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VOLUME NO. 41 OLIVE TRIBUNE PUBLISHED EACH TUESDAY AND FRIDAY — SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $2.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE MOUNT OLIVE, N. C., TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1944 __ Number 11 CASUALTIES JUMP FOR U. S. FORCES Reports Bring Total * Since War To 197,841 h Washington, May 4.—A 5,005 ' create above- the total announc ed last week in casualties in the armed forces was reported today, bringing the total since the war began to 107,841. The figure does not mean there were 5,005 casualties in a seven da? period, since reports from dis tant theaters necessarily are sub ject at times to delay. Since last week’s report was is sued, announcement has been made of the sinking of an Ameri can transport in Mediterranean waters with the loss of 498 men. Today’s figures added 993 to the roll of Army dead, bringing the total to 26,575 and 77 to the Navy list, raising it to 18,992. Other .-new figures: Army — Wounded, 62,312, in crease of 2,146;, missing, 33,814; increase of 1,087; prisoners of war, 30,601; increase of 651. Navy — Wounded, 11,899, in crease of 35; missing, 9,192, de crease of 4; prisoners, 4,456, in crease of 20. The decrease in the total of missing was not explain ed ibut could be due to transfer of names from the missing category to the lists of dead or prisoners. SETZER SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS Burgaw.—Richard Setzer, 20 ' year-old Willard youth, began ser ving Friday a 20-year sentence for for the New Year’s eve slaying of Stedman Hall Carr, Wallace mer chant. A Pender county Superior Court jury, drawn from a special venire, convicted Setzer of the man slaughter Thursday night and Judge W. C. Harris pronounced sentence, the maximum for man slaughter. The State had sought a first de gree murder verdict, contending Setzer lured Carr to his death at at a lonely rendezvous last Dec. 81. BAPTIST MEETING IP IM WARSAW— The Eastern Associational Sun day school department of the Bap ♦. church met Monday night of week in the Warsaw Baptist - ,rch with about 20 pastors and .unday School superintendents in attendance. The president, Rev. iDonald G. Myers of Mount Olive, presided, and led a discussion of the six point record system. Rev. C. V. Case of Rose Hill, was elected to fill the unexpired term of Rev. Mr. Myers, who is moving June 1 to the Wadesboro Baptist church. Ladies of the primary depart ment of the Warsaw church, serv ed a chicken salad course to the visiting ministers and laymen. Figures On State Produce Are Listed ■ Of the 11,767 carlots of fruit and vegetables shipped from North Carolina last year, the state department of agriculture reports 10,228 were of Irish potatoes. Shipment of peaches dropped from 1,279 cars in 1942 to 35 in 1943. Watermelons, with 427 cars were second to Irish potatoes in 1943. Carlots of other fruits and i,: vegetables were: Strawberries,361 snap and lima beans, 207; cucum bers, 135; cantaloups, 106; peppers 58; cabbage, 79; and green peas, 3. Total carlot shipments were 10, ? 396 in 1942 and 7,388 in 1941. v Announce Birth Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Kackley, of Mount Olive, announce the ■>. birth of a son, in the Goldsboro \y hospital, Wednesday, May S. Mrs. Racldey is the former Miss Doris Sutton, daughter of Mr. and (Mrs. Elias Sutton, of Mount Olive. GASOLINE Honest farmers, do hot use non highway gas for, other purposes. Honest distributors do not make false claims ,in an effort to obtain additional supplies. Honest motor ists do not patronize the black market. PEED SHORTAGE The quickest and cheapest 'any tdf so something about the feed • problem is to provide more Ing, silage and hay, says TBy i Arey, Extension dairyman A C. State College. . s*£ The Tribune* - ■M-i Guadalcanal Rain U. S. Marina Corps Photo ' Guadalcanal, scene of the first United Nation offensive operation against Japan, has two seasons—the rainy season, between Novem • her and May, and the wet season. "White' men leave and natives | die” during the rainy season, according- to natives. Above is a typical Guadalcanal scene daring the rainy season. One Marine > reports that every time he crawls Into his “sack” (bed) he gets > seasick. REVENUES BOOSTED FOR TEN MONTHS Gain Is Nearly Seven Millions Raleigh, 'May 4.