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MAKX EVERY PAY DAT WAR [\ .Xf BOND DAY j THE ENTERPRISE. o»'es vrfE top FOR VICTORY with UNITED STATES WAR so® rj SLIME XLV I—M MBER 10 ff illiamston, Martin County^ ftorth Carolina, i'iit>sday\'Pebruary 2, 1943. ESTABLISHED 1899 Mis&lofHPTTells OF t Conditions In China Geo. M. Keliy, Thirty Years a Missionary, Says China lias Great Future Occupying the pulpit in the local Christian Church last Sunday eve ning, Rev. George M. Kelly, ||jirty years a missionary in China^aiked interestingly of that great cWuntrjp am^xwnjgcd thebehei that a be'v* n ceil Ame^P cans and the Chinese millions i.f in the making. His was an appealing : 4/t> anil one that touched on the pit iful conditionssexisting in the war torn country. / Pointing out some of the difficul ties facing China even in peace times, the missionary explained that it was a land of millions of square miles, that to see China’s millions one would have to^tand in his doorway for 5!)0 years if,those millions pass ed by at the rate of 4o00 a day. Poor communication systems and low lit eracy standards have made progi ess difficult, but despite those handi caps and under terrible war conditions the nation has been unit ed and tlj® missionary sees a prom ising future for religion and the country. Starting Ins work with little sup port back in 1910. Mr. Kelly explain ed that on his first furlough home five years later, he found Americans generally disinterested in China and her problems. On his second fur lough he found Americans more in terested, and on this trip he is find ing them even more interested and enthusiastic about China and her problems. Mr. Keily offered a hope ful’ picture of China’s future, and pointed out that there were many good things there. China, while re ceiving influences from America, has given much to the West, the mission ary pointing out that we had gotten from China paper, tea, porcelain, beef, eggs, silks and others, to men tion a few. “It is a beautiful coun try with a varied climate, ranging to both extremes Once in China for five years, one wants to live there the remainder of his life,” the mis sionary said, intimating that he w'as anxious and willing to serve the re mainder of his life with and in the tive people. Asking the question, Are Ameri cans welcomed in China?” the mis sionary answered, “Yes and no.” “They must t >. v who you are and what is your mission, hut once they krt! i-’vsrh V'itb not to exploit them, they can’t do I enough for you.” Ha recalled his first work there and explained that much of it was now' self-supporting or was before the war. In the great struggle with Japan, China is favored by the work done by the missionaries, “There are doctors, business men and political leaders who were trained and edu cated as a result of ■the'missionary movement and are leading China to *a brighter future. The political sit uation has taken on a new aspect, and a new day dawned with Chiang Kaishek. He worked for unity, but in his early work he slew many and was recognized as a despot. The in fluence of a Christian wife saved him for Chj§lii, and in her last crisis, he told the Chinese people that they must act and fight. The secret of the man’s success is Christianity. Kai shek promised his mother-in-law that he would read the Bible an hour each day, and despite his great re sponsibilities he finds time to do that. As a result, China is the only nation basing its struggle for exist ence on a religious foundation, for Kaishek has declared, ‘Our spiritual concepts are right, therefore we will win this war.’ While China’s lead er was saying that, too many of the Allies are saying we will win this war because of our air power and machines. I have and still hope that other Allied leaders will follow Kai shek and that ail people could have the same concepts, for our success depends on God.” Continuing, Mr, Kelly said, "Kai shek is God’s man, in God’s appoint ed place and time ” The missionary told how the Chinese leader had miraculously escaped with his life on several occasions. "Seeing a ball of fire, K.iashek got up to investigate and a bullet plowed through the chair where he had beetr sitting a few' seconds before, and the bah of fire disappeared. Sensing danger on another occasion, KaisheK knelt to pray and bullets tore through the car just above his head. On another occasion Kaishek was visiting Can ton and the enemy knew he was holding a conference in a cave. There were seven caves and six of them were wrecked, but Kaishek was in the seventh one. “We were holding services in our church in Canton when a 500 pound (Continued on page six) Missionary Will Show Pictures On Thursday -- Rev. George M. Kelly, thirty years a missionary in China, will show here a large number of special pictures taken in China during the past years. The pictures are to be shown in the Christian church at 7:45 o’clock on Thursday evening, and the public is cordially invited. A free will silver offering will be received. iJeath ofCaptaiifDonfjodwiri j Thv death of Captain Dou C. God-1 north of San Francisco early in the morning of January 21 was confirm ed :n a message received by mem bers of the family here yesterday. No details of the accident that cost the former Wilhomston man his life and those of other high ranking Nav al officers havejjfeeen released. 