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otastoti FDR lay: Payroll savings is our greatest single factor in protecting ohkuIk inst in- FDRitufl: Curtail spending. Put your savings into war bonds every payday. 1 Jesse W Bailey M-4 SELMA, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1943. VOL.26 NUMBER 35 THE UNTIDY HOUSEKEEPER Newspapers Of State Praised In Latest Greyhound Bus Ads For years the newspaper of this State have been printing advertise ments telling: readers about Grey hound bus service. This month the ' tables are turned f or current Grey hound ads are telling readers about the public service offered by this and other newspapers. Mr. H. Peirce Brawner, General Traffic Manager of the . Atlantic Greyhound Lines, in . discussing the present series, of bus advertisements, saM, "fThe newspapers of this State " hat i earned every bit' of commenda tie we can - give them. They're doJngr a ell job for their readers and for the t war effort.. V That's why we are featuring the newspapers of this State, right along with our highways, schools, and farms, in our advertise ments We want more people to know more about this vital part of their everyday life." - BOYS IN NAVY " GET SCHOOLING Navy Recruiter John Stall ings has received a letter from James Earl Adams, Selma boy now in the Navy. Young Adams joined the Navy this summer, has already been promoted, and at present is in Navy Machinist Trade School in Michigan. The Navy pays him his salary, gives him free room,, board and medical care, and is paying for this schooling which is worth $1500. He will finish up in several more weeks and then plans to go to a Navy Diesel school for further training. All 17 year olds are urged to follow Adams' example and enlist in the Navy. All will have op portunity to apply for trade school. There are 55 trades to choose from. The Recruiter will be in Selma Mon v day, August 30 at the post office. He will be at the Smithfield post office Tuesday, August 31 and Wednesday September 1. 17 year old men should see him then. This may be the last recruiting trip to this section. Portsmouth Man Visits Johnstonian-Sun Office Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Batten of Portsmouth, Va., are spending a few days in this section witn reynves. Mr. Batten is a brother of Walter Batten of- Smithfield. He is a retired railroad man and has been living in Portsmouth for the past 30 years or mnnL Mr. Batten was a visitor to see J Editor M. L. Standi at the office of) TVi Johnstonian-Sun Monday. He aid the congestion of people in and around Portsmouth and Norfolk eclipses anything he has ever witnes sed before. In addition to the many tliniiauli nt nonnla livinor in houses in 'that area, there are at least 6WXH trailers being used for housing quar ters. Pvt 0. L Parrish Home From California Prt O. L. Parrish, who has been Stationed at Camp Beale, California, is spending a few days here with his parents, Mr.nd Mrs. Odis L. Par rish. He has stoutened up so much since he- has been in the service his1 friends here hardly- recognized"fcim: BUY MORE BONDS TODAY I its Action Promised On Explosion Claims Here The explosion claims filed by various claimants as a result- ,of a truck load of ammunition exploding one mile South of Selma on March 7, 1942 are now being considered by the War Department in Washington. The War Department officials, on Friday of last week, promised to com pile and make their report to the Committees on Claims of the United States Senate and House at an early date, according to E. G Jlobbs who was in Washington last week and took the matter up with officials of the U. S. Government. The. War Depart ment has made, extensive investiga tion in this matter. v-7"-' ' 1 " It is Aot known What position the War Department will take in pay ment of the various claims but mem bers of Congress in charge of the Bills have approved same and hope to get the Bills passed during the next session of Congress. If the bills are passed on final reading in Con gress, then they will be sent to the White House for approval or disap proval. The total amount of the explosion claims is $187,000. Willis J. Dewar Now Airplane Mechanic Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., Aug. 28 ' A new role in Democracy's fight against the Axis today awaited Pfc Willis J. Dewar, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Dewar, Selma, N. C, who was graduated as an airplane me chanic today from the B-24 Liberator bomber mechanic's school at this unit of the Army Air Forces Training Command. Private Dewar, with approximately 17 weeks of intensive training behind him, is now ready either for assign ment to line duty whereever the big Liberators are operating, or to a flexible gunnery or factory school. "On the line" it will be his duty, not to fly them, but to keep them in good flying condition so they will perform effectively. Before the big bombers take off he will make certain that the engines are running smooth ly, that the electrical and fuel sys tems are functioning properly, that the landing gear is working correctly that the plane is in perfect mechan ical condition. ' When the planes return he will help mend broken and twisted parts, change a damaged engine, patch up bullet holes and put the