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MAKE ETVKHT PAT DAT WAtt BOND DAT tTOf SHMNt — UVl Mii4M THE ENTERPRISE OVER THE TOR FOR VICTORY with UNITED STATES WAR BONDS‘STAMPS VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 67 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 24, 1943. ESTABLISHED 1899 Early Sales On Local Tobacco Market Average 42 Cents Seventy Junu. Tires Allotted In County By Rationing Board Applications Continue to Pile Up ki County Rationing Board Offiee ——— That tire rationing is again reach ing serious proportions is evidenced by the large number of applications piling up in the office of the Martin County War Price and Rationing Board in excess of the quotas. After issuing a total of seventy-four tires, including 31 Grade I’s for passenger cars and pick-up trucks, eleven for trucks, 23 Grad'- Ill's and nine for farm implements, the board last Fri day night had between five and six hundred applications to be serviced. Some of the applicants are not eligible for tires, hut after their ap plications are thrown out, Ihe'Ttun ber remaining will be ,so great that it will take two or three svkouUis to catch up. if then, from the regular quotas, Tire retailers state they are able to get about enough tires to handle , the current quotas with the excep tion of some few sizes. The tire pic ture is not very bright at this time, unofficial reports stating that manu facturing facilities are not adequate to meet the demand. While most of the new types of tires are measuring up to the manu facturers’ representations, many users are learning that their troubles are not over when they get a tire al lotted them, that the tires won’t hold up at high speed and that the life of the tire is comparatively short. Grade I tires and tubes for cars and pick-up trucks were issued last Friday to the following: Mrs. J. A. Everett, Palmyra, two tubes. W. G. Hardison, RFD 1, James ville, two tubes. W. K Roebuck, Robersonville, one tube. Larry Bunting, Robersonville, two tubes. J. H. Terry, RFD 2, Williamston, two tires. W. M. Davis, RFD 1, Jamcsville, two tires and two tubes. Roland Griffin, Williamston, one tire. V. G. Taylor, Everetts, two tires. J. R. Daniels, Robersonville, two tires. T. F. Respass, RFD 1, Oak City, one tire. D. A. Brown, Robersonville, two tires and two tubes. Williamston Package Manufactur ing Company, three tires. J. R. Matthews, Robersonville, two tires and one tube. • J. C. Norris, Williamston, one tire and one tube. Thomas E. Martin, Jamcsville, four tires and four tubes. Ben F. Roberson RFD 1, James ville, one tire and one tube. (Continued on page six) -$ County Man Loses Arm In Accident Elmer Bellflower, young white man who lives near here on the Slaughter House Road, lost his left arm in- an automobile-truck accident, near the Lucas farm on U. S. High way 64 in Washington County last Saturday night. Badly mangled, the limb was amputated by Washington ..hospiV'! do^tgjjg^p— Few details of the accident could be learned here, but according to one report, Bellflower was driving with his arm sticking out the window and the body of the truck struck the limb and just about tore it from the shoulder. It was said that bones were driven into the truck body as though they were nails. Another re port stated that Bellflower was not driving the car, but that report did not tell how he was hurt. It is understood that the man’s driving license had been revoked. He was employed by a Plymouth ar.d home iViffitrhe •Was hurt <.y .;•••.><• dam age was done to tin- i ni and truck. P. A. Jackson Dies In South Carolina -* P. A. Jackson, brother of Mrs. Raymond Cherry of Williamston and son of Charles F. Jackson, of near Williamston, died in a Florence, South Carolina, hospital last Wed nesday following a major operation. Mr. Jackson was the operator of one of that state’s largest dry clean ing establishments. The Columbia State said of him that he was “a splendid citizen, well liked and al ways identified with the activities which nad to do with making Harts ville (his home) a better city.” He went to Hartsville from this section of the State in 1919. Funeral services were held in Hartsville last Friday, burial follow ing in Magnolia Cemetery there. Besides his father and sister here, he leaves his wife and a son, Lt. Charles A. Jackson, now on foreign duty and winner of the Purple Heart. County's Labor Mobilization Board To Meet On Thursday - ... , A, Scheduled to hold its organization al meeting in the courthouse Thurs day morning at 11 oiclock, the Mar tin County Labor Mobilization Board is expected to enter immediately up on its task of reducing idleness and vagrancy