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I JANUARY Cars Not To Be Usedto Visit Sport 'or Amuse ment Places Nor For Social Engagements Washington, Jan. 6.—The Office of Price Administration today out lawed all pleasure driving by hold era of 'A,' %' 'C gasoline ration cards on the Atlantic Seaboard and prescribed the cancellation of gaso line rations as the penalty for fail ure to comply. The aid of all state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies in the 17 eastern states and District of' Columbia is being asked to help the federal government in prevent ing pleasure driving, by reporting violations to local ration boards or local OPA offices. "The presence of passenger cars at any gathering for purposes of sport or amusement will be taken as prima facie evidence that gaso line rations and tires are being dis sipated needlessly and illegally," OPA said. "The ban on pleasure driving will also apply to driving to purely social engagements." Simultaneously, OPA declared fuel oil heating rations of all build ings except those used for residen tial purposes in the east would be "cut substantially within the next 24 hours." No details were given. The drastic prohibition on pleas ure motoring was reinforced by an OPA warning that "even more ser ious measures" are being prepared to be ready for immediate use "if the current situation gets worse." The action was taken at the in stance of the Petroleum Adminis trator for War, OPA said, in a joint effort to plug every leak in the "dangerously scant supplies" of pe troleum products on the eastern Seaboard. Price Administrator Leon Hender son said that an appreciable amount of gaaolfne could be saved fay cur tailing "A card pleasure driving, bat he added: "The chief abases, in so fax as gallons used for pleas ure, seem to stem from the "B" and "C" card holders, who either have exaggerated their needs or are not fulfilling the car-diaring plans they outlined to procure the ntfeng origi tmtty" - ' : ^ . "B" and "C" rations will bemore difficult to get under the new regu lations. New applications for them not only will lucre to get approval of the local board, but the beard's decision will be subject to review by the nearest OPA office. Moreover, present holders of "B* and "C" rations who seek ^ recover kjta saia; pleasure anving win be interperted broadly," details will be contained in a regulation to be issued not later than tomorrow. When a police officer encounters a motorist whom he believes to be driving for pleasure, the burden of proof as to the essential nature of the trip will "rest wholly on the motorist,". OPA said. The driver must satisfy his ration board that his use of gasoline was justified by his occupation or the essential character of Ms errand. The board may permanently cut I off the ration or reduce it to the | extent it considers necessary. Obviously evidence of the misuse of gasoline—such as the presence of * packed passenger car at a race track or movie theatre—may re sult in immediate seizure of the ra tion book, OPA said. Books so im pounded will be forwarded to the| ration board for appropriate ac tion. In cases whore there is reason able doubt, police officials are in structed to report the case to the local boartf for a hearing- leaving the ration book in possession of the ' •IF** I ,t mr* i Mt Mszikwid * SSiSt;'a* IN JAPAN -——- ~ London, Jan. 6.—A British War Office statement said tonifeht that 10,000 prisoners of war — half of them Americans — are interned in Japan. jjjjg It said a Red Cross representative in Tokyo had visited three prison camps and reported conditions "com paratively satisfactory,'' although some prisoners were goffering from tropical diseases. The prisoners, the statement con tinued, have been forced to adapt themselves to the Japanese diet, con sisting' largely of rice, although there are some bread, fish and vegetables. It said the prisoners get very little meat. "Medical treatment is handicapped by a lack of medicaments, which ap pears to be general throughout the Far East," it said. "Considerable quantities of medi caments however, were sent to the Far East by Allied Red Cross socie ties on the last diplomatic exchange and some of these supplies have been distributed." v The report said Japan's prisoners work an eight-hour day in docks and factories. It added that about 1,600 Americans were interned in a camp at Woosung, near Shanghai. COTTON .Cotton farmers will hpve 15 more days in which to apply for Federal, crop insurance on their 1943 cotton crop than on their 1942 crop, the closing date m North Carolina being April. 