—North Caro lina’s general and highway fund collections totaled $98,155,710.10 for the 10 months ended April 30, compared with $91,991,174.09 for the comparable period ended in 1943, the revenue department s je ports. : '.General fund collections totaled $69,648,927 for the 10 months end ed April 30, compared with $64, 352,2^9.69 for the same period last year, while the highway fund was boosted to $28,506,783.45, during the 10 months ended April 30, compared with $27,638,884.40 for' the same period ended in 1943. The highway fund includes the motoc—vehicles division. ■ »entt»*h«" gasoline road tax. Last .month general fund collec tions were $4,614,241.94, compar ed with $4,578,805.31 -in April, 1943. The gasoline division collect ed $1,944,571.33 last month is gas tax and inspection fees, compared with $1,977,775.55 in April, 1943. The sales tax alone netted $1, 708,295.66 last month, compared with $1,445,404.92 in April, 1943. Sales tax collections for the 10 months ended April 30 totaled $16,373,579.23, compared with $14,562,927.20 during the compar able period period ended last year. Running a close second 'Were in come tax collections. The motor vehicles department collected $509,952.21 last .month compared with $451,012.71 in April, 1943. FATS There are two types of fats— hard fats and soft or liquid fats. There is a real shortage of hard fats, the kind that you can sal vage in the kitchen. Need for kitchen fats this year—BOO mil lion pounds. Renew Your Subscription ——— FORMER RESIDENT OF DUPLIN PASSES Dixon Dail Was Victim of Stroke Funeral services for Dixon Dail, 45, of Wilmington, were held last Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock by | Rev. A. D. Brinson, of Wilmington and interment followed in . the Dail family cemetery near Scott’s Store, in Duplin county. Mr. Dail, who was a former j resident of Duplin county, died in Wilmington Monday morning, May 1, at 5 a. m., following a stroke of paralysis. Surviving are his wife and five children, of Wilmington, and two sisters, Mrs. Estus Bland of route two, Mount Olive, and Mrs. Rob ert Carr of Castle Haynes. ! TSr ' " 1 -••• I Fort Bragg Needs Civilian War Workers To meet the enormous invasion demands for supplies of motorized equipment, Fort Bragg needs hun dreds of auto mechanics and auto mechanic helpers to help repair the trucks, tractors, tanks and other automotive vehicles, for ov erseas shipment. The pay is good and all workers are guarantied 25 hours overtime in excess of the regular forty hour week at time and half rate to boost their pay checks consid erably. In addition, housing facil ities are guaranteed appointees upon arriving for duty. However, workers are cautioned not to bring their families when, reporting for work until suitable housing acco modations have ,been arranged for them. Fort Bragg is ten nrles awiy from Fayetteville and convenient i bus . service provides adequate transportation to and from Fort Bragg and Fayetteville. Appointments "will be made in accordance with War Manpower Commission policies and Employ ment Stabilization plans. Yanks Replace Overheated Barrel fiaML conn. TImm men, somewhere in Burma, are changing a machine gun barrel which became overheated from firing. A new Darrel can be put into place in a few minutes. When over heated barrels have cooled, they are cleaned and used again. Note asbestos hthtons. owl -: ' i-v': / - " ■<. DUDLEY WOMAN BURIED ON FRIDAY Mr*. H. Barbour Died in Hospital Mrs. Rebecca Barbour, 02, wife of R. H. Barbour of Dudley, Rt. 1, died at 4:45 o’clock Thursday afternoon in the Goldsboro Hos pital following a heart .attack suf fered Saturday. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon at Corinth iBaptist church in Johnston county by the Rev. Eli jah Pearce. Interment was in the church cemetery. She had been a member of Corinth church for 37 years. • Surviving are her husband; a son, Jim Barbour of Dudley, Route 1; a son and a •daughter by a for mer marriage, Harvey Jackson of Jacksonville, iFla.,- and i.Mrs. Rich ard Coats of Dudley, Route 1; two brothers, J. F. Davis of Four Oaks, Route 1, and J. E. Davis of Dunn and one sister, Mrs. John Strickland of 'Wilson Mills. LIBRARY REPORT FOR APRIL IS GIVEN 917 Volumes Were Loaned by Library Books circulated from the local | Steele Memorial library during i the month of April totaled 917 volumes it was announced this week by Mrs. C. E. Long, librari an, who revealed that 828 adult volumes were loaned, and S9 ju venile books borrowed. i New books purchased by the li brary association and no.v ready for circulation include Winter Wheat, Flight Surgeon, Burma Surgeon, High Tide at Noon, Dr. Whitney’s Secretary, The Outsid er, Circle C' Moves In, 'Death Takes a Bow, Voltair’s Best Known Works, Bedford Village, What Became of Ann Bolton, and The Mocking" Bird Is Singing. Books donated to the library include Excuse My Dust, by Mrs. Bob Loftin; Kit Carson, by C. W. Oliver; The Apostle, by Mrs. J. D. Brandon, and Katherine, do nated by Mrs. Estelle English. Fellowship At State College Available Now For Women Tea additional fellowships val ued at $1070 each have been made available at State College to quali fied women by Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company, making a total of 30 fellowships offered this spring, it was announced yester day by Dr. W. G. Van Note, co ordinator of the Pratt and Whit ney Program at the College. Designed to prepare young women who have had no prior technical background