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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, SEPT 17 Page 8 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER ft Haywood W Armed Forces Read On n... At Fort Bragg r V James R. Queen In Training With Air Corps At Miami Beach PRIVATE ROBERT RETT, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Garrett, of Waynesville, route 1, who is now stationed at Fort Bragg, where he was inducted when he entered the service in November, 1941. From Fort Bragg he was transferred to Fort Ben ning and from there to Fort Knox where he was on duty. He has re cently been sent back to Fort Bragg. James R. Queen hag been ad' mitted as an Officer Candidate to the Air Forces Officer Candidate School at Miami Beach. After sue cessfully completing an intensive twelve weeks course of instruction, Officer Candidate Queen will be commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Forces, Army of the United States. At this school, the first of its kind, the officer candidate studies more than 35 specialized courses in administrative, personnel and 'supply duties. Upon graduation, oliicers will be assigned to duty in one of these departments in the Air Forces, thus relieving trained pilots from such duties and allow ing them to devote their full time to flying. His mother, Mrs. G. C. Queen ' i : ..i. o B GAR-1 .ruuws Lieutenant Clay Dunavant and Mrs. Dunavant spent several days visiting the laser's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Crews Moody, at Dell wood. Lt. Dunavant had a 14-day furlough. Private Lawrence Roten is en joying his first furlough at the home of his family at Dellwood. On The Tar Heel Front IN WASHINGTON By Robert A. Erwin and Frances McKusick North Carolina stands right at the top in the number of men who have volunteered for the armed services and in the numbers now fighting. Haywood County, for ex ample, has the highest percentage in the country. The quality of North Carolina's fighting men was reflected in an incident that occurred at the Capi tol last week when Representative Herbert Bonner of the First Dis trict read into the Congressional Record the letter of Tar Heel Marine who wants to abandon his bugle for a fighting role. Much has been written about wartime confusion in the Nation's Capital. Your Tar Heel Washing ton correspondents have been frank in discussing this confusion at all times, where secret information was not involved and where it was felt disclosure of the facts would be helpful. There is now evidence that this confusion has begun to clear up, and it is well for the people and their state of mind to know it President Roosevelt has shown more of a tendency to take the bull by the horns, particularly in the field of universal price control to prevent the cost of living from going sky high. His special com mittee headed by Bernard Baruch turned in a hard-hitting report on the rubber shortage that will do much to clear up that situation. This report paves the way for nationwide gasoline rationing, and when that materializes the discri mination in favor of East Tenn essee and against Western North Carolina, especially the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area, will have been removed. As for telephone service to Gov ernment departments, there is as much difference as between night and day. Not so long ago, the Government operators were so bur dened that if you made a call and the line was busy, they had to ask you to call back, or they forgot you until you rattled the telephone hook 50 times. It wag quite painful to get a call through to most any Government office. It seems today as if there must be more operators on duty. When they answer your call, they usually put it through quickly or report right away that the line is busy. If the line is tied up, you are kept waiting, but the operator keeps coming back in to report on your call, to tell you there is still no ' chance. Then finally shell say the line is clear, and you get your man or woman as the case may be. These may be relatively little things, but they indicate a lot. They indicate that Washington, swarm ing as it is with Government work ers, some of them unqualified, some unnecessary, most of them enmesh ed in proverbial red tape, is never theless simplifying ' the wartime machinery to expedite wartime business. So the confusion isn't so bad after all, and the greatest fly in the ointment on the home front is the persistence of organized labor in the big industrial centers in calling strikes when our soldiers and sailors need their weapons and ammunition. inferior crop in the New Bright Belt of Eastern Carolina, will ad versely affect opening prices in the Piedmont area. Meredith S. Kohlberg, head of the OPA tobacco section, assured the group that the temporary ceil ing would be changed as quickly as possible and said OPA had no desire "to work any hardship on farmers in the Middle and Old Belts." Harry Caldwell, of Greensboro, master