5= : ? Tobacco Average Slightly Higher Than Last Year ? ir ii V Average Estimated At Around $17 a Hundred; Purchase Program Is Offered American Ex porters as Well as For? eign Owned Companies 1 A check up of sales on some of the Georgia and Florida bright leaf to bacco markets early Thursday morn ing showed an average of around 17c a pound was being paid for the first offerings, with tops bringing $27 to $28 a hundred. A wire from H. R. Acton at Live Oak, Fla., stated first row sold at an average of $16.75, with 27c as top price. From Adel, Ga., comes a message from Bob Edmonson saying an aver age of $17.00 waa paid for the first six rows. The highest price paid was $28 a hundred. About 250,000 Southern farmers, with an investment in cash and sev eral months of labor at stake, awaited the opening of the Georgia-Florida tobacco markets to tell the story of profits or losses ahead of them this season. They looked to the first sales as a fair guide to prices to bd expected when the season advances and the buyers move into the Carolinas and Virginia, states producing the bulk of the cigarette type leaf. Growers hauled the newly-cured yellow leaves of tobacco to ware houses in 17 market towens, where auctions began Thursday morning. Two are in Florida, at Lake City and Live Oak, where tobacco lately was developed as an important crop. The others are in Georgia at Adel, Baxley, Blackshear, Douglas, Ha hira, Hazlehurst, Metter, Moultrie, Nashville, Pelham, Statesboro, Tif ton Valdosta, Cidalia and Way cross. Producers were delighted with the appearance of Imperial Tobacco Com pany buyers on the various markets, which is a sign that the large por ~ tion of the crop usually sold to Great Britain would be reserved for possi ble future export. There seemed to be general agree ment as to the good quality of the crop this year. Uncle Sam Again Helps. A Commedity Credit Corporation loan-and-purchase program on flue cured tobacco * designed to stabilize the market for the 1940 crop and to assist in the fianncing of tobacco for export to European countries now out of the market because of war, was announced by the Department of Agriculture. The program provides the flue cured producers in the United States with an average price equal to or slightly above last year's price" level, about 15 cents a pound, the depart ment said. This plan is similar to that used after markets were reopen ed last year when, in order to main tain prices to producers, companies acting as agents for the Commodity Credit Corporation were authorized to buy tobacco for the British mar ket. Program Expanded. The 1940 program is applicable not only to foreign-controlled firms buying largely for Great Britain but also to tobacco companies of the . United States which buy for export to countries whose purchases are now interrupted by the war in Eu rope. The foreign-controlled com panies are eligible only for the purchase phase of the program. American companies may either purchase the tobacco as agents for the Commodity Credit Corporation or buy the tobacco at the auctions, move i{ into stroage and then pro cure a loan from the corporation. BUDGET OF COUNTY HAS BEEN ADOPTED * ????? Greenville, Aug. 6th.?The County budget filing for a 70-cent tax rate was formally adopted by the Pitt County Beard of Commissioners in repular monthly session Monday. The budget was adopted in virtu al} the same form as tentatively passed at the July meeting. Adoption of the budget was the principal business of the session, at which various routine matters were \ taken up and reports of the several departmental heads read. E. W. Braxton, ehazgad with the county's campaign to see that un listed automobiles are placed on the taa books, reported that 390 letter* bee* sent to persona believed fa own automobiles not on the tax books He report ritowed that as a result od the campaign J1S cars, valued a) $50,094.00 had been pieced on tiu books. Ii also disclosed that 68 let ten bad notbeen-delivered and thai 106 bed boon delivered but no rsfli received. Mr. Brvxton waa mstructa to continue his campaign and es pedally "go after" the individual ? ? * ~ V* City Cafe HbMs ftecepitmTMlgtit Building Has 3mt Been "Remodeled and Redec orated; Public Invited To Opening Tonight The CITY CAFE, on the corner <& Main and Wilson streets, a recently modernized restaurant, with facili ties similar to those provided in the large cities, will reopen with a pub He reception tonight, Friday, August Iff,! from 8:00 to 10:00 o'clock. Refresh ments