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;- -1 '"' K I - WEATHER FORECAST MONROE MARKET Cotton, short, lb .. . .19V4e to 21 He Cotton, long, lb .. .. 28140 to 80He Cotton Seed, bushel 79V4e Eggs, dozen 42o Corn, bushel $1.50 Wheat, bushel $140 Cloudy tonight; Tuesday, fair and continued cool, Sunset today, 6:12 p. m.; sunrise Tuesday, 8:13 a. m. PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS tSEVENTY-FIRST YEAR MONROE, N. C, UNION COUNTY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1943 3-MONTHS, 75c; 6-MONTHS, $1.25 SEMI-WEEKLY, $2.00 A YEAR . p , I w mot "tp nsiF Berliners Ga On Tired Feet City Desolate And Without Transportation, Water Or Power NAZIS LEAVE BERLIN The aerial bombardment of Berlin Is regarded by some German military men as part of an Allied plan to crush the nerve center of .the Belch as a prelude to Invasion of Europe from the west and south, a dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper Allehanda said last night. A third of Berlin Is already crushed. At the same time the newspaper Aftontidnlgen said that, with Berlin residents facing worse days of hard ship after a week of aerial warfare, there were unconfirmed reports that a general evacuation was proposed if the bombardments continued. Neutral correspondents previously have report ed the Germans are convinced the capital will be the target for more heavy RAP assaults. The Berlin correspondent of the Al lehanda said that the Germans "await an invasion of the continent in the wake of the offensive against Berlin. The Germans also note, he said, the American daylight aerial assaults against France. Even before ithe RAP began its con centrated attack on Berlin the capital had been listed as a "forbidden city" by the Reich hosulng commissioner in a decree dated Octomer 26. Under the order persons living outside of Berlin were prohibited from moving to the city without express permission. Other cities listed in the decree as having a housing shortage as the re sult of air raids Included Dessau, Duesseldorf, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mag deburg, Mainz, Muenchengladbach, Neuss, Remscheid, Rheydt, Solingen, Viersen, Vienna, Wuppertal, and Zop pot. Neutral correspondents said German officials have despaired of Immediately rehabilitating Berlin and likely were already performing the nation's ad ministrative functions from other points in Germany. The burned and blackened city's sirens were silent last night for the first time in six, but bomb-dazed Ber liners, convinced that the decision to level their city was reached at the Moscow conference, experienced even greater airborne destruction to follow. Swedish, correspondents telegraphed from the stricken capital that Nazi officials will concentrate on restoring the bare services essential to war and factory workers. They emphasized that food distribution, transportation, and water and power facilities are still paralyzed. Descriptions of life within the shat tered metropolis continued to trickle out, meanwhile, typical of scenes with in a city wrecked by earthquake, tidal wave, storm, or great Are. Tlergarten park has been converted into a tent city, where women prepare meals under rugs suspended between trees. Great areas are dead. Flats with walls still standing are unlighted, and their occupants wear hats and over coats to keep warm. Boards and paper hold back the gusts of cold wind from gaping window openings. People with candles are considered extremely for tunate. One correspondent wrote that Ber liners have started walking to work as early as 3 and 4 o'clock in the morn ing because of the stalled transport system. The streets are jammed until 6 p. m., he said, but after that, when the people .throng into shelters for the night, they are deserted. OPA GIVES RULES ON HOG SLAUGHTERING Cites Regulation Covering Killing And Consumption Of Heat. Since It is now hog-killing time over most of the South, OPA has again re peated the regulations under which a farmer may use the meat which he owns, after It is slaughtered, without exchanging rationing points. Meat produced bya farmer who lives on his far can, of course, be consumed by members of his household, point free. If a person who operates a farm but does not live on it, may still re ceive the meat for consumption by his household point free it: (1) He supervised the raising of that meat by - visiting the farm