into an absolute minimum. “We will be ready to take action at once.” Chairman Hugh G. Horton said following a visit to Raleigh the latter part of last week. Members of the board, Tom B. Bianden, county farm agent; Miss Mary W. Taylor, superintendent of county welfare; H. S. Everett, Ro'b ersonville mayor; H. S. Johnson, Jr., Hamilton merchant; J. C. Kirkman, Jamesville mill owner-operator: A. B Ayers, Bear Grass minister-farm er; R. L. Perry, county commission er, and Oliver Carter, Negro farm are being notified to attend the meeting. The board, appointed by the governor under emergency powers granted him by the last ses-! I sion of the State legislature, has the ; authority to call alleged violators of the vagrancy laws and witnesses be fore it at any time. It could not be learned if the board had received any reports or whether any alleged violators would be called to answer at the meeting Thursday morning. It was learned that members of the supporting committees are planning to make regular reports to the board, that unless a few persons now idle get jobs within a very short time they can well expect to be called be fore the board. In its work, the board will call an alleged violator before it, hear his case and give him just twenty-four hours to enter upon gainful employ ment. If he tails to satisfy the board, he will be ordered to . pear before the county court. To be gainfully employed, one roust work at least 35 hours reguMfct* each week or show good reason fot not doing so. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Miirtm County’s highway safe ty record got a severe jolt last week when accidents crept in at all hours of the day and night and in scattered places to boost the count in all columns except the one headed by death. Two persons were hurt in three accidents and the proper ty damage was boosted by about $1,200. The following tabulations of fer a comparison of the accident trend: first, by corresponding weeks in this year and last and for each yeas to the present time. 34th Week Comparison Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1943 320 $1200 1942 110 000 Comparison To Date 1943 29 14 5 1942 47 29 1 4775 6243 Two Persons Hurt In Auto Accident Two young girls, Zelda Hardison and Thelma Hardison, were painful ly but not seriously hurt when the car in which they were riding crash ed head on into one driven by Per lie Bennett Lilley near the home of Mis. Lydia Perry in Griffins Town ship last Sunday afternoon at 2:U0 o’clock Young Lilley and Wilbert H. Kediker, driver of the ear in which the girls were riding, escaped unhurt. The two girls were thrown against the dash board, and it is un derstood their heads went almost through the windshield, cutting their heads painfully. Miss Theima Hardi son also was cut on her knee. Rediker, a native of Lincoln, Kan sas, and a member of the U. S. Nav al forces, was spending a short leave in the county. He told Patrolman Whit Saunders that they were driv ing around a curve and that he did not see the Lilley car until it was too late to avoid the crash. Lilley says he saw' the ear coming and had stop ped that he either crawled into the back seat or was knocked there. The 1940 Plymouth sedan, owned jointly by Rediker and D. M Rhodes, another sailor whose home is in MoU/it ,s'V-.V- to the extent of about $300. Damage to the Ford driven by Lilley was estimated at ’5350 -it, ... .. . — Local Young Man Is Graduating This Week Pfc. R. Edwin (Flip) Peele is grad uating from the Army’s armament department school out at Lowry Fitdd, Colo., this week, according to information coming direct from the school’s public relations department today. ■■ Tin: 1.. (hi .•pev.al school on July 11. 1043. IMPROVING After receiving a letter writ-, ten by a hospital companion, telling he was in a hospital somewhere in the South Pacific and after receiving a message from the War Department stat that he had been seriously wounded, Mrs. P. B. Cone re ceived a letter from her son, Pfc. Howard B. Cone, in his own handwriting last Saturday. The young soldier did not of fer any detailed iufuliuaUeii other than to say that hospital doctors were trying desperately to save his middle finger for him. It was gained from the three messages that Howard had been wounded and that the wound had got infected. But the most encourgaing part of all the messages was the young man’s own handwriting. More Pulp Wood Is Needed in Support Of The War Effort Seriousness of Shortage Seen In Official Reports Just Recently Released Wood pulp from North Carolina is playing a vital role in supplying the raw material for essential war items. As an instance of what North Car