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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
DRAFT STATUS FOR
NEGROES is CHANGED

Washington, D. Ex-senator
Burnet R. Maybank, of South
Carolina, who has repeatedly
made complaints that white men
of military age in South Carolina
are being Disseminated against
by failure to draft Negroes, Sc
cured a new ruling from Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, director of the
selective service in which the en-
tire application of the draft act
in states with large Negro popu-
lations will be entirely changed.
Two weeks ago, Senator May
bank was told that up to that
time, a general rule had been in
effect that only 10 per cent of the
Negro population was being
drafted the country over and that
beginning then, men of white and
black races would be drafted in
the states on the ratio of popula-
ton of each race and that this
rule would be adhered to strictly.
Senator Maybank was told by
General Hershey that this rule
would be made retroactive and
that Negroes in the southern
states would be placed in military
service on the basis of the entire
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
SECOND GRADE TIRES
FOR WAR WORKERS

Washington, D. c. The Office
of Price Administration made
war workers eligible to buy Sc
cond grade tires last Saturday,
provided their need for them is
certified by special rationlng
committees to be established IN
all war plants employing more
than 100 workers.
Plants with fewer than 100 en-
ployes will not be eligible to par
ticipate in the new plan, nor will
their workers be eligible to buy
the tires.
o. P. A. said the plant ration
ing committees would be made
up of labor and management
members and, in addition to de-
termining a workers need for
tires, also would make certain
that his automobile was being
used in a transportation pool to
carry other workers to and from
their jobs.
After a committee issues GER
tificate to a worker, the latter
must present it to his local ra-
tioning board. The boards retain
their power of review and denial
o. P. A. explained, but the plan
is expected to relieve them of the
burden of establishing facts GER
titled by the plant committee.
The certificate must show that
the worker applying for the tire
rationing certificate is a perman-
ent employee, has no other means
of transportation, lives two miles
or more from his place OF en-
ployment, and regularly carries
at least three other workers with
him.
The new regulation will become
effective July 15.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
LEON HENDERSON is
WILLING TO RESIGN

Washington, D. c. = Price Ad-
ministrator Leon Henderson said
this week that he would be will
ing to resign if that were neces-
sary to obtain congressional en-
actment of subsidies which he
contends are necessary to assist
certain industries in observing
price ceilings.
Henderson told a press con-
ference that subsidies-a plan
which Congress has rejected once
but is reconsidering- are neces-
sary to support price ceilings at
March levels and to prevent sui
fering among consumers and re-
tailerS.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
MANY CIVIL SERVICE
JOBS ARE NOW OPEN

Civil service headquarters Is
sued notice this week in search
for storekeepers, bookkeepers, and
purchasing clerks for wartime
work through F. D. Marshbanks,
local secretary.
Purchasing clerks will be paid
from $1,44O to $3.50 per year
and the storekeepers will draw
from 1850 to $4,000.
No written test is required for
the positions. Persons will be
Judged on their experience in the
various duties.
Full information may be OBJ
tanned from Marshbanks at the
Winston-Salem post office.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
To Erect Plant
On N. C. Seaboard
Large Airplane Company Will
Operate Plant; Recruits
To Be Sent AT Once

A large airplane company will
operate a plant to be erected on
the seaboard in North Carolina
by the United States Navy, and
has called upon the U. S. Employ
ment Service to recruit as rapidly
as possible 100 pilots, so co-pilots,
100 flight mechanics and so radio
operators.
These trained men as rapidly as
they are recruited are to be sent
to a larger plant of the company
for training for the 90-day period
in which it is planned to have the
eastern North Carolina plant con-
structed and ready for operation.
Recruiting will be done through
46 employment offices in this
State and orders will be broadcast
over larger areas to get the train
ed airplane men necessary, Mrs.
Gertrude K. Clinton, acting direc-
tor of the U. S. Employment Ser
vice for North Carolina, announc-
es.
After the plant is completed, a
bout 125 clerical workers, men
and women, and probably 900 9TH
er workers will be needed to op-
crate it, all of these workers also
to be recruited through the En-
ployment Service.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
Headu11arters OF Fourth
Civil Service District To Be
Moved To WinstOn-Salem
FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS
BEING ORGANIZED NOW

