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| Patronize Our Advertisers, For | | They Are Constantly Inviting ? | Too To Trade With Item. $ volumeimmit : ? ' ? ^^7"? ?? ?. ? mmrmKom numbertmim-om v- - ^ * ' i|;^?-.'?i i ' Germans Claim Surrender Of Warsaw By New Nazi-Russian Parley Berlin Communique Declares Formal Ending of Warsaw Siege Sckefded to Oc-car Tomorrow; Asserts Surrender By Polish Fighters Without Conditions; Meanwhile, Berlin Indicates that Russians and Germans Have Another Sur prise for War-Strkken Europe Brewing in Conversations Be tween Von Ribbentrop and Soviet Leaders at Moscow; Russians Report Sinking of One of Their Vessels by Sub marine in Baltic; Moscow Making Demands Upon Eston ia; Presence of Turkish Min ister at Moscow Also Gets At tention. Berlin, Sept. 27. ? besieged War saw, reported laid waste by bomb, shell and fire, surrendered uncondit ionally last night, the Nazi higji command announced. The German communique reporting capitulation of the Polish capital af ter 20 days of modern siege shared attention tonight with the expecta tion in informed quarters that a far reaching German-Busman accord would reult from the flying visit of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop to Moscow. Warsaw probably will be handed over to the beseiging Nazi army on September 29, the high command said, and General Johannes von Blas kowitz has been ordered to arrange the terms of surrender. (The Warsaw radio, which almost throughout the siege had been on the air with exhortations to Warsaw's citizens and soldiers to-tiaiat the in vaders was heard in Badapestas late as 2:45 p. m. yesterday. It an nouncer insisted tha^the city still held out and would resist to the last), j The surrender, in the German view, marked the end of the short but furiously-fought war which started 27 days ago The German high command, after the fifst brief announcement, issued a second communique as follows: Formalities Today. . "Warsaw has capitulated uncondit ionally. Formal surrender of the city will take place today. "It is established the military gar rison (Polish) occupying the city ex ceeds 100,000 mem" Other terms of the surrender were not made known immediately, but it was indicated the Germans had in sisted upon elaborate guarantees "to protect the civilian- population." It was regarded likely, too, that the Germans had exacted effective guarantees to prevent attacks by the civilian population upon the occupy ing force, and had a military gov ernment ready to enforce such meas ures, to remove prisoners, relieve ^.distress and. stamp out any incipient epidemics. Reports reaching the Geraa^3Kle I indicated that conditions approaeh I inf. civil war prevailed in Warsaw daring the final stages of the siege, I with a considerable faction within I the city demanding submission to the I German terms. It was believed these terms inehid-II I ed surrender of the Warsaw garrison I of mote than 10^000 men as prison as of war. Germans have contended that it I was their objective to naah the I Polish army so there would be no chance of a surviving part reorgan I ixing opposition to German or Rus I san forge of occupation Twenty days aga the first German motorised troops reached Warsaw l . -r, .v ^ ? wiuwrew bihui xmny rQusxi nw, I and at a safe distance, awaited the ? full foree.of the German amy which I soon dosed in from three directions I a5Bytb^s^^11 lTj?g Germans I Z^wSLr^ '?***" **** an tee." He said aga appreciable tun in the Turkish foreign policy, which he termed agreeable to Germany, al ready had been noted. He emphasised current military questions involving Russia had been settled with acceptance of the mili tary demarcation line in Poland , and that von Ribbentrop's conversation would be largely in the political field, with the largest question being the fate of Poland. It was conceded here that a fur ther German-Russia accord might have repercussions in the Far East, with Hie attitude of Japan still nn clarified. EUROPEAN SUMMARY The German high command assert ed last night that Warsaw had "ca pitulated unconditionally" after 20 days' land and air bombarddmeut Berlin added that "handing over" of the capital "probably will occur" Friday. About six hours previousy the War saw radio had announced the city still was holding out, although it was a "destroyed inferno." The Western Front had an artil lery dud between French and Ger man big guns. German shells went four miles into French deserted towns. French fire was concentrated on the Hornbach salient, where French infantry approached German fortifi cations, and on the Saar region. Germany announced a "successful" mass air attack on British captal ship in the North Sea, with the Germans "destroying" an aircraft carrier and scoring important hits on a battleship. The First Lord of Britain's Ad miralty, Winston Churchill, said "no British ship was hit", and assert ed one German flying boat was shot down and another "reported badly damaged." I 1 ?' i The Soviet government announced that the Russian steamer Metallist had been torpdoed and sunk by an unidentified submarine off the north era coast of Estonia. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived in Moscow amid unconfirmed reports that a Soviet - German military pact was und^r consideration. He began con ferring with Premier-Foreign Com missar Vyacheslaff Molotoff. Germany was reported by French dispatches to be speeding concen tration of troops on the Western Front as a club, to induce France and Britain to discuss peace terms. The Paris dispatches said Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was preparing to make a formal peace offer based on the status quo of Fokmd,: perhaps be fore the end of this week. The British government imposed upon the country the heaviest taxes ever levied in. an effort.to. meet an estimated $8,000,000,000 of expendi tures for the current fiscal year. To help finance the war against Germany, the government called on rich and poor alike, raising the stan dard income tax from 27.5 per cent to 37.5 and hoisting, levies on beer, sugar, wine, tobacco, whiskey, es tates, 'surtaxes and excess profits. . President calls upon all ~k$afc law enforcement officers to join 'with FBI in spy hunt i B.&L AneciitiM I' ' ftirtliraiflJ tftliyfl I j Wmmraoo hUUFo Over Two Million Dol lars Loasttl: During August fur Mew Homes,, Repairing, etc. The building, savings and loan aa-> sotiations of North Carolina. again loaned over two million .doHasi.1for the construction, purchase, repair and reflnabfingt of 1260 rhomes, a^ cording t? reports nf -August loans compiled by the North Carolina Building and Loan League, it waa stated today; bp Wheeler Kantfrt of Williamstoo, President. Loans for the construction of home* > amounted to forty per cent ; of the > total of the loans, 1840,000 having been loaned out for Ittfb purpose.1 In addition, he said that 264 home* were purchased to -the-, amount: of / $418,* 000, 180 hemes were , refinanced amounting to $812,000!, over 200? rev pair loana representing $174,000, and 192 loans, to the amount of. $308,* 000 for miscellaneous purposes were made by these popular local home lending, institutions, which derive their funds from tl* sayings-and vestments of people in the same com munities where the loans are made. IJohn H. Tug-well, 63, Claimed By Death I.: Final, rites for John . H, Tugwell, 63, who died Tuesday gt his home near Farmville after an extended-ill ness, were held at 3:30 Wednesday at the home by the Bey; M. A. Woodard, Free Will Baptist minister of Winterville, assisted by the Rev. Jack Tyson and the Rev. J. C. Moye of Snow HilL Interment was in the Parker Cemetery, near Farmville. Surviving axe his widow, Mrs. Nannie Parker Tugwell; two daugh ters, Mrs. J. R. Gay of Walstonburg, and Mre. John Easoh of Washington, D. C.; three sons, Marvin, Sam V., and Ansel Tugwell of Farmville; a brother, Robert Tugwell of Farmviller ] ____ Pitt Officers Halt Operations of 'Slots' Greenville, Sept. 27.?Pitt County has been relievedofthealofc machine "evil" for the-time being, according to city and county officers,. who. de* clare that "so far as we know, them are no. coin-opented devices maintained in- the county." Judge J. Paul Frizzelle dissolved an order in Snow Hill, several days ago restraining,and enjoining Sheriff J- Knott Proctor and Chief of Police. George-Clark from seising or inter ferring with the operation. of thw devices. L. B. McCormick, plaintiff in the order, asked the cqurt for five days in which to remove his mach ines from the county.' His.-request was graateri snd apparently iutfihed. ^Chsw w.now pending: in rSuperior Court against 15 defendants who ware indicted as a remit,of-warrants drawn by the Pitt County grand jury at the last^sesakm of Superiorcourt. It has not been decided whether nolle pros with .leave will be taJtenin the case. HBARSR KU-LSTWO ;Council.Bluffs, Iowa ? WhileM*. and llrs.(Edward^BrewiBir and their year-old daughter, Shirley,. were on. their way to ia birthday party for, the child, a, hearse skidded'too their car, killed the father andr<. befcy daughter and seriously- injured the mother. / . ~' ? ? ' ri ^"~?''