1 The plane was said to ha»t crash ed into £, mountain and? burned making If difficult for searching par ; ties to locate it One report indicated that two of the bodies, that of Rear Admiral English and the nurse, "Could be recognized. The Bodies® of the victims presumably have been recovered, but funeral arrangements for Captain Godwin have not been announced. It is likely that his body will be removed to Washington for the last rites]%nd interment in Ar lington Cemetery, members of the fnm.Ujfc. stating hero this morning that a message- announcing funeral * ENTERS NAVY Volunteering his services some months ago, Claude B. Clark, Jr., leaves this afternoon for Dart mouth College, Hanover, N. II., to enter a Naval Reserve School. Young County Man Diesjmddenly In HotelHere Sunday —*— * i Funeral Services Held Mon day Afternoon for Elmo B. Janies* I-1 mo Id Jumcs, vvi-11 known coun ty young man and popular tobaccon ist, died suddenly in, a hotel hen about one o’clock Sunday morning of a heart attack. He had suffered w ilh heart trouble possible for some time, but he never complained to members of his family. It was learn ed that he recently underwent treat ment for the trouble in a hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee .where he was on the tobacco market during the season just ended. Planning to re port for government work in Nor folk, Mr. James came here from his hi me in Everetts Saturday planning to catch an early bus to the Virginia city. Apparently he wasn’t feeling well that evening and visited a lo cal doctor’s office. He reported to his hotel about 8 o’clock and after talking with friends in the lobby for a short time he went to his room and retired, instructing a bell boy to carry bis suit and overcoat to the cleaners. Realizing that Mr. James was not feeling well, Garland Barnhill, a resident of the hotel .went to his room sho:ily after midnight and found him sleeping soundly. About half an hour later the bellooy went to the room with Mr. James’ clothes. Expecting a tip that had already been promised, the bellboy called and received no answer, and he soon discovered tire man was dead. The bellboy summoned aid and Mr. James was pronounced dead by a doctor who said death was attribut able to a heart attack. 'Hie suii of vlr. Cornelius and. Maude Moore James, of Everetts, Mr. James was born there forty vears ago last June 21. After com pleting his early schooling in Ever (Continued on page sixi r INCREASE After shrinking for years, the size fo Mai tin County’s cotton crop in 1942 started growing again, Miss Stresyla Y. Griffin, special agent for the Depart ment of Commerce of the United States- f/oreao of the Cessss, stating in a special report this week that 4,968 bales of cotton had been ginned from the re cent crop as compared with 4, 892 bales ginned from the prev ious crop up to January 16th. In addition to the slight in crease reflected in the ginnings, it is reliably learned that a fair ly sizable amount of the staple was lost in the [arrangements was t.vpeeted mo men-! tartly fwwsr v.irif'^rxhv/.'r ^. California. Captain Godwin, after living ihrough the Pearl Harbor attack and after experiencing considerable bat tle duty in the South Pacific, was en route to San Francisco when the large transport plane lost its way in <%Jiea\Tg rain storm and crashed. Ir W( service of his country follow ing his graduation from Annapolis for another promotion and was to enter upon shore duty. He was the ninth Martin County man reported killed or missing since Pearl Har bor® ® SS © SSS Besides his widow, the former Miss Hazel Mae Kenney, of Wash ington and Connecticut, he is sur vived by a daughter, Mrs. Donnie Bingle, of Washington City, and tour brothers, Messrs Chas. H. and V. D. Godwin, of Williamston, Lewis God win, of Farmville, and Dr. Grover C. Godwin? of Roanoke, Va. Reviews Activities On the Legislative Front in the State i _._ Longer St liool Term and Sales Tax Feature Legislative Calendar l^ast Week By CLARFNCE W. GRIFFIN The public hearings of the advo cates of nine