of the North Carolina Grange, said that in putting on the ceiling, the Government froze the wages of "the men who stayed at home and raised food" without freezing the incomes of those in the field of industrial labor. The Office of Defense Transpor tation will have five regional offi ces at strategic points in North Carolina Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Wilmington, Charlotte and Ashe ville, to handle control of all com mercial motor vehicles and issue them Certificates of War Necessity. Aloft Over There i c ? ' , ' Jk. uti iinn -iraitnuir - A steam hoist, used until 1900, was the first elevator in the Wash ington Monument. The Monument is 555 feet, 5 1-8 inches high. CAPTAIN FRANK VINES HAYNES, of Clyde, has been an aviator, instructor, commercial pilot, and is now doing his part somewhere over there to defeat the Axis Captain Frank Vines Haynes Has Made Good Record As An Aviator Perhaps Haywood's most experi enced aviator is Captain Frank Vines Haynes, son of Mr. and Mrs James H. Haynes, of Clyde. Captain Haynes has been in aviation for the past seven years, and was an instructor at Kelly Field, a commercial pilot, and is now doing his part, as he said in a recent letter, to "give Rommel what Sherman said war was with a capital H." Captain Haynes is somewhere over there, taking his ship aloft, and no doubt it is a big one, because he spent two years as a transport pilot flying a 23-passenger plane before the war. Captain Haynes joined the army about seven years ago, at Fort Bragg, after graduating from the Haywood Institute. Later he fin ished at Howard Collesre. in Bir mingham. From here he went to Brooks Field and Kelly Field, Texas, and graduated in aviation. So well did he take to aviation. that for the next two years he was made an instructor at Kelly Field. in the meantime he married Miss Anne Hanes. He left the instruction field to take a special course in civilian flying, and joined the International Association of Flyers, and was stationed at Fort Worth as pilot of a passenger plane flying from there to Chicago, and from Forth Worth to Nashville. It was in March of this year, that he was called back into service as a pilot of a large plane. He went first to West Palm Beach, and a few months later had flown to Africa and back. He recently Classifications Made During The Week Twenty-two men were placed in class 1-A during the past week by the local draft board as follows : Lemuel V. Shepard, Wilford Carv er, Charlie James Fie, Arthur D. Woody, John Hall, William Gar rett Reeves, Arthur Green, Bruce Wiliams, James A. Price, Leo L. Browning, William S. Rich, Brad ford Eugene Mehaffey. Rufus McLean Green, Carl H. Stanley, Marion E. Norman, Willie Albert Wright, John R. Allen, Gar land Gunter, Sherrill Lee Teague, Kay Wilson, James William Sing leton and Oscar Hugh Burgess. Wydemen Rogers and Frank S. Leatherwood were placed in class 1-B. ' - Placed in class 1-C were: Ed ward Eugene Francis, Ben William Davis, John Cebrun Morrow, Ver non Hall, Cesar Morrow, Charles H. Scates, Edgar Owen, Charlie E. Messer, Ernest Williams, Robert P. Trantham, James Higgins, Al brow Marion Wilson, Joseph Mon roe Massie, John H. Ledford, How ard William Long, Albert Linell Hughes, Russell Graham Kirkpat rick. ' : t Mack McClure Haney, Troy Lee McCracken, William Garrett Gad dis, Lester Wood, Robert Merritt Buchanan, Jack Nelson Waldrop, David Gaddis, Clifton S. Riggins, Frank Griffin, James H. Hyatt, John T. Tate, Paul A. Smith, Wil lie A. Rathbone, Hugh C. Palmer, Montgomery Kenneth McElroy, Frank McDaniel, William Goble Rathbone, Joseph Casty Warren, McKinley Frank Parton. Hugh E. Price, Robert C. Mc Gaha, Kenneth A. Clement, Eugene Jeff Lewis, John Hayes Alley, Jack Rathbone, Anthony Wayne Bram lett, William Bryson Fullbright, Glenn Calvin Rabb, Fred B. Moody, Latham Gillett, Robert C. Plott, John William Caldwell, Lloyd Put nam, Joseph L. Frady, Jr., James L. Mills, Harrison Price, Dewey Edison Ford, Carl Duckett, James Edgar Mehaffey, Leeman Coleman Morgan, . Benjamin Everett Cut- shaw, and Floyd LeRoy Mathis. Placed in class 2-A were Thomas Stringfield, Jr., Mark Grera Rath bone, Robert Lee Bradley and John Henry Ruff. Those put in class 3-A included William Rufus Conard, Cecil Coop, er, Howard Edward Gentry, Lloyd Mull, Grady Vernon Henry, and Rayford Cullen. Placed in class 4-F were Arthur Franklin, Ralph, C' Hyde, Clyde Wilson Lyle, Leo Daniel Messer, Homer M. Rathbone, Guy S. How ell, Spellman G. MoClure, Farady Seay, Thomas William Brown, Earl Stanford Bradley, Marvle Rogers, Vaughn Massie, Hershel Thorton Rogers and Albert Dewey Hannah Ferguson Brothers "An ''ill &" I r i jPS&f tXt &' -''i completed his second trin to the dark continent, and last reports from him were that he is back somewhere over there in the thick of the fight A Week Of The War Now for some recent Tar Heel developments on the National Capi tal front. - , - Two-thirds of the State is great ly interested in Leon