for posi tions at engineering aides, the fellowships cover all tuition, fees,1 books, instruments, board, lodg ing, and laundry as well as giv ing an additional cash stipend of $25 per month. The course of stu dy includes fundamentals in mathematics, engineering draw ing, engineering physics, metal lurgy. aircraft engines, machine shop practices, experimental sta tistics, and .'mechanical engineer ing laboratory, Or. Van Note said. In accepting a fellowship, each fellow agrees to give Pratt and Whitney an option oh her services for a period of one year, Dr. Van Note explained. Upon entering the plant at the conclusion of the col lege program, monthly earnings will amount to approximately $130 and pay raises will be forth coming as experience and training proceed. « State College is the only school in the South providing the train ing. -, ■ > ; ■ , •-Details concerning the program may be obtained by writing to Dr. Van Note at State college. .. . -__-*— Wm. L. Odom, overseas. * Pvt. Milford Jackson, overseas. Pvt. Sam Helm, overseas. Mr3. G. E, Armstrong, Waco, .Texas.,:; 'V, ^ ■ '• ]ix j. H. Ezzell, route 4.'. G. L. Summerlin, route 2. Cpl. Liston Summerlin, overseas Thad S'troud, Seven Springs. Mrs. Bernice Jones, city. : Pvt. Bernice Jones*. Keesler tField, Miss. % Sgt. Willard Bundy, overseas. J'. C. Coker, route 1. B. C. Jurney, Fayetteville. W. H. Kornegay, city. Dan McCullen, Irvington, N. J. Renew Yovir Subscription to Tlie Tribute/ ' ■ Wf'MA 'V I I REV. B. E. DOTSON TO BE SPEAKER AT SEVEN SPRINGS Commencement Will Begin Friday Night With Music Recital Commencement exercises of the Seven Springs high school will be- , gin Friday night, May 12, at 8:30 when the music pupils of Mrs. James Loftin are presented in their recital, according to an an nouncement from T. O. Gentry, principal. On the following Sunday, May 14th, at 8:30 p.m. the baccalau reate sermon will be preached by the Rev. B. E. Oot.-on, pastor of the Mount Olive Presbyterian church. The class day exercises will be given on Monday, May 15th, at 8:30 p.m. The graduation exercises will be Wednesday, May 17th, at 8:30 p.m. The speakers for the gradu ation exercises will be the follow ing members of the senior class: Revalene Smith, Faith Price, Irene Sass; r, Sarah Potter and Alfred Bartlett. There are 25 graduates who are expected to receive dip lomas. CEILING DEMORALIZES STRAWBERRY MART Raleigh, May 5.—The state ag riculture department said today a “rather demoralized” condition had developed on the eastern Car olina strawberry markets because of the '$7.70 a crate ceiling that went into effect several days ago. Buyei’3, the department said, are paying the ceiling for both top grade berries and for those of less quality in an effort to meet their wholesale demand. Until the ceiling went into ef fect last week, some berries brought as high as $11 a crate. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL AT CALYPSO The annual Daily Vacation Bi ble school for children of the Ca lypso community, is being held this week, it was announced by Rev. B. E. Dotson, pastor of the Calypso Presbyterian church. The school is interdenominational, and is being held in the Calypso Bap tist church, and a cordial invita tion has been extended to all chil dren of the community to attend. The school will continue through this week and will conclude with a picnic, also at the Baptist church Friday evening at 7:30. SALUTATORIAN Miss Thelma Brock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Brock of the Bear Marsh community, will fin ish a college business course at Pineland college, S'alemburg, May 23, as salutatorian of her class. She was valedictorian of the class oi' 19-13 at Calypso high school. i Renew Your Subscription to The Tribune Draft Call* Fade For Men wver 26 FIELD TO TRAIN FIGHTER PILOTS L New Commander Has Taken Charge The Army Air Forces command at Seymour Johnson Field has now became the station for tie 123rd Army Air Forces Base Unit (fighter), .is was announced VV d nesday by officials from the field. Col. VV. i>. Howard has succeeded Brig.-Gen. Francis M. Brady as commanding officer of the field. The field will cone ntrate on the training of P-47 tighter pilots, a resulting reduction in the num ber of personnel assigned to t..e field for other activities, the col onel said. Colonel Howard is a native of Washington, D. C., and came to Goldsboro from Fort Sill, Okla. He attended George Washington University, and was a month,r of the District ot' Columbia bar. He was a member of the District of Columbia Guard. He was ordered with the Guard to the Mexican border in 11) 1G, and in 11)17 .'