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PAGE FOUR THE ROBESONIAN, LUMBEHTQN, FIR DAY, DECEMBER 19,1941. ThcRobesonian Published Daily Except Saturday and Sunday At Lumberton North Carolina By THE ROBESONIAN. INC. 0. A.

tHAftPE, A Editor J. A. SHARPE AssoelaU Editor BAY PITTMAN, City Editor MARGARET SPRU1LL, Society Editor JASPER C. HUTTO, Advertising Mar. L.

Simpson. Wide World war analyst, ''fashioned and used effectively to shatter many continental armies in quick succession is obvi- ously back-firing in reverse There can no longer be doubt that i the Germans in Washington Daybook Jack Russia are now swallowing much the same dose I ihcv meied out to France and a I nf I I dozen other nations." geography It is devoutly to be hoped that. hardly scanned before, they will have to keep on swal I lowing that dose i it them. (CIVILIAN COUNTER-RAID (Continued froin Page 1) message of ''Lir-iiberton yellow" will inslrucl Lumberton be "on the alert" for planes sighted off the coast of the Carolinas or Virginia. By the same token, if the signal is blue il will mean the planes are Signature Washington The new theater ovcl oast ll ls red ll wl11 war is opening whole pages of the planes are somewhere igraphy that Ihe United Stales in Ihe vicinil the lown.

He said i the word white will be thc "ail- So vast is it that simply out- -l eal signal. I lining its borders strains the imagination. Thcrc nearly 10,000 miles of ocean between San states thc SUBSCRIPTION KATES: Dally--Br Mall North And Soulli Carolina One Year $4-00 Six Months 2.00 Three Months 1.00 da.v. "that (ho United Slates has Seattle, is Outside North Smith Carolina noninilized the potential danger! north of it. One Year $5.00 of ho ralc West Indies last Northern limits Siv S2.50 include the Aleu- oix topped ofi the news of nan islands antt eral improvement in American and Alaska.

Win is llot necessary, however, (or lhe thc street, to be Three Months $1.25 Carrier Delivery and Collection cisco and Singapore. Us soulhc-rn familiar with these key words, he i limits include New Zealand, which explained, as they will only be jre- Associated Press war roundup far of am layed to the individual wardens. What the citizen is supposed to know, said the chief, is hosv to properly conduct himself during the raid or the blackout. Instructions concerning this will be rc- i ceived from time to time and pass- cd o.i i all are familiar-with them. Most of the representatives from the towns yesterday afternoon's meeting' were mayors or men whom mayors had already ap- had been conceded as probable in wil come pointed to act as local wudens i the news constantly and only (hose I group met the ovei "noificial British quarters ancl Uvho an informcd can understand the- i a i nt 3 ocloek.

Sepias second class mail mat-! 0 1 bo TM A1 Mhe significance of events ns they ter at the postofflce in Lumberton. cd As.de irom develop. en Vv.me and telephone number to N. under the act of March Hong Kong, the American en name and tciepnone numoei to 1879. i lion in the Philippines and the One Week 10c Office Subscription For Carrier Delivery Allied positions in every theatre In between nre a except Hong Kong and Ma- countless islands One Year $5.00 and the shores of nS ns IS SCparated four continents.

Six 2.50 I from lho mainland by a mile-wide strange names Three Months 1.25 strip of water. Its ultimate loss and strange plac- Office 119-121 Fifth Street Telephones--20 and 633 Each representative appointed i local warden and gave the uard- Associated It exclusively; strategic Allied position generally Glover. There's hardly a school boy that i A present at the meeting was, th. local new. appeared improved last night.

a i a of the Philippine islands. i On the other great fronts of the but few persons realize that there 1 world, the Axis apparently wasi a 7 ()83 thosc islmnds; a 2 doesn't know that "Manila is the Brockwell of Fort Bragg All rlflhtt of neju ie 1our disaster in Africa herein are alio reserved. and about to be enveloped in cat- Friday. Dec. 19.

1941. astrophe by the weather and by I the Red Armies in Thc news Js nol a oac i Those who expect-to reap i a newg today blessings of freedom must, i men. undergo the fatigues of sup- change the picture to some extent, porting Paine. but one is entitled to get whatever comfort the reports may give while guarding against too much opti- Relief from blinding headlights; mism about early collapse of tho would be most welcome and would Axis powers, lessen the hazards of the highways I and streets. Even hero in town some motorists forget to dim their, 1 lights.

Arresting and i i those i aFCHtS Killed 111 who are so careless and discourie-) ous to fail to dim their lights might help. O- All patriotic citizens want contribute in some way to nation- a) defense. The Red Cross is one I of the channels through which ev- 441 of them are large enough to who is fire and air raid warden for the post and formerly ts state i fire warden. A lie said he had class. He attended school in Cerro Gordo and Chadbourn.