months school term and those, advocating repeal of sales tax were the high lights of the past week in the General Assembly. Last Wed nesday, the achool teachers, leaded by Clyde Ertfcin, Superintendkrit of Public Instruction and Josephus Dan iels, made a passionate plea for a nine months state wide school term. The bill will probably be voted on in committee during the coming week. With equal force and vigor the an ti-sales tax group appeared before the finance committee and made a plea for the removal of sales tax. The contrast in the position of the two groups was significant. One group would ailvaydif a reduct iotujJ^im proximal0,000 m revenue and the other group was ad vocating the expenditure of an ad ditional five or six million per year. Needless to say, the two groups can not be reconciled. A state wide wine bill was intro duced and pas.n u in "inc committee. The bill would create a state board of wine control headed by a director with $6,(100 year salary. There were only two or three of us in the com mittee opposing the bill. It seems to me a feeble attempt to solve the problem. With a whiskey board al ready established, it seems to me there is a sufficiently high priced personnel to handle the problem. It is another example of the trend toward bureaucracy in Raleigh We criticize the Federal Administration for its tendency toward bureaucracy and yet we are moving in the same di rection in our State Government. In my opinion, it is time to start tow ard decentralization of power else local democracy will soon be a thing of the past Several bills were introduced rel ative to settling of estates of deceas ed persons which were quite revolu tionary in character. One of them would change the time for filing claims against the eseate from 12 to six months. Others related to publi cation of notice to creditors. Another bill would require that all personal property be exhausted for taxes before resorting to real estate. This bill has not yet been considered in the committee but will come up this week. There is considerable interest in the Judiciary No. 2 Committee or. the fire works bill. This is the same bill that was introduced last session and failed to pass. The bill would restrict the sale of fireworks con siderably by putting it under rigid control of fire warden. No fireworks (Continued on page six) -« March Of Dimes Is —Success In County Incomplete reports from Chairman W I. Skinner indicate that the March of Dimes wil set a new high record in the county this year. Ap proximately $400 has been received and tha dimes and contributions continue to pour in. Robersonvile took the lead in the early calcula tions with $112, followed closely by Jamesville with $107. Hassell, Gold Point, Hamilton and only about half of Wiiiiamston had reported when the first canvass of the drive was made last night. The March of Dimes on the streets here last Saturday totaled $56 and the schools reported $49.65. None of the coin collectors has been emptied here as yet and a complete report from the Woman’s Club is awaited. Already more money has been raised in the county for the fight against infantile paralysis than was raised a year ago, Mr Skinner ex plained. A detailed and complete re port will be made public the latter part of this or early next week. I War As IT Relates To Hij’Wte-feml Is pwruetml ter# eok Shortage of Skilled W orkers Is Serious Problem Faring Nation -- The shortage of skilled labor for war work is not confined to the bulk shortage that shows up in boom towns-.so many thojfeaqji jobs to be ?§ied in this or that tjfcr plant —i Starve shortage. That is. a limited number of highly specialized vafts nien or operators are essential to keeping hundreds or thousands of otfcer workmen on*th#vjs»j», For example, the lack of 11 skill ed men, with particular experience, held up /employment of 3,000 war workers,, and the company discov ered that unless these key men could be brought in from outside the community—none of the skills were found there—only 05 new per sons could be tilted instead of the number originally planned. Modern industrial processes are often an endless chain, and if a single link is missing, the chain can’t move Workers Must dobs An ordnance plant tried ft,, months to get 140 skilled workers, includ ing 40 machinists. A community sur vey showed there were men with the proper skills in the area, but they were in non-essential industry and refused to transfer to war work There are many reasons for such re fusals—fear of the loss of seniority in their present occupations, unwill ingness to work in a new and strange place, and the like. But as the sup ply of civilian goods and services is drastically cut during 