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ik: fe*s THE HOME NEWSPAPER FO&40 YEARS — — SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $2.50 PER 'MR, IN ADVANCE VOLUME NO. 41 MOUNT OLIVE, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1945 % Number 78 STIMSON SEES CALL FOR ALL ABLE MEN ~ 'JNDER 30 YEARS if War’s Turn Creates Stringency; Draft Program Outlined Stubborn' nazi determination to t fight to the finish, and unexpect ed speed in getting to grips with the Japanese, lie back of the de mand for tighter manpower con trols, War Secretary Stimson has reported. Averting at a recent news conference that "measured in terms of effectiveness, the army i« under strength,” Stimson said: ."If the needs of the armies at the front are to be met, there seema to be no escape from call ing into the. armed services dur ing this year, substantially all - physically qualified men below 30 yearn of age from factory, farm and government. But when we do this the places of these young men will have to be taken by old er men, women and younger men not acceptable' for military ser vice.” 'He insisted that the real solu tion is national eervhfe legisla r V rv i. , £ uun. The secretary’s explanation of the new manpower stringency was given while Col. Francis V. Keesling, Jr., testifying on “work or fight’’ legislation, was telling . the house military committee where selective service plans to get 900,000 young men for the armed forces by July 1. January and February draft calls, Keesling testified, will be 112,000 each—80,000 for the army and 32,000 for the navy—with the army quota going up to 100, 000 for the following four months to make the monthly total 132, 000. That build's up a six-months’ draft total of about 750",000 with the remainder of the' 900,000 ex pected to come from enlistments of youths is the navy and marine corps.-"',,-'-'" It is planned to .make up the draft totals, Keesling said, as fol lows: 240,000 youths becoming <18 years old: 180.000 men rofr classified1 ti; «80jM)O men not dv er 38 and holding industrial and * farm deferments. That last 330,000 is where , the -v 'power rub comes. testing broke down the avail j sources for them: 360,000 imder 26 deferred! for essential farm ttork, and 100,000 in indus try, including 60,000 in the mer chant marine; 800,000 between 26 and 30 deferred in industry and 265,000 on farms; 3,200,000 be tween 30 and 38 deferred in in dustry and 700,000 on farms. Those figures build' up a pool of only 1,525,000 in the under 30 age group. The services are staying aa far from older men as they can get, but unless that attitude is relaxed, the 330,000 men would +»lra more than one in five of the younger group. The selective service official en dorsed a bill by Representative May, Democrat, Kentucky, chair man of the military committee, which amounts to a work or fight law for men 18 to 45. The legis lation would -make men in those age- brackets liable for induction into army or navy work forces if they shift jobs without draft board approval. Keesling estimated that 18, 000,000 men are in the group.’ affected, including all those now deferred for physical defects, war protection and /war-supporting occupations. May expressed the hope that the bill can be sent to the house floor this week or early next week Testimony from labor organiza tions, plus the committee’s desire to hear from Lt Gen. William S. Knudsen, army procureifent chief; will continue the hearings into this week. LOCAL AIRMAN SEES ACTION IN RAID $V: p;'> flgfc Edward C. Hudson, 24, en gineer and top-turret gunner, aon of Mr*. Olvie J* Hudson, of Mount Olive, saw action in a recent large ecale assault on nasi marshalling yards at Darmstadt, Germany in the Ruhr valley. He was a mem ber of the combat lineup of the 8th air force as it increased the tempo of its .winter offensive in support of allied armies on the tern front, *aidl a dispatch . an 8th airforce bomber sta In England. • ' • > was on a fortress which Mfhed and bombed itn objective anJ returned home unscathed, aft er being in the flak spottedskies over Germany. Sergemit Hnfcons n-oup holds a presidential eita tion for it» skillful and daring attack on bnll bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germony, h» TjW* I' VA v >, * U'S V ■■■ ■ ■ .'WjAVVhVi -■ .. Bclwacd by V. S. Burwo of Pablie Relation*. 'HOLIDAY SHOPPING INPARIS—Costume jewelry in endless •variety is displayed in the shops in France and WACS and GIs found; . unique rifts for friends back home, WACS, of course, wear no; jewels on their uniforms. '. ?