bombers back in service as good as new. Army Air Forces experts long have recognized . the importance of the ground crews who outnumber pilots 10 or 20 to 1, with the proven theory that a bomber is no better in action than its mechanics on the ground. Southern Rwy. Official Visited Selma Monday H. C. Trexler of Charlotte, super intendent of Motive Power for the Southern Railway, arrived in Selma in his private car on an early train last Monday morning and spent the day with Capt. S. M. Parker. Mr. Parker dined with the official in his private car at noon Monday and re ports a fine dinner. That corn bread was the best I ever tasted, except that made by. my mother," said Mr. Parker. Well vouch for that state ment for we had some of that bread. The chef, Mr. Parker says, is an old Negro and knows hvm to ceok. Pulpwood Committee Is Organized Here Army Caravan of 250'Men To Tour Southeastern States In Order To Show the Public How Badly Pulpwood Is Need- ed For War Purposes. Uncle Sam is calling for more pulp wood to keep the paper mills running in order that there may be available sufficient paper and paper products to meet the war needs. So acute has grown the paper shortage that large newspapers and magazines are be ing rationed print paper. A few days ago the Raleigh News nd Observer came out with the announcement that they could not take any more new subscribers to their paper unless it is to fill a. gap caused by the discontin uance of another subscriber. The Government announced that there is a serious shortage in paper containers such as paper boxes i of all types, which are very necessary in making shipment of supplies over seas. They are asking the farmers to agree to cut pulpwood at least three days during the. remainder of 1943. The wood is to be cut and loaded on car for shipment at some designated point, which will be named just as soon as proper arrangements can be made with the mills for shipment. During the next few weeks the War Department's 'Army Salute to Wood Caravan" will tour ten south eastern states, covering 4,200 miles and making 38 stops. This Army Car avan has been organized to show wood cutters of this area the impor tance of the production of pulpwood and other forest products for the war effort. This traveling exhibition is tied in with the Victory Pulpwood Campaign which this newspaper is supporting. The caravan comprises 250 infan try troops, small artillery and battle equipment, jeeps and other combat vehicles. War heroes, just released from hospitals, will be on hand to- tell how important pulpwooji, and other forest products are to the meit fight ing on' the battlefronts. Capt. John Edwardsen, U. S. Army, is in charge of the aravan,fThtt fearavaa started from Meridian, Mississippi, on Tues day of this week. It will tour parts of Mississippi, Louisiana, Texans, Ar kansas, Alabama, George, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Vir ginia, Maryland, etc. It will pass through North Carolina in late Sep tember, making the following stops: Elizabethtown Thursday, Septem ber 30. .. .-: Kinston Friday, October 1. Rocky Mount Saturday, October 2, and Sunday, October 3. The local Pulpwood committee is composed of Albert Brown, Chair man; Mayor B. A. Henry, and M. L. Standi. Charlie T. Hopkins Gives Fish Supper Charlie T. Hopkins, local cafe op erator, bought a large drum fish last Tuesday morning weighing about 30 president David S. Ball, pounds, which he had baked to suit I Kiwanian Howell said all pictures the most delicate taste. Charlie told he named had been shown at the lo us he needed some help to consume ' cal theatre within the past few weeks, his large fish and invited us around Most Kiwanians were inclined to feel to help eat it Tuesday evening. We that they were not interested so much don't recall having even eaten any in the names of the Stars as they drum before, but If all drum fish are were in their looks and the way they as good as this one we will be found acted their parts, beating the drum more often from The program was concluded by now on. We Know unarue man i uu the cooking for we saw Mrs. Hop kins was looking after the serving and other chores about the kitchen. Among the invited guests to as sist Charlie in eating his big fish were M. L. Standi, H. H. Lowry, Chief-of -Police H. B. Pearce, Police man Red Jones and Attorney James R, Pool of Smithfield. Governor Urges Labor Day Sales - If Governor Broughton has his way, there'll be no Labor Day Holiday on tobacco markets. The Governor wired his protests to the September 6 holiday to N. M. Schaum of Wilson, chairman of the sales committee of the sales commit tee of the U. S. Tobacco Association. The committee recently voted to set aside Labor Day this year as a holi day, the first time such a holdiay has been observed on the markets. . "In my opinion," the Governor said in his message to Schaum, "it is par ticularly unfortunate, in view of the drastic labor shortage and urgent need for farm labor, that the markets should lose the benefit of one full day on account of such holiday, which has not heretofore been observed. "It will take the fullest cooperation on the part of the marketing and warehouse associations and farmers to avoid the possibility of a general holiday of considerable extent to