Dutton had been in the Wavy two He has two brothers, Clyde and Audrey Dutton of WhiieviHe, and a sister, Airs. BrUce Gore of the Pireway section, i Each" 7 a "slimmer" "vacation cruise of 25 days is arranged without cost for members of the Naval ROTC units: C.ICKMANS UKFOKTED (Continued from Page 1) Another Columbu county fam- i Ljfoyn i ily, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.

Auger to- Th miln high command said day received a-card from their son, Milford Auger, who was whil til duty. The card slated thai, ho was, "gelling along fine." a Nazi U-boat had sunk one the five-- a cruiser of the .7,270 ton Leander class-- off the Alexandria. naval base. Nite 10:45 Montluy Tuesday SHAME ON YOU, Sooner or later every girl falls 5 for some man's 'line'! Rowdy Roz is a female judge who finds it's fun to be a snuggling; gal! Shame on you, your honor! have names; that 46B of them arc- no delails for er conducting more than a square mile in area, blackouts warnings. Only a tiny fraction of Manila's 623.000 people are Americans, but it is probably more American Uia nany other city in the Orient.

Only its old carabao carts, its two-wheeled, horse-drawn carromatas. and its mixture of races keep it from looking like an voider neon-lighted, billboarclcd. auto-filled, movie-cluttered city in the United States. Clover i i crie i be taken to insure maximum safely for He said i top floors of schooliiouses in Lum- proach of planes. Clerk of the House of Representatives, South Trimble bill after.it was passed.

It provides for OOo to be The'aum is largest ever appropriated at one time by the House. (Central Press) lover will probably call a mass meeting of Lumberton townspeople will be evacuated during. Glover said utmost haste in com- soon lo give th instructions. raids and that children will remain i pleting organization of the system was imperative and urged that ev- eryone learn as quickly as possible what he himself is expected to do Bladen Mishap But Baby Escapes Harm Elizabethtown, Dec. 19.

In Bladen county's most tragic traffic mishap of recent years, Mr. and eryone can help i the confident chinnis of thc Dublin assurance that any a how- community were killed instantly last night when struck while walking along the highway near their home. Miraculously, a baby in the arms of Mrs. couple's ever small, they may be able to contribute will go farther a it could go in any individual's hands. Thc Red Cross, always on the alert to relieve human suffering in war yotmgest child escaped unhurt or peace, has manifold extra de- as its parents were swept beneath the wheels of a vehicle and crush- mands during war times.

The to death. Mr. Chinnis was about President is calling now for 38 years of age and his Wife 35. 000.000 for this cause. Robeson county is asked to raise at least $8,000.

PRICE CONTROL Secretary of Agriculture Wickard says there is "little excuse for any substantial increase in farm prices as result of entry into the war of the United Slates." This statement by a tried and State Highway Patrolman W. E. Ebert. said the tongue of a seed sower, which was being towed by a truck-, struck Mr. and Mrs.

Chinnis and thre wthem under the farm machine's wheels. The tongue protruded 42 inches at right angles to thc machine and truck, the officer said. on the bottom floors until all- clear signal is received. Deputies In Mill Towns He said the schooliiouses will be in case of a warning. He stressed i i by him of any raid signals that all would be expected to keep 1 completely calm.

instructions were yes-1 terday being given town reprcsen- lies Two Columbus Men Killed In Action Its defenses form a triangle: doput wai 'dens in outlying mill with Nichols Field, the great U. S. tovv ls aild suburbs. Army airbase at Manila, in one corner; the big naval stations of Cavite and Olongapo, to the west. as will be ccntrallv-locat- Whileville, Dec.

I'ami- of two Columbus county Thc siren used as a fire whistle tatives in the other nine district youths were notified yesterday by i also notify townspeople of thc centers in the state, and il was ln Navy department that i presence of enemy planes, and the believed Lmuberon and other forming a second point: and heavi- ri i i certain number towns might be holding practice ly bastioned island of Corregidor at the mouth ing down the of times, xvill relay the allclear sig- blackouts soon. sons had been killed in action, presumably in the Pacific. The youths were: Harry Minat the mouth of Malina bay hold- Glovcr said individual towns Lt. Brockwell cautioned the men 23 son of Mr and Mrs Daniel cculd use any method desired as a i against sending in false raid I Mincey of thc Happy Hill sec- general alarm signal. however, saying they i ncar Whitcvillc: and Hubert Ho said the three warning sta- bui.

led I Dul son of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. One may be shocked to hear that the Japanese have landed on the (ions at Wilmington, Charleston, the average person to discount the and Norfolk will be manned by authenticity of the signal 'ncxt Malay peninsula, but it is well to i soldicrs and that plane detectors take into consideration that three- steaming, 7, 000-foot will be used to warn of the an- ft was understood that Chief fourths of Malay trackless jungle and mountain peaks.

Through these jungles and over those peaks the Japanese will have lo go before they can get to the rail line runs north from Singapore and to the great rubber plantations vast open dredge-mines that supply a third of the world's tin. When bombs rain on Japan, the names of Tokyo and Yokohama will be in the news, but likely you will find there more often the cities of Kobe and Osaka. These cities, only 20 miles apart, from one of Japan's greatest industrial and shipping- centers. Osaka. 20 miles inland, has the great industries.