&V T . ,Yv» : wV\ - HERE’S WHERE ARMY1 WILL GET 1,600,000 f HEN BY JULY 1ST M Industry Also Needs 700,000 Workers for v; War-Supporting Jobs - • ..; ■•y-} The government says 700,000 persons are needed for war jo^s —and war supporting jobs—-ba-’ tween now and July 1. :'&/?$■] This came from Undersecretary' of War Patterson when he also disclosed the armed1 services need 900,000 men in the same period. That’s a total of ,1,600,000 pb* sons for fighting ahd working }>y the end of June. Where are fifegr coming from? ;■ ^ C * 4 Take the 700,000 needed t w: war work and war supporting jobs. When are they needed^ anir for what? . ^ This is the way government of ficials explain it: Right now about} 160,000 are needed for ‘‘must”: munitions plants making heavy ammunition, heavy guns, trucks, : heavy duty tires, and so on. ‘ And 100,000 ■ right nos' are needed in supporting activities: mining, transportation, utilities, cotton duck making and' other manufacturing. That’s 250,000 needed at once. The remaining 4du,uuu wiu oa needed before the end of dune, spread over the intervening time. The total needs of July 1 are about 500,000 in critical munitions plants and' 200,000 in war sup porting jobs; constructing new facilities, public utilities, trans portation and so on. '?//, They are coming largely frp)y‘, these four groups: Returning veterans. The arm/' is discharging about 70,000 months ly. (Not all. of them will go iow the jobs mentioned above. Sojrhe will. . 'Boys and girls who finish schto£ and go to work, and women who want work. There are about 500, 000 in this group—it does not in clude boys who reach 18 and' go into the armed cervices—but not all will go into war jobs. Men between 30 and 38 forced out of non-essential work into war jobs through fear of being drafted. This is a potent- threat. The' war manpower commission expecta to get workers through tighter ceilings—top limits—on the number of workers employers can hire. This skims off workers who can be placed where needed. NURSES SAID TO BE RUSHING RECRUITERS Believe Draft Law Net Necessary ' Belief that a drafting of nur ses may be averted, was reported growing Friday in Washington circles. 'Representative Bolton (D-Ohio) said that in a series of conferen ce with army, war manpower, 'nursing and congressional lead •ers i3he found them: - Hopeful that an intensified re cruitment program would elimi nate necessity for the draft. President Roosevelt requested the forced induction of nurses in ,to .tbqyaervice last week, declar ing .$6,000 are required, and "the meed Vise-too pressing to await the ohtcbifie of further efforts at re cruitment.” : Mrs. Bolton, who acts as an PtteffiOhsl’fepeKesman ort espitoIliiH for the nursing profession, re ported however, that there are "reports coming in from many areaa of a flooding of the recruit ment offices.” Stepped-up recruiting, she said, got off to a slow start in the pre holiday season, but "an upswing had been felt, even in the week ! preceding the president’s mess age.” . ARMY GOING AHEAD WITH HOME LEAVES ,v Some of Boys Don’t to Leave Fight /V.Detfpite the German counterof fensive’ and subsequent allied at U. S. Army is going 'ahead irith its schedule of home ^aves fbr soldiers who have been 'tfdCQrataft twice or wounded twice, ')£ ptyeddqre followed by the 82nd ’htfboft^iviBion is any indication. a week *8° MaJ. Gen. u&meir Savin, commaner of the di vision. said he had shipped home tiie second batch of his men just (wo days previously. “It may sound corny, hut it is literally true that some of the hoys didn’t want to go home — at least not at that particular mo ment,” a staff officer said. V “They were naturally reluctant to leave their buddies to do so when those guys were tangling with the Germans in a whale of a fight” : Renew Your Subscription ADVOCATING STIFF PENALTIES IN WORK OR FIGHT MEASURE Congress Does Not Want to U|e Men in Work Battalions _____ ... i Congressional ideas on how to handle men who wton’t work or fight shifted Fridajr toward crim inal penalties, rather than the use of sttch men iff military w.ork | battalions. j This developed* amid signs of delay in consideration of limited national service legislation. Chairman May } (J>-Ky) who earlier had set Friday as the last day for hearings on his work or fight bill aimed,, at men between 18 and* 45, said thaft further pub lic hearings have been scheduled by the house military committee for this week. •• 1 Monday the' ocufffnittee was to hear spokesmen for the American Federation; today iff will listen to Philip Murray, head of CIO, ond whose organization {was to deter mine its stand' on the bill over the weekend. i uway repuncu umv niaujr mem berg of his committee believe the army-navy work units proposed