en able fanners to harvest essential food and feed crops." Broaghtoa urged that the eommit- Tobacco Off Selma Police Round Up School Vandals ' . Quick Work On Part of Police .'Department Following Publi cation of Damage To School ; Building Here Causes Arrest of, Six Boys of 'Teen-Age i Trial Saturday In Juvenile . Court. ; ' Last week's Johnstonian-Sun car ried an account of the wreckage to the Selma school building, and offer ed a reward of $10 for evidence lead ing to the apprehension of the guilty parties. The local police department had not been appraised of the crime until it was published in the Johnstonian-Sun, but Chlfif Bradley Pearce together with Policemen Charlie Straughan and Red Jones got busy. Chief Pearce and Red Jones went to the school house near the aWnight hour Thursday night and Mind several boys had already made entrance to the grounds by climbing oyer the high iron fence. Chief Pearce said he and Red Jone had to climb the fence to get inside the enclosure where the boys were. They arrested Fleet Batten, Jr., Marion Gurkin, Marshall Johnson, Jesse Vause, Jr., Lee Hudson and Larry Freeman, all of whom are under 16 years of age. It is reported here that since their arrest, Fleet Batten, Jr., and Marion Gurkin have disappeared from the community. The, trial will come off before Juvenile Judge H...V. Rose in Smithfield Saturday of this week. : The damage to the school property was described in last week's John- stonlan-Sun, and so far as we know Kiwanians Don't Know Very Many Movie Stars At the weekly meeting of the Sel ma Kiwanis club on last Thursday evening. Program Chairman Rudolph Howell, who is manager of the local theatre, put on a contest which had to do with the various characters in the leading moving pictures. He would name the picture and then ask the Kiwanians to name one or more of the three star players in the pic ture. He named about 15 pictures in this manner and then called for a showing of hands of all who had an swered all questions correctly, but no hands went up until he had scaled the list down to four. When this point was reached two hands went up President Howard Gaskill and past- taiKS Dy watt wan ana norne- gay, both of whom gave short histo- ries of their lives, which were most interesting and greatly enjoyed by all present. Revival To Begin At Methodist Church Here The Revival Meeting at the Edger- ton Memorial Methodist church here Will begin on Wednesday night, Sep- tember 8, at eight o'clock. The Rev. Robert Bradshaw. Executive Secreta ry of the Board of Christian Educa tion of the N. C. Conference will be the guest preacher. A prayer meeting will be held at the church in preparation for the meeting on Wednesday night, Sep tember 1, and cottage prayer meet ings will be held the following Fri day evening. Other announcements concerning the revival and the prayer meetings will be made next week. Zebulon Minister , r?jllQ p.,!,,: Uprp ir 1118 UipiC nCTG The Rev. Theo. B. Davis, of Zebulon filled the pulpit of the Baptist church Sunday, in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. D. M. Clemmons, who is away on vacation. The visiting minister next Sunday will be the Rev. Arthur Creech, of Princeton. "" teereconaider its action -and voce to keep the-Karkets open op Labor Day. Market Gets To Good Sftait Offerings On Smithfield Market Exceed Expecta tions Leaf Selling High With Poorer Grades Eclipsing All Past Records Farmers Well Pleased. Johnston county farmers who have sold tobacco on the Smith field market since the opening on Tuesday of this week appeared well pleased with prices, and the offerings at the opening sales on Tuesday far exceeded previous expectations. CEILING RAISE DOUBTFUL SAYS OPA Delegation Asks Four-Cent In crease at Conference; OPA Says Prices 'Fair Washington,. Aug, 25. Nearly 100 business and political leaders of Vir ginia, North Carolina and South Carolina made a concerted appeal to the Office of Price Administration (OPA) today for a higher ceiling price on flue-cured tobacco, but they received Blight encouragement. OPA food price division's tobacco sec-! tion, did not make a final decision immediately, but throughout a day long conference maintained that pres ent prices were "fair to all growers." In addition, Reed Dickerson of the OPA legal staff, declared "it is grave ly doubtful if we can increase the prices." He contended tobacco was a cost-of-living item and thus bound by President Roosevelt's "hold-the-line" order on prices. - 1 . -rr 1. n . a 1? i 4.1 ctci, aim nra no nvuiu wmsi w- morrow with tobacco company repre sentatives concerning the problem. Flue-cured tobacco is used chiefly in making cigarettes. Despite the opinions voiced by the OPA officials, Governor Colgate Dar den, Jr., of Virginia said the outlook for a price boost was "encouraging" and that he was optimistic about such action. Governor J. M. Broughton of North Carolina declined to predict what was in store, but declared "we proved that an error was made and an in crease is justified . . and we don't believe in the perpetuity of error." Four-Cent Increase. The two Governors, Senator Byrd (D-Va.), and several Congressmen headed the delegation before OPA to ask that the price on flue-cured, tied and graded tobacco be increased a minimum of