will be served. Louis Alex, with twenty-three" years of experience in managing res taurants, ten of them spent here, in delighted with the new facilities for serving the public and assures pa trons that tlje food and service will be unexcelled in the State. He fur ther states that he in bang congrat ulated upon having secured Nelson Picthi, (Peach), fohpsr chief- cook of the Golden Weed Cafe in- WflSon, to takp charge of the cuisine Miss Ruby Heath wiH be hostess. Farmville citizens will welcome a modern and up to the minute eating place and the owner of the bidding, Mrs. J. M. Hobgood, has responded to the urgent need for a high type restaurant in a fine way. Mr. Alex stated that courteous service will be maintained and, that prices will "be on a popular scale. The cafe has individual booths, where diners may look out on Wilson and Main streets from broad windows through Vene^an blinds. The en tire place has been beautifully deco rated and designed to provide every convenience and comfort for guests. The kitchen is modern with ample refrigeration facilities and good ven tilation. The United States is well-defended, according to plans that will become effective in a year or two. fitt Battery Lett MoDdayMsrDiag Annual Encampment T<* Take The Guardsmen Thru Six States; Will Return August 25. Captain Worth Wicker, of Green ville, and seventy-nine enlisted men and four officers of Battery A, 113th Field Artillery, National Guard, left Monday morning at 6 o'clock for their annual encampment that will take them through six states. Members of the Pitt Battery drilled every night last week except Stature day night and confined theifactivities that day to making last-minute prep arations. After leaving North Caro lina the men will go through South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis sippi, and stop in Louisiana for* their final maneuvers. Officers and guardsmen assembled at the city-county armory in Green ville enrly Monday/ morning, after wards leaving the city on truck*. Three large guns mounted on pneu matic tires were taken on the trip for the "peacetime" activities. Captain Wicker said all mail to members of the Battery from Mon day through August 14 should be sent to Battery A, 113th Field Artil* lery, A- P- O. 30, Hattiesburg, Mi* From Aug. 14 to Aug. 18, the sauli address will prevail, except that it should be sent to Alexandria, La. The guardsmen are expected to re turn to Greenville, August 25th. Stadium Tickets Far^ UNC Grid Game 9bH Raleigh, Aug. 7.?All of tha 24,000 or soseati in lie concrete Sen.to i stadium at Chapel Hill have bdea dif > whS "doesn't come aloogwttil Mfo vember 16, Dean R. B. House said today, i ?Ae.UWrwnity autharWm mane* working on plans to prcWide emergen > cy seats to smfctoMHInss* thous*ds ; andAavs reservations already in hand > for several thousand ot i Business in'FAJOnfflBLa* should t be better this - badness.* .. . ,'i w t . ?? r The Japanese #s*?eidentiy | mined to convince ttototoW^^ $22,080,00(1 Kit Ownty Hag. 49634 Miles of Line# Serving t,946 Customers; Guil ford Leads With 797. ,.,11 ' ' Raleigh, Aug. 7.?Rural electric. Knee in North Carolina have a value of slightly above a thousand dollars a mile, ahd have an average of five and a half customers to the mile. Every one of the hundred countiar in the statohas some REA line mileage, although TyreU county has only a mile and a half. Guilford county has the most lines with 797 miles, and Davidson is a 4fose second with 706; Durham tops the-vlist in customers per mile and Pamlfeo is at the bottom. Durham's 199.05 miles of ruWd power lines Served 2,803 customers, an average of 1* per mile, while Pamlico's 14.61 miles has only 26 users, about 1.7 per mile. Trfu? built membership co-opara tivee tthraugh loans from REA amount to 80 per cent of the total, serve 21- per cent of the customers and represent 27% per cent of the total cost of all rural liraa. Public utility companies, privately owned, are responsible for-14,195.43 miles-of-all tinea, representing an in vestment of $14,789,676.90, and sevr ing- 92,352 customers. Municipalities, which have extend ed lines into surrounding country, have built 1,232.6 miles, at a cost of $878,006.00 and serve 7,33? patrons. The Rural Electrification Adminis tration has constructed 6,317.2 miles ol lines, costing $5,995,450.00, and serving 19,573 country homes and small industries. - These figures are taken from the annual report of the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority, which for the first