Washington, D. CA volunteer
forest fire fighters service is be-
ing organized by the Office OF
Civilian Defense, it was announc-
ed last week.
Director James M. Lands said
the volunteer organizations de-
veloped through state and local
defense councils would function
through cooperation with estab-
lished forest protection agencies.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
Moves From Washington; To
Occupy 5 Floors OF Nissen
Building, August 18th
$50 WORKERS INVOLVED

Headquarters of the Fourth CT
vii Service District, now in the
Atlantic building, $50 F street,
Northwest, Washington, D. c.,
were ordered to begin packing
up to move to the Nissen building
in Winston-Salem by August Is.
Officials were awaiting orders
from the Decentralization Bureau
following the official announce
ment of the budget bureau of the
orders to remove the headquart-
ers to Winston-Salemr
The move involves $50 of the
districts 800 employees, the other
so remaining behind to service
field offices in the area.
At the same time, Maryland
was transferred from the Fourth
to the Third district, putting it
with Delaware and Pennsylvania,
and South Carolina was transfer
red from the Fifth to the Fourth
district.
The revised Fourth district will
be composed of the District of
Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina and South Caro-
lima.
With the headquarters to Win
ston-Salem will go the stop staff,
composed Of Maurice J. McAu-
life, manager; Thomas D. Dunn,
assistant manager, and Edmund
senior administrative
assistant in charge of personnel.
Burrows has visited Winston
Salem a number of times and said
he was looking forward. to, the
transfer.
''It is quite natural that a move
of this sort, involving large
them will find it impossible to 60
to Winston-Salem for a number
of reasons he said, ''such as
wives whose husbands are other
wise employed in Washington and
members of families who own
their own homes"
'To replace them, we will re-
cruit number in Washington as
we 60 along and recruit the ba-
lance in Winston-Salem when we
get there"
Burrows said that much of the
personnel to replace those who
remain in Washington will come
from North Carolinians Vim gov
eminent service who have on file
for transfer back to
the home state. eve will be a
BILE to take care of number of
them," he added.
The civil service official said
ne believed the move would be
accomplished without difficulty,
either for the agency or the city
If Winston-Salem. The agency
is not too big and not to little, he
pointed out, and will not bring
new population to cause
any kind of initiation.
A great number of the district
who work on six of the |
eight floors of the Atlantic build
ing are women. eve began sup
plying personnel to defense agen-
cies in the spring of 194O," Bur-
rows said, Sin anticipation of the
war and are losing a lot of men
in the draft, we started replacing
the men with women, so as not
to be hit too badly. A lot OF the
women will stay in
Washington, except in cases
where their husbands are employ
ed on small salaries or uncertain
positions"
Fred Mcnamara, budget bureau
official, estimated recently for the
benefit of visiting Winston-Sa-
lem delegation, that the. average
central agency had 60 per cent
single and 40 per cent married
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

scheme has been voiced, the War
department expressed confidence
it would result in lifting a load
of financial worry from soldiers
saying charge it" when buying
haircuts and tooth paste, and at
the same time relieve the army
of a mass of bookkeeping.
- To make the change from the
credit system without undue
hardship partial payment will
be made to the Fort Bragg SOL
diers in the middle of the first
month of the test.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
RUMORS UNTRUE ABOUT
ROONEY SEPARATION

Raleigh, N. C.-Mrs. Mickey
Rooney, who says there is no
foundation to rumors she and her
husband have separated, left here
recently for Hollywood.
She boarded an early train
from Raleigh. The beautiful
young actress, who was prior to
her marriage, Ava Gardner. a
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

workers.
According to Burrows, the per-
centage Of married people en-
ployed the Fourth District head
STARTERS office is believed to be
so and so per cent.
The move to Winston-Salem
probably will be made by motor
truck, Burrows said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

Keep your carburetor adjusted
properly-if your car elnits-
smoke, YOU ARE WASTING
GASOLINE.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
SOLDIERS PAY CASH FOR
PERSONAL PURCHASES

Washington, D. C.-The army's
new Observation-Disclosures plan
for soldiers personal purchases
is to receive its first tryout at
Fort Bragg, N. c.
The War department announced
this week the test would start
August /, and would continue for
three. months.
If the trial is deemed success
full, camp credit privileges would
be abolished for all enlisted men
except for the three top rankings
of sergeants, most of whom are
married and have children.
Although some criticism of the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