at least one-third of the days the animals were being raised, or (2) He purchased the animal at least 60 days before slaughter and visited the farm at least one-third of the days during this period to super vise the raising of the animal. SERVICE FLAGS WILL HONOR V. S. WAR DEAD T Be Issued To Nearest Relative Of Soldier. . . A flag of the United States will be presented, as a service emblem, to the nearest relatives of men ' and under a congressional resolution signed by president Roosevelt. The President also has Issued an Executive order, the White House an nounced Saturday, atuhorizlng the HoflvtArv of War to issue citations In the Presidents name to army units for outstanding performance in action. The Secretary of the Navy already has this authority. ;. V Army units, under the order, win be given streamers or ether emblems display. - In addition, officers land en listed men oz cnea units wiu ne al lowed to wear an emblem on their uniforms. v . '. ". Nelson reports October plant output record. 8462 for war ate. ; Martin Mars, largest flying boat, W fainuwi over to the Navy, . . ' Commission Names Ship For Late Ney McNeely A new Liberty ship to be launch ed aboat January 16, at Brunswick, Ga., will bear the name' of the late New McNeely of Monroe, It was announced by the Maritime Com mission In Washington, Saturday. The name of Mr. McNeely, was suggested several weeks ago, by J. Ray Shuts, Chairman of the Union County Board of Commissioners and by Congressman W. O. Burgin of this district. Mr. McNeely lost his life Deoem ber 30, 1915, while en route to Aden to become American consul. He was aboard the British ship CSS Penia when it was torpedoed In the Mediterranean. A native of Jackson township, Mr. McNeely was prominent in North Carolina politics, having erved In the lower House and also In the Senate. The ship will be launched at the J. A. Jones shipyard at Brunswick, Georgia. Yule Shopping Opens In City Stores Report Excellent Salei As Shoppers Crowd Stores FOR HOLIDAY VALUES Monroe merchants who were busy all last week unpacking and placing on display, their stocks of Christmas merchandise, report excellent sales during Friday, as the Christmas shop ping season opened and unusuay neavy sales in some stores on Saturday. when stores were crowded to capacity with early Christmas shoppers. While many of the. usual Items ob tained for Christmas gifts are not now available due to war-time restric tions on civilian goods, most mer chants have expressed themselves as being happy that the present outlook is much brighter than It was a few. months ago and they assure the shop pers that ample stocks of merchandise are now on hand or will be delivered In time for Yule gifts. In line with wartime restrictions, too, the merchants and the Monroe Merchants Association did not spon sor a formal Christmas opening and celebration, as the government has requested all special activities of this kind be suspended for the duration, lny order that electricity, time, and manpower might be saved. Monroe merchants expect more ear lier buying this season than in years before, due to the statement of postal officials that packages must be mailed prior to December 10, to insure de livery by Christmas day. DEFERRED UNION BOY RENDERS REAL SERVICE George Price Of Monroe, Route 2, Is Fighting On The Home Front (By T. J. W. Broom, County Agent) j Inquiries from fathers who have sons in the army as to what those boys who have been deferred to do agricultural work, and placed in 2-C, or 3-C, are doing are being received at the county agent's office. Are they rendering the service required of them? Since their boys are putting themselves up to be shot at, and of fering their lives for their country, they have a right to expect that the boys that are being deferred to pro duce food for the support of the ar mies in the field, are doing their part as heroically and as self sacrtflcingly, as are their bows in the army. And on the otherhand, the 2-C or 3-C boy, who its doing an outstanding Job In the work assigned to him, should be given recognition for faithful and he roic service and that the facts should be given publicity, in order that prop er appreciation be accorded him. With this in mind, we give here the activities of George Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Price, Route 2, Monroe, who is 20 years of age, and in class 2-C. George has a brother