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| Hwjt Alt Constantly Inviting ; 1 You T. TRADE With Them. I ♦ ♦♦♦WM M>»M ♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦' , VOLUME THIRTT-TWO J : - Production of "Tools of War" Is Useless Unless They Reach The Areas of Conflict (Br Hugo S. Sims) The attack upon the United States was the culminating climax of a long design for war, planned and inteded by the aggressor nations when they converted their national economiec to the production of war supplies. The strategic location of Germany, Japan and Italy gave \hera great advantages, provided they managed to get ahead of their enemy nations in the production of the tools of war. This Germany easily accomplished in Europe and Japan has secured through the facte of geography. Pradace and Transport. It is necessary for the people of the United States to understand the enormous task that now confronts the industry of this country, Great Britain and Russia. We must produce, after war is underway, what the aggressor nations provided their fighting forces in years of peace and accumulated for just such a war. Our task is not only to produce but, after the tools are manufactured, distribute them to the fighting areas. This is a task that makes hte transportation of the original A. E. P., in the first World War, look like a holiday cruise in the Summer. Consider what must be aone wun the guns, tanks, planes and material manufactured in this country before it can be used to offset the enemy's superiority. Some of it must go to the British Isles, a mere 3,000 miles or so across the Atlantic Ocean. This is a sideline, compared to transporting supplies to the Middle East, which involves a 12,000-mile journey. More difficult is the dispatch of material to Russia and China across vast water distances and, above all, looms the task of getting men and supplies to Singapore, the Netherlands Indies and Australia. Planes Cut Carry Cargoes. Conversationalists talk glibly of flying bom here across the Sooth Atlantic, over Africa and the Indian Ocean to the Far 3ast. They do not realise that there must be adequate landing fields, fuel supplies; spare parts, mechanics and other vital necessities in large quantities along the route. These armchair strategists do not comprehend that the bombs, ammunition, anti-aircraft guns, men and supplies, indoding fighter planes, must go by ship, in the holds of lumbering cargo vessels which must be protected by warships from enemy action. . Competent military «perts agree that the job of supplying the Pacific stepping stones and the' Tar Eastern areas represents the greatest supply problem ever undertaken by a nation. They know that it is only one of the tremendous transport burdens that confront the United Nations and that Winston Churchill spoke the truth when he.advised the House of Commons that, at this time, the question of getting supplies to the Far East was a problem of whipping. Cargo Ships Te Win The War. Despite the careless assumption that the airplane has superceeded other methods of makiu? w*r the careful officers that hav* tne stuff to deliver te various battlefronts know that it must move in cargo vessels. Until there are more supply ships available there will continue to be areas in which the Axis aggressors have the advantage and the situation will be remedied only pium transport facilities are available. , & The slow-moving cargo ships seldom get into the news, except whsa torpedoed or bombed, but upon them end their crews rests the fate of the democracies in the present war. Back of them, on guard, are the waralrips of the United Nations, making secure the routes that the supply ships travel. It is an anriramatic Governor Issues Proclamation Ordering Clocks Moved Ahead February 9th . Raleigh, Feb. 3.—A proclamation issued by Governor Broughton announced 2 a. m. on February 9 as the deadline for changing to daylight saving time in North Carolina, in accordance with the act passed by Congress. The Governor's proclamation was directed to all State offices, municipalities, firms, banks and corporations in the State and pointed out that the shift to daylight saving time was being made to conserve electricity in the interest of national defense. In addition to the saving of electricity to be effected by the change to daylight saving, the Governor requested further conservation wherever possible. The proclamation called upon all persons, firms and corporations within this State to use all available means of reducing and conserving the consumption of electrical energy in this State, to the end that the same may be diverted to national defense purposes." PACKAGING Functional design will be the keynote of 1942 packaging:, with' consumer goods packages this year expected to be neat, but not necessarily gaudy. Total of 1,292 Americans Held Captive by Japs Washington, Feb. 4.