Review Of Markets
For the Past Week
Raleigh. Sept. 4?The Virginia pea
nut crop, both cleaned and shelled
were well cleaned up and no sales
were reported during last week.
Growing conditions continued gen
erally good and the crop is reported
in good condition.
Feed markets turned firm toward
the close of the week ended Septem
ber 8th, the Depa/tment of Agricul
ture reports. Thf moderate offerings
of millfeeds Ibr immediate and
prompt shipment were readily taken
by mixed feed manufacturers and
prices averaged somewhat higher.
Oilseed cakes and meals were also
higher with the principal advance
in soybean meal Corn feeds were
firm with a fairly good inquiry . The
index number of wholesale feed
stuffs prices advanced over one
point to 159.4 compared wtih 158.2
for the previous week and 158.9 for
the corresponding week last year.
As a result of sharp, week-end
losses, hog prices declined from 5
to 15 cents ifor the short holiday
week, and continued to lose until
the market was 3b cents lower than
a week ago. For good and choice 180
to 300 pound butchers the late was
posted at 14.40 per hundred
There were also sharp declines on
the Carolina and Virginia hog out
lets. Most sales were from steady to
30 cents lower than on last Friday
Tops for good and choice offerings
stood at 13 45 in Rocky Mount and
Whiteville: at 13.70 in Clinton. Lum
berton and Richmond; at 13.75 in
Fayetteville and Florence; and a1
13.80 in Windsor.
Cotton prices advanced a little for
the week. The official crop forecast
of 14,028,000 equivalent 500-pound
bales, based on conditions as of Sep
tember 1. was larger than the aver
age of trade estimates and 843.000
bales larger than the August fore
cast. Production last season totaled
10,742,000 bales, 12,565,000 the prev
ious season, and averaged 13,109.000
bales for the 10 years ended 1940
Weather conditions during the week
were less favorable to the cotton crop
as a result of too much rain over
much of the belt Activity in spot cot
ton markets increased seasonally and
the reported volume of sales in the
10 markets was substantially larg
er than for the preceding week but
smaller than for the corresponding
week a year ago. The 10-market av
erage price of 18.71 cents for mid
dling 15-16 on Friday, Sept 11, was
6 points higher than a week ago and
compared with 17.74 cents a year ago.
Sales of 105,000 bales reported by the
10 markets compared with 73,000 in
the preceding week and 124,000 in
the corresponding week last year.
Cotton farmers are not selling freely
at current prices and a considerable
percentage of current ginnings is go
ing into the government loan.
Fruit
Total fruit production in 1942-43
is expected to be slightly less than
record 1941-42 production, according
to the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture.
War As It Relates
To Home Front Is
Reviewed for Week
(Continued from page one)
such communities that are turning
in thousands of pounds of scrap met- |
als and rubber.
Farmers Riding High
Farmers, on the whole, haven't |
found the going tough so far?ex
cept for the shortage of labor. They
are buying more goods and making
more property improvements than
at any time since the unlucky boom
days of the last war. Yet that very
fact should give them pause. Inflat
ed war prices not only handicap the
whole war program, but endanger
post-war security. With tobacco,
wool and all meats bringing prices
far above parity, producers might
but not until it absorbs another 600,
weil recall the tragic slump which
followed the last war-created "pros
perity."
Government Cracks Down on
Sabotage of Price Control
In its unending battle against the
Fifth Column threat of inflation, of
high living costs, the Government is
cracking down on sabotage of price
control, illegal trading (the "black
markets")* rent gougers in war-boom
towns, dishonest grading of meats
other wartime trickery. Some man
ufacturers hid price increases by
cheapening products and skimping
on measurements, claiming their di
luted goods are the same as those
they sold before. Penalties and re
straining orders are the Govern
ment's answer to such slippery prac
tices-. but the most effective answer
comes from the consumer who re
fuses to deal with backsliding mer
chants or with gasoline and tire boot
leggers As Price Administrator Hen
derson says. "The time of our toler
ance is past."
More Products Taken Out of
General Circulation
As we cut deeper into the war
economy, unexpected values are at
tached to the commonest products
and by-products?corn cobs and oat
hulls, (sources of solvent known as
furfurol). plastics, drugs and dyes.