olina wood pulp can contribute to national armament, 73 million of the “suits of armor” encasing the 105 nun. shells used with such deadly effect against the enemy in Africa could be obtained from the 179 thousands tons of the material pro duced annually, according to esti mates approved by the American Paper and Pulp Association. The slim-waisted 105 mm. shells were used to reduce enemy emplace ments in Tunisia to rubble, stop in fantry attacks and knock out the Panzer MVI tanks, regarded by the Nazis as one of their most invinci ble weapons, dispatches from the front stated. The technique of developing mass production of the paper containers which guard the 105’s un il they go into action from the mouths of long nosed howitzers originated in peace time food packages, such as cartons commonly used for cocoa, salt and other products. Asked by Washing ton officials to develop production methods which would assure an ade quate Suu/cc of- supply, the Ameri can Can Company reports it has de per “suits of armor” to hold as many shells to help smash the Axis war machine. Today, wood pulp has become such an essential war material that the government is sponsoring a cam paign to increase the supply. ‘‘Pulpwood from a single tree will make enough smokeless powder to fire thirty-five shells from a 105 tnm. cannon aboard a warship or on the battlefront,” Mr. T. W. Earle of the North Carolina Pulp Company in this county states in an appeal to farmers and wood land owners to cut more pulpwood for war pur poses. “This equivalent in smokeless powder of one tree,” Mr, Earle said, “wa^uuhlicised by the War Produc tiorPao!ud in urging IjTdTO*/ " *i7i creased production of this vital war material. “Not only will a tree produce en ough pulpwood to hurl thirty-five armor piercing shells at our Axis enemies," said Mr. Earle, “one tree will produce enough powder for 7, 500 rounds of ammunition for a Gar and rifle carried by one of our boys in the battle line. “The fact that a tree can supply such urgently needed material gives us a completely different idea of the importance of pulpwood in the pros ecution of this war Ong cord of pulp --WrfWSSSffJBi.der WMitf, 000 rounds of Gamut, rifle ammuni tion—almost enough to turn the tide of a battle in the Solomons or in Europe.” Besides smokeless powder, pulp wood is used to make rayon for par achutes, plastics for airplane parts, and hundreds of types of paperboard shipping containers for ammunition, foods, medical supplies and rations, blueprints and planning boards and other products now being used in the fight against the Axis. “Those who cut pulpwood should know also that a cord will make en ough smokeless powder to propel two of the most destructive 16-inch projectiles from navy or coast de fense guns," Mr. Earle continued. "But examples of the great contri bution pulpwood makes to our fight ing men would not. be complete without mentioning the millions of pulpwood containers which trans port all types of war materials to our oattle fronts.” “One small tree will make 350 (Continued on page six) TOWN - FARM IN WARTIME ■->.— (A weekly news digest from the rural press section of the OWI news bureau) Urges Cut in Labor Day Travel Stay off trains and inter-city buses over Labor Day week-end—this is the plea of Joseph B. Eastman, di rector of the Office of Defense Transportation. Mr. Eastman, in asking the public to spend Labor Day week-end at home, said that failure to follow this advice might result in travel congestion worse than that experienced over the July 4th week-end. Mr. Eastman pointed out that transportation equipment formerly available for holiday trav el is now in troop service or used to handle the greatly expanded mili tary and essential civilian traffic. Jobs'flWfcftTe Father-Draft After Octobei drafting of fathers begins, those in non-defer able activities or occupations, re gardless of their order numbers, will be the first fathers called for mili tary service. Those who transfer to essential occupations and thus re lease single men for military service help to decrease the need for draft ing fathers. Generally speaking, af ter October 1, the occupation of an eligible registrant will determine whether he will be inducted or de ferred if his number is called. How ever, the question of hardship to de pendents must be given considera tion in each case. Army Salvages Fats It is estimated that enough waste fats are salvaged in Army camps within the continental U. S. to make 1,500,000 pounds of dynamite each month, and still leave a residue of rendered grease from which 5,000, 000 pounds of soap stock may be made. New Gasoline Coupons Car owners who