the enemy
and successful landings of small
-numbers-of enemy troops and sup
plies. U. S planes destroyed 41 more
enemy planes in the Solomons fight
ing. Army planes in several raids
on Japanese-held Kiska in the Aleu
tions destroyed many installations
and inflicted the following dajnage
two minesweepers sunk, six ships
damaged, 500 troops killed, seven
large and. small planes destroyed
Two IJ S. planes were lost in a col
lision. Army headquarters in Lon
don announced a force of American
parachute troops have been in Brit
ain some time undergoing intensive
training Commander in Chief of the
Pacific Fleet, Nimitz, said the De
cember 7th damage to Pearl Harbor
has been repaired "far beyond ex
pectations." The Navy announced the
aircraft carrier Yorktown was sunk
June 7th after it climaxed 104 days
of continuous battle cruising by lo
eating the last of tin- four Japanese
carriers which attacked Midway.
News of the Yorktown's sinking was
withheld, the Navy said, Incause the
enemy possibly was not aware of it.
"Three-fourths of tin nation faces
the prospect of uncomfortaby cold
homes this winter," Price Adminis
trator Henderson said in announcing
coupon rationing of fuel oil which
will reduce consumption by 25 per
cent. Machinery for tin- program will
be set up by October 15th. The area
affected includes the 17 eastern
states and the District of Columbia,
where gasoline rationing is already |
in effect, as well as Minnesota, Wis
consin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Ohio, MissourK Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, North Dakota, South Dakota
and Kentucky
The Office of Price Administration
said apartment houses and commer
cial, industrial and institutional es
tablishments able to convert oil
burning furnaces to coal, but which
refuse to do so, will be denied fuel
oil rations. Only hospitals, where
such a move would present serious
health hazards, will be exempted.
Special provisions will be made in
the rationing program for sections
of the country with "unusual" cli
mate The OPA said consumers in
the rationed area may fill their tanks
up to 275 gallons between now and
September 30, but oil purchased dur
ing this time will be.deducted from
their allotments for the entire heat
ing season.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard,
acting on authority from Mr. Hen
derson, issued a temporary order to
ration new* tarm machinery and
equipment, appointing Fred S. Wal
lace, AAA administrator, to admin
ister the program at the national lev
(Continued on page three)
?
Plan For Extensive
County Scrap Drive
Preliminary plans for an extensive
county-wide drive for scrap metals
have been completed, and every man,
woman and child is earnestly urged
to do hU part in building up an am
ple supply of the precious metals
Reliable reports state that there isn't
enough scrap iron available to fyecp
I the steel mills running two weeks,
that something must be done if the
war is not to he lost right here on
the home front.
The following organization has
been named to boost the scrap col
lection in this county: V. J Spivey.
chairman; James C. Manning, chair
man of the junior drive; Oak City.
John Hassell, N W. Johnson and E
V. Smith Hassell. J. W F.ubanks,
Gqo. Haislip and Mrs. Beatrice Ed
mondson; Gold Point, Charlie Forbes
and Mrs. Pitt Roberson; Roberson
vilie, W H Gray, L. W Anderson
and M M Everett; Everetts, D. W
Gaskill. Rev. Dennis W Davis and
Bill Bullock; Parmele, John H Roe
buck; Jamesville, V B. Hairr, Char
lie Davenport and Charlie Hough;
Farm Life, Tommie Gaylord, Ray
mond Gurkin and P. E Getsinger;
Bear Grass, T. O. Hickman, Mrs. J.
R Rogers and LeRoy Harrison; Ham
ilton, LeRoy Everett, J. H. Bunn and
W J. Beach, Williamston, D. N. Hix,
W. K. Parker and Hoy Ward.
Ration Law Violations
And Complaints Heard
1/ si
missing
^ . J
, I
Ij. Dan Roebuck. Jr., young
Martin County man and popu
lar son of Mr. and Mrs. L. |>.
Roebuck of near Hamilton, was
reported missing in the service
of his country following action
in the Pacific war arena a few
days ago. lie is the sixth Martin
County young man reported
missing or lost in action in the
current war.
Crunt Ten Divorces
In Superior Court
Tuesday Afternoon
Trial of Criminal Docket U
Completed Hut Many Ca?e?
\re Continued
^ _
Completing the trial of criminal
rases early, Tuesday afternoon, the
Martin County Superior Court
cranked up its divorce mill and in
rapid order crushed the bonds of
matrimony in ten'cases. Plaintiffs in
several other divorce cases failed
to appear in court and in a few oth
er cases action was continued when
it was learned that the two years of
separation upon which the suits
were brought, had not expired.
The criminal docket before the
| court this week was almost a flop,
but "hefty" sentences were impos
ed in some of the cases, and most of
the defendants well realized they j
had been before the bar of justice
when Judge Clawson Williams, pre
siding jurist, had finished with them.
The trial of civil cases got under
way this morning, but the proceed
ings are attracting very little atten
tion from the public.
Proceedings in the court:
After its continuance had been
recorded on the trial docket, the case
charging Bessie Smith, and Sam Ma
bry with arson was nol pressed or
thrown out of court for a lack of
evidence. The disposition, of the case
does not explain the accumulation of
certain surplus commodities? dished
out under the old relief system.