?' "?? -??' ? ?' , - '-" ,r ? -'--fjj*-*^|y .'*?"/. "''? ? I ? ^ II the decrease in the export market for I fine-cored tobacco expected if the ex isting war aitaation continues, the i tobacco grower* am look forward to ! I for tobacco products, the Agriculture I Conditions reflecting the domestic I consumer demand fl>r tobacco prod I acta probably will be more favorable I S^3SOn | flftiid* 15 cent* composed with ZLZ cent* a year. AppioximjaeJy :o*t third of the ftaercured ciqp indiea^r ed Septezfcbsrl, or 321#$,090 poundp for which growers received $48,l?lr 000, had been sold on auction floors to September 1. In tha preceding season, auction-floor sales to Septem ber 1 were jW7,327,eOO- pounds, or approximately ? the ? pro portion rnmm ? . ??/ .V ..- - A ' ?? . ?. Sale# or Tjrja 13 ouaag ABgosc ~?l ? ? *" rt i m.~zt # Large rsumoGr 01 lniciv Rested Farit#rg .Met feere, Wednesday, ,Af. fernoon and H eard Some five or six hundred tobacco growers, their faces grave and lined with, seriousness, listened to farm leaden and others here Wednesday aftfenywn telltbem about the advan tages of the 1940 control program. Not a wordof opposition was heard st the meeting^ Solemn throughout, the meeting was one of the moat impressive ever lteW;in this county and one could tell thht the weed growers attended the meeting with the realisation that there was a grave crisis before them. After an explanation of the pro posed crop control program for next year, the group , was warned that "if control doeant go through this year everything points to the fact that Imperial Tobacco Company will not go hack on the market this year." Speakers emphasized the troubles in the world, the war and the neces sity for cutting down the 1940 crop since there is a surplus of around. ?50,000,000 pounds on hand, it being manifest that with the Imperial, hav ing.a two-year supply of tobacco on hand and withdrawing from the market, and there is the largest world's supply ever held* the neces sity for a reduction in the 1940 crop ^apparent. Indications continue to increase that Pitt county will vote overwhelmingly in favor of tobacco production con trol for 1940 as the series of town ship meetings being conducted this week brings practically unanimous approval of the proposal. The farmers were urged to' vote their own convictions but to vote in any event. ^ ' Replds IMt I llnntrnttfaHivm Nemral w Ifero ? ? Issues Statement Declaring ; Trade orKentndity' Bi^ Isaie Before Senate; Does Net Dis* ! close Voting Intentions; How ever, Statement Indicates He SiilliAUia to Isolationist Side; Lindbergh Holds Loog ?onfer ence with Borah; Senate Com mittee May Report Measure Toa?jr, . ? ? "' i ?. / ' Washington, Sept, 28t ? Senator Robert R. Reynolds today issued a statement in which be: declared that. ^3?7? ' JUL.'* ' ** " ? W the.issue involved in the Senate com: sidenation of neutrality act revision was whether the United States want ed''trad?< or neutrality*?. The stater meat,, however, gave no clua.aa.,tol what position the junior North (Carolina Senate*. Will taker on the PittmaavbRl when it cornea, to a vote in the Senate. A carefnl.reading of the statement N would, seem.to indicate that Reynolds still .leans to the isolationist, view point,, "But in the . final sailing gpodajaow must, not be given . first riimnrht if.it sen diner our 1 Mia 1 ? 1 IP ? I ' j. Reynolds.: then: declared-;.Vthat ,tha Senate should 'legislate with a vie^ - grjUgrj^ and the drilars of our already over burdened taxpayers." EX However, thfe Tar Heel mlon did i not state whether he believed adopt ion of the Httman hill embodying jtrality program would, result in this i nation's booming-, "physically in- : j t* J c* 11 w,i LnM uAiniAi jj. r,f nt?, 11 n?a . iM:,' I statement, in IIUpilIIH) Iff-;-. ':f- ' : '-' . *%; ' Commerce j&cretafy^ Asked is^mmpr tion of Tobacco Buying of British Companies ? if-;:V" , Washington, Sept 27.?Following up his efforts to get the British buyers to return to the flue-cured tobacco markets, Senator Josiah W. Bailey today solicited the cooperation of Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins. In viewof the mntual benefits de rived by the United Kingdom and the United States through the former's purchase of flue-cured tobacco, the North Carolina' Senator appealed- to Hopkins to do everything possible ] through his department, to get -the British buyers to resume their nor mal purchases.. Senator Bailees letter in full fol lows: / "Dear Mr. Hopkins: "I know you am interested in our foreign and domestic commerce and I wish to call to your attention the letter that I have written to the President, copy of which is attached' hereto, on the subject of closing of the tobacco markets in ^North Caro lina on account of the withdrawal of the British buyers from the United Kingdom. "The United Kingdom purchased last year 253,990,006 pounds of oar. bright.fine-cured tobacco and 404,-. 