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Give Liberally During United War Fund Drive Now Under Way NEARLY 4,000 COPIES OF THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE • HOVgg.»Oy MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN NEARLY 4,i)00 COPIES OF THE enterprise going into the HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 84. WiUiamttcn, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 23, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1899 Flood Control For Roanoke Basin Now Committee Confers With Of ficials In Washington During Past Few Days By ERIC W. RODGERS Flood control on the Roanoke Riv er may not be a certainty now, but in the belief of most observers at Washington, it is something that will come in the very near future. After being named last Friday night at a meeting held in Scotland Neck by the Roanoke River Flood Control Committee to go to Washing ton and confer on the subject of flood control for the river, Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn of Woodland, chairman of the Flood Control committee; C. S. Alexander, a member of the com mittee; and Eric W. Rodgers, secre tary of the committee, went to Wash ington this week. They were ac • • . npanied by B. B. Everett of Pal- I myra and R. Hunter Pope of Enfield. ' v.iu aie both vitallv interested ;n the master. They were instructed to as certain the present status of flood on the Roanoke River and to talk over the subject with Senators and Congressmen from this area. They were likewise instructed to find out, if possible, what opposition there is to the bill which already has been approved, but for which no appro priations have been made. " Acting on these instructions they interviewed Congressman John H Kerr, who is very influential in the Appropriations Committee of the House, and Senator Josiah W. Bailey, who is Chairman of the Senate Com mittee, and who will have an influ ential part in passage of the bill when and if it reaches the Senate. They also discussed the matter with Lindsay Warren, Comptroller Gen eral of the United States, and former I Congressman from the First District, who also is vitally interested in this measure. They also saw former Gov ernor O. Max Gardner, who is a leading attorney of Washington at this time, and he continues to mani fest his very great interest in the problems of North Carolina. Lack of time and other meetings on other matters prevented them from seeing other members of the House and Senate in Washington from North Carolina, but these contacts will be made at a later date. The committee discovered that the bill at the present time is ready for final approval in the form of an ap propriation and will provide for elev en dams along the Roanoke River, north of Roanoke Rapids and along hit ti lUuvii, of uu ,1 li, Staunton, and Smith Rivers. These will pro vide both for flood control and for some power development on the K Roanoke River. The initial cost will be approximately thirty-seven mil lion dollars divided into three an nual appropriations. And the re mainder of the program will cost perhaps another one hundred million dollars which will be appropriated in i later years. The members of the committee dis ! covered at Washington that there 1 was little possibility of the appro- i priation for the project being made during the present term of congress, which expires January 1, 1946. They ( found out, however, that the initial j appropriation of approximately ! thirty-seven million dollars probably will be included in the appropriation bill, which will be presented in Feb ruary, 1946. This appropriation will provide sufficient funds for the En gineers of the Army, who have com pleted the initial engineering work, to proceed with the building of a dam (Continued on page six) -——— Less Honey To Be Available In 1946 —§— North Carolina housewives will have to dig down into their jams, jellies, and sugar points for their sweetening this winter. It’s like this: In the first place, the State honey crop is only a third of what it was last year and in the sec ond place farmers can’t get sugar for their bees this winter, so they will use a large proportion of the meager 1945 honey supply. The State Agriculture Department says the crop will total only 1,770,000 [ pounds compared with 56,310,000 last ( year, attributing the decline to late spring freezes, the inability of farm ers to obtain sugar for the bees, and the summer rains. New Volumea Added To Local Library Collection -* The following new volumes were recently added to the local public library collection: “No Shortage of Men,” “Cherry