Henderson's 60-day ceiling price on flue-cured tobacco. Tobacconists of the Mid dle and Old Belts are concerned over whether the ceiling, based on five days of selling an admittedly All motorists in the non-ra tioned areas of the country were asked by Price Administrator Henderson to observe the. same rules in using their cars that are enforced in the rationed Eastern area, as a means of conserving rubber tires until a National ra tioning plan can be put into ef fect, He said it will be several weeks before coupon ration books can be printed to carry out the Nation-wide gas rationing recom mended by the Baruch Rubber Committee. Unless the Nation's 27,000,000 motorists cut their driv ing "to the bone," Mr. Henderson said, "we're likely to coast right into Hitler's lap," The White House issued a chart prepared by the Society of Auto motive Engineers showing that the normal life of a tire is doubled when the average driving speed is reduced from 40 to 20 miles an hour, or from 50 to 30 miles an hour. The President said he thought the chart should be brought to the attention of the country as a persuasive argument for slow driving. The Baruch Rubber Committee recommended that motorists be curtailed to a general average of 5,uoo miles a year. The committee also recommended a National speed limit of 35 miles an hour and compulsory periodic tire in spection. Complete reorganization of government agencies concerned with the rubber program and ap pointment of a rubber adminis trator with full responsibility for conservation and synthetic produc tion program were also recom mended. Additional rubber must be re leased to fully maintain essential civilian driving, reclaiming oper ations must be stepped up, and to increase synthetic production, the committee recommended immedi ate expansion of plant capacity for . Buna-a, Butadiene, Neoprene, and alcohol, and elimination of any further substitution in plans for synthetic production. The Presi dent told his press conference vir tually all of the committee's re commendations excect rasolin ra tioning will be put into effect im mediately. : THE WAR FRONT Gen. MacArthurfc Australian headquarters reported allied forces have kept the Japanese thrust to ward Port Moresby bottled in the towering Owen Stanley Mountains while allied aircraft swept the seas surrounding the island, bomb ing enemy supply ships. Gen. Mac Arthur announced September 14 that United Nations bombers at tacked three Japanese cargo ships, apparently bound for New Guinea, and American Flying Fortresses bombed a Japanese cruiser off the Southeast Coast of New Britain. Earlier, the Fortresses hit two en emy destroyers in the same area. Japanese bombers continued to attack U. S. Forces in the Solo mons and the enemy has "rein- forced and supplied" Japanese troops in the interior of Gaudal- canal where U. S, Marines are engaged in mopping up operations, the Navy reported. The Navy said that 20 more Japanese planes have been shot down in three heavy bombing attacks bringing to at least 143 the number of Jap planes officially reported shot down since operations began August 7. U. S. Army Headquarters in Lon don reported American flying for tresses and medium bombers suc cessfully bombed the Schiedam Shipyards at Rotterdam, railway yards at Utrecht, an airframe fac tory and the St. Omer Airdrome in Nazi-occupied France. Dam age to intercepting enemy planes included 17 fighters destroyed, 25 more probably destroyed and 25 damaged. Two Fortresses were listed as missing, the first American losses in 12 straight attacks on Nazi ter ritory in Europe. The Navy an nounced the sinking of eight more United Nations Merchant Teasels by enemy submarines. ed toward taking the offensive were made.: The President, in a radio address, said the power of Ger many must be broken on the con tinent of Europe and "preparations are being made here and in Rrit. ain toward this purpose." Under secretary of War Patterson, speaking in Muskegon, Michigan, said that more than Kfin nnn mn in the armed forces are overseas and this force "will be doubled and doubled and doubled to the limit of our manpower." W. Averell Harriman, Special Lend-Lease Minister to London, said the Rus sians "are determined to fight to the finish . . . alone with their own resources 'if need be. But they will fight on with even more strength and courage if we crive effective aid." WAR STRATEGY The White House announced that during July Chief of Staff Marshall, Chief of Naval Opera tion King and Special Adviser to the President, Hopkins, conferred with High British officials in Lon don and at these conferences cer tain vital military decisions direct- THE ARMED FORCES President Roosevelt told his press conference he did not think it would be necessary to call nn 18 and 19-year-olds before the first of next year because army train ing facilities at present are only equal to the number of men being taken in, but he is' discussing with the army whether enabling legisla tion