Some of these must be reserved
strictly for war uses, others have
been brought into balanced distribu
tion among civilian and military us
ers Thus, the total supply of cotton
linters. used in making explosives
and other war goods, has been
brought under distribution control,
along with all refrigerator cars,
barges and tow boats?and the en
tire meat industry except retailers.
Among products recently taken out
of general circulation are portable
electric fans, overhead traveling
cranes, anti freeze mixtures, quick
drying paints, caffeine (which goes
into the cola drinks), agave fiber
(for wrapping twine). Western fir
logs and hemlock aircraft logs.
Building lumber is so scarce that
we shuH be using bricks and tile for
even temporary structures. Brushes,
except for war uses or public health,
must not contain more than 55 per
cent pig and hog bristles. Cigarettes
will be dryer ? their moistening
agent, glycol, going to cool military
SELL WITH IJS
Thursday
SEPTEMBER 17th
If e Have
FIRST SALE!
THURSDAY, ami we are expeet
ing one of the highest and one of the
largest sales of the year.
Bring Your Tobacco In Tomorrotc.
Wednesday
September 16th. for Our Eirst Sale
Thursday
Roanoke - Dixie
Warehouse Willianiston
GRIFFIN And JIMMY TAYLOR. Prop*.
After Jap Bombers Attacked Midway Island
This photo, taken from official Navy films of the Midway Island battle, shows a burning building in back
ground. after Jap bombers managed to get through" to burnt) "our installations on the island: In the fore
ground is another building that was hit by the Nip airmen. During the three-day battle, four Jap car
i iers, two heavy cruisers, and three destroyers were sent to the bottom, along with eleven other enemy
s: ;ps. The U. S. lost one destroyer and the carrier Yorktofvn was damaged. The Japs lost 4,880 sailors
and airmen; U. S. losses were ^07 men killed or missing. This is an official U. S. Navy photo.
Russians Line Guns
Huh To Huh To Stop
Nazis At Stalingrad
(Continued from page one)
the continental United States.
An encouraging report was releas
ed by ranking Navy officials today
when they said that the Allies are
now stronger in the Pacific than are
the Japs. They warned, however,
that more work would be necessary
before victory will be ours.
Canada today officially released
its losses in the Dieppe raid of a few
weeks ago. There were 170 killed,
2,545 missing and 640 wounded in
the raid. Since the Canadians bore
the brunt of the raid, these figures,
it is believed, account for most of
the losses suffered by the Allies.
Aside from the war front, a solemn
warning came from Joseph C. Grew,
former ambassador to Japan, who
urged the American people to stop
"groping blindfold" for the fcrim
fact before them ? that they will
"pass into slavery" unless they unite
in a determined war effort to make
victory sure Grew just recently re
turned on the exchange line, "Grip
sholm."
engines.
WPB To Regulate Inventories
The balanced distribution of civil
ian goods is not easy under present
conditions. In many localities store
shelves are being emptied, while in
other places there are surpluses. The
War Production Board plans to reg
ulate inventories in the hands of
wholesalers and retailers. As a part
of the leather-saving program, shoe
merchants have been asked not to
urge that customers buy unneeded
shoes, and next year they'll have
fewer styles and colors to offer. The
balance of this year's salmon pack
has been refrozen in the hands of
canners. Prices have been fixed for
railroad ties, Eastern hardwood lum
ber. necktie fabrics, shirting and
flue-cured leaf tobacco. Mail order
houses must furnish customers with
ceiling prices of all cost-of-living ar
ticles they sell.
Drive for Substitute Goes On
The drive for substitutes, better
processes, short-cuts, goes on with
90 per cent of our imported tin cut
off, WPB has pressed developments
of an electrolytic process which
makes each ton of tin do the work
of two . . . Second hand pipeline, dug
up in Texas, goes into the Trans
Florida (Carabelle-to-Jackson) pipe
line . . Sixteen men and one wo
man received first awards of certifi-!
cates of individual production for
ideas?the best of 12.000 suggestions
in the War Production Drive ?in
creasing quantity or improving qual-;
ity of war goods . . Labor and man
agement will supply two members
each to a five-man committee of
WPB, appointed to work with 1,300
labor-management committees in
war plants In Bridgeport. Conn..