TO-DAY, great industries and friendly people work
quaint charm and rustic beauty of La Province de Quebec
remain unspoiled. Welcome your French Canadian
Vacation!
Choose the vacation you prefer north border
charm Visit Montreal, the metropolis of Canada, and
the City of Quebec, stored rock of history North of
Montreal the Laurentans and the Ganeau mountain
vacationlands There's Les Trois Rivieres explore
and the forested Valley the hinerland
gems of La Vaee de la Chaudere Les Bots Francs and
La Beauce Then on to Quebec City, to Charlevoix-
Saguenay to Lac sant:ean and Laurentdes Park Even
to Gaspe itself, North-American wonder-tour
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
OF National And World News During The Past Week

population of the state as to races
and that this rule would date
back to the beginning of the ap-
plication of the selective service
act.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

North Carolina girl from Rock
Ridge, had been visiting her Sis
ter, Mrs. j. A. Grimes,
: Rumors were. heard that She
and Mickey had separated but
this gossip she. said was SILLY"
Evening star., 1942-07-10
Red Cross TO Dedicate
New Firsf-Aid Station

The District Red Cross will dedi-
cate its new first aid station in Rock
Creek Park at 80 pm. tomorrow.
The station was set up in the little
police house at the intersection OF
Military road and Beach drive NV.
because a Red Cross volunteer, Mrs.
Frank B. Noyes, discovered that an
average of 10 or II serious accidents
occurred IN park Fairgrounds every
year.
The station will be kept open from
2 to pm. every Saturday and from
10 am. to pm. every Sunday.
There was no business for the first
aid attendant on duty when the sta
ton opened two week ends ago
Last week end, however. news Of the
station had begun to get about and
three persons with minor injuries
were helped.
A first-aid instructor will be on
duty at all times when the station
is open, with assistants assigned on
particularly warm week ends.
The key of the station, used by the
police as an hourly report station
will be turned over to First-Aid Di-
rector John w. Gates at the dedi-
cation tomorrow by Irving C. Root
superintendent of National Capita
Parks
Evening star., 1942-07-10
8 WAAC Officer Candidates
In This Area Get Induction Call

street, Benning Station, stenog-
rapher.
Mrs. Marjorie Dawson Fling, 20l4
North Upton street, Arlington, Va,
War Department employe.
Grace Parks Campbell, 2l20 Flor
ida avenue NV, landscape archi-
tect.
Helen Wooddell Sheets. 1881
Lamont street NV, physical edu-
cation teacher
Mrs. Helen Hamilton Woods, 30l4
N street NV, public relations ad-
visor
Evelyn Foster Greene, 1920 Morris
road Sc.
Mrs. Harriet West, 924 M street
NV, senior clerk, National Youth
Administration.
Capt. Sloan said these women had
been notified by special delivery let
ter from Baltimore headquarters to
appear this week end. He said this
did not mean that other women
might not get notification later
next week. The WAAC's school
opens in Fort Des Moines July 20
Recruiting OF auXiliaries will begin
the last of this month, War De-
| partment officials announced.
Evening star., 1942-07-10
D. T.. Rubber Drive
Expected 10 Collect
100000 Pounds
Salvage Choirmon Asks
HousehoIders to Give
That Finul Ounce

On the final day of the Nations
scrap rubber campaign, Horace
Walker, District Salvage Committee
chairman, made the definite state
ment that the District today will
reach the 100000 pound mark in
it's collections. He appealed to house
holders to give that final ounce" to
make the total soar higher.
Approximately 100000 pounds
had been turned over from the Dis
trict yesterday to oil companies act
ing as agents in the collection, Mr..
Walker said. Other thousands of
pounds are still at filling stations or
are at shoe store collection depots
or in the hands of charities.
1t was revealed today at Rich
mond, Va, that a scrap rubber
stockpile covering five acres and cap
able of handling 100000 pounds is
to be established in that city. To it
will 60 rubber collected here and in
North Carolina, West Virginia and
Virginia. From the stockpile rubber
will be channeled to reclama ton
plants.
Mr.. Walker said that while the
special national campaign is ending
today, the city drive to get every bit
of rubber as 1t becomes available
will go on.
He pointed out that thin tires will
finally blow out, lawn hose will get
too leaky, overshoes will wear out.
AS each item becomes available for
scrap it should be turned over to a
collection depot at filling station,
| shoe shop or one of the charitable
institutions engaged in collecting
he said.
Final statistics on the Nation S
response to the rubber campaign
are expected to be reported to
President Roosevelt next Friday
William r. Boyd, ir, head Of the
| drive, said.
Evening star., 1942-07-10
Officials Named
For 7 Defense
Alarm Centers
Friede Appointed
Controller of New
Decentrulized Setup