1. An instrument has been developed that enables blind persons to make precision inspection of certain ma chine products in war industries. Solomons Area Fighting Flares Navy Task Force Bom bards Jap Air Base; Widespread Attacks By Bombers Washington,. Jan". 6. — American forces pounded the Jape by land, air, and sea Tuesday as the long-dormant Solomina campaign exploded with a fury which suggested a battle of major scope may be in the making. A task force, carrying out the first United States naval offensive in that ana since the original invasion of the Solomons five months ago, swept 180 miles north west of Guad&kaoal—the deepest penetration of Solomons waters by American surface ships—and bom barded the new Jap air base at Munda. The predawn thrust touched off a swift sequence of sortie* which gave the Americans, perhaps their busiest hours since their great naval The task force a^Mpf was fol lowed by three'Unfaf sweeps which carried deep into the heart oi Jap positions in the poaffiern Solo mons and continuj^jwe against the enemy on The final accowSS^For the day showed at least seven Jap planes destroyed, one enemy transport hit,' one Jap heavy cruiser attacked with unrevealed jaults, undertermined The following question* and an swers — first of a series designed to explain the principal point* of the forthcoming program for point rationing <rf canned, bottled, and frozen fruits and vegetables, juices, dried fruits, *nd ail «ou|»—were re baaed today by the. Office of Price A <!■.. . -* x? - — AflmlY11 gQ*1*T.M>Tt—— vyaM 1. Q.» Whan will actual rationing begin? ... A. A* early in FWwuary as possi ble. v .... , • 2. Q. Why is it necessary to suspend retail selling at all? A. There are several reasons. In the first place, of course, all food stores throughout the country must be given an opportunity to prepare for the start of rationing. They must have time to build up supplies, to train decks, lib receive and post the official OPA list of point values and familiarize themselves with those values; also it will give the retailer time to take an inventory of his processed food. Secondly, the'public must be registered for Book 2, be notified of the aetual point values, and be given time to study and bad get their points for the first ration period. - 3. Q. How will the housewife know when point values are chang ed? A. The newspapers and radio will carry the announcements, and every food store will have ait OPA poster showing the current point values of each particular product. A new poster will be issued when point values change. 4. Q. Will the point values be the same in all stores, or will they vary between high-price and low-price stores? A The point values are the same in every store in the country, regard less of the price change. The house wife, in buying a No. 2 can of to matoes, will have to sunre^jjer the stamps for the same number of points regardless of whether the price is 12 cents or 15 cents, or whether the ean is of Grajde A, B or C, or any other grade designation such as "fiancy," "choice," or "stand ard." 5. Q. How long1 will the first ra tion period last? A. That will, depend very largely on the date when rationing begins. If it were possible to whit February 1, the first ration period very prob ably would take in the entire month of February. If, as now seems 'prob able, rationing will begin oo a later date, the first period may be an "odd" one covering either the bal ance of February or possibly the balance of February and the foil month of March- Therefore, how ever, rationing periods likely will corres^nd tolhe calendar months. ' *6. Q: What is going to be done about people who haVe an Excess supply of these commodities on hand? • A. Everyone applying for War Ration Book Two will be required to fill oat and sign a "consumer declaration" form stating exactly the stocks of processed food on hand. Book 2 will have stamps removed for excess stocks and thus, in effect, will compel the applicant to use up these stocks before baying any more. tog-, and tortured peoples of the world, we at home—ere* as our •ma am beginning to be triumphant abroad—are faced bjr- a severe test of our self-control and patriotism. It is not in the field of war produc tion, In which already we aarpass all our enemies, nor in baying war bonds, conducting' salvage anj other campaigns and drives, nor in our re sponse t>» civilian defense and the many other forms of community war activity. The teat wM oome during IMS as we learn the war's hardest lesson for those at home—the lesson of do tag without. True, we hav» experi enced some discomforts, we have be gun to lack soma things one* in com mon daily use, and have divided up the reduced supplies of other things by rationing. But on the whole, the goods and services we miss are