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EIGHT TWO YOUNGSTERS WITH FIGHTING SPIRIT One under-age Negro Blue jacket was back home today and another was on his way after hahaving been found guilty of “stowing away In the Navy” at the U. S. Naval Training Sta tion, Greut Lakes, 111. The boys one of whom is 14 and the other, 13, enlisted in the Navy aa 17-year-olds by forg ing their mothers’ signatures on Navy recruiting papers. The hoax was discovered at the U. S. Naval Training Station when their mothers’ wrote Navy authorities disclosing the true ages of their sons. Youngest of the two is Hudson Anderson, son of Mrs. Bruce Butler of 3A Harlem Square, Greenville, S. C., will be 14 years old August 13. The other is Lionel Harold Brown, son of Mrs. Mayola Keller Brown of 24 7 Evergreen Drive, Baton Come and Get Them j : Cigars, Candy, Cigarettes, Chewing Gum, Drinks, Co n feet io ner v, Shoe Shines, Papers. CARNEY’S SMOKERS NEWS CENTER 619 E. Market St. NATIONAL ! FRIDAY SATURDAY “BUCKSKIN FRONTIER” with RICHARD JANE DIX WYATT ALBERT DKKKEH Soria) News Short “NOW PLAYING »/ r /.[i f• 1 1 / SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY .“SHADOW OF DOUBT” with JOSEjTiI CXITTON TERESA WRIGHT CAROLINA THE FUTURE OUTLOOK, GREENSBORO, N. C. | Rouge, lai., will be 15 on De cember 14. Anderson left Camp Robert Siuulls training center for Negroes at Great Lakes with the promise that lie would return “us soon as I’m old enough.” "Sailor” Brown echoed those sentiments. Both boys hud completed re cruit training and were In the out-going unit when their fraud ulent enlistments were discov ered. Lieut. Cmdr. D. W. Arm strong, commanding officer of Cump Smalls, advised them, "Come back in a few yeuVs." # CHECK LIVING COST IN MINING AREAS Washington Acting under tile President’s order to get the facts on the cost-of-living in coal | mining areas, Price Administra tor Prentiss M. Brown today assigned a crew o finvestigators to make an immediate check on price levels and on compliance with price ceilings in coal-pro ducing sections of five states. The states are Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alu liama and Illinois. "I have instructed our field men to Investigate the prices | j being charged in coal mining towns, concentrating first on ‘ prices for food,” Mr. Brown said. “They are to collect other data on the general level of prices in those towns and to check for violations of price ceilings. “Investigators will report their findings as soon as possible and will follow up any viola tions with enforcement action.” SUGAR FOR HOME CANNING After May 15, North Carolina housewives may apply for their allotment on sugar for canning and preserving. A top limit of 25 pounds of sugar per person is set for the new regulation. However, the 25-pound figure Is a maximum to be granted oply in the relatively few cases where this large amount of fruit will be canned and preserved . . . Within the 25-pound per person limit, any family can apply for sugar to put up jams, jellies, and preserves at the rate of five pounds per individual. This 1b a more generous allowance than last year, when sugar for pre serves was limited to one pound per person. HELP STOP THEFTS AND FORGERIES To safeguard dependents and others who regularly receive government checks, the follow ing procedure for North Caro linians is urged by the U. S. Secret Service to help stop thieves and forgers (1) Some members of the family should alwuys be at home when checks are due to be delivered, (2) All mail boxes should bo equipped with a lock, and the individual’s name should be printed clearly on'the outside of the box, (3) Checks should be cashed In the same place each month, mak ing identification easier. (4) Checks should not be endorsed until you are In the presence of the person who la to cash it. SILVER TRUMPETERS SING Sunday May 9, at 3:00 o’clock the Silver Trumpet Gospel Sing ers rendered a program at the first Congregational Church. Mrs. Hayes sponsor. Rev. Spellar is pastor. The general secretary, Miss Befnice Bowman is ill. |j 1 FILL THE TANK, BUT M t mammvi cah f§ / FILL UP THIS V/AR M \ STAMP album I ATTABOy i V TOR ME? J 1 </v,, ,HU VHH .. ~* 7-j wUx yUfH \ V ' —ZZZZZI a; , 1 Sp<u\r-. | CROP CORPS CERTIFICATES Certificates of service will be awarded to all persons who work in canning and other food pro cessing plants, tlie War Food administration has announced. The /certificates will be pre- ; seated “for patriotic service on farm or in a food processing! factory” and will bear the sig- I "I Am An American Day" By proclamation of our President 3rd Sunday in May) T . * ln ' .> Our ancestors were all immigrants. Even the American Indians, we are told, came to our shores from Asia. Then let us not view the word “Im migrant” as other than most honorable. When we become naturalized we become Americans and, as such, owe to the country which has adopted us our full allegiance, loyalty, and life if necessary. If we cannot reconcile ourselves to this thought then let us return to the country from which we came. As Americans, let us join in on the fundamental principles which have built America. The principles of Loyalty, Honesty, Thrift, and Industry^ “It’s all right to think and plan for a better world in grand terms and on a grand scale, but we must not let the glittering promise of such plans cause us to forget that each of us has his (or her) personal job to do if they are to be made real.’* ( Wimbish Insurance Agency 922-30 Southeastern Building Telephone 4174 natures ol Chester C. Davis, war lood administration, Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower commission, and Dean I. O. Schuuh, state director of Agriculture Extension. Ten to 15 per cent of Georgia's 1942 bumper crop of cotton was ■picked by volunteer city folk. SATURDAY, MAY 15. 1943 SERVICE BARS FOR CIVILIANS For file first time, North Caro lina civilians may earn uu official service bar similar to the cam paign burs of the armed ser vices, according to a recent an nouncement of the civilian de fense director. Six distinctive bars for service ranging from suu to 5,0f>0 hours will be given to civilian volunteers. All civil ian defense volunteers may qualify for the awards mem bers of the Citizens Defense Corps, the Citizens Service corps, Forest Fire Fighters service, and Civilian Evacuution service. ♦ .Mure Ilian four million candi dates for war jobs have enroll ed in vocational courses special izing in training industrial skills for war production. j I j 3 men pressers | Dick's Laundry j ! *