in the army and did not want to ask for deferment, but his father thought it best for George to remain at home and assist In the farm work. So ap plication was made for deferment, and it was granted. Mr. Price has 103 acres in cultiva tion on his farm, and he has four children at home, George, age 20; Briggs, age 16; Chattie ,a daughter,' age 13, and Landls, a daughter, age 11. Mr. Price Is 66, and his wife 52. No other help was on the farm. Hired help in picking cotton all other work was done by Mr. Price and the two boys. ' The power was all tractor pow er,. including preparation of the land, planting, fertilising, cultivating; and harvesting. George had previously taken a mechanical course and course In welding while studying vo catlonal agriculture, and was able to keep machinery In repair. On his farm 25 bales of cotton were produced, ' averaging SO Opounds or more, all the seed were sold. Five hundred and nine bushels of wheat were sold from the farm, and there is now enough on the farm, to last until another harvest. There are now, 1,000 bushels of oats on the farm, and 1,000 bushels of corn, and ISO tur keys.: These turkeys are for market Fifty bushels of soybeans. Mr. Price has sold 9973.60 worth Of chickens and brokter .from January 1 to November 1, and $103.60 worth of eggs during these months. He now has 650 bens that are producing is doaen eggs per day. In beef cattle, he has sold 1370 pounds on the hoof, one milk cow and calf and fix pork hogs on the hoof, total weight W7 pounds. Devers says the land fighting 'will be the hardest of tn war, , January Draft Calls 300,000 " r WAC Enlistment Failure Is Cause For Increased Quotas CALL IS DOUBLED The Army's draft call for January is to be twice the figure the War Man Power commission has been expecting, it was learned today, and as a result i the combined Army-Navy call will ap proximate 300,000 men. This Is about the present monthly figure, as contrasted with previous indications that calls would begin dropping after the first of the year. The expanding Navy never expect ed to reach top strength until well along in 1944, and the Army, it was reported authoritatively, wont be at Its expected peak strength of 7,700,000 men by January 1, for two main rea sons: 1. The WAC enlistment drive has been disappointing. (The Army is pleased with the performance of its women soldiers and is willing to take hundreds of thousands, but only about 60,0000 have enlisted to date.) 2. Draft boards are lagging so far behind their quotas they may be un able to catst up even by the end of January. Uncertainly over what Congress would do about the drafting of pre-war fathers caused many boards to delay calling them. The general expectation, bolstered by War department testimony on Cap itol Hill, had been that the Army would need only replacements after the first of the year. The number of replacements, how ever, is one of the great question l marks 0f the war, since it depends on how many casualties the services will suffer. GOODS STOLEN FROM LOCAL STORES IS FOUND Merchandise Taken From Be Iks And Penney's Found In Charlotte. Three colored women of Winston -Salem were tried in Recorder's court here Friday morning on charges of stealing goods valued at $164.50 from two local stores, Belk Brothers and J. C. Penney Co., on last Tuesday. Judge P. Hayne Johnson bound them over to Superior court, with bonds set at $200 each which they gave. The Monroe thefts were one of a series of exploits during the day, when the trio started out from Winston Salem and made a day of It by hitting Concord first, then Monroe, Lancaster and Rock Hill, S. C, raiding seven firms and taking merchandise valued at $408.76. Late In the afternoon of their event ful day they were stopped on the Pineville road four miles south of Charlotte by Mecklenburg rural police God rum and Smith, for speeding. On looking through the car 'the officers became suspicious and opened up the contents and promptly discovered a large quantity of merchandise, in clusive of wearing apparel, bed spreads, curtains and other articles. One wom an a vuhl ui uie lui, was vaiuea hi. $98.75. All the merchandise was re- covered, and all of it was returned to its owners in exchange for receipts after they Identified it. Firms thus recovering goods In cluded J. C. Penney company, Monroe; Belk Bros., Monroe; Belk Bros, Rock Hill, S. C; Collins Department