000:pounds of our barley tobacco. At 20'cents a pound, this amounts te a little more than $40,000)000* At the: same time, the* United Kingdom de rived a revenue from imported to bacco of from $2.30 to $2.50 on each pound of tobacco. Twenty cents to the North Carolina farmers means, more than two dollars to the ^United Kingdom. There fa a mutuality of interests here,and upon thfa mutual ity I believe we can find a way to reetoto^the buyers of the United Kingdom to our markets and re-open the markets, very greatly to the re lief of our farmers and their wel fare. ?? ?. ' . "I am writing1 tx> solicit your earn-1 est consideration and your aid. Nothing Unusual. "There is some protest against my suggestion thai we might lend in terests representing the United Kingdom funds, if necessary, with which to purchase this tobacco. To fo sure we could arrange this so as to be safe. Our present policy is to. encourage commercial loans from 66 to 90-days, and I may add that we cannot hopie to develop our foreign commerce unless w* pursue the pol icy that is pursued by all other na tions?that is of providing- reason able credits based upon reasonable security. There is nothing unusual in this .'and nothing; contrary to the present policy of the government. We may not lend to foreign ? countries that owe us money on the World War- account, and pf course we can require satisfactory security. v Situation Distressing, v ' I "The situation in North Carolina is really distressing. The farmers cannot hold their tobacco. They hgye no means of preserving it They have produced a great crop and it is on their hands. We musi re-open the markets and If we can re-open them with the British buying m nor mal ratio, it will mean a great deal foir our fhraere. vvl-f '. ^ "I should add that we are produc ing. the bright tobacco in fhlly 56 North Carolina counties and the bur ley tobacco in about 20 counties and ? . the tobaccdcropis brfarthe biggest crop produced by our state. It has ^SnTcCnej"0" ' "Let me shy alB6 that aince to bacco is one of the great sources of revenue to ourceuntry, as well as the United Kingdom, there ia an equitable bright bare of great weight. This government derived in the fiscal year 1939, *580,159,205 from taxes on tobacco in the entire. United States and |2tir>66M46 came tram North Carolina. "Let me add that the Governor of m^r^lnT^S^ ^am^S^ thU letter after conference with him and with hid approval. "With all good wishes, "Very tfnly yours, I "(Signed>, JOSIAH W. BAILEV." , ? ? , - ? Loans On Cotton ?? * : ? _???? .? '?? ? ?- ' . -/s ' .? jy ; ,.Baleigh, Sept. 27.?North Carolina farmers are holding their cotton as never before, according to M. G. Mann, general manager of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association, who. pointed out today that deliveries to the- Association to date are more than four time* as great as for the corresponding period a year ago. . Many fanners reatise the position in which they will find themselves if they sell their cottonron today's market and then have to buy feed, fertilizer and other supplies that go into the production of a new crop .at the higher , prices that are almost sure'to come by next spring. They are holding their cotton and the expected increase in cotton prices will help offset the increased prices [for things they, will have to boy." Mr. Mann* raid the Cotton Associ ation is lending thousands of dollars dally to farmers who want to hold their cotton in a safe bonded ware I house for higher prices but who want some ready cash now.. All cotton placed with- the Association can be : sold quickly upon the authorization of I the grower and-in such a way as to get him that highest possible price f as well as full grade and staple premiums, Mr. Mann said. The - thinking, fanher, Mr. Mann Baid, will recall that in October, 1914,. the year the first World; War began, the price of cotton was. only seven ' cents a pound tat that toe following. May it had advanced taore than $10 a bqle and that it contoured to rise: [.until it reached a high of more than $200 a bale. "Prices are bound to go up as toe war continues and you, the grower, should get toe benefit," Mr. Mann declared; The Farmville Bonded- Warehouse has been authorized by the Cotton Association to make a liberal loan at four per cent-: Interest to farmers UpoU t, delivery of their cotton J in .iBhnnvUie. tap| ???'