only a small proportion of those we still enjoy. Food Battening Flan. Now, beginning in February, a great many staple fooda and 'food products will, be rationed, including canned fruits and vegetables, canned juices and soups, and dried and froz en fruits and vegetables. Vast quan tities of these processed foods, which are especially adapted to shipment abroad, must go to the armed forces and to our Lent-Lease Allies. The balance available to civilians will be distributed by means of War Ration Book Two accenting to the new "point" system. Scarcer products will have a higher point value than the more abundant, and point values may change as the supply of certain products increases or lessens, but the total number of coupon points for each ration period will be the same toV every civilian eveiywheie—even for the soldier's wife who buys her food at army stations. When point rationing starts, all household stocks of items coming un der the ration plan must be reported. Hoarders will be penalised by having to deduct coupon points for exces sive supplies they have managed to accumulate. But unless all citizens are equally patriotic, hoarders and food speculators may cause acute local shortages before the plan goes into effect. inventories umiM. While food and petroleum product* will be evenly distributed by ration ing, another method of assuring broad distribution las been adopted irf the ease of a wide range of con sumer* goods—chiefly items for per sonal or household use. An order of War Production Board limits the in ventories of these goods which can be piled up by large retailers, whole salers, and stock-carrying branches of manufacturers, so that mora than a million smaller stores will have a better chance to get things for their j (Continued our page 4) •v. Mrs L. L Hardy Passes Suddenly - •*." ; - r 'Maury. Jan. 7.—Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Dail Hardy, age 54, were hehTat the home here Wednes day aferooon at 3 o'clock with Rev. E. R. Shuller, of HookerUm, officiat ing. Interment was in the Maury cemetery. Mi*. Hardy died suddenly early Tuesday morning of a'heart attack at her home. She was a member of one of Greene County's most promi nent families and was an active mem ber of the Maury Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband; six children, Mrs. Tberman Dail, Wil son; Mrs. George Warrant, Kinston; L. L., Jr., and James Hardy, U. 8. A., And Mim Helen and Edward Hardy of the home; two sisters, Mrs. Ora Albrttton, Hookerton, and Mrs. W. J. Richardson, Raleigh. Active pallbearers were, James Dail, Roland Dail, Marion Dail, Burt AK britton, Hardy Albritton, Jesse That was the admonition of Coloml Roland Walsh, chief of the Quartermaster Branch, headquarters Fourth Service Command today, u he moved gasoline to the No. 1 posi tion among the supplies the Quarter masters have to famish the Army. "Time was," said Colonel Walsh, "when ammunition was the No. 1" item o« the •must' list of supplies. It outranked food for the simple rea son that a -man can fight for hours on end without food, if he has the ammunition hot he couldnt damage the enemy at all without shells and cartridges for his guns, and Would face annihilation—even If he had all the food in the world. "In the old days an Army moved by horsepower. Horses and mules must have hay, oats or corn to sur vive, but those horses and mules could haul artillery, supply wagons and other vehicles for tnany hours without food if necessity demanded •it. They could, therefore, get the; army in contact with the enemy or move artillery and other equipment to strategic points. But today, with out gasoline, an Army cant move. The foot soldiers, of course, could go ahead, but in this war.the foot sol diers cant take a position alone. They must have artillery prepara tion, tank attack and airplane bomb ing before they can go Sato the pod" tion and hold it. "Food delivered to the troops in the field ia raw. It must be oooked. and again gasoline enters the picture. The field kitchens use gasoline as fuel. Of course, they can bum wood If they have it. However, burning woodf creates smoke and emake can be aeea by the enemy. .A field kitch en means a concentration of troops. A smoking kitchen would promptly bring a barrage from enemy field artillery or bombs from his high flying planes. "So, it's gasoline all the way. The job the American Amy has in get ting gasoline to the fighting fronts around the world is tremendous, but tinue to be done until this war is tinue to bedone until this war is won." ~ •' :>•« -v,■ . of the enemy. Yet at home, too many of us are presenting- the enemy with information of the same mili tary value, the Office of Censorship says