time includes total rural mileage in its report. Heretofore the Authority has covered only rural line constriction for the five years of its own existence. Nearly half of the utility country service was inaugurat ed prior to that time. Previous reports, while ace urate so far as operations .of the REA. itself were concerned, did not present a true picture of rural electrification in this state. This report does give the full picture, and also is fairer to privately owned public utilities. Figures quoted in foregoing para graphs include line under constnic taon or authorised, white the ooumy figures following show only lines completed and in use as of July 1st, 1940 This occasions a minor dis crepancy in totals, but does not ser iously affect the results. Pitt county has 496.34 miles of line serving 1,946 customers. Applications For - Work Heavy In Pitt county records of the North Carolina Unemployment Compensa tion Commission show that 1034 new applications were filed for jobs for the first six months of this yearv Month-by-month registrations were as follows: January, 867; February, 213; March, 163; April, 73; May, 106, and Junor 112. , Ptaeentents on Jobs of the resi dento of Pitt- County in the first six months: of this year yumbered 179, while the by-month placements fol low: January, 16; February, 39j March, 41; April, 28; May, 28, and June, 32. mm ffir Wfr?" Negotiations Begun For Purchases of Artillery, Tanks awfcOther Sup plies From U. S. Washington; Aug. 7.?The Britisk i government-started negotiations here today far thn purchase of "hundreds of millions of dollars" worth of artillery add othepursw supplies in additteto to aiV previous ordsrs. ArthdrS. Purvis, chief British pur chasing agent, who presented the program to Treasury Secretary tier ? S*-1 ?!.?.? of many types of supplies not previously purchased in; this country. S-jfsK'srsjss rifftates army had left over from the l World war, but the user progtus? lcsfli for new'weapons ^ t* a ctiws, are^t rec^^ I W 2 r. "w i - f': I I '-.*???? ? ?'??''ge'V ~' MS Chamber"ofGjw?lj I ciatien Sponsors Ho> gram Over Station WG .TC, Greenville. Farmville citizens "timed in" on Station WGTC, new Greenville Radio station, Thuseday afternoon, at 3:S?? and listened for thirty minuter to a varied and interesting program, which marked the beginning ?f a series to be sponsored by the Farm-; ville Chamber of Commerce ahd Mer chants Association. The announce ment of the broadcast schedule dur ing the fall and early winter is as follows: August 8-22} September 5-19; Oc tober 3-17-31; November 14-28 and December 12-26. These dates fall on Thursday and the time is 3:30 to 4. I Mayor George W. Davis, the first speaker on the program, brought greetings to the radio listeners and spoke briefly on the assets of Farm ville, including the civic, religions, recreational and business institutions of Farmville. Stanjey A. Garris, president of the sponsoring organization, pointed out some of the advantages offered by Farmville in relation to the selling of farm products and buying of sup plies for the home and farm. John B. Lewis, secretary of the sponsoring group, traced the develop ment of the business life of Farmville, the organization of the Farmville Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association and its objectives. The Skinner sisters, Misses Geral I dine and Dorothy, delighted the radio audience with vocal solos and duets, with Miss Mary Thome Tyson as ac companist, and Vernon Edwards "tickled the ivories" in original in terpretation of popular dance music. The promotors of these radio pro grams wish to give their listeners an entertaining and helpful half hour in the time assigned to Farmville, and have expressed themselves as anx ious to receive any suggestions and recommendations that will provide variety and- interest. A number of telephone calls during the program assured .those taking part of the pleasure they were giving Hhe' audience. Shaken; Seen I I tn Diplomatic I German Corps ? * u ? I ? . ? Authorities In Germany Said Td Be Perturbed Oyer Goueern Felt Mil American Republics Washington, Aug. 7.?A shake-up. of German diplepiatic and consular staffs in the Western Hemisphere was forecast in reliable quarters to day as a result of measures adopted' at the Havana" Pan-American confer ence against fifth column activities. German authorities were said to be perturbed by the determined attitude of the American republics and by the manner in which some Nazi officials hpve' aroused concern in the countries wheite they were stationed. ? ? A possible withdrawel of a consid erable number and their replacement by diplomatic officials less active as Nadi party members was expected by soma well informed persona. I . Washington developments relating to foreign agents' activities included: Crime demanded an investigation of what it termed "Nazi-Fascist qse of attaches of legations and consulates for tubversive propaganda and other fifth column activities." Z The Federal Bureau of Inves toration announced ib? field officers would go on a 24-hour dally ochrfute to expedite investigations of fifth column suspects. 