1943, thous ands of these workers will have to transfer to the essential trades and jobs—the sooner the Better, for they are needed not only for what they can produce themselves but also as trainers of the less skilled, women youths, and handicapped persons Workers who stay in non-essential jobs should remember that they leave gaps in a chain of war produc tion that leads straight to the battle fronts, where men from their own communities are giving lives in or der that all American labor may re main free. Move To Keep Workers On Farms The problem of getting enough agricultural workers to assure the increased food production goals for 1943 will be partly solved by keep ing as many of them as possible on tbs—JArms through deferment from Selective Service. The policy of de ferring farm workers engaged in raising essential war crops has been extended by adding (o the list of es sential crops such products as tobac co and short staple cotton, vegetable seeds, honey, ducks, geese, goats, a detailed list of fruits, and most lum ber and wood products. The form in which foods will reach the civilian consumer this year has been partly determined by canning (Continued on page three) Local Man Heads Naval Hospital —*— Captain William H. Harrell, (MC), U.S.N., former Williamst.on resident, has been appointed chief of medical service at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif., it was announced to day by the Eleventh Naval District. As chief of medicine, Capt. Har rell succeeds Comdr. Harold O. Coz by, (MC), U.S.N., who has been or dered to duty at sea. Since the start of the war, Capt. Harrell has been on duty aboard a hospital ship in the North Atlantic and in the Solomon Islands area. He saw action in battles off the Santa Cruz and Savo Islands, and received a slight hand wound. Capt. Harrell received his under graduate and medical training at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania. Captain Harrell, the second Mar tin County man to attain that Navy rank, is the son of the late Dr. W H. Harrell and wifi*, Betty Moore Harrell, a greatly beloved teacher in the Wliiiamston schools for a num ber of years. "93 PEH CKIVr Martin County Farm Mobiliza tion program was recognized as 95 per cent or more complete by Special Assistant T. B. Slade in the office of the county agent here yesterday. No estimate as to the extent of participation in the program could be had. Most of the committees have turned in the individual programs, but tabulation of the plans has been made. Farmers who have not yet signed one of the plans are urged to see their respective commit teemen at once, and if the plans have been returned to the agent’s office they are urged to report to the agent's office at once. It is understood that a farmer who has not signed and who plans to work for some of the incentive payments will hardly qualify for the extra money un less he first signs one of the plans. onsible Fop— For Lower Draft Classifications Credit Elimination Likely To Tu rther Reduce Mdto r Traffic The order eliminating credit in the purchase of gasoline by all mo torists except these operating trucks atutf a ether favored ones' is ex pected to further decrease the vol ume of traffic in these parts. Yester day was the last day motorists could buy gasoline and other petroleum products en credit at filling stations An order by the Petroleum Admin istration effective yesterday forbids retail marketers to “grant or accept or participate in the granting or ac cepting, directly or indirectly, of credit in connection with the sale of any petroleum product ” Exceptions to the no-credit order include commercial vehicles display ing ' T" ration stickers, commercial motor boats and federal, state and local governmental operations. Speaking from experience, Henry Handy, former filling station opera Victory Plans Laid At Conference Held In Africa Recently -4t> (.loser ( ollalxtraliou l»y Turkn Kxpeeled; Russian War Machine Rolls Oil No details were offered but Pres ident Roosevelt told his news con ference in Washington this morning that the plans laid at that historic conference held recently in Casa blanca would form the basis for an allied victory. It could not be learn ed, but some observers connect the Churchill inspection trip to Cypress as a stepping '.on it is their belief that tiie Prime Min ister’s visit to Turkey is a part of the allied strategy formulated at the conference. It is now fairly certain that Tur key will offer a closer collaboration in the allied war program, that the Turks will possibly guard the Allied Mediterranean and cooperate in other ways to advance the allied cause. German representatives ap parently were not aware of Prime