will be needed soon. Army ground forces Commander Mc Nair announced the number of army divisions in existence or be ing mobilized has more than doub led since January 1. War Secretary Stimson announc ed, the air transport command will establish an experimental unit of 60 trained women aViatora. th Women's Military Ferrying Squad ron, to jerry smaller army planes from factories to airfields. The weather bureau called for 75 women airplane pilots to take a course in meteorolgy. Mr. Stim son also said the armv exnecta to call most, and possibly all, student reservists wno have reached se lective service age to active duty by the end of the college term begin ning in September. The Coast Guard is forming a fleet of 250 fire-fiffhtinr machin hoata. moat of them embodying a new design in propulsion ' and fire-fighting machinery, to be used in protect- Benjamin Frank Ferguson, (left) who served in the II. S. Navv from 1925 through 1928, and is now associated with Lockhead Air craft, of Long Beach, California, and is "somewhere in Europe set ting up" airplane assemblies. Robert Lee Ferguson, (right), U. S. Army, who has also served 2 years in the U. S. Navy, has been in army for 18 years, and has been stationed in ports in the U, S, Navy, has been promoted to warrant officer at Camp Blanding, Stark, Fa. ; " 1 They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ferguson, of Waynes viye. . Julius Cope Visits Horn n triLS Julius Cone nfn- i now stationed VtT La., was here on p furlough during the wSerJ been in the service six months and & Fort Bragg. Prior to hj the service he wa J. the -England-Walt i Soldier Wan t. Hear From Waynesvifo itichlanri Wu technical schooT.fV corps in Dpnvo. A f army tl wishes to .receive' letter T1 i from his Wav J?,80' J His 7 ."WA School. RnT fechniJ Lowry Field, No. 2, DeU Kendrick f!nM .n t Now First Sergeant Sergeant Kerning Caldwell, of Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis r.ij. Z fi V ' as Deen Prow to first sergeant. .Sergeant Caldwell was sMo ed for sometime in Florida, W k been in the Canal Zone for sew, months. He is with th ing water-front facilities along U. S. coasts. TRANSPORTATION Office of Defense Transportation Director Eastman announced "no special train or bus service, includ ing charter bus service, to foot ball games or other sports events will be permitted. At the same time I am directing that steps be taken by my office to prevent the overcrowding of regular ' trains serving areas in which such events are to be held." The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that for the duration all railroad car riers may disregard any present regulations governing lencth of trains when necessary to assure prompt movement of ; freight or passengers. The ODT ordered all oneratora of commercial rubber borne vehi cles except motorcycles to carry and show a "certificate of neces sity' in order to obtain gasoline, tires or parts after November 15. The regulation , covers almost 5, 000,000 non-military trucks, 150, 000 buses, 50,000 taxicabs and all ambulances and hearses Applica tions for certificates, as well as other pertinent information, will be mailed about September 23 to all persons who registered last De cember 31 as owners of motor ve hicles available for public rental. Pvt. James IT ATn,... iow in iNorthern Camp Private James H V.n. of Mrs. G. C. Hooker, of WavnJ iuuib is now stationed Camp Edwards. Ma d. , been in the servicp inA k. Tl -M . .. . -111 oi marcn, oi tnis year, and inducted at Fort Bragg. He shortly after transferred to voir, and then to his w - - ----- r.vul tion. RECEIVES PROMOTION Corporal Leonard LeathertoJ who is now stationed "lomewdd in Ireland," has recently W promoted to sergeant Sgt Lei erwood has been in th unriM i the past year, and was sUtiorf for sometime at Fort ITnni V. with the 81st Armored Diriiil heaw tanks. He has beta mi seas for the past several monti Mrs. Leatherwood holds ( politic in Washington, D. C. WAR PRODUCTION War Production Chairman Nel son asked war workerg to stop taking an extra day off and refrain from "quickie" strikes over minor grievances because such absences slow production. ; He said the nation's production record is not nearly good enough. The President bv executive order prohibited payment of "penalty double-time" pay for work on St urdays, Sundays and holiday i permitted payment of double-tif for the seventh consecutive di work and of time-and-a-half for overtime work after 40 hours week. Under Secretary of W Patterson said U. S- plane prodf tion in August was greater til that of Germany, Italy and Japl combined, and tank production, ready at an impressive high, ' be twice as great in December. G iv e The M en In Service The News from Honw EVERY WEEK ByftSending Them I lie M0UMTAMEEK At The SPECIAL Rate Of When a man's address is changed, we will gladly make the change on his paper, so he will receive every copy regularly. 1.75
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