in hks measure (for min who refuse to accept or retain Jobs necessary in the war effort) should not be set up. >• Instead, ne explained, there is growing sentiment fpr legislation to make these men /liable to the penalties now provided by the draft law— a fine of $>10,000 and five years imprisonment—if they will neither work nor fight. “Judge Patterson, ‘i undersecre tary of war, testified that the army doee not want .or need the units, although it is grilling to ac cept them," May said. Rep. Kilday , (D-Tefc) ha3 writ ten amendments to ‘the bill to extend' benefits of »the soldiers and Bailors civil relief act and the reemployment priority pro tection of the draft law to men who are drafted under the May bill. ; ; J. HENRY KSS DIED THURSEA Funeral Services Conducted Friday Following an extended period of ill health, J. Henry Best, 68, died at his home two miles north west of Mount' Olive, Thursday afternoon of last iweek. Following funeral services Fri day afternoon, held from* the 'home and' conducted by the Rev. B. E. Dotson, interment was in the iBest cemetery, near Dobbersville. Surviving are two sons, Hoeea 'Best of Benson, and Hoover Best of Mount Olive; and three daugh ters, Mrs. Esther Thompson of Benson, and Mrs. Lizzie Whitman and Miss Eva Best of Mount Ol ive; one brother, Noell Best of Mount Olive; and one sister, (Mrs. iSarah Pennington of Dobbersville. Several grandchildren also sur vive. ' ~DkeJ4i onor W. S,. Casey, route 3. Adrain Dail, Calypso. Mib. &van Rouse, route 3. Mrs.' Lillie Cobbs, city. M. K. Cobbs, Atlanta ■Bill Byrd, route 4. Mrs; S.-C. Taylor, Jacksonville, Fla Frank Mozingo, Goldsboro. Mrs. J. W. Pearman, Summer field: Henry King, city. Mrs. W. K. Shields, Asheville. (Mrs. J. C Stephenson, route 4 B. W. Jones, route 1. Australian Women GuaiBSeai^lightil ^ J^ | On the crest of a coastal mountain in Northern Australia, a group of Australian servicewomen man an anti-aircraft 1 fearchlight battery and mount their own sentry over the installations. These searchlights have not had to pinpoint Jap, raiders since the girls took over but they have swung into action on several occasions to lead in battle-weary fliers who. have lost their bearings. During the height of the Japanese invasion menace to Australia, there were 98 enemy air raidM on the Australian mainland. OUTLAWS LEARN OF SON’S EXPLOITS ' 106 Germans Fell Victim of Soldier Virtually every member of Rooty iBranch Free Will Baptist church, including the pastor, Sun day greeted iMr. and Mrs. L. D. 'Outlaw with newspapers proclaim ing the feat of their son, who kill ed 1&0 Germans and captured six in a six-day siege near Rimling, France. The Outlaws learned about his exploits early Sunday morning at their home 10 miles east of here when a neighbor carried a paper fA thorn •K *1* I)!»” as-PVt-Leon " Depree Outlaw, Jr., is known here, has been in service since April 6, 1944 and in that time suffered a brok en ankle on two occasions. At Ft. McClellan, Ala., shortly after he was inducted, a jeep ran over him and broke his ankle. After finishing his infantry train ing he joined the paratroops and on his seventh jump he broke the came ankle. In November, 1944, his family received his APO address, and on December 6, 1944, he wrote from France, saying that he hoped his family had gotten their wood' cut for the winter. Private Outlaw wore out one machine-gun and fired over 5,000 rounds of ammunition in repelling numerous German attacks from a ridge 700 yards from where the Germans poured over another ridge. “They were so thick you could n’t very well miss,” Private Out law said. RETURNS HOME Pvt. Rodney Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Price of Mount Olive, returned home Saturday afternoon from five months over seas, during which he saw service in France, Luxembourg and Ger many. v Parsonage Aid to Meet The Methodist Parsonage Aid society will meet at the parsonage here Thursday afternoon at 2:30. Bethel church will be hostess and all members are urged' to attend. ) - BP- Try ■ '"T—!