Minister Churchills visit when he was m Ankara recently. On the war fronts, the Russians are stdl lolling forward in then drives .In sweep flu* Germans out of their native lands. Russian bayonets are wiping out the last of over 300,000 Germans in the Stalingrad area. The fight, however, is one to the finish, one report stating that the Germans are dying rather than surrender and that they are killing Hungarian of ficers who would surrender to the Russians. The Red Army is now within 40 miles of Rostov while an other branch has drive 90 miles in to the Ukraine to a point less than 100 miles of Kharkov. Meanwhile, other Russian units were hacking to hits the surviving German remnants trapped in the pockets west of Voronezh on the front north of The Ukraine, ami j were pounding forward in a swift reconquest of the Caucasus on the southern and southeastern ap proaches to Rostov. Over on the African front Ameri can forces have cleaned out a Ger man garrison in southern Tunisia and moved on to join comrade forces where bitter fighting continues. Raiding Tunis yesterday, American planes sank two German ships and shot down nine planes. The Japs are making elaborate claims in the Pacific, but there is little reason to believe that Jap air men had sunk two United States bat deships and three cruisers off Ren nell Island about 100 miles south of Guadalcanal last Friday and Satur day. It would appear from reliable {Continued on page six t Town Authorities In Regular Meet —#— Meeting here last evening, the town commissioners held an un eventful session, little business hav ing been scheduled for consideration. The street department was instruct ed to clean out a ditch on Warren Street to keep the water from flow ing across private property. Receiving a petition in opposition to the opening of a wine store here, the board mok no official action, but the application for a store license was not approved. Talking and discussing general topics and swapping yarns to some extent, the commissioners were in session for only about an hour. Cur rent bills were approved, and May or J. L. Hassell referred to the ses sion as one of the quietest and most uneventful ones held in recent months, tor, declared the order came just a few years too late for him, that while such ail order %ould have eu aided hiiifHi/retire fiongfaboul ndw; its lateness finds him hard at work .n another profession. Reliable re ports state that the old credit bogey has been hanging on for others even right up to the time the order went. into effect. Gasoline rationing reduced traffia* im.b. the p'egsure driving ban fur ther reduced traffic, but for the credit ban is likely to eliminate tiaffic. Violation of the order subjects, the station .operator to similai action provided by law m other cases, it is understood. The new order is one that has brought no complaint from filling station operators, but some expressed regret that |bo order was not passed years ago. HOSPITAL HEAD Capt. William H (MC), U.S.N., has been named cb>afc git-medical service ^<*4^ Naval Hospital, San Diego, to succeed Dr. Harold (). Co^by, who is going on sea duty. (If. S. Navy Photo.) Health Board And Commissioners In Joint Meet Monday Inv«‘rili^at<‘ the l'oMMihiliiv of TraimfcrriiiK 'I‘If I’ntiriit* To New Sanatorium Meeting in joint session here yes terday afternoon, members of the County Boards of Health and Com missioners reviewed health office ac tivities and discussed the possibility of transferring tubercular patients from the sanatorium in this county to the one recently opened in Wilson hy the State. Dr. John W Williams, county health officer, appeared be fore the joint meeting and read a report on the health department work. No action was taken by the meeting, but the authorities are ex pected to meet again shortly and consider futher the possibility of eliminating part of the expense in curred m the operation of the T B Sanatorium in this county. Accord ing to a statement filed by the coun ty welfare department, the sanator ium expenditures amounted to $465.69 last month. The need of the institution is not questioned, but the authorities are of the opinion that the patients could he maintain ed at. less cost in the State-operated institution. Members at V:.. I pr< ent for thi i eeting w< i. MessfS | H. L. Perry, John L. Hasselipj. C Manning and Drs. J. S. Rhodes, V. A. Ward and W. C. Mercer, and all (Continued on page six) I SOME JUMP Vs Preparing his income (ax re turn a few days ago, a Martin County farmer explained that the meaning of w<r hud come home to him, and it was indeed a shock. No, he wasn’t complain ing; in fact, the tiller of the soil expressed satisfaction for the privilege of being able