Store, Lancaster, S. C; Belk's Department Store, Lancaster, S. C; Belk's Depart ment store, Concord, and J. C. Penney Company, Concord. The women under arrest were book as Ida May Steele, 724 White street, Susie Pendleton Cowan, 127 North Chamberlain avenue, and Lucille White, 729 East Seventh street, all of Wins ton -Salem. They are being charged with larceny. Concord Chief of Police Willis Jes sup and merchants from the city agreed to permit the defendants to be tried first in Monroe, the city in which the largest amount of merchan dise was obtained. Concord Is to be the next place for arraignment of the trio. Detainers are being filed to assure later trial of the defendants in Rock Hill and Lan caster, S. C. Chiefs of police from all four cities were summoned by Chief Severs, and agreement in re gard to the order of trials was reach ed at a conference In which they and representatives of the mercantile firms participated. MEN ACCEPTED FROM LOCAL BOARD NO. 2 List Gives Names Of Men Entering Army, Navy And Marine Corps, The following men entered the ser vices during the month of November from Local Board No. 2. with ten men ,men accepted for the Navy, while 17 white men and four colored men were Inducted Into the Army and two were accepted by the Marine Corps: Navy: Arthur Leamon Lowery, Ba ran De Berry Smith, Johnle Hamilton Small, Shelby Rummamge, Carlton OdeD. Ferguson, Marvin Beniser Mc Rorte, Jack Simpson, Myron 3. Bras- well. Everette Ney Halgler, Luther Per- ney .witUams, Jr. Army: Cloy Lee Helms; Dowd Whit field Price, Bill William Staton, Hartis Blair Medlin, Edwin Dallas Marsh, Bruce Harding Boswell, Jason Snyder, William Hayne Howard. Heath Clyde Mills,' John Henry Williams, Milton Riley Williams, John Robert B'egall, Leroy Devi Preslar, Kills Boyd Aycock, James Harold Howard, Haskell May Helms, J. V. Griffin, -Jr. Marine Corps: Fred Vander Griffin, Ayer Wsrd Whitley Duncan. The following colored men were ac cented bv the Army during the month: Oscar L. Smith, Leroy Davis, Roy Cain, Samuel Crowder. THE LATE WAR NEWS IN BRIEF Russia Beds gain in offensive to entrap 300,000 Nazis north of Gomel Take ISO villages of Gomel-Minsk railway. Repulse enemy in Korosten and Zhitomir sectors. Mediterranean American Fiftfi now commands secondary road leading through German line at Volturno. British Eighth extends Sangro river bridgehead. Good weather aids Allies. Aerial Flying Fortresses blast Nazi communications in northern Italy and Yygoslavia; fierce air fighting ensues, with seven enemy lanes and two Fortresses lost. German Fortresses lost Germans thwarted in bomb-dropping over Britain. Balkans Partisan forces thrust Nazis back southeast of Flume. Western Europe Berlin quiet overhead. Nasi propaganda prom ises reprisals for five-day air raid devastation. Neutral correspon dents say no hope for restoration of Berlin to working order. Pacific Mac Arthur Reports Jap anese cruiser explodes when bomb ed off New Ireland; American bombers sweep Jap bases in New Guinea. Union County's Men In Service William Jack Helms son of Theodore C. Helms, Unionvllle, recently gradu ated from the Aviation Machinist's Mate School at the U. 3. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., and was promoted to Seaman First Class in the U. S. Navy. Entering the Navy March 11, 1943, he received his re cruit training at Bainbridge, Md., before being transferred to the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Jacksonville. He Is now a qualified Rviaition mechanic and will probably see service with a Naval Air Unit. Pvt. George Crook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Crook of R2. Monroe, is spending a 20-day furlough. Pvt. Crook has recently returned from Africa, where he had been stationed for 'the past five months. Paul R. Flowe, Jr., S 2-c, is spend ing a ten-day furlough with his par ents, after having completed his "boot" training at Bainbridge, Md. He will return to his post on December 1. Pvt. James H. Helms left last Fri day for Fort Meade. Md. He has been spending a few days with his wife, Mrs. Helms and their parentns, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Helms of Route 2, Monroe, and Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pope of Rl, Wingate. He has just finished his basic training and is enroute from Fort McClellan, Ala., to Fort Meade, Maryland. In reporting the honor that had come to Gunner's Mate Carl Lee Wolfe for heroic astlon at Murmansk, The Enquirer made an error at to his family relations. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Wolfe of Monroe. His father, it will be recalled was killed while driving in his buggy on the Waxhaw road by an automobile during maneuvers. His sister. Miss Daisy Mae Wolfe, formerly of Monroe, now lives in Lancaster. First Lieutenant John S. Griffin, formerly of Marshville, has been ap pointed group adjutant at' a fighter station somewhere in the European war theater. He was graduated from Marshville. high school in 1928, and attended TJNC, where he was president of ithe Jnior class and secretary of the Student Council, ' and belonged to Alpha Phi Omega, Lambda Chi Alpha and Sigma Zeta fraternities. He was an accountant before entering the ser vice. His wife is the former Miss Edith M, Dollar of Yreka, Calif. Pvt. Heath V. Smith of Camp Arair, Oregon, is expected home on a few days frlough. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edd Smith of Route 3, Monroe. His address is Pvt. Heath V. Smith, 34437023, Med. Det. 362 Inf, APO No. 91, Camp Adair, Oregon. Pfc. Horace B. Smith, who Is in the infantry, U. S. Army, has been trans ferred from Shreveport to Camp Clai borne, La. Mrs. W. B. McManus and son, Wil liam, of Wolf Pond road are visiting her son and wife. Master Tech. Sgt. E. N. McManus and Mrs. McManus and Mrs. McManus at New River, N. C. Petty Officer Cyrus F. Bean, Jr., of the U. S. Naval air corps, Melbourne, Fla., came Wednesday morning to spend a ten days' leave with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Bean, on Washington street. He will leave here for his new station In Atlantic City, New Jersey. CpL Naven C. Funderburke and Pfo Pallord, who are stationed at M. P. Det. Sub. Sect. No. 3, Fort Jackson, S. C spent Thanksgiving with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Funderburke of Route S, Monroe. Awi&tlnn Cadet Robert E. Helms. Jr.. son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Helms, is stationed in the Naval Training Sta tion, Glenvlew, 111. He . is getting along nicely now, following an opera tion on his knee. - Seaman .Alex . Vann has returned from five months in foreign service with the XT. 8. Navy merchant Ma rines. He Is spending a furlough with his mother, Mrs. X C. M. Vann on Griffith road. .. ... . tA. TJnwood Brooks, stationed In Lakeland, Fla, with tt army air corps- is spending a few days' leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob a Brooks, here, and mends in Rai- Senators Seek Subsidy Truce Small Bloc Hopes To Split Strong Opposition With Compromise WOULD REOPEN ISSUE Any Sentate consent to continuation of food subsidy payments apparently , hung Saturday on efforts of a small Democratic bloc to split strong opposi-, tlon ranks with a compromise that : would permit outlay of the funds for a limited period and a restricted i amount. While administration dleutenants (fanned that faint hope vigorously,) Majority Leader Barkley, Democrat of eKntucky, called for a public air ing of the controversy "so the people will get the full story." Farm block leaders confident of outright defeat of President Roosevelt's price sbsidy program pressed, how ever, for a quick vote on the House approved bill which, afteh December 31, would ban government payments to keep down retail food prices. Meantime, the group of Democratic senators were striving to win over farm bloc spokesmen to the compro mise proposal although no specific subsidy ceiling or time limit for the program had been decided. Administration contentions that food prices would soar if Congress pro hibits subsidies sounded to Senator Aiken, Republican of Vermont, "live a threat to let consumer prices sky rocket and then to blame Congress." The ' President told Congress a month ago that of ithe $800,000,000 sub sidy cost this year, $350,000,000 was for maintaining support prices to farmers and the remainder to roll back or sta lillze retail prices of certain commo dities such as meat, butter, bread and milk. There is no general demand for an increase in all farm prices," Aiken asserted. Chairman Wagner, emocrat of NDew York, of the Senate banking committee said subsidy opponents had proposed that hearings on the House bill be limited to "a day or two" but that he would insist upon full hearings that probably would last a week. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones and Price Administrator Ches ter Bowles will head the administra tion witnesses appearing against the subsidy ban. Far organization spokes men will open the hearings Tuesday. Mayor La Guardia of New York and a group of other mayors supporting subsidies are scheduled to be heard Friday. I Barkley declined to comment on the reporxea aaminisu auuu cuhipjwhioc move, saying he wanted to "wait and see what happens in the hearings." Democratic subsidy supporters in dicated they were counting strongly on the backing of organized labor at the Senate hearings to neutralize some of the program. BAPTIST CHOIR WILL RENDER "THE MESSIAH" I Program To Be Given Sunday Eve ning, December 5, At 7:30 O'clock. For the second time in the city's musical history, a portion of George Frederick Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah" will be presented, Sunday evening, December 5th at 7:30 by the choir of the First Baptist church, with Henry Hall Wilson, directing. Mr. Wilson is now in the armed services but is expected to arrive Thursday to spend some time with his parents and assist in the rendition of the oratorio. "The Messiah" was composed in the year 1741 in twenty-four days between August 22 and September 14. It was first given for charitable purposes in Dublin, Ireland, on April 13. 1743, with Handel conducting the performance In person. At the first London performance, March 23, 1743, when the "Hallelujah" was reached, King George II and the entire audience arose and thus started a custom which has been observed to this day. Tho nrntrram this vear will Include another chorus and several additional --- j i arias. Music lover s of the city and this section, will look forward to Acnin hearing this excellent musical . program and a large gawienng is e pected to witness the performance. GOLF TOURNAMENT AT MONROE COUNTRY CLUB First Of The Winter Season W1U Be Held On December 5. The first golf tournament of the j winter seasono will be held at the , Mnnmo Country Club on December 5th satafk mmervisor of the Soldiers' Recreation Program of Monroe will have charge of the tournament and his organization, sponsored by the Monroe Park and Recreation commis sion, will give five prizes to the win ners. It will be a handicap tournament, open to civilians and soldiers with prises for tow gross, low net scores and to the runner up. In a handicap tournament all players have an equal chance. File your entries by calling Mrs. Washburn at the Country Club, telephone 615, or Mr. Stack at the Soldiers Recreation Program office, tel ephone 553. elgh. His brother, Seaman 2nd class Jacob C. Brooks, Jr, who is taking an electrical course, with the U. 8. Navy, Bainbridge, ML, arrived Satur day night for a short visit with his parents. PvL John Dickerson who has been taking his basic training at Camp i Hood, Texas, will some tonignt to spend his furlough here with ' his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Dtckerson and other relatives. Stores Will Observe Holi day Monday, December 27 At a meeting of the Opening and Closing Hours and also Holiday committee, Wednesday afternoon in the Merchants Association office the committees set the opening and closing hours for stores during the holiday, shopping season and also decided that Monday, December 27, following Christmas, would be ob served as a holiday, since Christ mas, this year is on Saturday. The committees voted that on Wednesday and Thursday, Decem ber 22-23, Dry Goods, Hardware, Furniture, Auto Supply Stores and Jewelry stores will remain open until 8 o'clock, with each merchant setting the hour for closing his store on Christmas eve. The Five and Ten Cent stores will remain open Friday, December 17th, until 7 p. m., and the following week, each evening until 8 o'clock, ex cept Christmas Eve, when later hours wil Ibe observed. More Coupons Validjfov. 