The new decentralized civilian de-
fense communications system per-
sonnel was announced today and
Herbert A. Friede, fire alarm super
intendent. was appointed controller.
Plans have been completed for
establishing seven centers at police
precincts throughout the city, in
stead of having all emergency calls
during an air raid go to one place.
Telephone installations to take
care of calls to the centers are now
being rushed to meet the July 20
dea6line, so that the new system
will be ready for the next test black
out, the date for which has not yet
been set.
Mr.. Friede. whose appointment
had been indicated recently. will
devote his full time to his new post,
but will still continue to supervise
the fire alarm system.
Assistant Controller Named.
Assistant controller of the civilian
defense communications will be
Chief Clerk Porter M. Lumpkins of
the District Engineer Department.
Seven deputy controllers were
named. one for each OF the seven
centers.
The deputies and their locations
are:
j. W. Lauderdale. assistant cor
poratlon counsel, No. center. at No
2 police precinct.
Geohrey M. Thornette. secretary
to the Board of Commissioners, No.
2 center. No. Is precinct
L. r. Watson, jr., assistant high
way engineer, No. 3 center, No. 8
precinct.
Administrative Officer D. A. Hip
kins of the Building Inspection
Division, No. center. No. precinct.
Gelberman to Quit as Warden.
w. N. Handiboe. assistant chief
clerk of the Engineer Department,
No center. No. IL precinct.
J. S. zebley. chief of inspection,
No. 6 center No 9 precinct.
J. Louis Gelberman, chief of the
District Duplication Center, No. 7
center, No. II precinct.
j. Vincent Marin. senior fire
alarm operator, was relieved tempo
rarily of his duties to serve as COM
munications officer In the new setup
Mr.. Gelberman plans to resign as
deputy afraid warden to give
time to the new appointment.
Evening star., 1942-07-10

Six white women and two colored
women from the Washington area
will be individually sworn in as
officers candidates today, tomorrow
and Monday at 1l04 New York ave-
nue. NV, for the officers training
school of the Womens Army Aux
iliary Corps, Fort Des Moines, Iowa
Capt. F. J. Sloan announced today
Capt. Sloan said that one of the
WAAC's candidates had arrived
early this morning to be sworn in
at the recruiting station but had
come without her papers and had
to 60 home for them.
The Washington women being
sworn in will be put on furlough by
Capt. Sloan until the end of next
week when they leave for Fort Des
Moines. All candidates chosen ir
the Sd Corps Area will leave in g
group from Baltimore, headquarters
of the area. Capt. Sloan said
Candidates who will be sworn ir
this week end and Monday include
Matte Evelyn Treadwell, 163;
Sixteenth street NV.
Janis Meredith Hight, 100 Firs
Evening star., 1942-07-10
Stores Are Besieged
For Information on
New Credit Rules
Extru Cashiers Used to
Take Core Of Customers
And Phone Coils

Credit Offices of Washington
stores were swamped today with
customers seeking to beat the first
deadline of the new Government
charge-account regulations tonight
Some stores had to put on extra
cashiers to take care of the rush
Most of them had clients waiting in
line for information. The tele-
phones were even buster with in
quiries, from persons who wanted
to know how the new rules affected
them.
Under the Federal Reserve
Boards revised regulations, pur-
chases made in May or earlier must
be paid for by tonight or the charge
account is frozen until paid.
Many customers, the cerdit man
ayers reported, were paying back
balances. Others were taking ad-
vantage OF the alternative plan pro-
vided in the regulations and ar
ranging to pay delinquent accounts
in installmelts.
But the complicated nature of
the new regulations had some mer-
chants breathless trying to explain
10 customers with varied problems.
Those who have been paving
their bills promptly will not be af-
tected at ALL one credit manage,
pointed out. Others simply will
have to get used to paying for pur-
chases sooner. Charge accounts can
be used as much as ever. Only we
are unable now to extend some
courtesies which we have in the
past"
One complication in bookkeeping
which the new rules exact is to keeI
careful track Of when each item
was bought rather than the general
state of a customers account anc
how far back it is unpaid. At this
time, for example, the Federal Re-
serve Board and hence the stores
are concerned only with seeing that
purchases made before June ! are
paid for or budgeted at once. -
Evening star., 1942-07-10