3. The House passed and sent to the Senate ? measure to permit the FBI' to tap wires in investigations of sabotage, treason and espionage. I Obe German agent in the United States believed listed for early recall to Berlin was Dr. Gerhard Westriek, the commercial counselor of the Ger man embassy, whose operations jn New York have received wide-spread publicity. j Unselfish work for the common bonuftt.iu uomehhat nure in thto dny of looking out for selfish profits m it phjm Mf dividends in the long run. There are people in every section ctthe world things by the ^ cash reserves. ? ^QkKB^BJB* v' BK^^BvHitffl&' ^BfPJBlI Sfc' |itll^^^P 1h?11|| L J f--..-. JR.S2KMH ZUiMHHRk ??? ? Announcement of the etectfdn of John T.' Thorn* to the preaHtticy of At Natt Carolina Cbtto* Growers Cooperative Association, war made pecettly. Mr. Theme, wha is widely known throughout the Stato, in South ern and in tftt-NartSefesl AfMhltural groups, is a pfffMeftMr farmer and owner of Pecan Grove Dafcy, and is also prominent as a bAhkery hasiness man, edtlcAtor andcfrarehmam Presiding ovtflSthe board* meetings is no new expert flfipft for Mli Thorne, as he served as president for four years prior to the election- of Dr. Pate. Pot many years he has taken a keen interest in the production of cotton and in improvement of the financial conditions faced by the cot ton farmer, and haa been very active in the State Cooperative Association, and in the work of the National Cot ton Council aa well. Last month directors of the Asso ciation met for the first time since the new board was inducted into office. George L. Pate, of Raynham, and A. V. Oobb, of Windsor* were new directors present at the first meeting of the new boant B. C. Mayo, of Tarboro, was welcomed back jinto the director's circle after an absence of a year. Other officers reelected were; L. Bruce Gunter, of Fuquay Springs, vice president; M. G. Mann, of Ral eigh, general manager; G. D. Arndt, of Raleigh, treasurer and assistant secretary. " l Officers Destroy Two Whiskey Stffl In Pitt V ' Mil ? ? ? Pitt county ABC officers, assisted by Consctable Jasper Lee mills, of Chicod township, Wednesday morn ing located and destroyed two dis tillery plants in the county, one' near Black Jack and the other in the Penny Hill section of Befvoir town ship. The first still was located about three miles southeast of Black Jack. It was a 50-gallon sffeam plant com posed of a 50-gallon drum used as a boiler, a1 50-gallon doubler, another 10-gallon doubler and a 50-gallon con denser. The other still was composed of a 50-gallon steel drum used a a cooker and a 50-gallon condenser. Neither still was in operation, but beer was found at both places; 150 gaHons at the one near Black Jack and 25 gallons at the plant in the Penny Hill section. i OFFICIAL REPORTS; ON FUNDS OF PITT - - Greenville, Aug; 6.?County Treas urer J. Vance Perkins today made i public the regular fiscal year-end re port shewing the amount of1 county money held in the several banks of the county as of June 80th. , The report' shewed the following cash balances, current and sinking funds* in the various banks of the county: Guaranty Bank and Trust Com pany and to branches?current fund, $63,783:21; sinfcingftmd, $187,945.25; State Bank and Trust Co., current fund, $67,712Jp4; sinking fund, $27, 416.88; jirst National Bkak of Ay den, current fund, $9,023.62; sinking fund, $24,403.71; "Bank of Farflkville, current fund, $5,019.36; sinking fund, $17,739.15; Bank of Wintervffle* cur rent fund, $7,718.85; sinking fund, $3,391.02; Bank of Fotmtaln, sinking fund, $2,420.11. * All of the - banks in the county have bean designated as county de positories. The report of the treasurer also showed that the various banks had complied with the act requiring-them to provide sufficient depository col lateral to cover the deposits. TOBACCONISTS OFF TO GEORGIA . Farmyille tobacco vbuyers and, as sistants migrated over the week end to S. C., Agriculture. Mrt. Haywood Smith, Farmville,! Piano.' .' 