four cents a pound from the present figure of 41 cents a pound for the season's average pur chase price. During the past month various groups in the three states had urged a boost of six to seven cents, but the lower figure was agreed upon this morning as "a reasonable compro mise." delegation leaders said, Chief argument of the tri-state group was that a higher price should be set for their tobacco because it was tied and graded, thus resulting j in an increased cost of production, They contended that the Georgia crop, put on the market untied and ungraded, already had been sold at the figure of 41 cents when an OPA order of August 14 specified it should be three cents lower. Kohlberg and J. B. Hutson, former president of the Commodity Credit Corporation and now assistant War I Food Administrator, asserted that ac- tually the Georgia jcrop sold at only slightly over 38 cents on the average, however, so the Carolina and yirginia growers still would get three-cent premium. 1 1 -0fw Unfair,' He Says. "It would be unfair to those grow ers who have already sold their crop to set a higher price at this time," Kohlberg declared. He maintained that granting an in crease would boost the price of cigarettes to the public, but the dele iration members insisted that this was not true, contending that the cost of ! tobacco was a minor item. Lieutenant Governor Reginald Har ris of North Carolina summarized the argument of several present, declar ing that Georgia growers had receiv ed an average of more than 30 cents in 1942 and 38 cents in 1943, while Carolina and Virginia growers who got approximately 41 cents in 1942 would not get any gain this year. Representative Burch1 (D-Va.), chairman of the delegation, said the proposed four-cent increase was a modest request," and deserved fav orable action. -.BUtf-WABONDS STAMPS ine general average price, paid on the Smithfield market Tuesday was between 41 and 42 cents per pound. The better grades were some higher than' the offerings on the opening: date last year, and the poorer grades have never sold higher since the founding of the Smith field market 46 years ago. Even during the period of 1919 when tobacco prices reached the high est Doint in all history of the market, the poorer grades failed to reach such flattering prices as were paid on the Smithfield market last Tuesday, The offerings at the opening this year were below normal in point of quality, which is another evidence hat Pri.ces a better this year than in previous years. Many tobacconists feel that if it was not for Ihe govern- ment ceiling price on tobacco this year prices would mount to even higher levels. - At the Gold Leaf and Wallace warehouses, which had first sales Tuesday, the floors were filled to comfortable proportions, but there uu vcuivw, wiucn is an inaica tion that farmers are in no rush to sell with the hope that the govern ment ceiling price may yet be, raigedt wcuun vims year, ai ine - opening1 sales in 1942 there were 750,000 pounds of tobacco sold on the Smith-' field market, while at the opening this year the total sales ran around 500,000 pounds. The Smithfield market has two : its. ... x. ... ', ... thr year, with daily sales beginning at 9:30 and closing at 3:30. Although no sales had previously been planned for next Monday (La bor Day), this plan has been dis continued On Page 5) Seen and Heard Along THE MAINDRAG By H. H. L. SSSSSS JUDGE F. H. BROOKS, of Smith field, has attended every opening of the Smithfield Tobacco Market for the past 46 years, in fact every year since the tobacco market was es tablished the JUDGE showed us a fountain pen, while in Smithfield Tuesday, and it was the biggest one we have ever seen, that he has been using every day for the past 30 years "many a poor devil has been sentenced to the roads with that pen," he told us a prescription costing $109.00 is what happened to our townsman, W. H. CALL MR. CALL: went to Duke Hospital for an exami nation and was given the following prescription "one-half teaspoonful of plain salt in a glass of hot water every morning before breakfast" for which he paid $109.00 "I have gotten fine results from that pre scription," he told us "and I don't regret the cost" that was a splen did service at the Methodist church on last Sunday night the junior choir, under the direction of MISS. STELLA ETHEREDGE, sang several numbers, after which the pastor, the REV. GEORGE W. BLOUNT, made a brief, but interesting talk JOHN: JEFFREYS, JR., took the solo part in one song and this young man sang well he possesses a splendid voice of course he takes it after his dad no offense, MRS. JEFFREYS and, speaking of the REV. MR. BLOUNT, he is not only a good preacher but a good bowler as well down at the lake a few nights ago he put it all over this writer, CAPT. S. M. PARK ER, EDITOR STANCIL and J. 3. BROWN, of Wilson the latter is holding down the cashier's deBk in the Branch Banking ft Trust Com pany, while the cashier, RALEIGH GRIFFIN, is on his vacation now if DAVID BALL had been along it might have been a different tale, for that boy is hard to beat BOB HOLDING has another big job on his hands, raising one million dollars' in the 3rd War Loan drive in John ston county BOB put the other drive over in big shape and he will do it again.