in a statement, fc This is the information which news papers and individuals are asked not to tell the enemy: BO NOT fELL the names of ships upon which sailors serve. * - ; DO NOT TELL the troop unite in which-sotdiers serve overseas. „ There is no objection to revealing that Pvt. John Jones is in Australia or that Seaman Tom B*own saw ac tion in the Atlantic, but there is military information which endan gers the lives of American fighting men in stating that Pvt. John Jones, "Company C, 600th Infantry," is in Australia, or Seaman Toin mrown, "Aboard the U. 8. S. Wisconsin," is in the Atlantic. ,K., ♦ »'•>&£ ' The Office of Censorship says: "We ask editors not to publish these troop identifications, end we ask par rents and relatives not to *m*} them. Dont give the enemy «ny thing that may lengthen the war!" Cobb, I*. J. H. Harper, A. B. AMer man, George Edwards, W. G. Shep pard, Joshua Mewborn, Mark Lassi Six^CStiea Fall Before gss&ij's fol^Retoeat; Itaal Drive To AnnihHate Nazi Divisions Entrap ped at Stalingrad Be gun "• --'-V-v ' J'y v,3 ,iwyIfJi1' jl'^4; j^L •%...• * Moscow, Jan. 6. — The German army was reported in foil retreat in the Caucasus today, blowing up bridges and mining roads in a des perate effort to check the surgirg ' advance of Russian forces driving hard at its heels. Bed Star, ordan at the Soviet army, Mid Russian forces, which already had stormed and won the important towns of Mosdok, Nal chik, Prokhladmnski, Kotlynrevft kaya and Maiskoye, continued' their sweeping advance along a wide front, winning back a large number of additional towns. Hie entire province of North Osetia lying between Ordihonfidto and Nalchik, had been won back under the Bed banner by Soviet forces operating along the wast bank at the Terek river, while other Rus sian troops rolled the Germans back to the north, Bad Star assmlud To the north, along the lower Don, the Bnwians were reported fighting forward after ortrMQraing the important Nasi bridgehead fawn of Tsimlyansk and thus driving a second spshfhead within 25 miles of Rostov, whose fall might dcom the entire German force in tike Cau casus. Soviet troops were Mid to htn pursued the Germans northward from this sector acrow a westorn branch of the Terek rirer. In a 12-mile final thrust yeeterday, Red Star said, the Russians tw» into and captured the town of Piokhlad nenski, SO mile* northeast of Nal chik. - J . j.-t if Prokhladnenski is the juncture where the tvk line Cancans rail Russian maim to SouJi Russia, aiming at encirc'ement of Rostov, make new gains, capturing eight vil lages in the Middle Don are* and 13 villages and'two railway stations in the North Caucasus Indications of general retreat from the Caucasus Activities in Solomans area flare suddenly as Navy task force bom bards Japanese air base at Honda on New Britain Island and American bombers and fighters raid Japanese targets over wide area. Americans and Australian in New Guinea pre pare to attack Sanananda Point, last Japanese stronghold in Papua. British Pint Army captures series of heights from Germans in Mateur area of Tunisia in fine ground fight ing of consequence in several Weeks. American bombers continue .raids on Axis targets. Senate farm bloc plans to seek re lease from Army of youths needed badly on nation's farms. t French West African Chief Bois son renews pledge to aid to Allies and. endorses unity of all French groups. REVISION Recent war developments have brought an upward revision in esti mates of probable military and lease laid food and textile requirements In 1943. The annual bag of 16 million wild decks and geese, when used as food, has a value «f more than $5 millions. Women workers form 16 percent of all workers employed on British railroad^. j Drive: Enemy" From High Ground Near Ma teur; Americans Are Active j, ; Allied Headquarters in North Af rica, Jan. &—Veteran British Flint Army troops captured, Jebel Auag and nearby points in an attack launched yesterday to drixs the Axis from high ground dominating Allied positions along a road ah<*£-16 miles west of Mateur, the Allied command announced tonight. It was the first real fighting in two waks in North Tunisia. / "Succssful attacks were mafc on hills north of the iMd and we cap tured Jebel Aziag and other points in the vicinity," the Allied command communique announced. i "Our forces are lapping up iso lated machinegun pests and have repulsed a counterattack against one of our newly-won positions." In the air, a headquarters spokes man said, Fortress bombers scored hits or near misses on a cruiser leaving the Tunisian harbor of Sfax and faft the Sfax power station in flames. , V 1
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