Harvest," “Thorson of Thunder Gulch,” “The Deadly Dove,” “Yankee ' Woman,” “Sage Quarter,” “Party Line ” “The Townsman, Silence in Court," ' Give Me the Stars,” “In What Torn Ship,” Ann Star, “Senior , Nurse,” “Miss Warren’s Son.” “The Red-haired Lady,” “The Murderer | Is a Fox,” “Homecoming,” “Commo dore Hornblower,” “So Well Re- j membered," “Up From and Pride’s Way.” EXTRA MEAL FOR LITTLE VIENNESE "ON THE HOUSE" Is this midday meal for undernourished school children of Vienna—an extra meal, usually of soup and a roll, that is given by the Allies to students under 18 In 150 city schools. The little girl’s eyes (left) are saying thanks for the "Banquet,’' {International) ! LABOR NEEDED Now that the 1945 peanut crop is beginning: to move to market, labor is urgently needed for op erating the mills, grading and storing the goobers. This county has about 25,000 acres planted to the crop and possibly twenty thousand tons of neanuts will be handled on the market here this season. Additional workers are needed and thev are asked t contact the United States Employment Ser vice on the third floor of Wil liamston’s town hall for informa tion concerning jobs in the vari ous plants. Oddities And Facts j Found In The News Oddities and cold facts in the news coming from all parts of the world: The Belgian Information Center has a neat piece on the GIs. It says: “What is the difference between the occupation and the liberation? Un der the occupation the women kept their men in hiding; since the libera tion the men keep their women in ! hiding.” Revised U. S. casualties in the war today stand at 1,070,153. The total includes 263,203 dead. This is made up of 922,583 Army, and 147,970 I Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard | losses. A dispatch from Warsaw says that the 3d Horseman (war, famine, pes tilence, and death) is doing slowly but surely what the Nazis wanted td do in Poland—exterminating the population. Each month 10,000 Poles die of tuberculosis. Out of a total population of 25,000,000 more than 1,200,000 cases were reported last January and August. In the same period there were 35,000 typhus cas es. Every month 400,000 syphilis cas es are reported and 50,000 of gonor rhea. * * * Prime Minister Attlee says total German casualties in killed, perma nently disabled and permanent medi cal casualties were 7,000,400. And | let that learn them. . . . I Frank H. Bartholomew, UP, re ' ports from Tokyo that the pillows at the Hotel Dai Iti, popularly believed to be fillad with sand, are not. He says he slit one and it was filled with rice. He says the situation is absurd. Returns Home From the Pacific Area of Operations E. Ross Forneberger, former dep uty collector for the North Carolina State Department of Revenue with headquarters, returned home from the Pacific theater of operations last Saturday. He had been overseas about eighteen months. ROUND-UP iv. > Only six persons fell into the hands of the law here over the week-end, local and county of ficers jailing one tor drunken driving, two for assaults, one for operating a motor vehicle with out a driver’s license and two for being drunk and disorderly. The ages of the group ranged from 18 to 55 years. Three of the six arrested and jailed were white men. N Over Hundred Tires Allotted By Board One hundred and ten tires—93 for ears and 17 for trucks—were ration ed by the Martin County War Price and Rationing Board last week-end. Reports state that the supply of the popular size tires is not adequate to meet the demand. Car tires were released to the fol lowing: W. M. Gardner, George Hop kins, Ottis B. Coltrain, M. E. Rober son, J G. Smith, H. V. Jenkins, Dr. J. E. L. Thomas, W. C. Jones, Wixie B. Rogers, Geo. W. Coltrain, Craw ford Coltrain, M. D. Beach, S. R. Co burn, Hubert M. Pope, S. T. Brady, James Edgar Warren, Herbert O. Peel, W. O. Willoughby, Foster L. Blount, J. C. Gurkin, David A. Boyd, K. F. Woolard, J. H. Edwards, M. T. i Hardison, Dorotha S. Chance, Wool ard Furniture Co., B. S. Courtney, Alton E. Grimes, C. C. Jones, Arthur Modlin, Di. C. L. Hutchinson, Joseph E. Griffin, Grady Godard, Tom Hen ry Ward, David Roberson, Tom Hale, Mrs. W. J. Griffin, Elmer N Modlin, Lonnie C. Gardner, W. W. Hinson, W. B Gaylord, Jr., Dalma Modlin, Paul Barber, W. S. Gurganus, A. M. , Long, R. T. Chance, Richard Baker, W. C. House, B W. Staton, T. R. Gardner, J. R. Jones, W. S. White, Geo. E Roberson, J. E. Johnson, Kad er Liiley, Church Mobley, R. R. Thompson, R. H. Peele, J. P. Hodges, C. T. Gaines, T. H. Brown, N. M. Hy man, Mrs. Cylabet Rogers, A. E Browder, Jesse Harrell, J. H. Bland, J. H. Coltrain, Miller