Chester Terry, charged with aid
ing and abetting in larceny, failed
to answer when called and papers
were issued for his arrest. Efforts to
get the case into the court for trial
were said to have been blocked.
After pleading not guilty in the
case charging Homer Gee with dis
orderly conduct, the defendant
through his attorney at the; conclu
sion of the evidence pleaded guilty
of assaulting another with a dead
ly weapon. He was sentenced to the
roads for twelve months and fined
$75. The sentence was suspended on
condition that he pay the fine and
the case costs immediately and on
further condition that he is not to
have any intoxicants in his posses
sion or take any intoxicants or vio
late any law for a period of three
years. Sentence is to be invoked in
the case upon the violation of the
provisions.
Charged with larceny, Johnnie
Gray Mayo was sentenced to the
roads for a term of two years. In a
second case charging Mayo and
Ernest Godard with larceny, Godard
(Continued on page three)
A stern warning is being is
sued to all county motorists by
Rationing Hoard Chairman C.
C . Martin following the receipt
of special instructions from the
state rationing office. All motor
ists caught driving in excess of
forty miles an hour or abusing
the use of their tires in any way
by sudden braking, turning or
skidding will have their ration
books recalled, and no new ra
tioning books of any kind will be
issued the guilty parties in the
future, it was explained.
Six cases have already been
filed in this county, and before
further rations are Issued the
records will be checked for vi
olations. The order is applica
ble to all motorists regardless of
their priority claims.
County Board Asked
To Duplicate Lar^e
Number Of Coupons
W ifr IVIU How lliishaml Uses
"(!" 4 Ion pons to Haul Oth
er W omen Around
#
Direct violations of the gasoline ra
tioning laws and flagrant abuses of
the system are being reported on a
fairly extensive scale in this county,
according to unofficial but yet reli
able information reaching the ration
ing board during the past few days.
Action is pending in at least one
case, and the system is almost cer
tain to have its serious repercussions
other than in the business economy,
according to the expressed belief of
one of the rationing board members
m this county.
Books, reported lost, are said to
have been sold after duplicates had
been issued, and minor violations of
a similar nature have been reported.
No wholesale thefts of coupons have
been reported within the county,
however. The Martin rationing board
was directed a few days ago to issue
a filling station operator in the coun
ty coupons for 4,1.41 gallons of gas
oline. but few details could be learn
I ed here. It is understood that a
wholesale distributor from outside
the county delivered that amount of
gasoline to the station and received
41 stamps of the 100 gallon denomi
nation and 41 stamps good for. one
gallon each. The stamps were stolen
from the distributor's truck in or
near Snnthfield A colored man was
arrested and the stamps were recov
ered The district rationing board au
thorities in Atlanta, ordering dupli
cate stamps be issued, explained that
the original stamps would be return
ed to this county after they had been
used as evidence against ttie alleged
thief. The man's trial is to be held
within the near future, it was learn
ed, but the exact time and place were
hot disclosed.
| A direct complaint received by
one of the hoard members this week
j told how a faithless husband was
abusing the use Of his "C" rationing
coupons The wife, according to re
liable information, explained that
the husband was driving all over
the country, hauling nu n and strange
women, that the surplus gasoline was
not being used;for the purpose des
1 ignated in the application.
I Then there are those, reports tell
, ing how some motorists are drawing
(Continued on page six)
f
l ire Allotments For
Month of September
Exhausted By Board
?
One New Cur Allotted; Five
Other A|)|>lieulion? for
Curs Are Itejeeled
?
Tin Martin County Rationing
Hoard was in session quite a while
here yesterday, studying the ever
increasing number of requests for
bicycles, tires, new automobiles and
gasoline Seven new bicycles were al
lotted, a certificate for the purchase
of a new car was issued and five ap
plications were rejected, and the tire
and tube allotment for the month of
the last bounce
Mr N W Worsley, RFD carrier at
Oak City, was issued a certificate for
the purchase of a new car. Applica
tions for cars were rejected in the
following cases:
Tommie Harrell, Oak City, mech
anic.
tiarrcll D. Copqland; Willfamston,
radio station operator,
Mack M Bowen, RFD 2, William
ston. farmer,
Mrs Alice Blanch Tyson, RFD 1,
Hobgood, for farm work, and
Jos R Winslow, RFD 1, Rober
sonville. farmer and for use in FSA,
AAA and American Legion.
New automobile tires were issued
in two cases, as follows:
Dr. J S Rhodes, Williamston, two
lires and two tubes, and Dr. V. A.
Ward. Robersonville, one tire and
two tiibes.
Retread automobile tires were al
lotted as follows:
F S. Scott, Oak City, four tires,
for farm work.
C. S. Vanlandingham, Williams
ton, two tires for use in carrying mail
on star route.
New truck tires were allotted to
the fullowing:
Robert James Hardison, RFD 1,
Williamston, three tires and two
tubes for hauling logs.
Roberson Slaughter House, Wil
liamston, two tires and four tubes
for delivery of wholesale meatc ~
Farmville-Woodward Lumber Co.,
Williamston, four tires and four tubes
for hauling lumber.
Retread Truck Ttres
Retread truck tires were issued to
the following:
Leslie W. Hardison, Jamaevilla, for
fuel deliveries and farm work.
(Continued' on pageatx)