AFL and CIO war workers gave $87,
000 to buy a fighter plane, and at
Buffalo, N. Y., the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen presented a pur
suit plane to the Army Air Forces
. . . California needs 150,000 local
people to help bring in the crops, be
sides 1.500 Mexican workers who
will be transported from Mexico to
the sugar beet farms.
In 12 Western states critical labor
shortages in mining and lumbering
have led a regulation requiring cer
tificates of separation from workers
who want to change jobs . The In
ternational Red Cross in Japan will
try to deliver messages from friends
and relatives to U. S. soldiers report
ed missing in action but not yet of
ficially reported by the enemy as
prisoners of war . . Our allies are
returning Lend-Lease aid in a mul
titude of ways, supplying squadrons
of protective spotfires?and new fan
belts for U S. trucks, building air
dromes and naval bases?and giving
our troops chocolate bars, bananas,
and other delicacies, providing con
voy protection?and filling gas tanks
for U. S. ferry planes , . Since the
President told us w^ere we stand in
the war, the Japs ahd Nazis? evir
dently worried^? hAY* bombarded
this country by short-wave radio
with misquotations and false ver
sions of his speech.
OR 8ALB ? 80W WITH NINE
pigs. See C. H. Harris, Route 2,
IViUiamston. ill-2t
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Traffic, according to some es
timates, is hardly fifty per cent
of normal, but the highway ac
cident ratio continues at a high
er point. Last week there were
two motor vehicle accidents re
ported on the streets and high
ways of the county
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present time.
37th Week Comparison
Accidents InJ'd Killed Dam'ge
1942 2 1 0 $ 315
1941 1 1 0 300
Comparison To Date
1942 50 30 2 $ 6,358
1941 64 51 3 18,730
Record Poundage Is
Offered On Market
Here In Recent Days
(Continued from page one)
clare they are making money and
saving that extra expense incurred
in making long hauls.
While there is a tendency on the
part of some to condemn the tobac
co price ceiling and even declare that
explanations offered by the Office
of Price Administration do not make
sense, many of the farmers question
ed in this area are of the opinion that
the ceiling has actually helped them.
It is quite possible that the prices for
the better grades are being held
down, but at the same time the ceil
ing apparently is making it possi
ble for the companies to pay more
for the medium and inferior grades
And it is a fairly well established
fact that when a few farmers get
sky-high prices for "good" tobacco,
the fellows with the poorer quality
grades pays the difference in lower
prices.
Several Colored Schoolt
Are Cloted In Thi* County
An acute labor shortage on many
farms forced the closing of several
colored schools in this county last
Friday when the young tots were
excused for at least a month or until
they finished the cotton harvest. Ap
proximately a dozen schools were af
fected. The interruption was antici
pated and the term was started in
those schools on August 13th While
the others, more or less outside the
county's cotton belt, did not start
until September 3rd
?a~
Encouraging Report From
A Son In The Service
??
Little or nothing was said about
the individual soldier, but William
M. Jones, colored of Oak City, was
greatly encouraged last week when
he received a $50 money order from
his son, Ernest, down at Camp Ruck
er. Alabama.
The father explained that he was
going to keep the savings for his boy
and expressed the hope that he
would come back.
Wants
FOR SALE: ONE 15-M INTERNA
tional Tractor, with bush and bog
disc harrow. In first class condition
and ready to run. Luther Hardison,
Jamesville, N. C. s!5-2t
LISTEN! CLOTHES FOR ALPHA
Cleaners. Look, people, don't give
me clothes to keep, give them to me
to clean. If you are not at home,
leave the money. You know I can't
get gas to carry back. Joe Wilson.
Sell in 30 days.
FOR SALE: BICYCLE AND MOTOR
$35. Either motor or bicycle, $20 C.
L Manning, 620 Washington Street.
Plymouth. W. C. ilJJt
FOR SALE: MY HOME, 11 ACRES.
farm, 50 acres near Rich Square.
Tobacco, cotton, peanut allotments,
some timber Satisfactory terms.
Mrs. Nora P. Cope land. Rich Square,
N C.