.as commission.d a second lieutenant. He served three years in the Phil ippine-. Since 11)37 lie has served at Fort Sill. Ralph Stevens, son of Mrs. C. H. Stevens, of Mount Olive, has just completed a sj.c.ial training school for members of the Naval Shore .Patrol in Norfolk, and has been promoted to the rank of first class petty officer, it has been announced. Stevens, who is a boatswain’s mate, has been transferred fro n the Norfolk station to Morehead City, and spent the week-end here with his family. He entered the service in September, IP id. Announcement bus been made of the promotion of Capt. Y. II. Kno.vles, son of Mr. ami Mrs. 0. H. Knowles, of Mount Olive, to the rank of major. Ilis wife J and youIV” daughter, Knglish Lee, | are now living in Ohio. Major - Knowles entered the army at Fort Bragg in November. 19-11. He has been on duty with a combat unit of the quartermas ter corps somewhere in Fngland for the past, six months. He at tended huh school in Mount Olive, and later graduated from V. M. 1. in Virginia. COTTON From August through February cottonseed oil production was more than one billion pounds; soy bean oil, 003 million; peanut oil. 03 million; and corn oil, 131) mil lion. Cotton is still king. GOING TO OUR YANKS OVERSEAS . Uncle Sam wants 15 billion board feet of boxing and crating this ear. Help win the war by selling your saw logs and pulpwood _ * ' ^ I • . v . ' • • . . .. ; < . - 'v V . . ■ i ♦ - - Jf Fewer Youths Are I Rejected, Induction » Quotas Reduced Chances that men over. 26 and in essential war work will be drafted faded still further yester day when Lewis B. Hershey, se lective service director, predicted Lhe pool of draft eligibles under 26 probably will last “until early fall.” Selective service has been mak ing its plans in anticipation that the under-26 group would be pret ty well exhausted by some time in July. Hershey said in an interview' at Baltimore, however, that draft calls during the last several months had not ueen as high as anticipated and that there had been fewer rejections among men under 2(1. Currently, selective service has a ban against induction of men 26 and over who are “making a con tri'oulion to essential agricultural, war production, or war-support ing activities.’’ Since this order went into effect April 8. some boards have stopped inducting any men over 26, a sur vey show's. State directors in Florida, Indi ana, and Delaware said none were being inducted, and Rhode Island draft ofii.ials said they did not ex pect to call any over 26 before July. iXevv York city raft officials aid no men over 26 had been in ducted there since the April 8 or der ox ept for a few volunteers, and the Nevada state board said it anticipate! none of the older men would be called in May. The order does not forbid in dention of men over 26 who are engaged in non-essential activi ties, and many local boards still are taking teem. The Nebraska state board, for instance, reported 10 per cent of calls since April 28 had been men 26 or over from non-essential work. Virtually all the state directors reached in the survey said local boards were under their jurisdic tion were following the national oj bur-U*4 he letter. In. many casts, bo.wvor, they interpreted it as permitting induction of delin quents and, as in New York city, were accepting volunteers over 26 without regard to employment. While national selective service ollicials said they considered the order a flat, nation-wide ban on indu.tion of older men in war-sup gurLing or essential activities, some boards apparently did not so interpret it. In North Dakota, induction of men over 2(i was stopped from A, ril S to May 1, but state head quarters instructed local boards io resume “normal inductions of men from 18 to 38” on May 1. Col. Claude C. Earp, Missouri draft director, said men 26 and over in farm and other essential occupations were “at the bottom of our draft lists and only a very few” wvre being called. Some boards in South Dakota were reported drafting men over 26 in essential industry when the man himself was not considered ess.ntial. Meanwhile selective service headquarters in Washington an nounced that there are 1,699,213 men under 26, whoss classilica tions are now being reviewed — not including those in 4-F—-but refused to estimate how many of these men will ultimately be in ducted and urged extreme caution in interpreting the figures. More Sheep To Arrive June 1 J. W. Thompson, Wyoming' sheep dealer, has informed Com missioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott that the first 1944 shipment of Wyothing-bred yearling ewes should arrive in North Carolina around June 1, Scott said and the first load would go to North Wilkesboro. He said the ewes this year' should cost the farmer $13 . per head, as compared with $14.60 each for ewfes imported last year. Annual Picnic of 20th Century Club The annual picnic of the Mount j Clive Twentieth Century club will be held Wednesday evening of this week, at 6:30, at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. •; Holmes. In case of rain, it was announced, the picnic will be held 'f, at the community building here ?. at the same hour. •
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