30 New Fuel Oil Allowances Made As Stamp Periods Are Announced SITUATION UNCHANGED ine opa baturday prepared for Dealers and others holding new or winter in these parts bv announcing I used vehicles, including passenger cars, that coupons for fuel oil periods 2icommercial vehicles or motorcycles, j u , for resale will be required to file an and 3 become valid November 30. over- j lnventory with tnelr ration boards of lapping the period 1 coupons which became valid last July and which expire January 4. The OPA authorities conferred with the Office of Civilian Requirements, and the Petroleum Administrator for War, and decision was reached to al low the 10 gallon par value to con tinue for class four coupons, and the decision to hold the coupons at their old values applies to the larger allow ances also, it was said. The ruling against cutting coupon values indicates that supplies of fuel oil are, at least, adequate in ithe same sense that they were adequate last winter. The situation so far would appear to be no worse than was ex pected, the OPA officials said. The decisions of the three government agencies, however. Indicates that the oil situation is far from rosy and does not Justify Increase coupon val ues. The coupons involved In the new orders are numbers 2 and 3 on the class 4, 5, and 6 coupons sheets used by consumers. The class 4 sheets are used mostly by small householders for heat and hot water, and will have the value of 10 gallons each The class 5 coupon sheets, used by larger consumers, will be valid at 50 galons each. The class 6 coupons are allowed for volume users of fuel oil, such as apartment house owners and operators of commercial establish ments, and each coupon will be val ued at 250 gallons. The system by which the period one coupons remain in force long after the new series becomes valid was adopted to eliminate many of the small delivery problems encountered in the industry last year. MOTORISTS MUST FORE GO, 'DRIVING AS USUAL' (Editor's Note: The Enquirer pre sents today ithe first of four articles prepared in cooperation with the De partment of Information of the Office of Price Administration on the gaso line situation as it affects civilian ra tioning. The artcles are based on authortative information summarized from official reports by Ave govern ment agencies dealing with the gaso lina problem and are presented so the public may know the true facts.) Civilian motorists need not, expect to "drive as usual" as long as the war lasts. This prediction, draws from data compiled by five government agencies, is maae piaui ui a mui "u nuw.- suPmmary of facts on civilian pA is made plain In a frank and autnori - , ; w and comnre- to eive the public a clear and compre henslve picture of the gasoline situ. nHnn Unonco rf thp VippH nf lcPPO- inn certain military secrets", this has not always been possible in the past, t-. hir,o nPA'e iimmrv dis- closed that the sinking of 14 tankers bound for North Africa was responsi hlp for last winter's fuel oil and .gaso- I line shortage in the eastern area. This easolina was vital to the Mediterra- nean campaign which had reached a critical -stage and replacement had to be found and shipped at once. The only supplies iwithin quick reach were the Atlantic coast stocks build up for civilian use. The government had the alternative of taking these stocks for Immediate overseas shipment, and thereby causing a severe shortage for civilians, or to seek replacmements farther afield and to run grave nss of disaster in North Africa. It de cided. on the former and thus the fuel oil and gas which eastern motorists did without arrived in time to con tribute to victory. . 'Such sudden military demands ana withdrawals will occur again," OPA" summary declared, "but facts concern ing them can not always be maae available to the public. There may be more U-boat sinkings and swift ad justments may have to be made as thev were last winter." The drain on American gasoline sup plies is Increasing, the summary dis closes candidly, and the basic shortage Is certain to. become more acute as the war goes on. Next Week: Highlights on army- navy gasoline needs. Rocket weapon developed Is urged on Allies by de Beversky. Will Enforce Rationing Rule Gas Coupons Must Be Turned In Before Automobile Is Sold SEEK BETTER CONTROL Establishment of more effective con trol over the return of gasoline rations for motor vehicles estimated as num bering 200,000 which change ownership each month in the United States has been announced by the Office of Price Administration. This plan, efflective December 1, calls for close cooperation between State motor vehicle departments, through which applications for new vehicle registrations must be made, and war price and rationing boards. A close check up will be made to see that outstanding gasoline coupons for a vehicle to be sold are returned to the ration board before the vehicle is transferred." Before