Harrell, Viola Price Leggett, H. A. Early, John L. Goff, Mrs. W. J. Smith, A. G. Hardi son, Ben A. Jones, W. E. Coffield, J. C. Cooke, Raymon Heath, Floyd Ward. Truck tires were allotted to the following. W. Edgar Davis, W M. Baker, S. A. VanLandingham, James Jennings, Johnson Mercantile Co., 1 Edward James Estate, J. T. Heath, Jas. R. Everett, Gaines and Kirkman. ■ -<& County Young Man In The Tokyo Area Entering the Navy almost 13 months ago S 2/c June Beach of near Everetts recently went in to Tokyo Bay on the large corgo ship U. S. S. Harcourt. A member of a ship’s company, Seaman Beach reported aboard the cargo ship on June 21st at Pearl Harbor, where the ship was undergoing repairs. The Harcourt previously belonged to the Merchant Marines but was later turned over to the Navy. Leaving Pearl Harbor on July 9, the Harcourt arrived at the Marshall Islands on July 21st, where it served as a warehouse until Sep tember 9th. Loaded with 40,000 cas es of beer and a large amount of other supplies the Harcourt left on an unexpected journey to Japan. Ar riving there on September 17th, the Harcourt has been anchored in Tokyo Bay since that time. Seaman Beach in a recent letter to his wife declared be ‘hardly saw how the Japs ever started at war.” Hav ing been on two liberties at the big port of Yokohama the seaman de scribed the people as looking just as their pictures show. The streets are flocked with children of all sizes beg ging the sailors for gum and candy. Seaman Beach is the son of Mi. and Mrs. W. B. Beach of near Ev eretts. His wife the former Rachel Hardy, is making her home with her parents on Route 2. Williamston. Quite a few Martin County young men have been in the Tokyo area in recent weeks, and are greatly im pressed by the devastation there Point Of The Goah in watFimcTBrive —®— J Chairman Makes Extensive Canvass, But People Just Did Not Respond -«► Raising $107.05, Popiar Point Township, one of the smaller but yet a substantia! district, fell $67.95 short of its goa' in the United War Fund drive, according to a fairly complete report filed last week-end by the chairmen, Mrs. L. G. Taylor and Mayo Hardison. The chairmen gave several days of their time, and Mrs. Taylor visited in her car and at her expense nearly every section in the district, but most of the citizens sim ply did not respond to the call of American fighting men and of suf fering humanity. Contributions were listed, as fol lows: L. G. Taylor. $10: Dock Hollis, $5; Slade Revels, $5, Mrs. Zeno Edmond Ison, 50c: Mayo. Hardison and wife, I$7: Mrs. Thea Roberson, 25r, Mrs (Juletta Roberson, 25c; Pearlie Ho’li j11 ay an dwiie, $2; Mrs. E. VV. Jones. yJ, Mrs. Ed Roberson, $2, L*evie Jones 75c; Joe Hollis, 10c; V. G. Taylor, $15; Ben James, $3; P. M. Matthews, $1.50; Bill Albett, $2; Unknown par ty, 50c; Oscar Edwards, $2; John Ed mondson, 50c; Harrell Everett, $5; Rob Brown, 25c; Tom Taylor, 50c; Lake Bland, 50c; W. J. Hollis, 50c; Lewis Thomas, 50c; Sam Hardison, 10c; Hardy Hollis, 50c; Julian Collier, 25c; Lizzzie Bennett, 10c; Jim Leg gett, 10c; Unknown Party, 15c; Laura Andrews, 50c; Lula V. Purvis, 50c; Ben Wilkins, 25c; Susie Andrews, 25c; Elnora One, 10c; Adel Collier, 10c, Arene Purvis, 10c; R. D. Bui lock, 5c; Calvin Salsbury, 15c; Mary E. Andrews, $1.50; and Ellen M. Les ter, $1.50. Contributions of $1 each were made by the following persons: Mrs. Lester Edwards, Miss Mary Rogers, Mrs. Dock Hollis, Asa Harris, Ernest White, Mrs. Martha Harris, ! Mrs. Slade White, O. R. Roberson, Poplar Mack Wynne, Mrs. John Cherry, L. G. Leggett, Mr, and Mrs. Mack Wynne, Mrs. Zeno Edmondson, Her man Harrison, J. R. Harrison, Milton Harrison, Raymond Harrison, Ther un Nicholson, Frank Edwards, Char lie M. Mills, Junior Mills, Mrs. Pete Raynor, N. D. Gurganus, Elsie Jones, Olander Purvis, Nat Gass, Mrs. Fred Roebuck, Andy Leggett, W. L. Hol lis, Blount Moore, Loa Bonner, Clar ence Forbes, Dock Hollis, Ring Lath am. Dillon Rogerson Gets Eagle Award -—— At the* Kiwanis meeting last Thurs day night, Dillon Rogerson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Rogerson, Wil liamston RFD 2, was presented with the Eagle Boy Scout medal, the eighth Mail in County boy to receive the highest award in scouting. The medal was presented by Wheeler Martin and it was pinned on th chest of the young Scout by his mother, Mrs. W. S. Rogerson, who with Mr. Rogerson were special guests of the Kiwanis club. Rev. Huske, local Scout leader, presented special Eisenhower rib bons to Billy Burroughs, Wallace Warren and “Hardrock’ Ricks Alls brooks in recognition for special work they did in collecting scrap paper. Each one