required In buying most arJlCleS.
Contracts entered into before last
September are not affected.
All installments are governed by
the new regulation, whether to pay
for clothing or miscellaneous goods
or to repay cash loan. The revised
rules were designed by the board to
carry out President Roosevelt's
warning, in a message to Congress
in April, that to keep the cost OF
living from spiraling it would be
necessary to discourage credit and
installment buying" and encourage
people to pay their debts and save.
Installment Volume Drops.
Under the restrictions OF Regu-
lation w, the Commerce Department
reports, installment loans decreased
$50 900 900 in volume during May as
compared to May of last year.
Under the revised rules, buyers
must pay one-third the purchase
price down on Y&early everything ex-
cept furniture, pianos and materials
or services going to improve resi-
Dental property. This down pay
ment applies to all listed" articles
in the regulation, including house
hold accessories and clothing. In
stallments on these purchases must
be completed in II months. Even
such theoretical offerings as tires
are on the list.
On furniture and pianos the down
payment is only one-f1fth, but pay
ments on these, too, must be COM
pleted in year. For an automobile
if you can find one, or motor
cycle, the down payment is one
third, though you have IS months
to pay.
The down sum on new cars may
be in cash or trade-in value or a
combination of both. For used cars
the same down payment is required
but only If the cash price is equal
to or lower than the appraisal guide
value" to be determined by the board
in each locality. If the cash price
is higher than such an appraisal
the down payment will be the cash
price minus two-thirds Of the ap-
praisal value.
Evening star., 1942-07-10

You still may go to bank or
finance company and borrow cash
to pay obligations. But the new
regulation requires the borrower to
file on a Federal Reserve Board form
a statement of his reason for obtain
ing the loan. Only loans OF 81 500
or less are covered in the revised
rules.
If the loan is to buy listed article
with a value of at least SIS, the
amount borrowed must not exceed
thirds of its cash price, or four
f1fths OF the price Of furniture or
pianos. The loan must be paid In
IL months. except in the case OF
automobiles, when IS months may
be allowed.
II the loan Is for any other COM
mercial purpose, it still must be paid
within a year. If, however. the
lender knows or has reason to know
that the proceeds are to be used to
reduce or retire a charge account
arising in whole or in part from the
sale of listed article" the note must
be paid in months.
Single payment loans, payable on
demand, are to be treated as If they
we're due 90 days from date.
Not Applicable to Homes.
Revised Regulation w does not ap-
ply to payments on the purchase OF
a home or to loans made entirely
to meet educational, hospital, medi-
cal, dental or funeral expenses.
An open charge account at store,
ordinarily payable every 80 days.
may be transferred to an installment
basis. Customers who fail to pay in
full by tonight for purchases charged
before or during May or who, as an
alternative. neglect to make arrange
ments with their credit managers
to budget such balances, retiring
them with regular payments, will
find their credit cut off tomorrow
They may not charge anything at
such stores until their delinquent
balances are so liquidated. The mer-
chants have no choice. This credit
curb has been fastened on them
by the Federal Reserve Board.
Evening star., 1942-07-10
Officer, Baltimore Cadet.
Die in Trainer Crash
Py the Associated Press.

~ INC A8SOCIdteu FrtSB,
COLUMBUS, Miss. July 10.-A
Columbus Army flying school officer
and an aviation cadet were killed
last night, five miles north Of the
base when their twin engine light
trainer crashed.
The victims were First 1t. Donald
v. Thompson, %, flying instruc-
tor, Fort Worth, Tex. and Cadet
Charles j. Dimmling. 26. of Balti-
more, a member of the schools next
graduating class.