? ' '?U'- 1 .''A U",, ,. I PLAY. "BIG; BEARS* .^London ? To aid In gettmgsmall children , to don their gas ?nas$* air raid wardens have taught them ? new game ? "big bears'.'. With the game, the children, are easily ^coaxed, into putting on toe masks, in order to become "big bears." *.. ? ? 11. .i~ " ' ' I ... government today flawed the Com munist-Party in France in what poli circles ^ interpreted aa an an Itians^ had fii&^^pesh^dowed ?I m ii.,,1 French barrage* withb&stihgfire, seeding shells screaming into the wooded hiils and steep ravines south east of the German town of Zwef brueken. This town was the injme' diate objee^/e of the French attack in thiB sector. f' Overhead French and fjfepnsn air forces clashed, '."the' French holding their own against superior numbers. ing the Hornbach salient, which was ' ^ JV u, | fllLi.tj P j.V a ' * j ?V *v?' SGSKKJv-ir-'w*?' Help Planned For The 193l ?2* #??f 11 y Dispose o?-This YeaS Crop If Control fe j Adopted ? ? - Raleigh,: Sept 25.-J1 B. Hdtaon, _ t*Gi? ? f? a__t_ J jt-?, wr' j ?v awuuiikt wmmtatrator oi tM Fed eral Agricultural Adjustment Admin iatratibni announced this,'afternoon that fhze-cured tobacco farmers would vote October 5 on limiting 1940 pro duction-to about 6?b,D00,000 pounds. Thedate and quota were announced to 880 tobacco warehousemen front Virginia, North and South Carolina! Georgia and Florida shortly after the warehousemen had pledged unani* mous support to control. Limitation of the 1940 crop would be secured by allotting acreage esti mated to yield not more than 660,* 000,000 pounds. Each tobacco grow er would be allowed to sell all the tobacco produced on the- allotted acreage. Hutson had earlier said that "plana have been practically com pleted" to use facilities of the Im perial Tobacco Company and funds of the Commodity- Credit Corpora-" tion to aid farmers in-disposing of their record bffiibn' pound 1939 crop if they approve control for next yedri /"-? Before the warehousemen's meet ing Hutson conferred with the exe cutive committfee of the North Caro lina Bankers' Association and the committee and association officers adopted a resolution approving con trol for thr 1940 crop; A gronp of Eastern North Caro lina business; men also met to dis cussthesitaation. i A conference of representatives from each group was arranged tor! this aftomoonwith Governor Hoev. The plan to aid farmers with their 1989 crop has been dfecusaed with the Imperial- company, Hutson said, and the firm would make purchases and process the weed just as it does for its own accouxt^ but title would remain with the Commodity Credit Corporation. The Imperial company would ;b*'give& an option to take the tobacco later for its own account. \ Tobacco prices dropped after thef . Imperial and -other British compan ies stopped buying when war stated < in Europe, Warehouses were dosed' in mid-September and detafls^are now being worked out forth^rttfekiOn dum. ' Hutson pointed out thkt British* buyers normally take one^third of the fde-curtd - crop and because the purchases ere of the^ higher grade they usuaBy pay farmers approxi mately one-half of all the money re ceived for flue-cured tob afico. f "The' withdrawal of the' British buyers," Hutson said, "cre?ted a se rious* andr immediate ertkergtency, but even before their withdrawal the surplus of more than 200,000,000 pounds from the billion pound 1980 crop had already -resulted in mttdi * lower prices than for the past several years. ? "The average-price for~the first six weeks of sales this year was ap proximately 14.5 cent* 'a pound as .contrasted with 22.8 cents a pound jfdr* the 1988? etap.. The 1989 crop of one bitttefc pound* compares with is consumption level ofbetweerf 750.- C 000,000. and 800^000,000 pounds." f "In our efforts to be of assistance in this situation we have sought the "M advice of farmers, bankers, : mar-' ' 4-r. ItMMmlMfl -?l_qfin ili anllllL mil eMmts anet uuMiwgi men QBoogaoot the flue-cured beh. These men inm been unanimous in the - view that it would be mpound business for tin . government to attempt to support -1 prices unless farmers cooperate to jjwhte'th. ||l on
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