of the boys collect ed 1000 pounds or more of paper. Due to a revival meeting being scheduled in the Baptist church the annual ladies’ night program has seen postponed until November 15. , Escape Injury When Car Turns Over On 11. S. 17 -* No one was hurt but considerable damage resulted when a 104 i Chev rolet four-door sedan turned over near here on U. S. Highway 17 yes terday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. Ernie Claude Mobley, of James ville, was passing a car and lost con trol, his machine crashing through a post and turning over. He was ac companied by Bonnie Hgrry and Pvt. L. W. Respass. Damage to the car was estimated at $500 by Patrolman W. E. Saunders who investigated the accident. FIRST SALES The first of the 1945 peanut crop started moving to the mar kets in this county last week end with prices holding form at about $9.75 per 100 pounds. Ap proximately 1,000 bags have been moved to the market here to date, but most of them were brought in from other centers. Approximately 200 bags were moved out of the Robersonville area. Picking operations are going forward on a very small scale in the county at thi/- time, first re ports stating that quality is from fair to good, that most of the goobers are small. The first of the crop picked in Williams Township last week averaged about 17 bags per acre. Raise A Fifth of United Special Cifts Total About $1,000.00 In Business Area Here -- Only Three Districts In Coun ty Have Reported, Chair man Griffin Explains A total of $2,179.03 has been rais ed and reported in the iJnited War Fund Drive to date in this county, according to a preliminary report coming from County Chairman Clar ence W. Griffin this morning. The drive has met with repeated delays, but the first reports while not overly encouraging are not disheartening and there is the possibility that the junvr wm approximate sis goal ^ lilt* midfile or latter part of noxt week. Williamston's special gifts commit tee yesterday reported $960.00 raised and the fund will bo materially in creased just as soon as outstanding pledges are met, it was pointed out, The special committee along with four or five individual canvessers re ported a total of $1,634.28. Approxi mately three-fourths of the district including the schools are yet to re port. In only two districts have complete reports been received so far. Dar dens, reporting $120.00, exceeded its goal. Poplar Point, the canvass about complete there, reported $107.05 of its $175 quota raised. Bear Grass has raised $307 70 of its $550.00 quota. No official report has been re ceived from any of the other dis tricts, but it was stated that Rober sonville had raised approximately $700 of its quota about a week ago. The drive is scheduled to continue through next week, and the chair man is pleading with his co workers to carry the urgent appeal into every home in the county by that time. The schools are expected to raise sev eral hundred dollars, and it is likely that free will contributions will be solicited in the various Sunday schools and possibly in the county theaters. Martin County is being asked to raise $13,232.96, and the quotas have been assigned the various districts, as iotiows: Jamesville, $800; Wil liams, $150; Griffins, $550; Beai Grass, $550; Williamston, $6,282.06; Cross Roads, $450; Robersonvilie, $2, 1250; Poplar Point, $175; Hamilton, $375; Hassell, $175; Goose Nest, $475; colored citizens in five of the south eastern townships, $1,000. Special gifts were reported in Wil liamston by District Chairman V. J. Spivey, as follows; Martin Elliot, $75; Standard Fer tilizer, $100; BelkTyler, $35; Branch Bank, $50; Williamston Package Co., $50; Saunders & Cox, $25; W. G. Peele, $75; Chas. H. Jenkins, $50; Williamston Supply, $50; Guaranty Bank, $50; Mai gobs Bros., $50; Wil liamston Motor Company, $50; B. S. Courtney, $50; Enterprise, $50, F. U. Barnes, $50; Davis Pharmacy, $50; Woolard Furniture Company, $50; and I.indsley Ice Company, $50. Messrs. Wheeler Marlin and N C. Green handled the special gifts solid tations, and they explained that j fairly sizable addition to the list can be expected within the next few days. Farm Wage Rates Are Still Climbing -« North Carolina farmers are paying an average of $3.40 per day for their labor, according to Frank Parker, head of the Statistics division of the State Department of Agriculture. Basing his estimate on figures com piled by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Parker said that the daily wage rate for hired laborers is 40 cents higher than a year ago. How ever, it is still 99 cents lower than the $4.39 average for