—: SCRAP PAPER DRIVE SUNDAY All citizens of Mount Olive are asked to cooperate whole heartedly in the scrap paper drive which will be held in Mount Olive on Sunday, Jan uary 21, between 1 and 2 p. m., according to a statement this week by Ed Hester, chair man of the drive, which is being sponsored again by the local Lion’s club. Most householders are al ready aware of ‘ the acute shortage of paper and paper products, and ipasmuch as scrap paper can be processed and used again, it is the duty of all citi^ens^.tft, .gaUier _ «p alt waste papers,- magazines and other scrap papers for such purposes, Hester said. Citizens are asked to tie the paper in bundles, or pack it in cardboard boxes,and put it convenient for members of the Lions club, who will call for it in trucks. Associated with Hester on the scrap drive com mittee is George L. Flowers. CASUALTY REPORT PROMISED SOON To Give Figures on German Offensive Secretary of War S'timson, as serting that the army has with held no casualty figure1, promis ed a report this week on Ameri can losses during the December phase of the German counterof fensive in Belgium. He released figures over the weekend showing that army cas ualties since Pearl Harbor have reached 564,351 on the basis of reports corhpiled in 'Washington through December 29. These fig ures, he said, reflect actual cas ualties two or three weeks ear lier. The German drive in Belgium and Luxembourg began Decem ber 16. The army’s casualties,, togeth er with the latest announced na vy total of 82,029, pushed' total casualties for the armed forces to ’646,380, an increase _6f 8,241 over the last tally. The army in crease amounted to 7,999 and the navy’s to 242. - i "ii.' ul * i i' wi • ' i mZuTntf Iffl ■ Pvt. Harold L. Stone, Jr., Gulf port, Miss., 20. smiles because War Bonds healed his arm, frac tured by a ballet in France. He bad been searching booses for Nasi and was crawfln* oat to es* cape-enemy shelling when the bhbmh Sergi, Norris Pendergrass, Rosebnrr, Ore., XI, suffered a broken leg, broken jaw and flask fsgnds when Nasi threw a grenade Into tank hi which he was riding. AH his wounds are mend* ing satisfactorily because War Bends provided him with, the host medical ear* overseas and In "■ ->-.***=--w---/;>>«\ rj Permanently washed out of the war when a > rifle grenade blew up close to his left foot In Prance, P.P.C. Martin GrubanowKch, 20, Mil wankee, Wise., of the Rangers says War Bonds gre the best Investment people can male. They ■ are restoring him to mttri usefulness. Be If says Iwy War Bends, r" ‘ Hit in the heed and leg by mor tar shell fragments while taking a hill, Pvt. Robert B. Graham, Pontiac, Mich., 26, says he is glad itoople buy War Bonds. They sup plied treatment for those wounds » and his fractured humerus. ? ™ , -,C/. S. Trw»ry Dtparfmntf >. 1 COUNTY AGENTS ARE PUNNING TO GIVE DEMONSTRATIONS To Expand Field Work Despite War Time Conditions County agente are planning to expand their work with field crops this year in spite of the extra work which war time con ditions have placed on them, says Enos Blair, extension agronomist at State college. Plans submitted from the ilOO counties in North Carolina by the agents show that 2,452 field' crop de.mpnsjvatipne are • planned compared with 1,034 last year. The increase will come with such crops as grains, legumes and pas tures. Corn leads all other crops with a total of 575 demonstrations to show how average yields of com in North Carolina may be great ly increased when a five-point program of improved' practices is put -into operation. There will be 440 farm-wide ro tations for increased yield*, soil conservation and control of dis eases and insects. In 4-H Club activities the number of agronomy participants ie put at 7,862 as compared with 5,596 in 1944. Here again corn leads with 4,421 demonstrations, and tobacco in second place with 1,159 projects. In addition to the 4-H Club demonstrations, the county age-its also expect to advise 127,000 growers in connection with their plans for increased yieldts and' better quality of field crops. CALYPSO BOY WINS BRAVERY MEDAL The War Department hais an nounced from Washington that tho Bronze Star, for bravery, has been awarded to six North Carolinians recently. Among1 those receiving the medal were: T-5 Ivey H. Martin (then Pfc.) 6f the infantry, from Calypso, and' Pfc. James A. Jones, of tho infantry, from Goldsboro. REPORTED MISSING iSgt. Ira H. Cobb, son of Mrs. I. H. Cobb and the late Mr. Cobb, of Mount Olive, has been report ed' miseing in action with the in fantry in Germany. Sgt. Cobb has been overseas for the past several mohths, and was recently promot ed from private to sergeant. He saw action in Italy, as well as France and Germany. ■Cobb was missing since action December U4, and had recently been awarded the purple heart for wounds received in action, and had sent the medal to his mother here.".. .... _ Return to Homes Mrs. J. C. Martin has returned to her home here after being a patient in the Goldsboro hospital. Mrs. Mac Blackmon ha» re turned to her home on route 1, * Faison from the Goldsboro hospi- , tal, where she' received treat ment, - v :. vjrsF;£;i Renew Your Subscripttoil to The Tribune i * Ife M
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