still hold the old type “B” and “C” gasoline ration coupon books should exchange them for the new mileage ration sheets of coupons before September 1, OP A announced recently. Old type “B” and “C” coupons become invalid Sep tember 1, and gasoline dealers can not accept them on and after that date. The old type coupons are iden tified by the words “Permits deliv ery of one unit of gasoline.” The new type says “Mileage Ration,” plus a large “B” or “C”. Address Overseas Mail Properly Because more than 10 per cent of the mail destined for overseas is in correctly or insufficiently addressed, the War Department has asked that the sender be sure to give the sol dier's rank, Army serial number, or ganization, and Army Post Office number. Following is a model ad dress: Pvt. John Doe, ASN 1234567890 Batti ry B, 227th Field Artillery Bn APO 29, care Postmaster New York, N. Y. The War Department also asked that families and friends of soldiers send clippings instead of periodicals whenever possible to save cargo space. Oak City Schools Ready for Opening ——<*—— The Oak City High School will open for the session of 1943-44 Sep tember 1st at 9:00 o’clock. Organiza tion, classification and assignment of of the opening day. The school will assemble in the auditorium at 10 30 o’clock for gen eral announcements and introduc tion of teachers. The faculty is com plete except for a home economics teacher. The following is the faculty for the school term: First grade, Mrs. N. W. Johnson, Oak City; second grade, Mrs. A. J. Crane, Mon treat, N. C.; third grade, Miss Madeline Davenport, Oak City; fourth grade, Mrs. Ethel Leggett, Palmyra; fifth grade, Mrs. Mildred Ward Lee, RED 2, Williamston; sixth . V— i'*'— Oak City, seventh grade, Miss Mil dred Manning. Bethel; eighth grade. Miss Kate Stanfield, South Boston, Va. High School: Miss Frances Horn by, Maury, N. C., English and French; Mr. Jack Martin, Jamesville, English and history; Mr. Robert S. Garnett, Richmond, math and science; Mrs. Frances Mae Hopkins Childless, Oak City, commercial; Mr. John Hassell, Jamesville, agiiculture; H. M. Ainsley, Oak City, math. Home economics to be supplied. It was announced that the school will operate on a “short” schedule during the first month, at least. The exact hours have not been determin ed, but it is planned to atai t class work at 8:30 and close for the day at 12:30 or 1:00 o’clock, giving .he pupils time to engage in farm work j during the afternoon. Principal Ainsley »s urging par | ents and other patrons to be present j far the opening, and to lend their | support in making the coming term I as successful as possible despite war and other adverse conditions. More Than Half Million Pounds Of Fine Smoking Tobacco Types Offered On Opening Here Today ' -- I Prices Are Ranging Between Forty and Fifty-Five Dollars -— Price of Inferior (iraiies Is Possibly Double Thai of A Year Ago The hey-day marketing season of 1919 was recalled today when early -divrimtholocnl tobacco market pusnecnowimillH' highest price peak in nearly a quarter of a century, bringing general satisfaction to the growers and market operators with out exception. In about one hour this morning, the market, had cleared 47,372 pounds from its floors for an average right at $42 per hundred pounds. The first row sold averaged right at $42.62, and while there was no marked trend upward, the price broke over the $42 mark as the sales continued, the slight gain possibly reflecting a streak of slightly better quality leaf. Farmers registered no complaint: m fact, they were rather jubilant ov c» the way the inferior quality grades were selling. Farmers, whose knowl edge of tobacco is not questioned, advanced the opinion that the infer ior grades were bringing a price twice as high as the figures prevail ing a year ago for corresponding types. There is little or no change in the price for the better quality ;grades compared with the market a year ago. While they were not com plaining and were about ready to accept the prevailing market, farm ers stated they could not understand the small variation in price between the inferior and better quality grades. There were indications that farmers will hesitate before going to the expense and trouble of grading any more leaf. Some suggested that they were ready to dump it on the floor, while others talked about ty ing it up for sale without grading. While the main price range was between forty and forty-five cents a pound, a few piles sold in the 30 to 40-cent bracket, and out of the first 400 piles sold one went as low as twenty cents. The first seventy five piles show the price range as follows: two pikes sold for 30 cents a pound, one for 36 cents, two for 38 cents, one for 39 cents, twelve for 40 cents, fifteen for 41 cents, two for 42 cents, twenty for 43 cents, four fur 44 cents and sixteen for 45 cents. As far as it could be learned. 