the country as a whole. Farmers who furnish labor with meals pay an estimated $2 85 per day as compared with $2.50 for October of 1944. Monthly farm wage rates in North Carolina are now running at around $65 without board and $47.75 with board. Tine average U S. farm wage rate , per month with board is $84, compar ed with $76.40 a year ago, and with out board it is $95.70 as against $86.80 last fall. Parker said that national farm em ployment is about seven per cent lower than a year ago—largely be cause of heavy rains in many areas of the United States. Farm employ ment in the South is down nine per cent from last year, with a decrease of approximately 2,500,000 pounds in , the quantity of cotton to be picked. j While wage rates for the U. S. as ' a whole are 245 per cent higher than for the 1910-14 period, which is con f sidered average, they are lower than 1 in July in most areas. But in North Carolina they are “some higher” j than last summer. f ABANDONED Williamston's second lest well, sunk on the Griffin property in an effort to improve the local water supply, has been aban doned. Flans are going forward for a third test which will be made on the Washington Road near the town limits. Representatives of the State Geology Department were here yesterday making a study of the water supply and they are of the opinion that a well can be sunk several hundred feet without finding excessive salt content in the Skewarkey area. A delay of possibly two or three weeks is to be expected be fore the third test well is sunk. rator And Driver RoI>Ihm1 And Fired On In County Fenner Kespass Loses AIhmiI $200 In Karlv Salunln\ Morning llolii-l Ip Fenner Respass, local taxi oper ator, and his driver, LeRoy “Foots" Long, were ln lcl up and robtied and then fired on by Gilbert "Pee Wee" Moore, colored man, about 12:30 o clock last Saturday morning on the Jones Road id Williams Township. Neither of the men was hurt, but both were badly frightened and Res pass lost about $200 in cash to the robber. Moore, just recently returned to the county from Virginia, engaged Hie taxi to take him to his home in Williams Township. When they leached the Jones Road, Moore ask ed the driver to stop long enough for him to get a shot gun he had used the day before hunting rabbits. Return ing to the car, Moore pointed the gun at the driver, advised him to throw out his money. Long obliged with out hesitation and then Respass was instructed to turn over the money box. After relieving the men of then money, Moore was quoted as saying that dead men did not talk and he pointed the gun at the driver. Long grabbed the barrel of^ye^un and knocked the weapon down just as it was fired. Most of the load of shot ' was stopped by the door and the mechanism used in raising and low ■ ering the door glass, a few shot go ing all the way through and missing the man by inches. While Moore was reloading the gun, Respass and Long jumped from the car and ran, mak ing a long circle to give Moon plenty of room. Sheriff C. B. Roebuck and his de puty, Roy Reel, were called and they searched several hours but were un (Continued on page six) Four Persons Hurt In Auto Accident Four persons were hurt, one of them seriously about 12:30 o’clock last Friday morning when I wo auto mobiles figured in a crash about three and one-half miles from Wil liamston on the Everetts Road. Milford Harrison suffered a frac ture of the skull and Leslie Evans Pritchard and Edward Freeman both of Windsor, and Joseph Chestei Lee Taylor were cut about their heads, Taylor also receiving a leg injury. The 1933 Plymouth coupe, driven by Pritchard toward Williamslon, was struck from the run by a car driven by Taylor. Patrolman W. E Saunders, inves tigating the accident, estimated the damage to each car at about $200. Pritchard was charged with drunken driving and Taylor with speeding. County i,irl Makrs I trait's last at Mrmlith l.iillctfc The office of the registrar at Meredith College has released the dean’s list for the past semester. Frances Wallace of Jamesville is in cluded on the list. She is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wallace of Jamesville. TOBACCO SACKS v,__j Sales oil the local tobacco mar ket are expected to pass the ten million-pound mark today with the average for the season hold ing right at $44.00 per hundred. l,'p until this morning the mar ket LmI sold pounds with prices ranging right around 47 cents a pound for sales made during the past lew aavs. While there has been no marked varia tion in recent days, prices yes terday and today were regarded as being the highest of the sea son. County Farm Croup ft»‘!t,M!Ti)i!