selling his car, the district office anonunced, the present owner will send or take any coupons issued for the vehicle, remaining In his pos session, to the ration board, and ob tain a receipt in duplicate. The ori ! trinfll rnnv nf thp rprpint. will hp spnt to the State Motor Vehicle Registra tion department with the new owner's application for registration. The pur chaser must use the duplicate of this receipt when applying to the ration board for gasoline rations in his own behalf. all such vehicles on Ivvnd at the c lose of business November 30, and obtain a receipt for each vehicle. Beginning December 1, no vehicle is to be sold or transferred unless this receipt in duplicate isg iven to the purchaser at the same time. Scrap dealers must have on hand a receipt for each ve hicle which they receive beginning De cember 1. These receipts must .be re tained at least one year if the ve hicles are to be scrapped. Beginning December 1, no board can issue rations for a motor vehicle which has changed ownership after November 30 unless the appropriate reecipt be submitted by the applicant. This action is intended to strengthen means of bringing about full compli ance with regulations already in effect. "Without such compliance, the trans fer of approximately 200,000 vehicles each month could mean the diversion of a substantial quantity of gasllne to unlawful uses," a spokesman said. SUB THRUSTS AT JAPS TO REACH NEW FURY Gilbert Islands Provides Prime Bases For U. S. Undersea Craft. Menacing new American submarine threats to Japanese shipping in the far Pacific are obvious in the Gilbert islands successes. Based on such good harbors as Makin affords, undersea craft which Admiral i Chester W. Nimitz places first among sea attrition weapons will be a thousand miles and more nearer to their targets. They constitute a deadly threat to vital supply lines that Tokyo cannot ignore. That has seemed one prime tacti cal purpose of the American air-sea-land attack In the Central Pacific. Hope that it will force Japan's mam fleet into action is high in the hearts of naval personnel yearning to avenge Pearl Harbor. Nomltz, however, does not except that, although ready to meet any Nipponese naval sortie that might come. He shares the widely held belief that actually the missing main elements of Japanese sea pow er are deployed on inner guard duty. If this belief is proved correct by events and several days without any indication of a major Japanese countermove in the Central Pacific point that ..way it means that Japan ese have left the task of delaying the American advance to air power and submarines. Nimitz has pointed out that it is for air and submarine for ays from other enemy-held tlands that his forces have been especially alerted. A modern submarine has tremen dous cruising radius. Unless major repairs to the hull are necessary, it can stay long at sea with (only brief over-mgnt contacts with siirjact craft tenders to refuel, restock with food oiiu nam IU1 1U ticw, ina WlUl gUn ammunition and torpedoes for the enemy. Even important repairs to the hull can be done by repair 'Ships if smooth water is available, as it Is in the reef-enclosed lagoons of the atolls of the Pacific. Makin lagoon is among the best situated harbors in the Gilbert group and very large. It lies within less ; than 1400 miles of the men enemy sea oase in tne central Pa&flc, Truk. That is a grim threat to Japanese shipping serving Truk and its garri son. Ma kin-based submartus could haunt the water about Truk smtlnu ously, relieving each other for the rel atively short round trip to refuel and restock. "Our submarines work while the enemy steeps," Nimitz said, ; adding that their numbers are increasing and that their almost unsung achievements against Japanese shipping have made them "the most effective agency" In the Pacific attrition campaign,' With air power second. - : ' v- - - I should be very unhappy if we were losing merchant shipping at the rate the Japs are loosing them,", the admiral added. .. : ' And that rate certainly la due to go up sharply with more undersea boats coming Into service and the dis tance from then' bases to the enemy's vital shipping lanes In the Western Pacific - being cut down by every island-hopping American advance in the Gilberts and Marshals. -
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
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