Kobe, on the Inland Sea. is sec- ond only to Yoljohamr Dutton of Old Dock. Young M'mcey was the eldest of five children in the family. He joined thc Navy in June, 1940 and held the rating of Seaman, second RUSS6LL PIDG60I1 i Metro- Goldwyn Mayer's FOR SCf A I A with EDWARD ARNOLD FREE Tickets To The Carolina Theatre Each day there ill lie names listed somewhere in our Classified Advertising columns. Wntcli this enliimn I'or your name.

If your name is listed, call at The Kobcsnniau office immediately for your I'rcc ticket to Ihe Carolina. Good any day. ing the short dis home to the Dublin tend a Christmas entertainment. a in foreign Mr. and Mrs.

Chinnis were walk- shipping and probably second to istance from their in shipbuilding. Its vast ship- school to at- a rds line the shores at the head of Osaka bay and down i ways war Ed McKimmon. a driver go the cargo ships and ships of true friend of the farmer i i Patrolman Eb- jwitti which Japan expects to wage crt said was owned by the Keith! 115 'ir against us. Its a i end says the Raleigh Hardware company of St. Pauls, News and Observer, "among farm was jailed here pending a formal groups to genuine price-control inquest, which likely will be held legislation which will effectively WaVor Saturday.

control prices of all Investigators surmised that escape of the Chinnis baby probably Every farmer knows by now a came when Mrs. Chinnis dropped the i a under the terrifid impact tho of tlie sowcr Both she and her husband were swept beneath the wheels of the sower. The couple have two other young children. whether or not there is an crease in the price of what fanner sells, the commodities which the farmer must buy have- increased and will continue to increase in price unless there is effective regulation." There's the rub. It does not in the long run benefit the farmer or anyone else if thc prices of what they have to buy increase in greater proportion than the things they have to sell.

And any fair price- i control legislation also should put some ceiling on wages and salaries. Labor is the chief factor in cost of production of things the farmer has to buy. WAR ROUNDUP All we know about the war is what we see in the papers, and thc news has been rather encouraging for a few days now. Successes of thc Allies on various fronts have boosted hopes that thc international gangsters may be near- er defeat which is sure lo be their portion ultimately than has been feared. The Russians have exploded time and again the myth that German armies are invincible.

Red armies have been pushing the Germans back for some days now and inflicting heavy losses in men and equipment. war machine they (the Nazi war writes Kirke Per He Gal. Oil Co. E. 2nd Street A pay 30c to 35c per hundred for tin.

Samets Junk Yard LUMBERTON MB. MERCHANT The LTES THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE Oft VOUR ADIF IT NAD BEEN' INJHIS ISSUE runs close to a million. i Almost any day now, you are likely to hear of Ocean Island and Nauru. These two little pin-pricks in the. Pacific (you could walk around either one in a couple of hours) were third only to the i United States and French Moroc- co in the world production of phos- phates when the war broke out More than 1,250,000 tons of high- quality phosphate rock was shipped from there in 1939.

The little islands are about halfway from Australia to Hawaii, but only 400 miles from the nearest of the Japanese Marshall Islands. They would be an easy prey to attack from there and most certainly are a prize in Japan's search for I raw materials. All this isn't a drop in the aP- cific of what one should know if he is going to follow the war there. I AND WHEEL TOYS Western Auto Associate Store ELM STREET SMART MONE KMQWS WrtfttE TO GO AFTER THIS NEWSPAPER, CHRISTMAS--COME AND GONE! LEFTS SSE.WHSRE CAM THIS COM3ANP.WU5U LOOK. VtLVC SET PROPPE INTO IT WAS A LOT Or WORK" TAklW6 UP PLOOR3OARP5 SUT WEV'EW IT FIME7 IT UMTILCUWSTMAS HUMBLE THEATRK A SCUT-TLE OF PHIS SHIP WOU (JUILL -SCUTTLE 4ES I GET OR I (JUILL 6-LH-TjJeEMERAL IDEA UWDERSTAWD THIS SHIP POPEM6.

FATHER THAU IMJURE tUILL WOT LUOOD FOR THE -STOVE. SHALL SUFFER WERSELF USEFUL COM-SEQUEMCE-S NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER I EVEN VJIU. TAKE THE PLANE IN RETURN HIS FIRST FALSE STEP! GREAT WHAT o. --vou INNOCENT- FACED YOU WERE AH NEVAHTOI-D NOBODY IN WAL- IT ALL HAPPENED AT TH COUNTY FAIR AT TUXEDO JUNCTION, 'BOUT A HUNDRED MILES FUtt DOGPATCH. AH WENT THAR ALONE 1 EXHIBIT SALOflEY IN TH'PET SHOW YOU MUST TELL ME ALL ABJUT AH INTO IS TH' WAV IT HAPPENED OH, CUSS UNHAPPY DAY-SHE WRECKED HAH LIFE INTO TH riARRlAGE?.