45 cents was apparently trie legitimate top County War Board Releases Over One Hundred Farmers Over one hundred farmers have been released for from sixty to nine ty days from their regular work to enter employment at other jobs, ac cording to a report coming from the office of the war board in this coun ty today. Nearly one-half or about -forty Of those”''"C" classifications within the ages of 18 and 48 y-. os. iuulusive. Possibly six or eight of the group are single men who would have been in the Army for months had it not been for their farm classifications. According to one report no offi cial instructions have been received for handling the releases as far as the draft is concerned, but in a rul ing coming from a joint meeting of the State War Board and the Stale Selective Service System farmers may be relieved of their farm classi fications. In addition to the draft registrants, the War Board in this county has is sued statements of availability or releases to quite a few women norm ally engaged in farm work. They are reporting to the various industrial plants in this area. In addition to the transfers from the farm, some few workers are be ing released from other jobs to cen ter their activities on the more press ing business of handling the current tobacco crop, Despite the transfers, it is estimat ed that hardly more than half en ough workers are available to han dle all the tasks connected with packing, redrying and shipping to bacco. Sufficient help, it is under stood, has been made available to handle the marketing of the crop. Nazis Subjected To Battering; Attacks On Air-Land Fronts -& Berlin Raided for 73rd Time Last Night; Russians Take Kharkov -® Subjected to battering attacks on land and in the air, Hitler and his gang are reeling and rocking today, late reports stating that the Rus sians are pushing on through Khar kov and that Berlin was raided by a powerful Royal Air Force for the 73rd time so far during the war. Russia's third largest city, Khar kov, fell to the Red Army yester day and today, the Russians are con tinuing a drive to free the Donets basin. German forces defending the Do nets basin—great industrial area on the northern shores on the Sea of Azov—were sent reeling back from 19 to 22 miles in three days of sav age fighting that saw the Red Army overrun 30 villages, including the railway station of Donetsko-Amvro aic-vka Russian forces estimated at 150,000 strong swept into Kharkov on the heels o fthe retreating Nazis to end a 17-dya drive on that former capi tal of the rich Ukraine. Berlin al ready bad announced that Kharkov had been “evacuated.” Last night, Moscow celebrated the new victory with a brilliant display of fireworks amid a clatter of ma chine guns and other light arms, and as heavy cannon boomed out a vic tory salute ordered personally by Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin. By storming into the Donetsko Amvrosievka railway station, the Russians cut the only rail link* into German-held Taganrog about 50 miles above that city, and thus threatened the Germans’ most west ein position in the Donets area. r"' LfbfJWSV AmviesieViSi^flW^lftout 70 miles northwest of Rostov and about 40 miles southwest of Stalino. Thus the Donets area was threat ened both from Russian forces driv ing westward and by the Red troops which toppled Kharkov almost 200 miles to the northwest. Soviet forces throwing heavy blows at German defenses along all active sectors of the long front Sunday, dis abled 85 German tanks and shot down 134 enemy planes. Dispatches from Moscow last night said the Russians confidently expect ed this second restoration of Khar swwjftw siwr , elusive.. Accompanying the great Russian victory was news telling of the 73rd attack on Berlin. Few details of the raid last night could be had early to day, but it must have been a big one since fifty-eight RAF planes were reported to have been lost. And the raid, according to the beliefs of some observers, only marks the begin ning of what Hitler and Goering can expect for their Berlin. In addition to the Berlin raid, Allied planes have attacked industrial centers in the Rhineland with telling effect. While Italy ponders its fate, the Allies are giving them a good taste of what to expect. Important indus trial and communications areas have been pounded. The Italians are do ing all they can to make Rome on open city, and a report today stated that troops, are being