—A total of 1,292 officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps are prisoners of the Japanese or missing in the Far Eastern war, spokesmen for the two fighting forces revealed before the Senate naval affairs committee today. 1 The disclosure — the first official report on the human toll in the Par cific struggle since Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox made public casualties in the Ftoarl Harbor attack—raised to 6,373 the konwn number of Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel dead, wounded or missing. ' tm The committee was informed that the Navy and Marine Corps losses took place in Pacific islands wad North China. The islands, presumably were Guam and Wtt«, which fell to the Japanese. - The prisoners or missing: in North China are believe& to be part of the so-called "Suicide Garrison" of Marines once maintained at Boiptof, Tientsin and Shapghai. The Marines were ordered withdrawn before the United State went to war with Japan, but today's disclosure indicated some may have been trapped. The testimony given today, Knooc's ! report and a War Department steleHi last month painted, this picture of the personnel situation in the Pacific: Nary-Marine musing or prisoners Navy-Marines dead or wonted at Pearl Harbor—8,386. Army dead or wounded at Pearl Harbor (230 back on duty)—»6. These figures do not include casualties anjng General MacArthurt Groan villa.—W. J. Bundy, local attorney, announced today that 1m is a candidate for solicitor of the Fifth Judicial District, in tho primary to be held Saturday, May SO. It has been generally reported for sometime that Mr. Bundy would be a candidate for this office, but no public announcement had yet been madtt. ' ' .. •"The present Solicitor, at the end of this term, will have held the posf- I tion for sixteen yean," said Mr. Bundy. "I think it- is time to give another man a chance. If one man is Solicitor tar life, no young man will ever get a chance. The incumbent has besot "Solicitor for four terms. Other things being equal, it is time for some younger man to have his chance as Solicitor." When asked how he proposed to conduct the office of Solicitor, if nominated and elestwd, Mr. Bundy stated, "The Solicitor is the hsadjrf law enforcement in Us district The proper enforcement of the law should motivate his contact ci- the office. If nominated and elected, I promise to prosecute the docket fairly, impartially and vigorously." "Another thing that I' promise to do, and it badly needs to be done," Mr. Bundy also stated, "is to save the taxpayers money ta the operation of the criminal court This can be done by a systematic arrangement of the docket, and following the docket. I have seen witnesses on both sides sit through throe or four terms of court' before their cases was tried. This is expensive and burdensome to witnesses and litigants, besides piling up an enormous cost bill. This can b« and ought to be avoided, and if nominated and elected, I promise to work toward that end. lite docket can be so arranged and tried that enough court cost can be saved to more than pay the Solicitor's salary. All I ask is the ehance to prove it" Mr. Bandy is a native of Pitt ootmty, having been born in Farmville, He attended the Farmville public schools, clerked in a store in Farmvine for a year after finishing school, and later west to Trinity College, now Duke University, where he graduated in the class at 1922. He taught school two years, then studied law, passed the bar in 1926 and then taught school another year. Ha began to practice law in 1924 in Bethel and served ens term as mayor of Bethel. Once 1927 his law office has been in Greenville, and he and his family have resided in Greenville since 1980. Kadi of Mr. Bandy's practice has been in the criminal courts and he has bbiHTup a large criminal practice. In 1941 Mr. Bundy Was pnaUant of the Pitt County Bar Association. Mr. Bundy has been active in the civic, fraternal and religious' life of the community. He is a post commander of the Pitt County Post of the American Legion, LieutenantGovernor of Kiwanis in 1989, and is at preasnt a liae officer in both the Grand Lodge of North Carolina Masons «d Sudan Temple of the Shrine. He Is also a Red Man and an Elk. For the past ten years he has been a teacher in one of the Man's Bible classes in the Jarvis Memorial Methtdtpt church. igfcjfcr. Bundy at present is a member of the Pitt County Democratic Executive Committee and is seeon4 vice president of th« Fifth Judicial nixi j_t ii.. MMmwwB* "Mr*• ________ WHO KNOWS? 