FOR QUICK, QUALITY DRY
cleaning service, bring your clothes
to Pittman's. One day service on any
garment. Suits, coats and dresses, 56
cents, cash and carry. 65c delivered.
Pittman's Cleaners. fJ-tf
FOR SALE: STANDARD, APPROV
ed and inspected concrete slab and
riser pit privies. Installed and paint
ed Price $30.00 cash. W. T. Stinnette,
619 W Main Street, Phone 149-W.
sll-2t
STOP, LOOK, LISTEN. IF INTER
ested in memorials for love ones
and friends, call 149-J, or write Jesse
T. Price, Williamston, N. C. Agent
for New Bern Monumental Works
Dealers in high grade monuments
of marble and granite. Every mon
ument, small or large, has our per
sonal attention. s!5-2t
GRAPES WANTED: WILL PAY 3
cents per hundred pounds for
Scuppernongs and Black grapes. This
equals $1.80 for 60 pound bushel.
Lindsley Ice Company, Williamston.
N. C. sl5-8t
EXPERT PIANO TUNING AND RE
building 16 years with Baldwin
Piano Company Equipped to ren
der any service to any make of pi
ano. Chas. Goodrich. Box 405. Wash
ington. N C. s!5-6t
To Relieve |4A| TfcC
Misery of
Ct Ct Ct Liquid?Tablets
1J Salve?Nose Drop*
Cough Drop*
Try "RUB-MY-TISM" ? A
Wonderful Liniment
THREE-ROOM CORNER APART
ment for rent. Steam heat and hot
water furnished. Call or see N. C.
Green or G. H. Harrison. s8-4t
THREE PERSIAN KITTENS POR
sale. Mrs. Emily E. Smithwick,
Jamesvilie, N. C. ^ s8-4t
FOB SALE: W OB M BABULS OF
corn. Sn C. H. Harris, Route 1,
Williemston. ?- ?ll-tt
CLARK'S MALARIAL, CHILL AND
Fever Tonic. Sold on mocey-baefc
guarantee. Clark's Pharmacy, Wil
liamston, N C jyU-tl
TWO WEEKS' SALE OF
ODDS and ENDS
SEE WHAT YOU SAVE!
25-Foot Rubber
Regular Side
GARDEN HOSE $2.65 $2.39
GARDEN HOSE $2.25 $1.95
GARDEN HOSE .... $1.60 $1.39
Seat Covers
HOLLYWOOD STRAW
Seat (lovers, (loupe .. $4.35 $2.49
For Plymouth 36, Ford 37, Chevrolet,
Dodge, Plymouth and Chryiler, 40
HOLLYWOOD STRAW
Seat (lovers, Sedan . . .$7.25 $4.95
For 4-Door, Chevrolet 38, Ford 39, Olds 40
FIBER TEX STRAW
Seat (lovers, (loaeh . . $5.35 $3.48
Chevrolet, l)o<lge, Olds, 40
COUPE ? FIBER TEX STRAW
FORD. 35-40 $4.35 $2.45
CHEVROLET, 37-38 $3.25 $1.98
COACH ? KOOL KAR STRAW
Ford, Chevrolet, &A A r dfcO AZ
Plym outh, 39-1Q _ _ ftT.TJ
SEDAN ? KOOL KAR STRAW -
Chevrolet, Chrysler, rn <*?
DeSoto, Dodge, 40-11 g>T..)Q
COUPE ? KOOL KAR STRAW
Olds 30-36; Chevrolet, Dodge, ,r r*?
Pontiar 37-30; Chev., Dorlge 4Q %1 ???>
WESTERN FIELD GUN SHELLS
16 Gauge Shell# 82c box
12 Gauge Shells 92c box
Western Auto Store
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
Your Cotton Will Bring
You More Big Dollars
When Ginned By Us
New and Modern Machinery
Our gins are equipped with modern machinery and the beat clean
ing system, which assures you higher seed cheeks, better staple,
greater yields and cleaner lint. Our gin is operated by experienc
ed operators and we use the very best bagging ties. We guar- r
antee satisfaction with every bale ginned.
We Buy Cotton and Cotton Seed
Taylor Mill & Gin Co.
ROBERSONVILLE NORTH CAROLINA