evacuated and that war industries are being moved out, but it was admitted that the Germans are in no hurry to clear the city and free it of danger. < Continued on page six) r REAL CORN CROP Preliminary reports have maintained for some time that Martin County farmers would produce this season one of the best corn crops in years, but Farmer T. B. Slade came for ward yesterday with real proof in support of the reports. Taking samples at random from eight acres of corn on his farm in Poplar Point Township, Mr. Slade counted as many as 1,080 grains of corn to the ear. The ears, measuring as many as thirteen inches, are growing two to the stalk. Possibly nut ail the crops in the county are as good as that, but close to a record corn production is almost cer tain this season. Red Cross Reports On Prisoner of War — » ■ ■ Am encouraging report was re ceived direct from the Internation al Red Cross under recent date by Mr. and Mrs. Eli Rogers, telling vb'i'-i tv-. ■■ Ti. Sgt. Eh Rogers, who is held prisoner by the Germans Pri or to the receipt of the message a few days ago, the son's parents on ly knew that he had been wounded and that he had been taken prison er m the European war theater. The Red Cross message reads: ‘‘The official records available list Sgl. Eli C. Rogers as prisoner of war number 112,457, Stalag 7-A, Ger many. Sgt. Rogers was previously reported wounded on a list received May 27, 11143. He was later reported healed on a list received June 9, 1943. No details are available, how ever, but the fact that he is now in a prisoner of war camp rather than in a hospital suggests that his wounds were slight, or that he has recover ed in a satisfactory manner.” The letter continues, “Letters may W-.. at to -,’k email at his lat est prisoner of war address. As let ters from the European Area are of ten several months in transit and the serviceman was not listed as a prisoner of war until the end of May, 1943, there probably has not yet been time enough for his family to hear from him directly.” —-*--— Tivo Cara Allotted In County By Board Friday Two new cars were allotted this county last Friday night by the War Price and Rationing Board, one to J s Ol—a-- -cornu. ■ ^ - , , one to Coy Rtgerson, farmer of RFD 2, Wiiiiamston. A CHALLENGE Martin County has gone to war with the cream of its young men, and it has made liberal contributions in other ways, but its biggest challenge comes now in the form of a quota to the tune of $918,000 to be subscribed in the third war bond drive. It is a stupendous amount ,and in the language of the circus press agent it is colossal, but let no oije say it cau’t be raised. If thousands of men you know and we know can lay aside their normal lives and part from their loved ones and leave their busi nesses and Jobs, the approxi mately 24,000 people left at home can certainly handle that quota. It means that only $38.20 per capita will have to be rais to meet the quota. (Continued on page six) - ■-<$ Former Local Boy Writes To Sister -- Writing to his sister, Mrs. Janie Knox, here under date of July 31, Pvt. W. W Edwards, former Wil liamston boy, said, in part: “You know my biggest hobby at home was seeing what other people doing in other parts country. I've seen enough. If ana when I do got back to North Caro lina, my travels will extend no far ther from home than Kill Devi! Hill. “After so long a time in these jun gles, you really appreciate home and the people there. You can’t under stand how people living in security and luxury can forget that we are here. I don’t think there is a man here that has been here a year or longer, that doesn’t want to go home. Hut all at the same time every one of these men would give his all to help finish this war. And the soon er the people l>acj^ii>mj^>egin to feel that way, we can come home.'’ 'the young man, stationed in New Guinea where things have been pop ping these past few days, had noth ing to say about the fighting. At the time the letter was written, he was looking forward to his first furlough since entering the service. Whether the young man reached Australia where he had visions of entering a cafe and ordering a steak with all the trimmings, is not known. After directing a strong appeal for a home-made fruit cake, the youth ful soldier explained that the oil in the lantern had about burned out, that he would have to end his letter. -—. Eight-Day Meeting Begins Sunday At Macedonia An eight-day revival meeting will be held at the Macedonia Christian Church beginning Sunday, August 29th. Rev. Guy Saunders, a former pas ! tor of the church, will conduct the meeting.
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