to make enough money to pay quite a hetfy sum in income taxes. Last year, the farmer explain ed he paid $7£ income tax. This year he is paying in excess of $1,100.00. While the increase is traceable to incerased rates to some extent, the main boost came as a result of increased in -• come. Claimant Will Be Required by Board JVi Ciuvr Mis Case Board S'ixrs Standard Folloy* in^ l ^n^tliv Mrrlina/ T«| Start Reclassification Twelve production units we'e es tablished as a standard basis of de ferment or reclassification cf farm ers in this county by the draft board meeting m special -ession here last ■' ^ik|0tts>posed to work as an average medium, was determined after hojlrs of discussion, 1 aeh ot the members expressing the deiari that every , esseni ial worker vouiii be li tt on the farm. It was equally apparent that the board was not in favor of making agriculture the basis for blanket deferments, while the members admitted that regardless of established rules it would be difficult to handle their task and draw a straight dividing line for all cases under the new reg ulations. The unit production plan has been outlined previously, the board add ing to its minutes at the meeting that each farmer registrant claiming a lower classification must prove to the satisfaction of the board that he is individually and directly respon sible forithe production of essential crops equal to twelve war produc tion units. It is quite apparent then that the farmer appealing for a 2-C or 3 C classification must be a tiller of the soil, that he must be farming after a whole-hearted plan and not as a supervisor or as a gentleman farmer who spends part of his time on and part of his time off the farm. Studying several of the question naires or appeals for lower classifica tions, the board found that even a small-seale farmer could qualify for farmer with four acres of tobacco, four acres of peanuts, five acres of corn and three brood sows or a milk cow would have the required units. The ^y^^^bis case is only thirteen aeres. It is also possible for the small senle furggrr to produce less 1 <iit more oi peanuts and other types of food and feed crops and still qual ify, It was pointed out that since to bacco has been recognized as an “es sential” crop, most farmers in this county who really farm for a living and bolster production figures will Ik eligible for 2 C classification if single and 3 C if married. In determining a legioiiant s draft status, the board will require him to prove his case. The claims will be checked against agricultur al records and are subject to be in vestigated by certain agencies desig nated by the draft board. If the facts are not in accordance with the claims advanced in the question naire, then the claimant is subject to immediate induction into the army regardless of his status; that is, whether he is married or single, with or without dependents. Once they are placed in the “C” classifications, registrants may not move or change their vocation un less they report to the board and prove that by changing they can produce more units of a given com modity or commodities. It is quite possible for a farmer to move from one farm to another, but he must report to the draft board and keep hi record straight. It is the opinion of the draft board that large numbers of farmers in this county will be placed in the low er classification as a result of the new ruling, meaning that 3-A men are almost in line for the draft with the possibility that some will be called in March. Of course, any ac tion subjecting 3-A men to call that early depends on several factors such as the size of the calls and the number of 1-A men who cannot qual ify for lower classifications under th" new manpower regulations, it . . . body '«(>(th{?! i-mmed men without children will be in the draft line ere long, their calls de pending, of course, on the factors mentioned. Meeting next Monday night, the draft board will start its reclassifica tion work, centering its attention principally on those appeals now be ing filed by farmers. Those fanners in the line of the draft who believe they have a valid claim to a lower draft classification are again direct ed to file their appeals, for if no ap peals are filed and their numbers (Continued on pagt six) -» Firemen Are Called Out Late Friday Afternoon Local volunteer firemen were call ed out late last Friday afternoon when fire threatened the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cherry cn Rhodes Street. Starting from a defective flue, the fire did only minor dam age to the roof, neighbors bringing it under control about the time the firemen reached there.
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