1 1. What ia the difference between U. & and Philippine tim»T ili , 2. What It the approximate area of the Japanese offensive? 8. What is the distance from the Panama Canal to Java? t .4. How many American republic* were represented at the conference HAT IN pNG 1 " ' I ■ n ^IjpSi&imir, flrWIliHa attorney, today ,'lmaljr wnni his candidacy for solicitor of th« Fifth Judicial District, subject to the Democratic primary fa June, a M. Clark is the present solicitor and has made no foraal statement, bet la expected to bo a candidate for r»Mdwtton. ■ " J. " 1 / " > ■ wm »'» ■ h i t ■ » HUGO 8. SIMS (WuhinftM Cmtwp—»■») BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE HUGE NAVY IN VIEW BATTLESHIPS OUT? l.. ■. Engaged in war th*t is world-wide in scopes it la impossible for the United States to give the public complete details as to plana for the Amy, Navy and Air Force, It Is apparent, however, from the! immense sums being voted by the Congress that the present purpose of this nation is to arm and equip an amy of considerable size, to build the world's largest navy, and to create and maintain the world's greatest aerial fleet. ^Congress is now engaged in the] legislative process of providing more' than 118,000,000,000 to attain '«un-! questioned supremacy" on the qpaa' and almost 118,000,000,000 to pro-] vide the Amy Air Corps with 39,000 planes and ncccss&ry areiMWorlfii, These items, each representing the largest single appropriation bill considered up to date, are but a part of the tremendous sums that the Congress will appropriate for prosecution of the war. They do not include' amounts already appropriated and are in addition to Army appropriation Mils that murit be passed. The House bfll provides the Navy with *4,292,225,500 for the present fiscal year and $18*430,339,974 for the year beginning July 1st. The funds will be used to carry out operations, repair*, new ships and an ambitious aircraft program. For new ship construction, more than $8,000,000,000 is provided. . Just whet ships will be built remains somewhat concealed, although, as the war began, the Navy had 15 battleships, 7 aircraft carriers, &4 cruisers, 193 d«fetroyers and 78 submarines under construction. It ia known that 1,799 minor units will be built and that 1948-estimates include 150,000 tons atcombatant ships, 800,000 tons of' auxiliaries and 800 —tail craft. | .!*> il Ijj Whereas, the CiniflTWi of the United States has pa—ri aa Act to MMllfa the national iiniiinitji * and defense by establishing Daylight Sarin* Time, by the terms of which, beginning at two o'clock, A. M., February 8,1*48, the standard time for the various zones in the Uattnd States shall he advanced one hoar ^ and - t Whereas, it is thought that it In for the beet interest of the citUena of this State and of the Nation that the standard ■ time to affect in this State be advanced in accordance with the said Act of Coofnaa, and has bean so profWmed by the Governor, J, Melville Broogtattm, l)or the State of North Carolina, aa a meant af aiding in the pronation ot national security and defense during the praecnt national emergency, NOW, THEREFORE: I, George W. Davis, Jtayor of the Town of Farmville, North Carolina, do by this proclamation order end direct that all offices, departments, and agencies of the- Town of Fannville shall, from and after 1:04 o'clock, A. M., the 9th day at February, 1942, operate on the basis of Eastern Daylight saving Time; that is to say, that from and after said time and date, the standard time shall he advanced one hoar for the parpoee of conducting all of the .business of the Town at Fnrmville and its several offices, departments, atpsndes *nd iaatitutw»; and I, George W. Davis, Mayvr of the Town of FarmviUe, by this proclamation do hereby call upon all pareons, firms, institutions and corporations engaged w industry and commerce, in patriotic cooperation with the desires of the President of the United States, the Governor of North Carolina, and the Act of Congress aforesaid, by voluntary action to conduct their businesses ^ activities on the basis of Eastern Daylight Saving Time, all for the purpose of saving electrical energy hi the in? terest of national defense; wvi I, George W. Davis, Mayor of the Town of Fannville do by this Proclamation .call upon all other persons , firms and corporations within this community to use all available means of reducing and conserving the consumption of electriccal energy, to the end that the same may be diverted to national defense purpoaea. Done at the Town of Fannville, this 6th day of February, 1942. (Signed) GEORGE W. DAVIS, SAFE tit HAWAII lbs. Leia Bray, of 216 Belcher street, has received word from her son, Sgt Haywood Bmy, who is stationed at Hickson field, Hawaii, that he k safe and welL Bgk. Bray is the grandson of B. R. Collins, and was reared in Rocky Meant Dutch Borneo oil port tAm yxt of a large Japanese invasion fleet took refuge during the Battle of Macasaar Straits. It said this aerial thrust probably. was the eae reported yesterday fretn Beta via by General Sir ArehifeaU WaveO. Supreme Allied commander at the Southwest Pacific Foreea. E This nun to a certain 12 the number of enemy ships sent to the bottom in or artund Macassar. fltnits by American air. and eae foresee, which also probably hare rank or crippled seven other Japanese Tee seis. Seven of the biff Army bombers took part in the latest attack, which occurred Monday. AH returned to their baaee unuamaged Non-Step Attacks. In the Philippines, the uwwt Japanese cm MacArthar*e left flank indicated that the «Mbty had launched non-stop assaults in an effort to drive the jnfiwiira oat of the lower half of tfca finiilnaiiU For nearly a week the Jipanaaw have been hammering- away relentlinea in a drive toward CocngHbr Fortress, 17 miles to the south at ' the gatew&y to Manila Bay. m s j Mac Arthur's men and cuttinj any chance of retreat to Corri The Japanese hart massed on* division above MacArthur flank and another above his 1 Units from the left—of vraat aide—attempted the newest . But this drive was hurled bade i ly.. This foray occurred the nij February 8 (Philippine time). There was "little activity" « the {Mat 24 hours on Mac A? right.flank, where a Japaae taan's east coari,highw*j ed back earlier in a c« This highway leads to Port, MacArthur'a supply to Corrigidor three mOi Manila Bay. "i ,'j MacArthur reported t aerial activity was limitec sporadic bombing attaeka First OSdai t ,Blackout test | liere Successful Officials Praise Men •Assigned* To Duties And Citizens For Help Mayor Geo rye W. Davis and other official* in charge of the blackout i.eld in Farmvdlle, in cooperation with the district, Tuesday night, have expressed themselves as dated over the spirit of helpfulness demonstrated and report IX as 100 per cent effective. The police and firs departments and their auxiliary members, numbering' 70 men, had assigned duties during the blackout, and high tribute® were paid to these by Police Chief Lucas, R. A. Joyner and Haywood Smith. Citizens were, also praised for their cooperation in responding promptly to tiie signal and alao for sitting in the darkness for around an hour longer than the time agreed upon, 80 minutes, due to some miss understanding of the hour set for the alarm. The intense cold kept a majority of the citizens Indoors, thorgh a number watched the effectiveness of the test The oomplete success of the blackout was marred by the failure of the weatherman to "blackout" the Cwellns moan, which never shown more brilliantly. Cars on the streets moved to the curb as the alarm signal, 22* was sounded, and the town was reported in total darkness in two minutes afterwards. Wavell Says Allies Help ®d the Way I To South Pacific ^5* ' rr<. •. Tells Singapore Garrison To Hold Out Unt3 British-American Aid Arrives Singapore, Feb. 4.—Tie supreme Allied oommand, charging1 the defenders of Singapore to hold on at all cost, assured this besieged island today that "gieat reinforcements" of British and American forces were being sent to the Southwestern Pacific, and strong new hope svept through the imperial line. As the fifth day of the siege ran out with the Japanese invader still lying quiescent across the Johore Strait, and disposing his troops under heavy ft* from British batteries, Generalissomo Sir Archibald P. Wavell declared in a special order of the day. "Owr part is to gain time for great ■enforcements we and our American allies are sending to the Eastern theater. "We are in a similar position to the original British expeditionary force which stopped tbt Germans Sid saved Europe in the First Battle of Ypree. "We must be worthy successors to them and save Asia by fighting "We moat yield no atrip of ground without fighting hard, nod most leave nothing behind understroyed
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