1 Ml&s Paulyne Stroul, Kinston, Voice, Band, Glee Club and Piano. | ? Mrs. L. P. Thomas, Farmvflle,| seventh grade. Miss Annie Lee Jones, Vandemere, seventh grade. ... Miati. Louise Paachall, Rcrasvine; sfactH grade. - * ? - ? Miss Margaret Thigpen, Greenville, fifth and sixth grades; ; /'Miss Edna Robinson, Ivanhoe, fifth grade, Camille Staton, Bethel, fourth ? - I grade. ? . Mian- Sallie Norwood, Henderson, fourth grade. _ Miss Margaret Leswis, FarnrvflW, tfcird grade. Hiss Elisabeth Elliot*, Edenton, third .grade. * ' Margaret Hester, Roxboro, j ^ B. Carraway,, Farmville, ... tfrade I Hiss Annie PetWns, Fsnrtvifle, lirrtor. Warn* ? , grade. \ | ? .J;/ . ' News items, for l>ublicatioir in The' iSsaassaasB J for proper identification, We eing print ammymously contributed arfa i dss-of any kted t appear to be 5 to Roy el Air Force Keeps Hammering at Germany Writer Sees Fliers Both Before and AfterEx cursion Across Chan nel jV By TAYLOR HENRt v With the RAP Bomber Command Somewhere in England, Aug. Twin-motored Wellington Bombm rained tons of bombs on Gamasn factories in the Ruhr and on Nazi held airports in. The Netherlands early today despite the stickiest Weather in weeks. The squadron with which I kept ? watch during' the early hours of the morning alone reported success ful attacks against eight airdromes and one factory. This squadron, which carried oat a 17-plane raid-, made bat ar small part of the attack Which h?snma^i Germany and Germamoccopied ter ritory throughout the night and early this- morning. There were two other Bqinuiidm from the same group- and sly in the air were other groups of the bomber command sent in equal numbers to the attack. ! Despite the murky weather, .all 17 planes of "My" squadron re turned home safely. That was the raid of which to day's German communique said: "British planes which flew into Holland and Western Germany in small numbers dropped- bombs in various: places without data age worth mentionhlgt." British pilots and-observers agreed, however, that is was worth mention ing. Here is their version of the beta* ings aa reported in the official fi&ft analysis: Venlo Airdrome?"Big ftash smW, AH lights extinguished.'7 Ypenburg Airdrome ? "Large en plosions. Small fires started," Texei Airdrome?"An bUtsfcf seem Adjacent beacon put out. Fire fmrh-? ing on airdrome as plane left" Wesei Airdrome?"Bombs observed to fall'across the center of the -? air drome and incendiaries (bombs) seen to fall near hangers."" Schpfaol Airdrome?"Two explos ions seen on airdrothe. Observed im pact of stick of five 500-pound bombs which were Been to fall from another plane, (a stick is a salvo of bombs dropped almost sinrnltanaotdly- bat" spaced to bracket the target) Eindhoven Airdrome^?"Btuhbr fMl on flare path (Rghtd Ixmtarfaftake off and landing-runway) whflelt waf" Jit'up and night flying was In prog-'^ ress. Alt lights extinguished" and' fir:** broke out." Bomunghardt Airdrome,? "Bombs dropped 200 yards south of the fi*fg path." ' Krefeld Airdome?"One Stick drop ped across airdome. Small fixes and' one large fire seen." Munitions factory near Mon?'Di rect hit- with incendiary bomb and factory set on fire. Other bombs ~ just missed." ?And it was- a bad night*" the wing - commander apologised. "I wish we could have put on a bettor shew for you, but the weather still controls operations." He scoffed at German charges that his men had dropped- bombs indiscriminately on civilians* saying: "It'a a point of honor with aa. wot to drop bombs unless- we are sura ? , we're on the target. - For '""""pfrn tbis morning- three plsnaa brought, a full load of bombs, back hsegjgh they couldn't locate the- targets under a heavy cloud' layer.. . "They'll not be wasted. Don* worry. The same- chaps- will take them back again." c The- average- age of. the' crews of the squadron is just- under twenty-six. "The little chap over there," said the wing commander, painting to b lad who looked like he. ought te -ku a college freshman, "junk celebrated his 20th bombingn raid' over- Ger? many." , I had a breakfast - of scrambled egga and bacon with'a couple of other-youngster?' whw wsto juet back from the ndd An* ksd?fotir year? of flying to his and* arid'** ?, lL- ? ? , f% 11 x * outer zyk years. , * They call theiO-tenVickssrfltati* ingtoti bombers "wtaxpye" altdt.tkt -Awericmn- comte' strip ? chdraeter A WMttnftan Wtopyt Most of thase fliens hsu* befcaiu