*ussex' _• .< -- le rVaiiut n jpam Believes Prices Will Rang*' Around Ceiling For Current Crop Representing the Martin County Farm Bureau at a peanut meeting in Washington a few days ago, Joe R Winslow made an informal report at a session of the county organization held in the courthouse last Friday evening. Mr. Winslow was one of about four hundred grower repre sentatives to attend the meeting along with a number of congress men from the peanut producing areas. At ;t preliminary session, the grow rr representatives discussed a plan to submit to the full conference the following day Congressmen Her bert Bonner of this district and Pace of Georgia reviewed the situation lacing peanuts, and Congressman ■■ .I the bill calling for 90 percent of parity, explained hat a would pot be advisable to tay for a referendum this year. Mr. Wins low pointed out that should a refer endum be called ,it would have to be held between now and the latter part ot December, and Congressman Pace declared that the time was too short to assure its passage. The prelimin ary conference agreed not to ask for :l referendum for the 1!>4(> crop, but puss a demand for prices based on IUU !,(,|(rM' parity, it w as also point cd out thut a bill is now pending which would consider labor costs in determining parity prices. While there is little likelihood that parity Prices will he determined on that basis, it would boost the price of pea nuts to about eleven or twelve cents Mr. Winslow explained. Realizing that quotas could not be established for peanuts for the glowers went into conference with agriculture department representa tives Monday to push their demands lor 100 percent parity prices. Under Secretary ot Agriculture J. B. Hut son threw a bombshell into the meet ing when he explained that a dual price system was being considered lor peanuts. Congressman Pace, dif fering bitterly with the under secre tary voiced the belief that no such program would carry, and he was supported by Herbert Bonner and other congressmen. However, Con gressnfan Harold Cooley, a member °t the house agriculture committee, could not find time to attend the con ference and his views could not be learned immecliau ly. The dual price or price-blend sys K rn would allow about three and one half cents for oil and about sev en or eight cents for the odiable pea nuts. According to Mi Winslow the plan will meet determined opposi tion and lie believes that it will not lie placed in effect, he told the meet ing. According to Mr. Winslow, it is now considered likely that a price of $141) a ton, or tit) percent of parity, will be placed in effect for the 1946 el op This will net the grower about : ' veil and one half cents a pound, the late presumably being based on about 65 percent meat content. It is gem-rally believed that the current crop will sell for about eight and one half cents a pound, based on 65 percent meat content. Information released at the meet ing in Washington maintains that there is not yet a peanut surplus de spite the fact over 100 tons of goods had been turned back by the Army and la nd Lease. It was pointed out that normal trade channels could possibly absorb all of the crop, and it is believed that consumption can be i ('out inued on page six) [Dutch People Need (Quantities Of Food The people of Holland are still so weak from their ordeal of living on the verge of stavation that of 5,000 in Amsterdam who volunteered re cently to help harvest farm crops, only 700 were found strong enough for the work, according to a report from American Relief for Holland, a member agency of the National War Fund, received today by Clarence Griffin, county chairman. Although the food situation in Hol land has greatly improved since V-E Day, rations still are not large en ough to enable many of the 4,500,000 from the “hunger provinces” of the west to build their bodies back to normal It will be months before they are able to resume their former occupations. Thousands were so far gone when relief finally came they never can regain their former physi cal status. A condition that volunteers for farm work, must have strong shoes or wooden clogs, cut down the num ber of volunteers considerably be cause the greatest clothing need in Holland is for shoes. One reason Dutch coal mines and other indus tries are unable to attain full produc tion is because workers have iso shots in which to work, or even to wear from home to the job. A short age of shoe nails, bootmaker’s thread, sole leather and even shoe laces pre vents repair of whatever shoes can still be salvaged.
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